DEATHS IN MARCH 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2007.
===31===

★ 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. 19231

★ Paul Watzlawick, 85, Austrian-born American psychologist and philosopher. [2]
===30===

★ Basil Catterns MC, 89, Australian WWII Army leader of the Kokoda Track campaign, father of broadcaster Angela Catterns. [3]

★ Chrisye, 56, Indonesian musician, lung cancer. [4]

★ Fay Coyle, 73, British footballer for Derry City, Nottingham Forest and Northern Ireland. [5] [6]

★ Michael Dibdin, 60, British crime writer. [7]

★ María Julia Hernández, 68, Salvadoran human rights activist, heart attack. [8]

★ Dave Martin, 72, British television writer for ''Doctor Who'' and ''Z-Cars'', lung cancer. [9]

★ John Roberts, 74, Canadian politician, heart attack. [10]
===29===

★ Adebayo Adefarati, 76, Nigerian presidential candidate for the Alliance for Democracy party. [11]

★ Bangla Bhai, 37, Bangladeshi militant, execution by hanging. [12]

★ Lloyd Brown, 105, American last known surviving World War I Navy veteran. [13]

★ Mimi Lerner, 61, Polish-born American operatic mezzo-soprano, complications of a heart tumor. [14]

★ Calvin Lockhart, 72, Bahamian actor, stroke [15]

★ Myokyo-ni, 86, Austrian Buddhist nun, head of the Zen Centre in London. [16].

★ Tosiwo Nakayama, 75, first President of the Federated States of Micronesia (1979-87). [17]

★ Shaykh Abdur Rahman, Bangladeshi Islamist militant leader (JMB) until his capture by the RAB, execution by hanging. [18]

★ Leslie Waller, 83, American author. [19]
===28===

★ Cha Chi Ming, 93, Hong Kong businessman, founder and non-executive chairman of HKR International. [20]

★ Abe Coleman, 101, Polish-born American professional wrestler during the Great Depression era. [21]

★ Bill Fisk, 90, American football player and coach. [22]

★ Sir Thomas Hetherington, 80, British lawyer, Director of Public Prosecutions (1977–1987). [23]

★ Tony Scott, 85, American jazz clarinetist. [24]
===27===

★ Hans Hedberg, 89, Swedish sculptor, kidney failure. [25]

★ Paul Lauterbur, 77, American chemist and 2003 Nobel Prize Laureate. [26]

★ Ransom A. Myers, 54, American-born Canadian fisheries biologist, declining fish stocks expert, brain tumour. [27]

★ Faustino Oramas, 95, Cuban singer (''Buena Vista Social Club''), cancer. [28]

★ Aileen Plant, 52, Australian authority on infectious diseases, investigated first official case of SARS in Vietnam. [29]

★ Joe Sentieri, 82, Italian singer and actor. [30] (Italian)

★ Charlotte Winters, 109, last surviving American female veteran of World War I. [31]
===26===

★ Beniamino Andreatta, 78, Italian economist and politician (Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party). [32] (Italian)

★ Heinz Schiller, 77, Swiss racing driver. [33]

★ Sylvia Straus, 94, American pianist and widow of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. [34]

★ Mikhail Ulyanov, 79, Russian actor, intestinal disease. [35]
===25===

★ George Kingsley Acquah, 65, Ghanaian Chief Justice since July 4, 2003, cancer.[36]

★ Robert Austrian, 90, American epidemiologist, stroke. [37]

★ Jerry Girard, 74, American sports anchor for WPIX television in New York City, esophageal cancer. [38]

★ Andranik Margaryan, 55, Armenian Prime Minister since 2000, heart attack. [39]

★ Marshall Rogers, 57, American comic book artist, heart attack. [40]
===24===

★ Jun Bernardino, 59, Philippine Basketball Association commissioner (1993–2002) and sports executive, heart attack. [41]

★ Henson Cargill, 66, American country singer, complications from surgery. [42]

★ Mary D. Crisp, 83, American Republican leader. [43]

★ Maurice Flitcroft, 77, British amateur golfer and hoaxer, lung infection. [44]

★ Jean Schwinden, 81, American former First Lady of Montana, wife of Ted Schwinden, cancer. [45]
===23===

★ Ed Bailey, 75, American baseball player (1953–1966) and Knoxville, Tennessee city councilman (1983–1995), throat cancer. [46]

★ Paul Cohen, 72, American mathematician, professor of mathematics at Stanford University. [47]

★ Mao Anqing, 83, Chinese author and son of Mao Zedong. [48]

