Deaths in March 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2004.

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 2004

1 Eric Cross, 101, English cinematographer. Augusto da Costa, 83, Brazilian football player and manager. Barbara Frawley, 68, Australian actress (Dot and the Kangaroo). Mian Ghulam Jilani, 91, Pakistan Army officer, pneumonia. Douglas Lima, 71, Brazilian Olympic water polo player (1952). Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, 70, Comorian politician. Kostas Montis, 90, Cypriot poet, novelist, and playwright, tuberculosis. Gilbert Plass, 83, Canadian physicist. Nina Sazonova, 87, Soviet and Russian actress. Svante Törnvall, 87, Chilean Olympic water polo player (1948).

2 Berndt Egerbladh, 71, Swedish jazz pianist, composer and television personality. Tony Lee, 69, British jazz pianist, cancer. Cormac McAnallen, 24, Irish Gaelic footballer. Mercedes McCambridge, 87, American actress (All the King's Men, Giant, The Exorcist), Oscar winner (1950). Marge Schott, 75, American primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds.

3 Cecily Adams, 46, American casting director (That '70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun) and actress (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), lung cancer. Chun Hon Chan, 68, Canadian Olympic weightlifter (1968, 1972). Sumantra Ghoshal, 55, Indian scholar and educator, founding dean of Indian School of Business, brain hemorrhage. . Susan Moller Okin, 57, New Zealand feminist and political philosopher. Pedro Pietri, 59, Puerto Rican-American Nuyorican poet and playwright, stomach cancer. Muniswamy Rajgopal, 77, Indian Olympic field hockey player (1952). Drake Sather, 44, American Emmy nominated television writer (Dennis Miller Show, The Larry Sanders Show, Saturday Night Live, Zoolander), suicide. Miriam Waddington, 86, Canadian poet, short story writer and translator. Russell Weigley, 73, American professor and military historian.

4 Fernando Lázaro Carreter, 80, Spanish linguist, journalist and literary critic, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Meryle Fitzgerald, 79, American baseball player. 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. Dale Ishimoto, 80, American actor. Arthur Kinsella, 86, New Zealand politician, Minister of Education (1963–1969). Roberto Lerici, 79, Italian football player and coach. José Machado, 76, Portuguese Olympic rower (1948). John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist (Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL), SUDEP. Claude Nougaro, 74, French songwriter and singer, pancreatic cancer. George Pake, 79, American physicist and computer research executive, known for founding Xerox PARC. Malcolm Pasley, 77, British literary scholar. Jeremi Przybora, 88, Polish poet, writer, actor and singer. Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer, heart failure. Dale O. Thomas, 81, American wrestling coach and Olympic wrestler (1956).

5 Thorkild Bjørnvig, 86, Danish author and poet. Jair Braga, 49, Brazilian Olympic cyclist (1984). 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 and Hellenistic Greece. Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 84, Ecuadorian politician, President (1961–1963). Stanisław Musiał, 65, Polish priest. Mike O'Callaghan, 74, American politician, Governor of Nevada (1971–1979), heart attack. Masanori Tokita, 78, Japanese football player and Olympian (1956), esophageal cancer.

6 Eugene Theodore Booth Jr., 91, American nuclear physicist. Peggy Butts, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1997-1999). Frances Dee, 94, American actress, stroke. Ray Fernandez, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez", heart disease. Sandy Glen, 91, Scottish explorer and businessman. Max Harris, 85, British film and television composer and arranger. Phil Hergesheimer, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins). Alan Short, 83, American legislator, co-author of the Short-Doyle Mental Health Act. André Weingand, 88, French Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952). John Henry Williams, 35, American controversial son of baseball player Ted Williams, leukemia.

7 Ewald W. Busse, 86, American psychiatrist, gerontologist, and author. Nicolae Cajal, 84, Romanian physician and politician. Ernest G. Cottreau, 90, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1974-1989). Bengt Fahlqvist, 81, Swedish wrestler and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952). Jack Holden, 96, English long-distance runner and Olympian (1948). Michael Stringer, 79, British production designer and art director (Casino Royale, Fiddler on the Roof, 633 Squadron). Román Arrieta Villalobos, 79, Costa Rican Catholic archbishop, brain tumor. Paul Winfield, 64, American actor (Sounder, The Terminator, 227), Emmy winner (1995), heart attack.

8 János Bognár, 89, Hungarian Olympic cyclist (1936). Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, 73, Indian physicist. Keith Hopkins, 69, British ancient historian and sociologist. Robin Hunter, 74, British actor, pulmonary emphysema. Eloise Jones, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1964-1965). Duan Junyi, 93, Chinese politician. Alfons Lütke-Westhues, 73, German equestrian and Olympic champion (1956). Frank Mooney, 82, New Zealand cricketer. Robert Pastorelli, 49, American actor (Murphy Brown, Eraser, Michael), drug overdose. Ehrenfried Patzel, 89, Czechoslovak football player. Siddharth Ray, 40, Indian actor, heart attack. Yavuz Selekman, 67, Turkish wrestler, film actor, and Olympian (1964). Mario Uggeri, 80, Italian comics artist. Muhammad Zaidan, (aka Abu Abbas), 55, Palestinian nationalist, founder of the Palestinian Liberation Front, cardiovascular disease.

