Deaths in March 2017

The following is a list of **notable deaths in March 2017**. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months".  Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.

* Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.
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## March
### 1
*Tania Dalton, 45, New Zealand netball player (national team), complications from an aneurysm.
*Paula Fox, 93, American writer (*The Slave Dancer*), congestive heart failure.
*Pierre Guénin, 90, French journalist (*Cinémonde*), magazine publisher (*Eden*, *Olympe*, *Jean-Paul*) and gay rights activist, complications from pneumonia.
*John Hampshire, 76, English cricketer (Yorkshire, national team).
*Carl Adam Lewenhaupt, 69, Swedish businessman and restaurateur. (body found on this date)
*Taarak Mehta, 87, Indian playwright and humorist.
*Gustav Metzger, 90, German-born British artist and political activist.
*David Rubinger, 92, Austrian-born Israeli photographer.
*Michael M. Ryan, 87, American actor (*Another World*, *Tootsie*, *Slayground*).
*Jins Shamsuddin, 81, Malaysian actor (*Bidasari*), director and politician, member of Dewan Negara (2004–2008), choked.
*Alejandra Soler, 103, Spanish politician, member of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, suspected heart failure.
*Joseph Vũ Duy Thống, 64, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Phan Thiết (since 2009).

### 2
*Tommy Gemmell, 73, Scottish football player (Celtic, Dundee, national team) and manager.
*Simon Hobday, 76, South African golfer.
*Andrés Ocaña, 62, Spanish politician, Mayor of Córdoba (2009–2011), heart attack.
*Howard Schmidt, 67, American cybersecurity advisor, Cyber Security Coordinator (2009–2012), brain cancer.

### 3
*Míriam Colón, 80, Puerto Rican actress (*Scarface*, *Goal!*, *All the Pretty Horses*), complications from a lung infection.
*Raymond Kopa, 85, French footballer (Real Madrid, national team).
*Tommy Page, 46, American singer-songwriter ("I'll Be Your Everything") and music industry executive (Reprise Records, *Billboard*), suspected suicide.
*Misha Mengelberg, 81, Dutch jazz pianist and composer.
*René Préval, 74, Haitian politician, Prime Minister (1991), President (1996–2001, 2006–2011).
*Anne Kristin Sydnes, 60, Norwegian politician, Minister of International Development (2000–2001).

### 4
*Edi Fitzroy, 62, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter ("Youthman Penitentiary", "Miss Molly Colly", "Deep in Mi Culture").
*Helen M. Marshall, 87, American politician, Borough President of Queens (2002–2013), member of the New York State Assembly (1983–1991).
*Clayton Keith Yeutter, 86, American politician, Trade Representative (1985–1989) and Secretary of Agriculture (1989–1991), colorectal cancer.

### 5
*Anthony C. Beilenson, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1977–1997), heart attack.
*Douglas Henry, 90, American politician, Tennessee State Senator (1971–2014).
*Florence S. Jacobsen, 103, American Mormon leader and missionary, General President of the Young Women Organization (1961–1972).
*Jay Lynch, 72, American underground comics artist, writer and editor (*Bijou Funnies*, *Bazooka Joe*), complications from lung cancer.

### 6
*Bill Hougland, 86, American basketball player (Phillips 66ers), Olympic champion (1952, 1956) and businessman, Vice President of Koch Industries (until 1991).
*Robert Osborne, 84, American movie historian (Turner Classic Movies) and actor (*Psycho*, *Spartacus*), complications from kidney failure.
*Eddy Pauwels, 81, Belgian racing cyclist.
*Rabi Ray, 90, Indian politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (1989–1991).
*Geoffrey Wainwright, 79, British archaeologist. 
*Alberto Zedda, 89, Italian conductor and musicologist.

### 7
*Ron Bass, 68, American professional wrestler (NWA, WWF), complications from appendicitis-related surgery.
*Hans Georg Dehmelt, 94, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (1989).
*Ronald Drever, 85, Scottish physicist, co-founded the LIGO system, complications from dementia.
*Peter M. Gruber, 75, Austrian mathematician. 
*Syed Sajjad Ali Shah, 84, Pakistani judge, Chief Justice (1994–1997), pneumonia. 
*Helen Sommers, 84, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1972–2009).
*Lynne Stewart, 77, American defense attorney and criminal, defended Omar Abdel-Rahman on trial, complications from multiple strokes and breast cancer.
*Juan Carlos Touriño, 72, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid), pancreatic disease.

