Deaths in March 2018
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in March 2018. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
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, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.
March
1
Dorne Dibble, 88, American football player (Detroit Lions), NFL Champion (1953, 1957), pneumonia.
Anatoly Lein, 86, Russian-born American chess Grandmaster.
Arabinda Muduli, 56, Indian Bhajan singer-songwriter, cardiac arrest.
Maria Rubio, 83, Mexican actress (!Vivan los ninos!, Salome, Una familia con suerte).
Luigi Taveri, 88, Swiss motorcycle road racer, Grand Prix champion (1962, 1964, 1966), complications from a stroke.
2
Gillo Dorfles, 107, Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher.
Ota Filip, 87, Czech novelist (Deda a delo, Blazen ve meste, Kavarna Slavia) and journalist.
Brandon Jenkins, 48, American singer-songwriter ("Refinery Blues", "Out of Babylon", "Feet Don't Touch The Ground"), complications from heart surgery.
Jesus Lopez Cobos, 78, Spanish conductor, neuroendocrine cancer.
Carlo Ripa di Meana, 88, Italian politician, Minister of the Environment (1992-1993) and European Commissioner for the Environment (1983-1993), skin cancer.
3
Sir Roger Bannister, 88, British middle-distance athlete, first person to run a sub-four-minute mile, Parkinson's disease.
Tonia Carrero, 95, Brazilian actress (Tico-Tico no Fuba, Agua Viva, Louco Amor), cardiac arrest complicated from surgery.
Vanessa Goodwin, 48, Australian politician, Attorney-General of Tasmania (2014-2017), brain cancer.
Kenneth Gardestad, 69, Swedish songwriter ("Satellit") and architect, pneumonia and influenza complicated by skin cancer and lymphoma.
Billy Herrington, 48, American pornographic actor (HotMen CoolBoyz), car crash.
Jorge Wagensberg Lubinski, 69, Spanish physicist, academic (University of Barcelona), and writer, founder director of CosmoCaixa, pancreatic cancer.
Lin Hu, 90, Chinese general, Deputy Commander of the PLA Air Force (1985-1994).
Franz Pacher, 98, Austrian engineer.
Derek Saunders, 90, English football player (Chelsea F.C.).
David Ogden Stiers, 75, American actor (M*A*S*H, Beauty and the Beast, The Dead Zone), complications from bladder cancer.
Yvon Taillandier, 91, French artist.
4
Davide Astori, 31, Italian footballer (Cagliari, Fiorentina, national team), heart attack.
Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, 82, British engineering businessman (Sir Robert McAlpine).
James Luna, 68, American performance artist.
Farhang Mehr, 94, Iranian-born American Zoroastrian scholar and writer, Deputy Prime Minister (1973-1975).
H. Wayne Norman, Jr., 62, American politician, member of the Maryland Senate (since 2014) and House of Delegates (2008-2014), suspected heart attack. (death announced on this date)
5
Trevor Baylis, 80, British inventor (windup radio).
Derek Bickerton, 91, English-born American linguist and academic.
John Hall Buchanan Jr., 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 6th congressional district (1965-1981), complications from dementia.
Tomas Aguon Camacho, 84, Northern Mariana Islands Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chalan Kanoa (1984-2010), sepsis.
Kjerstin Dellert, 92, Swedish opera singer ("Someone to Watch Over Me"), respiratory failure.
Andre S. Labarthe, 86, French actor (Vivre sa vie, L'Amour fou, Les Enfants jouent a la Russie) and movie director (Cineastes de notre temps).
Uri Lubrani, 91, Israeli diplomat and military official, Ambassador to Iran (1973-1978).
Paul Magriel, 71, American professional backgammon and poker player-author, suspected heart attack. (body discovered on this date)
Jam Saqi, 73, Pakistani politician, kidney failure.
Helmut Maucher, 90, German food and beverage executive, CEO and chairman of Nestle (1990-1997).
Stephan Tanneberger, 82, German oncologist and chemist, blood and bone cancer.