9 Nikola Delev, 79, Bulgarian Olympic skier (1948). Rust Epique, 35, American songwriter and guitarist, heart attack. Marshall Frady, 64, American journalist, cancer. John Mayer, 73, Indian composer, traffic collision. Albert Mol, 87, Dutch author, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality, aneurysm. Gearóid Mac Niocaill, 71, British academic and historian. Hermann Palka, 82, Austrian Olympic bobsledder (1952). Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, 71, American composer, conductor and pianist. Don Smith, 52, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers), heart problems.

10 Olle Adolphson, 69, Swedish writer, singer and songwriter. Boryslav Brondukov, 66, Ukrainian film actor, stroke. Herbert Choy, 88, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit). Jack Creley, 78, American-Canadian actor. Murray Evans, 84, American football player (Detroit Lions), and coach. Norbert Grupe, 63, German boxer and actor (Die Hard, Stroszek, Ghostbusters II), prostate cancer. Robert D. Orr, 86, American politician, former Governor of Indiana, surgical complications. James Parrish, 35, American NFL player (San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets), cancer. Hansjörg Schlager, 74, German Olympic alpine skier (1972). Dave Schulthise, 47, American bassist (The Dead Milkmen). David Shoenberg, 93, British physicist (solid-state electronics, magnetic resonance imaging, superconductivity). Nasiba Zeynalova, 87, Soviet and Azerbaijani actress.

11 Philip Arthur Fisher, 96, American stock investor and author of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits. Seymour Geisser, 74, American statistician, DNA-evidence expert. Marian Jabłoński, 82, Polish footballer. Richard Kinon, 79, American television director. Aleksey Mazurenko, 86, Russian major general during World War II. Jack Nagel, 78, American alpine skier and Olympian (1952). Nelu Stănescu, 46, Romanian footballer. Edmund Sylvers, 47, American lead singer of The Sylvers, lung cancer.

12 Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright with cerebral palsy. Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator, heart attack. Karel Kachyňa, 79, Czech film director and screenwriter. William Moritz, 63, American film historian, cancer. Milton Resnick, 87, Ukrainian-American artist, suicide. Sylvi Saimo, 89, Finnish Olympic canoer (1948, 1952). Natan Yonatan, 80, Israeli poet.

13 Guttorm Berge, 74, Norwegian alpine skier and Olympic medalist (1952, 1956). Sydney Carter, 88, British musician and poet. Harold Goldsmith, 73, American Olympic foil and epee fencer (1952, 1956, 1960). Chen Hansheng, 107, Chinese sociologist. Vilayat Khan, 75, Indian classical sitar player, lung cancer. Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal. Thomas Adeoye Lambo, 80, Nigerian scholar, administrator and psychiatrist. Blessing Makunike, 27, Zimbabwean football player, traffic collision. Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister, cancer. Alwyn Warren, 72, Australian Olympic soccer player (1956). Vernon Wilcox, 84, Australian politician.

14 Siradiou Diallo, 67, Guinean journalist and politician, cardiac arrest. Martin Emond, 34, New Zealand cartoon illustrator and painter, suicide by hanging. Genevieve, 83, American comedian, actress, and singer. Norb Hecker, 76, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins), and coach (Atlanta Falcons), cancer. Claus Mørch Sr., 91, Norwegian Olympic fencer (1948). Jurijs Rubenis, 78, Latvian communist politician.

15 Vedie Himsl, 86, American baseball player and coach. John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, 72, British barrister and judge. Václav Kozák, 66, Czech rower and Olympic champion (1960, 1964, 1968). René Laloux, 74, French animator, screenwriter and film director, heart attack. Philippe Lemaire, 77, French actor, suicide. Alfred Mansfeld, 92, Israeli architect. Chuck Niles, 76, American Southern California jazz radio disc jockey. Patrick Nuttgens, 74, British architect. Bill Pickering, 93, New Zealand engineer, head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, pneumonia. John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner, liver cancer. Ivan Ryzhov, 91, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. Vicki Shiran, 57, Israeli criminologist, sociologist, poet, film director, and activist, breast cancer. Rajmund Stachurski, 68, Polish Olympic sports shooter (1968, 1972). John Vallone, 50, American production designer (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Predator, 48 Hrs.).

16 Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model, suicide by hanging."BIANCHINI, Brian Leo", March 19, 2004, SF Gate Retrieved 12 April 2024 Hank Marr, 77, American jazz musician. Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi, 61, Iranian Olympic wrestler (1968, 1972). Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer.

17 Jan Van Der Auwera, 80, Belgian footballer. José Giorgetti, 69, Argentine Olympic boxer (1956). J.J. Jackson, 62, American radio and television personality, heart attack. Monique Laederach, 65, Swiss writer. Alfredo Massazza, 60, Italian Olympic archer (1972). Michael Mellinger, 74, German actor. Bernie Scherer, 91, American gridiron football player (University of Nebraska, Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates).

18 Gene Bearden, 83, American baseball player with the Cleveland Indians. Vytas Brenner, 57, Venezuelan musician, keyboardist and composer, heart attack. Orlando Cossani, 71, Argentine Olympic swimmer (1952). Wallace Davenport, 78, American jazz trumpeter. Louisette Hautecoeur, 89, French film editor. Richard Marner, 82, Russian-British actor. Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder of McCain Foods, kidney failure. Raquel Rodrigo, 89, Cuban actress and singer. Abdujalil Samadov, 54, Tajik politician. Erna Spoorenberg, 77, Dutch soprano. Livio Tesconi, 68, Italian Olympic rower (1956).

19 Roy Abbott, 76, Australian politician. Bert Barlow, 87, English football player.