Deaths in March 2004
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2004.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
March 2004
1
- Eric Cross, 101, English cinematographer.[1]
- Augusto da Costa, 83, Brazilian football player and manager.
- Barbara Frawley, 68, Australian actress (Dot and the Kangaroo).[2]
- Mian Ghulam Jilani, 91, Pakistan Army officer, pneumonia.
- Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, 70, Comorian politician.[3]
- Kostas Montis, 90, Cypriot poet, novelist, and playwright, tuberculosis.[4]
- Gilbert Plass, 83, Canadian physicist.[5]
- Nina Sazonova, 87, Soviet and Russian actress.
2
- Berndt Egerbladh, 71, Swedish jazz pianist, composer and television personality.
- Tony Lee, 69, British jazz pianist, cancer.[6]
- Mercedes McCambridge, 87, American actress (All the King's Men, Giant, The Exorcist), Oscar winner (1950).[7]
- Marge Schott, 75, American primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds.[8]
3
- Cecily Adams, 46, American casting director (That '70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun) and actress (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), lung cancer.
- Sumantra Ghoshal, 55, Indian scholar and educator, founding dean of Indian School of Business, brain hemorrhage. .[9]
- Susan Moller Okin, 57, New Zealand feminist and political philosopher.[10]
- Pedro Pietri, 59, Puerto Rican-American Nuyorican poet and playwright, stomach cancer.[11]
- Muniswamy Rajgopal, 77, Indian Olympic field hockey player (gold medal winner in men's field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[12]
- Drake Sather, 44, American Emmy nominated television writer (Dennis Miller Show, The Larry Sanders Show, Saturday Night Live, Zoolander), suicide.[13]
- Miriam Waddington, 86, Canadian poet, short story writer and translator.[14]
- Russell Weigley, 73, American professor and military historian.[15]
4
- Fernando Lázaro Carreter, 80, Spanish linguist, journalist and literary critic, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[16]
- Tooker Gomberg, 48, Canadian politician and environmental activist, suicide by jumping.
- Walter Gómez, 76, Uruguayan football player.
- David Charles Harvey, 57, British historian and author.[17]
- Dale Ishimoto, 80, American actor.
- Arthur Kinsella, 86, New Zealand politician, Minister of Education (1963–1969).
- Roberto Lerici, 79, Italian football player and coach.
- John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist (Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL), SUDEP.[18]
- Claude Nougaro, 74, French songwriter and singer, pancreatic cancer.[19]
- George Pake, 79, American physicist and computer research executive, known for founding Xerox PARC.[20]
- Malcolm Pasley, 77, British literary scholar.[21]
- Jeremi Przybora, 88, Polish poet, writer, actor and singer.[22]
- Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer, heart failure.[23]
5
- Thorkild Bjørnvig, 86, Danish author and poet.[24]
- Nicholas C. Dattilo, 71, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Walt Gorney, 91, Austrian-American actor (Friday the 13th, Trading Places).
- Pierre Lévêque, 82, French historian of ancient and Hellenistic Greece.[25]
- Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 84, Ecuadorian politician, President (1961–1963).[26]
- Stanisław Musiał, 65, Polish priest.[27]
- Mike O'Callaghan, 74, American politician, Governor of Nevada (1971–1979), heart attack.
- Masanori Tokita, 78, Japanese football player, esophageal cancer.[28]
6
- Eugene Theodore Booth Jr., 91, American nuclear physicist.
- Frances Dee, 94, American actress, stroke.[29]
- Ray Fernandez, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez", heart disease.
- Sandy Glen, 91, Scottish explorer and businessman.
- Alan Short, 83, American legislator, co-author of the Short-Doyle Mental Health Act.[30]
- André Weingand, 88, French Olympic gymnast.[31]
- John Henry Williams, 35, American controversial son of baseball player Ted Williams, leukemia.
7
- Ewald W. Busse, 86, American psychiatrist, gerontologist, and author.[32]
- Nicolae Cajal, 84, Romanian physician and politician.
- Bengt Fahlqvist, 81, Swedish wrestler and Olympic medalist.[33]
- Jack Holden, 96, English Olympic long-distance runner.[34]
- Michael Stringer, 79, British production designer and art director (Casino Royale, Fiddler on the Roof, 633 Squadron).
- Román Arrieta Villalobos, 79, Costa Rican Catholic archbishop, brain tumor.
