Deaths in March 2004

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

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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 2004

1

• Barbara Frawley, 68, Australian actress (Dot and the Kangaroo).[1]
• Riet van Grunsven, 85, member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II.
• Mian Ghulam Jilani, 91, Pakistan Army officer, died at his home in Fairfax, Virginia on 1 March 2004.
• Leon Katz (physicist), 94, Canadian physicist.
• Costas Montis, 90, Cypriot poet, novelist, and playwright, tuberculosis.
• Gilbert Plass, 83, Canadian physicist.
• Johnny Walker (DJ), 55, American radio personality, lung cancer.

2

• William J. Bouwsma, 80, American historian.
• Mercedes McCambridge, 85, American Academy Award winning actress.
• Marge Schott, 75, American primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds.[2]

3

• Cecily Adams, 46, American actress.
• Susan Moller Okin, 57, New Zealand liberal feminist political philosopher.
• Muniswamy Rajgopal, 77, Indian Olympic field hockey player (gold medal winner in men's field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[3]
• Drake Sather, 44, American Emmy nominated television writer (Dennis Miller Show, The Larry Sanders Show, Saturday Night Live, Zoolander).[4]
• Luis Villalta, 35, Peruvian professional boxer.

4

• Max Arias-Schreiber Pezet, 81, Peruvian lawyer and politician.
• Meryle Fitzgerald, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[5]
• Jake Hancock, 75, British geologist.
• Arthur Kinsella, 86, New Zealand politician, Minister of Education (1963–1969).
• John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist (Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL).
• Claude Nougaro, 74, French songwriter and singer.
• George Pake, 79, American physicist and computer research executive, known for founding Xerox PARC.[6]
• Sir Malcolm Pasley, 77, British literary scholar.
• Halina Perez, 22, Filipina actress.
• Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer.[7]

5

• Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 84, Ecuadorian politician, President (1961–1963).
• Percy Browne, 80, British MP, jockey and farmer.
• Julito Collazo, 78, Cuban Master Percussionist.
• Stanisław Musiał, 65, Polish priest.
• Mike O'Callaghan, 74, American politician, Governor of Nevada (1971–1979).

6

• Eugene T. Booth, 91, American nuclear physicist.
• Frances Dee, 94, American actress.
• Ray Fernandez, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez" or simply just "Hercules".
• Sir Alexander Glen, 91, Scottish explorer and businessman.
• Val Pinchbeck, 73, American NFL broadcasting executive.[8]
• Alan Short, 83, American California legislator, co-author of the Short-Doyle Mental Health Act.
• John Henry Williams, 35, American controversial son of baseball great Ted Williams.

7

• Nicolae Cajal, 84, Romanian physician and politician.
• George Thompson, 78, British footballer.
• Paul Winfield, 62, American Emmy-winning actor.

8

• János Bognár, 89, Hungarian Olympic cyclist
• Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, 73, Indian physicist.
• Keith Hopkins, 69, British ancient historian and sociologist.[9]
• Robin Hunter, 74, British actor.
• Robert Pastorelli, 49, American actor on Murphy Brown.[10]
• Muhammad Zaidan (aka Abu Abbas), 55, Palestinian nationalist, founder of Palestine Liberation Front.

9

• Rust Epique, 35, American songwriter and guitarist.
• Tony Lee, 69, British jazz pianist.
• Albert Mol, 87, Dutch author, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality.
• Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, 71, American composer, conductor and pianist, created sonatas, concertos and symphonies.[11]
• Don Smith, 52, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers).[12]

10

• Herbert Choy, 88, American federal judge.
• Jack Creley, 78, American-born Canadian actor.
• Robert D. Orr, 86, American politician, former Governor of Indiana.[13]
• James Parrish, 35, American NFL player (San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets).[14]
• Hansjörg Schlager, 74, German Olympic alpine skier (men's downhill and men's slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics).[15]
• Dave Schulthise, 47, American bass guitarist for the punk band The Dead Milkmen.[16]
• David Shoenberg, 93, British physicist (solid-state electronics, magnetic resonance imaging, superconductivity).[17]

11

• Philip Arthur Fisher, 96, American stock investor and author of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits.
• Seymour Geisser, 74, American statistician, DNA-evidence expert.
• Adrian Ropes, 62, English television actor.
• J. Minos Simon, 82, American author, aviator and attorney.
• Edmund Sylvers, 47, American lead singer of The Sylvers, lung cancer.

