Deaths in March 2011
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2011.
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Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2010.-31:...
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Deaths in January 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2011.-31:...
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Deaths in February 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2011.-28:*Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author and radio personality....
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Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2011.-30:...
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Deaths in May 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2011.-31:*Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player....
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Deaths in June 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2011.-30:...
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Deaths in July 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2011.-31:...
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Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2011.-31:...
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Deaths in September 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2011.-30:...
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Deaths in October 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2011.-31:...
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2011.
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- Tony BarrellTony Barrell (broadcaster)Anthony "Tony" Barrell was an English writer and broadcaster who lived in Sydney, Australia. He produced several award-winning radio and television documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC World Service, usually with a focus on Asia and particularly Japan.-Early...
, 70, British-born Australian broadcaster and writer. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/01/3179472.htm - Gil ClancyGil ClancyGilbert Thomas "Gil" Clancy was a Hall of Fame boxing trainer and one of the most noted boxing commentators of the 1980s and 1990s. He worked with such famous boxers as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman, as well as Gerry Cooney in his fight with Foreman. In the 1990s, he worked with...
, 88, American Hall of Fame boxing trainer. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ifTkWWvtsBaHbfcBmbie7HpmRB7g?docId=1cbfdf25ddb04b70a273d2d534735bcc - Alan FitzgeraldAlan Fitzgerald (satirist)Alan John Fitzgerald was an Australian author, journalist and satirist.Fitzgerald graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Arts degree...
, 75, Australian journalist, cancer. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/31/3179173.htm - Oddvar HansenOddvar HansenOddvar Ingolf Hansen was a Norwegian footballer and coach, who represented Brann in his hometown Bergen.As a player, Hansen was a right-back who played 238 first-team games for Brann between 1940 and 1956. He was a losing cup finalist in 1950...
, 89, Norwegian footballer and coach (SK Brann). http://www.brann.no/nyheter/oddvar-hansen-er-gatt-bort/ (Norwegian) - Claudia HeillClaudia HeillClaudia Heill was an Austrian judoka best known for winning the silver medal in the half-middleweight division at the 2004 Summer Olympics.-Biography:...
, 29, Austrian judoJudois a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...
ka, silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics2004 Summer OlympicsThe 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
, suspected suicide. http://insidethegames.biz/sports/summer/judo/12528-olympic-silver-medallist-commits-suicide - Tom KelleherTom Kelleher (American football official)Thomas "Tom" Kelleher was an American football official in the National Football League for 28 years, from 1960 until the conclusion of the 1987 NFL season. Working as a back judge, Kelleher was assigned five Super Bowls; Super Bowl IV, Super Bowl VII, Super Bowl XI, Super Bowl XV and Super Bowl...
, 85, American football official (1960–1987), complications from pneumonia. http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/01/2146735/ex-official-part-of-super-bowl.html# - Vassili Kononov, 88, Russian military veteran and war criminal. http://www.ir.lv/2011/4/1/miris-par-kara-noziegumiem-notiesatais-kononovs (Latvian)
- Ishbel MacAskillIshbel MacAskillIshbel MacAskill was a singer of traditional Scottish Gaelic music. She was often referred to as the "Gaelic diva". She was also a heritage activist....
, 70, Scottish Gaelic singer and heritage campaigner. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-Ishbel-MacAskill-Gaelic-singer.6745958.jp - Mel McDanielMel McDanielMel McDaniel was an American country music artist. His chart making years were mainly the 1980s and his hits from that era include "Louisiana Saturday Night", "Big Ole Brew", "Stand Up", the Number One "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On", "I Call It Love", "Stand on It", and a remake of Chuck Berry's...
, 68, American country music singer ("Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans OnBaby's Got Her Blue Jeans On"Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On" is the title of a song written by Bob McDill and recorded by American country music artist Mel McDaniel. It was released in October 1984 as the lead-off single to his 1984 album Let It Roll. It was a number-one hit on the U.S...
"), cancer. http://blog.gactv.com/blog/2011/03/31/grand-ole-opry-member-mel-mcdaniel-dies/ - Bosko RadonjichBosko RadonjichBosko "The Yugo" Radonjich was a Serbian nationalist and later leader of the Westies, a predominantly Irish-American gang based in New York's Hell's Kitchen.-Early life:...
, 67, Serbian nationalist, after short illness. http://www.usaserbs.net/news-usa/238--bosko-radonjic-died-in-belgrade.html - Edward StobartEdward StobartEdward Stobart was a British haulage company owner who first became involved with his father's company aged 15 in 1969, and subsequently expanded it into one of the UK's most well known multimodal logistics companies, Stobart Group...
, 56, British haulageHaulageHaulage may refer to:* The business of being a haulier or hauler , also called haulage contractor, common carrier, contract carrier, or private carrier, in other words of transporting goods by road or rail for other companies or one's own company.* The horizontal transport of ore, coal, supplies,...
contractor and entrepreneur. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-12923203 - Henry TaubHenry TaubHenry Taub was an American-born businessman and philanthropist of Hungarian-Jewish descent.Taub was educated at San Jacinto High School, the University of Houston and New York University. He graduated from NYU in 1947 with a degree in accounting.In 1949, he founded Automatic Payrolls Inc...
, 83, American entrepreneur, founder of Automatic Data ProcessingAutomatic Data ProcessingAutomatic Data Processing, Inc. Automatic Data Processing, Inc. with about $10 billion in revenues and approximately 545,000 clients, is a provider of business outsourcing solutions. ADP offers a range of human resource, payroll, tax and benefits administration solutions...
, leukemia. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/business/05taub.html?ref=obituaries
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- Harley AllenHarley AllenHarley Lee Allen was an American bluegrass and country singer and songwriter.-Early life:He was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of the bluegrass performer Red Allen.-Film career:...
, 55, American bluegrass and country singer, cancer. http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1660958/hit-country-songwriter-harley-allen-dead-at-55.jhtml - Jacques AmirJacques AmirYa'akov Jacques Amir was a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1974 and 1988.-Biography:...
, 78, Israeli politician. http://www.avelim.co.il/archives/13621 (Hebrew) - Jorge CamachoJorge Camacho (painter)Jorge R. Camacho Lazo was a Cuban painter.Born in Havana in 1934, in 1952, he left law studies to dedicate himself to painting. In 1959, he met his colleague José Luis Cuevas and they both investigated the sources of Mayan culture.Camacho arrived in Paris in 1959 where he met his friend Augustín...
, 77, Cuban painter. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/Necrologicas/Jorge/Camacho/ultimo/gran/pintor/surrealista/elpepinec/20110401elpepinec_3/Tes (Spanish) - Ângelo de SousaÂngelo de SousaÂngelo César Cardoso de Sousa was a Portuguese painter, sculptor, draftsman and professor, better known for continuously experimenting new techniques in his works...
, 73, Portuguese artist. http://publico.pt/Cultura/morreu-o-pintor-angelo-de-sousa_1487404 (Portuguese) - Jack FulkJack FulkJack Z. Fulk was an American businessman who co-founded the Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits fast food restaurant chain in 1977 in Charlotte, North Carolina....
, 78, American businessman, co-founder of Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits. http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/04/03/2958513/co-founder-of-bojangles-dies-at.html - Tamar GolanTamar GolanTamar Golan was an Israeli journalist and diplomat, who was known especially for her work to promote relations between Israel and African nations, and for her effort to increase knowledge and awareness to African culture in Israel....
, 76, Israeli journalist and diplomat. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/tamar-golan-israel-s-queen-of-africa-dies-at-76-1.353188 - Lyudmila GurchenkoLyudmila GurchenkoLyudmila Markovna Gurchenko was a popular Soviet and Russian actress, singer and entertainer.-Biography:Lyudmila was born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR in 1935 to Mark Gavrilovich Gurchenko and Yelena Aleksandrovna Simonova-Gurchenko . Before the World War II they lived in a single room apartment on...
, 75, Russian film actress and singer, People's Artist of the USSRPeople's Artist of the USSRPeople's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
. http://kommersant.ru/Doc/1611539 (Russian) - Johnny HarraJohnny HarraJohnny Lee Harra was an American Elvis impersonator. He began impersonating Elvis at the age of 11 and was cast as the 42 year old Elvis in the 1981 docudrama This Is Elvis. Harrra, one of five actors to portray Elvis in the movie, was featured in two scenes from the re-enactment of August 16,...
, 64, American actor, Elvis impersonatorElvis impersonatorAn Elvis impersonator is someone who impersonates or copies famed American musician Elvis Presley. Professional Elvis impersonators can work all over the world as entertainers, and such tribute acts are in great demand due to the unique iconic status of Elvis...
. http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/04/08/2986008/elvis-impersonator-johnny-harra.html - Denis McLeanDenis McLeanDenis McLean, CMG was a New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant.He began with the Department of External Affairs in 1957 after completing his Rhodes Scholarship at University College, Oxford. He was posted to Washington DC, Paris, Kuala Lumpur and London, where he was deputy high...
, 80, New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant. http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/4829530/Our-former-man-in-Washington-Denis-McLean-dies - Wally PetersonWally PetersonWally Peterson was an American actor, singer and stage manager. A frequent performer and producer on Broadway, Peterson was also known for his West End performances in the London productions of Oklahoma! and South Pacific.Peterson was married to the Australian performer Joy Nichols from 1949 until...
, 93, American actor, singer and stage manager. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118034871?refCatId=15 - Nutan PrasadNutan PrasadNutan Prasad was a Tollywood actor. He started his film acting career in the early 1970s.-Career:Nutan Prasad started his acting career with the play "Naa Votu" in Guntur....
, 65, Indian actor, after long illness. http://www.sify.com/movies/nutan-prasad-passes-away-news-news-ld4mAHgghje.html - Liaquat SoldierLiaquat SoldierLiaquat Ali better known by his stage name Liaquat Soldier was a Pakistani stage and television comedy actor, writer, and director. Born in 1952, Soldier started his acting career in 1973. He featured in over 250 plays and co-starred with many famous theatre personalities, including the likes of...
, 56, Pakistani comedian, heart attack. http://www.samaa.tv/newsdetail.aspx?ID=30140
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- José AlencarJosé AlencarJosé Alencar Gomes da Silva , also known as José Alencar, the Strong, was a Brazilian businessman and politician, and the Vice President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010. In business since a young age, Alencar was a self-made multimillionaire, as the chief executive of Coteminas, after working as...
, 79, Brazilian entrepreneur and politician, Vice-PresidentVice-President of BrazilThe Vice President of Brazil is the second-highest ranking government official in the executive branch of the Government of Brazil after the President...
(2003–2010), multiple organ failure. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/03/29/general-lt-brazil-obit-alencar_8380409.html - Bob BennyBob BennyBob Benny was a Belgian singer and musical theatre performer, who participated in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1959 and 1961.-Early career:...
, 84, Belgian singer. http://www.oikotimes.com/eurovision/?p=4287 - Iakovos KambanelisIakovos KambanelisIakovos Kambanelis or Kampanellis was a Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist. Born 2 December 1922 in Hora in the island of Naxos, Kambanelis appears as one of the most prominent Greek artists of the 20th century...
, 88, Greek author, playwright, poet, lyricist and journalist, kidney failure. http://news.in.gr/culture/article/?aid=1231101704 (Greek) - Neil ReimerNeil ReimerNeil Reimer , was an activist, trade unionist and former political figure in Canada.After leaving the University of Saskatchewan in 1942 at the age of 19, Reimer went to work at the Consumers Co-operative Refinery, in Regina, Saskatchewan. He immediately joined a Congress of Industrial...
, 89, Canadian politician, Leader of the Alberta New Democratic PartyAlberta New Democratic PartyThe Alberta New Democratic Party or Alberta NDP is a social-democratic political party in Alberta, Canada, which was originally founded as the Alberta section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation...
(1962–1968). http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/03/30/edmonton-neil-reimer.html - Jim SeymourJim SeymourJames Patrick "Jim" Seymour was an American football wide receiver who played three seasons for the Chicago Bears in the National Football League. He was originally selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the first round of the 1969 NFL Draft, 10th pick overall...
, 64, American football player (Chicago BearsChicago BearsThe Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
). http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6274693&campaign=rss&source=NCFHeadlines - Ângelo de SousaÂngelo de SousaÂngelo César Cardoso de Sousa was a Portuguese painter, sculptor, draftsman and professor, better known for continuously experimenting new techniques in his works...
, 73, Portuguese painter, sculptor, draftsman and professor, cancer. http://www.publico.pt/Cultura/morreu-o-pintor-angelo-de-sousa_1487404 (Portuguese) - Alan TangAlan TangAlan Tang Kwong-Wing was a Hong Kong film actor, producer and director.-Biography:Tang was born in Shunde, Guangdong, China, He is the youngest of four children, having two older brothers and one older sister...
, 64, Hong Kong actor, film producer and director, stroke. http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=21&art_id=109671&sid=31843967&con_type=1&d_str=20110330&fc=2 - Robert TearRobert TearRobert Tear, CBE was a Welsh tenor and conductor.Tear was born in Barry, Glamorgan, Wales, UK, the son of Thomas and Edith Tear. He attended Barry Boys' Grammar School and during this period sang in the chorus of the first Welsh National Opera's production of 'Cavalleria Rusticana' in April 1946...
, 72, British opera singer, cancer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12892057 - Endre WolfEndre WolfEndre Wolf was a Hungarian classical violinist.-References:...
, 97, Hungarian violinist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/12/endre-wolf-obituary
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- Wenche FossWenche FossEva Wenche Steenfeldt Stang , better known as Wenche Foss, was a leading Norwegian actress of stage, screen and television.-Biography:...
, 93, Norwegian actress, natural causes. http://www.vg.no/rampelys/artikkel.php?artid=10013215 (Norwegian) - Lee HoibyLee HoibyLee Henry Hoiby was an American composer and classical pianist. Best known as a composer of operas and songs, he was a disciple of composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Like Menotti, his works championed lyricism during a time when such compositions were deemed old fashioned and irrelevant to modern society...
, 85, American composer, metastatic melanoma. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/arts/music/lee-hoiby-opera-composer-known-for-lyricism-dies-at-85.html - Sonia OsorioSonia OsorioSonia Osorio de Saint-Malo was a Colombian ballet dancer and choreographer. During her long career she became an important folklorist and promoter of the arts and culture having worked closely with and for the Carnival of Barranquilla and having founded in 1960 the Colombia Ballet, a national...
, 83, Colombian ballet dancer and choreographer, respiratory failure. http://www.eltiempo.com/gente/ARTICULO-WEB-NEW_NOTA_INTERIOR-9085925.html (Spanish) - Esben StormEsben StormEsben Storm was a Danish-born Australian actor, screenwriter, television producer and director, well known for his work with Australian children's program Round the Twist. He worked to adapt John Marsden's Tomorrow series but lost the rights to the film...
, 60, Danish-born Australian actor, director and producer, heart attack. http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2011/03/vale-esben-storm.html - Guy M. TownsendGuy M. TownsendGuy Mannering Townsend III was a retired United States Air Force Brigadier General, test pilot, and combat veteran...
, 90, American Air Force brigadier general and test pilot. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=guy-m-townsend&pid=150125514
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- Sir Clement ArrindellClement ArrindellSir Clement Athelston Arrindell GCMG GCVO QC was Governor of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 1981-83 and Governor-General upon the island's independence in 1983...
, 79, KittitianSaint Kitts and NevisThe Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis , located in the Leeward Islands, is a federal two-island nation in the West Indies. It is the smallest sovereign state in the Americas, in both area and population....
politician, Governor-General (1983–1995). http://www.cuopm.com/newsitem_new.asp?articlenumber=1984&post200803=true - David E. DavisDavid E. DavisDavid Evan Davis, Jr. was an automotive journalist and magazine publisher widely known as a contributing writer, editor and publisher at Car and Driver magazine and as the founder of Automobile magazine....
, 80, American automotive writer, editor and publisher (Car and DriverCar and DriverCar and Driver is an American automotive enthusiast magazine. Its total circulation is 1.31 million. It is owned by Hearst Magazines, who purchased prior owner Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. in 2011...
