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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★ Dr.Stanley J. Korsmeyer, 54, oncologist

★ Willard "Will" Miller, 64, Emeritus Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vermont, revolutionary socialist activist, 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]

★ Rein Tuus, Estonian singer

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★ Thomas J. Brazaitis, 64, columnist correspondent and newspaper editor

★ 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, heart attack.

★ 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

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★ Johnnie Cochran, 67, lawyer, defended O.J. Simpson; brain tumor

★ Khalid Hassan Milu, 45, Bangladeshi singer; liver cirrhosis

★ Howell Heflin, 83, former U.S. Senator from Alabama

★ John McTernan, 94, US civil-rights lawyer

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★ Tom Bevill, 84, former US Congressman from Alabama

★ Dave Freeman (writer). 82, scriptwriter (Benny Hill, Carry On films, etc.)

★ Hermann Lause, 66, German actor

★ Aivo Lõhmus, Estonian writer

★ Emmy Lopes Dias, 85, Dutch actress

★ Pál Losonczi, 85, former chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary (head of state)

★ Dame Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist

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★ Bob Casey, 79, PA announcer for the Minnesota Twins

★ Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer

★ Joaquín Luqui, 57, Spanish musical journalist

★ Antonio Tellez, 84, Anarchist Historian and journalist.

★ Rigo Tovar, 58, popular Mexican singer and composer

★ Ahmed Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer

★ Fernando Jiménez del Oso, 63, Spanish, parapsychologist

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★ Bengt Bedrup, 76, Swedish journalist

★ Lord James Callaghan, 92, former British Prime Minister

★ Brandon Falkner, 21?, Arizona State University NCAA football player, murdered

★ 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

★ Colin Willock, 86, helped create the Survival wildlife program

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★ 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

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★ David P. Bushnell, 91, founder of Bushnell Optical binoculars; non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

★ Arthur E. Cook, 109, World War I veteran

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★ Charles Antalosky, 67, Broadway actor

★ Naftali Halberstam, 74, Grand Rabbi of the Bobover Hasidim

★ David Kossoff, 85, British actor, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff

★ Bob Vetrone, 79, American newspaper columnist

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★ 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

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★ Ge Zhenlin, 88, Chinese war hero [3]

★ Barney Martin, 82, actor, played Morty Seinfeld on ''Seinfeld''

★ Stanley Sadie, 74, musicologist and critic

★ Bobby Short, 80, cabaret singer and pianist; leukemia

★ Jeff Weise, 16, school shooter

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★ 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

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★ Hellema, 84, Dutch writer and Resistance fighter

★ John De Lorean, 80, U.S. car designer and manufacturer.

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★ 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''

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★ 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

★ Czesław Słania, 83, Polish-Swedish stamp engraver

★ Mikko Talvitie, 59, director general of the Finnish Board of Aviation

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★ 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

★ Chris van der Klaauw, 80, Dutch diplomat, former foreign minister of the Netherlands

★ William Lehman, 91, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress

★ Dick Radatz, 67, former baseball player

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★ 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

★ Eduard J. Guebelin, 91, authored famous study on diamonds

★ Bill McGarry, 77, football manager

★ Bert Pronk, 54, Dutch racing cyclist

★ Armand Seghers, 78, retired footballer, voted AA Gent's best player of the 20th century

★ Judith Scott ousider artist

★ Sy Wexler, 88, maker of educational films

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★ Stan Campbell, 74, former NFL player

★ Tom Dillon, 86, American stage actor/performer, natural causes

★ 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

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★ 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

★ Zouhair Yahyaoui, 36, Tunisian dissident.

★ Stavros Koujioumtzis, 73, Greek Music Composer

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★ 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

★ Eduardo Navarro, 23, Mexican entrepreneur, car accident

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★ Aurelio Fierro, 81, famous in Italy for singing Neopolitan folk songs

★ Giovanni Care, 76, Australia, heart attack

★ Stanley Grenz, 55, Christian Theologian

★ Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for ''Picture Post''

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★ Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian

★ Danny Joe Brown, 53, lead singer for Molly Hatchet

★ Chawki Deif, 95, head of the Academy of the Arabic Language

★ Katherine Gray Lathrop, 89, pioneering researcher into nuclear medicine

★ Zilka Salaberry, 82, Brazilian actress

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★ Glenn Davis, 80, Heisman Trophy winner, retired American football player, prostate cancer

★ Josef Fuchs, 93, German Catholic theologian

★ Sheila Gish, 62, English actress, primarily on stage

★ 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

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★ 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)

★ 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

★ Jeremy Russell, 60, cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer

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★ Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during a riot in a Dominican Republic jail

★ Arod Levy III, ??, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot in a Dominican Republic jail

★ 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

★ Jozef Stank, 64, former Slovakian defense minister

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★ 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

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★ 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

★ Morris Engel, 86, independent filmmaker

★ Rt. Rev. Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer

★ Frank Tyler, 76, Broadway and film music arranger and orchestrator

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★ 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

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★ George Atkinson, 69, inventor of the video rental

★ Max M. Fisher, 96, millionaire philanthropist listed in Forbes 400

★ Dorris Henderson, 72, 60's and 70's folksinger

★ Viva McComb, 110, supercentenarian, oldest living Texan

★ Rinus Michels, 77, former Dutch national football team coach

★ Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress, cancer

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★ 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

★ Corrado Pani, 69, Italian actor

★ Rigter Roegholt, 79, Dutch historian

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★ 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