The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2011.
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 2011
1 Barklie Lakin, 96, British industrialist (Chairman of Vickers Armstrong) and naval officer. Leonard Lomell, 91, American World War II veteran, recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart, natural causes. John M. Lounge, 64, American NASA astronaut (1981–1991), complications from liver cancer. Ion Monea, 70, Romanian Olympic silver (1968) and bronze (1960) medal-winning boxer. Alina Paim, 91, Brazilian novelist. Monath Perera, 28, Sri Lankan air force pilot, plane crash.Monath bids his last farewell Fateh Singh Rathore, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist. Hazel Rowley, 59, British-born Australian writer (Tête-à-tête), cerebral haemorrhage.
2 Nicholas Alden, 25, American airman, shot. Simeonie Amagoalik, 77, Canadian carver, cancer. Louis Bazin, 90, French orientalist. Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, Minister for Minorities (since 2008), shot. Anthony Brooke, 98, British heir to the Sarawakan throne. Bernard Cywinski, 70, American architect (Apple Store), partner and co-founder of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, cancer. John Haines, 86, American poet. Erling Kroner, 67, Danish trombonist and bandleader, cancer. Edward Barnes Leisenring Jr., 85, American businessman. Sir Allan Louisy, 94, Saint Lucian politician and judge, Prime Minister (1979–1981). Luis Martínez Villicaña, 71, Mexican politician, Governor of Michoacán (1986–1988), Secretary of Agrarian Reform (1982–1986). Ruby Muhammad, 103, American spiritual figure, lung cancer. Art Statuto, 85, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). Thor Vilhjálmsson, 85, Icelandic author, natural causes. Wu Jieping, 94, Chinese medical scientist and politician.Wu Jieping, the doctor who tended leaders, dies
3 Aldo Clementi, 85, Italian composer. May Cutler, 87, Canadian author and publisher, founder of Tundra Books, first female Mayor of Westmount, Quebec (1987–1991). Paquito Diaz, 73, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke. James L. Elliot, 67, American astronomer, discovered rings of Uranus. Lasse Eriksson, 61, Swedish comedian. Goga Kapoor, 70, Indian actor. Irena Kwiatkowska, 98, Polish actress. Al Morgan, 91, American novelist and television producer (The Today Show), after long illness. Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, 81, Indian astrophysicist, cardiac complications. Theron Strinden, 91, American politician. James Travers, 62, Canadian journalist, political correspondent (Toronto Star), editor in chief (Ottawa Citizen, 1991–1996), post-surgery complications.
4 Bertil Almgren, 92, Swedish archaeologist. Charles F. Ashley, 74, American member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1982–1983). Paul Baxley, 87, American actor and stuntman (The Dukes of Hazzard, Star Trek, Kolchak: The Night Stalker). Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 86, Nepali Prime Minister (1990–1991, 1999–2000), multiple organ failure. Mary Bowermaster, 93, American masters athletics champion. Frank Chirkinian, 84, American producer (CBS Sports), lung cancer. Annie Fargé, 76, French actress and manager, cancer. Vivienne Harris, 89, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish Telegraph. Charles Jarrott, 83, British film director (Anne of the Thousand Days, Mary, Queen of Scots, Condorman), prostate cancer. Chester Kahapea, 65, American soil scientist, known as the "face of Hawaiian statehood", complications of Lou Gehrig's disease. Ed Manning, 68, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets) and coach (San Antonio Spurs), heart condition. Johnny Preston, 71, American pop singer ("Running Bear"), heart failure. Mikhail Simonov, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness. Arjun Singh, 80, Indian politician, Minister of Human Resource Development (2004–2009), heart attack. Alenush Terian, 90, Iranian astronomer and physicist. María Ugarte, 97, Spanish-Dominican author, historian and journalist. Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
5 Eivor Alm, 86, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier. Jimmy Carnes, 76, American track and field athlete, coach and administrator, cancer. Mario Coppola, 74, Italian nuclear physicist. Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries). Oswald Georg Hirmer, 81, German-born South African Roman Catholic missionary, Bishop of Umtata (1997–2008). Manolis Rasoulis, 65, Greek singer-songwriter, author and journalist. Viktor Voroshilov, 84, Soviet footballer.
6 Jean Bartel, 87, American actress, Miss America 1943. Marie-Andrée Bertrand, 85, Canadian criminologist, feminist and anti-prohibitionist. Patricia Brennan, 66, Australian feminist and clinician, advocate of women Anglican priests, cancer. Rostislav Čtvrtlík, 47, Czech stage, television and voice actor, brain tumor. Mike DeStefano, 44, American comedian (Last Comic Standing), heart attack. Jaime Felipa, 66, Netherlands Antilles judoka. Oddmund Jensen, 82, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier. John Morton, 86, New Zealand biologist and theologian. Ján Popluhár, 75, Slovak footballer (1962 FIFA World Cup). Louie Ramsay, 81, British actress (The Ruth Rendell Mysteries). Reg Stewart, 85, English footballer (Colchester United), natural causes. Edward Ullendorff, 91, British historian. Frank Ziegler, 87, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Sasao Gouland, 77, governor of Chuuk State, Micronesia
7 Cándido Bidó, 74, Dominican painter, cardio-respiratory failure. Vladimir Brazhnikov, 69, Russian football coach, myocardial infarction. Frank Dezelan, 80, American baseball umpire (1958–1970). Adrián Escudero, 83, Spanish footballer. Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr., 100, American lawyer and politician, pancreatic cancer. Rudy Salud, 72, Filipino sports executive, PBA Commissioner (1988–1992), complications from surgery.
