The following is a list of notabledeaths in March 2004.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Eric Cross, 101, English cinematographer.^[1]
• Augusto da Costa, 83, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Barbara Frawley, 68, Australian actress (Dot and the Kangaroo).^[2]
• Mian Ghulam Jilani, 91, Pakistan Army officer,pneumonia.
• Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, 70, Comorian politician.^[3]
• Kostas Montis, 90, Cypriot poet, novelist, and playwright,tuberculosis.^[4]
• Gilbert Plass, 83, Canadian physicist.^[5]
• Nina Sazonova, 87, Soviet and Russian actress.

• Berndt Egerbladh, 71, Swedishjazz pianist, composer and television personality.
• Tony Lee, 69, Britishjazz pianist, cancer.^[6]
• Mercedes McCambridge, 87, American actress (All the King's Men,Giant,The Exorcist),Oscar winner (1950).^[7]
• Marge Schott, 75, American primary owner of theCincinnati Reds.^[8]

• Cecily Adams, 46, American casting director (That '70s Show,3rd Rock from the Sun) and actress (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), lung cancer.
• Sumantra Ghoshal, 55, Indian scholar and educator, founding dean ofIndian School of Business, brain hemorrhage. .^[9]
• Susan Moller Okin, 57, New Zealandfeminist and political philosopher.^[10]
• Pedro Pietri, 59, Puerto Rican-AmericanNuyorican poet and playwright, stomach cancer.^[11]
• Muniswamy Rajgopal, 77, Indian Olympic field hockey player (gold medal winner in men's field hockey at the1952 Summer Olympics).^[12]
• Drake Sather, 44, AmericanEmmy nominated television writer (Dennis Miller Show,The Larry Sanders Show,Saturday Night Live,Zoolander), suicide.^[13]
• Miriam Waddington, 86, Canadian poet, short story writer and translator.^[14]
• Russell Weigley, 73, American professor and military historian.^[15]

• Fernando Lázaro Carreter, 80, Spanish linguist, journalist and literary critic, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.^[16]
• Tooker Gomberg, 48, Canadian politician and environmental activist, suicide by jumping.
• Walter Gómez, 76, Uruguayan football player.
• David Charles Harvey, 57, British historian and author.^[17]
• Dale Ishimoto, 80, American actor.
• Arthur Kinsella, 86, New Zealand politician,Minister of Education (1963–1969).
• Roberto Lerici, 79, Italian football player and coach.
• John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist (Magazine,Siouxsie and the Banshees andPiL),SUDEP.^[18]
• Claude Nougaro, 74, French songwriter and singer,pancreatic cancer.^[19]
• George Pake, 79, American physicist and computer research executive, known for foundingXerox PARC.^[20]
• Malcolm Pasley, 77, British literary scholar.^[21]
• Jeremi Przybora, 88, Polish poet, writer, actor and singer.^[22]
• Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer, heart failure.^[23]

• Thorkild Bjørnvig, 86, Danish author and poet.^[24]
• Nicholas C. Dattilo, 71, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Walt Gorney, 91, Austrian-American actor (Friday the 13th,Trading Places).
• Pierre Lévêque, 82, French historian of ancient andHellenistic Greece.^[25]
• Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 84, Ecuadorian politician,President (1961–1963).^[26]
• Stanisław Musiał, 65, Polish priest.^[27]
• Mike O'Callaghan, 74, American politician,Governor of Nevada (1971–1979), heart attack.
• Masanori Tokita, 78, Japanese football player,esophageal cancer.^[28]

• Eugene Theodore Booth Jr., 91, American nuclear physicist.
• Frances Dee, 94, American actress, stroke.^[29]
• Ray Fernandez, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez", heart disease.
• Sandy Glen, 91, Scottish explorer and businessman.
• Alan Short, 83, American legislator, co-author of the Short-Doyle Mental Health Act.^[30]
• André Weingand, 88, French Olympic gymnast.^[31]
• John Henry Williams, 35, American controversial son of baseball playerTed Williams,leukemia.