, AutomobileAutomobile MagazineAutomobile magazine is an automobile magazine in the United States and is owned by Source Interlink. It was founded by a group of former employees of Car and Driver magazine, led by that publications’s former editor, David E. Davis, and originally published by News Corporation...
), complications from bladder surgery. http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/27/david-e-davis-jr-dean-of-automotive-journalism-dead-at-80/ - Lawrence ElionLawrence ElionLawrence Elion was a Canadian / British actor who was best known for his role as the hapless first victim Stanley in David Winning's debut feature film Storm....
, 93, British actor. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?n=lawrence-elion&pid=149769569 - Farley GrangerFarley GrangerFarley Earle Granger was an American actor. In a career spanning several decades, he was perhaps best known for his two collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, Rope in 1948 and Strangers on a Train in 1951.-Early life:...
, 85, American actor (Strangers on a TrainStrangers on a Train (film)Strangers on a Train is an American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith. It was shot in the autumn of 1950 and released by Warner Bros. on June 30, 1951. The film stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman,...
, RopeRope (film)Rope is a 1948 American thriller film based on the play Rope by Patrick Hamilton and adapted by Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Sidney Bernstein and Hitchcock as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions...
), natural causes. http://www.movieline.com/2011/03/film-legend-farley-granger-dead-at-85.php - H. R. F. KeatingH. R. F. KeatingHenry Reymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID.-Life:...
, 84, British crime fiction writer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/28/hrf-keating-obituary - Ellen McCormackEllen McCormackEllen Cullen McCormack was a candidate for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination in 1976. McCormack was one of the first female candidates for President, alongside women like Shirley Chisholm....
, 84, American pro-lifePro-lifeOpposition to the legalization of abortion is centered around the pro-life, or anti-abortion, movement, a social and political movement opposing elective abortion on moral grounds and supporting its legal prohibition or restriction...
activist and politician, two-time Presidential candidate (1976United States presidential election, 1976The United States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It pitted incumbent President Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate, against the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic...
, 1980United States presidential election, 1980The United States presidential election of 1980 featured a contest between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan, as well as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who ran as an independent...
). http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/03/28/2011-03-28_right_to_life_presidential_candidate_mccormack_84.html - DJ MegatronDJ MegatronCorey McGriff , better known as DJ Megatron, was a DJ, record producer, rapper, radio and television personality.-Career:...
, 32, American disc jockey, shot. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42296155/ns/today-entertainment/ - Günther MundGünther MundGünther Mund Borgs was a competitive diver who represented Chile at two Olympic Games. At the 1948 Summer Olympics he was 26th in the 3 metre springboard. At the 1956 Summer Olympics he was 7th in the 3 metre springboard and 19th in the 10 metre platform.Both Mund's parents were also Olympic divers...
, 76, German-born Chilean Olympic diver, plane crash. http://www.elcomercial.com.ar/index.php?option=com_telam&view=deauno&idnota=39843&Itemid=116 (Spanish) - Dorothea PuenteDorothea PuenteDorothea Helen Puente was a convicted American serial killer. In the 1980s, Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and cashed the Social Security checks of her elderly and mentally disabled boarders...
, 82, American serial killer, natural causes. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-0328-dorothea-puente-20110328,0,1915490.story - George TookerGeorge TookerGeorge Clair Tooker, Jr. was a figurative painter whose works are associated with the Magic realism and Social realism movements...
, 90, American painter, kidney failure. http://www.boston.com/ae/specials/culturedesk/2011/03/george_tooker_1920-2011.html
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- Roger AbbottRoger AbbottRoger Abbott was a Canadian comedian. A founding member of the comedy troupe Royal Canadian Air Farce, he was one of the troupe's stars and writers throughout its 29-year career on radio and television.-Early life:...
, 64, Canadian actor and comedian (Royal Canadian Air FarceRoyal Canadian Air FarceAir Farce Live, also credited as Air Farce, previously Royal Canadian Air Farce, and Air Farce—Final Flight! for the final season, was a Canadian comedy series starring the comedy troupe The Royal Canadian Air Farce that previously starred in an eponymous radio show on CBC radio from 1973 to 1997...
), chronic lymphocytic leukemia. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/03/27/roger-abbott.html - Joe BageantJoe BageantJoe Bageant was an American author and columnist known for his book Deer Hunting With Jesus.Bageant was originally raised in Winchester, Virginia. He left Winchester and worked as a journalist and editor...
, 64, American writer, social critic and political commentator, cancer. http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2011/03/joe-bageant-1946-2011.html - Paul BaranPaul BaranPaul Baran was a Polish American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks.He invented packet switching techniques, and went on to start several companies and develop other technologies that are an essential part of the Internet and other modern digital...
, 84, American Internet pioneer, complications from lung cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/technology/28baran.html?src=busln - Alexander Barykin, 59, Russian musician, heart attack. http://www.newsru.com/cinema/26mar2011/barykin.html (Russian)
- Carl BunchCarl BunchCarl Bunch was an American musician.Carl Bunch was born in Big Spring, Texas and began playing drums as a teenager, in order to recover from extensive surgery on his right leg. By age seventeen, he was recording with Ronnie Smith and the Poor Boys, in Clovis, New Mexico...
, 71, American drummer (Buddy Holly and the Crickets). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20110330,0,2908922.story - Greg CentauroGreg CentauroGreg Centauro was a French pornographic actor and director from Marseille. Also known by aliases Greg C., Mark De Lorenzi and Ralph Gotti, he had performed in well over 300 films and directed in over 200....
, 34, French pornographic actor, cardiac arrest. http://www.miwim.fr/blog/greg-centauro-est-mort-24999 (French) - Harry CooverHarry CooverHarry Wesley Coover, Jr. was the inventor of Eastman 910, commonly known as Super Glue.-Life and career:Coover was born in Newark, Delaware, and received his Bachelor of Science from Hobart College before earning his Master of Science and Ph. D. from Cornell University...
, 94, American inventor (Super GlueCyanoacrylateCyanoacrylate is the generic name for cyanoacrylate based fast-acting adhesives such as methyl 2-cyanoacrylate, ethyl-2-cyanoacrylate , and n-butyl cyanoacrylate...
). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/business/28coover.html - Lula CôrtesLula CôrtesLuis Augusto Martins Côrtes, better known as Lula Côrtes was a Brazilian musician, best remembered for his contributions to the Zé Ramalho 1975 album Paêbirú....
, 61, Brazilian musician (PaêbirúPaêbirúPaêbirú is an album by Brazilian artists Lula Côrtes and Zé Ramalho. The album was originally released in 1975 and reissued in 2005 on Shadoks Music....
), throat cancer. http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/mat/2011/03/26/morre-musico-lula-cortes-desbravador-da-moderna-musica-nordestina-autor-do-mitico-album-paebiru-924097269.asp (Portuguese) - Cibele DorsaCibele DorsaCibele Dorsa was a Brazilian actress, model and writer. She also appeared on the cover of the April 2008 issue of Playboy Brazil.-Personal life:...
, 36, Brazilian actress and writer, suicide by jumping. http://diversao.terra.com.br/gente/noticias/0,,OI5029720-EI13419,00-Atriz+Cibele+Dorsa+morre+ao+cair+do+setimo+andar+de+predio.html (Portuguese) - Geraldine FerraroGeraldine FerraroGeraldine Anne Ferraro was an American attorney, a Democratic Party politician, and a member of the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female Vice Presidential candidate representing a major American political party....
, 75, American politician, U.S. RepresentativeUnited States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
from New YorkUnited States Congressional Delegations from New YorkThese are tables of congressional delegations from New York to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.Over the years, New York has demographically changed so that it is hard to consider each district to be a continuation of the same numbered district before...
(1979–1985) and 1984United States presidential election, 1984The United States presidential election of 1984 was a contest between the incumbent President Ronald Reagan, the Republican candidate, and former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate. Reagan was helped by a strong economic recovery from the deep recession of 1981–1982...
Vice PresidentialVice President of the United StatesThe Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...
nominee, multiple myelomaMultiple myelomaMultiple myeloma , also known as plasma cell myeloma or Kahler's disease , is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell normally responsible for the production of antibodies...
. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/26/geraldine-ferraro-dead-dies_n_840995.html - František HavránekFrantišek HavránekFrantišek Havránek was a Czech football manager and former player.As a player, Havránek played for several lower-division Czechoslovak clubs, but never gained any success with them. He was far more successful as a football coach. After finishing his active career, Havránek started to work as a...
, 87, Czech football player and manager. http://nv.fotbal.cz/scripts/detail.php?id=85568&tmplid=1484 (Czech) - Yrjö HietanenYrjö HietanenYrjö Jalmari Hietanen was a Finnish sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals at Helsinki in 1952 in the K-2 1000 m and K-2 10000 m events.-References:...
, 83, Finnish Olympic gold medal-winning (19521952 Summer OlympicsThe 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...
) canoeist, stroke. http://www.mtv3.fi/urheilu/muutlajit/uutiset.shtml/2011/04/1307135/helsingin-olympialaisten-suomalaissankari-kuollut?sekalaista (Finnish) - Diana Wynne JonesDiana Wynne JonesDiana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction...
, 76, British fantasy author (Howl's Moving CastleHowl's Moving CastleHowl's Moving Castle is a young adult fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in 1986. It won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and was named an ALA Notable Book for both children and young adults. In 2004 it was adapted as an Academy Award-nominated animated film by Hayao...
), lung cancer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/27/diana-wynne-jones-obituary - Enn KloorenEnn KloorenEnn Klooren was an Estonian actor.Klooren was born in Tallinn and grew up in Türi. After graduating the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 1968 Klooren worked in the Estonian Drama Theatre...
, 70, Estonian actor. http://www.uudised.err.ee/index.php?06226314 (Estonian) - Jean-Philippe LecatJean-Philippe LecatJean-Philippe Lecat was a French politician. He graduated from the École nationale d'administration in 1963....
, 75, French politician. http://www.lepoint.fr/politique/mort-de-jean-philippe-lecat-ministre-de-la-culture-de-giscard-01-04-2011-1314208_20.php (French) - Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo, 90, Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Conakry (1962–1979).http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btchi.html
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- Floyd BedburyFloyd BedburyFloyd Bedbury was an American speed skater, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As a youth, he traveled to Hamar, Norway, to develop as an athlete...
, 73, American Olympic speed skater, cancer. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/startribune/obituary.aspx?n=floyd-curtis-bedbury&pid=149735307&fhid=3206 - Thomas EisnerThomas EisnerThomas Eisner was a German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology."He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology...
, 81, American biologist, Parkinson's disease. http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/tom-eisner-renowned-biologist/ - Luis María Estrada PaetauLuis María Estrada PaetauLuis María Estrada Paetau was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of Izabal, Guatemala....
, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of IzabalRoman Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of IzabalThe Roman Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of Izabal is in Guatemala. It was elevated on 12 March 1988.-Ordinaries:*Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes...
(1977–2004). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bestrada.html - Edwin GaustadEdwin GaustadEdwin Scott Gaustad was a Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside.He achieved fame with his study of the genealogy of religion in the United States, Historical atlas of religion in America...
, 87, American religious historian. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/us/04gaustad.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries - Maria IsakovaMaria IsakovaMaria Grigoryevna Isakova , nicknamed Cinderella of Vyatka, was a World Champion speed skater. She was born in Vyatka , Russian SFSR, and competed for the Soviet Union....
, 92, Soviet speed skater. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/25032011/2/speedskating-soviet-union-first-world-champion-dies-92.html - Pavel LeonovPavel LeonovLeonov Pavel Petrovich was a leading naive artist of the Soviet period.- Biography :...
, 90, Russian naïve artNaïve artNaïve art is a classification of art that is often characterized by a childlike simplicity in its subject matter and technique. While many naïve artists appear, from their works, to have little or no formal art training, this is often not true...
ist. http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/11845/ - Almena LomaxAlmena LomaxHallie Almena Lomax was an African American journalist and civil rights activist. Born in Galveston, Texas, Lomax moved as a young child with her family to Chicago and later California, where she studied journalism at Los Angeles City College...
, 95, American journalist and civil rights activist, founder of the Los Angeles TribuneLos Angeles TribuneLos Angeles Tribune was a newspaper published in Los Angeles, California between 1943 and 1960.The newspaper had a reputation for feisty and fearless reporting, with articles about the movie industry and Los Angeles police racism.I try to collect some more info :...
, after short illness. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-almena-lomax-20110401,0,6286944.story - M. Blane MichaelM. Blane MichaelMartin Blane Michael was a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton on August 6, 1993, to a seat vacated by James Marshall Sprouse...
, 68, American federal judge. http://wvgazette.com/News/201103251071 - Hugo MidónHugo MidónHugo Midón was an Argentine children's literature writer, theater director and actor. He graduated from the Theatre Institute of the University of Buenos Aires. Among the plays he staged were Cantando sobre la mesa, El imaginario, Narices and El gato con botas...
, 67, Argentine theatre director and actor, after long illness. http://www.telam.com.ar/vernota.php?tipo=N&idPub=216616&id=410488&dis=1&sec=1 (Spanish) - Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 71, Irish aristocrat. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/131230/dunraven
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- Julian GburJulian GburJulian Gbur was the bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stryi, Ukraine.Born in Poland, Gbur was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. He was named auxiliary bishop in 1994 and in 2000 was appointed bishop of the Stryi Eparchy.-Notes:...
, 68, Polish-born Ukrainian CatholicUkrainian Greek Catholic ChurchThe Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Ukrainska Hreko-Katolytska Tserkva), is the largest Eastern Rite Catholic sui juris particular church in full communion with the Holy See, and is directly subject to the Pope...
hierarch, Bishop of StryiUkrainian Catholic Eparchy of StryiThe Eparchy of Stryi is an eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, in the ecclesiastical province of Kyiv-Halych.The first Eparch was Bishop Julian Gbur, S.V.D., who was appointed to this position by the Blessed Pope John Paul II on 21 July 2000...
(since 2000). http://risu.org.ua/ua/index/all_news/catholics/ugcc/41408/ (Ukrainian) - Hanni GehringHanni GehringJohanna "Hanni" Gehring was a German cross country skier during the 1950s. She finished 13th in the 10 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.-External links:* *...
, 84, German Olympic cross-country skier. http://www.all-in.de/nachrichten/sport/allgaeusport/Allgaeu-Sport-Fruehere-Langlaeuferin-Hanne-Gehring-in-Unterjoch-verstorben;art2745,951350 (German) - William M. Greathouse, 91, American NazareneChurch of the NazareneThe Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged from the 19th century Holiness movement in North America with its members colloquially referred to as Nazarenes. It is the largest Wesleyan-holiness denomination in the world. At the end of 2010, the Church of the...
minister, heart failure. http://www.ncnnews.org/nphweb/html/ncn/article.jsp?sid=10000012&id=10010132 - Dudley LawsDudley LawsDudley Laws was a Canadian civil rights activist and executive director of the Black Action Defence Committee.Laws was born in Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica to parents Ezekiel and Agatha Laws, and was a brother to three other siblings.A welder and mechanic by trade, he worked at Standard...
, 76, Jamaican-born Canadian civil rights activist, kidney disease. http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110324/dudley-laws-kidney-disease-110324/20110324/?hub=TorontoNewHome - Anselmo MüllerAnselmo MüllerAnselmo Müller was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Januária, Brazil.Born in Brazil, Müller was ordained a priest in 1961. In 1984, Müller was appointed bishop of the Januária Diocese and retired in 2008.-Notes:...
, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of JanuáriaRoman Catholic Diocese of JanuáriaThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Januária is a diocese located in the city of Januária in the Ecclesiastical province of Montes Claros in Brazil.-History:...
(1984–2008). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmullera.html - Gloria Valencia de CastañoGloria Valencia de CastañoGloria Valencia de Castaño was a Colombian journalist and television presenter, best known as the "first lady" of Colombian television. She was born in Ibagué and died in Bogotá.- External links :...
, 83, Colombian television host, respiratory failure. http://www.elespectador.com/entretenimiento/arteygente/gente/articulo-258965-gloria-valencia-de-castano-eterna-dama-de-televis (Spanish) - Lanford WilsonLanford WilsonLanford Wilson was an American playwright who helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
, 73, American playwright. http://broadwayworld.com/article/Playwright_Lanford_Wilson_Dies_at_73_20110324
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- José ArgüellesJose ArguellesJoseph Anthony Arguelles , better known as José Argüelles, was a world-renowned author, artist, visionary and educator. He was the founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time. He held a Ph.D...
