Deaths in March 2005

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The following is a list of notable people who died in March 2005.

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• Willard "Will" Miller, 64, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Vermont; revolutionary socialist activist and member Green Mountain Veterans for Peace [1]
• Frank Perdue, 84, poultry magnate
• Terri Schiavo, 41, U.S. persistent vegetative state patient, died amidst much controversy after removal of gastric feeding tube
• Hideaki Sekiguchi, 38, known as Billy, Guitar Wolf bassist, heart attack [2]

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• Robert Creeley, 78, poet, died of complications from respiratory disease.
• Alan Dundes, 70, world-renowned folklorist, who was central in establishing folklore as a discipline, apparent heart attack while teaching.
• Milton Green, 91, former record holder in hurdles, boycotted the 1936 Summer Olympics as a protest against Adolf Hitler.
• Mitch Hedberg, 37, comedian, heart attack.
• Fred Korematsu, 86, Japanese-American civil rights leader, respiratory illness
• Derrick Plourde, 33, former drummer of two California punk bands (Lagwagon and the Ataris), suicide.
• O. V. Vijayan, 74, Indian author, cartoonist and matchbox
• Ted Kord, 28, CEO of KORD Industries, gunshot wound to the head

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• Johnnie Cochran, 67, lawyer, defended O.J. Simpson, brain cancer
• Howell Heflin, 83, former U.S. Senator from Alabama
• John McTernan, 94, US civil-rights lawyer

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• Tom Bevill, 84, former US Congressman from Alabama
• Dave Freeman (writer). 82, scriptwriter (Benny Hill, Carry On films, etc.)
• Pál Losonczi, 85, former chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary (head of state)
• Dame Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist

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• Bob Casey, 79, PA announcer for the Minnesota Twins
• Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer
• Antonio Tellez, 84, Anarchist Historian and journalist.
• Rigo Tovar, 58, popular Mexican singer and composer
• Ahmed Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer

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• Lord James Callaghan, 92, former British Prime Minister
• Paul Hester, 46, Australian musician, former drummer of Crowded House and Split Enz, suicide
• Marius Russo, 90, former baseball pitcher, member of 1941 and 1943 World Series Yankees teams
• Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, American scientist and endocrinologist

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• Greg Garrison, 81, TV producer and director (The Dean Martin Show, Your Show of Shows)
• Paul Henning, 93, TV producer, creator of the Beverly Hillbillies
• Davis McCaughey, 90, former Governor of Victoria, Australia

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• David P. Bushnell, 91, founder of Bushnell Optical binoculars; non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
• Arthur E. Cook, 109, World War I veteran

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• Naftali Halberstam, 74, Grand Rabbi of the Bobover Hasidim
• David Kossoff, 85, British actor, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff

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• Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, 58, Spanish antipope self-proclaimed Gregory XVII in 1978
• Gemini Ganesan, 84, Indian actor
• Edward Moskal, 80, president of the Polish American Congress
• Simon Nyandwi, 55, interior minister of Burundi and former rebel official; heart attack
• Rod Price, 57, guitarist and founding member of Foghat
• Kenzo Tange, 91, Japanese architect

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• Ge Zhenlin, 88, Chinese war hero [3]
• Barney Martin, 82, American film and television actor, cancer.
• Stanley Sadie, 74, musicologist and critic, Lou Gehrig's disease
• Bobby Short, 80, cabaret singer and pianist, leukemia
• Jeff Weise, 16, school shooter, suicide

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• Walter Hopps, 72, American art dealer and gallery owner
• Walter Reuter, 99, German photographer
• Andrew Toti, 89, American inventor of the Mae West inflatable life vest

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• Hellema, 84, Dutch writer and Resistance fighter
• John De Lorean, 80, U.S. car designer and manufacturer.

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• Gary Bertini, 77, Israeli musician and conductor
• Sol Linowitz, 91, U.S. diplomat and entrepreneur
• Jessica Lunsford, 9, kidnapping and rape victim (body found)
• Maria Rosseels, 88, Belgian writer and journalist
• Wayne Southworth, lead singer of the punk band Doom
• Theodor Uppman, 85, American operatic baritone, created title role in Britten's Billy Budd

Diane Hedalen. Raised in St.Louis Park, MN Was Hanusely Murdered In Dakota County, MN by Nephew Derrek lawrence Hopkins,son of Pam & Larry Hopkins JR. Of Isanti, MN.

