Deaths in March 2004

1

Barbara Frawley, 68, Australian actress (Dot and the Kangaroo).

2

William J. Bouwsma, 80, American historian.

Mercedes McCambridge, 85, American Academy Award winning actress.

Marge Schott, 75, American primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds.

3

Cecily Adams, 46, American actress.

Susan Moller Okin, 57, New Zealand liberal feminist political philosopher.

Luis Villalta, 35, Peruvian professional boxer.

4

Jake Hancock, 75, British geologist.

John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist (Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL).

Claude Nougaro, 74, French songwriter and singer.

Sir Malcolm Pasley, 77, British literary scholar.

Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer.

Halina Perez, 22, Filipina actress.

5

Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 84, Ecuadorian politician, President (1961–1963).

Percy Browne, 80, British MP, jockey and farmer.

Julito Collazo, 78, Cuban Master Percussionist.

Stanisław Musiał, 65, Polish priest.

Mike O'Callaghan, 74, American politician, Governor of Nevada (1971–1979).

Joan Riudavets, 114, Spanish supercentenarian, world's oldest documented man and oldest recognized person in Europe.

6

Eugene T. Booth, 91, American nuclear physicist.

Frances Dee, 94, American actress.

Ray Fernandez, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez" or simply just "Hercules".

Alan Short, 83, American California legislator, co-author of the Short-Doyle Mental Health Act.

John Henry Williams, 35, American controversial son of baseball great Ted Williams.

7

George Thompson, 78, British footballer.

Paul Winfield, 62, American Emmy-winning actor.

8

János Bognár, 89, Hungarian Olympic cyclist

Nicolae Cajal, 84, Romanian doctor, chairman of Romania's Jewish community.

Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, 73, Indian physicist.

Keith Hopkins, 69, British ancient historian and sociologist.[1]

Robin Hunter, 74, British actor.

Robert Pastorelli, 49, American actor on Murphy Brown.

Muhammad Zaidan (aka Abu Abbas), 55, Palestinian nationalist, founder of Palestine Liberation Front.

9

Rust Epique, 35, American songwriter and guitarist.

Tony Lee, 69, British jazz pianist.

Albert Mol, 87, Dutch author, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality.

10

Dave Blood, 47, American Dead Milkmen bassist.

Jack Creley, 78, American-born Canadian actor

Robert D. Orr, 86, American politician, former Governor of Indiana.

James Parrish, 35, American NFL player.

11

Seymour Geisser, 74, American statistician, DNA-evidence expert.

Edmund Sylvers, 47, American lead singer of The Sylvers.

12

Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright with cerebral palsy.

Yvonne Cernota, 24, German bobsled driver, in training accident.

Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator.

Sir William Wade, 86, British legal scholar.

13

Sydney Carter, 88, British musician and poet.

Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal.

Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister.

14

Norb Hecker, 76, American football player.

15

Amparo Arrebato, 59, Colombian dancer.

George Briggs, 93, British Anglican prelate, first Bishop of The Seychelles.

Patrick Nuttgens, 74, British architect.

William Pickering, 93, New Zealand engineer, head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner.

16

Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model.

Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer.

Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 68, German prince.

17

J.J. Jackson, 62, American radio and television personality, former MTV video jockey.

Bernie Scherer, 91, American football player.

18

Gene Bearden, 83, American baseball player with the Cleveland Indians.

Vytas Brenner, 57, Venezuelan musician, keyboardist and composer.

Wallace Davenport, 78, American jazz trumpeter.

Richard Marner, 82, Russian-born British actor.

Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder of McCain Foods.

Guillermo Rivas, 76, Mexican comedy actor.

19

Brian Maxwell, 51, Canadian long-distance runner and founder of PowerBar.

Sir Horace Phillips, 86, British diplomat.

Mitchell Sharp, 92, Canadian Liberal cabinet minister.

Ted Walker, 69, British poet and dramatist.

20

Scott Fraser, 33, Canadian professional racing driver

Charles Harold Haden II, 66, American jurist.

Chosuke Ikariya, 72, Japanese comedian, actor and leader of comedic group The Drifters.

Juliana, 94, Dutch Royal, former Queen of the Netherlands.

Joakim Segedi, 99, Serbian-born Croatian Greek-Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Križevci (1963–1984)

21

Sir Austin Pearce, 82, British industrialist.

Mirwais Sadiq, Afghan politician, Civil Aviation Minister for Afghanistan.

John C. West, 81, American politician and diplomat.

22

John Bradley, 86, Canadian physician.

Peter Jackson, 73, British rugby union player.

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, 67, Palestinian spiritual leader and founder of Hamas.

23

Chen Zhongwei, 74, Chinese surgeon.

Sir Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician.

24

Dominic Agostino, 44, Canadian politician, Ontario Liberal MPP.

Michael Garrison, 47, American ambient musician, liver failure.

Fernando da Costa Novaes, 76, Brazilian ornithologist.

25

Jan Berry, 62, American musician, the 'Jan' of Jan and Dean.

Jan Sterling, 82, American actress.

26

Lawrence Colwell, Jr., 35, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Nevada.

Art James, 74, American game show host and announcer.

Bertrand de Montaudoin, 79, French Olympic modern pentathlete.

Adán Sánchez, 19, Mexican singer.

Colin Sutton, 65, British police officer.

Larry Trask, 59, American–born British linguist and expert on the Basques.

James Wapakhabulo, 59, Ugandan politician, foreign minister of Uganda.

27

Einar Magnussen, 72, Norwegian economist and politician.

Zhang Haoruo, 72, Chinese politician, Governor of Sichuan.

28

Percy Beames, 92, Australian sportsman and journalist.

Lise de Baissac, 98, Mauritian-born British Special Operations Executive agent.

Erich Hauser, 73, German sculptor.

Robert Merle, 95, French author.

David Robinson, 75, Irish horticulturist.

Sir Peter Ustinov, 82, British actor.

29

Chen Yi-hsiung, Taiwanese failed assassin in the 3-19 shooting incident.

Colin Smith, 69, English jazz trumpeter.

30

Alistair Cooke, 95, British-born American BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator.

Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist, violin professor at Yale University.

Hubert Gregg, 89, English BBC broadcaster.

Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian.

31

Sir John Warburton Paul, 88, British colonial administrator.

Hedi Lang, 72, Swiss politician, first woman to preside the Swiss National Council.

Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Indian Sikh leader.