Deaths in March 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2007.

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Lito Sisnorio, 24, Filipino boxer, died from injuries after a KO defeat in the ring. [1]
Paul Watzlawick, 85, American theoretician in Communication Theory and Radical Constructivism [2]

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Chrisye, 56, Indonesian musician, lung cancer. [3]
Fay Coyle, 73, Northern Irish footballer for Derry City, Nottingham Forest & Northern Ireland. [4] [5]
María Julia Hernández, 68, Salvadoran human rights activist, heart attack. [6]
Franco Cosimo Panini, 76, Italian publisher, co-founder of Panini. [7]
John Roberts, 74 Canadian politician, heart attack. [8]

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Adebayo Adefarati, 76, Nigerian presidential candidate for the Alliance for Democracy party. [9]
Bangla Bhai, 37, Bangladeshi militant, execution by hanging. [10]
Lloyd Brown, 105, last remaining U.S. Navy veteran of World War I. [11]
Juan Joya, 73, Peruvian footballer (C.A. Peñarol). [12] (Spanish)
Tosiwo Nakayama, 75, first President of the Federated States of Micronesia (1979-87). [13]
Shaykh Abdur Rahman, Bangladeshi Islamist militant leader (JMB) until his capture by the RAB, execution by hanging. [14]

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Dr. Cha Chi Ming, 93, Hong Kong businessman, founder and non-executive chairman of HKR International. [15]
Abe Coleman, 101, Polish-born American professional wrestler during the Great Depression era. [16]
Bill Fisk, 90, American football player and coach. [17]
Sir Thomas "Tony" Hetherington, 80, British lawyer, Director of Public Prosecutions (1977–1987). [18]
Tony Scott, 85, American jazz clarinetist. [19]
Sir Roderick Stirling, 74, Lord Lieutenant of Ross and Cromarty since 1988, lung cancer. [20]

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Hans Hedberg, 89, Swedish sculptor, kidney failure. [21]
Paul Lauterbur, 77, American chemist and 2003 Nobel Prize Laureate. [22]
Dr. Ransom A. Myers, 54, American-born Canadian fisheries biologist, declining fish stocks expert, brain tumour. [23]
Faustino Oramas, 95, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club), cancer. [24]
Joe Sentieri, 82, Italian singer and actor. [25] (Italian)
Charlotte Winters, 109, American secretary, last female American World War I veteran. [26]

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Beniamino Andreatta, 78, Italian economist and politician (Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party, Minister of Budget, Treasury, Foreign Affairs and Defense). [27] (Italian)
Shawn Bridges, 35, American methamphetamine addict and subject of documentary No More Sunsets. [28]
Boris Dimovski, 81, Bulgarian cartoonist. [29]
Sylvia Straus Heschel, 94, American pianist and widow of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. [30]
Heinz Schiller, 77, Swiss racing driver. [31]
Mikhail Ulyanov, 79, Russian actor, intestinal disease. [32]

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George Kingsley Acquah, 65, Ghanaian Chief Justice since July 4, 2003, cancer.[33]
Robert Austrian, 90, American epidemiologist, stroke. [34]
Jerry Girard, 74, American sports anchor for WPIX television in New York City, esophageal cancer. [35]
Jacek Lech, 59, Polish rock singer.^{[citation needed]}
Andranik Margaryan, 55, Armenian Prime Minister since 2000, heart attack. [36]
Marshall Rogers, 57, American comic book artist, heart attack. [37]

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Jun Bernardino, 59, Philippine Basketball Association commissioner (1993–2002) and sports executive, heart attack. [38]
Henson Cargill, 66, American country singer, complications from surgery. [39]
Maurice Flitcroft, 77, British amateur golfer and hoaxer, lung infection. [40]
Jean Schwinden, 81, American former First Lady of Montana, wife of Ted Schwinden, cancer. [41]

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Albert Angelo, Sr., 87, American real estate mogul and former mayor of Vancouver, Washington. [42]
Ed Bailey, 75, American baseball player (1953–1966) and Knoxville, Tennessee city councilman (1983–1995), throat cancer. [43]
Paul Cohen, 72, American mathematician, professor of mathematics at Stanford University. [44]
Grigoris Farakos, 84, Greek Communist political activist. [45]
Bertel Gardberg, 90, Finnish designer, silversmith and academician. [46] (Finnish)
Attila Kaszás, 47, Hungarian actor, stroke. [47]
Mao Anqing, 83, Chinese author and son of Mao Zedong. [48]
Damian McDonald, 34, Australian Olympic cyclist, traffic accident. [49]
Eric Medlen, 33, American NHRA driver, diffuse axonal injury from car accident. [50]
Chase Nielsen, 90, American World War II pilot, flew in Doolittle Raid, Japanese POW [51]
Vinício Pereira, 51, Portuguese founding member of Portuguese Surfing Federation, president of European Surfing Federation. [52]
Robert E. Petersen, 80, American publisher of auto industry and enthusiast magazines, neuroendocrine cancer. [53]
Walter Turnbull, 62, American founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem, stroke. [54]