, 72, American New AgeNew AgeThe New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...
author. http://www.greatmystery.org/nl/josearguelles.html - Jean BartikJean BartikJean Bartik was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.She was born Betty Jean Jennings in Gentry County, Missouri, in 1924 and attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, majoring in mathematics. In 1945, she was hired by the University of Pennsylvania to work for Army...
, 86, American computer programmer (ENIACENIACENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems....
). http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/03/23/computers.bartik.obit/index.html?hpt=C2 - Živorad KovačevićŽivorad KovačevićŽivorad Kovačević was a Yugoslav diplomat, politician, NGO activist, academic and writer.-Early life and education:...
, 80, Serbian diplomat. http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/125/Dru%C5%A1tvo/863516/Preminuo+%C5%BDivorad+Kova%C4%8Devi%C4%87+.html (Serbian) - Sir Frank LamplFrank LamplSir Frank William Lampl was Life President of Bovis Lend Lease, the leading global construction management company that he created from the British building firm Bovis during a 15-year period as Chairman and CEO.-Career:...
, 84, British businessman. http://www.building.co.uk/news/contractors/construction-industry-giant-sir-frank-lampl-dies-aged-84/5015515.article - Richard LeacockRichard LeacockRichard Leacock was a British-born documentary film director and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema and Cinéma vérité.-Early life and career:...
, 89, British documentary film maker (Louisiana StoryLouisiana StoryLouisiana Story is a 78-minute black-and-white American film. Although the events and characters depicted are fictional, it is often misidentified as a documentary film. In fact, it is a docufiction. The script was written by Frances H. Flaherty and Robert J. Flaherty, and also directed by Robert...
, PrimaryPrimary (film)Primary is a 1960 Direct Cinema documentary film about the 1960 Wisconsin Primary election between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey for the United States Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States....
, Monterey PopMonterey PopMonterey Pop is a 1968 concert film by D. A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967. Among Pennebaker's several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles...
, JanisJanis (film)Janis is a 1974 documentary film about the rock singer Janis Joplin. The film was directed by Howard Alk with a lot of assistance from Albert Grossman, Janis' manager. It was available on videocassette in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, but DVD versions have been released only in France,...
). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/arts/richard-leacock-innovative-documentary-maker-dies-at-89.html - Teodor NegoiţăTeodor NegoitaTeodor Gheorghe Negoiţă was a polar region explorer. In 1995, he became the first Romanian explorer to reach the North Pole...
, 63, Romanian polar explorer and scientist. http://www.realitatea.net/a-murit-primul-roman-care-a-ajuns-la-polul-nord_817816.html (Romanian) - Trevor StortonTrevor StortonTrevor Storton was an English footballer who played as a central defender.-The early years:He began his career at Tranmere Rovers, playing alongside his older brother Stan, he played over 100 games for the club between 1967 and 1972, when he joined Liverpool...
, 61, English footballer. http://www.halifaxafc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10437~2322724,00.html - Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth TaylorDame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age...
, 79, British-American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is an adaptation of the play of the same title by Edward Albee...
, CleopatraCleopatra (1963 film)Cleopatra is a 1963 British-American-Swiss epic drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Mankiewicz from a book by Carlo Maria Franzero. The film starred Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy...
, BUtterfield 8BUtterfield 8BUtterfield 8 is a 1960 Metrocolor drama film directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. Taylor, then 28 years old, won an Academy Award for her performance...
), heart failure. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12833100 - Fred TitmusFred TitmusFrederick John Titmus MBE was an English cricketer, whose first-class career spanned five decades. Although he was best known for his off spin , he was an accomplished lower-order batsman who deserved to be called an all-rounder, even opening the batting for England on six occasions...
, 78, English test cricketer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/9433563.stm - Leonard WeinglassLeonard WeinglassLeonard Irving Weinglass was a U.S. criminal defense lawyer and constitutional law advocate. Weinglass graduated from Yale Law School in 1958, then served as a Captain, Judge Advocate, United States Air Force from 1959 to 1961. He was admitted to the bar in the states of New Jersey, New York,...
, 78, American civil rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer. http://www.ktiv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14314491
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- Artur AgostinhoArtur AgostinhoArtur Agostinho was a Portuguese journalist, recipient of the Order of Saint James of the Sword .- References :...
, 90, Portuguese sports journalist and actor. http://www.publico.pt/Media/morreu-artur-agostinho-e-uma-parte-da-historia-da-radio_1486141 (Portuguese) - Nadia BarentinNadia BarentinNadia Barentin was a French actress, known for theater and film roles, including Les Blessures assassines in 2000. She was nominated for the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress for Monsieur Klebs et Rosalie in 1993.Barentin died on March 22, 2011, at the age of 74.-External links:...
, 74, French actress (Les Blessures assassines). http://www.lesgensducinema.com/affiche_acteur.php?mots=Nadia+barentin&nom_acteur=BARENTIN%20Nadia&ident=86052&debut=0&record=0&from=ok (French) - Victor BouchardVictor BouchardVictor Bouchard, OC, CQ was a Canadian pianist and composer.Bouchard received his first musical trainin from 1941 to 1946 at the Collège de Lévis with Father Alphonse Tardif. The he studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec under Tardif , Hélène Landry and Françoise Aubut...
, 84, Canadian pianist, duettist with pianist Renée MorissetRenée MorissetRenée Morisset, OC, CQ was a Canadian pianist. She and her husband, Victor Bouchard, were one of the foremost piano duo in Canadian classical music.-Honours:...
, respiratory disease. http://www.analekta.com/blog/en/2011/03/25/victor-bouchard-passes-away/ - Patrick DoeplahPatrick DoeplahPatrick Doeplah was a Liberian footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a striker.-Club career:...
, 20, Liberian footballer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/9432387.stm - Viljar LoorViljar LoorViljar Loor was the most successful Estonian volleyball player. In the 1980 Summer Olympics he was part of the gold winning Soviet Union volleyball team...
, 57, Estonian Olympic gold medal-winning (19801980 Summer OlympicsThe 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...
) volleyball player. http://uudised.err.ee/index.php?06226108 (Estonian) - Jean-Guy MorissetteJean-Guy MorissetteJean-Guy Morissette was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played in one National Hockey League game for the Montreal Canadiens during the 1963–64 NHL season.He had a wife, Claude, as well as two children....
, 73, Canadian ice hockey player. http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/sports/article/1391681 - Zoogz RiftZoogz RiftZoogz Rift was a musician, painter and professional wrestling personality.-Musical career:...
, 57, American musician, painter and professional wrestler. http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/zoogz_rift_r.i.p/ - Normie RoyNormie RoyNorman Brooks Roy III [″Jumbo″] was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Listed at 6' 0", 200 lb., he batted and threw right handed....
, 82, American baseball player (Boston BravesAtlanta BravesThe Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Braves have played in Turner Field since 1997....
). http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/b6e45389669a769e?pli=1 - Reuven SheferReuven SheferReuven Shefer was an Israeli theater and film actor.Shefer was born in Tel Aviv in 1925. In 1957 Shefer joined the band "The Theatre Club Quartet" . Shefer played through two decades in the Giora Godik Theater and the Haifa Theatre and in 1973 he joined the Cameri Theater...
, 85, Israeli actor. http://www.nrg.co.il/online/47/ART2/224/560.html (Hebrew) - José Soriano, 93, Peruvian football player. http://mundod.lavoz.com.ar/futbol/murio-el-peruano-soriano-arquero-de-%93la-maquina%94 (Spanish)
- Helen StenborgHelen StenborgHelen Joan Stenborg was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She occasionally acted with her husband, actor Barnard Hughes , to whom she was married from 1950 until his death in 2006; they had two children.-Career:Stenborg appeared on stage in revivals of A Doll's House, A Month...
, 86, American actress. http://news-briefs.ew.com/2011/03/23/helen-stenborg-dies/ - George Alfred WalkerGeorge Alfred WalkerGeorge Alfred Walker was a British businessman. He was the founder of Brent WalkerWalker was born in Stepney, London the son of a brewery worker. He attended the Jubilee School in Bedford, Essex, leaving at 14 to work in an aircraft factory. He later worked as a salesman in Billingsgate Fish...
, 81, British businessman, founder of Brent WalkerBrent WalkerBrent Walker was a UK company which owns various businesses including property, gambling and pubs. It was founded by George Walker, the brother of the boxer, Billy Walker.-George Walker:...
. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/finance-obituaries/8407450/George-Walker.html
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- Michael AbramsonMichael Abramsonwas a [Chicago]] artist whose photographs of patrons at nightclubs on the south side of Chicago during the mid-seventies were published in a photography book / 2 LP record set entitled , by Chicago music recording company ....
, 62, American artist and photographer, kidney cancer. http://timeoutchicago.com/music-nightlife/audio-file-blog/7566981/rip-light-on-the-south-side-photographer-michael-abramson - Barry AckerleyBarry AckerleyBarry Allen Ackerley was an American businessman. He was the former Chairman and CEO of the Ackerley Group media company. He was the owner of the Seattle SuperSonics basketball franchise from 1983 to 2001. Ackerley died on March 21, 2011, two days after suffering a stroke.-References:...
, 76, American businessman (Ackerley GroupAckerley GroupThe Ackerley Group was an American media company that owned several television stations that was taken over by Clear Channel Communications in 2001. Its chairman was Seattle-based businessman Barry Ackerley.-Stations list :...
), former owner of the Seattle SuperSonicsSeattle SuperSonicsThe Seattle SuperSonics were an American professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington that played in the Pacific and Northwest Divisions of the National Basketball Association from 1967 until 2008. Following the 2007–08 season, the team relocated to Oklahoma City, and now plays as...
, stroke. http://aol.sportingnews.com/nba/story/2011-03-22/former-sonics-owner-barry-ackerley-dies - Nikolai AndrianovNikolai AndrianovNikolai Yefimovich Andrianov was a Soviet/Russian gymnast. He held the record for men for the most Olympic medals at 15 until Michael Phelps surpassed him at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics...
, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics1976 Summer OlympicsThe 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...
, after long illness. http://www.gazeta.ru/news/sport/2011/03/21/n_1757065.shtml (Russian) - Jesús Aranguren, 66, Spanish footballer and manager. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/deportes/Txutxi/Aranguren/defensa/total/elpepudep/20110322elpepudep_1/Tes (Spanish)
- Hans BoskampHans BoskampHans Boskamp was a Dutch footballer and actor.-Club career:Rotterdam-born Boskamp played his club football in Amsterdam for Ajax, BVC Amsterdam and DWS.-International career:...
, 78, Dutch actor and footballer, strokeStrokeA stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...
. http://www.telegraaf.nl/telesport/voetbal/ajax/9334331/__Oud-Ajacied_Boskamp_overleden__.html?sn=voetbal (Dutch) - John L. Cashin, Jr.John L. Cashin, Jr.John Logan Cashin, Jr. was an American dentist, civil rights campaigner, and politician. He was the founder and leader of the National Democratic Party of Alabama....
, 82, American civil rights campaigner, kidney failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/us/politics/27cashin.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries - Ray EdenRay EdenRay Eden was a British professional road cyclist. He is best known as the winner of the RTTC National 100-mile Championship in 1995, which he achieved at only his second attempt. He placed second in the event in 1994...
, 42, British cyclist, head injuries. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8408448/Former-cycling-champion-dies-after-alleged-assault.html - Mayhew FosterMayhew FosterMayhew Y. "Bo" Foster was an American soldier who flew captured Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring from Austria to Germany for interrogation by the 7th Army. For his actions in World War II, Foster was awarded both the Silver Star and the Légion d'Honneur.At the end of the war, Göring surrendered...
, 99, American brigadier general, flew captured Hermann Goering to interrogation. http://www.legacy.com/ns/obituary.aspx?n=mayhew-foster&pid=149560609 - Loleatta HollowayLoleatta HollowayLoleatta Holloway was an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation", both of which have been sampled extensively.-Biography:...
, 64, American soul and disco musician, heart failure. http://spinningsoul.com/2011/03/riploleatta/ - Hansl KrönauerHansl KrönauerHansl Krönauer was a German folk-singer and composer.His career started around 1955 when he performed typical Bavarian music. In 1970 he had his first and biggest success Golden schimmern meine Berge, a Number-1-Hit for three months in German folk-charts Lustige Musikanten...
, 78, German folk singer and composer. http://unterhaltung.t-online.de/volksmusikstar-hansl-kroenauer-gestorben/id_45185244/index (German) - Ladislav NovákLadislav NovákLadislav Novák was a Czech football defender and later a football manager. He played 75 matches for Czechoslovakia, 71 of them as a team captain....
, 79, Czech footballer. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12010_6828103,00.html - Pinetop PerkinsPinetop PerkinsJoseph William Perkins , known by the stage name Pinetop Perkins, was an American blues musician, specializing in piano music...
, 97, American blues musician, cardiac arrest. http://spinningsoul.com/2011/03/pinetoprip/ - Kjeld TolstrupKjeld TolstrupKjeld Tolstrup was a Danish radio DJ.-Career:Kjeld Tolstrup became one of the biggest names in Danish DJ circles in the 1980s performing at Ministry of Sound in London, Sensation event in Copenhagen, and a big number of clubs. Kjeld Tolstrup also remixed for many artists including C.V...
, 45, Danish radio disc jockey (DR P3DR P3DR P3 is the third of the four national radio networks operated by the Danish public broadcaster DR...
), after long illness. http://www.dr.dk/p3/programmer/smag-paa-p3/2011/03/22/kjeld-tolstrup-er-d%C3%B8d (Danish) - Joe WizanJoe WizanJoe Wizan was an American film producer and studio executive. He was head of 20th Century Fox's motion picture division from 1983 to 1984. His credits as a producer or executive producer include Junior Bonner, The Last American Hero, Audrey Rose and Along Came a Spider...
, 76, Mexican born-American film producer and studio executive (Jeremiah Johnson, Dunston Checks InDunston Checks InDunston Checks In is a 1996 film starring Jason Alexander, Eric Lloyd, Faye Dunaway, Rupert Everett, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, and introducing Sam the Orangutan as Dunston...
), after long illness. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/25/local/la-me-joe-wizan-20110325
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- Don CanneyDon CanneyDonald J. "Don" Canney was an American politician and civil engineer who served as the Mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for twenty-two years from 1969 to 1992. Canney is Cedar Rapids' longest serving mayor to date....
, 80, American politician, Mayor of Cedar Rapids, IowaCedar Rapids, IowaCedar Rapids is the second largest city in Iowa and is the county seat of Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, north of Iowa City and east of Des Moines, the state's capital and largest city...
(1969–1992), heart failure. http://www.easterniowagovernment.com/2011/03/21/don-canney-former-cedar-rapids-mayor-in-four-decades-dies-at-age-80/ - Bob Christo, 72, Australian-born Indian actor, heart attack. http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/bollywood-baddie-bob-christo-dead/20110321.htm
- Néstor de VicenteNéstor de VicenteNéstor Adrián de Vicente was an Argentine professional footballer who played as a midfielder.-Career:De Vicente played in Argentina for River Plate, Instituto, Talleres, Platense, Estudiantes and Racing Club, and in Switzerland for Grasshopper.-References:...
, 46, Argentine footballer, car crash. http://playfutbol.infobae.com/notas/570715-Fallecio-Nestor-De-Vicente (Spanish) - Oliver HumperdinkOliver HumperdinkJohn Sutton , better known by his ring name Oliver Humperdink, was a professional wrestling manager who worked for Jim Crockett Promotions, Florida Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation.-Career:...
, 62, American professional wrestling manager, pneumonia and cancer. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2011/03/09/17558006.html - Agostinho JanuszewiczAgostinho JanuszewiczAgostinho Stefan Januszewicz, OFM was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Luziânia, Brazil....
, 80, Polish-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of LuziâniaRoman Catholic Diocese of LuziâniaThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Luziânia is a diocese located in the city of Luziânia in the Ecclesiastical province of Brasília in Brazil.-History:...