### 8
*Li Yuan-tsu, 93, Taiwanese politician, Vice President (1990–1996), kidney failure.
*George Andrew Olah, 89, Hungarian-born American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1994).
*Dave Valentin, 64, American jazz flutist, Grammy Award-winner (2003), complications from a stroke and Parkinson's disease.

### 9
*Kasugafuji Akihiro, 51, Japanese sumo wrestler, suspected heart failure.
*Anthony Delhalle, 35, French motorcycle racer, complications from a broken neck during test ride.
*Barbara Helsingius, 79, Finnish singer, poet and Olympic fencer (1960).
*Hla Myint, 97, Burmese economist.
*Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta, 81, French-born Norwegian mathematician.

### 10
*John Forgeham, 75, British actor (*The Italian Job*, *Sheena*, ''Footballers' Wives*), complications from a fall.
*Tony Haygarth, 72, English actor (*Chicken Run*, *Emmerdale*, *Dracula''), Alzheimer's disease.
*Gido Kokars, 95, Latvian choir conductor.
*Bill Leak, 61, Australian editorial cartoonist (*The Sydney Morning Herald*, *The Daily-Telegraph-Mirror*, *The Australian*), suspected heart attack.
*Aníbal Ruiz, 74, Uruguayan football manager (Paraguay), heart attack.
*Joni Sledge, 60, American singer (Sister Sledge) and songwriter ("Then Came You").
*John Surtees, 83, British motorcycle racer, world champion (1956, 1958, 1959, 1960) and Formula One driver, world champion (1964), respiratory failure.
*Anna Tramontano, 59, Italian computational biologist. (death announced on this date)
*Richard Wagamese, 61, Canadian author (*Medicine Walk*) and journalist (*Canada Reads*).
*Robert James Waller, 77, American writer (*The Bridges of Madison County*), multiple myeloma.

### 11
*Kitty Courbois, 79, Dutch actress (*A Gangstergirl*, *Last Call*, *De Held*), cerebral hemorrhage.
*András Kovács, 91, Hungarian movie director (*The Lost Generation*, *Temporary Paradise*, *The Red Countess*). 
*Paul Mitchell, 96, American football player (Los Angeles Dons, New York Yanks).
*Ángel Parra, 73, Chilean singer-songwriter (*Oratorio para el pueblo*), lung cancer.
*Mohamed Mijarul Quayes, 56, Bangladeshi diplomat, Ambassador to Brazil (since 2014), multiple organ failure.

### 12
*Murray Ball, 78, New Zealand cartoonist (*Footrot Flats*), complications from dementia.
*Horst Ehmke, 90, German politician, Minister of Justice (1969).
*Ray Hassall, 74, English politician, Lord Mayor of Birmingham (2015–2016), suspected heart attack.
*Sir Probyn Inniss, 80, Saint Kitts and Nevis lawyer, Governor of Saint Christopher and Nevis (1975–1981).

### 13
*Adib Boroumand, 92, Iranian poet and politician, Head of Leadership Council of National Front of Iran (since 2000).
*Henri Cueco, 88, French painter and Anti-Communistic writer, Alzheimer's disease.
*Morton Deutsch, 97, American social psychologist (*Review of General Psychology*).
*Kika de la Garza, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1997), kidney failure.
*André Jagendorf, 90, American plant biologist, heart attack.
*Sarah Jiménez, 90, Mexican artist, heart failure.
*Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 82, German royal, head of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, suspected heart attack.
*Amy Krouse Rosenthal, 51, American author (*Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life*) and movie director (*The Beckoning of Lovely*), ovarian cancer.
*Richard H. Solomon, 79, American political aide and diplomat, Ambassador to the Phillipines (1992–1993), brain cancer.
*Ed Whitlock, 86, English-born Canadian long distance runner, prostate cancer.