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Nisar Bazmi, 83, Pakistani composer, kidney failure. [55]
Don Dennis, 65, American pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1960s. [56]
Alexandre Kiss, 81, French environmental law specialist. [57]
Robert Krakoff, 72, American businessman, president and CEO of Nielsen Business Media. [58]
U. G. Krishnamurti, 88, Indian philosopher. [59]
Daniel Díaz Maynard, 73, Uruguayan politician, Deputy (1990–2005). [60] [61] (Spanish)
Genia Walaschek, 90, Swiss footballer, last living member of the 1938 Swiss national team. [62] (German)
Lily Wheelwright, 24, Indie film actress, Orphans.[63]
Jay Zeamer, Jr., 88, American World War II veteran and Medal of Honor recipient. [64]

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Drew Hayes, 37, American comic book writer/artist (Poison Elves), heart attack. [65]
Sven O. Høiby, 70, Norwegian journalist and father of Mette Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, lung cancer. [66] (Norwegian)
Catherine Seipp, 49, American conservative columnist, lung cancer. [67]
Renaud Vignal, 63, French former ambassador to Seychelles, Romania, Argentina, Ivory Coast and Indonesia, lung cancer. [68]

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Albert Baez, 94, American physicist and father of Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña, natural causes. [69]
Olcott Deming, 98, American diplomat and first Ambassador to Uganda, septicemia. [70]
Raynald Fréchette, 73, Canadian lawyer, Quebec Superior Court judge and National Assembly of Quebec member, cancer. [71] (French)
Sébastien Gressez, 28, French musician, shot. [72]
Rita Joe, 75, Canadian Mi'kmaq poet, Parkinson's disease. [73]
Gilbert E. Patterson, 67, American bishop of Church of God in Christ, heart failure. [74]
Taha Yassin Ramadan, 69, Iraqi vice-president (1991–2003), execution by hanging. [75]
John P. Ryan, 70, American character actor. [76]
Ernie Wright, 67, American football offensive lineman in the 1960s, cancer. [77].
Hawa Yakubu, 59, Ghanaian politician. [78]

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Lloyd Best, 73, Trinidadian economist, politician and columnist, prostate cancer. [79]
Calvert DeForest, 85, American actor, comedian and David Letterman sidekick known as Larry "Bud" Melman. [80]
Robert Dickson, 62, Canadian professor, award-winning Franco-Ontarian writer and poet, cancer. [81]
Amelia S. Haygood, 87, American record executive, founder of Delos International Records. [82]
Luther Ingram, 69, American R&B singer and songwriter ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"), kidney failure. [83] [84]
Boonchu Rojanasathien, 86, Thai Deputy Prime Minister (1975–1976), senior executive with Bangkok Bank, cancer. [85]
Charles Stafford, 83, American journalist, co-winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, leukemia. [86]
Shimon Tzabar, 81, Israeli artist, author, poet and former Haaretz columnist, pneumonia. [87].

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Michael Coers, 62, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. [88]
Jim Fung, 62, Hong Kong Chinese martial artist and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma. [89]
William N. Panzer, 64, American co-producer of the Highlander films (1986–2007) and TV series (1992–1998), skating accident. [90]
John G. (Jack) Samson, 84, American author, editor of Field and Stream magazine, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [91]
Bob Woolmer, 58, British cricketer for England (1975–1981) and Pakistan cricket team coach, manual strangulation.[92]
Kenneth Zebroski, 61, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly, hepatitis and blood clot. [93]
Juan Manuel Zúñiga, 43, Mexican Lucha libre wrestler known as "Angel Azteca". [94]

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John Backus, 82, American computer scientist who led the IBM team that developed Fortran. [95]
Roger Bennett, 48, American Southern Gospel pianist (The Cathedrals, Legacy Five), complications of leukemia. [96]
Jim Cronin, 55, American conservationist who founded Monkey World, liver cancer. [97]
Freddie Francis, 89, British film director and two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer, stroke. [98]
Eiji Funakoshi, 84, Japanese actor (Fires on the Plain), stroke. [99]
Illarion Golitsyn, 78, Russian painter, car accident. [100]
Homer Harris, 91, American athlete, first black captain of a Big Ten Conference team, Alzheimer's disease. [101].
Ernst Haefliger, 87, Swiss operatic tenor, heart failure. [102]
Wilford "Crazy Ray" Jones, 76, American cheerleading fan of the Dallas Cowboys, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. [103]
Tanya Reinhart, 63, Israeli linguist and peace activist, stroke. [104]
Emil "Kembala" Trifonov, 43, Bulgarian journalist, car accident. [105]

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Georges Bordonove, 86, French writer and historian. [106] (French)
Luz Franco, 52, Portuguese actress, dramatist and director, cancer. [107] (Portuguese)
Sajjadul Hasan, 28, Bangladeshi domestic cricketer, motorcycle accident. [108]
Sir Arthur Marshall, 103, British aviation engineer. [109]
Raymond Nasher, 85, American art collector, founder of Nasher Sculpture Center, Nasher Museum of Art and NorthPark Center. [110].
Manjural Islam Rana, 22, Bangladeshi national cricketer, motorcycle accident. [111]
Carol Richards, 84, American actress and singer ("Silver Bells" with Bing Crosby). [112]
Bill Sabo, 46, American musician, original drummer for Shok Paris, heart failure. [113]
Tupper Saussy, 70, American composer, musician, author, and artist, heart attack. [114]
Milton Wexler, 98, American psychoanalyst and researcher, respiratory failure. [115]