Deaths in March 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2000.

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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 2000

1

• Odell Barnes, 31, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
• Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr., 77, American statistician.
• Vlastimir Peričić, 72, Serbian composer.
• Mark Yevtyukhin, 35, Russian Lieutenant-Colonel, K.I.A..

2

• Peter Graham, 79, British cricket player.
• Danny Musser, 94, American baseball player.[1]
• Jack Robinson, 79, American baseball player.[2]
• Sandra Schmirler, 36, Canadian curling champion, cancer.[3]
• Charles E. Wiggins, 72, American politician and judge, cardiac arrest.

3

• Joseph Kayll, 85, British World War II flying ace.
• Beryl McBurnie, 86, Trinidadian dancer.
• Toni Ortelli, 95, Italian composer and alpinist.

4

• Władysław Daniłowski, 97, Polish and American pianist, composer and singer.
• Julian Ritter, 90, American painter.
• Donn J. Robertson, 83, US Marine Corps officer.
• Wu Ta-You, 92, Chinese theoretical physicist.
• Xie Xide, 78, Chinese physicist.

5

• Lolo Ferrari, 37, French dancer, sex star, pornographic actress, actress and singer.[4]
• Bill Kendall, 76, British trade unionist.[5]
• Dame Roma Mitchell, 86, Australian lawyer and Governor of South Australia.[6]
• Alexander Young, 79, British operatic tenor.[7]

6

• S. Arumugam, 94, Ceylon Tamil irrigation engineer and writer.
• Chris Balderstone, 59, English professional in cricket and football, and one of the last sportsmen to combine both sports over a prolonged period, prostate cancer.
• John Colicos, 71, Canadian actor (Star Trek: The Original Series, Battlestar Galactica).[8]
• Roderick Walcott, 70, St Lucian playwright, screenwriter, painter, theatre director, costume and set designer, lyricist and literary editor.

7

• Josephine Batson, 71, English cricketer.
• John Foster, 78, British Anglican priest.
• Charles Gray, 71, English actor.[9]
• W. D. Hamilton, 63, British evolutionary biologist.[10]
• Pee Wee King, 86, American singer-songwriter (co-wrote "Tennessee Waltz").[11]
• Edward H. Levi, 88, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General (1975–1977).[12]
• Alimineti Madhava Reddy, 51, Indian politician.
• Jack Sanford, 70, American baseball player.[13]

8

• Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 97, American socialite, heart attack.
• Joe Mullaney, 75, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
• Stoffel du Plessis, 67, South African boxer, lymphoma.

9

• Artyom Borovik, 39, Russian journalist and media magnate, plane crash.
• Peter Hauser, 65, British football player and manager.
• Pathanay Khan, Pakistan folk singer.
• Usha Kiran, 70, Indian actress.[14]

10

• Barbara Cooney, 82, American author and illustrator.[15]
• Martyn Godfrey, 50, English-born Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer.
• William Porter, 73, American Olympic athlete (gold medal winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[16]

11

• Bob Bax, 74, Australian rugby footballer and coach.
• Alex Dreier, 83, American news reporter and commentator.
• HB Jassin, 82, Indonesian literary critic and documentarian.
• Will Roberts, 92, Welsh painter.[17]
• Alfred Schwarzmann, 87, German Olympic gymnast.[18]

12

• Billy Ivison, 79, British football and rugby league player.
• Sir John Jardine Paterson, 80, Scottish businessman.
• Mack Robinson, 85, American track and field athlete.[19]

13

• Harry Bright, 70, American baseball player.[20]
• Rex Everhart, 79, American film and musical theatre actor and singer.[21]
• Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, 86, Indian army general.
• Carlo Tagnin, 67, Italian football player and manager.

14

• Kovai Chezhiyan, 68, Indian film producer and Kongu community leader.
• Tommy Collins, 69, American country musician.[22]
• C. Jérôme, 53, French singer, cancer.

