• Source: Deaths in March 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2001.
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 2001






= 1

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Joseph Cyril Bamford, 84, British businessman.
Ray Dorr, 59, American college football player (West Virginia Wesleyan) and coach (Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Texas A&M), ALS.
Albert Heschong, 82, American television, film and theater production designer (winner of Emmy Award for Art Direction for Requiem for a Heavyweight).
John Painter, 112, American supercentarian, world's oldest man.
Orlando Pantera, 33, Cape Verdean singer and composer, acute pancreatitis.
Hannie Termeulen, 72, Dutch Olympic freestyle swimmer (bronze medal winner in the 1948 Summer Olympics and two-time silver medal winner in the 1952 Summer Olympics).
Henry Wade, 86, American lawyer and district attorney of Dallas County, Parkinson's disease.
Colin Webster, 68, Welsh international footballer, cancer.




= 2

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John Diamond, 48, British Journalist, esophageal cancer.
George F. D. Duff, 74, Canadian mathematician.
Louis Faurer, 84, American street photographer.
Lonnie Glosson, 93, American country musician, songwriter, and radio personality.
Wallace D. Hayes, 82, American engineer and one of the world's leading theoretical aerodynamicists.
Mildred Brown Schrumpf, 98, American economist, food educator, and author.
William Grant Stratton, 87, American politician, governor of Illinois (1953-1961).




= 3

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Louis Edmonds, 77, American actor (Dark Shadows, All My Children), respiratory failure.
A. Maitland Emmet, 92, British amateur entomologist and schoolmaster.
Maija Isola, 73, Finnish designer of printed textiles.
Gabriel Lisette, 81, Chadian politician.
Jay T. Robbins, 81, Career officer in the American Air Force.
Ruhi Sarıalp, 76, Turkish track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
Eugene Sledge, 77, American Marine and professor, stomach cancer.




= 4

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Gerardo Barbero, 39, Argentine chess grandmaster, cancer.
Jean René Bazaine, 96, French painter, designer of stained glass windows and writer.
Clyde Coffman, 89, American decathlon athlete and Olympian.
Glenn Hughes, 50, American singer and member of pop group The Village People, lung cancer.
Brian Jones, 72, British motorcycle designer.
Fred Lasswell, 84, American cartoonist (Barney Google and Snuffy Smith).
Jim Rhodes, 91, American politician (61st and 63rd Governor of the State of Ohio).
Harold Stassen, 93, American politician (25th Governor of Minnesota).
Kalle Tuulos, 70, Finnish figure skater and Olympian.




= 5

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Rankin Britt, 85, American football player (Texas A&M, Philadelphia Eagles).
Frans De Mulder, 63, Belgian road racing cyclist.
Ian McHarg, 80, Scottish architect.
Leo Thomas, 77, American baseball player.




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Mário Covas, 70, Brazilian engineer and politician, bladder cancer.
Luce d'Eramo, 75, Italian author and critic.
Nane Germon, 91, French actress.
Balla Moussa Keïta, Malian actor and comedian, pulmonary emphysema.
Ngọc Lan, 44, Vietnamese singer-lyricist, multiple sclerosis.
Portia Nelson, 80, American cabaret singer, songwriter, actress (The Sound of Music, Doctor Dolittle, All My Children), and author, cancer.
Darrell A. Posey, 53, American anthropologist and biologist, brain tumor.
Jim Taylor, 83, English footballer.
Kim Walker, 32, American actress (Heathers, Say Anything..., The Outsiders), brain tumor.




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Frankie Carle, 97, American pianist, bandleader and composer ("Sunrise Serenade").
Inge Edler, 89, Swedish cardiologist.
Hank Foldberg, 77, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Hornets) and coach.
Ebbe Nielsen, 50, Danish entomologist and lepidoptera researcher, heart attack.
Marian Norkowski, 65, Polish football player.
Al Palladini, 57, Canadian politician, heart attack.




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Frances Adaskin, 100, Canadian pianist.
Abe Cohen, 67, American gridiron football player.
Ninette de Valois, 102, British ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet.
Robert Ealey, 75, American electric blues singer.
Bent Hansen, 67, Danish Olympic football player (silver medal winner in men's football at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
Hugh Malone, 57, American surveyor and politician, accidental death.
Luís Rocha, 63, Brazilian politician and lawyer, diabetes.
Bazaryn Shirendev, 88, Mongolian historian and politician.
Edward Winter, 63, American actor (Cabaret, Promises, Promises, M*A*S*H), Parkinson's disease.