Michael Watts, 79, British journalist (Sunday Express) and radio broadcaster (BBC Radio 4).
Hayden White, 89, American historian (Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe).
6
Paul Bui Van Doc, 73, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh (since 2014), stroke.
Peter Freund, 81, Romanian-born American physicist (University of Chicago).
Peter Nicholls, 78, Australian writer (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction), complications from Parkinson's disease.
Indra Bahadur Rai, 91, Indian writer (Gorkhas Imagined), multiple organ failure.
Shammi, 89, Indian actress (Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai, Khuda Gawah, Dekh Bhai Dekh), cardiopulmonary arrest.
Sir John Sulston, 75, British biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (2002).
7
Reynaldo Bignone, 90, Argentine politician and human rights criminal, President (1982-1983), congestive heart failure complicated by septic shock.
Woody Durham, 76, American college basketball radio announcer (North Carolina Tar Heels), complications from primary progressive aphasia.
Antonia La Negra, 82, Spanish singer (La familia Montoya) and dancer (El angel y Rito y geografia del cante), aortic anuerysm.
Charles Thone, 94, American politician, Governor of Nebraska (1979-1983) and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's 1st congressional district (1971-1979), respiratory failure.
8
Bento the Keyboard Cat, 9, American celebrity cat, liver cancer.
Ron Franklin, 58, American jockey, Kentucky Derby winner (1979), lung cancer.
Sir Wilson Harris, 96, Guyanese writer (Palace of the Peacock).
Milko Kelemen, 93, Croatian composer.
Peter Temple, 71, South African-born Australian novelist (Jack Irish, The Broken Shore, The Broken Shore), Gold Dagger (2006), Miles Franklin Award winner (2010) and multiple Ned Kelley Award winner, pancreatic cancer.
Togo D. West, Jr., 75, American politician, Secretary of the Army (1993-1998) and Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1998-2000), heart attack.
Kate Wilhelm, 89, American author (Baby, You Were Great, The Infinity Box, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang), Hugo Award winner (1977) and multiple Nebula Award winner.
9
Chris Gedney, 47, American football player (Chicago Bears, Arizona Cardinals).
Oskar Groning, 96, German SS officer and war criminal.
Jo Min-ki, 52, South Korean actor (East of Eden, The Cut, The Attorney) and professor, suspected suicide by hanging.
Jung Jae-sung, 35, South Korean badminton player, Olympic bronze medalist (2012), heart attack.
George A. Sinner, 89, American politician, Governor of North Dakota (1985-1992), pneumonia.
Millie Dunn Veasey, 100, American civil rights activist.
Ion Voinescu, 88, Romanian footballer (Olympia Bucuresti, national team, Steaua Bucuresti).
Elias Yanes Alvarez, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Zaragoza (1977-2005), complications from a fall.
10
Garech Browne, 78, Irish arts patron, founder of Claddagh Records.
Hubert de Givenchy, 91, French fashion designer (Givenchy).
Wally Gould, 79, English footballer (York City, Brighton, Hellenic), vascular dementia.
Ali Asghar Khodadoust, 82, Iranian surgical opthamologist, namesake of Khodadoust line, coronary artery disease.
Michel Raynaud, 79, French mathematician.
Ralf Waldmann, 51, German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, suspected heart attack.
11
Baltasar Corrada del Rio, 82, Puerto Rican judge and politician, Mayor of San Juan (1985-1989) and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (1995-2005), Alzheimer's disease.
Sir Ken Dodd, 90, English comedian (Diddy Men), singer-songwriter ("Tears") and actor (Hamlet), complications from bronchitis.
Karl Lehmann, 81, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Diocese of Mainz (1983-2016), complications from a stroke.
Siegfried Rauch, 85, German actor (Patton, Le Mans, Das Traumschiff), heart failure complicated from a fall.
Mary Rosenblum, 65, American author (The Drylands, Gardening Mysteries) and pilot, plane crash.
