The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2007.
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 2007 1 Manuel Bento, 58, Portuguese football goalkeeper (Portugal, S.L. Benfica), cardiac arrest. Otto Brandenburg, 72, Danish singer and actor. Colette Brosset, 85, French actress. Eddie Firestone, 86, American actor (Gunsmoke, Dallas, Duel), heart and respiratory failure. George Gabb, 79, Belizean artist, sculptor and writer, cardiac arrest. Sir Sydney Gun-Munro, 90, Vincentian politician, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979–1985), after long illness. Harold Michelson, 87, American production designer (Terms of Endearment, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Planes, Trains & Automobiles). Tinos Rusere, 61, Zimbabwean Deputy Minister for Mines and Environment, kidney failure. Bobby Speight, 76, American basketball player (NC State) and businessman, cancer.
2 Doris Anderson, 85, Canadian feminist, writer and editor of Chatelaine, pulmonary fibrosis. Thomas S. Kleppe, 87, American Secretary of Interior (1975–1977), Representative from North Dakota, Alzheimer's disease. Clem Labine, 80, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn and LA Dodgers), complications of brain surgery. Mike Mooney, 37, American football player with Georgia Tech and the 1993 San Diego Chargers. Ivan Safronov, 51, Russian defence correspondent for , fall from building. William C. Sturtevant, 80, American Smithsonian Institution curator, emphysema. Henri Troyat, 95, French writer and historian, member of the Académie française.
3 Osvaldo Cavandoli, 87, Italian cartoonist. Jim Kaldis, 74, Australian politician. Benito Lorenzi, 81, Italian football striker (Italy, Inter Milan). Gene Oliver, 71, American baseball player in the 1960s, complications from lung surgery. Türkan Rado, 91, Turkish writer, educator and jurist.Hukuk profesörü Türkan Rado vefat etti (in Turkish) Saul Swimmer, 70, American documentary filmmaker (The Concert for Bangladesh), heart failure. Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, American etiquette authority and author, pneumonia.
4 Natalie Bodanya, 98, American operatic soprano. H. E. Carter, 96, American biochemist.Herbert E. Carter, Pioneer in Linking Food Additives and Cancer, Dies at 97 Thomas Eagleton, 77, American Senator for Missouri (1969–1987), heart and respiratory complications. Bob Hattoy, 56, American President of California Fish & Game Commission, AIDS activist, complications from AIDS. Richard Joseph, 53, British video games soundtrack composer, lung cancer. Sunil Kumar Mahato, 41, Indian parliamentarian, shot. Tadeusz Nalepa, 63, Polish blues and rock singer, after long illness. Robert Prince, 77, American composer. John Thow, 57, American composer. Renee Williams, 29, American heaviest woman in the world, heart attack.Houston Chronicle Ian Wooldridge, 75, British sports journalist, cancer.
5 Alan Black, 64, British disc jockey. Joseph H. Conlin, 79, American impresario and opera director. Yvan Delporte, 78, Belgian editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine (1956–1968). Milton N. Hopkins, 80, American ornithologist and farmer. Ivo Lorscheiter, 79, Brazilian Catholic Bishop and advocate of liberation theology, multiple organ failure. Ivan Supek, 91, Croatian scientist, philosopher and writer.
6 Jean Baudrillard, 77, French postmodernist philosopher and sociologist. Allen Coage, 63, American-born Olympic judo bronze medalist and professional wrestler known as "Bad News Brown". Ernest Gallo, 97, American co-founder of E & J Gallo Winery. Pierre Moinot, 86, French novelist elected to Académie française. Ray Stern, 74, American professional wrestler, complications from heart surgery.
