Deaths in March 2014

The following is a list of **notable deaths in March 2014**.

*Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.

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* March 1 - Nancy Charest, 55, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA for Matane (2003–2007).
* March 1 - Andy Gilpin, 93, Canadian Olympic champion ice hockey player (1948).
* March 1 - Zdeněk Hajný, 72, Czech painter and psychologist.
* March 1 - Eckart Höfling, 77, German Catholic priest.
* March 1 - Bangaru Laxman, 74, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
* March 1 - Alain Resnais, 91, French movie director.
* March 1 - Werner Uebelmann, 92, Swiss entrepreneur and writer.
* March 1 - Alejandro Zaffaroni, 91, Uruguayan-American chemist and entrepreneur, complications of dementia.
* March 2 - Ryhor Baradulin, 79, Belarusian poet, heart failure.
* March 2 - Molly Bobak, 95, Canadian war artist, last surviving World War II artist, natural causes.
* March 2 - Peter Bares, 78, German organist and composer.
* March 3 - Stan Rickaby, 89, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion), natural causes.
* March 3 - Aino-Maija Tikkanen, 86, Finnish actress (*The Harvest Month*), natural causes.
* March 3 - Xu Chongde, 85, Chinese political scientist and professor.
* March 3 - Curtis McClarin, 44, American actor (*The Happening*, *Law & Order*), brain aneurysm.
* March 4 - Wu Tianming, 74, Chinese movie director and producer, heart attack.
* March 4 - Mark Freidkin, 60, Russian poet, writer and singer.
* March 4 - William R. Pogue, 84, American astronaut and Air Force pilot, natural causes.
* March 4 - Jack Kinzler, 94, American aeronautical engineer, NASA technical director that helped save Skylab, natural causes.
* March 4 - Boris Pustyntsev, 78, Russian human rights activist.
* March 4 - Richard W. Burkhardt, 95, American academic, President of Ball State University (1978&ndash;1979), natural causes.
* March 5 - Luis Villoro, 91, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher and writer, respiratory failure.
* March 5 - Geoff Edwards, 83, American game show host (*Starcade*, *Treasure Hunt*) and actor (*Petticoat Junction*), pneumonia.
* March 5 - Scott Kalvert, 49, American director (*The Basketball Diaries*), suicide.
* March 5 - Leopoldo María Panero, 65, Spanish poet.
* March 6 - Rafael Aburto, 100, Spanish architect, natural causes.
* March 6 - Sérgio Guerra, 66, Brazilian economist and politician, member of the Federal Senate (2003–2011), lung cancer.
* March 6 - Manlio Sgalambro, 89, Italian philosopher and writer.
* March 6 - Maurice Faure, 92, French politician and diplomat.
* March 6 - Martin Nesbitt, 67, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (2004&ndash;2014), stomach cancer.
* March 6 - Frank Jobe, 88, American orthopedic surgeon.
* March 6 - Sheila MacRae, 92, English actress (*The Honeymooners*).
* March 6 - Ron Murphy, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins).
* March 6 - Alemayehu Atomsa, 45, Ethiopian politician, President of Oromia Region (2010–2014), typhoid fever.
* March 7 - Tamás Nádas, 44, Hungarian aerobatics pilot and world champion air racer, plane crash.
* March 7 - Heiko Bellmann, 63, German  biologist, writer and photographer.
* March 7 - Uwe Timm, 82, German writer and anarchist.
* March 7 - Hal Douglas, 89, American voice actor and announcer, pancreatic cancer.
* March 7 - Ned O'Gorman, 84, American poet, pancreatic cancer.
* March 8 - William Guarnere, 90, American World War II veteran and author, natural causes.
* March 8 - Victor Shem-Tov, 99, Bulgarian-born Israeli politician, Minister of Health (1970&ndash;1977).
* March 8 - Park Eun-ji, 35, South Korean politician, suicide by hanging.
* March 8 - Wendy Hughes, Australian actress, cancer.
* March 9 - Leo Bretholz, 93, Austrian-born American Holocaust survivor, activist and writer (*Leap into Darkness*).
* March 9 - Gerard Mortier, 70, Belgian opera director and administrator, pancreatic cancer.
* March 9 - Glenn McDuffie, 86, American World War II sailor, heart attack.
* March 9 - Mohammed Fahim, Afghan politician and military commander, heart attack.
* March 9 - William Clay Ford, Sr., 88, American businessman, pneumonia.
* March 9 - Carlos Moreno, 75, Argentine actor and director, heart attack.
* March 9 - Tonie Nathan, 91, American politician, first woman to receive an electoral vote in a presidential election, Alzheimer's disease.
* March 10 - Joe McGinniss, 71, American author and political journalist, prostate cancer.
* March 10 - Cynthia Lynn, 76, Latvian-born American actress, multiple organ failure.
* March 11 - Brett Borgen, 79, Norwegian writer.