(1989–2004). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bjanas.html - Johnny PearsonJohnny PearsonJohn Valmore Pearson known as Johnny Pearson, was a British composer, orchestra leader and pianist...
, 85, British composer, arranger and pianist. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/johnny-pearson-composer-pianist-and-arranger-who-worked-on-lsquotop-of-the-popsrsquo-during-three-decades-2249980.html - Sara RuddickSara RuddickSara Ruddick was a feminist philosopher and the author of Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace.. Ruddick taught philosophy at the New School of Social Research. She is best known for her analysis of the practices of thinking that emerge from the care of children...
, 76, American philosopher and author, pulmonary fibrosis. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2011/03/28/sara_ruddick_at_76_wrote_philosophy_of_motherhood/ - Dorothy YoungDorothy YoungDorothy Lena Young was an American entertainer who worked as a stage assistant to magician Harry Houdini from 1925 to 1926. She left the act two months prior to his death on October 31, 1926...
, 103, American actress, assistant to Harry HoudiniHarry HoudiniHarry Houdini was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts...
. http://www.drew.edu/news/2011/03/21/drew-arts-patron-passes-at-103
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- Patrick AhernPatrick AhernPatrick Vincent Ahern was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1970 to 1994.-Biography:...
, 92, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New YorkRoman Catholic Archdiocese of New YorkThe Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York covers New York, Bronx, and Richmond counties in New York City , as well as Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties in New York state. There are 480 parishes...
(1970–1994). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bahern.html - Kym BonythonKym BonythonHugh Reskymer "Kym" Bonython, AC, DFC, AFC was a prominent and active member of Adelaide society in Australia, with a very wide range of interests, activities and achievements in the fields of business, the arts, entertainment and public service.His occupations included radio broadcaster, pilot,...
, 90, Australian art, jazz and speedway entrepreneur. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/jets-farewell-our-favourite-son-kym-bonython/story-e6frea83-1226024659061 - Guillermo FordGuillermo FordGuillermo "Billy" Ford Boyd was a Vice President of Panama. He was one of the running mates of presidential candidate Guillermo Endara during the 1989 Panamanian election campaign...
, 74, Panamanian politician, Vice President of PanamaVice President of PanamaVice President of Panama is the second highest political position in Panama. Position of only one Vice President will be filled since 2009. Previously, there were positions of First Vice President and Second Vice President, also known as first designate to presidency and second designate...
(1989–1994). http://www.newsroompanama.com/panama/2517-bloodied-ex-vice-president-dies-in-panama.html - Raymond GarlickRaymond GarlickRaymond Garlick was an Anglo-Welsh poet and editor. Garlick was born in London, but grew up in Llandudno, and studied English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor. Whilst there, he converted to Roman Catholicism, although no longer a practising Catholic...
, 84, British poet and editor. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/raymond-garlick-english-writer-who-made-wales-and-its-history-his-principal-subject-2298753.html - Barrington GaynorBarrington GaynorBarrington Gaynor was a Jamaican national football player.-Early years:Barrington lived in Trench Town, Kingston Jamaica until he was nine years old. While living in Trench Town, he attended Trench Town Primary School up until grade four. After moving to 9 Miles Bull Bay, St. Andrew in May 1975,...
, 45, Jamaican footballer. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/JFF--PLCA-saddened-by-Gaynor-s-passing_8549088 - KnutKnut (polar bear)Knut was a polar bear who was born in captivity at the Berlin Zoological Garden. Rejected by his mother at birth, he was raised by zookeepers. He was the first polar bear cub to survive past infancy at the Berlin Zoo in more than 30 years. At one time the subject of international controversy,...
, 4, German-born polar bear, drowned. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/03/19/2011-03-19_knut_beloved_polar_bear_in_germany_found_dead_berlin_zoo_official.html - Tom McAvoyTom McAvoyThomas John McAvoy was a professional baseball pitcher. He appeared in one game in Major League Baseball for the Washington Senators in 1959. Listed at 6' 3", 200 lb., he batted and threw left handed...
, 74, American baseball player (Washington SenatorsMinnesota TwinsThe Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...
). http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/baseball_deaths.php?order=DiedOn&y=2011 - Zew Wawa MorejnoZew Wawa MorejnoZew Wawa Morejno was a Polish and American rabbi.Morejno was born into a hasidic family in Warsaw. He studied at rabbinical schools in Baranovichi, Mir, Belarus and in Kamieniec Litewski. In 1939 he became a rabbi in Zuprany...
, 95, Polish-born American rabbi. http://the614thcs.com/37.1592.0.0.1.0.phtml (Polish) - Mohammed NabbousMohammed NabbousMohamed "Mo" Nabbous was a Libyan information technologist, businessperson and civilian journalist who created and founded Libya Al Hurra TV....
, 28, Libyan journalist, founder of Alhurra TVLibya Alhurra TVLibya Alhurra TV , meaning Free Libya TV, is an Internet television channel founded by Mohamed Nabbous on 19 February 2011 at the start of the Libyan civil war...
, shot. http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/libya-live-blog-march-19 - Navin NischolNavin NischolNavin Nischol was an Indian actor. He made his debut with the Hindi film Sawan Bhadon in 1970.-Early life:...
, 65, Indian actor, heart attack. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article1553510.ece - Jim RoslofJim RoslofJames Paul "Jim" Roslof was an American artist and graphic designer particularly well known for cover art and interior illustrations of fantasy role-playing games published by TSR, Inc. during the "golden age" of Dungeons & Dragons...
, 64, American artist (Dungeons & DragonsDungeons & DragonsDungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
), cancer. http://www.hdlfuneralhomes.com/content/obituaries/view.jsp?OID=69857 - Robert Ross, 92, American physician and medical school founder (Ross UniversityRoss UniversityRoss University, founded in 1978, is a for-profit college offering degrees in Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. The School of Medicine is located in Dominica, in the West Indies, with clinical education centers in Miami, Florida, Saginaw, Michigan and Freeport, Bahamas. The...
), cancer. http://www.freep.com/article/20110321/NEWS08/103210324/Robert-Ross-Founded-medical-vet-schools?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp - Bob RushBob Rush (baseball)Robert Ransom Rush was a professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball from 1948-60.Rush played for the Milwaukee Braves, Chicago Cubs, and the Chicago White Sox....
, 85, American baseball player (Chicago CubsChicago CubsThe Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago . The Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the National...
, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago White SoxChicago White SoxThe Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...
). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/southbendtribune/obituary.aspx?n=robert-rush&pid=149567338&fhid=6533 - Leonard WebbLeonard WebbLeonard James Webb was a British World War II veteran who was present at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.-Early life:...
, 89, British politician, Mayor of ThameThameThame is a town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about southwest of the Buckinghamshire town of Aylesbury. It derives its toponym from the River Thame which flows past the north side of the town....
(1975–1979). http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/community/obituaries/obits/8928266.Len_Webb__Former_mayor_of_Thame/
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- Princess Antoinette, Baroness of MassyPrincess Antoinette, Baroness of MassyPrincess Antoinette of Monaco, Countess of Polignac, Baroness of Massy was a non-dynastic member of the princely family of Monaco and the elder sister of Prince Rainier III and aunt of Albert II, Prince of Monaco...
, 90, MonegasqueMonacoMonaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...
princess. http://www.news.com.au/world/princess-antoinette-dies-at-90/story-fn6sb9br-1226024390558 - Ze'ev BoimZe'ev BoimZe'ev Boim was an Israeli politician. He was the mayor of Kiryat Gat before becoming a Knesset member for Likud and later Kadima. Boim was Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Minister of Housing and Construction and Minister of Immigrant Absorption....
, 67, Israeli KnessetKnessetThe Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
member, cancer. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4044245,00.html - Enzo CannavaleEnzo CannavaleEnzo Cannavale was an Italian film actor.He appeared in more than 100 films since 1949, including Cinema Paradiso, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990...
, 82, Italian actor (Cinema Paradiso). http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/spettacolo/articoli/1003529/cinema-morto-enzo-cannavale.shtml (Italian) - Warren ChristopherWarren ChristopherWarren Minor Christopher was an American lawyer, diplomat and politician. During Bill Clinton's first term as President, Christopher served as the 63rd Secretary of State. He also served as Deputy Attorney General in the Lyndon Johnson administration, and as Deputy Secretary of State in the Jimmy...
, 85, American diplomat, Secretary of StateUnited States Secretary of StateThe United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence...
(1993–1997), complications from kidney and bladder cancer. http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/19/warren.christopher.obit/index.html?hpt=T2 - Jet HarrisJet HarrisJet Harris, MBE was an English musician. He was the bass guitarist of The Shadows until April 1962, and had subsequent success as a soloist and as a duo with the drummer Tony Meehan....
, 71, British musician (The ShadowsThe ShadowsThe Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...
), throat cancer. http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/8918784.Ex_Shadows_guitarist_Jet_Harris_dies/ - Drew HillDrew HillAndrew Hill was a former professional American football player who was selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the 12th round of the 1979 NFL Draft....
, 54, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers), stroke. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/fb/texansfront/7480635.html - Charlie MetroCharlie MetroCharlie Metro was an outfielder for the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Athletics, as well as a manager for the Chicago Cubs and the Kansas City Royals. He adopted the name "Metro" from his father, Metro Moreskonich, a Ukrainian immigrant...
, 91, American baseball player and manager (Detroit TigersDetroit TigersThe Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
, Philadelphia Athletics), mesotheliomaMesotheliomaMesothelioma, more precisely malignant mesothelioma, is a rare form of cancer that develops from the protective lining that covers many of the body's internal organs, the mesothelium...
. http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_17677759 - Peter WeigandPeter WeigandPeter Michael Weigand was an American sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. He was eliminated in the repechage round of K-2 1000 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.-References:**...
, 69, American Olympic sprint canoer. http://www.tributes.com/show/Peter-Weigand-91192069 - Kirk WipperKirk WipperKirk Albert Walter Wipper, C.M. was a Canadian academic and founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum, which is presently located in Peterborough, Ontario...
, 87, Canadian founder of the Canadian Canoe MuseumCanadian Canoe MuseumThe Canadian Canoe Museum is a museum dedicated to canoes located in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. The museum's mission is to preserve and share the culture and history of the canoe.- History :...
. http://www.mykawartha.com/news/article/969412--canoe-museum-founder-dies
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- Moisis Michail BourlasMoisis Michail BourlasMoisis Michail Bourlas was a Greek Jewish member of the World War II resistance.-Biography:He was born Moisis Bourlas on May 9, 1918 in Cairo. His parents were both Greek Jews, his father from the city of Volos and his mother from the island of Khios. Moisis was the fourth child of a large family...
, 92, Greek ResistanceGreek ResistanceThe Greek Resistance is the blanket term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis Occupation of Greece in the period 1941–1944, during World War II.-Origins:...
veteran. http://portal.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_kathbreak_1_18/03/2011_383388 (Greek) - Banny deBrumBanny deBrumBanny deBrum was the ambassador of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to the United States until his death in March 2011.He assumed his role as Ambassador in 1996 . Banny de Brum graduated from Regis University in 1981 with a B.A. in Sociology...
, 54, MarshalleseMarshall IslandsThe Republic of the Marshall Islands , , is a Micronesian nation of atolls and islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of the Equator. As of July 2011 the population was 67,182...
diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1996–2008, 2009–2011) and Canada (1999–2011). http://www.mvariety.com/2011032035197/palau-pacific-news/long-serving-marshall-islands-diplomat-dies-at-54.php - Michael GoughMichael GoughMichael Gough was an English character actor who appeared in over 150 films. He is perhaps best known to international audiences for his roles in the Hammer Horror films from 1958, and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four movies of the Burton/Schumacher Batman franchise,...
, 94, British actor (Sleepy HollowSleepy Hollow (film)Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American period horror film directed by Tim Burton. It is a film adaptation loosely inspired by the 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving and stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Marc Pickering, Michael Gambon, Jeffrey Jones,...
, BatmanBatman (1989 film)Batman is a 1989 superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Michael Keaton in the title role, as well as Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl and Jack Palance...
), after short illness. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/17/michael-gough-obituary - Ferlin HuskyFerlin HuskyFerlin Eugene Husky was an early American country music singer who was equally adept at the genres of traditional honky honk, ballads, spoken recitations, and rockabilly pop tunes...
, 85, American country music singer, heart failure. http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2011/03/17/country-music-hall-of-famer-ferlin-husky-dies-at-85/ - Don KennardDon KennardDon Kennard was a United States politician for the Democratic Party representing Fort Worth and Tarrant County in both the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate from 1953 to 1973...
, 81, American politician, Texas State SenatorTexas SenateThe Texas Senate is the upper house of the Texas Legislature. There are 31 members of the Senate, representing 31 single-member districts across the state with populations of approximately 672,000 per constituency. There are no term limits, and each term is four years long. The Senate meets at the...
(1963–1973). http://blogs.star-telegram.com/politex/2011/03/former-state-sen-don-kennard-dies-at-81.html - Murdoch MitchisonMurdoch MitchisonJohn Murdoch Mitchison FRS, FRSE was a British zoologist, the son of the Labour politician Dick Mitchison and his wife, the writer Naomi . The biologist J.B.S. Haldane was his uncle, and the physiologist John Scott Haldane was his maternal grandfather...
, 88, British zoologist. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-murdoch-mitchison-biologist-who-established-himself-as-the-foremost-authority-on-the-cell-cycle-in-yeast-2249979.html - J.B. SteaneJ.B. SteaneJohn Barry Steane was an English music critic, musicologist, literary scholar and teacher, with a particular interest in singing and the human voice...
, 83, British music critic. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/gramophone-contributor-and-vocal-expert-john-steane-has-died
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- Sándor ArnóthSándor ArnóthSándor Arnóth was a Hungarian politician and member of the National Assembly of Hungary between 1998 and 2008 and from 2010 until his death. He was also the mayor of his home town of Püspökladány, being re-elected in 2010...
, 51, Hungarian politician, car accident. http://www.hirado.hu/Hirek/2011/03/17/08/Arnoth_Sandor_az_M3_ason_tortent_baleset_egyik_halalos.aspx/ (Hungarian) - Sadiq BatchaSadiq BatchaSadiq Batcha was the Managing Director of Green House Promoters Private Limited.- Early life :Sadiq Batcha born in Tamil Nadu's Karur district, has three brothers...
, 47, Indian businessman and politician, suicide by hanging. http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/rajas-business-associate-sadiq-batcha-commits-suicide-92080 - Carel BoshoffCarel BoshoffCarel Willem Hendrik Boshoff was an Afrikaner religious figure and cultural activist. Boshoff was the second child of Willem Sterrenberg Boshoff and Anna Maria "Annie" Boshoff. Annie was Willem's second wife and together they had 7 children. With his first wife, Willem had six children...
, 83, South African religious and cultural activist, cancer. http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/orania-founder-dies-1.1042711 - Betty Lowman CareyBetty Lowman CareyBetty Lowman Carey became the first woman to singlehandedly row the Inside Passage of British Columbia in 1937. At the age of 22, having graduated from the University of Washington, she traveled in a traditional dugout canoe converted to include oars and named in an acronym of her brothers first...
, 96, American rower. http://www.linetime.org/pages/3992 - Tom DunbarTom DunbarThomas Jerome Dunbar was a professional baseball player who played as outfielder in Major League Baseball for three seasons with the Texas Rangers from 1983 until 1985. He was 6'2", 192 pounds, and he threw and batted left-handed...
, 51, American baseball player (Texas RangersTexas Rangers (baseball)The Texas Rangers are a professional baseball team in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, based in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League, and are the reigning A.L. Western Division and A.L. Champions. Since , the Rangers have...
). http://www.aikenstandard.com/2011Local/0317Dunbarforweb - Thomas NkuissiThomas NkuissiThomas Nkuissi was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nkongsamba, Cameroon, Africa....
, 82, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nkongsamba (1978–1992). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bnkuissi.html - Lloyd OliverLloyd OliverLloyd Oliver was an American veteran of the United States Marine Corps and a one of the original 29 members of the Navajo Code Talkers during World War II, and the brother of fellow Code Talker Willard Varnell Oliver....
