Deaths in March 2005

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The following is a list of notable people who died in March 2005.

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• Willard "Will" Miller, 64, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Vermont; revolutionary socialist activist and member Green Mountain Veterans for Peace [1]
• Frank Perdue, 84, poultry magnate
• Terri Schiavo, 41, U.S. persistent vegetative state patient, died amidst much controversy after removal of gastric feeding tube
• Hideaki Sekiguchi, 38, known as Billy, Guitar Wolf bassist, heart attack [2]

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• Robert Creeley, 78, poet, died of complications from respiratory disease.
• Alan Dundes, 70, world-renowned folklorist, who was central in establishing folklore as a discipline, apparent heart attack while teaching.
• Milton Green, 91, former record holder in hurdles, boycotted the 1936 Summer Olympics as a protest against Adolf Hitler.
• Mitch Hedberg, 37, comedian, heart attack.
• Fred Korematsu, 86, Japanese-American civil rights leader, respiratory illness
• Derrick Plourde, 33, former drummer of two California punk bands (Lagwagon and the Ataris), suicide.
• O. V. Vijayan, 74, Indian author, cartoonist and matchbox
• Ted Kord, 28, CEO of KORD Industries, gunshot wound to the head

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• Johnnie Cochran, 67, lawyer, defended O.J. Simpson, brain cancer
• Howell Heflin, 83, former U.S. Senator from Alabama
• John McTernan, 94, US civil-rights lawyer

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• Tom Bevill, 84, former US Congressman from Alabama
• Dave Freeman (writer). 82, scriptwriter (Benny Hill, Carry On films, etc.)
• Pál Losonczi, 85, former chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary (head of state)
• Dame Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist

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• Bob Casey, 79, PA announcer for the Minnesota Twins
• Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer
• Antonio Tellez, 84, Anarchist Historian and journalist.
• Rigo Tovar, 58, popular Mexican singer and composer
• Ahmed Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer

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• Lord James Callaghan, 92, former British Prime Minister
• Paul Hester, 46, Australian musician, former drummer of Crowded House and Split Enz, suicide
• Marius Russo, 90, former baseball pitcher, member of 1941 and 1943 World Series Yankees teams
• Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, American scientist and endocrinologist

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• Greg Garrison, 81, TV producer and director (The Dean Martin Show, Your Show of Shows)
• Paul Henning, 93, TV producer, creator of the Beverly Hillbillies
• Davis McCaughey, 90, former Governor of Victoria, Australia

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• David P. Bushnell, 91, founder of Bushnell Optical binoculars; non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
• Arthur E. Cook, 109, World War I veteran

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• Naftali Halberstam, 74, Grand Rabbi of the Bobover Hasidim
• David Kossoff, 85, British actor, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff

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• Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, 58, Spanish antipope self-proclaimed Gregory XVII in 1978
• Gemini Ganesan, 84, Indian actor
• Edward Moskal, 80, president of the Polish American Congress
• Simon Nyandwi, 55, interior minister of Burundi and former rebel official; heart attack
• Rod Price, 57, guitarist and founding member of Foghat
• Kenzo Tange, 91, Japanese architect

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• Ge Zhenlin, 88, Chinese war hero [3]
• Barney Martin, 82, American film and television actor, cancer.
• Stanley Sadie, 74, musicologist and critic, Lou Gehrig's disease
• Bobby Short, 80, cabaret singer and pianist, leukemia
• Jeff Weise, 16, school shooter, suicide

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• Walter Hopps, 72, American art dealer and gallery owner
• Walter Reuter, 99, German photographer
• Andrew Toti, 89, American inventor of the Mae West inflatable life vest

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• Hellema, 84, Dutch writer and Resistance fighter
• John De Lorean, 80, U.S. car designer and manufacturer.

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• Gary Bertini, 77, Israeli musician and conductor
• Sol Linowitz, 91, U.S. diplomat and entrepreneur
• Jessica Lunsford, 9, kidnapping and rape victim (body found)
• Maria Rosseels, 88, Belgian writer and journalist
• Wayne Southworth, lead singer of the punk band Doom
• Theodor Uppman, 85, American operatic baritone, created title role in Britten's Billy Budd

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• Royce Frith, 81, Canadian senator
• John J.Gallagher, 79, cartoonist; brother of Heathcliff creator George Gallagher [4]
• Prentice Gautt, 67, former NFL player
• Lalo Guerrero, 88, father of Chicano music
• Justin Hinds, 62, Jamaican vocalist and songwriter
• Sverre Holm, 73, Norwegian actor
• Ramez J. Isa, 87, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
• George F. Kennan, 101, U.S. diplomat and historian
• David Little, 46, former Pittsburgh Steelers player
• Andre Norton, 93, science fiction and fantasy author
• Czesław Słania, 83, Polish-Swedish stamp engraver

