page_title: 2020
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 2020 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: National Building Museum July 31, 1996 Wash. D.C. © copyright John Mathew Smith 2001
context_page_description: 2020 is a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. It is the first year of the 2020s. It is the 20th year of the 21st century.
  The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic has led to severe global economic and social disruption.
context_section_description: March 1
  Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and priest (b. 1925)
  Jack Welch, American business executive and writer (b. 1935)
  March 2
  James Lipton, American writer, lyricist and actor (b. 1926)
  Ulay, German performance artist (b. 1943)
  March 3 – Stanisław Kania, Polish politician (b. 1927)
  March 4
  Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 137th Prime Minister of Peru and 5th United Nations Secretary-General (b. 1920)
  Robert Shavlakadze, Georgian high jumper (b. 1933)
  March 6
  Henri Richard, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (b. 1936)
  McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist (b. 1938)
  March 8 – Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor (b. 1929)
  March 9 – Richard K. Guy, British mathematician (b. 1916)
  March 11
  Charles Wuorinen, American composer (b. 1938) 
  Michel Roux, French chef and restaurateur (b. 1941) 
  March 12 – Tonie Marshall, French-American actress, screenwriter, and film director (b. 1951) 
  March 13 – Dana Zátopková, Czech javelin thrower (b. 1922)
  March 14 – Genesis P-Orridge, English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and occultist (b. 1950) 
  March 15 – Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect (b. 1927)
  March 16 – Stuart Whitman, American actor (b. 1928)
  March 17
  Eduard Limonov, Russian writer, poet, publicist, and political dissident (b. 1943)
  Roger Mayweather, American professional boxer and trainer (b. 1961)
  Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Acting President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1958)
  Betty Williams, Northern Ireland Nobel peace activist (b. 1943)
  Alfred Worden, American astronaut (b. 1932)
  March 18
  Catherine Hamlin, Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist (b. 1924)
  Joaquín Peiró, Spanish football player (b. 1936)
  March 20
  Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine footballer (b. 1926)
  Kenny Rogers, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
  March 21 – Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish sports executive (b. 1943)
  March 23
  Lucia Bosè, Italian actress and beauty pageant winner (b. 1931)
  Branko Cikatić, Yugoslav and Croatian kickboxer (b. 1954)
  March 24
  Manu Dibango, Cameroonian saxophonist (b. 1933)
  Stuart Gordon, American film director (b. 1947)
  Terrence McNally, American playwright (b. 1938
  Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (b. 1927)
  March 26 – Michel Hidalgo, French footballer and manager (b. 1933)
  March 27 – Hamed Karoui, Tunisian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1927)
  March 28 – Tom Coburn, American politician (b. 1948)
  March 29
  Philip Warren Anderson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1923)
  Yuri Bondarev, Russian writer (b. 1924)
  Joe Diffie, American country music singer (b. 1958)
  Ken Shimura, Japanese comedian (b. 1950)
  Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1933)
  March 30
  Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and resistance fighter (b. 1922)
  Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1919)
  Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
  Joachim Yhombi-Opango, 4th President and 12th Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
  March 31 – Abdul Halim Khaddam, Acting President of Syria (b. 1932)
caption: Betty Williams
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