Deaths in March 2007

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

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• Thomas W. Moore, 88, American producer and president of ABC, congestive heart failure.[1]
• Lito Sisnorio, 24, Filipino boxer, heart failure after surgery following a knockout. [2]
• Paul Watzlawick, 85, Austrian-born American psychologist and philosopher. [3]

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• Basil Catterns MC, 89, Australian WWII Army leader of the Kokoda Track campaign, father of broadcaster Angela Catterns. [4]
• Chrisye, 56, Indonesian musician, lung cancer. [5]
• Fay Coyle, 73, British footballer for Derry City, Nottingham Forest and Northern Ireland. [6] [7]
• Michael Dibdin, 60, British crime writer. [8]
• María Julia Hernández, 68, Salvadoran human rights activist, heart attack. [9]
• Dave Martin, 72, British television writer for Doctor Who and Z-Cars, lung cancer. [10]
• John Roberts, 74, Canadian politician, heart attack. [11]

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• Adebayo Adefarati, 76, Nigerian presidential candidate for the Alliance for Democracy party. [12]
• Bangla Bhai, 37, Bangladeshi militant, execution by hanging. [13]
• Lloyd Brown, 105, American last known surviving World War I Navy veteran. [14]
• Mimi Lerner, 61, Polish-born American operatic mezzo-soprano, complications of a heart tumor. [15]
• Calvin Lockhart, 72, Bahamian actor, stroke [16]
• Myokyo-ni, 86, Austrian Buddhist nun, head of the Zen Centre in London. [17].
• Tosiwo Nakayama, 75, first President of the Federated States of Micronesia (1979-87). [18]
• Shaykh Abdur Rahman, Bangladeshi Islamist militant leader (JMB) until his capture by the RAB, execution by hanging. [19]
• Leslie Waller, 83, American author. [20]

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• Cha Chi Ming, 93, Hong Kong businessman, founder and non-executive chairman of HKR International. [21]
• Abe Coleman, 101, Polish-born American professional wrestler during the Great Depression era. [22]
• Bill Fisk, 90, American football player and coach. [23]
• Sir Thomas Hetherington, 80, British lawyer, Director of Public Prosecutions (1977–1987). [24]
• Tony Scott, 85, American jazz clarinetist. [25]

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• Hans Hedberg, 89, Swedish sculptor, kidney failure. [26]
• Paul Lauterbur, 77, American chemist and 2003 Nobel Prize Laureate. [27]
• Ransom A. Myers, 54, American-born Canadian fisheries biologist, declining fish stocks expert, brain tumour. [28]
• Faustino Oramas, 95, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club), cancer. [29]
• Aileen Plant, 52, Australian authority on infectious diseases, investigated first official case of SARS in Vietnam. [30]
• Joe Sentieri, 82, Italian singer and actor. [31] (Italian)
• Charlotte Winters, 109, last surviving American female veteran of World War I. [32]

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• Beniamino Andreatta, 78, Italian economist and politician (Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party). [33] (Italian)
• Heinz Schiller, 77, Swiss racing driver. [34]
• Sylvia Straus, 94, American pianist and widow of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. [35]
• Mikhail Ulyanov, 79, Russian actor, intestinal disease. [36]

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• George Kingsley Acquah, 65, Ghanaian Chief Justice since July 4, 2003, cancer.[37]
• Robert Austrian, 90, American epidemiologist, stroke. [38]
• Jerry Girard, 74, American sports anchor for WPIX television in New York City, esophageal cancer. [39]
• Andranik Margaryan, 55, Armenian Prime Minister since 2000, heart attack. [40]
• Marshall Rogers, 57, American comic book artist, heart attack. [41]

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• Jun Bernardino, 59, Philippine Basketball Association commissioner (1993–2002) and sports executive, heart attack. [42]
• Henson Cargill, 66, American country singer, complications from surgery. [43]
• Mary D. Crisp, 83, American Republican leader. [44]
• Maurice Flitcroft, 77, British amateur golfer and hoaxer, lung infection. [45]
• Jean Schwinden, 81, American former First Lady of Montana, wife of Ted Schwinden, cancer. [46]