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• Royce Frith, 81, Canadian senator
• John J.Gallagher, 79, cartoonist; brother of Heathcliff creator George Gallagher [4]
• Prentice Gautt, 67, former NFL player
• Lalo Guerrero, 88, father of Chicano music
• Justin Hinds, 62, Jamaican vocalist and songwriter
• Sverre Holm, 73, Norwegian actor
• Ramez J. Isa, 87, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
• George F. Kennan, 101, U.S. diplomat and historian
• David Little, 46, former Pittsburgh Steelers player
• Andre Norton, 93, science fiction and fantasy author
• Czesław Słania, 83, Polish-Swedish stamp engraver

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• Todd Bell, 47, former Chicago Bears player
• Bob Bellear, 60, first Indigenous Australian judge
• Ralph Erskine, 91, architect (Byker Wall).
• Anthony George, 84, actor
• Allan Hendrickse, 77, South African politician
• William Lehman, 91, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress
• Dick Radatz, 67, former baseball player

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• Lady Callaghan of Cardiff, 89, wife of Jim Callaghan
• Betsy Cronkite, 89, journalist and wife of Walter Cronkite
• Don Durant, 82, singer/actor, star of Johnny Ringo series
• Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian
• Bill McGarry, 77, football manager
• Armand Seghers, 78, retired footballer, voted AA Gent's best player of the 20th century
• Judith Scott ousider artist
• Sy Wexler, 88, maker of educational films

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• Stan Campbell, 74, former NFL player
• Janet Reger, 69, British designer of women's lingerie
• Dick Smyser, 81, American newspaper editor, asked question that led Richard Nixon to declare: "I'm not a crook."
• Simon Webb, 55, British chess grandmaster living in Sweden, stabbed to death by his son
• Akira Yoshizawa, 94, Japanese Origami master Bob Bellear

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• Lyn Collins, 56, soul singer, aka "Female Preacher"
• Winnie Dangerfield, 96, English child actor in silent films for the Clarendon studios [5] [6]
• Jason Evers, 83, star of B-movie Brain That Wouldn't Die
• Ahmed Hassan Diria, 67, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1990 to 1993.
• Danny Gardella, 85, a retired New York Giants outfielder who challenged baseball's reserve clause in a 1947 federal lawsuit
• Frank House, 75, retired Major League Baseball catcher and Alabama legislator
• Stavros Koujioumtzis, 73, Greek Music Composer

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• Charles R. Baxter, 75, American doctor, pneumonia, surgeon who tried to save JFK
• Bill Cameron, 62, Canadian journalist, cancer
• Lisa Fittko, 95, German World War II dissident who led Jews over the Pyrenees to freedom

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• Stanley Grenz, 55, Christian Theologian
• Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post

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• Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian
• Danny Joe Brown, 53, lead singer for Molly Hatchet
• Katherine Gray Lathrop, 89, pioneering researcher into nuclear medicine
• Zilka Salaberry, 82, Brazilian actress

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• Glenn Davis, 80, Heisman Trophy winner, retired American football player, prostate cancer
• Josef Fuchs, 93, German Roman Catholic theologian
• Sheila Gish, 62, English stage actress, cancer
• Kathie Kay, 86, Scottish big band singer
• Chris LeDoux, 56, American country music and rodeo star; complications from liver cancer.
• William Murray, 78, American mystery novelist
• István Nyers, 80, retired Hungarian footballer

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• Archbishop Roman Arrieta, 80, retired archbishop of Costa Rica
• Ross Benson, 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent
• Anna Haycraft, 72, British writer (also known as Alice Thomas Ellis), lung cancer
• César Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles and discovered the pion
• Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.
• Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress
• Fred Rice, 86, American football coach. [7]
• Jeremy Russell, 60, cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer

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• Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during a riot in a Dominican Republic jail
• John Box, 85, film production designer, worked closely with David Lean
• Debra Hill, 54, screenwriter and film producer, co-writer of Halloween
• Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet
• Jozef Stank, 64, former Slovakian defense minister

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• Hans Bethe, 98, Nobel Laureate in Physics, discover of stellar fusion
• Gladys Marín, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer
• Chuck Thompson, 83, Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications of massive stroke
• Tommy Vance, 63, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke
• Teresa Wright, 86, actress, heart attack

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• Harold Brooks-Baker, 71, U.S.-born publishing director of Burke's Peerage Limited
• Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor
• Benedetto Di Santo, 105, Italian World War I veteran
• Rt. Rev. Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer

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• Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US Army in Iraq.
• Ernie De Vos, 63, racing driver, killed in a cycling accident.
• Una Hale, 82, operatic soprano
• Yuri Kravchenko, 53, former interior minister of Ukraine
• Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer

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• George Atkinson, 69, inventor of the video rental
• Max M. Fisher, 96, millionaire philanthropist listed in Forbes 400
• Viva McComb, 110, supercentenarian, oldest living Texan
• Rinus Michels, 77, former Dutch national football team coach
• Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress, cancer

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• Joe Carter, 78, a member of the Carter Family folk singers
• Martin Denny, 93, founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader
• Hermann Dörnemann, 111, World War I veteran declared Germany's oldest living person, heart failure
• Tillie K. Fowler, 62, U.S. politician, former four-term Florida congresswoman
• Rick Mahler, 51, retired American baseball pitcher, heart attack

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• Cissy van Bennekom, 93, Dutch film actress
• Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based
• Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricket player, cancer
• Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann
• Barry Stigler, 57, Los Angeles voice actor