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• Todd Bell, 47, former Chicago Bears player
• Bob Bellear, 60, first Indigenous Australian judge
• Ralph Erskine, 91, architect (Byker Wall).
• Anthony George, 84, actor
• Allan Hendrickse, 77, South African politician
• William Lehman, 91, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress
• Dick Radatz, 67, former baseball player

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• Lady Callaghan of Cardiff, 89, wife of Jim Callaghan
• Betsy Cronkite, 89, journalist and wife of Walter Cronkite
• Don Durant, 82, singer/actor, star of Johnny Ringo series
• Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian
• Bill McGarry, 77, football manager
• Armand Seghers, 78, retired footballer, voted AA Gent's best player of the 20th century
• Judith Scott ousider artist
• Sy Wexler, 88, maker of educational films

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• Stan Campbell, 74, former NFL player
• Janet Reger, 69, British designer of women's lingerie
• Dick Smyser, 81, American newspaper editor, asked question that led Richard Nixon to declare: "I'm not a crook."
• Simon Webb, 55, British chess grandmaster living in Sweden, stabbed to death by his son
• Akira Yoshizawa, 94, Japanese Origami master Bob Bellear

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• Lyn Collins, 56, soul singer, aka "Female Preacher"
• Winnie Dangerfield, 96, English child actor in silent films for the Clarendon studios [5] [6]
• Jason Evers, 83, star of B-movie Brain That Wouldn't Die
• Ahmed Hassan Diria, 67, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1990 to 1993.
• Danny Gardella, 85, a retired New York Giants outfielder who challenged baseball's reserve clause in a 1947 federal lawsuit
• Frank House, 75, retired Major League Baseball catcher and Alabama legislator
• Stavros Koujioumtzis, 73, Greek Music Composer

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• Charles R. Baxter, 75, American doctor, pneumonia, surgeon who tried to save JFK
• Bill Cameron, 62, Canadian journalist, cancer
• Lisa Fittko, 95, German World War II dissident who led Jews over the Pyrenees to freedom

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• Stanley Grenz, 55, Christian Theologian
• Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post

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• Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian
• Danny Joe Brown, 53, lead singer for Molly Hatchet
• Katherine Gray Lathrop, 89, pioneering researcher into nuclear medicine
• Zilka Salaberry, 82, Brazilian actress

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• Glenn Davis, 80, Heisman Trophy winner, retired American football player, 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, retired Hungarian footballer

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• Archbishop Roman Arrieta, 80, retired archbishop of Costa Rica
• Ross Benson, 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent
• 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 terrorist separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.
• Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress
• Jeremy Russell, 60, cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer

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• Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during a riot in a Dominican Republic jail
• John Box, 85, film production designer, worked closely with David Lean
• Debra Hill, 54, screenwriter and film producer, co-writer of Halloween
• Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet
• Jozef Stank, 64, former Slovakian defense minister

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• Hans Bethe, 98, Nobel Laureate in Physics, discover of stellar fusion
• Gladys Marín, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer
• Chuck Thompson, 83, Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications of massive stroke
• Tommy Vance, 63, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke
• Teresa Wright, 86, actress, heart attack

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• Harold Brooks-Baker, 71, U.S.-born publishing director of Burke's Peerage Limited
• Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor
• Benedetto Di Santo, 105, Italian World War I veteran
• Rt. Rev. Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer

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• Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US Army in Iraq.
• Ernie De Vos, 63, racing driver, killed in a cycling accident.
• Una Hale, 82, operatic soprano
• Yuri Kravchenko, 53, former interior minister of Ukraine
• Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer

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• George Atkinson, 69, inventor of the video rental
• Max M. Fisher, 96, millionaire philanthropist listed in Forbes 400
• Viva McComb, 110, supercentenarian, oldest living Texan
• Rinus Michels, 77, former Dutch national football team coach
• Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress, cancer

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• Joe Carter, 78, a member of the Carter Family folk singers
• Martin Denny, 93, founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader
• Hermann Dörnemann, 111, World War I veteran declared Germany's oldest living person, heart failure
• Tillie K. Fowler, 62, U.S. politician, former four-term Florida congresswoman
• Rick Mahler, 51, retired American baseball pitcher, heart attack

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• Cissy van Bennekom, 93, Dutch film actress
• Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based
• Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricket player, cancer
• Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann
• Barry Stigler, 57, Los Angeles voice actor