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• Ed Bailey, 75, American baseball player (1953–1966) and Knoxville, Tennessee city councilman (1983–1995), throat cancer. [47]
• Paul Cohen, 72, American mathematician, professor of mathematics at Stanford University. [48]
• Mao Anqing, 83, Chinese author and son of Mao Zedong. [49]
• Damian McDonald, 34, Australian Olympic cyclist, traffic accident. [50]
• Eric Medlen, 33, American NHRA driver, diffuse axonal injury from car accident. [51]
• Chase Neilsen, 90, American Air Force officer, participant in the Doolittle raid. [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]
• U. G. Krishnamurti, 88, Indian philosopher. [57]
• Daniel Díaz Maynard, 73, Uruguayan politician, Deputy (1990–2005). [58] [59] (Spanish)
• Jay Zeamer, Jr., 88, American World War II veteran and Medal of Honor recipient. [60]*

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• Drew Hayes, 37, American comic book writer/artist (Poison Elves), heart attack. [61]
• Sven O. Høiby, 70, Norwegian journalist and father of Mette Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, lung cancer. [62] (Norwegian)
• Catherine Seipp, 49, American conservative columnist, lung cancer. [63]

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• Francis Agu, 42, Nigerian actor, complications from peptic ulcer. [64]
• Albert Baez, 94, American physicist and father of Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña, natural causes. [65]
• Olcott Deming, 98, American diplomat and first Ambassador to Uganda, septicemia. [66]
• Raynald Fréchette, 73, Canadian lawyer, Quebec Superior Court judge, National Assembly of Quebec member, cancer. [67] (French)
• Rita Joe, 75, Canadian Mi'kmaq poet, Parkinson's disease. [68]
• Gilbert E. Patterson, 67, American bishop of Church of God in Christ, heart failure. [69]
• Taha Yassin Ramadan, 69, Iraqi vice-president (1991–2003), execution by hanging. [70]
• John P. Ryan, 70, American character actor. [71]
• Ernie Wright, 67, American football offensive lineman in the 1960s, cancer. [72].
• Hawa Yakubu, 59, Ghanaian politician. [73]

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• Lloyd Best, 73, Trinidadian economist, politician and columnist, prostate cancer. [74]
• Calvert DeForest, 85, American actor, comedian and David Letterman sidekick known as Larry "Bud" Melman. [75]
• Robert Dickson, 62, Canadian professor, award-winning Franco-Ontarian writer and poet, cancer. [76]
• Luther Ingram, 69, American R&B singer and songwriter ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"), kidney failure. [77] [78]
• Bill Stevenson, 55, Canadian football player, injuries from a fall. [79]
• Shimon Tzabar, 81, Israeli artist, author, poet and former Haaretz columnist, pneumonia. [80].

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• Jim Fung, 62, Hong Kong Chinese martial artist and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma. [81]
• John G. (Jack) Samson, 84, American author, editor of Field and Stream magazine, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [82]
• Bob Woolmer, 58, British cricketer for England (1975–1981) and Pakistan cricket team coach, heart failure. [83]

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• John Backus, 82, American computer scientist who led the IBM team that developed Fortran. [84]
• Roger Bennett, 48, American Southern Gospel pianist (The Cathedrals, Legacy Five), complications of leukemia. [85]
• Jim Cronin, 55, American conservationist who founded Monkey World, liver cancer. [86]
• Freddie Francis, 89, British film director and two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer, stroke. [87]
• Homer Harris, 91, American athlete, first black captain of a Big Ten Conference team, Alzheimer's disease. [88].
• Ernst Haefliger, 87, Swiss operatic tenor, heart failure. [89]
• Wilford "Crazy Ray" Jones, 76, American cheerleading fan of the Dallas Cowboys, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. [90]
• Tanya Reinhart, 63, Israeli linguist and peace activist, stroke. [91]

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• Sajjadul Hasan, 28, Bangladeshi domestic cricketer, motorcycle accident. [92]
• Sir Arthur Marshall, 103, British aviation engineer. [93]
• Raymond Nasher, 85, American art collector, founder of Nasher Sculpture Center, Nasher Museum of Art and NorthPark Center. [94]
• Manjural Islam Rana, 22, Bangladeshi national cricketer, motorcycle accident. [95]
• Tupper Saussy, 70, American composer, musician, author, and artist, heart attack. [96]

