Deaths in March 2005

1

Edmund Adams, 90, English cricketer.

Cissy van Bennekom, 93, Dutch film actress.

George "Wild Child" Butler, 68, American blues musician.

Sergio Campanato, 75, Italian mathematician.

Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, American priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based.

Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricketer, cancer.

Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann.

Stephen Anthony Mobley, 39, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

Barry Stigler, 57, American voice actor.

2

H. E. N. Bredin, 88, British soldier.

Martin Denny, 93, American founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader.

Hermann Dörnemann, 111, German supercentenarian and World War I veteran, oldest living person in Germany, heart failure.

Tillie K. Fowler, 62, U.S. politician, former four-term Florida congresswoman.

Rick Mahler, 51, American baseball pitcher, heart attack.

3

George Atkinson, 69, American businessman, inventor of the video rental.

James Corbett, 98, Australian politician.

Max M. Fisher, 96, American millionaire philanthropist, listed in Forbes 400.

Rinus Michels, 77, Dutch football player and coach, former Dutch national football team coach.

Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress, cancer.

4

Mihai Brediceanu, 84, Romanian musician.

Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US Army in Iraq.

Douglas Dumbleton, 86, New Zealand cricket umpire.

Una Hale, 82, Australian operatic soprano.

Yuri Kravchenko, 53, Ukrainian General of Internal Service and statesman,, former interior minister of Ukraine.

Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer.

5

George Worsley Adamson, 92, American-born British illustrator.

Harold Brooks-Baker, 71, American publishing director of Burke's Peerage Limited.

Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor.

James McGirr Kelly, 76, American federal judge.

Rt. Rev. Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, English former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer.

6

Larned B. Asprey, 85, American chemist.

J. Rayburn Bertrand, 86, American businessman and civic leader.

Hans Bethe, 98, German-born American Nobel Laureate in Physics, discover of stellar fusion.

Danny Gardella, 85, American baseball player, New York Giants outfielder who challenged baseball's reserve clause in a 1947 federal lawsuit

Gladys Marín, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer.

Chuck Thompson, 83, American Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications of massive stroke.

Tommy Vance, 64, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke.

Teresa Wright, 86, American actress, heart attack.

7

Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, Puerto Rican drug dealer, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during a riot in a Dominican Republic jail.

Walter Arendt, 80, German politician.

A. W. Baxter, 78, Canadian winemaker.

Helon Blount, 76, American musical theatre actress, born in Texas.

John Box, 85, British film production designer, worked closely with David Lean.

Terry Buck, 61, Australian swimmer.

Debra Hill, 54, American screenwriter and film producer, co-writer of Halloween.

Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet.

James Stuart, 76, American opera director.

8

Ross Benson, 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent.

Larry Bunker, 76, American jazz drummer.

Anna Haycraft, 72, British writer (also known as Alice Thomas Ellis), lung cancer.

César Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles and discovered the pion.

Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.

Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress.

Fred Rice, 86, American football coach. [1]

Jeremy Russell, 60, American cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer.

9

Thomas F. August, 78, American lawyer and politician.

Meredith Davies, 82, British conductor.

Glenn Davis, 80, American football player, Heisman Trophy winner, prostate cancer.

Josef Fuchs, 93, German Roman Catholic theologian.

Sheila Gish, 62, English stage actress, cancer.

Kathie Kay, 86, Scottish big band singer.

Chris LeDoux, 56, American country music and rodeo star, complications from liver cancer.

William Murray, 78, American mystery novelist.

István Nyers, 80, Hungarian footballer.

Jeanette Schmid, 80, German-born professional transsexual whistler.

Redmond A. Simonsen, 62, American game designer.

10

Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian.

Charles R. Baxter, 75, American physician, pneumonia, surgeon who tried to save JFK.

Sir James Beament, 83, British biologist.

Danny Joe Brown, 53, American lead singer for Molly Hatchet.

Zilka Salaberry, 82, Brazilian actress.

Sy Wexler, 88, American maker of educational films.

11

Rowland Barnes, 64, American jurist, murdered in court.

