The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2000.
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
- Raymond Badin, 71, French gymnast and Olympian.[1]
- Odell Barnes, 31, American convict, execution by lethal injection.[2]
- Jesper Høm, 68, Danish photographer and film director.[3]
- Vlastimir Peričić, 72, Serbian composer.[4]
- Lionel Salter, 85, English pianist, conductor, and writer.[5]
- Sumie Tanaka, 91, Japanese screenwriter and playwright.[6]
2
- Audun Boysen, 70, Norwegian middle distance runner and Olympic medalist.[7]
- Jimmy Lewis, 81, American double bassist.[8]
- Jack Robinson, 79, American baseball player.[9]
- Sandra Schmirler, 36, Canadian curling champion, cancer.[10]
- Charles E. Wiggins, 72, American politician and judge, cardiac arrest.[11]
3
- Ranjana Deshmukh, 45, Indian actress, heart attack.
- Paul Doguereau, 91, French pianist and piano teacher.[12]
- Toni Ortelli, 95, Italian composer and alpinist.
- Nicole Van Goethem, 58, Belgian animator and illustrator.[13]
4
- Hermann Brück, 94, German astronomer.[14]
- Władysław Daniłowski, 97, Polish-American pianist, composer and singer.[15]
- Kyi Kyi Htay, 75, Burmese actress.
- Geeta Mukherjee, 76, Indian politician and social worker.
- Julian Ritter, 90, American painter.
- Donn J. Robertson, 83, United States Marine Corps officer.
- Alphons Silbermann, 90, German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, and publicist.
- Ta-You Wu, 92, Chinese theoretical physicist.[16]
- Xie Xide, 78, Chinese physicist, breast cancer.
5
- Jon Barwise, 57, American mathematician, philosopher and logician, colon cancer.[17]
- Lolo Ferrari, 37, French dancer, pornographic actress, actress and singer, suicide.[18]
- Franklin Garrett, 93, American historian.[19]
- Roma Mitchell, 86, Australian lawyer and Governor of South Australia, bone cancer.[20]
- Todd Thomas, 40, American gridiron football player, cancer.[21]
- Daniel Abraham Yanofsky, 74, Canadian chess grandmaster, writer, and arbiter.[22]
- Mikola Yermalovich, 78, Belarusian writer and historian.
- Alexander Young, 79, British operatic tenor.[23]
6
- S. Arumugam, 94, Ceylon Tamil engineer and writer.
- Chris Balderstone, 59, English professional in cricket and football, prostate cancer.
- John Colicos, 71, Canadian actor (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, X-Men), heart attack.[24]
- Jean-Pascal Curtillet, 57, French freestyle swimmer and Olympian.[25]
- Mirko Grmek, 76, Croatian and French historian of medicine, writer and scientist.[26]
- Ole Jacob Hansen, 59, Norwegian jazz musician (drums).
- Abraham Waligo, 71, Ugandan politician, Prime Minister (1985-1986).
7
- Bill Daniels, 79, American cable television executive.[27]
- Eileen Fowler, 93, English physical exercise instructor.
- Charles Gray, 71, English actor (Diamonds Are Forever, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Mirror Crack'd), cancer.[28]
- W. D. Hamilton, 63, British evolutionary biologist, organ dysfunction.[29]
- Robert Hart, 86, English gardening pioneer.
- Pee Wee King, 86, American singer-songwriter (co-wrote "Tennessee Waltz"), heart attack.[30]
- Edward H. Levi, 88, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General (1975–1977), Alzheimer's disease.[31]
- Hirokazu Ninomiya, 82, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
- Alimineti Madhava Reddy, 51, Indian politician, homicide.
- Jack Sanford, 70, American baseball player, brain cancer.[32]
- Kazuto Tsuruoka, 83, Japanese baseball player and manager.[33]
- Byron M. Tunnell, 74, American politician.
- Nicolas Walter, 65, British anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist.[34]
- Masami Yoshida, 41, Japanese javelin thrower.[35]
8
- Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 97, American socialite, heart attack.[36]
- Earle Gorton Linsley, 89, American entomologist.[37]
- Joe Mullaney, 75, American basketball player and coach, cancer.[38]
- Vilho Ylönen, 81, Finnish cross-country skier, rifle shooter and Olympic medalist.[39]
9
- Artyom Borovik, 39, Russian journalist and media magnate, plane crash.
- Jean Coulthard, 92, Canadian composer and music educator.[40]
- Miguel Cruz, 89, Salvadoran football player.
- Jim Egan, 79, Canadian LGBT rights activist, lung cancer.
- Pierre Ghestem, 78, French bridge and checkers player.[41]
- Peter Hauser, 65, British football player and manager.[42]
- Pathanay Khan, Pakistan folk singer.[43]
- Usha Kiran, 70, Indian actress.[44]
- Robert Parry, 67, British politician.
