Deaths in March 2015

The following is a list of **notable deaths in March 2015**. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months".
* Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.
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* March 1 - Minnie Miñoso, 92, Cuban baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians), complications from COPD.
* March 1 - Joshua Fishman, 88, American linguist.
* March 1 - Carel Visser, 86, Dutch sculptor.
* March 2 - Dean Hess, 97, American minister and air force colonel.
* March 2 - Francisco González Ledesma, 87, Spanish novelist, comics writer and journalist, complications of a stroke.
* March 2 - Dave Mackay, 80, Scottish football player and coach.
* March 3 - M. Stanton Evans, 80, American journalist, author and educator, pancreatic cancer.
* March 3 - Lynn Borden, 77, American actress (*Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, Hazel*).
* March 3 - Ernest Braun, 89, Austrian-born British academic and author.
* March 4 - Ninan Koshy, 81, Indian academic.
* March 5 - Vlada Divljan, 56, Serbian musician (Idoli).
* March 5 - Edward Egan, 82, American Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal, Bishop of Bridgeport (1988–2000), Archbishop of New York (2000–2009), cardiac arrest.
* March 5 - Jim McCann, 70, Irish musician (The Dubliners), throat cancer.
* March 6 - Fred Craddock, 86, American Christian minister, Parkinson's disease.
* March 6 - Ram Sundar Das, 94, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar (1979–1980).
* March 6 - Vasilios Magginas, 66, Greek politician, Minister of Employment (2007).
* March 7 - Edmond Malinvaud, 91, French economist.
* March 7 - F. Ray Keyser, Jr., 87, American politician, Governor of Vermont (1961–1963).
* March 8 - Sam Simon, 59, American writer and producer (*The Simpsons*, *The Drew Carey Show*), colorectal cancer.
* March 8 - Gerardo Sofovich, 77, Argentine actor, director and television presenter, heart failure.
* March 8 - Lew Soloff, 71, American jazz trumpeter (Blood, Sweat & Tears), heart attack.
* March 8 - Inezita Barroso, 90, Brazilian folk singer.
* March 9 - Notable French people killed in the Villa Castelli helicopter crash:
** Florence Arthaud, 57, sailor.
* March 9 - David B. Frohnmayer, 74, American attorney, Oregon Attorney General (1981–1991), President of the University of Oregon (1994–2009), prostate cancer.
* March 9 - Juanita Morrow Nelson, 91, American civil rights activist.
* March 9 - Windell Middlebrooks, 36, American actor (*Body of Proof*, *The Bernie Mac Show*, *The Suite Life on Deck*), pulmonary embolism.
* March 9 - Frei Otto, 89, German architect and structural engineer.
* March 9 - Jack Harte, 94, Irish politician, Senator (1973–1992).
* March 10 - Stuart Wagstaff, 90, British-Australian entertainer, complications from pulmonary fibrosis.
* March 10 - Claude Sitton, 89, American Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter, congestive heart failure.
* March 11 - Martin H:son Holmdahl, 91, Swedish academic.
* March 11 - Jimmy Greenspoon, 67, American keyboard player and composer (Three Dog Night), skin cancer.
* March 11 - Walter Burkert, 84, German academic and author (*Homo Necans*).
* March 12 - Ada Jafri, 90, Pakistani Urdu poet.
* March 12 - Sir Terry Pratchett, 66, British author (Discworld series), chest infection.
* March 12 - Erol Büyükburç, 79, Turkish composer and singer.
* March 12 - Michael Graves, 80, American architect.
* March 12 - Magda Guzmán, 83, Mexican actress (*Amor Bravío*), heart attack.
* March 13 - Daevid Allen, 77, Australian musician (Soft Machine, Gong), neck cancer.
* March 13 - Irwin Hasen, 96, American cartoonist (*Dondi*).
* March 13 - Al Rosen, 91, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
* March 14 - Ana María Giunta, 72, Argentine actress, respiratory failure.
* March 14 - Valentin Rasputin, 77, Russian writer.
* March 15 - Narayan Desai, 90, Indian Gandhian and writer.
* March 15 - Sally Forrest, 86, American singer and actress (*Rawhide*), cancer.
* March 15 - Mike Porcaro, 59, American bass guitarist (Toto), complications from ALS.
* March 15 - Xu Caihou, 71, Chinese general, bladder cancer.
* March 15 - Curtis Gans, 77, American activist and writer, lung cancer.
* March 16 - Bruce Crump, 57, American rock drummer (Molly Hatchet), throat cancer.
* March 16 - Jack Haley, 51, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls), heart disease.
* March 16 - Miguel Donoso Pareja, 83, Ecuadorian writer, Parkinson's disease.
* March 16 - Andy Fraser, 62, British bass guitarist (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Free).
* March 16 - Buddy Elias, 89, Swiss actor (*Sunshine*, *The Monuments Men*).
* March 16 - Arthur A. Hartman, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to France (1977–1981) and the Soviet Union (1981–1987), complications from surgery.
* March 17 - Ashley Adams, 59, Australian Paralympic shooter, traffic collision.