### 14
*Jack H. Harris, 98, American movie producer (*The Blob*, *4D Man*, *Equinox*), complications from pneumonia.
*Jim McAnearney, 81, Scottish football player (Sheffield Wednesday, Plymouth Argyle, Watford) and manager (Bradford City, Rotherham United, Scarborough).
*Royal Robbins, 82, American rock climber and writer (*Advanced Rockcraft*).
* André Tosel, 75, French Marxist philosopher.
*Rodrigo Valdéz, 70, Colombian boxer, WBC Middleweight Champion (1974–1978), heart attack.
*John Van de Kamp, 81, American politician and attorney, Los Angeles County District Attorney (1975–1981) and California Attorney General (1983–1991).

### 15
*Wojciech Młynarski, 75, Polish poet, singer-songwriter ("Zamknięty rozdział") and translator (*Jesus Christ Superstar*), cancer.
*Sok An, 66, Cambodian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (since 2004) and MP (since 1993).
*Dave Stallworth, 75, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Baltimore/Capital Bullets), heart attack.
*Enrique Morea, 92, Argentine tennis player (1950 French Open, 1951 Pan Am Games) and President of the Asociación Argentina de Tenis (since 1996).

### 16
*James Cotton, 81, American blues harmonica player ("Hard Again"), pneumonia.
* Torgny Lindgren, 78, Swedish writer (*Sweetness*), member of the Swedish Academy (since 1991), stomach cancer.
* Hasyim Muzadi, 72, Indonesian Islamic scholar and cleric, Chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama (1999–2010), cardiac arrest.

### 17
* Auntie Fee, 59, American YouTube personality and actress (*Barbershop: The Next Cut*), heart attack.
*Hugh Hardy, 84, American architect and businessman (Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer), cerebral hemorrhage.
*Lawrence Montaigne, 86, American actor (*The Great Escape*, *Star Trek*, *Escape to Witch Mountain*).
*Inomjon Usmonxo‘jayev, 86, Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan (1983–1988).
*Sir Derek Walcott, 87, Saint Lucian poet and playwright, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1992).

### 18
*Chuck Berry, 90, American Hall of Fame rock and roll guitarist and singer-songwriter ("Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", "Roll Over Beethoven"), heart attack.
*Sergei Gimayev, 62, Russian ice hockey player (Moscow, Leningrad) and television sports presenter, heart attack complicated by thrombosis.
*Ashwin Sundar, 31, Indian racing driver, traffic collision.
*Miloslav Vlk, 84, Czech Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Prague (1991–2010), cancer.
* Bernie Wrightson, 68, American illustrator and comic book artist (*House of Mystery*, *Batman*, *Swamp Thing*), brain cancer.

### 19
* Jimmy Breslin, 88, American journalist (*New York Daily News*, *Newsday*) and author (''Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?*, *The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight*), recipient of Pulitzer Prize (1986), complications from pneumonia.
* Ivan Grubišić, 80,  Croatian Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, and MP (2011–2015).
* Li Li-Hua, 92, Chinese Hong Kong actress (*3 Smiles*, *Storm Over the Yangtze River*, *New Dream of the Red Chamber*).
*Len Mitzel, 71, Canadian politician, MLA (2004–2012), pancreatic cancer.
* Chinu Modi, 78, Indian poet and critic, multiple organ failure.
* Roger Pingeon, 76, French racing cyclist, Tour de France winner (1967), heart attack.
*Maurice Xiberras, 80, Gibraltarian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Gibraltar (1969–1972) and Leader of the Opposition (1972–1979), suspected heart attack.

### 20
*Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera, 68, Spanish royal, member of the Bagrationi dynasty, heart attack.
*Edward Joseph McManus, 97, American politician and jurist, Lieutenant Governor of Iowa (1959–1961), member of the District Court for N.D. Iowa (since 1962), longest-serving federal judge.
*Leticia Ramos-Shahani, 87, Filipino politician, member of the Senate (1987–1998), Senate President pro tempore (1993–1996), complications from colon cancer and pneumonia.
*Chandler Robbins, 98, American ornithologist and writer, founder of the North American Breeding Bird Survey, respiratory failure.
*David Rockefeller, 101, American banker (Chase Manhattan), globalist (Trilateral Commission) and philanthropist (Rockefeller Brothers Fund), congestive heart failure.
*Robert B. Silvers, 87, American editor (*New York Review of Books*) and essayist, complications from pneumonia.
*Tony Terran, 90, American trumpeter (*I Love Lucy*) and session musician (The Wrecking Crew).