* March 11 - Bob Crow, 52, British trade union leader, heart attack.
* March 11 - Nils Horner, 51, Swedish-British journalist (Sveriges Radio), shot.
* March 11 - Marga Spiegel, 101, German writer and Holocaust survivor, natural causes.
* March 11 - Doru Tureanu, 60, Romanian Olympic ice hockey player (1976, 1980).
* March 12 - Věra Chytilová, 85, Czech movie director.
* March 12 - Jackie Gaughan, 93, American casino owner and gambler. 
* March 12 - Richard Coogan, 99, American actor.
* March 12 - Jean Vallée, 72, Belgian songwriter and performer.
* March 12 - David Sive, 91, American environmental lawyer.
* March 12 - Ola L. Mize, 82, American army officer, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* March 12 - Paul C. Donnelly, 90, American aerospace pioneer.
* March 12 - Kjell Nupen, 58, Norwegian artist, cancer.
* March 13 - Reubin Askew, 85, American politician, Governor of Florida (1971-1979), stroke.
* March 13 - Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 82, Sierra Leonean politician, President (1996–1997, 1998–2007).
* March 13 - Icchokas Mera, 79, Lithuanian writer and screenwriter.
* March 13 - Henk Weerink, 77, Dutch association football referee.
* March 13 - Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr., 80, American real estate developer, natural causes.
* March 14 - Tony Benn, 88, British politician and diarist.
* March 14 - Otakar Brousek, Sr., 89, Czech actor.
* March 14 - Meir Har-Zion, 80, Israeli military commando, natural causes.
* March 14 - Ken Utsui, 82, Japanese actor (*Super Giant*), natural causes.
* March 14 - Werner Rackwitz, 84, German opera director and politician.
* March 14 - Sam Lacey, 66, American basketball player (Kansas City Kings), natural causes.
* March 15 - David Brenner, 78, American comedian, cancer.
* March 15 - Howard H. Callaway, 86, American politician, United States Secretary of the Army (1973–1975), brain hemorrhage.
* March 15 - Paddy Cronin, 88, Irish fiddler.
* March 15 - Everett L. Fullam, 82, American Episcopalian scholar.
* March 15 - Jürgen Kurbjuhn, 73, German footballer (Hamburger SV).
* March 15 - Jim Mikol, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
* March 15 - Cees Veerman, 70, Dutch musician (The Cats).
* March 15 - Clarissa Dickson Wright, 66, British celebrity chef.
* March 16 - Gary Bettenhausen, 72, American race car driver.
* March 16 - Markus Brüderlin, 55, Swiss art historian and curator.
* March 16 - Donald Crothers, 77, American academic and educator, cancer.
* March 16 - Lapiro de Mbanga, 56, Cameroonian musician, political and social activist, cancer.
* March 16 - Alexander Pochinok, 56, Russian economist, politician, and civil servant, cardiac arrest.
* March 16 - Chuck Scherza, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, New York Rangers).
* March 17 - Mareike Carrière, 59, German actress, cancer.
* March 17 - Marek Galiński, 39, Polish cyclist, traffic collision.
* March 17 - Oswald Morris, 98, British cinematographer.
* March 17 - Antoni Opolski, 101, Polish physicist, natural causes.
* March 17 - L'Wren Scott, 49, American fashion designer and model, suicide by hanging.
* March 17 - Mercy Edirisinghe, 68, Sri Lankan actress and singer.
* March 18 - Jorge Arvizu, 81, Mexican actor, heart failure.
* March 18 - Kaiser Kalambo, 60, Zambian association football player and coach, prostate cancer.
* March 18 - Dokka Umarov, 49, Chechen militant. 
* March 18 - Lucius Shepard, 70, American science fiction writer.
* March 18 - Ben Staartjes, 85, Dutch Olympic sailor.
* March 19 - Fred Phelps, 84, American pastor, congestive heart failure.
* March 19 - Robert Schwarz Strauss, 95, American politician and diplomat, natural causes.
* March 19 - Ernest Mühlen, Luxembourgish politician.
* March 19 - Lawrence Walsh, 102, American lawyer and judge, Independent Counsel for the Iran–Contra affair, natural causes.
* March 19 - Patrick Joseph McGovern, 76, American technology executive, founder and chairman of IDG.
* March 20 - Khushwant Singh, 99, Indian journalist and writer (*Train to Pakistan*), natural causes.
* March 20 - Hilderaldo Bellini, 83, Brazilian footballer, two-time World Cup winner (1958, 1962), cardiac arrest.
* March 20 - Iñaki Azkuna, 71, Spanish politician, Mayor of Bilbao (since 1999), prostate cancer.
* March 20 - Marc-Adélard Tremblay, 91, Canadian anthropologist.
* March 20 - Gerhard Bondzin, 83, German painter and graphic artist.
* March 21 - James Rebhorn, 65, American actor (*Scent of a Woman*, *Independence Day*, *Homeland*).
* March 21 - Dennis Jackson, 82, English footballer.
