- 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]
30
- 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, intoxication
- 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
29
- 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
28
- 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
27
- 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
- Ahmad Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer
26
- Achiam, 89, Israeli sculptor
- James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, 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
25
- 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
24
- David P. Bushnell, 91, founder of Bushnell Optical binoculars; non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
- Arthur E. Cook, 109, World War I veteran
23
- Naftali Halberstam, 74, Grand Rabbi of the Bobover Hasidim
- David Kossoff, 85, British actor, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff
22
- 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
21
- 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
20
- 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
19
- Hellema, 84, Dutch writer and Resistance fighter
- John De Lorean, 80, U.S. car designer and manufacturer.
18
- 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
17
- 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
16
- 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
15
- 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
- Otar Korkiya, 81, Georgian basketball player
- Bill McGarry, 77, football manager
- Armand Seghers, 78, retired footballer, voted AA Gent's best player of the 20th century
- Judith Scott, 61, outsider artist
- Sy Wexler, 88, maker of educational films
- Shoji Nishio, 77, a Japanese aikido teacher holding the rank of 8th dan shihan from the Aikikai.
14
- 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
13
- 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
12
- 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
- Andrea Russo, 76, Italian engineer, cancer
11
- Karen Wynn Fonstad, 59, author of atlases of fictional worlds, breast cancer
- Stanley Grenz, 55, Christian Theologian
- Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post
10
- 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
9
- 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
- Jeanette Schmid, 80, professional transsexual whistler.
8
- 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 separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.
- Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress
- Fred Rice, 86, American football coach. [7]
- Jeremy Russell, 60, cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer
7
- Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during a riot in a Dominican Republic jail
- Helon Blount, 76, Texas-born American musical theatre actress
- 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
6
- 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
5
- 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
4
- 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
3
- George Atkinson, 69, inventor of the video rental
- James Corbett, 98, Australian politician
- 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
2
- 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
1
- 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
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