12

• Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright with cerebral palsy.
• Yvonne Cernota, 24, German bobsled driver, in training accident.
• Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator.
• Bates Lowry, 80, American art historian and museum director.
• Olavo Martins de Oliveira, 76, Brazilian footballer.
• Sylvi Saimo, 89, Finnish Olympic canoer (women's K-1 500 metre canoeing: 1948, 1952 gold medal winner).[18]
• Sir William Wade, 86, British legal scholar.

13

• Sydney Carter, 88, British musician and poet.
• Chen Hansheng, 107, Chinese sociologist.
• Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal.
• Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister.

14

• Alishan Bairamian, 89, Armenian-American intellectual, historian, and author.
• Siradiou Diallo, 67, Guinean journalist and politician, cardiac arrest.
• Martin Emond, 34, New Zealand cartoon illustrator and painter, suicide by hanging.
• Norb Hecker, 76, American football player and coach.
• René Laloux, 74, French animator and film director, heart attack.
• John W. Seybold, 88, American pioneer in computer typesetting.[19]

15

• Amparo Arrebato, 59, Colombian dancer.
• George Briggs, 93, British Anglican prelate, first Bishop of The Seychelles.
• Chuck Niles, 76, American Southern California jazz radio disc jockey, awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[20]
• Patrick Nuttgens, 74, British architect.
• William Pickering, 93, New Zealand engineer, head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[21]
• Sir John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner.[22]
• J. Wayne Streilein, 68, American immunologist and eye tissue transplant researcher, known as "The Father of Modern Ocular Immunology".[23]

16

• Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model.
• Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi, 61, Iranian Olympic wrestler (bronze medal winner in men's freestyle featherweight wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics).[24]
• Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer.

17

• Rachel Hudson, British domestic abuse victim, murdered.
• J.J. Jackson, 62, American radio and television personality, former MTV video jockey.
• Monique Laederach, 65, Swiss writer.
• Michael Mellinger, 74, German actor.
• Bernie Scherer, 91, American professional football player (University of Nebraska, Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates).[25]

18

• Gene Bearden, 83, American baseball player with the Cleveland Indians.[26]
• Vytas Brenner, 57, Venezuelan musician, keyboardist and composer.
• Wallace Davenport, 78, American jazz trumpeter.
• Richard Marner, 82, Russian-born British actor.
• Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder of McCain Foods.
• Raquel Rodrigo, 89, Cuban actress and singer.

19

• Brian Maxwell, 51, Canadian long-distance runner and founder of PowerBar.
• Sir Horace Phillips, 86, British diplomat.
• Guillermo Rivas, 76, Mexican comedy actor.
• Mitchell Sharp, 92, Canadian Liberal cabinet minister (member of Parliament, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance).[27]
• Ladislaus Simacek, 90, Austrian Olympic middle-distance runner (men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[28]
• Ted Walker, 69, British poet and dramatist.

