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Deaths in March 2008
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2008.
- Nikolai Baibakov, 97, Russian economist, Gosplan head (1955–1957, 1965–1985), pneumonia. [1] (Russian)
- Jules Dassin, 96, American Academy Award–nominated film director (The Naked City, Rififi, Never on Sunday), influenza. [2]
- William L. Dickinson, 82, American judge and Representative from Alabama (1965–1993), colon cancer. [3]
- Robert F. Goheen, 88, American President of Princeton University (1957–1972), Ambassador to India (1977–1980), heart failure. [4]
- Bill Keightley, 81, American equipment manager for Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball since 1962, bleeding from spinal tumor. [5]
- David Todd, 93, American architect, designed Manhattan Plaza, former chairman of NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. [6]
- Marie-Françoise Audollent, 70, French actress, accidental fall. [7] (French)
- Anders Göthberg, 32, Swedish guitarist (Broder Daniel). [8] (Swedish)
- Douglas Kent Hall, 69, American photographer. [9]
- David Leslie, 54, British racing driver and commentator, Farnborough plane crash. [10]
- Sean Levert, 39, American R&B singer. [11]
- Richard Lloyd, 63, British racing driver and team owner, Farnborough plane crash. [12]
- Jim Mooney, 88, American comic book artist. [13]
- David D. Newsom, 90, American Ambassador to the Philippines (1977-1978), respiratory failure. [14]
- Dith Pran, 65, Cambodian-born American journalist, survivor of the Killing Fields, pancreatic cancer. [15]
- Angus Fairhurst, 41, British artist, suicide by hanging. [16] [17]
- Allan Ganley, 77, British jazz drummer. [18]
- Josef Mikl, 78, Austrian painter, cancer. [19]
- Isabella Nardoni, 5, Brazilian murder victim, thrown out of window. [20]
- Ralph Rapson, 93, American architect, heart attack. [21]
- Albert Stallard, Baron Stallard, 86, British Labour MP and life peer. [22]
- Myint Thein, 62, Burmese National League for Democracy spokesman, stomach cancer. [23]
- Jean-Marie Balestre, 86, French former President of FISA and later FIA. [29]
- Beverly Broadman, 60, American broadcaster with CNN and CBS News, cancer. [30]
- Billy Consolo, 73, American baseball player and coach, heart attack. [31]
- George Pruteanu, 60, Romanian literary critic and senator, heart attack. [32]
- Heath Benedict, 24, American football offensive lineman (Newberry College), 2008 NFL Draft prospect. [33]
- Christian Bergelin, 62, French politician. [34] (French)
- Robert Fagles, 74, American professor, poet and translator of ancient epics, prostate cancer. [35]
- Manuel Marulanda, 78, Colombian founder and commander-in-chief of terrorist organization FARC. [36]
- Wally Phillips, 82, American radio personality, pioneer of talk radio, Alzheimer's disease. [37]
- Art Aragon, 80, American boxer, stroke. [38]
- Ben Carnevale, 92, American college basketball coach. [39]
- Tony Church, 77, British actor. [40]
- Jimmy Dell, 83, British Wing Commander and test pilot. [41]
- Thierry Gilardi, 49, French journalist and TF1 sports commentator, heart attack. [42]
- Abby Mann, 80, American Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Judgment at Nuremberg), heart failure. [43]
- Herb Peterson, 89, American fast food pioneer, inventor of the McDonald's Egg McMuffin. [44]
- Gene Puerling, 78, American vocal jazz musician, singer, musical arranger for the Hi-Los and Singers Unlimited. [45]
- Edward Rafeedie, 79, American senior judge for the California Central District Court, cancer. [46]
- Sérgio de Souza, 73, Brazilian journalist, co-founder and editor of Caros Amigos magazine, respiratory illness. [47] (Portuguese)
- Ivan Toms, 55, South African physician, activist against apartheid and conscription, meningitis. [48]
- Chalmers Alford, 53, American jazz guitarist, diabetes. [49]
- Rafael Azcona, 81, Spanish scriptwriter, lung cancer. [50]
- Victor Christ-Janer, 92, American architect. [51]