• Ewald W. Busse, 86, American psychiatrist,gerontologist, and author.^[32]
• Nicolae Cajal, 84, Romanian physician and politician.
• Bengt Fahlqvist, 81, Swedish wrestler and Olympic medalist.^[33]
• Jack Holden, 96, English Olympic long-distance runner.^[34]
• Michael Stringer, 79, British production designer and art director (Casino Royale,Fiddler on the Roof,633 Squadron).
• Román Arrieta Villalobos, 79, Costa RicanCatholic archbishop,brain tumor.
• Paul Winfield, 64, American actor (Sounder,The Terminator,227),Emmy winner (1995), heart attack.^[35]

• János Bognár, 89, Hungarian Olympic cyclist.^[36]
• Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, 73, Indian physicist.
• Keith Hopkins, 69, British ancient historian andsociologist.^[37]
• Robin Hunter, 74, British actor,pulmonary emphysema.^[38]
• Duan Junyi, 93, Chinese politician.
• Alfons Lütke-Westhues, 73, German equestrian and Olympic champion.^[39]
• Frank Mooney, 82, New Zealand cricketer.^[40]
• Robert Pastorelli, 49, American actor (Murphy Brown,Eraser,Michael), drug overdose.^[41]
• Ehrenfried Patzel, 89, Czechoslovakian football player.
• Siddharth Ray, 40, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Yavuz Selekman, 67, Turkish wrestler and film actor.^[42]
• Muhammad Zaidan, (aka Abu Abbas), 55, Palestinian nationalist, founder ofPalestine Liberation Front, cardiovascular disease.

• Rust Epique, 35, American songwriter and guitarist, heart attack.
• Marshall Frady, 64, American journalist, cancer.^[43]
• John Mayer, 73, Indian composer, traffic collision.^[44]
• Albert Mol, 87, Dutch author, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality,aneurysm.^[45]
• Gearóid Mac Niocaill, 71, British academic and historian.
• Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, 71, American composer, conductor and pianist.^[46]
• Don Smith, 52, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers), heart problems.^[47]

• Olle Adolphson, 69, Swedish writer, singer and songwriter.^[48]
• Boryslav Brondukov, 66, Ukrainian film actor, stroke.^[49]
• Jack Creley, 78, American-Canadian actor.
• Norbert Grupe, 63, German boxer and actor (Die Hard,Stroszek,Ghostbusters II), prostate cancer.^[50]
• Robert D. Orr, 86, American politician, formerGovernor of Indiana, surgical complications.^[51]
• James Parrish, 35, American NFL player (San Francisco 49ers,Pittsburgh Steelers,New York Jets), cancer.^[52]
• Hansjörg Schlager, 74, German Olympicalpine skier (men's downhill andmen's slalom at the1972 Winter Olympics).^[53]
• David Shoenberg, 93, British physicist (solid-state electronics,magnetic resonance imaging,superconductivity).^[54]
• Nasiba Zeynalova, 87, Soviet and Azerbaijani actress.

• Philip Arthur Fisher, 96, American stock investor and author ofCommon Stocks and Uncommon Profits.^[55]
• Seymour Geisser, 74, American statistician,DNA-evidence expert.^[56]
• Richard Kinon, 79, American television director.
• Aleksey Mazurenko, 86, Russian major general during World War II.^[57]
• Edmund Sylvers, 47, American lead singer ofThe Sylvers,lung cancer.

• Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright withcerebral palsy.^[58]
• Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator, heart attack.^[59]
• Karel Kachyňa, 79, Czech film director and screenwriter.^[60]
• William Moritz, 63, American film historian, cancer.
• Milton Resnick, 87, Ukrainian-American artist, suicide.^[61]
• Sylvi Saimo, 89, Finnish Olympic canoer (women's K-1 500 metre canoeing:1948,1952 gold medal winner).^[62]
• Natan Yonatan, 80, Israeli poet.^[63]

• Guttorm Berge, 74, Norwegianalpine skier and Olympic medalist.^[64]
• Sydney Carter, 88, British musician and poet.^[65]
• Harold Goldsmith, 73, American Olympic foil and epeefencer.^[66]
• Chen Hansheng, 107, Chinesesociologist.^[67]
• Max Harris, 85, British film and television composer and arranger.^[68]
• Vilayat Khan, 75, Indian classicalsitar player,lung cancer.^[69]
• Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal.^[70]
• Thomas Adeoye Lambo, 80, Nigerian scholar, administrator and psychiatrist.^[71]
• Blessing Makunike, 27, Zimbabwean football player, traffic collision.^[72]
• Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister, cancer.^[73]
• Vernon Wilcox, 84, Australian politician.

• Siradiou Diallo, 67, Guinean journalist and politician,cardiac arrest.^[74]
• Martin Emond, 34, New Zealand cartoon illustrator and painter, suicide by hanging.
• Genevieve, 83, American comedian, actress, and singer.^[75]
• Norb Hecker, 76, American football player and coach, cancer.^[76]
• Jurijs Rubenis, 78, Latvian communist politician.