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• Blanquita Amaro, 83, Cuban-born actress and dancer, heart attack. [97]
• Sally Clark, 42, British solicitor wrongly convicted of killing two of her sons. [98]
• Charles Harrelson, 69, American convicted murderer, father of actor Woody Harrelson, heart attack. [99]
• Jay Kennedy, 50, American editor-in-chief of King Features Syndicate, drowning. [100]
• Bowie Kuhn, 80, American Major League Baseball commissioner (1969–1984), respiratory failure. [101]
• Orlando Martinez, 65, Cuban-born American baseball player and manager. [102]
• Jack Metcalf, 79, American Republican Representative from Washington (1995–2001), complications of Alzheimer's disease. [103]
• Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam, 55, Malaysian politician, cancer and renal failure. [104] [105]
• Stuart Rosenberg, 79, American TV and film director (Cool Hand Luke), heart attack. [106]
• Herman Stein, 91, American film and television composer, heart failure. [107]
• Jean Talairach, 96, French psychiatrist and neurosurgeon. [108] (French)

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• Lucie Aubrac, 94, French member of the Resistance during World War II. [109]
• Roger Beaufrand, 98, French Olympian, oldest Olympic champion at time of death. [110] [111]
• Tommy Cavanagh, 78, British football player and manager of Burnley. [112]
• Lloyd Eaton, 88, American college football coach. [113]
• Sa'dun Hammadi, 76, Iraqi Prime Minister (1991), leukemia. [114]
• Fitzgerald "Mighty Terror" Henry, 86, Trinidadian calypso musician. [115]
• Gareth Hunt, 65, British actor (The New Avengers), pancreatic cancer. [116]
• Birk Sproxton, 63, Canadian author (Phantom Lake: North of 54) and educator, heart attack. [117]

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• Terry Major-Ball, 74, British banker and author, brother of former Prime Minister John Major, cancer. [118]
• Wendy Russell Reves, 90, American philanthropist. [119]
• John Sinclair, 73, British English language scholar, cancer. [120]
• Arnold Skaaland, 82, American professional wrestler. [121]
• Nicole Stéphane, 83, French actress (Le Silence de la mer). [122] (French)

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• Arnold Drake, 83, American comic book writer (Doom Patrol), pneumonia and septic shock. [123]
• Vilma Ebsen, 96, American actress, sister and dancing partner of Buddy Ebsen. [124]
• Preah Maha Ghosananda, 77, Cambodian Buddhist Sangharaja and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. [125]
• Antonio Ortiz Mena, 99, Mexican Finance Secretary (1958–70), IDB President (1971–87), complications from a fall. [126] (Spanish)
• Yeap Ghim Guan, 66, Malaysian lawyer and politician, founding member of the DAP, complications from a stroke. [127]

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• Betty Hutton, 86, American singer/actress (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), complications from colon cancer. [128]
• Martha Sosman, 56, American judge, member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, breast cancer. [129]

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• Buddy Allin, 62, American golfer, winner of five PGA Tour events, cancer. [130]
• Richard Jeni, 49, American comedian, apparent suicide by gunshot. [131]
• Ernie Ladd, 68, American NFL player and wrestler, cancer. [132]
• Lanna Saunders, 65, American soap opera actress (Days of our Lives), multiple sclerosis. [133]
• Angela Webber, 52, Australian comedienne and writer, cancer. [134]

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• Rosy Afsari, 60, Bangladeshi film actress, kidney failure. [135]
• Brad Delp, 55, American lead singer of 1970s AOR band Boston, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [136] [137] [138]
• Ron Evans, 67, Australian chairman of the AFL Commission, former Essendon chairman and player, abdominal cancer. [139]
• Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, 71, American politician, first black woman to serve in the Senate of North Carolina. [140]
• Ulpio Minucci, 87, Italian-born composer best known for work on Robotech, natural causes. [141]
• Juan Carlos Portantiero, 73, Argentine sociologist, renal failure. [142] [143] (Spanish).
• Malaetasi Togafau, American Samoan Attorney General, judge and legislator, cancer. [144]