- Paul Winfield, 64, American actor (Sounder, The Terminator, 227), Emmy winner (1995), heart attack.[35]
8
- János Bognár, 89, Hungarian Olympic cyclist.[36]
- Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, 73, Indian physicist.
- Keith Hopkins, 69, British ancient historian and sociologist.[37]
- Robin Hunter, 74, British actor, pulmonary emphysema.[38]
- Duan Junyi, 93, Chinese politician.
- Alfons Lütke-Westhues, 73, German equestrian and Olympic champion.[39]
- Frank Mooney, 82, New Zealand cricketer.[40]
- Robert Pastorelli, 49, American actor (Murphy Brown, Eraser, Michael), drug overdose.[41]
- Ehrenfried Patzel, 89, Czechoslovakian football player.
- Siddharth Ray, 40, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Yavuz Selekman, 67, Turkish wrestler and film actor.[42]
- Muhammad Zaidan, (aka Abu Abbas), 55, Palestinian nationalist, founder of Palestine Liberation Front, cardiovascular disease.
9
- Rust Epique, 35, American songwriter and guitarist, heart attack.
- Marshall Frady, 64, American journalist, cancer.[43]
- John Mayer, 73, Indian composer, traffic collision.[44]
- Albert Mol, 87, Dutch author, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality, aneurysm.[45]
- Gearóid Mac Niocaill, 71, British academic and historian.
- Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, 71, American composer, conductor and pianist.[46]
- Don Smith, 52, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers), heart problems.[47]
10
- Olle Adolphson, 69, Swedish writer, singer and songwriter.[48]
- Boryslav Brondukov, 66, Ukrainian film actor, stroke.[49]
- Jack Creley, 78, American-Canadian actor.
- Norbert Grupe, 63, German boxer and actor (Die Hard, Stroszek, Ghostbusters II), prostate cancer.[50]
- Robert D. Orr, 86, American politician, former Governor of Indiana, surgical complications.[51]
- James Parrish, 35, American NFL player (San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets), cancer.[52]
- Hansjörg Schlager, 74, German Olympic alpine skier (men's downhill and men's slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics).[53]
- David Shoenberg, 93, British physicist (solid-state electronics, magnetic resonance imaging, superconductivity).[54]
- Nasiba Zeynalova, 87, Soviet and Azerbaijani actress.
11
- Philip Arthur Fisher, 96, American stock investor and author of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits.[55]
- Seymour Geisser, 74, American statistician, DNA-evidence expert.[56]
- Richard Kinon, 79, American television director.
- Aleksey Mazurenko, 86, Russian major general during World War II.[57]
- Edmund Sylvers, 47, American lead singer of The Sylvers, lung cancer.
12
- Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright with cerebral palsy.[58]
- Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator, heart attack.[59]
- Karel Kachyňa, 79, Czech film director and screenwriter.[60]
- William Moritz, 63, American film historian, cancer.
- Milton Resnick, 87, Ukrainian-American artist, suicide.[61]
- Sylvi Saimo, 89, Finnish Olympic canoer (women's K-1 500 metre canoeing: 1948, 1952 gold medal winner).[62]
- Natan Yonatan, 80, Israeli poet.[63]
13
- Guttorm Berge, 74, Norwegian alpine skier and Olympic medalist.[64]
- Sydney Carter, 88, British musician and poet.[65]
- Harold Goldsmith, 73, American Olympic foil and epee fencer.[66]
- Chen Hansheng, 107, Chinese sociologist.[67]
- Max Harris, 85, British film and television composer and arranger.[68]
- Vilayat Khan, 75, Indian classical sitar player, lung cancer.[69]
- Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal.[70]
- Thomas Adeoye Lambo, 80, Nigerian scholar, administrator and psychiatrist.[71]
- Blessing Makunike, 27, Zimbabwean football player, traffic collision.[72]
- Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister, cancer.[73]
- Vernon Wilcox, 84, Australian politician.
14
- Siradiou Diallo, 67, Guinean journalist and politician, cardiac arrest.[74]
- Martin Emond, 34, New Zealand cartoon illustrator and painter, suicide by hanging.
- Genevieve, 83, American comedian, actress, and singer.[75]
- Norb Hecker, 76, American football player and coach, cancer.[76]
- Jurijs Rubenis, 78, Latvian communist politician.
