Deaths in March 2000

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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2000.

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 2000[]

1[]

  • Odell Barnes, 31, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
  • Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr., 77, American statistician.
  • Vlastimir Peričić, 72, Serbian composer.
  • Mark Yevtyukhin, 35, Russian Lieutenant-Colonel, K.I.A.

2[]

  • Peter Graham, 79, British cricket player.
  • Danny Musser, 94, American baseball player.[1]
  • Jack Robinson, 79, American baseball player.[2]
  • Sandra Schmirler, 36, Canadian curling champion, cancer.[3]
  • Charles E. Wiggins, 72, American politician and judge, cardiac arrest.[4]

3[]

  • Ranjana Deshmukh, 45, Indian actress, heart attack.
  • Paul Doguereau, 91, French pianist and piano teacher.[5]
  • Joseph Kayll, 85, British World War II flying ace.
  • Barin Mazumder, 79, Bangladeshi classical musician.
  • Beryl McBurnie, 86, Trinidadian dancer.
  • Toni Ortelli, 95, Italian composer and alpinist.

4[]

  • Władysław Daniłowski, 97, Polish and American pianist, composer and singer.[6]
  • Kyi Kyi Htay, 75, Burmese actress.
  • Michael Noonan, 78, Australian-New Zealand novelist and radio script writer.
  • Julian Ritter, 90, American painter.
  • Donn J. Robertson, 83, US Marine Corps officer.
  • Wu Ta-You, 92, Chinese theoretical physicist.
  • Xie Xide, 78, Chinese physicist.

5[]

  • King Ernest Baker, 60, American blues and soul singer, car crash.
  • Rena Dor, 83, Greek actress and a singer.
  • Lolo Ferrari, 37, French dancer, sex star, pornographic actress, actress and singer.[7]
  • Bill Kendall, 76, British trade unionist.[8]
  • Dame Roma Mitchell, 86, Australian lawyer and Governor of South Australia.[9]
  • Todd Thomas, 40, American gridiron football player, cancer.
  • Alexander Young, 79, British operatic tenor.[10]
  • Daniel Yanofsky, 74, Canadian chess grandmaster, writer, and arbiter.[11]

6[]

  • S. Arumugam, 94, Ceylon Tamil irrigation engineer and writer.
  • Chris Balderstone, 59, English professional in cricket and football, prostate cancer.
  • John Colicos, 71, Canadian actor (Star Trek: The Original Series, Battlestar Galactica).[12]
  • Roderick Walcott, 70, St Lucian playwright, screenwriter, painter, theatre director, and lyricist.

7[]

  • Josephine Batson, 71, English cricketer.
  • John Foster, 78, British Anglican priest.
  • Charles Gray, 71, English actor.[13]
  • W. D. Hamilton, 63, British evolutionary biologist.[14]
  • Margaret Rosezarian Harris, 56, American musician, conductor, composer.[15]
  • Pee Wee King, 86, American singer-songwriter (co-wrote "Tennessee Waltz").[16]
  • Edward H. Levi, 88, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General (1975–1977).[17]
  • Alimineti Madhava Reddy, 51, Indian politician.
  • Jack Sanford, 70, American baseball player.[18]
  • Nicolas Walter, 65, British anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist.[19]

8[]

9[]

  • Artyom Borovik, 39, Russian journalist and media magnate, plane crash.
  • Peter Hauser, 65, British football player and manager.
  • Pathanay Khan, Pakistan folk singer.
  • Usha Kiran, 70, Indian actress.[22]
  • Ivo Robić, 77, Croatian singer-songwriter.

10[]

  • Judith Barrett, 91, American film actress.
  • Barbara Cooney, 82, American author and illustrator.[23]
  • Tony Flaim, 51, Canadian blues singer, heart attack.
  • Martyn Godfrey, 50, English-born Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer.
  • Ivan Hirst, 84, British Army officer and engineer.[24]
  • William Porter, 73, American Olympic athlete (gold medal winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[25]
  • John Sladek, 62, American science fiction author.

11[]

  • Bob Bax, 74, Australian rugby footballer and coach.
  • Alex Dreier, 83, American news reporter and commentator.
  • Pierre Ghestem, 78, French bridge and checkers player.
  • HB Jassin, 82, Indonesian literary critic and documentarian.
  • Edgar C. Polomé, 79, Belgian-American philologist and religious studies scholar.
  • Will Roberts, 92, Welsh painter.[26]
  • Alfred Schwarzmann, 87, German Olympic gymnast.[27]

12[]

13[]

14[]

  • Kovai Chezhiyan, 68, Indian film producer and Kongu community leader.
  • Tommy Collins, 69, American country musician.[33]
  • C. Jérôme, 53, French singer, cancer.
  • Wilhelm Schilling, 85, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
  • Ponchai Wilkerson, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

15[]