• John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, 72, British barrister and judge.
• Václav Kozák, 66, Czech rower and Olympic champion.^[77]
• René Laloux, 74, French animator, screenwriter and film director, heart attack.^[78]
• Philippe Lemaire, 77, French actor, suicide.^[79]
• Alfred Mansfeld, 92, Israeli architect.
• Chuck Niles, 76, AmericanSouthern Californiajazz radiodisc jockey.^[80]
• Patrick Nuttgens, 74, British architect.^[81]
• Bill Pickering, 93, New Zealand engineer, head ofJet Propulsion Laboratory,pneumonia.^[82]
• John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner,liver cancer.^[83]
• Ivan Ryzhov, 91, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
• Vicki Shiran, 57, Israelicriminologist, sociologist, poet, film director, and activist, breast cancer.^[84]
• John Vallone, 50, American production designer (Star Trek: The Motion Picture,Predator,48 Hrs.).

• Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model, suicide by hanging.^[85]
• Hank Marr, 77, Americanjazz musician.
• Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi, 61, Iranian Olympic wrestler (bronze medal winner inmen's freestyle featherweight wrestling at the1968 Summer Olympics).^[86]
• Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer.^[87]

• J.J. Jackson, 62, American radio and television personality, heart attack.
• Monique Laederach, 65, Swiss writer.^[88]
• Michael Mellinger, 74, German actor.^[89]
• Bernie Scherer, 91, American gridiron football player (University of Nebraska,Green Bay Packers,Pittsburgh Pirates).^[90]

• Gene Bearden, 83, American baseball player with theCleveland Indians.^[91]
• Vytas Brenner, 57, Venezuelan musician, keyboardist and composer, heart attack.
• Wallace Davenport, 78, Americanjazz trumpeter.^[92]
• Louisette Hautecoeur, 89, French film editor.
• Richard Marner, 82, Russian-British actor.
• Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder ofMcCain Foods,kidney failure.
• Raquel Rodrigo, 89, Cuban actress and singer.^[93]
• Abdujalil Samadov, 54, Tajik politician.
• Erna Spoorenberg, 77, Dutchsoprano.^[94]

• Roy Abbott, 76, Australian politician.
• Bert Barlow, 87, English football player.^[95]
• Guillermo Rivas «el Borras», 76, Mexican comedy actor,pneumonia.
• Magool, 55, Somali singer, breast cancer.
• Brian Maxwell, 51, Canadian long-distance runner and founder ofenergy bar brandPowerBar, heart attack.
• Horace Phillips, 86, British diplomat.^[96]
• Mitchell Sharp, 92, Canadian cabinet minister (member ofParliament,Minister of Foreign Affairs,Minister of Finance),prostate cancer].^[97]
• Chris Timms, 56, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympic champion, plane crash.^[98]
• Ted Walker, 69, British poet and dramatist.^[99]

• Bernhard Christensen, 98, Danish composer and organist.
• Charles Harold Haden II, 66, American jurist.
• Chōsuke Ikariya, 72, Japanese comedian, actor and leader of comedic groupThe Drifters, lymphoma.
• Juliana of the Netherlands, 94, Dutch Royal, former Queen of the Netherlands, complications ofpneumonia.^[100]
• Joakim Segedi, 99, Serbian-Croatian Greek-Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop ofKriževci (1963–1984)^[101]
• Pierre Sévigny, 86, Canadian member ofParliament (House of Commons representingLongueuil—Saint-Hubert, Quebec), known forMunsinger Affair.^[102]

• Adeline Akufo-Addo, 86, First Lady in the second republic of Ghana as the wife ofEdward Akufo-Addo.
• Johnny Bristol, 65, American musician.^[103]
• C. West Churchman, 90, American philosopher and systems scientist.^[104]
• Matt Gribble, 41, American swimmer, Olympic athlete, and world champion, traffic collision.^[105]
• Nurnaningsih, 78, Indonesian actress.
• Mirwais Sadiq, Afghan politician, homicide.
• Robert Snyder, 88, Americandocumentary filmmaker (winner ofAcademy Award for Best Documentary Feature forThe Titan: Story of Michelangelo).^[106]
• Ludmilla Tchérina, 79, Frenchballerina], actress and writer.^[107]
• John C. West, 81, American politician and diplomat.^[108]

• Mirko Braun, 61, Croatian football player.
• Lisa Ferraday, 83, Romanian-American model and actress.
• Peter Jackson, 73, British rugby union player.^[109]
• Pete Kelly, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.^[110]
• Slobodan Kovačević, 57, Yugoslavian/Bosnia and Herzegovina rock guitarists,liver cancer.
• Janet Akyüz Mattei, 61, Turkish-American astronomer,leukemia.
• V. M. Tarkunde, 94, Indian lawyer,civil rights activist, and humanist leader.
• Ahmed Yassin, 67, Palestinian spiritual leader and founder ofHamas, military operation.^[111]
• Boonreung Buachan, 34, Thai snake handler, cobra bite.^[112]