★ Damian McDonald, 34, Australian Olympic cyclist, traffic accident. [49]

★ Eric Medlen, 33, American NHRA driver, diffuse axonal injury from car accident. [50]

★ Robert E. Petersen, 80, American publisher of auto industry and enthusiast magazines, neuroendocrine cancer. [51]

★ Walter Turnbull, 62, American founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem, stroke. [52]
===22===

★ Nisar Bazmi, 83, Pakistani composer, kidney failure. [53]

★ Don Dennis, 65, American pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1960s. [54]

★ U. G. Krishnamurti, 88, Indian philosopher. [55]

★ Daniel Díaz Maynard, 73, Uruguayan politician, Deputy (1990–2005). [56] [57] (Spanish)

★ Jay Zeamer, Jr., 88, American World War II veteran and Medal of Honor recipient. [58]
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===21===

★ Drew Hayes, 37, American comic book writer/artist (''Poison Elves''), heart attack. [59]

★ Sven O. Høiby, 70, Norwegian journalist and father of Mette Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, lung cancer. [60] (Norwegian)

★ Catherine Seipp, 49, American conservative columnist, lung cancer. [61]
===20===

★ Albert Baez, 94, American physicist and father of Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña, natural causes. [62]

★ Olcott Deming, 98, American diplomat and first Ambassador to Uganda, septicemia. [63]

★ Raynald Fréchette, 73, Canadian lawyer, Quebec Superior Court judge and National Assembly of Quebec member, cancer. [64] (French)

★ Rita Joe, 75, Canadian Mi'kmaq poet, Parkinson's disease. [65]

★ Gilbert E. Patterson, 67, American bishop of Church of God in Christ, heart failure. [66]

★ Taha Yassin Ramadan, 69, Iraqi vice-president (1991–2003), execution by hanging. [67]

★ John P. Ryan, 70, American character actor. [68]

★ Ernie Wright, 67, American football offensive lineman in the 1960s, cancer. [69].

★ Hawa Yakubu, 59, Ghanaian politician. [70]
===19===

★ Lloyd Best, 73, Trinidadian economist, politician and columnist, prostate cancer. [71]

★ Calvert DeForest, 85, American actor, comedian and David Letterman sidekick known as Larry "Bud" Melman. [72]

★ Robert Dickson, 62, Canadian professor, award-winning Franco-Ontarian writer and poet, cancer. [73]

★ Luther Ingram, 69, American R&B singer and songwriter ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"), kidney failure. [74] [75]

★ Bill Stevenson, 55, Canadian football player, injuries from a fall. [76]

★ Shimon Tzabar, 81, Israeli artist, author, poet and former ''Haaretz'' columnist, pneumonia. [77].
===18===

★ Jim Fung, 62, Hong Kong Chinese martial artist and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma. [78]

★ John G. (Jack) Samson, 84, American author, editor of ''Field and Stream'' magazine, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [79]

★ Bob Woolmer, 58, British cricketer for England (1975–1981) and Pakistan cricket team coach, heart failure. [80]
===17===

★ John Backus, 82, American computer scientist who led the IBM team that developed Fortran. [81]

★ Roger Bennett, 48, American Southern Gospel pianist (The Cathedrals, Legacy Five), complications of leukemia. [82]

★ Jim Cronin, 55, American conservationist who founded Monkey World, liver cancer. [83]

★ Freddie Francis, 89, British film director and two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer, stroke. [84]

★ Homer Harris, 91, American athlete, first black captain of a Big Ten Conference team, Alzheimer's disease. [85].

★ Ernst Haefliger, 87, Swiss operatic tenor, heart failure. [86]

★ Wilford "Crazy Ray" Jones, 76, American cheerleading fan of the Dallas Cowboys, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. [87]

★ Tanya Reinhart, 63, Israeli linguist and peace activist, stroke. [88]
===16===

★ Sajjadul Hasan, 28, Bangladeshi domestic cricketer, motorcycle accident. [89]

★ Sir Arthur Marshall, 103, British aviation engineer. [90]

★ Raymond Nasher, 85, American art collector, founder of Nasher Sculpture Center, Nasher Museum of Art and NorthPark Center. [91].