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Vincent Alo, 96, American mobster (Genovese crime family).
Spencer Bernard, 83, American politician.
Soemitro Djojohadikoesoemo, 83, Indonesian economist and politician and the father of Prabowo Subianto, heart failure.
Henry Jonsson, 88, Swedish Olympic runner (bronze medal winner in men's 500 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
Hermann Kugelstadt, 89, German screenwriter and film director.
Poldek Pfefferberg, 87, Polish-American Holocaust survivor.
Giancarlo Prete, 58, Italian actor, brain cancer.
Diane Sommerfield, 51, American actress (Days of Our Lives).
Richard Stone, 47, American composer and songwriter (Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid!), pancreatic cancer.




= 10

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Arturo Alcaraz, 84, Filipino volcanologist.
Algodão, 76, Brazilian basketball player and Olympic medalist.
Michael Elkins, 84, American broadcaster and journalist (CBS, Newsweek, BBC).
Nikos Georgiadis, 77, Greek-British set designer for ballet, stage and film.
Frank Marsh, 76, American politician.
Massimo Morsello, 42, Italian fascist and political singer-songwriter, cancer.
Jorge Recalde, 49, Argentine rally driver, heart attack while racing.
Vladimir Voroshilov, 70, Soviet and Russian author, producer and television anchorman, heart attack.
Michael Woodruff, 89, British surgeon and scientist, and a pioneer in organ transplant surgery.




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Finn Ferner, 81, Norwegian Olympic sailor (silver medal winner in 6 metre sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
Rafaela Chacón Nardi, 75, Cuban poet and educator.
Jørn Ording, 85, Norwegian actor and screenwriter.
Ted Schmitt, 84, American gridiron football player.




= 12

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Morton Downey Jr., 67, American television personality (The Morton Downey Jr. Show) and actor (Predator 2), lung cancer.
Dave Dunaway, 56, American NFL football player.
Alan Greene, 89, American Olympic diver (bronze medal winner in men's 3 metre springboard diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
Sai Gwa-Pau, 82, Hong Kong film actor, diabetes.
Sir Lancelot, 98, Trinidadian-American singer ("Rum and Coca-Cola") and actor.
Henry Lee Lucas, 64, American convicted killer, natural causes, heart failure.
Robert Ludlum, 73, American author of spy novels (The Bourne Identity), burn.
Sidney Dillon Ripley, 87, American ornithologist and conservationist.
Victor Westhoff, 84, Dutch botanist.




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John A. Alonzo, 66, American cinematographer (Chinatown, Scarface, Norma Rae).
Encarnacion Alzona, 105, Filipino historian, and suffragist.
Bill Bland, 84, British communist.
Jean Bretonnière, 76, French actor and singer.
Vincent Dantzer, 77, Canadian politician (member of the House of Commons of Canada, mayor of Edmonton, Alberta), heart attack.
Walter Dukes, 70, American professional basketball player (New York Knicks, Minneapolis Lakers, Detroit Pistons).
Benny Martin, 72, American bluegrass fiddler.
Cord Meyer, 80, American Central Intelligence Agency official, lymphoma.
Cranley Onslow, 74, British politician.
Antonia Palacios, 96, Venezuelan poet, novelist and essayist.
Norman Rodway, 72, Irish actor (Royal Shakespeare Company).
Jutta Rüdiger, 90, German psychologist and head of the Nazi Party League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel) during World War II.




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Rosine Deréan, 91, French actress.
Anne George, 73, American author and poet, complications during heart surgery.
Lawrence Clark Powell, 94, American librarian, literary critic, and author.
Paul Rémy, 78, French tennis player.
Della Sehorn, 73, American competition swimmer and Olympian.




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Gaetano Cozzi, 78, Italian historian.
Durward Gorham Hall, 90, American politician (U.S. Representative for Missouri's 7th congressional district from 1961 to 1973).
Ryszard Koncewicz, 89, Polish soccer player and coach.
Henrik Schildt, 86, Finnish-Swedish film actor.
Ann Sothern, 92, American actress (The Ann Sothern Show, Maisie, The Whales of August), stroke.