- Ivo Robić, 77, Croatian singer-songwriter.
10
- Judith Barrett, 91, American film actress.[45]
- Barbara Cooney, 82, American author and illustrator.[46]
- Ivan Hirst, 84, British Army officer and engineer.[47]
- William Porter, 73, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.[48]
- John Sladek, 62, American science fiction author.[49]
11
- Kazimierz Brandys, 83, Polish essayist and script writer.[50]
- Alex Dreier, 83, American news reporter and commentator, heart failure.
- HB Jassin, 82, Indonesian literary critic and documentarian.
- Noel Mulligan, 73, Australian rugby player.
- Edgar Charles Polomé, 79, Belgian-American philologist and religious studies scholar.[51]
- Will Roberts, 92, Welsh painter.[52]
- Laureano López Rodó, 79, Spanish lawyer, diplomat and politician.[53]
- Alfred Schwarzmann, 87, German Olympic gymnast.[54]
12
- Billy Ivison, 79, British football and rugby player.
- Aleksandar Nikolić, 75, Serbian basketball player and coach.
- Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, 98, Chinese Catholic Bishop of Shanghai, stomach cancer.[55]
- Mack Robinson, 85, American track and field athlete, pneumonia.[56]
13
- Harry Bright, 70, American baseball player.[57]
- Rex Everhart, 79, American actor (Beauty and the Beast, Friday the 13th, Family Business) and singer, lung cancer.[58]
- Hamid Gada, Indian commander in the militant organisation Hizbul Mujahideen, K.I.A.
- Cab Kaye, 78, Ghanaian-English jazz singer and pianist.
- Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, 86, Indian Army general.
- Carlo Tagnin, 67, Italian football player and manager, cancer.[59]
- Malcolm Wilson, 86, American politician and Governor of New York.[60]
14
- Kovai Chezhiyan, 68, Indian film producer and Kongu community leader.
- Tommy Collins, 69, American country musician.[61]
- C. Jérôme, 53, French singer, cancer.[62]
- Paul Smith, 54, American gridiron football player, pancreatic cancer.[63]
- Anne Wibble, 56, Swedish politician, cancer.
- Ponchai Wilkerson, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
15
- Jaime García Añoveros, 68, American politician.[64]
- Timothy Gribble, 36, American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[65]
- Clement L. Hirsch, 85, American businessman and racehorse owner, cancer.
- Tomio Hora, 93, Japanese historian and academic.
- Adarsh Pandey, 93, Indian Politician and academic.
- Durward Kirby, 88, American television host and announcer.
- Bobb McKittrick, 64, American gridiron football coach, cancer.
- Darrell Keith Rich, 45, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[66]
- Rolf Römer, 64, German actor.[67]
- Idris Abdul Wakil, 74, Zanzibari politician, President (1985-1990).
- Robert Welch, 70, English designer and silversmith.[68]
16
- Morris Berthold Abram, 81, American lawyer, civil rights activist and university president.[69]
- Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa, 53, Nigerian air marshal.
- Herta Bothe, 79, German nazi concentration camp guard during World War II and war criminal.
- Thomas Ferebee, 81, U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier aboard the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.[70]
- Roy Henderson, 100, British opera singer.[71]
- Pavel Prudnikau, 88, Belarusian writer.
- Ivo Rinkel, 79, Dutch tennis and field hockey player.
- Stanley Ralph Ross, 64, American writer and actor, lung cancer.[72]
- Michael Starr, 89, Canadian politician.
- Phil Terranova, 80, American boxer.
- Carlos Velázquez, 51, Puerto Rican baseball player.[73]
17
- Jack Davis, 83, Australian playwright.[74]
- Lonia Dvorin, 82, Israeli football player and coach.
- Sonny Hine, 69, American thoroughbred horse trainer.[75]
- Charlie Holt, 77, American ice hockey coach, cancer.
- Edward F. Knipling, 90, American entomologist.[76]
- Pete Mangum, 69, American football player.[77]
18
- Eberhard Bethge, 90, German Protestant theologian.[78]
- Pei Lisheng, 93, Chinese politician.
- Glen Mervyn, 63, Canadian rower, Olympic medalist and Olympic coach, colorectal cancer.[79]
- Herman B Wells, 97, American academic.[80]
- Robert Wynn, 78, American officer with Easy Company, in the 101st Airborne Division.
- Assaf Yaguri, 69, Israeli soldier and politician.
19
- Graham Balcombe, 93, British cave diver.
- Li Huanzhi, 81, Chinese classical composer.
- Egon Jönsson, 78, Swedish football player.
- Giovanni Linscheer, 27, Surinamese swimmer, car accident.[81]
- Jayne Regan, 90, American film actress.
- Dewey Williams, 84, American baseball player.[82]
- Mikhail Yefremov, 88, Soviet politician and diplomat.