### 21
*Chuck Barris, 87, American television producer, game show creator (*The Dating Game*, *The Newlywed Game*), host (*The Gong Show*), and songwriter ("Palisades Park"), subject of *Confessions of a Dangerous Mind*.
*Colin Dexter, 86, English author (Inspector Morse series).
*Henri Emmanuelli, 71, French politician, President of National Assembly (1993–1994), First Secretary of the French Socialist Party (1994–1995), complications from acute bronchitis.
*August Englas, 92, Estonian wrestler, World Champion (1953, 1954). 
*Roy Fisher, 86, British poet and jazz pianist.
*Martin McGuinness, 66, Northern Irish politician, deputy First Minister (2007–2017), MP (1997–2013), MLA (1998–2017), IRA leader, complications from amyloidosis.

### 22
* Dallas Green, 82, American baseball player (Washington Senators) and manager (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, New York Yankees), kidney failure and pneumonia.
*Pete Hamilton, 74, American racecar driver, winner of 1970 Daytona 500.
*Sib Hashian, 67, American drummer (Boston), suspected heart attack.
*Joanne Kyger, 82, American poet, lung cancer.
*Sven-Erik Magnusson, 74, Swedish singer and musician (Sven-Ingvars), prostate cancer.
*Khalid Masood, 52, British terrorist, attacker responsible for the 2017 Westminster attack, shot.
*Marilyn McCord Adams, 73, American philosopher (*Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God*) and priest, cancer.
*Tomas Milian, 84, Cuban-born American-Italian actor (*The Big Gundown*, *Traffic*, *Amistad*), stroke.
*Ronnie Moran, 83, English football player and coach (Liverpool F.C.), vascular dementia.
*Piroska Oszoli, 98, Hungarian painter (*The lover of the Danube and the beautiness*).
*Lembit Ulfsak, 69, Estonian actor (*Karge meri*, *Firewater*, *Tangerines*).

### 23
*Lola Albright, 92, American actress (*Champion*, *Kid Galahad*, *Peter Gunn*).
*Ashokamitran, 85, Indian writer, cardiac arrest.
*Meir Einstein, 65, Israeli sports broadcaster (Channel 10), complications from muscular dystrophy.
*William H. Keeler, 86, American Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Baltimore (1989–2007), Bishop of Harrisburg (1983–1989).
*Ingeborg Rapoport, 104, German pediatrician, oldest person to receive a Doctorate degree.
*Cino Tortorella, 90, Italian television presenter (*Zecchino d'Oro*) and comedian (*The Ed Sullivan Show*).
*Denis Voronenkov, 45, Russian politician, member of the State Duma (2011–2016), shot.

### 24
*Hubert Hammerer, 92, Austrian sports shooter, Olympic gold medalist (1960).
*Leo Peelen, 48, Dutch track cyclist, Olympic silver medalist (1988), cardiac arrest.
*Jean Rouverol, 100, American actress (*It's a Gift*), screenwriter (*Autumn Leaves*, *The Guiding Light*) and television writer (*As the World Turns'').
*Pedro Salvatori, 83, Argentine politician, Governor of Neuquén Province (1973, 1987–1991), respiratory failure.
*Peter Shotton, 75, British washboardist (The Quarrymen) and businessman (Fatty Arbuckle's, Apple Corps), suspected heart attack.
*Avo Uvezian, 91, Lebanese-born American jazz pianist, songwriter ("Strangers in the Night") and cigar manufacturer (Avo cigars), respiratory arrest.