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Johannes Benzing, 88, German nazi diplomat and linguist during World War II.
Otfried Deubner, 92, German classical archaeologist and diplomat.
Juliette Huot, 89, Canadian actress (The Plouffe Family, 14, rue de Galais, Amanita Pestilens, The Luck of Ginger Coffey), cancer.
Norma MacMillan, 79, Canadian cartoon voice actress (The New Casper Cartoon Show, The Gumby Show, Davey and Goliath).
Isao Okawa, 74, Japanese businessman and chairman of Sega, heart disease.
Maria von Tasnady, 89, Hungarian singer and stage and film actress.
Bob Wollek, 57, French race car driver, bicycle accident.




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Michiyo Aratama, 71, Japanese actress, heart attack.
Ingrid Borthen, 87, Norwegian-Swedish stage and film actress.
Arthur Covington, 87, Canadian physicist and radio astronomer.
Viktor Krivulin, 56, Russian poet, novelist and essayist.
Maynard Mack, 91, American literary critic and English professor.
Sherwin Rosen, 62, American labor economist.
Anthony Storr, 80, English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author.
Ralph Thomas, 85, English film director.
Zinaida Voronina, 53, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.




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Vasily Abaev, 100, Ethnically Ossetian Soviet linguist specializing in Iranian.
John Ardoin, 66, Best.
Teófilo Borunda, 89, Mexican politician.
John Phillips, 65, American singer, promoter and co-founder of The Mamas & the Papas, heart failure.
Dirk Polder, 81, Dutch physicist.
Gyula Tóth, 73, Hungarian wrestler.




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Gordon Brown, 53, Scottish rugby union player, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Boris Gregorka, 94, Yugoslavian Olympic gymnast (bronze medal winner at the 1928 Summer Olympics, 1936 Summer Olympics).
Charles K. Johnson, 76, American flat-earther (President of the International Flat Earth Research Society).
Walter Ian Harewood Johnston, 71, Australian pioneer of reproductive medicine, laryngeal cancer.
Herbie Jones, 75, American jazz trumpeter and arranger.
Jacob Kainen, 91, American painter and printmaker.
Norman Mitchell, 82, English actor (It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Oliver!, Beryl's Lot).




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Luis Alvarado, 52, Puerto Rican baseball player, heart attack.
Jay Cameron, 72, American jazz musician.
Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, 81, British author, bronchial pneumonia.
Doreen Gorsky, 88, British politician, feminist and television producer and executive (BBC Television).
John J. Hennessey, 79, United States Army general, stroke.
Frank Reynolds, 83, British and English field hockey player and Olympian.
Ilie Verdeț, 75, Romanian communist politician, heart attack.




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Dora Alonso, 90, Cuban journalist and writer.
Maurice Arreckx, 83, French politician, cancer.
Claus Bork Hansen, 37, Danish organized crime figure, shot.
Virgil Hnat, 65, Romanian handball player and coach, heart failure.
Bill Johansen, 72, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
Jeong Ju-yung, 85, South Korean entrepreneur, businessman and founder of the Hyundai Group, pneumonia.
Wim van der Kroft, 84, Dutch canoeist and Olympic medalist.
Billy Ray Smith, Sr., 66, American football player.
Anthony Steel, 80, British actor and singer (The Wooden Horse, Malta Story, West of Zanzibar, Checkpoint), heart failure.
Joe Winkler, 79, American gridiron football player.




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Stepas Butautas, 75, Lithuanian basketball player.
Sabiha Gökçen, 88, the first Turkish female aviator and the first female combat pilot of the world.
William Hanna, 90, American animator (Tom & Jerry, The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo), co-founder of Hanna-Barbera, throat cancer.
Newt Kimball, 85, American baseball player.
Barry Maxwell, 12th Baron Farnham, 69, British aristocrat.
Rolf Birger Pedersen, 61, Norwegian footballer and football coach.
Edward Samuel Smith, 81, American federal judge.
Toby Wing, 85, American actress and pin-up star (Palmy Days, True Confession).