7 Graham Botting, 91, New Zealand cricketer and hockey player.Graham Botting New Zealand Bill Chinnock, 59, American singer-songwriter. Shane Cross, 20, Australian street skateboarder, motorcycle collision. Paul deLay, 55, American blues harmonica player, leukemia. Frigyes Hidas, 78, Hungarian composer. Emil Mailho, 97, American baseball player. Neil North, 74, British actor (The Winslow Boy, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Billy Elliot). Andy Sidaris, 76, American film director, throat cancer. John Simpson, 79, British army officer, Director Special Forces.Brigadier John Simpson Paul Sykes, 60, English heavyweight boxer. Carla Thorneycroft, Lady Thorneycroft, 93, Italian–born British philanthropist. Billy Walkabout, 57, Cherokee-American highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, pneumonia and renal failure. Notable people killed in the crash of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200: Morgan Mellish, 36, Australian Walkley Award-winning journalist for The Australian Financial Review. Elizabeth O'Neill, 37, Australian diplomat. Allison Sudradjat, 40–41, Australian public servant, head of AusAID in Indonesia.
8 Taufik Cotran, 80, Palestinian-born British judge, Chief Justice of Belize (1986–1990). Alejandro Cruz, 82, Mexican professional wrestler known as "The Black Shadow", pneumonia. John Inman, 71, British actor (Are You Being Served?), hepatitis A. Pino Lancetti, 74, Italian fashion designer. Tom Moldvay, 58, American writer of Dungeons & Dragons books and modules (revised version of Palace of the Silver Princess). Harold M. Ryan, 96, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1961–1965), congestive heart failure. Richard Trexler, 74, American historian of the Florentine Renaissance, complications from a kidney transplant. Vicky Vanita, 59, Greek actress. John Vukovich, 59, American baseball player and coach, brain tumor complications. Christopher Barrios Jr., 6, American murder victim, murder.
9 Rosy Afsari, 60, Bangladeshi film actress, kidney failure. Brad Delp, 55, American singer (Boston), suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Ron Evans, 67, Australian chairman of the AFL Commission, former Essendon chairman and player, abdominal cancer. Glen Harmon, 86, Canadian ice hockey player. Jack Kirby, 84, American football player. Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, 71, American politician, first black woman to serve in the Senate of North Carolina. Thomas B. Mason, 88, American attorney. Ulpio Minucci, 89, Italian-born composer best known for work on Robotech, natural causes. Juan Carlos Portantiero, 73, Argentine sociologist, renal failure. Malaetasi Togafau, American Samoan Attorney General, judge and legislator, cancer.
10 Buddy Allin, 62, American golfer, winner of five PGA Tour events, cancer. Francis Clark Howell, 82, American anthropologist. Richard Jeni, 49, American comedian and actor (The Mask, Bird, Dad's Week Off), suicide by gunshot. Ernie Ladd, 68, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs) and professional wrestler (NWA), cancer. Lanna Saunders, 65, American soap opera actress (Days of Our Lives), multiple sclerosis. John Soares, 88, American racing driver. Angela Webber, 52, Australian comedian and writer, cancer.
11 Dave Creedon, 87, Irish hurler (Cork), All-Ireland Champions (1952–1954), natural causes. René Duhamel, 72, French Olympic rower.René Duhamel Martha B. Sosman, 56, American judge, member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, breast cancer.
12 Arnold Drake, 83, American comic book writer (Doom Patrol, Deadman, Guardians of the Galaxy), pneumonia and septic shock. Vilma Ebsen, 96, American actress, sister and dancing partner of Buddy Ebsen. Jack Gaster, 99, British communist politician and solicitor. Preah Maha Ghosananda, 77, Cambodian Buddhist Sangharaja and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Betty Hutton, 86, American singer/actress (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), complications from colon cancer.Betty Hutton, Hollywood actress: 86 Norm Larker, 76, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers). Juan Enrique Lira, 79, Chilean Olympic shooter. Antonio Ortiz Mena, 99, Mexican Finance Secretary (1958–1970), IDB President (1971–1987), complications from a fall. Yeap Ghim Guan, 66, Malaysian lawyer and politician, founding member of the DAP, complications from a stroke.
