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[]

  • Barbara Frawley, 68, Australian actress (Dot and the Kangaroo).[1]
  • Riet van Grunsven, 85, member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II.
  • Mian Ghulam Jilani, 91, Pakistan Army officer, died at his home in Fairfax, Virginia on 1 March 2004.
  • Leon Katz (physicist), 94, Canadian physicist.
  • Costas Montis, 90, Cypriot poet, novelist, and playwright, tuberculosis.
  • Gilbert Plass, 83, Canadian physicist.
  • Johnny Walker (DJ), 55, American radio personality, lung cancer.

2[]

  • William J. Bouwsma, 80, American historian.
  • Tony Lee, 69, British jazz pianist, cancer.[2]
  • Mercedes McCambridge, 87, American Academy Award winning actress.[3]
  • Marge Schott, 75, American primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds.[4]

3[]

4[]

  • Max Arias-Schreiber Pezet, 81, Peruvian lawyer and politician.
  • Meryle Fitzgerald, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[9]
  • Jake Hancock, 75, British geologist.
  • Arthur Kinsella, 86, New Zealand politician, Minister of Education (1963–1969).
  • John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist (Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL).
  • Claude Nougaro, 74, French songwriter and singer.[10]
  • George Pake, 79, American physicist and computer research executive, known for founding Xerox PARC.[11]
  • Sir Malcolm Pasley, 77, British literary scholar.
  • Halina Perez, 22, Filipina actress.
  • Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer.[12]

5[]

  • Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 84, Ecuadorian politician, President (1961–1963).[13]
  • 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).

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".
  • Sir Alexander Glen, 91, Scottish explorer and businessman.
  • Val Pinchbeck, 73, American NFL broadcasting executive.[14]
  • 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[]

  • Nicolae Cajal, 84, Romanian physician and politician.
  • George Thompson, 78, British footballer.
  • Paul Winfield, 62, American Emmy-winning actor.[15]

8[]

  • János Bognár, 89, Hungarian Olympic cyclist
  • Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, 73, Indian physicist.
  • Keith Hopkins, 69, British ancient historian and sociologist.[16]
  • Robin Hunter, 74, British actor.
  • Robert Pastorelli, 49, American actor on Murphy Brown.[17]
  • Muhammad Zaidan, (aka Abu Abbas), 55, Palestinian nationalist, founder of Palestine Liberation Front.

9[]

  • Rust Epique, 35, American songwriter and guitarist.
  • Marshall Frady, 64, American journalist, cancer.[18]
  • Albert Mol, 87, Dutch author, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality.
  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, 71, American composer, conductor and pianist, created sonatas, concertos and symphonies.[19]
  • Don Smith, 52, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers).[20]

10[]

  • Herbert Choy, 88, American federal judge.
  • Jack Creley, 78, American-born Canadian actor.
  • Robert D. Orr, 86, American politician, former Governor of Indiana.[21]
  • James Parrish, 35, American NFL player (San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets).[22]
  • Hansjörg Schlager, 74, German Olympic alpine skier (men's downhill and men's slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics).[23]
  • Dave Schulthise, 47, American bass guitarist for the punk band The Dead Milkmen.[24]
  • David Shoenberg, 93, British physicist (solid-state electronics, magnetic resonance imaging, superconductivity).[25]

11[]

  • Philip Arthur Fisher, 96, American stock investor and author of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits.[26]
  • Seymour Geisser, 74, American statistician, DNA-evidence expert.
  • Adrian Ropes, 62, English television actor.
  • J. Minos Simon, 82, American author, aviator and attorney.
  • Edmund Sylvers, 47, American lead singer of The Sylvers, lung cancer.

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.[27]
  • Bates Lowry, 80, American art historian and museum director.[28]
  • Olavo Martins de Oliveira, 76, Brazilian footballer.
  • Milton Resnick, 87, Ukrainian-American artist, suicide.[29]
  • Sylvi Saimo, 89, Finnish Olympic canoer (women's K-1 500 metre canoeing: 1948, 1952 gold medal winner).[30]
  • Sir William Wade, 86, British legal scholar.

13[]

  • Sydney Carter, 88, British musician and poet.
  • Chen Hansheng, 107, Chinese sociologist.
  • Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal.
  • Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister.