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Anthony Bevins, 58, British journalist, pneumonia.
Sully Boyar, 77, American actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Car Wash, Fort Apache, The Bronx, Prizzi's Honor).
Louis Dudek, 83, Canadian poet, academic, and publisher.
Rowland Evans, 79, American journalist and television host (Evans, Novak, Hunt, & Shields), esophageal cancer.
Arthur D. Hasler, 93, American ecologist, known for explaining salmon's homing instinct.
Willie Horne, 79, British rugby league player.
Margaret Ursula Jones, 84, British archaeologist, known for directing excavations at Mucking, Essex.
Robert Laxalt, Basque-American writer.
David McTaggart, 68, Canadian environmentalist and co-founder of Greenpeace International, car accident.
Karlis Ozols, 88, Latvian SS officer during World War II and chess champion.
Mischa Richter, 91, American cartoonist and illustrator.




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Debabrata Basu, 76, Indian statistician.
Boris Berlin, 93, Russian-Canadian pianist, teacher and composer.
N. G. L. Hammond, 93, British classical scholar.
Tambi Larsen, 86, Danish-American set designer.
Kazuyoshi Oimatsu, 89, Japanese figure skater, coach and Olympian.
Karl Schönböck, 92, Austrian actor, stroke.
Brian Trubshaw, 77, British test pilot (Concorde).
Muriel Young, 77, British television announcer, presenter and producer.
Birgit Åkesson, 93, Swedish choreographer, dancer and dance researcher.




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Dominick Basso, 63, American mobster (Chicago Outfit) and bookmaker.
Terry C. Johnston, 54, American writer of the Old West, colorectal cancer.
Larry Lansburgh, 89, American producer, director, and screenwriter.
Tiger Prabhakar, 53, Indian film actor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Mattheus Pronk, 53, Dutch racing cyclist.
Roy Staley, 85, American hurdler.




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Michael Cocks, 71, British politician.
Brenda Helser, 76, American Olympic swimmer (gold medal winner in women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle swimming relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
Llazar Siliqi, 77, Albanian poet.
Piotr Sobociński, 43, Polish cinematographer (Three Colours: Red, Ransom, Marvin's Room), heart attack.
Bill Yates, 79, American cartoonist and comic strip editor, complications from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.




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Sir Kenneth Alexander, 79, Scottish economist.
Anthony Dexter, 88, American actor (Valentino, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, The Black Pirates, The Story of Mankind), stroke.
Robert Lee Massie, 59, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Boris Rauschenbach, 86, Soviet physicist and rocket engineer.
Giorgio Zuccoli, 43, Italian yacht racer and Olympian.
Tereza Štadler, 64, Serbian and Yugoslav chess player.




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Jim Benton, 84, American football player, cancer.
George Connor, 94, American racecar driver.
Moe Koffman, 72, Canadian flautist and saxophonist, cancer.
Constantin von Liechtenstein, 89, Liechtenstein prince and alpine skier.
Lillian Palmer, 87, Canadian athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
Vulo Radev, 78, Bulgarian film director, writer, and cinematographer.
Jørgen Skov, 75, Danish cinematographer.
James Warren, 88, American film actor and artist.




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Edward Frederick Anderson, 69, American botanist.
Malani Bulathsinhala, 51, Sri Lankan singer.
Gordon Hahn, 81, American politician (Los Angeles City Council, California State Assembly).
Rolando Hernández, 86, Mexican professional wrestler and wrestling trainer, heart attack.
Helge Ingstad, 101, Norwegian writer and explorer, and discoverer of a North American Viking landing site.
John Lewis, 80, American jazz pianist (Modern Jazz Quartet), cancer.
Hollis Sigler, 53, American artist and painter, breast cancer.
Norman Sisisky, 73, American politician, lung cancer.
Kōji Yamamoto, 48, Japanese basketball player and Olympian.




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Fatiu Ademola Akesode, 61, Nigerian professor of paediatrics.
Cyrus Herzl Gordon, 92, American scholar.
Jeffrey Mass, 60, American academic, historian, author and japanologist.
George Mutch, 88, Scottish football player.




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Jean-Marc Bory, 67, Swiss actor.
Diego García, 39, Spanish long-distance runner and Olympian, heart attack.
Edward Jewesbury, 83, English actor (Henry V, Crown Court, Dungeons & Dragons).
Naum Meiman, 88, Soviet mathematician, and dissident.
David Rocastle, 33, English professional footballer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Clifford Shull, 85, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
Colette Thomas, 72, French swimmer and Olympian.
Nakamura Utaemon VI, 84, Japanese kabuki performer.
Arthur Geoffrey Walker, 91, British mathematician.




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