Karen Wynn Fonstad, 59, American cartographer and academic, author of atlases of fictional worlds, breast cancer.

Stanley Grenz, 55, American Christian theologian.

Len Morgan, 82, American aviator and writer.

Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post.

12

Aleksandar Atanacković, 84, Serbian footballer.

Carl Beck-Friis, 83, Swedish Olympic shooter

Joseph M. Breitenbeck, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grand Rapids (1969–1989).

Norbert Callens, 80, Belgian cyclist.

Bill Cameron, 62, Canadian journalist, cancer.

Lisa Fittko, 95, German World War II dissident who led Jews over the Pyrenees to freedom.

Amanullah Khan, 71, Pakistani Test cricket umpire.

Edward E. Simbalist, 61, American role-playing game designer

13

Old Man Bukashkin, 66, Russian poet and artist.

Lyn Collins, 56, American soul singer, aka "Female Preacher"

Jason Evers, 83, American actor, star of B-movie Brain That Wouldn't Die

Ahmed Hassan Diria, 67, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1990 to 1993.

Frank House, 75, American baseball player, retired Major League Baseball catcher and Alabama legislator

Stavros Koujioumtzis, 73, Greek music composer

14

Stan Campbell, 74, American NFL player.

Richard Cooper, 58, Australian jurist.

Richard S. Forrest, 72, American novelist and short story writer, smoking and lung disease.

Janet Reger, 69, British designer of women's lingerie.

Sir Donald Thompson, 73, British politician.

Simon Webb, 55, British chess grandmaster living in Sweden, stabbed to death by his son.

Akira Yoshizawa, 94, Japanese origami master.

15

Bob Bellear, 60, Australian jurist, first indigenous judge in Australia.

Lady Callaghan of Cardiff, 89, British politician, wife of Jim Callaghan.

Don Durant, 82, American singer/actor, star of Johnny Ringo series.

Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian.

Otar Korkiya, 81, Georgian basketball player.

Bill McGarry, 77, English football manager.

Judith Scott, 61, American outsider artist.

Shoji Nishio, 77, Japanese aikido teacher holding the rank of 8th dan shihan from the Aikikai.

16

Wanda Alston, 45, American activist.

Arciso Artesiani, 83, Italian motorcycle racer.

Todd Bell, 47, American football safety, former Chicago Bears player.

Mohammed Bijeh, 30, Iranian serial killer.

Ralph Erskine, 91, British architect (Byker Wall).

Anthony George, 84, American actor.

Allan Hendrickse, 77, South African politician.

William Lehman, 91, American politician, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress.

Dick Radatz, 67, American baseball player.

17

Renzo Alverà, 72, Italian bobsledder.

William J. Bakrow, 81, American academic administrator.

Irvine Barrow, 92, Canadian accountant and senator.

Gary Bertini, 77, Israeli conductor and composer.

Sir Jeremy Blacker, 65, British army general.

Mike Campbell-Lamerton, 71, British army officer and rugby player.

Royce Frith, 81, Canadian senator.

Prentice Gautt, 67, American former NFL player.

Lalo Guerrero, 88, American father of Chicano music.

Justin Hinds, 62, Jamaican vocalist and songwriter.

Sverre Holm, 73, Norwegian actor.

George F. Kennan, 101, U.S. diplomat and historian.

David Little, 46, American college and professional football player, former Pittsburgh Steelers player.

Andre Norton, 93, American science fiction and fantasy author.

18

Alfred Adcock, 88, English cricketer.

Sol Linowitz, 91, U.S. diplomat and entrepreneur.

Maria Rosseels, 88, Belgian writer and journalist.

Theodor Uppman, 85, American operatic baritone, created title role in Britten's Billy Budd.

19

Fay Boozman, 58, American politician.

John De Lorean, 80, American car designer and manufacturer.

John Ebdon, 81, British author, broadcaster and director of the London Planetarium.

20

Ronnie Bird, 63, English footballer (Bradford Park Avenue, Birmingham City).

David Bonser, 71, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bolton.

Ted Brown, 80, American radio personality.