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• Alejandro Cruz, 82, Mexican professional wrestler known as "The Black Shadow", pneumonia. [145]
• Cruz Hernández, 128?, Salvadorian claimant to the title of world's oldest person. [146]
• John Inman, 71, British actor (Are You Being Served?), liver disease. [147] [148]
• Tom Moldvay, 58, American writer of Dungeons & Dragons books and modules (revised version of Palace of the Silver Princess). [149]
• Harold M. Ryan, 96, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1961-1965), congestive heart failure. [150]
• Richard Trexler, 74, American historian of the Florentine Renaissance, complications from a kidney transplant. [151].
• Viky Vanita, 59, Greek actress. [152] (Greek)
• John Vukovich, 59, American baseball player and coach, brain tumor complications. [153]

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• Paul deLay, 55, American blues harmonica player, leukemia. [154]
• Frigyes Hidas, 78, Hungarian composer. [155]
• Emil Mailho, 97, American baseball player. [156]
• Morgan Mellish, 36, Australian Walkley Award-winning journalist for the Australian Financial Review, plane crash. [157]
• Andy Sidaris, 76, American film director, throat cancer. [158]
• Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft, 93, Italian–born British philanthropist. [159]
• Billy Walkabout, 57, Cherokee-American highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, pneumonia and renal failure. [160] [161]

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• Jean Baudrillard, 77, French postmodernist philosopher and sociologist. [162]
• Allen Coage, 63, American-born Olympic judo bronze medalist and professional wrestler known as "Bad News Brown". [163] [164]
• Ernest Gallo, 97, American co-founder of E & J Gallo Winery. [165]
• Pierre Moinot, 86, French novelist elected to Académie française. [166] (French)
• Ray Stern, 74, American professional wrestler, complications from heart surgery. [167]

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• Wilfred Baker, 106, British World War I veteran believed to be second oldest man in Scotland. [168]
• Yvan Delporte, 78, Belgian editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine (1956–1968). [169] (French)
• Ivo Lorscheiter, 79, Brazilian Catholic Bishop and advocate of liberation theology, multiple organ failure. [170] [171]
• Ivan Supek, 91, Croatian scientist, philosopher and writer. [172] (Croatian)

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• Natalie Bodanya, 98, American operatic soprano. [173]
• Thomas Eagleton, 77, United States Senator for Missouri (1969–1987), heart and respiratory complications. [174]
• Bob Hattoy, 56, American President of California Fish & Game Commission, AIDS activist, complications from AIDS. [175]
• Richard Joseph, 53, British video games soundtrack composer, lung cancer. [176]
• Sunil Kumar Mahato, 41, Indian parliamentarian, shot. [177]
• Tadeusz Nalepa, 63, Polish blues and rock singer, after long illness. [178] (Polish)
• Ian Wooldridge, 75, British sports journalist, cancer. [179]

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• Osvaldo Cavandoli, 87, Italian cartoonist. [180] (Italian)
• Benito Lorenzi, 81, Italian football striker (Italy, Inter Milan). [181]
• Gene Oliver, 71, American baseball player in the 1960s, complications from lung surgery. [182]
• Saul Swimmer, 70, American documentary filmmaker (The Concert for Bangladesh), heart failure. [183]
• Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, American etiquette authority and author, pneumonia. [184]

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• Doris Anderson, 85, Canadian feminist, writer and editor of Chatelaine, pulmonary fibrosis. [185]
• Thomas Kleppe, 87, American Secretary of Interior (1975–1977), Representative from North Dakota, Alzheimer's disease. [186]
• Clem Labine, 80, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn and LA Dodgers), complications of brain surgery. [187] [188]
• Harold Michelson, 87, American production designer twice nominated for an Academy Award. [189]
• Mike Mooney, 37, American football player with Georgia Tech and the 1993 San Diego Chargers. [190]
• Ivan Safronov, 51, Russian defence correspondent for Kommersant, fall from building. [191]
• William C. Sturtevant, 80, American Smithsonian Institution curator, emphysema. [192]
• Henri Troyat, 95, French writer and historian, member of the Académie française. [193] [194]

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• Manuel Bento, 58, Portuguese football goalkeeper (Portugal, SL Benfica), cardiac arrest. [195]
• Otto Brandenburg, 72, Danish singer and actor. [196] (Danish)
• Colette Brosset, 85, French actress. [197] (French)
• George Gabb, 79, Belizean artist, sculptor and writer, cardiac arrest. [198]
• Sir Sydney Gun-Munro, 90, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979–1985), after long illness. [199]
• Tinos Rusere, 61, Zimbabwean Deputy Minister for Mines and Environment, kidney failure. [200]