12
Nokie Edwards, 82, American Hall of Fame rock guitarist (The Ventures) and actor (Deadwood), staph infection complicated from hip surgery.
Rudolf Mang, 67, German weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist (1972), heart attack.
Henry Minarik, 90, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
Oleg Tabakov, 82, Russian actor (War and Peace, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers).
13
T. Berry Brazelton, 99, American pediatrician and author, developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale and Daytime Emmy Award winner (1994).
Bebeto de Freitas, 68, Brazilian Olympic volleyball coach (1984) and football manager (Atletico Mineiro), heart attack.
Leonid Kvinikhidze, 80, Russian screenwriter (The Straw Hat) and movie director (Failure of Engineer Garin, Mary Poppins, Goodbye).
Jens Nilsson, 69, Swedish politician, MEP (since 2011) and Chairman of Ostersund Municipality (1997-2009).
Gordon Walgren, 85, American politician and convicted fraudster, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1966) and member of the Washington State Senate (1967-1980).
14
Jim Bowen, 80, English television presenter (Bullseye) and comedian (The Comedians), complications from a stroke.
Emilio Disi, 75, Argentine actor (Todas las azafatas van al cielo, La Aventura explosiva, Muerte en Buenos Aires) and humorist, lung cancer.
Marielle Franco, 38, Brazilian politician, member of the Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro (since 2017), shot.
Ruben Galvan, 65, Argentine footballer (national team, Club Atletico Independiente, Estudiantes), cirrhosis.
Stephen Hawking, 76, English theoretical physicist, professor (University of Cambridge) and writer (A Brief History of Time), complications from ALS.
Narendra Jha, 55, Indian actor (Raees, Haider, Raavan), heart attack.
John Ludwick, 32, American claimant of involvement in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, stabbed.
Adrian Lamo, 37, American computer hacker (WikiLeaks) and political activist, exposed Chelsea Manning.
Liam O'Flynn, 72, Irish uilleann piper (Planxty), emphysema.
Petar Stipetic, 80, Croatian military officer, Armed Forces Chief of Staff (2000-2002).
15
Tom Benson, 90, American automobile dealer, philanthropist and sports franchise owner (New Orleans Saints, New Orleans Pelicans), Super Bowl winner (2010), complications from influenza.
Ed Charles, 84, American baseball player (New York Mets, Kansas City Athletics).
Augie Garrido, 79, American baseball coach (Cal State Fullerton, Texas Longhorns), stroke.
Larry Kwong, 94, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers), first player to break NHL's colour barrier, complications from pneumonia.
Mohamed Sayah, 84, Tunisian politician.
16
Boyukagha Hajiyev, 59, Azerbaijani football player and manager (Araz-Naxcivan, Neftci), complications from a heart attack.
Arnie Lerma, 67, American writer and Scientology whistleblower, suicide by gunshot.
Louise Slaughter, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 25th congressional district (since 1987), complications from a fall.
17
Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, 84, British politician, Secretary of State for Wales (1979-1987).
Benny Fredriksson, 58, Swedish actor (Sammansvarjningen, Kara farmor) and theatre director, CEO of Stockholm City Theatre (2002-2017), suicide.
Gudjon Arnar Kristjansson, 73, Icelandic politician, MP (1999-2009), cancer. (death announced on this date)
Mike MacDonald, 63, Canadian comedian (Late Show with David Letterman) and actor (Mr. Nice Guy, The Ripping Friends, Screwballs II), heart failure.
Zdenek Mahler, 89, Czech screenwriter (Amadeus) and musicologist.
Phan Van Khai, 84, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister (1997-2006).
18
Barkat Gourad Hamadou, 88, Djiboutian politician, Prime Minister (1978-2001).
Li Ao, 82, Chinese-born Taiwanese social commentator and historian, 2000 presidential candidate and MLY (2005-2008), brain cancer.
Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, 85, British politician and diplomat, MP for Barons Court (1964-1974), Ambassador to the United Nations (1974-1979) and Lord Privy Seal (1997-1998).
19
Hasan Celal Guzel, 73, Turkish journalist and politician, Minister of Education, Youth and Sport (1987-1989).
Arnold R. Hirsch, 69, American historian (University of New Orleans) and writer (Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960), complications from Lewy body dementia.
Jean Michel Larrasket, 67, French engineer and professor (University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, Mondragon University).
Luo Fu, 89, Taiwanese poet, respiratory failure complicated by lung cancer
Keith O'Brien, 80, Scottish Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh (1985-2013), complications from a fall.
Kedarnath Singh, 83, Indian poet (Akaal Mein Saras), Jnanpith Award winner (2013).
Sudan, 45, Kenyan northern white rhinoceros, last known male of his subspecies, euthanized.
20
Katie Boyle, 91, Italian-born British actress (The Truth About Women), television presenter (Eurovision Song Contest), and game-show panelist (What's My Line?).
Dylan Mika, 45, New Zealand rugby union player (Samoa national team, New Zealand national team, Auckland), heart attack.
Peter George Peterson, 91, American financier (Lehman Brothers, The Blackstone Group) and politician, Secretary of Commerce (1972-1973).
Emmett Hulcy Tidd, 94, American military officer, complications from dementia.
21
Anna-Lisa, 84, Norwegian-born American actress (Black Saddle, Have Rocket, Will Travel, 12 to the Moon).
Mark Anthony Conditt, 23, American serial bombing suspect (Austin bombings), suspected suicide by explosion.
Tom Higgins, 73, American rock climber.
James C. Irwin, 88, American military officer, Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (1986-1988), Alzheimer's disease.
Rolf Leeser, 88, German-born Dutch footballer (Ajax) and fashion designer.
John W. Vogt, 81, American engineer and politician, member of the Florida Senate (1973-1988), pulmonary fibrosis.
Leo C. Zeferetti, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 15th congressional district (1975-1983).
22
Dick Gamble, 89, Canadian hockey player (Rochester Americans, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs), Stanley Cup (1953).
Rene Houseman, 64, Argentine footballer (Defensores de Belgrano, Huracan, national team), World Cup champion (1978), tongue cancer.
Wayne Huizenga, 80, American retail (Blockbuster Video, AutoNation), and service executive (Waste Management), and sports team owner (Miami Dolphins, Florida Marlins, Florida Panthers), cancer.
Johan van Hulst, 107, Dutch politician, author and academic, Member of the Senate (1956-1981), Member of the European Parliament (1961-1968), recipient as a Righteous Among the Nations.
Jan Kanturek, 69, Czech translator (Terry Pratchett), thrombosis complicated by diabetes.
Morgana King, 88, American jazz singer ("A Taste of Honey", "My Funny Valentine", "For You, For Me, For Evermore") and actress (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Charles Lazarus, 94, American businessman, founder of Toys "R" Us, respiratory failure.
Dariush Shayegan, 83, Iranian cultural theorist and philosopher, stroke.
23
DuShon Monique Brown, 49, American actress (Chicago Fire, Prison Break, Unexpected).
Murray S. Hoffman, 93, American cardiologist.
Philip Kerr, 62, Scottish author (March Violets, Children of the Lamp, A Philosophical Investigation).
Jukka Mikkola, 74, Finnish politician, MP (1983-1986, 1995-2003).
Zell Miller, 86, American politician, Governor of Georgia (1991-1999) and U.S. Senator (2000-2005), Parkinson's disease.
Alberto Ongaro, 92, Italian journalist (Corriere dei Piccoli, L'Europeo) and writer (La taverna del doge Loredan), pneumonia.
Jaakko Pakkasvirta, 83, Finnish movie director (Home for Christmas, Poet and Muse, Sign of the Beast) and screenwriter (The Diary of a Worker).
Sean Treacy, 94, Irish politician, TD (1961-1997) and Ceann Comhairle (1987-1997).