, 88, American veteran, World War II code talkerCode talkerCode talkers was a term used to describe people who talk using a coded language. It is frequently used to describe 400 Native American Marines who served in the United States Marine Corps whose primary job was the transmission of secret tactical messages...
. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/19/member-original-2-code-talkers-dies/?test=latestnews - James PritchettJames PritchettJames Pritchett was an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Matt Powers on the long-running soap opera The Doctors. He was born in Lenoir, North Carolina in 1922...
, 88, American actor (The Doctors). http://michaelfairmansoaps.com/news/daytime-emmy-winner-james-pritchett-of-the-doctors-passes-away/2011/03/22/ - Lorenda StarfeltLorenda StarfeltLorenda Starfelt was an award-winning independent film producer, as well as a committed political activist and blogger who famously dug up president Barack Obama's in an August 1961 edition of The Honolulu Advertiser while researching her documentary on the 2008 presidential election...
, 56, American producer, cancer. http://lorendastarfelt.wordpress.com/ - James C. TyreeJames C. TyreeJames C. Tyree was a Chicago financier who was chairman and chief executive officer of Mesirow Financial since 1994. In 2009, he led a team of investors that took control of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper, which he owned until his death.- Early life and education :Tyree grew up in the Beverly...
, 53, American businessman, chairman and CEO of the Chicago Sun-TimesChicago Sun-TimesThe Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...
, cancer. http://www.suntimes.com/4356036-417/sun-times-media-mesirow-financial-chief-jim-tyree-dies-at-53.html - Murray WarmathMurray WarmathMurray Warmath was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi State University from 1952 to 1953 and at the University of Minnesota from 1954 to 1971, compiling a career college football record of 97–84–10...
, 98, American college football coach (Minnesota Golden GophersMinnesota Golden Gophers footballThe University of Minnesota Golden Gophers are one of the oldest programs in college football history. They compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the Big Ten Conference. The Golden Gophers have claimed six national championships and have an all time record of 646–481–44 as...
), natural causes. http://kstp.com/news/stories/S2021550.shtml?cat=1 - Richard Wirthlin, 80, American political strategist and religious leader, renal failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/us/politics/18wirthlin.html?_r=2&hpw
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- Amos BarAmos BarAmos Bar , also known as "Possah", was an Israeli author, teacher, and editor. Most of his books are for children and young adults.-Biography:...
, 79, Israeli author. http://www.dafdaf.co.il/Details.asp?MenuID=2&SubMenuID=143&PageID=2929&Ot=%E1 (Hebrew) - Keith FordyceKeith FordyceKeith Fordyce was an English disc jockey and former presenter on British radio and television. He is most famous as the first presenter of ITV's Ready Steady Go! in 1963, but was a stalwart of both BBC radio and Radio Luxembourg for many years.-Career:Born Keith Fordyce Marriott in Lincoln, he...
, 82, British radio and television presenter (Ready Steady Go!Ready Steady Go!Ready Steady Go! or simply RSG! was one of the UK's first rock/pop music TV programmes. It was conceived by Elkan Allan, head of Rediffusion TV. Allan was assisted by record producer/talent manager Vicki Wickham, who became the producer. It was broadcast from August 1963 until December 1966...
). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/keith-fordyce-unflappable-host-of-lsquoready-steady-gorsquo-2255628.html# - Frank HowardFrank Howard (politician)Frank Howard was a Canadian trade unionist and politician.Howard was born in Kimberley, British Columbia. After a career as a logger and labour union organizer, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a BC CCF MLA in 1953...
, 85, Canadian politician, member of the BC Legislative AssemblyLegislative Assembly of British ColumbiaThe Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, the provincial parliament ....
for SkeenaSkeena (provincial electoral district)Skeena is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It first appeared in the provincial election or 1924. It should not be confused with the former federal electoral district of Skeena, which encompassed a larger area.- Demographics :- Member of...
(1953–1956; 1979–1986), MP for SkeenaSkeena (electoral district)Skeena was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 2004.-Geography:This was a rural, mostly wilderness, riding in northwestern B.C...
(1957–1974). http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/houston-today/news/119121734.html - Musa JumaMusa JumaMusa Juma Mumbo , was a rumba and Benga musician from Kenya. He was the bandleader, guitarist and composer for Orchestra Limpopo International. Most of his music were sang in Dholuo language....
, 42, Kenyan musician, pneumonia. http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Huge+loss+for+rumba+fans+as++Limpopo+star+takes+final+bow+/-/1056/1128880/-/vjipyuz/-/index.html - Yakov KreizbergYakov Kreizberg- In the Soviet Union :Yakov Kreizberg was born in Leningrad. He began studying piano at age 5. He attended the Glinka Choir School, where he began composing at age 13 and studied conducting with Ilya Musin. "Musin had an incredible system" Kreizberg recalled...
, 51, Russian-born Austrian-American conductor. http://www.harrisonparrott.com/news/2011/03/conductor-yakov-kreizberg-1959-2011 - Jean LiedloffJean LiedloffJean Liedloff was an American author, born in New York, and best known for her 1975 book The Continuum Concept....
, 84, American writer. http://www.continuum-concept.org/news.html - Peter LoaderPeter LoaderPeter James Loader was an English cricketer and umpire, who played thirteen Test matches for England. He played for Surrey and Beddington Cricket Club. A whippet-thin fast bowler with a wide range of pace and a nasty bouncer, he took the first post-war Test hat-trick as part of his 6 for 36...
, 81, British cricketer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/surrey/9426958.stm - Marty MarionMarty MarionMartin Whiteford Marion was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played as a shortstop in Major League Baseball from to . Marion played with the St. Louis Cardinals for the majority of his career before ending with the St. Louis Browns as a player-manager...
, 94, American baseball player and manager, National League MVP (1944). http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/article_befd89f4-4fe8-11e0-a6bc-00127992bc8b.html - Nate DoggNate DoggNathaniel Dwayne Hale , better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, was an American musician. He is noted for his membership of rap trio 213 and his solo career in which he collaborated with Dr. Dre, Warren G, Tupac and Snoop Dogg on many hit releases. Nate Dogg released three solo albums, G-Funk...
, 41, American musician, heart failure. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1659986/nate-dogg-dead.jhtml - Fred SanfordFred Sanford (baseball)John Frederick Sanford was a professional baseball player who was a pitcher in the Major Leagues from -. He played for the New York Yankees, Washington Senators, and St. Louis Browns. He was born in Garfield, Utah and died in Salt Lake City, Utah.Sanford's major league career, comprising five full...
, 91, American baseball player. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSob=c&GSlh=1&GRid=67083297& - Smiley CultureSmiley CultureDavid Victor Emmanuel , better known as Smiley Culture, was a British reggae singer and deejay known for his 'fast chat' style. During a relatively brief period of fame and success, he produced two of the most critically acclaimed reggae singles of the 1980s...
, 48, British reggae singer and DJ, apparent suicideSuicideSuicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
by stabbing. http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/topstories/8910703.BREAKING_NEWS__Reggae_artist_dies_during_police_drugs_raid/ - Melvin SparksMelvin SparksMelvin Sparks was an American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist. He recorded a number of albums for Prestige Records, later recording for Savant Records...
, 64, American jazz and soul guitarist, heart attack. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=77926
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- Gerald BarryGerald Barry (Irish journalist)Gerald Barry was an Irish political journalist and broadcaster. He worked for public service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann and the Sunday Tribune newspaper, during which time he became known for his "highly probing", "highly intelligent", "quite rigorous", "clinical, even forensic but never...
, 63, Irish journalist and broadcaster, illness. http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0314/barryg.html - Todd CerneyTodd CerneyTodd Cerney was an American songwriter and musician.He composed "Good Morning Beautiful", a 2002 five-week country number one hit for Steve Holy ; "The Blues Is My Business" , part of Etta James' 2003 Grammy Award winning album "Let's Roll"; and "I'll Still Be Loving You", a 1987...
, 57, American country musician and producer, melanoma. http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/Todd-Cerney-Dies-0314-2011/ - Leslie CollierLeslie CollierLeslie Harold Collier was a scientist responsible for developing a freeze-drying method to produce a more heat stable smallpox vaccine in the late 1940s....
, 90, British virologist. http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=leslie-h-collier&pid=149380530 - José Pinto Correia, 80, Portuguese politician, Governor of MacauGovernor of MacauThe Governor of Macau was a Portuguese colonial official who headed the colony of Macau, before 1623 called Captain-major . The post was replaced on December 20, 1999 upon the transfer of administration to the People's Republic of China by the office of the Chief Executive of the Macau Special...
(1986–1987). http://www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/23193-Former-governor-Pinto-Machado-passes-away.html - Bob GreavesBob GreavesBob Greaves was an English journalist and broadcaster, best known as a long-serving reporter, presenter and producer for Granada Television for 35 years....
, 76, British journalist and broadcaster, cancer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12739991 - Jülide GülizarJülide GülizarJülide Gülizar was a Turkish anchorwoman and journalist. She was one of Turkey's first television anchors, as well as the first anchorwomen on the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation .Gülizar was born in Adana, Turkey, in 1929...
, 82, Turkish anchorwoman, one of the nation's first television presenters. http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/en/newsDetail.aspx?HaberKodu=49797964-613f-471f-a0e0-79d162a417c6 - Eduard GushchinEduard GushchinEduard Viktorovich Gushchin was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the shot put. His career was highlighted by an Olympic bronze medal in 1968 and he was also a two-time national champion...
, 70, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (19681968 Summer OlympicsThe 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico in October 1968. The 1968 Games were the first Olympic Games hosted by a developing country, and the first Games hosted by a Spanish-speaking country...
) athlete. http://www.rusathletics.com/nov/nov.php?ind=8317 - Big Jack JohnsonBig Jack JohnsonBig Jack Johnson was an American electric blues musician.One commentator noted that Johnson, along with R. L...
, 70, American guitarist and blues singer. http://communityvoices.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/arts-entertainment-living/blue-notes/27866-mississippi-bluesman-big-jack-johnson-dies - Giora LeshemGiora LeshemGiora Leshem was an award-winning Israeli poet and translator and one of the founders of the Keshev poetry publishing house. At the time of his death, Keshev was the largest independent book publisher in Israel.- Education and experience :Leshem was born in Tel Aviv, British Mandate Palestine...
, 71, Israeli poet and publisher. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4042031,00.html (Hebrew) - G. Alan Marlatt, 69, American professor, kidney failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/us/22marlatt.html?src=twrhp
- Larry ZolfLarry ZolfLarry Zolf was a Canadian journalist and commentator.Zolf was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He earned a B.A. from the University of Winnipeg, and then received a Masters degree in Canadian history from the University of Toronto. In 1962, he joined the CBC...
, 76, Canadian journalist and humorist. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/03/14/larry-zolf-obit.html
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- Roy Flatt, 63, Scottish Anglican priest. http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-Rev-Canon-Roy-Flatt.6741447.jp
- Sir Michael GrayMichael Gray (British Army officer)Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Gray KCB, OBE, DL was a senior British Army officer who was General Officer Commanding South East District from 1985 to 1988, Colonel Commandant of the Parachute Regiment from 1990 to 1993 and Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1995 to 1998.-Military...
, 78, British army general. http://www.nvafriends.nl/index.php?cid=35&nid=239 - Virginia KlinekoleVirginia KlinekoleVirginia Shanta Klinekole, born Virginia Shanta was a Mescalero Apache politician from New Mexico. She was elected as the first woman president of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, and served on the Tribal Council for nearly 30 years.-Early life and education:She was born Virginia Shanta and raised in...
, 86, American politician, first female President of the Mescalero Apache. http://m.ruidosonews.com/ruidoso/db_32802/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=BE404691786850DB94450927614D0089?contentguid=JnkXaWzz&detailindex=0&pn=0&ps=10&full=true - Brian LankerBrian LankerBrian Lanker was an American photographer. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a black-and-white photo essay on childbirth for The Topeka Capital-Journal, including the photograph "Moment of Life". Lanker died at his home in Eugene, Oregon on March 13, 2011 after a brief...
, 63, American photojournalist, pancreatic cancer. http://www.registerguard.com/web/news/26005487-57/lanker-guard-register-brian-newspaper.html.csp - Rick MartinRick MartinRichard Lionel Martin was a Canadian professional ice hockey winger who played in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres and Los Angeles Kings for 11 seasons between 1971 and 1982...
, 59, Canadian ice hockey player (Buffalo SabresBuffalo SabresThe Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League .-Founding and early success: 1970-71—1980-81:...
, Los Angeles KingsLos Angeles KingsThe Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
), heart attack. http://blogs.buffalonews.com/sabres/2011/03/martin-just-had-that-flair.html - Ritchie PickettRitchie PickettRitchie Pickett was a New Zealand country music singer-songwriter who was born in Morrinsville, in the province of Waikato...
, 56, New Zealand country singer. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10712438 - David RumelhartDavid RumelhartDavid Everett Rumelhart was an American psychologist who made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artificial intelligence, and parallel distributed processing...
, 68, American psychologist, created computer simulations of neural processing, Pick's diseasePick's diseasePick's disease, is a rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include loss of speech , and dementia. While some of the symptoms can initially be alleviated, the disease progresses and patients often die within two to ten years...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/health/19rumelhart.html - Nicholas SmiskoNicholas SmiskoNicholas was metropolitan bishop of Amissos and Primate of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA.-Early life:...
, 75, American clergyman, Head of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox DioceseAmerican Carpatho-Russian Orthodox DioceseThe American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese or American Carpatho-Ruthenian Orthodox Diocese is a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with 78 parishes in the United States and Canada. It was led by the late Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko of Amissos...
(since 1984), cancer. http://www.acrod.org/news/releases/mn-obituary - Jean SmithJean Smith (baseball)Jean Marie Smith was an outfielder and relief pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 6", 128...
, 82, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball LeagueAll-American Girls Professional Baseball LeagueThe All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a women's professional baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. During the league's history, over 600 women played ball.-History:...
). - Owsley StanleyOwsley StanleyOwsley Stanley also known as Bear, was an essential and transitional personality in the development of the San Francisco Bay counter-culture. Spanning the Beat-era years of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters scenes, he was equally pivotal to the explosion of 1960's Psychedelia culture...
, 76, American-born Australian underground LSDLSDLysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD or LSD-25, also known as lysergide and colloquially as acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family, well known for its psychological effects which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open eye visuals, synaesthesia, an...
chemist and sound engineer (Grateful DeadGrateful DeadThe Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
), traffic accident. http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/03/13/psychedelic-icon-owsley-stanley-dies-in-australia/ - Leo SteinbergLeo SteinbergLeo Steinberg was an American art critic and art historian and a naturalized citizen of the U.S.-Life:Steinberg was born in Moscow, Russia and grew up in Berlin, Germany. He was the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art...
, 90, American art historian and critic. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/arts/design/leo-steinberg-art-historian-is-dead-at-90.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries - Vitaly VulfVitaly VulfVitaly Yakovlevich Vulf was a Russian art, drama, film critic, literary critic, translator, TV and radio broadcaster and critic.- Biography :...
, 80, Russian theater critic and television host. http://premier.gov.ru/eng/events/messages/14440/
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- Ali Hassan al-JaberAli Hassan al-JaberAli Hassan al-Jaber was a Qatari national working as a camera operator for the TV channel Al Jazeera. He was the first foreign journalist killed during the 2011 Libyan civil war.Three other foreign photojournalists were killed in Libya while covering the war...
, 56, Qatari photojournalist (Al JazeeraAl JazeeraAl Jazeera is an independent broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar through the Qatar Media Corporation and headquartered in Doha, Qatar...
), shot. http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/03/12/libya.journalist.killed/index.html - Donald BrennerDonald BrennerDonald I. Brenner was a Canadian judge who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia from 2000 until he stepped down from the position in 2009. In total Brenner spent more than 20 years as a member of the provincial Supreme Court...
, 64, Canadian judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British ColumbiaSupreme Court of British ColumbiaThe Supreme Court of British Columbia is the superior trial court for the province of British Columbia. The BCSC hears civil and criminal law cases as well as appeals from the Provincial Court of British Columbia. Including supernumerary judges, there are presently 108 judges...