13 Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, 91.The Death of Her Serene Highness, Princess Ekaterina Ivanovna of Russia Herbert Fux, 79, Austrian actor and politician. Terry Major-Ball, 74, British banker and author, brother of former Prime Minister John Major, cancer. Wendy Russell Reves, 90, American philanthropist. John McHardy Sinclair, 73, British English language scholar, cancer. Arnold Skaaland, 82, American professional wrestler. Nicole Stéphane, 83, French actress (Le Silence de la mer).
14 Lucie Aubrac, 94, French member of the Resistance during World War II. Roger Beaufrand, 98, French Olympian, oldest Olympic champion at time of death. Tommy Cavanagh, 78, British football player and manager of Burnley. Lloyd Eaton, 88, American college football coach. Sa'dun Hammadi, 76, Iraqi Prime Minister (1991), leukemia. Fitzgerald "Mighty Terror" Henry, 86, Trinidadian calypso musician. Gareth Hunt, 65, British actor (The New Avengers), pancreatic cancer. Ron McEwin, 79, Australian footballer. Birk Sproxton, 63, Canadian author (Phantom Lake: North of 54) and educator, heart attack.
15 Blanquita Amaro, 83, Cuban-born actress and dancer, heart attack.Obituaries in the Performing Arts Bonaventure Luo Juan, 89, Chinese Catholic priest and bishop, renal failure and heart and lung weakness. Alice Backes, 83, American actress (Bachelor Father).Alice Backes Citron Sally Clark, 42, British solicitor wrongly convicted of killing two of her sons. Charles Harrelson, 68, American convicted murderer, heart attack. Jay Kennedy, 50, American editor-in-chief of King Features Syndicate, drowning. Bowie Kuhn, 80, American Major League Baseball commissioner (1969–1984), respiratory failure. Orlando "Marty" Martínez, 65, Cuban-born American baseball player and manager. Jack Metcalf, 79, American Republican Representative from Washington (1995–2001), complications of Alzheimer's disease. Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam, 55, Malaysian politician, cancer and renal failure. Stuart Rosenberg, 79, American film director (Cool Hand Luke, The Amityville Horror, The Pope of Greenwich Village), heart attack. Herman Stein, 91, American film and television composer, heart failure. Jean Talairach, 96, French psychiatrist and neurosurgeon. William Watson, 89, British sinologist. Dirk Wayenberg, 51, Belgian cyclist. Ivan Welsh, 67, Australian politician, NSW MLA (1988–1991).
16 Sajjadul Hasan, 28, Bangladeshi domestic cricketer, motorcycle accident. Pablo Emilio Madero, 85, Mexican politician, president of the National Action Party (1984–1987). Sir Arthur Marshall, 103, British aviation engineer. Steve McCooke, 88, British Olympic athlete. Mou Zuoyun, 94, Chinese basketball player and coach (national team), President of the Chinese Basketball Association.2007, 体坛的"生"与"死": 新生代涌现 逝者如斯夫 Raymond Nasher, 85, American art collector, founder of Nasher Sculpture Center, Nasher Museum of Art and NorthPark Center. Manjural Islam Rana, 22, Bangladeshi national cricketer, motorcycle accident. Carol Richards, 84, American singer and actress. Tupper Saussy, 70, American composer, musician, author, and artist, heart attack.
17 John Backus, 82, American computer scientist who led the IBM team that developed Fortran. Joseph C. Casdin, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts (1962–1963)Worcester Telegram & Gazette Crazy Ray, 76, American cheerleading fan of the Dallas Cowboys, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Jim Cronin, 55, American conservationist who founded Monkey World, liver cancer. Freddie Francis, 89, English cinematographer (Sons and Lovers, Glory, The Elephant Man) and film director, Oscar winner (1961, 1990), stroke. Homer Harris, 91, American athlete, first black captain of a Big Ten Conference team, Alzheimer's disease.