- John Cushley, 65, Scottish footballer (Celtic, West Ham United), motor neurone disease. [52]
- Ray Drinkwater, 76, British footballer (Queens Park Rangers). [53]
- Boris Dvornik, 68, Croatian actor, stroke. [54]
- Mary Joan Nielubowicz, 79, American head of the Navy Nurse Corps (1983–1987). [55]
- Hal Riney, 75, American advertising executive, founder of Publicis & Hal Riney, cancer. [56]
- Dina Sassoli, 87, Italian actress. [57] (Italian)
- Steven Sueppel, 42, American vice-president of Hills Bank and Trust Company, thief and murderer, suicide by car crash. [58]
- Sam Toy, 84, British chair of Ford UK (1980–1986). [59]
- Richard Widmark, 93, American Academy Award-nominated actor (Kiss of Death, Judgment at Nuremberg), after long illness. [60]
- Sherri Wood, 28, Canadian journalist (Toronto Sun), brain cancer. [61]
- Big Jack Armstrong, 62, American radio DJ. [62]
- Neil Aspinall, 66, British road manager for The Beatles and executive of Apple Corps, lung cancer. [63]
- Al Copeland, 64, American restaurateur, founder of Popeyes Chicken, salivary gland cancer. [64] [65]
- Maryam Farman Farmaian, 94, Iranian feminist activist. [66]
- E. A. Markham, 68, Montserrat-born British poet and writer. [67]
- George Switzer, 93, American mineralogist, acquired the Hope Diamond for the Smithsonian Institution, pneumonia. [68]
- Chase Tatum, 34, American former WCW wrestler and road manager for Outkast, apparent accidental drug overdose. [69] [70]
- Robert Dyk, 71, American television reporter (ABC News, WMTW-TV), cancer. [71]
- Arbella Ewing, 114, American who was the third-oldest verified person in the world. [72]
- Cachao López, 89, Cuban musician credited with creating mambo, renal failure. [73]
- Harvey Picker, 92, American philanthropist. [74]
- Adolfo Suárez Rivera, 81, Mexican cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Monterrey, brain hemorrhage. [75]
- Gadzhi Abashilov, 58, Russian journalist, chief of VGTRK TV company in Dagestan, shot. [76]
- Henri Blaffart, 42, Belgian wildlife conservationist for Conservation International in New Caledonia, drowned. [77]
- Denis Cosgrove, 59, British geographer and Alexander von Humboldt professor of geography at UCLA, cancer. [78]
- Roy Foster, 62, American baseball player. [79]
- John Fowler, 42, American drummer (Steelheart), brain aneurysm. [80] [81]
- Lynne Golding-Kirk, 87, Australian ballerina, complications of surgery. [82]
- George Gross, 85, Canadian sports journalist, founding sports editor of the Toronto Sun, heart attack. [83]
- Shusha Guppy, 72, Iranian writer and singer. [84]
- Raymond Leblanc, 92, Belgian comic book producer and publisher (The Adventures of Tintin). [85]
- John List, 82, American mass murderer, complications of pneumonia. [86] [87]
- Gabriel París Gordillo, 98, Colombian military governor, chairman of Colombian Military Junta. [88] (Spanish)
- Waltrude Schleyer, 92, German widow of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, advocate against the Red Army Faction. [89]
- Ilyas Shurpayev, 32, Russian journalist responsible for North Caucasus news on Channel One, murder by strangulation. [90] [91]
- Merv Wallace, 91, New Zealand cricket captain (1952–1953). [92]
- Eric Ashton, 73, British rugby league player for Wigan and Great Britain, cancer. [93]
- Sobhan Babu, 71, Indian actor, cardiac arrest. [94]
- Alexandru Custov, 53, Romanian footballer. [95] (Romanian)
- Klaus Dinger, 61, German drummer (Neu!, Kraftwerk), heart failure. [96]
- Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, 81, Italian claimant to headship of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. [97] (Italian)
- Jon Hassler, 74, American author, progressive supranuclear palsy. [98]
- Al Hofmann, 60, American drag racer, heart attack. [99]
- Carlos Galvão de Melo, 86, Portuguese general, Conservative member of National Salvation Junta. [100] (Portuguese)
- Bestia Salvaje, 46, Mexican lucha libre wrestler, liver disease. [101]
- Abigail Taylor, 6, American girl whose severe swimming pool injury led to tougher laws. [102].