(2000–2009). http://www.vancouversun.com/news/trail+blazing+judge+remembered/4434576/story.html - Bruce CampbellBruce Campbell (Alberta politician)Bruce Campbell was a Canadian politician, commercial contractor, carpenter, and Rotarian. He was born in Cadomin, Alberta, and resided in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, for most of his life....
, 87, Canadian politician. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Former+Edmonton+councillor+dead/4436373/story.html - Olive Dickason, 91, Canadian historian and author. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/953178--author-olive-patricia-dickason-dies-at-91
- Margaret FishMargaret FishMargaret Ethel Fish of Wilstead, Bedfordshire was the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 111-year-old Elsie Steele on 18 October 2010 until her own death on 12 March 2011, aged 112 years 5 days.She was born at Tower Hamlets and married Frank Fish, a World War I veteran, in...
, 112, British supercentenarianSupercentenarianA supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
, oldest person in the United Kingdom. http://announce.jpress.co.uk/8838336 - Juan García-Santacruz OrtizJuan García-Santacruz OrtizJuan García-Santacruz Ortiz was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Guadix, Spain.Ordained in 1956, he was named bishop in 1992; in 2009 Bishop García-Santacruz Ortiz retired-Notes:...
, 77, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guadix (1992–2009). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgarcs.html - Kumar IndrajitsinhjiKumar IndrajitsinhjiKumar Shri Indrajitsinhji Madhavsinhji was an Indian cricketer who played in four Tests from 1964 to 1969 as a wicketkeeper-batsman....
, 73, Indian cricketer, cancer. http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/506490.html - Shifra LererShifra LererShifra Lerer was an Argentine-born American Yiddish theater actress based in New York City. Lerer appeared opposite every major Yiddish theater actor during her career, which lasted 90 years...
, 95, Argentinian-born American Yiddish theatreYiddish theatreYiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic revues; melodrama; naturalist drama; expressionist and...
actress, stroke. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/shifra-lerer-actress-in-yiddish-theater-dies-at-95.html?ref=obituaries - Joe MorelloJoe MorelloJoseph Albert Morello was a jazz drummer best known for his 12½-year stint with The Dave Brubeck Quartet. He was frequently noted for playing in the unusual time signatures employed by that group in such pieces as "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo à la Turk"...
, 82, American drummer (The Dave Brubeck QuartetThe Dave Brubeck QuartetThe Dave Brubeck Quartet is an American jazz quartet, founded in 1951 by Dave Brubeck and originally featuring Paul Desmond on saxophone and Brubeck on piano...
). http://www.nhpr.org/jazz-drummer-joe-morello-take-five-fame-dies-82 - John NettleshipJohn NettleshipJohn Lawrence Nettleship was a British schoolteacher who taught chemistry at Wyedean School, Gloucestershire. His pupils there included Joanne Rowling, whose mother worked for some time as an assistant in his department...
, 71, British teacher, inspiration for character of Severus SnapeSeverus SnapeSeverus Snape is a fictional character in the Harry Potter book series written by J.K. Rowling. In the first novel of the series, he is hostile toward Harry and is built up to be the primary antagonist until the final chapters. As the series progresses, Snape's character becomes more layered and...
, cancer. http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/8912179.Chepstow_inspiration_for_Harry_Potter_prof_dies/ - Mitchell PageMitchell PageMitchell Otis Page is a former Major League Baseball player. He finished second to Hall of Famer Eddie Murray in American League Rookie of the Year balloting when he came up with the Oakland Athletics in .-Early years:...
, 59, American baseball player (Oakland AthleticsOakland AthleticsThe Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....
), and coach (St. Louis CardinalsSt. Louis CardinalsThe St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...
, Washington NationalsWashington NationalsThe Washington Nationals are a professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C. The Nationals are a member of the Eastern Division of the National League of Major League Baseball . The team moved into the newly built Nationals Park in 2008, after playing their first three seasons in RFK Stadium...
). http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110313&content_id=16931246&vkey=news_stl&c_id=stl - Nilla PizziNilla PizziNilla Pizzi was an Italian singer.Born as Adionilla Negrini Pizzi in Sant'Agata Bolognese, she was particularly famous in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s. She won the first edition of the San Remo Festival in 1951, singing "Grazie dei fiori", and she won also the second edition , singing "Vola...
, 91, Italian singer. http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2011/03/12/nilla_pizzi_winner_of_1st_san_remo_song_fest_dies/ - Italo PizzolanteItalo PizzolanteItalo Pizzolante was a Venezuelan poet, composer, musician, professor and engineer of Italian descent. Author of famous songs like Motivos, Mi Puerto Cabello, among others. Pizzolante was married to Nelly Negrón....
, 82, Venezuelan musician and composer. (Spanish) - Tawfik ToubiTawfik Toubi-Biography:Toubi was born in Haifa to an Arab Orthodox family in 1922, and was educated at the Mount Zion School in Jerusalem. He joined the Palestine Communist Party in 1941 and later was one of the founders of the League for National Liberation, which originally opposed partition of Palestine but...
, 88, Israeli ArabArab citizens of IsraelArab citizens of Israel refers to citizens of Israel who are not Jewish, and whose cultural and linguistic heritage or ethnic identity is Arab....
politician, last surviving member of the first KnessetIsraeli legislative election, 1949Elections for the Constituent Assembly were held in newly independent Israel on 25 January 1949. Voter turnout was 86.9%. Two days after its first meeting on 14 February 1949, legislators voted to change the name of the body to the Knesset...
. http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=211856
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- David Brown, 69, British cricketer, brain tumour. http://www.cricketscotland.com/DavidBrownDeceased
- Osvaldo Rodrigues da CunhaOsvaldo Rodrigues da CunhaOsvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha was a Brazilian paleontologist and herpetologist.Da Cunha was born in Belém, and studied zoology at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia of Manaus.-Authored Taxa:...
, 80, Brazilian paleontologist and herpetologist. http://www.museu-goeldi.br/sobre/NOTICIAS/2011/marco/11_03_2011.html (Portuguese) - Alfred GenoveseAlfred GenoveseAlfred Genovese was principal oboe of both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.Genovese was born on April 25, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
, 79, American oboist, complications from cardiac arrest. http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20110318_A__Genovese__oboist_with_Phila__roots.html - Jack Hardy, 63, American singer-songwriter. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/arts/music/jack-hardy-folk-singer-and-keeper-of-the-flame-dies-at-63.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
- Nancy KominskyNancy KominskyNancy Circelli Kominsky was an Italian-American artist and television presenter....
, 95, American art teacher and broadcaster. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8424956/Nancy-Kominsky.html - Hugh MartinHugh MartinHugh Martin was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St...
, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little ChristmasHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics, which has become more common than the original. The song was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane...
") and film composer (Meet Me in St. LouisMeet Me in St. LouisMeet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of an American family living in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair in 1904...
), natural causes. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13119244 - Héctor Francisco Medina PolancoHéctor Francisco Medina PolancoHéctor Francisco Medina Polanco was a Honduran journalist that often reported on agricultural and corruption issues in Honduras. He was killed in front of his home on May 10, 2011, and was a employee of Omega Visión.-Death:...
, 37, Honduran television journalist, shot. http://www.cpj.org/killed/2011/hector-francisco-medina-polanco.php. - Frank NeuhauserFrank NeuhauserFrank Louis Neuhauser was an American patent lawyer and spelling bee champion, who won the first National Spelling Bee in 1925 by successfully spelling the word "gladiolus." Today, the bee is known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee.Neuhauser was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 29,...
, 97, American patent attorneyPatent attorneyA patent attorney is an attorney who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing an opposition...
and spelling bee champion, winner of the 1925 Scripps National Spelling BeeScripps National Spelling BeeThe Scripps National Spelling Bee is a highly competitive annual spelling bee in the United States, with participants from other countries as well. It is run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/us/23neuhauser.html - Valter NyströmValter NyströmValter Erik Nyström was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Competing out of Sandvikens Gymnastikklubb, he finished sixth out of thirty-three participants in the men's 10,000 metres event...
, 95, Swedish Olympic track and field athlete. http://www5.idrottonline.se/GefleIFFIF-Friidrott/Nyheter/Klubbnyheter/InMemoriam-ValterNystrom/ (Swedish) - Danny StilesDanny StilesDanny Stiles was a radio personality at WNYC, WNSW, WJDM and WPAT in the New York City market. He worked on the radio for 63 years in the New York City area, up to the time of his death.-Early life:...
, 87, American radio host. http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2011/mar/11/danny-stiles-longtime-radio-host-dead/ - Donny George YoukhannaDonny George YoukhannaDonny George Youkhanna , was an Iraqi Assyrian archaeologist, anthropologist, author, curator, and scholar, and a visiting professor at Stony Brook University in New York, internationally known as "the man who saved the Iraqi National Museum."-Biography:Youkhanna was born in Habbaniyah, Iraq in...
, 60, Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist and author, heart attack. http://www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts/2011/03/donny-george-youkhanna-rip.html
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- Bill BlackbeardBill BlackbeardWilliam Elsworth Blackbeard , better known as Bill Blackbeard, was a writer-editor and the founder-director of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, a comprehensive collection of comic strips and cartoon art from American newspapers...
, 84, American comic strip writer and editor. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/arts/design/bill-blackbeard-comic-strip-champion-dies-at-84.html?ref=obituaries - Bob CallahanBob Callahan (American football)Robert Francis Callahan is a former American football player. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Beaumont High School where he was the captain of the football and basketball teams...
, 87, American football player (Buffalo BillsBuffalo BillsThe Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?n=robert-f-callahan&pid=151188928 - Nick HarbarukNick HarbarukMikolaj Nicholas Harbaruk was a professional ice hockey player. Harbaruk played 364 games in the National Hockey League and 181 in the World Hockey Association . Harbaruk played for the Pittsburgh Penguins, St. Louis Blues, and Indianapolis Racers.Harbaruk was born in Poland and immigrated to...
, 67, Polish-born Canadian ice hockey player, bone cancer. http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/42091300/ns/sports-nhl/ - Don BovenDon BovenDonald E. Boven was an American basketball player, coach, and university instructor. He was a World War II veteran who was a standout athlete at Western Michigan University. After playing professional basketball, he served as an instructor at the University for more than 30 years...
, 86, American basketball player and coach (Western Michigan UniversityWestern Michigan UniversityWestern Michigan University is a public university located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. The university was established in 1903 by Dwight B. Waldo, and as of the Fall 2010 semester, its enrollment is 25,045....
), heart disease. http://obit.langelands.com/obitdisplay.html?id=905655 - Baliram KashyapBaliram KashyapBaliram Kashyap was an Indian politician. He was a member of the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th Lok Sabhas of India. He represented the Bastar constituency of Chhattisgarh and was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party. Kashyap died on 10 March 2011, only one day before his 75th...
, 74, Indian politician, MPLok SabhaThe Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...
for BastarBastar (Lok Sabha constituency)Bastar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 11 Lok Sabha constituencies in Chhattisgarh state in central India. This Lok Sabha constituency is reserved for the Scheduled Tribes candidates.-Assembly segments:...
(since 1998), after long illness. http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5016244 - Gabriel LadermanGabriel LadermanGabriel Laderman was a New York painter and an early and important exponent of the Figurative revival of the 1950s and '60s.He studied with a number of leading American painters, including Hofmann, de Kooning, and Rothko....
, 81, American painter, cancer, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/design/gabriel-laderman-painter-of-figurative-art-dies-at-81.html - Danny PatonDanny PatonDanny Paton was a Scottish footballer, who played for Heart Of Midlothian and Oxford United.Paton was born in the coal-mining village of Breich. He was a forward and featured in the Hearts side that won the 1962 Scottish League Cup Final.-External links:*...
, 75, Scottish footballer. http://www.heartsfc.co.uk/articles/20110311/danny-paton_2241384_2313709 - Emmett J. RiceEmmett J. RiceEmmett John Rice was a former governor of the Federal Reserve System, a Cornell University economics professor, expert in the monetary systems of developing countries and the father of the current Ambassador to the United Nations in the Cabinet of President Barack Obama, Susan E. Rice...
, 91, American economist and banking official, heart failure. http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110314/NEWS03/303149958/1066/NEWS03 - Eddie SnyderEddie SnyderEdward Abraham Snyder was an American composer and songwriter. Snyder is credited with co-writing the English language lyrics and music for Frank Sinatra's 1966 hit, "Strangers in the Night"....
, 92, American composer ("Strangers in the NightStrangers in the Night"Strangers in the Night" is a popular song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. It was originally created under the title Beddy Bye as part of the instrumental score for the movie A Man Could Get Killed...
", "Spanish Eyes"). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/8419821/Eddie-Snyder.html - David ViñasDavid ViñasDavid Viñas was an Argentine dramatist, critic, and novelist.-Life and career:Viñas grew up in Buenos Aires, and enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires, becoming head of the student organization Federación Universitaria de Buenos Aires...
, 83, Argentine dramatist, critic and novelist, pneumonic infection. http://english.telam.com.ar/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11379%3Aargentine-writer-david-vinas-passed-away&catid=34%3Asociety&Itemid=1
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- Sona AslanovaSona AslanovaSona Aslanova was a Soviet and Azerbaijanian soprano, Meritorious Artist of Azerbaijan Republic known for her historic performances of Azerbaijani, Russian, and international classical and folk vocal music repertoire....
, 86, Azerbaijanian soprano. http://www.news.az/articles/culture/32614 - Jacques BrichantJacques BrichantJacques Brichant was a Belgian tennis player.Brichant has played the most Davis Cup ties for his country. Brichant reached the semi-finals of the French Championships in singles once, and the quarter-finals twice....
, 80, Belgian tennis player. http://www.dhnet.be/sports/tennis/article/345902/jacky-brichant-est-decede.html (French) - David S. BroderDavid S. BroderDavid Salzer Broder was an American journalist, writing for The Washington Post for over forty years. He also was an author, television news show pundit, and university lecturer....
, 81, American journalist (The Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
), complications from diabetes. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030902821.html?hpid=topnews - Edward A. BurdickEdward A. BurdickEdward Arthur Burdick was a nonpartisan former chief clerk and parliamentarian of the Minnesota House of Representatives and the past national president of the American Society of Legislative Clerks and Secretaries ....
, 89, American civil servant. http://www.minnpost.com/politicalagenda/2011/03/09/26476/former_state_house_chief_clerk_ed_burdick_has_died - Doris BurnDoris BurnDoris "Doe" Wernstedt Burn was an American children's book author and illustrator. She lived most of her life on Waldron Island in the San Juan Islands archipelago of Washington...
, 87, American children's book author and illustrator. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bellinghamherald/obituary.aspx?n=doris-burn-doe&pid=149215974 - Seán CroninSeán CroninSeán Cronin was a journalist and former Irish Army officer and twice Irish Republican Army chief of staff.Cronin was born in Dublin in 1920 but spent his childhood years in Ballinskelligs, in the County Kerry Gaeltacht....
, 91, Irish journalist and republican, Irish Republican Army chief of staff (1957–1958, 1959–1960), after long illness. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0310/1224291778899.html - Armando GoyenaArmando GoyenaArmando Goyena was a Filipino actor and matinée idol who was popular in the 1950s.-Family:...
, 88, Filipino actor. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/03/09/11/actor-armando-goyena-dies-88 - Andrew Hao JinliAndrew Hao JinliAndrew Hao Jinli was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Xiwanzi, China.Ordained in 1943, Hao was sentenced to a Chinese Communist labor camp. Released in 1981, he was secretly ordained a bishop in 1984....
, 95, Chinese Roman Catholic underground Bishop of Xiwanzi (since 1984). http://www.ucanews.com/2011/03/10/underground-bishop-dies - Bob MarcucciBob MarcucciRobert Phillip "Bob" Marcucci was a personal manager at Chancellor Records and Robert P. Marcucci Productions. He discovered and managed the careers of Fabian and Frankie Avalon, amongst others...
, 81, American talent agent, respiratory complications. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/arts/music/bob-marcucci-a-rock-music-idol-maker-dies-at-81.html?_r=2&hpw - Bob McNamaraBob McNamara (baseball)Robert Maxey McNamara was a infielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly at shortstop for the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1939 season. Listed at 5'10", 170 lb., He batted right-handed....