• Lorand Fenyves, 86, Canadian violinist and professor.^[113]
• Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician, heart failure.^[114]
• Otto Kumm, 94, German divisional commander in theWaffen-SS during World War II.
• L. S. Stavrianos, 91, Greek-Canadian historian.^[115]

• Dominic Agostino, 44, Canadian politician, Ontario Liberal MPP,liver cancer.
• Joshua Eilberg, 83, American politician.^[116]
• Michael Garrison, 47, American ambient musician, liver failure.^[117]
• Mildred Jeffrey, 93, American political andsocial activist.^[118]
• Richard Leech, 81, Irish actor.^[119]

• Robert Arden, 81, British-American film, television and radio actor.^[120]
• Katherine Lawrence, 49, American screenwriter and author, suicide by gunshot.^[121]
• Kristine Vetulani-Belfoure, 79, Polish teacher and writer, heart failure.
• Tom Wilson, 52, Scottish radio disc jockey, heart attack.

• Takeshi Kamo, 89, Japanese footballer.^[122]
• Fred Karlin, 67, American composer of feature films and television movie scores, cancer.^[123]
• Stelvio Massi, 75, Italian director, screenwriter and cinematographer.^[124]
• Victor J. Nickerson, 75, Americanthoroughbred horse racing trainer.
• J. Edward Roush, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative forIndiana's 5th congressional district andIndiana's 4th congressional district).^[125]
• Jan Sterling, 82, American actress (The High and the Mighty,Ace in the Hole,Pony Express), stroke, diabetes.^[126]

• Bob Cremins, 98, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).^[127]
• Peter Diamond, 74, English actor, stroke.
• Richard Lancelyn Green, 50, British scholar ofArthur Conan Doyle andSherlock Holmes.^[128]
• Gerome Kamrowski, 90, Americansurrealist andabstract expressionist artist.
• Miriam Lichtheim, 89, Turkish-American-Israeliegyptologist.^[129]
• H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, 80, British scholar and teacher.
• Einar Magnussen, 72, Norwegian economist and politician.
• Robert Merle, 95, French author, heart attack.^[130]
• John Sack, 74, American journalist andwar correspondent,prostate cancer.^[131]
• Adán Sánchez, 19, Mexican singer, car accident.
• Larry Trask, 59, American-British linguist and expert on theBasques,amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[132]
• James Wapakhabulo, 59, Ugandan politician, foreign minister of Uganda.

• Percy Beames, 92, Australian sportsman and journalist.
• Albert Brülls, 67, German footballer.
• Erich Hauser, 73, German sculptor.^[133]
• Art James, 74, Americangame show host and announcer.^[134]
• Ljubiša Spajić, 78, Yugoslavian football player and manager.^[135]
• Peter Ustinov, 82, British actor (Spartacus,Topkapi,Death on the Nile),Oscar winner (1961,1965), heart failure.^[136]

• Al Cuccinello, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants).^[137]
• Lise de Baissac, 98, Mauritian-BritishSpecial Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II.^[138]
• Denny Dent, 55, American speed painter, heart attack.^[139]
• Joel Feinberg, 77, American political and legal philosopher.^[140]
• Hubert Gregg, 89, BritishBBC broadcaster, writer and actor.
• Charles Grenzbach, 80, American sound engineer,diabetes.
• George Heard Hamilton, 93, American art historian, educator, and curator.^[141]
• Simone Renant, 93, French film actress,Alzheimer's disease.^[142]

• Salvatore Burruni, 70, Italian flyweight and bantamweight boxer.^[143]
• Alistair Cooke, 95, British-AmericanBBC broadcaster and commentator, cancer.^[144]
• Robert Dados, 27, Polish speedway rider, suicide.
• Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist and academic.^[145]
• Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian, traffic collision.
• Willy Tröger, 75, German football player, stomach cancer.
• Timi Yuro, 63, American singer-songwriter, throat cancer.^[146]

• René Gruau, 95, Italian fashion illustrator.^[147]
• Hedi Lang, 72, Swiss politician, first woman to preside over theSwiss National Council.
• Ivan Kostov Nikolov, 90, Bulgarian geologist, mineralogist andcrystallographer.
• Sir John Paul, 88, British colonial administrator.^[148]
• Haim Zafrani, 81, Scholar of Moroccan history.^[149]

• List of March 2004 deaths atIMDb

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