8 Iraj Afshar, 85, Iranian bibliographer and historian.In memory of Iraj Afshar (1925 - 2011), a renowned scholar of Iranian studies. Víctor Manuel Blanco, 92, American astronomer, director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. Masoud Boroumand, 83, Iranian football player. Richard Campbell, 55, British musician. Herb Kawainui Kāne, 82, American artist, Hawaiian cultural advocate, participant in the Hokulea voyage. Moses Katjiuongua, 68, Namibian politician. Jim Keane, 87, American football player (Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers). Omar Farouk, 72, Somali scholar and Quran interpreter. Steven Kroll, 69, American children's book author, surgical complications. St. Clair Lee, 66, American musician (The Hues Corporation), natural causes. Bronko Nagurski Jr., 73, American player of Canadian football (Hamilton Tiger-Cats). John Olmsted, 73, American naturalist and conservationist, liver cancer. Mike Starr, 44, American bassist (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun), drug overdose.
9 Muftah Anaqrat, Libyan general, shot. Sona Aslanova, 86, Azerbaijani soprano. Edward Bertels, 78, Belgian footballer Jacques Brichant, 80, Belgian tennis player. David S. Broder, 81, American journalist (The Washington Post), complications from diabetes.David Broder, 81, dies; set 'gold standard' for political journalism Edward A. Burdick, 89, American civil servant. Doris Burn, 87, American children's book author and illustrator. Seán Cronin, 91, Irish journalist and republican, Irish Republican Army chief of staff (1957–1958, 1959–1960), after long illness. Armando Goyena, 88, Filipino actor. Valgerður Hafstað, 80, Icelandic painter. Andrew Hao, 95, Chinese Roman Catholic underground Bishop of Xiwanzi (since 1984). Bob Marcucci, 81, American talent agent, respiratory complications. Bob McNamara, 94, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Des Meagher, 67, Australian footballer (Hawthorn). Lindy Pearson, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions). Inge Sørensen, 86, Danish swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (1936). Toshiko Takaezu, 88, American ceramic artist.
10 Armand Bigot, 76, French Olympic equestrian. Bill Blackbeard, 84, American comic strip writer and editor. Bob Callahan, 87, American football player (Buffalo Bills). Nick Harbaruk, 67, Polish-born Canadian ice hockey player, bone cancer. Don Boven, 86, American basketball player and coach (Western Michigan University), heart disease. Baliram Kashyap, 74, Indian politician, MP for Bastar (since 1998), after long illness. Gabriel Laderman, 81, American painter, cancer, Danny Paton, 75, Scottish footballer. Emmett J. Rice, 91, American economist and banking official, heart failure. Eddie Snyder, 92, American composer ("Strangers in the Night", "Spanish Eyes"). David Viñas, 83, Argentine dramatist, critic and novelist, pneumonic infection.
11 David Brown, 69, British cricketer, brain tumour. Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha, 80, Brazilian paleontologist and herpetologist. Val ffrench Blake, 98, British army officer and author. Alfred Genovese, 79, American oboist, complications from cardiac arrest. Jack Hardy, 63, American singer-songwriter. Nancy Kominsky, 95, American art teacher and broadcaster. Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and film composer (Meet Me in St. Louis), natural causes. Nick Mohammed, 85, Canadian Olympic wrestler.Nick Mohammed Héctor Francisco Medina Polanco, 37, Honduran television journalist, shot. Frank Neuhauser, 97, American patent attorney and spelling bee champion, winner of the 1925 National Spelling Bee by spelling the word "Gladiolus". Valter Nyström, 95, Swedish Olympic track and field athlete. Danny Stiles, 87, American radio host. Donny George Youkhanna, 60, Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist and author, heart attack. Notable Japanese killed during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: Miki Endo, 25, voice warning and alarm agent. Takashi Shimokawara, 104, masters athlete.
12 Ali Hassan al-Jaber, 56, Qatari photojournalist (Al Jazeera), shot. Donald Brenner, 64, Canadian judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (2000–2009). Bruce Campbell, 87, Canadian politician. Olive Dickason, 91, Canadian historian and author. Juan García-Santacruz Ortiz, 77, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guadix (1992–2009). Indrajitsinhji, 73, Indian cricketer, cancer. Shifra Lerer, 95, Argentinian-born American Yiddish theatre actress, stroke. Joe Morello, 82, American drummer (The Dave Brubeck Quartet). John Nettleship, 71, British teacher, inspiration for character of Severus Snape, cancer. Mitchell Page, 59, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), and coach (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals). Nilla Pizzi, 91, Italian singer. Tawfik Toubi, 88, Israeli Arab politician, last surviving member of the first Knesset.
13 Barbara Ball, 86, Bermudian physician, politician and social activist. Roy Flatt, 63, Scottish Anglican priest. Sir Michael Gray, 78, British army general. Marko Horvatin, 91, Croatian Olympic rower. Virginia Klinekole, 86, American politician, first female President of the Mescalero Apache. Brian Lanker, 63, American photojournalist, pancreatic cancer. Rick Martin, 59, Canadian ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings), heart attack. Ritchie Pickett, 56, New Zealand country singer. David Rumelhart, 68, American psychologist, created computer simulations of neural processing, Pick's disease. Nicholas Smisko, 75, American clergyman, Head of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (since 1984), cancer. Jean Smith, 82, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). Owsley Stanley, 76, American-born Australian underground LSD chemist and sound engineer (Grateful Dead), traffic accident.