, 94, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/signonsandiego/obituary.aspx?n=robert-maxey-mcnamara&pid=149381294 - Des MeagherDes MeagherDes Meagher was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League .Meagher was a left footed wingman and was recruited to Hawthorn from Old Xaverians. He debuted for Hawthorn in 1966 and such was his swift rise that by the following season he was playing...
, 67, Australian footballer (HawthornHawthorn Football ClubThe Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
). http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/hawthorn-premiership-player-des-maugher-dies/story-e6frf9jf-1226018499083 - Lindy PearsonLindy PearsonLindy Pearson was a former player in the National Football League. He played with the Detroit Lions for two seasons before splitting the 1952 NFL season between the Lions and the Green Bay Packers.-References:...
, 82, American football player (Detroit LionsDetroit LionsThe Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...
). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/oklahoman/obituary.aspx?n=Lindell-Pearson&pid=149216391 - Inge SørensenInge SørensenInge Sørensen was a swimmer from Denmark, and the youngest known female Olympic Games medalist in an individual event. She won the bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1936 Summer Olympics at the age of 12 years and 24 days. She was born in Skovshoved, Gentofte and died in New...
, 86, Danish swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (19361936 Summer OlympicsThe 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on April 26, 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona...
). http://politiken.dk/indland/article1220046.ece (Danish) - Toshiko TakaezuToshiko TakaezuToshiko Takaezu was an American ceramic artist.She was born to Japanese immigrant parents in Pepeekeo, Hawaii, in 1922. She studied at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and at the University of Hawaii under Claude Horan from 1948-1951...
, 88, American ceramic artist. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/arts/design/toshiko-takaezu-ceramic-artist-dies-at-88.html?ref=obituaries
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- Iraj AfsharIraj AfsharIraj Afshar was a bibliographer, historian, and an iconic figure in the field of Persian studies . He was a consulting editor of Encyclopædia Iranica at Columbia University and a full professor emeritus of University of Tehran.Iraj Afshar recorded the monuments of Yazd in his three-volume...
, 85, Iranian bibliographer and historian. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/169024.html - Victor Manuel BlancoVictor Manuel BlancoDr. Víctor Manuel Blanco, PhD, was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered "Blanco 1," a galactic cluster. Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which had the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere at the time. In 1995, the telescope...
, 92, American astronomer, director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American ObservatoryCerro Tololo Inter-American ObservatoryThe Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory is a complex of astronomical telescopes and instruments located at 30.169 S, 70.804 W, approximately 80 km to the East of La Serena, Chile at an altitude of 2200 metres. The complex is part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory along with Kitt...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/science/space/17blanco.html - Masoud BoroumandMasoud BoroumandDr. Amir Masoud Boroumand was an Iranian footballer. He played as a forward and was the Iran national football team's captain during the 1950s. He also played for the Lebanon national football team for three years whilst studying in Lebanon, two years as captain.-Club career:In 1945, Boroumand he...
, 83, Iranian football player. http://www.payvand.com/news/11/mar/1078.html - Richard CampbellRichard Campbell (classical musician)Richard John Campbell was an English classical musician, best known as a founder member of the early music ensemble Fretwork and for his newer association with the Feinstein Ensemble, specialising in historically-accurate performance of 18th century music.-Early Life and Education:Campbell was...
, 55, British player of cello and viola da gamba. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/8381923/Richard-Campbell.html - Herb Kawainui KaneHerb Kawainui KaneHerbert "Herb" Kawainui Kāne , considered one of the principal figures in the renaissance of Hawaiian culture in the 1970s, was a celebrated artist-historian and author with a special interest in the seafaring traditions of the ancestral peoples of Hawaii...
, 82, American artist, Hawaiian cultural advocate, participant in the HokuleaHokuleaHōkūlea is a performance-accurate full-scale replica of a waa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. Launched on 8 March 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, she is best known for her 1976 Hawaii to Tahiti voyage performed with Polynesian navigation techniques, without modern...
voyage. http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=14218899 - Moses KatjiuonguaMoses KatjiuonguaMoses Katjikuru Katjiuongua was a Namibian politician, minister in the Transitional Government of National Unity, member of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia, and member of the National Assembly of Namibia....
, 68, Namibian politician. http://www.namibian.com.na/news/full-story/archive/2011/march/article/katjiuongua-dies/ - Jim KeaneJim KeaneJames Patrick "Jim" Keane was a professional American football end in the National Football League. He played seven seasons for the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers ....
, 87, American football player (Chicago BearsChicago BearsThe Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
, Green Bay PackersGreen Bay PackersThe Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
). http://www.chicagobears.com/news/NewsStory.asp?story_id=7642 - Steven KrollSteven KrollSteven Lawrence Kroll was an American children's book author. He wrote 96 books, including Is Milton Missing? , The Biggest Pumpkin Ever , Sweet America , When I Dream of Heaven , Jungle Bullies .- Biography :Born in Manhattan, he attended the McBurney School and Harvard University, graduating...
, 69, American children's book author, surgical complications. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/books/steven-kroll-author-of-childrens-books-dies-at-69.html - St. Clair LeeSt. Clair LeeSt. Clair Lee was an American R&B vocalist with the band The Hues Corporation, which had a top ten record on the R&B and pop music charts called "Rock The Boat". The single went to number one in 1974 and sold over two million copies.-Early life:Lee was born Bernard St. Clair Lee Calhoun Henderson...
, 66, American musician (Hues CorporationHues CorporationThe Hues Corporation was a pop and soul trio formed in Santa Monica, California in 1969. They are best known for their 1974 hit, "Rock the Boat" which sold over two million copies.-Career:...
). http://www.inlandsocal.com/iguide/music/content/news/stories/PE_News_Local_D_slee09.4c80f76.html - Bronko Nagurski Jr.Bronko Nagurski Jr.Bronko Nagurski, Jr. was an American offensive tackle in the Canadian Football League. He was son of the famed National Football League player Bronko Nagurski.-Professional career:...
, 73, American player of Canadian footballCanadian footballCanadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...
(Hamilton Tiger-CatsHamilton Tiger-CatsThe Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Ivor Wynne Stadium...
). http://www.canada.com/Ticats+mourn+death+Bronko+Nagurski/4403826/story.html - John OlmstedJohn OlmstedJohn Olmsted was a California naturalist and conservationist most famous for creating the Independence Trail state park in Nevada City, California, as well as helping to save numerous other parcels from Jug Handle State Reserve near Mendocino, to Bridgeport covered bridge...
, 73, American naturalist and conservationist, liver cancer. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-john-olmsted-20110319,0,7256213.story - Mike StarrMike Starr (musician)Michael Christopher "Mike" Starr was an American musician, best known as the original bassist in Alice in Chains, with whom he played from the band's formation in 1987 until 1993.- Career :...
, 44, American bassist (Alice in ChainsAlice in ChainsAlice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist Mike Starr...
, Sun Red SunSun Red SunSun Red Sun was an American heavy metal supergroup active from 1992–1993. It featured former Rondinelli bandmates Ray Gillen and Bobby Rondinelli.-History:...
). http://www.abc4.com/content/news/state/story/Former-Alice-in-Chains-Celebrity-Rehab-star-dies/QK3JrtdsEk6Vj1v_O0qhaA.cspx (body found on this date)
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- Frank DezelanFrank DezelanFrank John Dezelan was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League for five seasons. He was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania....
, 80, American baseball umpire (1958–1970). - Adrián EscuderoAdrián EscuderoAdrián Escudero García was a Spanish footballer who played as a striker.He was the all-time leading goalscorer for Atlético Madrid with 170 goals, having appeared for the club in 13 La Liga seasons, and more than 350 official games.-Club career:Escudero arrived at Atlético Madrid in late 1945,...
, 83, Spanish footballer. http://www.elmundo.es/elmundodeporte/2011/03/07/futbol/1299528224.html (Spanish) - Samuel Hazard Gillespie, Jr., 100, American lawyer and politician, pancreatic cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/nyregion/09gillespie.html
- Rudy Salud, 72, Filipino sports executive, PBAPhilippine Basketball AssociationThe Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
Commissioner (1988–1992), complications from surgery. http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/307968/reports-former-pba-chief-rudy-salud-passes-away
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- Jean BartelJean BartelJean Bartel was Miss California and Miss America 1943. She won the talent and swimsuit awards at the national pageant. At 5 feet 8 inches tall, Bartel was the tallest pageant winner at the time...
, 87, American actress, Miss America 1943Miss America 1943Miss America 1943, the 17th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 11, 1943.-Placements:-Secondary sources:...
. http://www.missamerica.org/news/press-releases.aspx?id=509 - Marie Andrée Bertrand, 85, Canadian criminologist, feminist and anti-prohibitionist. http://www.openparliament.ca/hansards/2360/116/only/
- Patricia BrennanPatricia BrennanPatricia Anne Brennan AM was an Australian medical doctor and a prominent campaigner for the ordination of women in the Anglican Church of Australia....
, 66, Australian feminist and clinician, advocate of women priests, cancer. http://www.melbourne.anglican.com.au/NewsAndViews/TMA/Pages/2011/2011-04/Women-clergy-pioneer-dies.aspx - Rostislav ČtvrtlíkRostislav ČtvrtlíkRostislav Čtvrtlík was a Czech stage and television actor. He was the Czech voice of Matthew Perry in Friends and other TV shows and movies.- Filmography :*"Kriminálka Anděl" ......
, 47, Czech stage, television and voice actor, brain tumor. http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/kultura/zpravy/po-dlouhe-nemoci-zemrel-herec-a-daber-rostislav-ctvrtlik/605542 (Czech) - Mike DeStefanoMike DeStefanoMike DeStefano was an American stand-up comedian. He used material from his heroin addiction, which began at age 15, and his recovery in brutally honest, profanity-laced routines. He also was a drug counselor to others. He had been clean for 11 years at the time of his death and was HIV positive...
, 44, American comedian (Last Comic StandingLast Comic StandingLast Comic Standing is an American reality television talent show that has aired from 2003 through 2010.The goal of the program is to select a comedian from a group, who will receive a development contract with the NBC network, and a television special first to air on the cable-TV network Comedy...
), heart attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/arts/mike-destefano-stand-up-comedian-is-dead.html - Oddmund JensenOddmund JensenOddmund Ingvald Jensen was a Norwegian cross country skier and coach.He was born in Sørfold, but represented Alvdal IL. He participated at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo and at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley.He was head coach for the Norwegian men's cross country national...
, 82, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier. http://www.nrk.no/sport/langrenn/1.7537175 (Norwegian) - Ján PopluhárJán PopluhárJán Popluhár was a former Slovak football player. He started his football career after high school with RH Brno...
, 75, Slovak footballer (1962 FIFA World Cup1962 FIFA World CupThe 1962 FIFA World Cup, the seventh staging of the World Cup, was held in Chile from 30 May to 17 June. It was won by Brazil, who retained the championship by beating Czechoslovakia 3–1 in the final...
). http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/2011-03-07-3822683558_x.htm - Louie RamsayLouie RamsayLouie Ramsay was a British actress perhaps best known to television audiences for her portrayal of the wife of Chief Inspector Reg Wexford on the ITV television series, Ruth Rendell Mysteries...
, 81, British actress (The Ruth Rendell MysteriesThe Ruth Rendell MysteriesThe Ruth Rendell Mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 1987 and 2000.-Description:The series comprises adaptations of the works of Ruth Rendell, many of which are based on her extensive range of short stories...
). http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/mar/15/louie-ramsay-obituary - Reg StewartReg StewartReginald 'Reg' Stewart was an English footballer who played for Sheffield Wednesday and Colchester United in the Football League from 1946 until 1957, and with non-league clubs Hastings United and Clacton Town....
, 85, British footballer, natural causes. http://www.essexcountystandard.co.uk/sport/8893745.Former_U_s_skipper_Stewart_passes_away/ - Edward UllendorffEdward UllendorffEdward Ullendorff FBA was a British scholar and historian, especially in Semitic languages and Ethiopia.-Biography:...
, 91, British historian. http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=edward-ullendorff&pid=149164948 - Frank ZieglerFrank ZieglerFrancis Richard Ziegler was an American football running back in the NFL who played for five seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles....
, 87, American football player (Philadelphia EaglesPhiladelphia EaglesThe Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?n=frank-ziegler&pid=149117794&fhid=4876
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- Jimmy CarnesJimmy CarnesJames Jerome "Jimmy" Carnes was an American track and field athlete, coach and administrator. A successful coach at the high school, college and international levels, Carnes compiled a 161–11 career dual meet record, highlighted by four college conference championships and six state high...
, 76, American track and field athlete, coach and administrator, cancer. http://www.gainesville.com/article/20110305/ARTICLES/110309688/-1/news?Title=Former-UF-track-coach-Jimmy-Carnes-dies-of-cancer- - Mario CoppolaMario CoppolaMario Coppola was an Italian physicist active in the field of nuclear physics.Coppola, son of Leonardo and Elena Alestra lived his early childhood in Rome until the degree in Physics in 1960, a student of Edoardo Amaldi...
, 74, Italian nuclear physicist. http://biotec.casaccia.enea.it/sirr/Documenti/Mario%20Coppola%20%28ricordo%29.pdf (Italian) - Alberto GranadoAlberto GranadoAlberto Granado was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. He was also the youthful friend and traveling companion of revolutionary Che Guevara during their 1952 trip around Latin America, and later founded the Santiago School of Medicine in Cuba...
, 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che GuevaraChe GuevaraErnesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
(The Motorcycle DiariesThe Motorcycle DiariesThe Motorcycle Diaries is a memoir that traces the early travels of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, then a 23-year-old medical student, and his friend Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist...
). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12658025 - Oswald Georg HirmerOswald Georg HirmerOswald Georg Hirmer was a Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Umtata, South Africa....
, 81, German-born South African Roman Catholic missionary, Bishop of Umtata (1997–2008). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bhirmer.html - Manolis RasoulisManolis RasoulisEmmanouil Rasoulis , best known as the lyricist of famous songs, was a Greek music composer, singer, writer and journalist.Rasoulis was born in 1945 in Heraklion, Crete...
, 65, Greek singer-songwriter, author and journalist. http://www.oshonews.com/2011/03/manolis-rasoulis-swami-deva-parinito/
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- Krishna Prasad BhattaraiKrishna Prasad BhattaraiKrishna Prasad Bhattarai was a Nepalese political leader. As a leader of the Nepali Congress Party, he made his position by transitioning Nepal from an absolute monarchy to a democratic multi-party system.Bhattarai was twice the Prime Minister of Nepal, once heading the Interim Government from 19...
, 86, Nepali Prime Minister (1990–1991, 1999–2000), multiple organ failureMultiple organ dysfunction syndromeMultiple organ dysfunction syndrome ', previously known as multiple organ failure or multisystem organ failure , is altered organ function in an acutely ill patient requiring medical intervention to achieve homeostasis...
. http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=28862 - Mary BowermasterMary BowermasterMary L. Bowermaster was a Nurse's aide for schools in Butler County, Ohio until a breast cancer diagnosis in 1979...
, 93, American masters athletics champion. http://www.avancefuneralhome.com/memorial.asp?id=1229 - Frank ChirkinianFrank ChirkinianFrank Chirkinian was an Armenian-American CBS Sports producer and director. He is most notable for his work on golf coverage, though he also directed coverage of the Winter Olympics, the United States Open Tennis Championships, college and professional American football, auto racing and the Triple...
, 84, American producer (CBS SportsCBS SportsCBS Sports is a division of CBS Broadcasting which airs sporting events on the American television network. Its headquarters are in the CBS Building on West 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City, with programs produced out of Studio 43 at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street.CBS...
), lung cancer. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/golf/famed-golf-tv-producer-frank-chirkinian-a-north-1298800.html - Annie Fargue, 76, American actress and manager, cancer. http://www.purepeople.com/article/polnareff-en-pleurs-annie-fargue-est-morte-retour-sur-son-riche-parcours_a75341/1 (French)
- Vivienne HarrisVivienne Harris (businesswoman)Vivienne Harris, MBE was a British businesswoman, newspaper publisher and journalist who co-founded the Jewish Telegraph in December 1950 with her husband, Frank Harris. The couple married in 1949.Frank Harris, a freelance journalist, had relocated to Manchester from London...