★ Manjural Islam Rana, 22, Bangladeshi national cricketer, motorcycle accident. [92]

★ Tupper Saussy, 70, American composer, musician, author, and artist, heart attack. [93]
===15===

★ Blanquita Amaro, 83, Cuban-born actress and dancer, heart attack. [94]

★ Sally Clark, 42, British solicitor wrongly convicted of killing two of her sons. [95]

★ Maria Gandolfi-Benni, 110, Italy's oldest living person since Jan 13 2007. [96]

★ Charles Harrelson, 69, American convicted murderer, father of actor Woody Harrelson, heart attack. [97]

★ Jay Kennedy, 50, American editor-in-chief of King Features Syndicate, drowning. [98]

★ Bowie Kuhn, 80, American Major League Baseball commissioner (1969–1984), respiratory failure. [99]

★ Orlando Martinez, 65, Cuban-born American baseball player and manager. [100]

★ Jack Metcalf, 79, American Republican Representative from Washington state (1995–2001), complications of Alzheimer's disease. [101]

★ Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam, 55, Malaysian politician, cancer and renal failure. [102] [103]

★ Stuart Rosenberg, 79, American TV and film director (''Cool Hand Luke''), heart attack. [104]

★ Herman Stein, 91, American film and television composer, heart failure. [105]

★ Jean Talairach, 96, French psychiatrist and neurosurgeon. [106] (French)
===14===

★ Lucie Aubrac, 94, French member of the Resistance during World War II. [107]

★ Roger Beaufrand, 98, French Olympian, oldest Olympic champion at time of death. [108] [109]

★ Tommy Cavanagh, 78, British football player and manager of Burnley. [110]

★ Lloyd Eaton, 88, American college football coach. [111]

★ Sa'dun Hammadi, 76, Iraqi Prime Minister (1991), leukemia. [112]

★ Fitzgerald "Mighty Terror" Henry, 86, Trinidadian calypso musician. [113]

★ Gareth Hunt, 65, British actor (''The New Avengers''), pancreatic cancer. [114]

★ Birk Sproxton, 63, Canadian author (''Phantom Lake: North of 54'') and educator, heart attack. [115]
===13===

★ Terry Major-Ball, 74, British banker and author, brother of former Prime Minister John Major, cancer. [116]

★ Wendy Russell Reves, 90, American philanthropist. [117]

★ John Sinclair, 73, British English language scholar, cancer. [118]

★ Arnold Skaaland, 82, American professional wrestler. [119]

★ Nicole Stéphane, 83, French actress (''Le Silence de la mer''). [120] (French)
===12===

★ Arnold Drake, 83, American comic book writer (''Doom Patrol''), pneumonia and septic shock. [121]

★ Vilma Ebsen, 96, American actress, sister and dancing partner of Buddy Ebsen. [122]

★ Preah Maha Ghosananda, 77, Cambodian Buddhist Sangharaja and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. [123]

★ Antonio Ortiz Mena, 99, Mexican Finance Secretary (1958–1970), IDB President (1971–1987), complications from a fall. [124] (Spanish)

★ Yeap Ghim Guan, 66, Malaysian lawyer and politician, founding member of the DAP, complications from a stroke. [125]
===11===

★ Betty Hutton, 86, American singer/actress (''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek''), complications from colon cancer. [126]

★ Martha Sosman, 56, American judge, member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, breast cancer. [127]
===10===

★ Bud Allin, 62, American golfer, winner of five PGA Tour events, cancer. [128]

★ Richard Jeni, 49, American comedian, apparent suicide by gunshot. [129]

★ Ernie Ladd, 68, American NFL player and wrestler, cancer. [130]

★ Lanna Saunders, 65, American soap opera actress (''Days of our Lives''), multiple sclerosis. [131]

★ Angela Webber, 52, Australian comedienne and writer, cancer. [132]
===9===

★ Rosy Afsari, 60, Bangladeshi film actress, kidney failure. [133]

★ Brad Delp, 55, American lead singer of 1970s AOR band Boston, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [134] [135] [136]

★ Ron Evans, 67, Australian chairman of the AFL Commission, former Essendon chairman and player, abdominal cancer. [137]

★ Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, 71, American politician, first black woman to serve in the Senate of North Carolina. [138]

★ Juan Carlos Portantiero, 73, Argentine sociologist, renal failure. [139] [140] (Spanish).
===8===

★ Alejandro Cruz, 82, Mexican professional wrestler known as "The Black Shadow", pneumonia. [141]

★ Cruz Hernández, 128?, Salvadorian claimant to the title of world's oldest person. [142]

★ John Inman, 71, British actor (''Are You Being Served?''), liver disease. [143] [144]

★ Tom Moldvay, 58, writer of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' books and modules (revised version of ''Palace of the Silver Princess''). [145]

★ Harold M. Ryan, 96, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1961-1965), congestive heart failure. [146]

★ Richard Trexler, 74, American historian of the Florentine Renaissance, complications from a kidney transplant. [147].