  • William J. Crawford, 81, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
  • Timothy Gribble, 36, American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[34]
  • Clement L. Hirsch, 85, American businessman and racehorse owner, cancer.
  • Durward Kirby, 88, American television host and announcer.
  • Darrell Keith Rich, 45, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[35]
  • Robert Welch, 70, British designer.[36]

16[]

  • Morris B. Abram, 81, American lawyer, civil rights activist and president of Brandeis University.[37]
  • Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa, 53, Nigerian air marshal.
  • Thomas Ferebee, 81, U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier aboard the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.[38]
  • Roy Henderson, 100, British opera singer.[39]
  • Michael Starr, 89, Canadian politician.
  • Carlos Velázquez, 51, Puerto Rican baseball player.[40]

17[]

  • Jack Davis, 83, Australian playwright.[41]
  • Charlie Holt, 77, American ice hockey coach, cancer.
  • Edward F. Knipling, 90, American entomologist.[42]
  • Pete Mangum, 69, American football player.[43]

18[]

  • Eberhard Bethge, 90, German Protestant theologian.[44]
  • Bob Blackman, 81, American football player and coach.
  • Herman B Wells, 97, American academic.[45]
  • Robert Wynn, 78, American officer with Easy Company, in the 101st Airborne Division.

19[]

  • Graham Balcombe, 93, British cave diver.
  • Li Huanzhi, 81, Chinese classical composer.
  • Giovanni Linscheer, 27, Surinamese swimmer, car accident.
  • Shafiq-ur-Rahman, 79, Pakistani humorist.
  • Joanne Weaver, 64, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.[46]
  • Dewey Williams, 84, American baseball player.[47]
  • Mikhail Yefremov, 88, Soviet politician and diplomat.

20[]

  • Johan Anthierens, 62, Belgian journalist, columnist, publicist, and writer, Hodgkin's disease.
  • Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, 57, Yemeni author and politician.
  • Vivian Fine, 86, American composer.[48]
  • Michael Ferris, 68, Irish politician.
  • Gerald Kingsland, 70, British journalist and adventurer.
  • Dame Ruth Kirk, 77, New Zealand anti-abortion campaigner.
  • William Lumpkins, 90, American artist and architect.
  • Ramon Mitra Jr., 72, Filipino statesman, diplomat, and pro-democracy activist.[49]

21[]

  • James Gleeson, 79, Australian clergyman, heart attack.
  • Seumas McNally, 21, Computer programmer and founder of DX Ball 2, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  • Joseph C. Palczynski, 31, American spree killer, shot 27 times.
  • Heinz Zöger, 84, German political journalist.

22[]

  • John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil, 73, British diplomat.
  • Mark Lombardi, 48, American neo-conceptual artist, suicide by hanging.
  • Wayne McAllister, 92, American architect, head injury.
  • Carlo Parola, 78, Italian footballer and coach.
  • Godwin Samararatne, 67, Sri Lankan meditation teacher.

23[]

  • Stig Emanuel Andersson, 85, Swedish ice hockey, football and bandy player.
  • Ed McCurdy, 81, American folk singer, songwriter and actor.
  • Antony Padiyara, 79, Indian Syro Malabar archbishop and cardinal.
  • Udham Singh, 71, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
  • Juan Zurita, 82, Mexican boxer.

24[]

  • Bles Bridges, 53, South African singer.
  • Robert Hugo Dunlap, 79, United States Marine Corps major.
  • Al Grey, 74, American jazz trombonist.[50]
  • George Kirby, 66, British footballer.

25[]

  • Morton A. Brody, 66, American jurist.[51]
  • Jim Cash, 59, American film writer (Top Gun, The Secret of My Success), intestinal disorders.
  • Paolo Farinella, 47, Italian astronomer, heart failure.
  • Helen Martin, 90, American actress of stage and television.[52]

26[]

  • Alex Comfort, 80, British scientist, physician and author (The Joy of Sex), cerebral haemorrhage.[53]
  • John Paul Scott, 90, American behavior geneticist and psychologist.
  • Len Younce, 83, American football player and coach.

27[]

  • George Allen, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
  • Sue Wah Chin, 99, Chinese entrepreneur in Darwin, Australia.
  • Ian Dury, 57, British actor and rock and roll singer (Kilburn and the High Roads, Ian Dury and the Blockheads), cancer.[54]
  • Geoffrey Hebden, 81, English cricketer.
  • Priya Rajvansh, 63, Indian film actress, murdered.

28[]

  • John Hosier, 71, British musical educator.[55]
  • Marsal Maun, 86, Chief Minister of Brunei.
  • Frances Gray Patton, 94, American short story writer and novelist.[56]
  • George Petersen, 78, Australian politician.
  • Anthony Powell, 94, British author.[57]
  • Adam Ulam, 77, Polish-American historian and political scientist, lung cancer.[58]

29[]

30[]

31[]

  • Adrian Fisher, 47, British guitarist, myocardial infarction.
  • Gisèle Freund, 91, German-born French photographer and photojournalist.
  • Leo Lieberman, 84, American film screenwriter.

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