15
- John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, 72, British barrister and judge.
- Václav Kozák, 66, Czech rower and Olympic champion.[77]
- René Laloux, 74, French animator, screenwriter and film director, heart attack.[78]
- Philippe Lemaire, 77, French actor, suicide.[79]
- Alfred Mansfeld, 92, Israeli architect.
- Chuck Niles, 76, American Southern California jazz radio disc jockey.[80]
- Patrick Nuttgens, 74, British architect.[81]
- Bill Pickering, 93, New Zealand engineer, head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, pneumonia.[82]
- John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner, liver cancer.[83]
- Ivan Ryzhov, 91, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
- Vicki Shiran, 57, Israeli criminologist, sociologist, poet, film director, and activist, breast cancer.[84]
- John Vallone, 50, American production designer (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Predator, 48 Hrs.).
16
- Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model, suicide by hanging.[85]
- Hank Marr, 77, American jazz musician.
- Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi, 61, Iranian Olympic wrestler (bronze medal winner in men's freestyle featherweight wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics).[86]
- Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer.[87]
17
- J.J. Jackson, 62, American radio and television personality, heart attack.
- Monique Laederach, 65, Swiss writer.[88]
- Michael Mellinger, 74, German actor.[89]
- Bernie Scherer, 91, American gridiron football player (University of Nebraska, Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates).[90]
18
- Gene Bearden, 83, American baseball player with the Cleveland Indians.[91]
- Vytas Brenner, 57, Venezuelan musician, keyboardist and composer, heart attack.
- Wallace Davenport, 78, American jazz trumpeter.[92]
- Louisette Hautecoeur, 89, French film editor.
- Richard Marner, 82, Russian-British actor.
- Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder of McCain Foods, kidney failure.
- Raquel Rodrigo, 89, Cuban actress and singer.[93]
- Abdujalil Samadov, 54, Tajik politician.
- Erna Spoorenberg, 77, Dutch soprano.[94]
19
- Roy Abbott, 76, Australian politician.
- Bert Barlow, 87, English football player.[95]
- Guillermo Rivas «el Borras», 76, Mexican comedy actor, pneumonia.
- Magool, 55, Somali singer, breast cancer.
- Brian Maxwell, 51, Canadian long-distance runner and founder of energy bar brand PowerBar, heart attack.
- Horace Phillips, 86, British diplomat.[96]
- Mitchell Sharp, 92, Canadian cabinet minister (member of Parliament, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance), prostate cancer].[97]
- Chris Timms, 56, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympic champion, plane crash.[98]
- Ted Walker, 69, British poet and dramatist.[99]
20
- Bernhard Christensen, 98, Danish composer and organist.
- Charles Harold Haden II, 66, American jurist.
- Chōsuke Ikariya, 72, Japanese comedian, actor and leader of comedic group The Drifters, lymphoma.
- Juliana of the Netherlands, 94, Dutch Royal, former Queen of the Netherlands, complications of pneumonia.[100]
- Joakim Segedi, 99, Serbian-Croatian Greek-Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Križevci (1963–1984)[101]
- Pierre Sévigny, 86, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, Quebec), known for Munsinger Affair.[102]
21
- Adeline Akufo-Addo, 86, First Lady in the second republic of Ghana as the wife of Edward Akufo-Addo.
- Johnny Bristol, 65, American musician.[103]
- C. West Churchman, 90, American philosopher and systems scientist.[104]
- Matt Gribble, 41, American swimmer, Olympic athlete, and world champion, traffic collision.[105]
- Nurnaningsih, 78, Indonesian actress.
- Mirwais Sadiq, Afghan politician, homicide.
- Robert Snyder, 88, American documentary filmmaker (winner of Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Titan: Story of Michelangelo).[106]
- Ludmilla Tchérina, 79, French ballerina], actress and writer.[107]
- John C. West, 81, American politician and diplomat.[108]
22
- Mirko Braun, 61, Croatian football player.
- Lisa Ferraday, 83, Romanian-American model and actress.
- Peter Jackson, 73, British rugby union player.[109]
- Pete Kelly, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.[110]
- Slobodan Kovačević, 57, Yugoslavian/Bosnia and Herzegovina rock guitarists, liver cancer.
- Janet Akyüz Mattei, 61, Turkish-American astronomer, leukemia.