### 25
*Ralph Archbold, 75, American actor and impersonator (Benjamin Franklin), complications from congestive heart failure.
*Louis Feldman, 90, American classical scholar (Hellenistic civilization).
*Teodor Oizerman, 102, Soviet-Russian philosopher (*The Main Trends in Philosophy*) and academician, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1981), congestive heart failure.
*Sir Cuthbert Sebastian, 95, St. Kitts and Nevis politician, Governor-General (1996–2013), complications from pneumonia.

### 26
*Darlene Cates, 69, American actress (''What's Eating Gilbert Grape*), suspected heart attack.
* Mai Dantsig, 86, Belarusian artist (*And the Saved World Remembers*), heart failure complicated by pneumonia.
*Monty Davidson, 81, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP (1975–1981).
*Vladimir Kazachyonok, 64, Russian football player (Zenit) and manager (Dynamo Saint Petersburg), heart attack.
*Roger Wilkins, 85, American civil rights activist, journalist (*The Crisis*, *The Washington Post*) and writer (*Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism''), Assistant Attorney General (1966&ndash;1969), complications from dementia.

### 27
*Arthur Blythe, 76, American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, Parkinson's disease.
*Chelsea Brown, 74, American-Australian actress (''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In*, *Number 96*, *E Street*), pneumonia complicated by dementia.
*Armando Nieto, 85, Peruvian Jesuit priest and historian, pneumonia.
*Arun Sarma, 85, Indian playwright, multiple organ failure.
*David Storey, 83, English novelist (*Flight into Camden*, *Saville*), screenwriter (*This Sporting Life*) and playwright (*Home*, *The Changing Room''), Parkinson's disease and dementia.
*Elizabeth Wagele, 77, American writer and musician, neuroendocrine cancer.

### 28
*Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria, 99, Austrian-born Spanish and Italian princess.
*Ahmed Kathrada, 87, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, MP (1994–1999), complications from a cerebral embolism.
*Christine Kaufmann, 72, Austrian-born German actress (*Town Without Pity*, *Bagdad Café*, *The Last Days of Pompeii*), leukemia.
*William McPherson, 84, American journalist (*The Washington Post*), author (*Testing the Current*) and critic, Pulitzer Prize winner (1977), complications from congestive heart failure and pneumonia.
*Janine Sutto, 95, French-born Canadian actress (*Kamouraska*, *Congorama*, *Route 132*), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
*Enn Vetemaa, 80, Estonian writer (*Critical Age*, *Game of Snowballs*, *Small Novells*).

### 29
*Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, 88, Russian-American theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (2003).
*Ken Sparks, 73, American football coach and player (Carson–Newman Eagles), prostate cancer.

### 30
*Richard Bustillo, 75, American martial arts instructor (IMB Academy, Brandon Lee).
*Rosie Hamlin, 71, American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter ("Angel Baby") and R&B pianist (Rosie and the Originals).
*Donald Harvey, 64, American serial killer, beaten.

### 31
*Halit Akçatepe, 79, Turkish actor (*Yasak*, *Gündoğarken*, *Semaya baktım Seni Gördüm*), heart attack.
*Gilbert Baker, 65, American gay activist, created the rainbow flag, complications from a stroke.
*Richard Nelson Bolles, 90, American writer (*What Color Is Your Parachute?*).
*William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., 96, American lawyer (*Brown v. Board of Education*), federal judge and politician, Secretary of Transportation (1975–1977), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
*Jerrier A. Haddad, 94, American computer engineer.
*Mike Hall, 35, British endurance cyclist, traffic collision.
*Radley Metzger, 88, American pornographic filmmaker (*I, a Woman*, *Camille 2000*, *The Lickerish Quartet*).
*Amy Ridenour, 57, American conservative political activist, complications from breast cancer.
*James Rosenquist, 83, American artist.

## Months
* January 2017
* February 2017
* March 2017
* April 2017

## Related pages
* Deaths in 2014
* Deaths in 2015
* Deaths in 2016

## References
## Other websites
* *The Guardian*, UK obituaries
* Obituaries, *Los Angeles Times*
* Obituaries, *Chicago Tribune*
* *The New York Times*, US obituaries
* *The Sydney Morning Herald*, Australian obituaries
* *The Telegraph* obituaries