15

• William J. Crawford, 81, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Clement L. Hirsch, 85, American businessman and racehorse owner, cancer.
• Durward Kirby, 88, American television host and announcer.
• Robert Welch, 70, British designer.[23]

16

• Morris B. Abram, 81, American lawyer, civil rights activist and president of Brandeis University.[24]
• Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa, 53, Nigerian air marshal.
• Thomas Ferebee, 81, U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier aboard the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.[25]
• Roy Henderson, 100, British opera singer.[26]
• Michael Starr, 89, Canadian politician.
• Carlos Velázquez, 51, Puerto Rican baseball player.[27]

17

• Jack Davis, 83, Australian playwright.[28]
• Charlie Holt, 77, American ice hockey coach, cancer.
• Edward F. Knipling, 90, American entomologist.[29]

18

• Eberhard Bethge, 90, German Protestant theologian.[30]
• Bob Blackman, 81, American football player and coach.
• Herman B Wells, 97, American academic.
• Robert Wynn, 78, American officer with Easy Company, in the 101st Airborne Division.

19

• Graham Balcombe, 93, British cave diver.
• Li Huanzhi, 81, Chinese classical composer.
• Giovanni Linscheer, 27, Surinamese swimmer, car accident.
• Shafiq-ur-Rahman, 79, Pakistani humorist.
• Joanne Weaver, 64, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.[31]
• Dewey Williams, 84, American baseball player.[32]
• Mikhail Yefremov, 88, Soviet politician and diplomat.

20

• Vivian Fine, 86, American composer.[33]
• Gerald Kingsland, 70, British journalist and adventurer.
• Dame Ruth Kirk, 77, New Zealand anti-abortion campaigner.

21

• James Gleeson, 79, Australian clergyman, heart attack.
• Seumas McNally, 21, Computer programmer and founder of DX Ball 2, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Joseph C. Palczynski, 31, American spree killer, shot 27 times.
• Heinz Zöger, 84, German political journalist.

22

• John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil, 73, British diplomat.
• Mark Lombardi, 48, American neo-conceptual artist, suicide by hanging.
• Wayne McAllister, 92, Los Angeles-based architect, died of a head injury in Arcadia, California at the age of 92.
• Carlo Parola, 78, Italian footballer and coach.
• Godwin Samararatne, 67, Sri Lankan meditation teacher.

23

• Ed McCurdy, 81, American folk singer, songwriter and actor.
• Antony Padiyara, 79, Indian Syro Malabar archbishop and cardinal.
• Juan Zurita, 82, Mexican boxer.

24

• Bles Bridges, 53, South African singer.
• Al Grey, 74, American jazz trombonist.[34]
• George Kirby, 66, British footballer.

25

• Morton A. Brody, 66, American jurist.[35]
• Paolo Farinella, 47, Italian astronomer, heart failure.
• Helen Martin, 90, American actress of stage and television.[36]

26

• Alex Comfort, 80, British scientist, physician and author (The Joy of Sex), cerebral haemorrhage.[37]
• John Paul Scott, 90, American behavior geneticist and psychologist.
• Len Younce, 83, American football player and coach.

27

• George Allen, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Sue Wah Chin, 99, Chinese entrepreneur in Darwin, Australia.
• Ian Dury, 57, British actor and rock and roll singer (Kilburn and the High Roads, Ian Dury and the Blockheads), cancer.[38]
• Geoffrey Hebden, 81, English cricketer.
• Priya Rajvansh, 63, Indian film actress, murdered.

28

• John Hosier, 71, British musical educator.[39]
• Marsal Maun, 86, Chief Minister of Brunei.
• George Petersen, 78, Australian politician.
• Anthony Powell, 94, British author.[40]

29

• Ross Mewburn Elliott, 71, Australian journalist and politician.
• Hank Miklos, 89, American baseball player.[41]
• Anna Sokolow, 90, American dancer and choreographer.

30

• George Batchelor, 80, Australian mathematician.[42]
• Mary Flaherty, 74, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[43]
• Rudolf Kirchschläger, 85, Austrian politician.[44]
• Beryl McBurnie, 86, Trinidadian dancer (Little Carib Theatre).[45]

31

• Adrian Fisher, 47, British guitarist, myocardial infarction.
• Gisèle Freund, 91, German-born French photographer and photojournalist.
• Leo Lieberman, 84, American film screenwriter.

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