- Brian Wilde, 80, British comedic actor (Porridge, Last of the Summer Wine). [103]
- Joe Blackledge, 79, British cricketer, former captain and president of the Lancashire County Cricket Club. [104]
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Sri Lankan/British science fiction author (2001: A Space Odyssey), heart failure. [105]
- Hugo Claus, 78, Belgian author, voluntary euthanasia. [106]
- John Dowie, 93, Australian sculptor, stroke. [107]
- Mia Permanto, 19, Finnish singer, finalist in Idols. [108] (Finnish)
- Raghuvaran, 59, Indian actor, cardiac arrest. [109]
- Paul Scofield, 86, British Academy Award–winning actor (A Man for All Seasons), leukaemia. [110]
- Chantal Sébire, 53, French esthesioneuroblastoma sufferer and euthanasia activist, Pentobarbital overdose [111]
- Andrew Britton, 27, British-born spy novelist (The Assassin, The Invisible), undiagnosed heart condition. [112]
- Philip Jones Griffiths, 72, British photojournalist, cancer. [113]
- Jyrki Hämäläinen, 65, Finnish journalist, editor of Suosikki magazine. [114]
- Anthony Minghella, 54, British Academy Award-winning director (The English Patient), BFI chairman, post-surgery haemorrhage. [115]
- Geoffrey Pearson, 80, Canadian diplomat, son of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. [116] [117]
- Oreste Rizzini, 67, Italian voice actor, stomach cancer. [118] (Italian)
- Crispin Sanchez, 82, American pioneer of Mexican American education and sports. [119]
- Anura Bandaranaike, 59, Sri Lankan politician. [123]
- Bill Brown, 95, Australian cricket captain, member of 1948 Invincibles team. [124] [125]
- Ola Brunkert, 61, Swedish session drummer for ABBA, injuries from accidental fall. [126] [127]
- Wayne Davis, 44, American football player, motor neurone disease. [128]
- Ivan Dixon, 76, American actor and director (Hogan's Heroes), hemorrhage. [129]
- Gary Hart, 66, American professional wrestling manager, heart attack. [130]
- John Hewer, 86, British actor (Captain Birdseye), natural causes. [131]
- Metropolitan Laurus, 80, Czechoslovakian-born American first hierarch of the ROCOR. [132]
- Daniel MacMaster, 39, Canadian rock vocalist (Bonham), group A streptococcal infection. [133]
- Mary Meader, 91, American aerial photographer. [134]
- Bob Purkey, 78, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease. [135] [136]
- John Shedd Reed, 90, American president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (1967-1986), natural causes. [137]
- Jonathan Williams, 79, American poet, photographer and publisher, founder of The Jargon Society. [138]
- Jacob DeShazer, 95, American bombardier, participant in the Doolittle Raid. [139]
- Mikey Dread, 54, Jamaican singer, record producer and broadcaster, brain tumor. [140]
- Vytautas Kernagis, 56, Lithuanian singer, television announcer, gastric cancer. [141]
- G. David Low, 52, American astronaut, colon cancer. [142]
- Sam C. Pointer, Jr., 73, American federal judge for the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (1970-2000). [143]
- Ken Reardon, 86, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (Montreal Canadiens), Alzheimer's disease. [144]
- Ross Scaife, 47, American classicist and digital humanist, cancer. [145]
- Vicki Van Meter, 26, American pilot, apparent suicide by gunshot. [146]
- Clyde Cameron, 95, Australian politician, MP (1949–1980), Minister in the Whitlam Government. [147]
- Mike Dawson, 54, American football player, heart attack. [148]
- Chiara Lubich, 88, Italian Catholic activist, founder of the Focolare Movement. [149]
- Ingvald Ulveseth, 83, Norwegian politician. [150] (Norwegian)
- Taslim Arif, 53, Pakistani cricketer, lung infection. [151]
- Tessa Birnie, 73, New Zealand concert pianist. [152]
- Bill Bolick, 90, American country music performer (The Blue Sky Boys). [153]
- Iosif Boyarsky, 90, Russian former Soyuzmultfilm director, one of the fathers of Soviet animation. [154]
- Martin Fierro, 66, American saxophonist, cancer. [155]
- Scarlet Garcia, 23, Filipino model and actress, shot. [156]
- Rafael Tufiño, 85, Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, lung cancer. [157]
- Erwin Geschonneck, 101, German actor. [158]
- Jorge Guinzburg, 59, Argentine journalist and comedian, pulmonary infection. [159] [160]
- Alun Hoddinott, 78, Welsh composer. [161]
- Cassià Maria Just, 81, Spanish cleric, former abbot of Santa Maria de Montserrat, stroke. [162] (Spanish)
- Howard Metzenbaum, 90, American politician, former Senator from Ohio (1974, 1976–1995). [163]
- Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, 66, Romanian actor, cancer. [164]
- Károly Németh, 85, Hungarian politician. [165]
- Lazare Ponticelli, 110, last French veteran of World War I. [166]
- Asesela Ravuvu, 77, Fijian politician and former University of the South Pacific academic, natural causes. [167]
- Tom Tuohy, 90, British chemist, averted potential disaster at Windscale. [168]
- J. I. Albrecht, 77, American-born Canadian manager and director in the CFL, complications from a stroke. [169]
- Zakaria Deros, 62, Malaysian former politician, heart attack. [170]
- John Roderick, 93, American journalist (AP) and author, extensively covered China (1930s–2000s), heart failure and pneumonia. [171]
- Phyllis Spira, 64, South African prima ballerina, complications of surgery. [172]
- Michael J. Todd, 50, British Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police. [173]
- Lukas Vischer, 81, Swiss theologian. [174]
- Richard Biegenwald, 67, American serial killer. [175]
- William Richard Bradford, 61, American serial killer, natural causes. [176]
- Hugh Brown, 88, British Labour politician, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (1974–1979). [177]
- Chuck Day, 65, American blues guitarist, wrote the distinctive riff in "Secret Agent Man". [178]
- Kurt Eberling, Sr., 77, German-American inventor of SpaghettiOs, cancer. [179]
- Dennis Irwin, 56, American jazz double bassist, complications of cancer. [180]
- Ana Kalandadze, 83, Georgian poet. [181]
- Vangelis Kazan, 70, Greek actor. [182] (
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