* March 18 - Thomas Hopko, 75, American Eastern Orthodox priest and theologian, congestive heart failure.
* March 18 - Shaw Taylor, 90, British actor and television presenter.
* March 19 - Danny Schechter, 72, American journalist and filmmaker, pancreatic cancer.
* March 19 - Gus Douglass, 88, American politician, West Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture (1965–1989, 1993–2013), fall.
* March 19 - Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, 91, Dutch sprint athlete, Olympic champion (1948).
* March 20 - Eva Burrows, 85, Australian Salvation Army General (1986–1993).
* March 20 - Robert Kastenmeier, 91, American politician, member of United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin (1959–1991), heart failure.
* March 20 - Gregory Walcott, 87, American actor (*Plan 9 from Outer Space*, *Norma Rae*, *Ed Wood*).
* March 20 - Petr Vopěnka, 79, Czech mathematician and politician.
* March 20 - Malcolm Fraser, 84, Australian politician, Prime Minister (1975–1983).
* March 21 - Chuck Bednarik, 89, American NFL Hall of Fame football player (Philadelphia Eagles), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* March 21 - James C. Binnicker, 76, American air force officer, Chief Master Sergeant (1986–1990).
* March 21 - Hans Erni, 106, Swiss painter, designer and sculptor.
* March 21 - Jørgen Ingmann, 89, Danish musician, 1963 Eurovision Song Contest winner.
* March 22 - Arkady Arkanov, 81, Russian writer and comedian.
* March 22 - Norman Scribner, 79, American choral conductor.
* March 23 - Herberto Hélder, 84, Portuguese poet.
* March 23 - Bobby Lowther, 91, American basketball player and athlete (LSU Tigers), All-American (1946).
* March 23 - Lee Kuan Yew, 91, Singaporean politician, Prime Minister (1959–1990), pneumonia.
* March 23 - Lil' Chris, 24, British singer-songwriter, actor and television personality.
* March 24 - Yehuda Avner, 86, Israeli diplomat, Ambassador to Australia and the United States, cancer.
* March 24 - Moncef Ben Salem, 62, Tunisian politician.
* March 24 - Richard Butson, 92, Canadian explorer and physician, recipient of the George Cross.
* March 24 - Notable people killed in the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525:
** Oleg Bryjak, 54, Kazakh-born German opera singer.
* March 25 - Ivo Garrani, 91, Italian actor (*Black Sunday, Hercules, Caliber 9*).
* March 25 - Dick Bond, 93, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1975-1987).
* March 25 - Bill Slayback, 67, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* March 25 - Ron Suart, 94, English football player and manager (Chelsea).
* March 26 - John Renbourn, 70, British guitarist (Pentangle), heart attack.
* March 26 - Karl Moik, 76, Austrian television presenter (Musikantenstadl).
* March 26 - Luís Miguel Rocha, 39, Portuguese author, cancer.
* March 26 - Dinkha IV, 79, Iraqi Syriac Christianity cleric, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East (since 1976).
* March 26 - Tomas Tranströmer, 83, Swedish poet and translator, awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.
* March 26 - Friedrich L. Bauer, 90, German computer scientist.
* March 26 - Fred Robsahm, 71, Norwegian actor (*Flashback*).
* March 27 - Rod Hundley, 80, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers) and television broadcaster, Alzheimer's disease.
* March 27 - T. Sailo, 93, Indian military officer and politician, heart failure.
* March 27 - Amaro Silva, 57, Canadian politician.
* March 27 - Olga Syahputra, 32, Indonesian actor, comedian, singer and television host, meningitis.
* March 27 - Daundre Barnaby, 24, Jamaican-born Canadian Olympic runner (2012), drowning.
* March 27 - B.J. Crosby, 63, American singer and actress (''Smokey Joe's Cafe*), diabetic stroke.
* March 27 - Rik Battaglia, 88, Italian actor.
* March 27 - Yusuf Mohamed Ismail, 54, Somali diplomat, Ambassador to Switzerland (since 2008) and the Permanent Representative to the United Nations (since 2008), shot.
* March 28 - Miroslav Ondříček, 80, Czech cinematographer (*Amadeus*, *Ragtime*, *if....*).
* March 28 - Gene Saks, 93, American stage and movie director (*The Odd Couple*, *Barefoot in the Park*), pneumonia.
* March 29 - Juan Carlos Maccarone, 74, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chascomús (1996–1999) and Santiago del Estero (1999–2005).
* March 30 - Philip A. Potter, 93, Dominica Methodist church leader, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (1972-1984).
* March 30 - Helmut Dietl, 70, German movie director (*Schtonk!''), lung cancer.
* March 30 - Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, 93, Dutch astronomer.
* March 31 - Carlos Gaviria Díaz, 77, Colombian lawyer and politician, Magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Colombia (1993–2001), Senator (2006–2010), presidential candidate (2006), lung disease.

## Previous months
* January 2015
* February 2015
* April 2015

## References