14[]

  • Alishan Bairamian, 89, Armenian-American intellectual, historian, and author.
  • Siradiou Diallo, 67, Guinean journalist and politician, cardiac arrest.
  • Martin Emond, 34, New Zealand cartoon illustrator and painter, suicide by hanging.
  • Norb Hecker, 76, American football player and coach.
  • René Laloux, 74, French animator and film director, heart attack.
  • John W. Seybold, 88, American pioneer in computer typesetting.[31]

15[]

  • Amparo Arrebato, 59, Colombian dancer.
  • George Briggs, 93, British Anglican prelate, first Bishop of The Seychelles.
  • Chuck Niles, 76, American Southern California jazz radio disc jockey, awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[32]
  • Patrick Nuttgens, 74, British architect.
  • William Pickering, 93, New Zealand engineer, head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[33]
  • Sir John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner.[34]
  • J. Wayne Streilein, 68, American immunologist and eye tissue transplant researcher, known as "The Father of Modern Ocular Immunology".[35]

16[]

17[]

  • Rachel Hudson, British domestic abuse victim, murdered.
  • J.J. Jackson, 62, American radio and television personality, former MTV video jockey.
  • Monique Laederach, 65, Swiss writer.
  • Michael Mellinger, 74, German actor.
  • Bernie Scherer, 91, American professional football player (University of Nebraska, Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates).[37]

18[]

  • Gene Bearden, 83, American baseball player with the Cleveland Indians.[38]
  • 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.
  • Raquel Rodrigo, 89, Cuban actress and singer.

19[]

20[]

21[]

22[]

  • John Bradley, 86, Canadian physician.
  • Peter Jackson, 73, British rugby union player.
  • David Oates, 77, British archaeologist.
  • Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, 67, Palestinian spiritual leader and founder of Hamas.[46]

23[]

  • Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician, heart failure.
  • Otto Kumm, 94, German divisional commander in the Waffen-SS during WWII.
  • L. S. Stavrianos, 91, Greek-Canadian historian.
  • Andrew Veniamin, 28, Australian criminal, shot.
  • Chen Zhongwei, 74, Chinese surgeon.

24[]

  • Dominic Agostino, 44, Canadian politician, Ontario Liberal MPP.
  • Michael Garrison, 47, American ambient musician, liver failure.
  • Fernando da Costa Novaes, 76, Brazilian ornithologist.
  • Mildred Jeffrey, 93, American political and social activist.[47]
  • Fred Sharaga, 94, American Olympic racewalker (men's 10 kilometres racewalk at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[48]

25[]

  • Sir David Griffin, 88, Australian lawyer, businessman and politician.
  • Clayton Matthews, 85, American writer.
  • Kristine Vetulani-Belfoure, 79, Polish teacher and writer, heart failure.

26[]

27[]

  • Bob Cremins, 98, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[52]
  • Zhang Haoruo, 72, Chinese politician, Governor of Sichuan.
  • Einar Magnussen, 72, Norwegian economist and politician.
  • Robert Merle, 95, French author.
  • Edward Piszek, 87, American industrialist and philanthropist, founded Mrs. Paul's food brand.[53]
  • John Sack, 74, American journalist and war correspondent (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan).[54]
  • Lionel Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville, 90, British stockbroker and aristocrat.
  • Larry Trask, 59, American–born British linguist and expert on the Basques.
  • Kenneth Edward Untener, American Roman Catholic perelate, Bishop of Saginaw.
  • 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.
  • Art James, 74, American game show host and announcer.[55]
  • David Robinson, 75, Irish horticulturist.
  • Adán Sánchez, 19, Mexican singer, car accident.
  • Ljubiša Spajić, 78, Yugoslavian football player and manager.
  • Sir Peter Ustinov, 82, British actor.[56]

29[]

  • Lise de Baissac, 98, Mauritian-born British Special Operations Executive agent.
  • Chen Yi-hsiung, Taiwanese failed assassin in the 3-19 shooting incident.
  • Al Cuccinello, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants).[57]
  • Colin Smith, 69, English jazz trumpeter.

30[]

  • Alistair Cooke, 95, British-born American BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator.[58]
  • Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist, violin professor at Yale University.
  • Hubert Gregg, 89, English BBC broadcaster.
  • Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian.
  • William Wickline, 52, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[59]
  • Timi Yuro, 63, American singer-songwrite, throat cancer.[60]

31[]

  • René Gruau, 95, Italian fashion illustrator.[61]
  • Hedi Lang, 72, Swiss politician, first woman to preside over the Swiss National Council.
  • Sir John Warburton Paul, 88, British colonial administrator.

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