Walter Hopps, 72, American art dealer and gallery owner.

Sir Leslie Porter, 84, British businessman (Tesco).

Andrew Toti, 89, American inventor of the Mae West inflatable life vest.

21

Rodney Aller, 88, American skier and lawyer.

Fred Blair, 98, American communist politician.

Barney Martin, 82, American film and television actor, lung cancer.

Stanley Sadie, 74, English musicologist and critic, Lou Gehrig's disease.

Bobby Short, 80, American cabaret singer and pianist, leukemia.

Jeff Weise, 16, American school shooter, suicide.

22

Abid Azad, 52, Bangladeshi poet.

Vernon Carrington, 68, Jamaican Rastafarian.

Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, 58, Spanish antipope self-proclaimed Gregory XVII in 1978.

Gemini Ganesan, 84, Indian actor.

Edward Moskal, 80, American president of the Polish American Congress.

Rod Price, 57, English guitarist and founding member of Foghat.

Kenzo Tange, 91, Japanese architect.

23

Naftali Halberstam, 74, Polish-born Grand Rabbi of the Bobover Hasidim

David Kossoff, 85, British actor, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff

24

Richard Bowman, 71, English cricketer.

Sir Lindsay Bryson, 80, British admiral.

David P. Bushnell, 91, American entrepreneur, founder of Bushnell Optical binoculars, non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

25

Sir Ronald Forrest, 82, British admiral.

Greg Garrison, 81, American TV producer and director (The Dean Martin Show, Your Show of Shows).

David Sanctuary Howard, 77, British expert on Chinese porcelain.

Paul Henning, 93, American TV producer, creator of the Beverly Hillbillies.

Davis McCaughey, 90, Australian politician, Governor of Victoria, Australia.

26

Achiam, 89, Israeli sculptor.

Melihate Ajeti, 69, Kosovar actress.

David Boone, 53, Canadian football player.

James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, 92, British politician and peer, Prime Minister (1976–1979).

Paul Hester, 46, Australian musician, former drummer of Crowded House and Split Enz, suicide.

Marius Russo, 90, American baseball pitcher, member of 1941 and 1943 World Series New York Yankees teams.

Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, American scientist and endocrinologist.

27

Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, 91, Canadian heart surgeon.

Gwydion Brooke, 93, British bassoonist.

Bob Casey, 79, American PA announcer for the Minnesota Twins.

Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer.

Antonio Tellez, 84, Spanish anarchist historian and journalist.

Rigo Tovar, 58, Mexican singer and composer.

Ahmad Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer.

28

Tom Bevill, 84, American politician, former US Congressman from Alabama.

Dave Freeman, 82, British scriptwriter (Benny Hill, Carry On films, etc.).

Pál Losonczi, 85, Hungarian Communist political figure, former chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary (head of state).

Dame Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist.

29

Johnnie Cochran, 67, American lawyer, defended O.J. Simpson, brain cancer

Howell Heflin, 83, American politician, former U.S. Senator from Alabama

John McTernan, 94, American civil-rights lawyer

30

Roy Askevold, 69, Norwegian boxer.

Ivor Brown, 77, British motorcycle speedway rider and writer.

Robert Creeley, 78, American poet, died of complications from respiratory disease.

Alan Dundes, 70, American world-renowned folklorist, who was central in establishing folklore as a discipline, apparent heart attack while teaching.

Milton Green, 91, American former record holder in hurdles, boycotted the 1936 Summer Olympics as a protest against Adolf Hitler.

Mitch Hedberg, 37, American comedian, intoxication.

Fred Korematsu, 86, Japanese-American civil rights leader, respiratory illness.

Derrick Plourde, 33, American musician and artist, former drummer of two California punk bands (Lagwagon and the Ataris), suicide.

O. V. Vijayan, 74, Indian author, cartoonist and matchbox.

31

Alan Bloom, 98, British horticulturist.

Frank Perdue, 84, American poultry magnate.

Terri Schiavo, 41, American persistent vegetative state patient, died amidst much controversy after removal of gastric feeding tube.