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 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 (1948, 1952). Henry Wade, 86, American lawyer and district attorney of Dallas County, Parkinson's disease. Colin Webster, 68, Welsh international footballer, cancer.
2 John Diamond, 47, British Journalist, oesophageal 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 Roger Buchonnet, 74, French cyclist. 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. Jean-Baptiste Leclerc, 80, French Olympic wrestler (1948, 1952). 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 (1948). Eugene Sledge, 77, American Marine and professor, stomach cancer.
4 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 (1932). 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 (1952, 1956). Shammai Zahn, 80, Polish-born British rabbi.
5 Rankin Britt, 85, American football player (Texas A&M, Philadelphia Eagles). Frans De Mulder, 63, Belgian road racing cyclist. Jacques Maloubier, 81, French painter. Ian McHarg, 80, Scottish architect. Leo Thomas, 77, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox).
6 Mário Covas, 70, Brazilian engineer and politician, bladder cancer. Doc Dennis, 83, American baseball player. 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. Kathleen Le Rossignol, 92, British Olympic diver (1928). Portia Nelson, 80, American cabaret singer, songwriter, actress (The Sound of Music, Doctor Dolittle, All My Children), and author, cancer. Roderic O'Connor, 93, American painter. 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.
7 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 and Olympian (1960). Janice O'Hara, 82, American baseball player. Al Palladini, 57, Canadian politician, heart attack.
8 Frances Adaskin, 100, Canadian pianist. Abe Cohen, 67, American gridiron football player (Boston Patriots). 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 (1960). Hugh Malone, 57, American surveyor and politician, accidental death. Takashige Matsumoto, 92, Japanese Olympic water polo player (1932). 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.
9 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 (1936). 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 Arturo Alcaraz, 84, Filipino volcanologist. Algodão, 76, Brazilian basketball player and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960). Henri Brasseur, 94, Belgian Olympic fencer (1928, 1936). Ab Conway, 86, Canadian Olympic middle-distance runner (1936). 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. Valdemar de Silveira, 85, Brazilian Olympic weightlifter (1952). Vladimir Voroshilov, 70, Soviet and Russian author, producer and television anchorman, heart attack. Sir Michael Woodruff, 89, British surgeon and scientist, and a pioneer in organ transplant surgery.
11 Finn Ferner, 81, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1952, 1960). Kaj Jørgensen, 75, Danish footballer. Rafaela Chacón Nardi, 75, Cuban poet and educator. Jørn Ording, 85, Norwegian actor and screenwriter. Miloslav Ošmera, 77, Czech Olympic ice hockey player (1952). Ted Schmitt, 84, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles).
12 Alina Cichecka, 84, Polish Olympic gymnast (1936). 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 (Green Bay Packers, Atlanta Falcons, New York Giants). Alan Greene, 89, American Olympic diver (1936). 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. Bill Reeder, 79, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). Sidney Dillon Ripley, 87, American ornithologist and conservationist. Victor Westhoff, 84, Dutch botanist.
13 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.
14 Rosine Deréan, 91, French actress. Arthur Deremer, 83, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). 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 (1952).
15 John Anderson, 76, American Olympic canoeist (1952). 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. Gunnar Lundqvist, 85, Swedish Olympic canoeist (1936). Henrik Schildt, 86, Finnish-Swedish film actor. Ann Sothern, 92, American actress (The Ann Sothern Show, Maisie, The Whales of August), stroke.
16 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.
17 Michiyo Aratama, 71, Japanese actress, heart attack. Ingrid Borthen, 87, Norwegian-Swedish stage and film actress. Grace Cole, 78, American politician. 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. Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, 95, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois). Kaarto Rask, 72, Finnish Olympic shot putter (1952). Sherwin Rosen, 62, American labor economist. Richard Steere, 92, American Olympic fencer (1932). Anthony Storr, 80, English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author. Ralph Thomas, 85, English film director. Zinaida Voronina, 53, Soviet Olympic gymnast (1968).
18 Vasily Abaev, 100, Ethnically Ossetian Soviet linguist specializing in Iranian. John Ardoin, 66, American music critic and author. 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 and Olympian (1956, 1960). Antoine Uyterhoeven, 70, Belgian Olympic sprinter (1952).
19 Gordon Brown, 53, Scottish rugby union player, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Boris Gregorka, 94, Yugoslavian Olympic gymnast (1928, 1936). 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).
20 Luis Alvarado, 52, Puerto Rican baseball player, heart attack. Jay Cameron, 72, American jazz musician. Henry Carpenter, 75, British boxer and Olympian (1948). Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, 81, British author, bronchial pneumonia. Doreen Gorsky, 88, British politician, feminist and television producer and executive (BBC Television).