* March 21 - Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, 80, Iraqi religious leader, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church (since 1980).
* March 21 - André Lavagne, 100, French composer.
* March 22 - Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, 85, Indian author.
* March 22 - Mickey Duff, 84, Polish-English boxing promoter and manager, natural causes.
* March 22 - Riina Gerretz, 74, Estonian pianist.
* March 22 - Yngve A. A. Larsson, 97, Swedish medicine professor and diabetologist, natural causes.
* March 22 - Robert Meyers, 89, Canadian ice hockey player. 
* March 22 - Patrice Wymore, 87, American actress and philanthropist, natural causes.
* March 23 - Adolfo Suárez, 81, Spanish politician and lawyer, Prime Minister (1976–1981), respiratory infection.
* March 23 - Jaroslav Šerých, 86, Czech painter, printmaker and illustrator.
*March 23 - Miroslav Štěpán, 68, Czechoslovakian politician, member of the Central Committee for the Communist Party (1988–1989), complications from cancer.
* March 23 - Dave Brockie, 50, Canadian-American musician (Gwar), heroin overdose.
* March 23 - Peter Oakley, 86, British Internet vlogger, cancer.
* March 23 - Jürg Neuenschwander, 67, Swiss organist and composer.
* March 23 - David Henshaw, 74, New Zealand cartoonist.
* March 24 - Robert F. Coleman, 59, American mathematician.
* March 24 - Paulo Schroeber, 40, Brazilian guitarist (Almah), heart failure due to surgical complications.
* March 24 - Rodney Wilkes, 89, Trinidadian Olympic medal-winning weightlifter (1948, 1952).
* March 25 - Nanda, 75, Indian actress (*Teen Devian*, *Gumnaam*, *Chhoti Bahen*), heart attack.
* March 25 - Ralph Wilson, 95, American businessman and owner of Buffalo Bills.
* March 25 - Jerry Roberts, 93, British wartime codebreaker, worked with Adolf Hitler.
* March 25 - Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi, 89, Iranian historian and writer.
* March 25 - Jonathan Schell, 70, American writer, journalist and anti-war activist, cancer.
* March 25 - Sonny Ruberto, 68, American baseball player (San Diego Padres), cancer.
* March 26 - Dick Guidry, 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1950–1954, 1964–1976).
* March 26 - George Bookasta, 96, American child actor and television director, pneumonia.
* March 27 - James R. Schlesinger, 85, American politician, Secretary of Defense (1973–1975), Secretary of Energy (1977–1979), pneumonia.
* March 27 - Jeffery Dench, 85, British actor (*First Knight*).
* March 27 - Per Lillo-Stenberg, 85, Norwegian actor.
* March 27 - Richard Nelson Frye, 94, American orientalist and historian.
* March 27 - Derek Martinus, 82, British television director (*Doctor Who*, ''Blake's 7*, *Z-Cars''), Alzheimer's disease.
* March 27 - Edwin Kagin, 73, American lawyer, national legal director for the American Atheists, heart disease.
* March 28 - Jeremiah Denton, 89, American politician and rear admiral, Senator from Alabama (1981–1987), recipient of the Navy Cross, heart failure.
* March 28 - Lorenzo Semple Jr., 91, American screenwriter, creator of *Batman*, natural causes.
* March 29 - Karl Spillman Forester, 73, American judge.
* March 29 - Yosef Hamadani Cohen, 98, Iranian Jewish leader, Chief Rabbi of Iran (since 1994).
* March 29 - Marc Platt, 100, American dancer and actor, natural causes.
* March 29 - Hobart Alter, 80, American surfer and boat designer (Hobie cat).
* March 30 - Phuntsok Wangyal, 91, Chinese Tibetan politician, military leader and government critic, lung failure.
* March 30 - Kate O'Mara, 74, English actress (*Dynasty*, *Doctor Who*).
* March 30 - Birgitta Valberg, 97, Swedish actress.
* March 30 - Dane Witherspoon, 56, American actor (*Santa Barbara*).
* March 30 - Jan de Graaff, 70, Dutch television journalist.
* March 31 - Irene Fernandez, 67, Malaysian human rights activist, heart failure.
* March 31 - Frankie Knuckles, 59, American disc jockey and record producer, diabetes complications.
* March 31 - Enrique Plancarte Solís, 43, Mexican drug lord, shot.
* March 31 - Gonzalo Anes, 82, Spanish economist, professor and historian.
* March 31 - Charles Keating, 90, American banker in the savings and loan crisis.
* March 31 - David Hannay, 74, Australian movie producer, cancer.
* March 31 - Ferdinand Masset, 93, Swiss politician, natural causes.
* March 31 - Władysław Filipowiak, 87, Polish archaeologist and historian.

## See more months
*Deaths in January 2014
*Deaths in February 2014
*Deaths in April 2014 
*Deaths in May 2014
*Deaths in June 2014
*Deaths in July 2014
*Deaths in August 2014
*Deaths in September 2014
*Deaths in October 2014
*Deaths in November 2014
*Deaths in December 2014

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