20

• Scott Fraser, 33, Canadian professional racing driver.
• Charles Harold Haden II, 66, American jurist.
• Chosuke Ikariya, 72, Japanese comedian, actor and leader of comedic group The Drifters.
• Juliana, 94, Dutch Royal, former Queen of the Netherlands.
• Jean-François Ravelinghien, 56, French Olympic swimmer (men's 400 metre freestyle and men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 1968 Summer Olympics).[29]
• Joakim Segedi, 99, Serbian-born Croatian Greek-Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Križevci (1963–1984)
• Pierre Sévigny, 86, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, Quebec), known for Munsinger Affair.[30]

21

• Sir Austin Pearce, 82, British industrialist, (British Aerospace).[31]
• Mirwais Sadiq, Afghan politician, Civil Aviation Minister for Afghanistan.
• Robert Snyder, 88, American documentary filmmaker (winner of Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Titan: Story of Michelangelo).[32]
• Ludmilla Tchérina, 79, French ballerina, actress and writer.[33]
• John C. West, 81, American politician and diplomat.

22

• John Bradley, 86, Canadian physician.
• Peter Jackson, 73, British rugby union player.
• David Oates, 77, British archaeologist.
• Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, 67, Palestinian spiritual leader and founder of Hamas.

23

• Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician, heart failure.
• Otto Kumm, 94, German divisional commander in the Waffen-SS during WWII.
• L. S. Stavrianos, 91, Greek-Canadian historian.
• Andrew Veniamin, 28, Australian criminal, shot.
• Chen Zhongwei, 74, Chinese surgeon.

24

• Dominic Agostino, 44, Canadian politician, Ontario Liberal MPP.
• Michael Garrison, 47, American ambient musician, liver failure.
• Fernando da Costa Novaes, 76, Brazilian ornithologist.
• Fred Sharaga, 94, American Olympic racewalker (men's 10 kilometres racewalk at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[34]

25

• Sir David Griffin, 88, Australian lawyer, businessman and politician.
• Clayton Matthews, 85, American writer.
• Kristine Vetulani-Belfoure, 79, Polish teacher and writer, heart failure.

26

• Jan Berry, 62, American musician, the 'Jan' of Jan and Dean.
• Takeshi Kamo, 89, Japanese footballer.
• Bertrand de Montaudoin, 79, French Olympic modern pentathlete.
• J. Edward Roush, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Indiana's 5th congressional district and Indiana's 4th congressional district).[35]
• Jan Sterling, 82, American actress (winner of Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress).[36]
• Colin Sutton, 65, British police officer.

27

• Bob Cremins, 98, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[37]
• Zhang Haoruo, 72, Chinese politician, Governor of Sichuan.
• Einar Magnussen, 72, Norwegian economist and politician.
• Robert Merle, 95, French author.
• Edward Piszek, 87, American industrialist and philanthropist, founded Mrs. Paul's food brand.[38]
• John Sack, 74, American journalist and war correspondent (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan).[39]
• Lionel Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville, 90, British stockbroker and aristocrat.
• Larry Trask, 59, American–born British linguist and expert on the Basques.
• Kenneth Edward Untener, American Roman Catholic perelate, Bishop of Saginaw.
• James Wapakhabulo, 59, Ugandan politician, foreign minister of Uganda.

28

• Percy Beames, 92, Australian sportsman and journalist.
• Albert Brülls, 67, German footballer.
• Erich Hauser, 73, German sculptor.
• Art James, 74, American game show host and announcer.
• David Robinson, 75, Irish horticulturist.
• Adán Sánchez, 19, Mexican singer, car accident.
• Ljubiša Spajić, 78, Yugoslavian football player and manager.
• Sir Peter Ustinov, 82, British actor.

29

• Lise de Baissac, 98, Mauritian-born British Special Operations Executive agent.
• Chen Yi-hsiung, Taiwanese failed assassin in the 3-19 shooting incident.
• Al Cuccinello, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants).[40]
• Colin Smith, 69, English jazz trumpeter.

30

• Alistair Cooke, 95, British-born American BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator.
• Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist, violin professor at Yale University.
• Hubert Gregg, 89, English BBC broadcaster.
• Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian.

31

• René Gruau, 95, Italian fashion illustrator.
• Hedi Lang, 72, Swiss politician, first woman to preside over the Swiss National Council.
• Sir John Warburton Paul, 88, British colonial administrator.

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