- V. M. Tarkunde, 94, Indian lawyer, civil rights activist, and humanist leader.
- Ahmed Yassin, 67, Palestinian spiritual leader and founder of Hamas, military operation.[111]
23
- Lorand Fenyves, 86, Canadian violinist and professor.[112]
- Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician, heart failure.[113]
- Otto Kumm, 94, German divisional commander in the Waffen-SS during World War II.
- L. S. Stavrianos, 91, Greek-Canadian historian.[114]
24
- Dominic Agostino, 44, Canadian politician, Ontario Liberal MPP, liver cancer.
- Joshua Eilberg, 83, American politician.[115]
- Michael Garrison, 47, American ambient musician, liver failure.[116]
- Mildred Jeffrey, 93, American political and social activist.[117]
- Richard Leech, 81, Irish actor.[118]
25
- Robert Arden, 81, British-American film, television and radio actor.[119]
- Katherine Lawrence, 49, American screenwriter and author, suicide by gunshot.[120]
- Kristine Vetulani-Belfoure, 79, Polish teacher and writer, heart failure.
- Tom Wilson, 52, Scottish radio disc jockey, heart attack.
26
- Takeshi Kamo, 89, Japanese footballer.[121]
- Fred Karlin, 67, American composer of feature films and television movie scores, cancer.[122]
- Stelvio Massi, 75, Italian director, screenwriter and cinematographer.[123]
- Victor J. Nickerson, 75, American thoroughbred horse racing trainer.
- J. Edward Roush, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Indiana's 5th congressional district and Indiana's 4th congressional district).[124]
- Jan Sterling, 82, American actress (The High and the Mighty, Ace in the Hole, Pony Express), stroke, diabetes.[125]
27
- Bob Cremins, 98, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[126]
- Peter Diamond, 74, English actor, stroke.
- Richard Lancelyn Green, 50, British scholar of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes.[127]
- Gerome Kamrowski, 90, American surrealist and abstract expressionist artist.
- Miriam Lichtheim, 89, Turkish-American-Israeli egyptologist.[128]
- H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, 80, British scholar and teacher.
- Einar Magnussen, 72, Norwegian economist and politician.
- Robert Merle, 95, French author, heart attack.[129]
- John Sack, 74, American journalist and war correspondent, prostate cancer.[130]
- Adán Sánchez, 19, Mexican singer, car accident.
- Larry Trask, 59, American-British linguist and expert on the Basques, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[131]
- James Wapakhabulo, 59, Ugandan politician, foreign minister of Uganda.
28
- Percy Beames, 92, Australian sportsman and journalist.
- Albert Brülls, 67, German footballer.
- Erich Hauser, 73, German sculptor.[132]
- Art James, 74, American game show host and announcer.[133]
- Ljubiša Spajić, 78, Yugoslavian football player and manager.[134]
- Peter Ustinov, 82, British actor (Spartacus, Topkapi, Death on the Nile), Oscar winner (1961, 1965), heart failure.[135]
29
- Al Cuccinello, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants).[136]
- Lise de Baissac, 98, Mauritian-British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II.[137]
- Denny Dent, 55, American speed painter, heart attack.[138]
- Joel Feinberg, 77, American political and legal philosopher.[139]
- Hubert Gregg, 89, British BBC broadcaster, writer and actor.
- Charles Grenzbach, 80, American sound engineer, diabetes.
- George Heard Hamilton, 93, American art historian, educator, and curator.[140]
- Simone Renant, 93, French film actress, Alzheimer's disease.[141]
30
- Salvatore Burruni, 70, Italian flyweight and bantamweight boxer.[142]
- Alistair Cooke, 95, British-American BBC broadcaster and commentator, cancer.[143]
- Robert Dados, 27, Polish speedway rider, suicide.
- Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist and academic.[144]
- Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian, traffic collision.
- Willy Tröger, 75, German football player, stomach cancer.
- Timi Yuro, 63, American singer-songwriter, throat cancer.[145]
31
- René Gruau, 95, Italian fashion illustrator.[146]
- Hedi Lang, 72, Swiss politician, first woman to preside over the Swiss National Council.
- Ivan Kostov Nikolov, 90, Bulgarian geologist, mineralogist and crystallographer.
- Sir John Paul, 88, British colonial administrator.[147]
- Haim Zafrani, 81, Scholar of Moroccan history.[148]
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