★ Viky Vanita, 59, Greek actress. [148] (Greek)

★ John Vukovich, 59, American baseball player and coach, brain tumor complications. [149]
===7===

★ Paul deLay, 55, American blues harmonica player, leukemia. [150]

★ Frigyes Hidas, 78, Hungarian composer. [151]

★ Emil Mailho, 97, American baseball player. [152]

★ Morgan Mellish, 36, Australian Walkley Award-winning journalist for the Australian Financial Review, plane crash. [153]

★ Andy Sidaris, 76, American film director, throat cancer. [154]

★ Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft, 93, Italian–born British philanthropist. [155]

★ Billy Walkabout, 57, Cherokee-American highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, pneumonia and renal failure. [156] [157]
===6===

★ Jean Baudrillard, 77, French postmodernist philosopher and sociologist. [158]

★ Allen Coage, 63, American-born Olympic judo bronze medalist and professional wrestler known as "Bad News Brown". [159] [160]

★ Ernest Gallo, 97, American co-founder of E & J Gallo Winery. [161]

★ Pierre Moinot, 86, French novelist elected to Académie française. [162] (French)

★ Ray Stern, 74, American professional wrestler, complications from heart surgery. [163]
===5===

★ Wilfred Baker, 106, British World War I veteran believed to be second oldest man in Scotland. [164]

★ Yvan Delporte, 78, Belgian editor-in-chief of ''Spirou'' magazine (1956–1968). [165] (French)

★ Ivo Lorscheiter, 79, Brazilian Catholic Bishop and advocate of liberation theology, multiple organ failure. [166] [167]

★ Ivan Supek, 91, Croatian scientist, philosopher and writer. [168] (Croatian)
===4===

★ Natalie Bodanya, 98, American operatic soprano. [169]

★ Thomas Eagleton, 77, United States Senator for Missouri (1969–1987), heart and respiratory complications. [170]

★ Bob Hattoy, 56, American President of California Fish & Game Commission, AIDS activist, complications from AIDS. [171]

★ Richard Joseph, 53, British video games soundtrack composer, lung cancer. [172]

★ Sunil Kumar Mahato, 41, Indian parliamentarian, shot. [173]

★ Tadeusz Nalepa, 63, Polish blues and rock singer, after long illness. [174] (Polish)

★ Ian Wooldridge, 75, British sports journalist, cancer. [175]
===3===

★ Osvaldo Cavandoli, 87, Italian cartoonist. [176] (Italian)

★ Benito Lorenzi, 81, Italian football striker (Italy, Inter Milan). [177]

★ Gene Oliver, 71, American baseball player in the 1960s, complications from lung surgery. [178]

★ Saul Swimmer, 70, American documentary filmmaker (''The Concert for Bangladesh''), heart failure. [179]

★ Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, American etiquette authority and author, pneumonia. [180]
===2===

★ Doris Anderson, 85, Canadian feminist, writer and editor of ''Chatelaine'', pulmonary fibrosis. [181]

★ Thomas Kleppe, 87, United States Secretary of Interior (1975–1977) and Representative from North Dakota, Alzheimer's disease. [182]

★ Clem Labine, 80, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn and LA Dodgers), complications of brain surgery. [183] [184]

★ Harold Michelson, 87, American production designer twice nominated for an Academy Award. [185]

★ Mike Mooney, 37, American football player with Georgia Tech and the 1993 San Diego Chargers. [186]

★ Ivan Safronov, 51, Russian defence correspondent for ''Kommersant'', fall from building. [187]

★ William C. Sturtevant, 80, American Smithsonian Institution curator, emphysema. [188]

★ Henri Troyat, 95, French writer and historian, member of the Académie française. [189] [190]
===1===

★ Manuel Bento, 58, Portuguese football goalkeeper (Portugal, SL Benfica), cardiac arrest. [191]

★ Otto Brandenburg, 72, Danish singer and actor. [192] (Danish)

★ Colette Brosset, 85, French actress. [193] (French)

★ George Gabb, 79, Belizean artist, sculptor and writer, cardiac arrest. [194]

★ Sir Sydney Gun-Munro, 90, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979–1985), after long illness. [195]

★ Tinos Rusere, 61, Zimbabwean Deputy Minister for Mines and Environment, kidney failure. [196]