, 89, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish TelegraphJewish TelegraphThe Jewish Telegraph is a British Jewish newspaper. It was founded in December 1950 by Frank and Vivienne Harris, the parents of the current Editor, Paul Harris.-Founding:...
. http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1410461_founder_of_jewish_telegraph_vivienne_harris_dies_aged_89 - Charles JarrottCharles JarrottCharles Jarrott was a British film and television director. He was best known for costume dramas he directed for producer Hal B...
, 83, British film and television director (Anne of the Thousand DaysAnne of the Thousand DaysAnne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 costume drama made by Hal Wallis Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The film tells the story of Anne Boleyn...
), prostate cancer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12659862 - Chester KahapeaChester KahapeaChester Frank Kahapea was an American soil scientist, technician and former paperboy. Kahapea became a symbol of the Hawaiian statehood after an iconic photo of him appeared in newspapers around the United States holding a special edition copy of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin headlined "Statehood."...
, 65, American soil scientist, known as the "face of Hawaiian statehood", complications of Lou Gehrig's diseaseAmyotrophic lateral sclerosisAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a form of motor neuron disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons, located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their efferent input...
. http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=14302250 - Ed ManningEd ManningEdward R. Manning was an American professional basketball player and college and NBA assistant coach. He was the father of former NBA player Danny Manning....
, 68, American basketball player (Baltimore BulletsWashington WizardsThe Washington Wizards are a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., previously known as Washington Bullets. They play in the National Basketball Association .-Early years:...
) and coach (San Antonio SpursSan Antonio SpursThe San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
), heart condition. http://www.kansascity.com/2011/03/04/2699952/ed-manning-father-of-danny-and.html - Johnny PrestonJohnny PrestonJohnny Preston was an American pop music singer, who was best known for his international number one hit in 1960, "Running Bear".-Life and career:...
, 71, American pop singer ("Running BearRunning Bear"Running Bear" is a song written by J. P. Richardson sung most famously by Johnny Preston in 1959. Preston first sang the song in 1959 with background vocals by Richardson and George Jones, who do the Indian chanting of "UGO UGO" during the three verses, as well as the Indian war cries...
"), heart failure. http://www.kfdm.com/news/johnny-41760-southeast-pop.html - Mikhail SimonovMikhail SimonovMikhail Simonov was a Russian aircraft designer famed for creating the Sukhoi Su-27 fighter-bomber, the Soviet Union's answer to the American F-15 Eagle. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Simonov coordinated the Su-27's sale to foreign governments, providing badly needed hard...
, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design BureauSukhoiSukhoi Company is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Begovoy District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, famous for its fighters...
(1983–2011), after long illness. http://www.lenta.ru/news/2011/03/04/simonov/ - Arjun SinghArjun SinghArjun Singh was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party. He was the Union Minister of Human Resource Development in the Manmohan Singh cabinet from 2004 to 2009....
, 80, Indian politician, Minister of Human Resource DevelopmentMinistry of Human Resource Development (India)The Ministry of Human Resource Development is an Indian government ministry, responsible for the development of human resources...
(2004–2009), heart attack. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/veteran-congress-leader-arjun-singh-dead/145003-37-64.html - Alenush TerianAlenush TerianĀlenush Teriān was the first Iranian female astronomer and physicist. She was born to an Armenian family in Tehran, Iran....
, 90, Iranian astronomer and physicist. http://www.armenianweekly.com/2011/03/05/terian-passes-away/ - Simon van der MeerSimon van der MeerSimon van der Meer was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, two of the most fundamental constituents of matter.-Biography:One of four...
, 85, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/science/12vandermeer.html
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- Aldo ClementiAldo Clementi-Life:Aldo Clementi was born in Catania, Italy. He studied the piano, graduating in 1946. His studies in composition began in 1941, and his teachers included Alfredo Sangiorgi and Goffredo Petrassi. After receiving his diploma in 1954, he attended the Darmstadt summer courses from 1955 to 1962...
, 85, Italian composer. http://www.classicalmusic.org.uk/2011/03/composer-aldo-clementi-dies-aged-86.html - May CutlerMay CutlerMay Cutler was a Canadian author, journalist and publisher. Cutler founded Tundra Books in her basement in 1967, becoming Canada's first female publisher of children’s books...
, 87, Canadian author and publisher, founder of Tundra BooksTundra BooksTundra Books is the oldest children's book publisher in Canada.Tundra Books was founded in 1967 by May Cutler, a Montreal-based writer and editor. Cutler established the publishing company in the basement of her home, becoming the first woman to publish children's books in Canada. The U.S...
, first female Mayor of Westmount, QuebecWestmount, QuebecWestmount is a city on the Island of Montreal, an enclave of the city of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada; pop. 20,494; area 4.02 km²; population density of 5,092.56 inhabitants/km²....
(1987–1991). http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Former+Westmount+mayor+dies/4379996/story.html - Paquito DiazPaquito DiazFrancisco Bustillos Diaz, better known by his screen name Paquito Diaz , was a veteran Filipino actor and movie director. He specialized in action and comedy.-Early life and career:Diaz was born in Pampanga, Philippines...
, 73, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke. http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/307372/paquito-diaz-passes-away - James L. ElliotJames L. ElliotJames Ludlow Elliot was an American astronomer and scientist who, as part of a team, discovered the rings around the planet Uranus. Elliot was also part of a team that observed global warming on Triton, the largest moon of Neptune....
, 67, American astronomer, discovered rings of UranusRings of UranusThe planet Uranus has a system of rings intermediate in complexity between the more extensive set around Saturn and the simpler systems around Jupiter and Neptune. The rings of Uranus were discovered on March 10, 1977, by James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Douglas J. Mink...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/us/11elliot.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries - Lasse ErikssonLasse ErikssonLars Gunnar "Lasse" Eriksson was a Swedish comedian, actor and writer.Eriksson was born in Piteå, Sweden. He took a bachelor of arts in economic history before he initiated a theatrical career in the 1970s, when he played at the Panic Theatre in Uppsala...
, 61, Swedish comedian. http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/komikern-lasse-eriksson-dod (Swedish) - Goga KapoorGoga KapoorRavinder Kapoor , popularly known as Goga Kapoor, was an Indian film actor, who appeared mostly in Bollywood films. He had played supporting roles of that of villain's henchmen or that of gangster. He is mostly remembered as Kamsa in the TV serial Mahabharat, Dinkar Rao in the film Agneepath and...
, 70, Indian actor. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Actor-Goga-Kapoor-passes-away/articleshow/7619398.cms - Irena KwiatkowskaIrena KwiatkowskaIrena Kwiatkowska was a popular Polish actress, known in Poland for her many cabaret roles and monologues, as well as appearances in movies and television shows....
, 98, Polish actress. http://www.thenews.pl/national/artykul150496_irena-kwiatkowska-star-takes-final-bow.html - Al MorganAl MorganAl Morgan was an American producer of The Today Show during the 1960s, was a novelist best known for his trenchant look at media personalities, The Great Man , which reviewers compared to The Hucksters and Citizen Kane...
, 91, American novelist and television producer (The Today ShowThe Today ShowToday is an iconic American morning news and talk show airing every morning on NBC. Debuting on January 14, 1952, it was the first of its genre on American television and in the world. The show is also the fourth-longest running American television series...
), after long illness. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/brattleboro/obituary.aspx?n=Al-Morgan&pid=149097203 - Venkatraman RadhakrishnanVenkatraman RadhakrishnanVenkatraman Radhakrishnan was an internationally renowned space scientist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was Professor Emeritus of the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India, where he had been Director from 1972 to 1994.Professor Radhakrishnan was born in Tondaripet,...
, 81, Indian astrophysicist, cardiac complications. http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article1507018.ece - Theron StrindenTheron StrindenTheron Strinden was an American politician and businessman from North Dakota.Born in Litchville, North Dakota, Strinden went to college and then served in the United States Army during World War II. After the war, he returned to Litchville to work in his family's hardware and farm implement business...
, 91, American politician. http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/552543/Longtime-N-D--state-Sen--Theron-Strinden-dies.html?nav=5583 - James TraversJames Travers (journalist)James Travers was a Canadian journalist, best known as an editor and political correspondent for the Toronto Star....
, 62, Canadian journalist, political correspondent (Toronto StarToronto StarThe Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario...
), editor in chief (Ottawa CitizenOttawa CitizenThe Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Canada. According to the Canadian Newspaper Association, the paper had a 2008 weekly circulation of 900,197.- History :...
, 1991–1996), post-surgery complications. http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/03/03/17484596.html
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- Simeonie AmagoalikSimeonie AmagoalikSimeonie Amagoalik was an Inuit carver from Resolute, Nunavut, Canada. Amagoalik was born May 1, 1933 in Inukjuak, Northern Quebec. He died of cancer on March 2, 2011....
, 77, Canadian carver, cancer. http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2011-03/mar7_11dea.html - Shahbaz BhattiShahbaz BhattiClement Shahbaz Bhatti , popularly known as Shahbaz Bhatti, was a Pakistani politician and elected member of the National Assembly from 2008. He was the first Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs from November 2008 until his assassination on 2 March 2011 in Islamabad...
, 42, Pakistani politician, Minister for MinoritiesMinistry of Minorities (Pakistan)The Ministry of Minorities is a Cabinet-leveled ministry of the Government of Pakistan. The ministry's political figure is known as the Minister for Minorities. Shahbaz Bhatti served in this position from 2008 until March 2, 2011, when he was assassinated in Islamabad.The Ministry of Minorities...
(since 2008), shot. http://story.albuquerqueexpress.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/750615/cs/1/ - Anthony Walter Dayrell BrookeAnthony Walter Dayrell BrookeAnthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, , was appointed His Highness the Rajah Muda of Sarawak on 25 August 1937, and succeeded to the title of Rajah in 1963 on the death of his uncle, Rajah Vyner of Sarawak the third and last of the ruling White Rajahs.Brooke was the son of Bertram,...
, 98, British heir to the SarawakanKingdom of SarawakThe Kingdom of Sarawak was a state in Borneo established by Sir James Brooke in 1842 by receiving independent kingdom status from the Sultanate of Brunei as a reward for helping fight piracy and insurgency...
throne. http://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=anthony-walter-brooke&pid=149040738 - Bernard CywinskiBernard CywinskiBernard J. Cywinski, FAIA, was an American architect, whose works included the Liberty Bell Pavilion, built in 2003, which houses the Liberty Bell on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
, 70, American architect (Apple Store), partner and founder of Bohlin Cywinski JacksonBohlin Cywinski JacksonBohlin Cywinski Jackson is a United States-based architectural practice that was founded in 1965 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania by Peter Bohlin and Richard Powell. Bohlin's firm then merged with Bernard Cywinski's Philadelphia-based architectural practice in 1979...
, cancer. http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/117476498.html?c=r - John HainesJohn HainesJohn Haines was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska.John Meade Haines, who was born in Norfolk, Virginia, published nine collections of poetry. He was appointed the Poet Laureate of Alaska in 1969. A collection of critical essays about his poetry, The...
, 86, American poet. http://newsminer.com/bookmark/12139001-Former-Alaska-poet-laureate-John-Haines-dies - Erling KronerErling KronerErling Kroner was a Danish trombonist and bandleader.Kroner was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, but gained music education at Berklee College of Music in Boston during 1969–70 and 1973–74, though he played professionally as early as 1961, amongst others in Germany in the Dixieland Stompers...
, 67, Danish trombonist and bandleader, cancer. http://www.b.dk/kultur/dansk-jazzmester-er-doed (Danish) - Edward Barnes Leisenring, Jr.Edward Barnes Leisenring, Jr.Edward Barnes Leisenring, Jr. was president of the Westmoreland Coal Company from 1961 to 1988 and chairman of the board from 1988 to 1998.-Biography:...
, 85, American businessman. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/business/13leisenring.html?_r=1&hpw - Sir Allan LouisyAllan LouisySir Allan Fitzgerald Laurent Louisy, KCMG, PC was the second prime minister of independent St Lucia, following Sir John Compton in office...
, 94, Saint Lucian politician and judge, Prime Minister (1979–1981). http://www.antiguaobserver.com/?p=55251 - Ruby MuhammadRuby MuhammadRuby Muhammad was an American religious figure known as the "Mother of the Nation of Islam." She was born in Sandersville, Georgia and grew up in Americus...
, 103, American spiritual figure, lung cancer. http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/05/3451162/centenarian-muhammads-life-spanned.html - Art StatutoArt StatutoArthur John Statuto was an American football center who played for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League and the Buffalo Bills of the All-America Football Conference.- References :...
, 85, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). http://www.northjersey.com/news/030611_Allendales_Art_Statuto_85_played_for_Notre_and_Buffalo_Bills.html - Thor VilhjálmssonThor VilhjálmssonThor Vilhjálmsson was an Icelandic writer. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Over the course of his life Vilhjálmsson wrote novels, plays and poetry and also did translations...
, 85, Icelandic author, natural causes. http://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2011/03/02/thor_vilhjalmsson_latinn/ (Icelandic)
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- Barklie LakinBarklie LakinRichard Barklie Lakin, DSO, DSC& Bar was a British industrialist, chairman of Vickers Armstrong and an officer in the Royal Navy during the Second World War....
, 96, British industrialist (Chairman of Vickers ArmstrongVickers ArmstrongVickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927...
) and naval officer, natural causes http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/news-articles/33994-times-obit-lt-cdr-barklie-lakin-dso-dsc-bar-rn.html - Leonard LomellLeonard LomellLeonard G. “Bud” Lomell was a highly decorated former United States Army Ranger who served in World War II. He is best known for his actions in the first hours of D-Day at Pointe du Hoc on the coast of Normandy, France...
, 91, American World War II veteran, recipient of the Silver StarSilver StarThe Silver Star is the third-highest combat military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States armed forces for valor in the face of the enemy....
and Purple HeartPurple HeartThe Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those who have been wounded or killed while serving on or after April 5, 1917 with the U.S. military. The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is located in New Windsor, New York...
, natural causes. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/leonard_lomell_d-day_hero_from.html - John M. LoungeJohn M. LoungeJohn Michael "Mike" Lounge was an American engineer, a US Navy officer, a Vietnam war veteran, and a NASA astronaut. A veteran of three space shuttle flights, Lounge logged over 482 hours in space...
, 64, American NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
astronaut (1981–1991), complications from liver cancer. http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-030111a.html - Ion MoneaIon MoneaIon Monea was a Romanian Olympic light heavyweight boxer.-Amateur career:Monea was born in in Tohanu Vechi, Braşov, Romania, and was the 1968 Olympic Light Heavyweight Silver Medalist at Mexico City, and the 1960 Olympic Middleweight Bronze Medalist at Rome.-References:* *...
, 70, Romanian Olympic silver (19681968 Summer OlympicsThe 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico in October 1968. The 1968 Games were the first Olympic Games hosted by a developing country, and the first Games hosted by a Spanish-speaking country...
) and bronze (19601960 Summer OlympicsThe 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...
) medal-winning boxer. http://www.antena3.ro/sport/alte-sporturi/fostul-pugilist-ion-monea-a-incetat-din-viata-la-70-de-ani-119621.html (Romanian) - Fateh Singh RathoreFateh Singh RathoreFateh Singh Rathore is India's best known tiger conservationist. Fateh Singh joined the Indian Forest Service in 1960 and was part of the first Project Tiger team. He was widely acknowledged as the tiger guru for his legendary knowledge of the big cat. He worked over 50 years in wildlife...
, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8360331/Fateh-Singh-Rathore.html - Hazel RowleyHazel RowleyHazel Joan Rowley was a British-born Australian author and biographer.Born in London, Rowley emigrated with her parents to Adelaide at the age of eight. She studied at the University of Adelaide, graduating with Honours in French and German. Later she acquired a PhD in French...
, 59, British-born Australian writer (Tête-à-têteTête-à-tête (book)Tête-à-tête is a non-fiction book by Hazel Rowley about the lives of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.-Awards and nominations:In 2006, the editors of Lire magazine considered it one of the twenty best books written in French of that year....
), cerebral haemorrhage. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/02/3153410.htm