24
Jose Antonio Abreu, 78, Venezuelan conductor and politician, founder of El Sistema, complications from COPD.
Lys Assia, 94, Swiss singer ("Refrain"), first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (1956).
Rim Banna, 51, Palestinian singer ("The Mirrors of My Soul"), composer and activist, breast cancer.
Arnaud Beltrame, 44, French gendarme and hero, stabbed.
Debbie Lee Carrington, 58, American actress and stuntwoman (Return of the Jedi, Total Recall, Bride of Chucky).
Bernie De Koven, 76, American video game designer (Alien Garden) and writer, pancreatic cancer.
John Ehle, 92, American novelist (Last One Home) and screenwriter (The Journey of August King), congestive heart failure.
Bill Lucas, 101, British Royal Air Force officer and Olympic long-distance runner (1948).
Frank Meisler, 89, German-born Israeli architect and sculptor (Kindertransport - The Arrival).
25
Andre Bourbeau, 81, Canadian politician, MNA for Laporte (1981-2003) and Mayor of Saint-Lambert (1978-1981), complications from leukemia.
Linda Brown, 76, American civil rights figure (Brown v. Board of Education).
Mike Harrison, 72, British singer and musician (Spooky Tooth).
Seo Min-woo, 33, South Korean singer (100%) and actor, cardiac arrest.
Nicolae Tilihoi, 61, Romanian footballer (Universitatea Craiova), esophageal cancer.
Jerry Williams, 75, Swedish rock singer ("It Started with a Love Affair") and actor (On the Loose), cancer.
26
Sandor Demjan, 74, Hungarian businessman (TriGranit), second richest person in Hungary.
Sergei Mavrodi, 62, Russian financial fraudster and politician, member of State Duma (1994-1995), heart attack.
27
Stephane Audran, 85, French actress (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Babette's Feast, The Big Red One).
Victor Kalashnikov, 75, Russian gun designer (PP-19 Bizon), son of Mikhail Kalashnikov.
Sir Eric McClintock, 99, Australian businessman and public servant, Chairman of Woolworths Limited (1980-1987).
28
Peter Munk, 90, Hungarian-born Canadian businessman (Barrick Gold) and philanthropist, heart failure.
Eugene Van Roosbroeck, 89, Belgian racing cyclist, Olympic champion (1948).
29
Emiliano Mondonico, 71, Italian footballer (Cremonese) and manager (Torino, Atalanta, Cosenza), stomach cancer.
Stephen Reinhardt, 87, American judge, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (since 1980), heart attack.
Rusty Staub, 73, American baseball player (New York Mets, Montreal Expos, Detroit Tigers) and philanthropist, multiple organ failure complicated by pneumonia.
30
Anna Chennault, 94, Chinese-born American journalist and lobbyist (China Lobby), wife of Claire Lee Chennault, complications from a stroke.
Andre Bo-Boliko Lokonga, 83, Congolese politician, Speaker of the National Assembly (1970-1979) and Prime Minister (1979-1980).
Bill Maynard, 89, English actor (Heartbeat, Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Carry On), complications from a fall.
Sven-Olov Sjodelius, 84, Swedish canoer, Olympic champion (1960, 1964), respiratory failure.
31
Margarita Carrera, 88, Guatemalan philosopher, professor and writer.
Luigi De Filippo, 87, Italian actor (Non e vero... ma ci credo, You're on Your Own, Love Italian Style), Alzheimer's disease.
Peg Lautenschlager, 62, American attorney and politician, Attorney General of Wisconsin (2003-2007) and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1989-1993), breast and bone cancer.
Michael Tree, 84, American violist (Guarneri Quartet), Parkinson's disease.
Months
January
February
March
April
Related pages
Deaths in 2014
Deaths in 2015
Deaths in 2016
Deaths in 2017
References
Other websites
The Guardian, UK obituaries
The Telegraph obituaries
Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
The New York Times, US obituaries
The Washington Post obituaries
The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries
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