20
- Johan Anthierens, 62, Belgian journalist, columnist, and writer, Hodgkin's disease.
- Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, 57, Yemeni author and politician.
- Gene Eugene, 38, Canadian actor, record producer, composer and musician.
- Michael Ferris, 68, Irish politician.
- Vivian Fine, 86, American composer, car collision.[83]
- Jean Howard, 89, American actress and photographer.[84]
- Ruth Kirk, 77, New Zealand anti-abortion campaigner, cancer.
- Ramon Mitra, Jr., 72, Filipino statesman, diplomat, and pro-democracy activist.[85]
- Ādolfs Skulte, 90, Latvian composer and pedagogue.
21
- Johan Haanes, 87, Norwegian sportsman.
- Seumas McNally, 21, Canadian computer programmer and founder of DX Ball 2, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Bai Shouyi, 91, Chinese ethnologist, historian, social activist, and writer.[86]
- Mircea Zaciu, 71, Romanian critic, literary historian and prose writer.[87]
22
- John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil, 73, British diplomat.
- Polita Grau, 84, Cuban political prisoner, First Lady.[88]
- Mark Lombardi, 48, American neo-conceptual artist, suicide by hanging.[89]
- Wayne McAllister, 92, American architect, head injury.[90]
- Carlo Parola, 78, Italian football player and coach.[91]
- Vamüzo Phesao, 62, Naga politician.
- Godwin Samararatne, 67, Sri Lankan meditation teacher.
23
- Ed McCurdy, 81, American folk singer, songwriter and actor.[92]
- Antony Padiyara, 79, Indian Syro Malabar prelate.
- Carl Shoup, 97, American economist and public finance expert.[93]
- Udham Singh, 71, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.[94]
- Gert Willner, 59, German politician.
24
- Albert Duncanson, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.[95]
- Robert Hugo Dunlap, 79, United States Marine Corps major.[96]
- Al Grey, 74, American jazz trombonist.[97]
- George Kirby, 66, British football player.[98]
- Kazuo Komatsubara, 56, Japanese animator, animation director and character designer.
- Juan Zurita, 82, Mexican lightweight boxing world champion.
25
- Jim Cash, 59, American film writer (Top Gun, Dick Tracy, Turner & Hooch), intestinal disorders.[99]
- Paul Călinescu, 97, Romanian film director and screenwriter.[100]
- Daphne Le Breton, 67, New Zealand international lawn bowler.
- Helen Martin, 90, American actress, heart attack.[101]
- Eduardo Enrique Rodríguez, 81, Argentine football player.
- Sandy Sanford, 83, American gridiron football player and coach.[102]
26
- Alfredo Bruniera, 93, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
- Alex Comfort, 80, British scientist, physician and author (The Joy of Sex), cerebral haemorrhage.[103]
- Karel Thole, 85, Dutch-Italian painter and illustrator.
- Len Younce, 83, American football player and coach.[104]
- Werner Zeyer, 70, German politician.
27
- George Allen, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.[105]
- Ian Dury, 57, British actor and rock and roll singer (Kilburn and the High Roads, Ian Dury and the Blockheads), cancer.[106]
- Yrjö Lehtilä, 83, Finnish shot putter and Olympian.[107]
- Priya Rajvansh, 63, Indian film actress, murdered.
28
- Pat Bishop, 53, Northern Irish-Australian actress.
- Bill Christiansen, 86, American politician.
- Christian Norberg-Schulz, 73, Norwegian architect and author.[108]
- Frances Gray Patton, 94, American short story writer and novelist.[109]
- George Petersen, 78, Australian politician.
- Anthony Powell, 94, British author.[110]
- Yuri Tarasov, 39, Soviet and Ukrainian football player.
- Adam Ulam, 77, Polish-American historian and political scientist, lung cancer.[111]
29
- Yevgeny Feofanov, 62, Soviet boxer and Olympic medalist.[112]
- Hans Gustav Güterbock, 91, German-American Hittitologist ang linguist.[113]
- Shirley Palmer, 91, American (silent) film actress, fall.
- Anna Sokolow, 90, American dancer and choreographer.[114]
30
- George Batchelor, 80, Australian mathematician.[115]
- Salvador Abascal Infante, 90, Mexican politician.
- Jean E. Karl, 72, American book publisher.[116]
- Rudolf Kirchschläger, 85, Austrian politician, President (1974-1986), cardiovascular disease.[117]
- Beryl McBurnie, 86, Trinidadian dancer.[118]
- Mihrimah Sultan, 77, Ottoman princess, granddaughter of Mehmed V.
31
- Hardev Bahri, 93, Indian linguist, literary critic, and lexicographer.
- Hjalmar Bergström, 93, Swedish world champion cross-country skier and Olympian.[119]
- Adrian Fisher, 47, British guitarist, myocardial infarction.
- Gisèle Freund, 91, German-French photographer and photojournalist.[120]
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