Deaths in March 2014 facts for kids

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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2014.

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.

March 2014

Alejandro Zaffaroni 1923-2014

Ryhor Baradulin 1935-2014

William R. Pogue 1930-2014

Sheila MacRae 1921-2014

Mohammed Fahim 1957-2014

Věra Chytilová 1929-2014

Reubin Askew 1928-2014

Ahmad Tejan Kabbah 1932-2014

Tony Benn 1925-2014

Robert Schwarz Strauss 1918-2014

Fred Phelps 1929-2014

Hilderaldo Bellini 1930-2014

James Rebhorn 1948-2014

Ignatius Zakka I Iwas 1933-2014

Adolfo Suárez 1932-2014

Jerry Roberts 1920-2014

James R. Schlesinger 1929-2014

Jeremiah Denton 1924-2014

March 1 - Werner Uebelmann, 92, Swiss entrepreneur and writer.
March 1 - Zdeněk Hajný, 72, Czech painter and psychologist.
March 1 - Alejandro Zaffaroni, 91, Uruguayan-American chemist and entrepreneur, complications of dementia.
March 1 - Bangaru Laxman, 74, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
March 1 - Alain Resnais, 91, French movie director.
March 1 - Nancy Charest, 55, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA for Matane (2003–2007).
March 1 - Eckart Höfling, 77, German Catholic priest.
March 2 - Ryhor Baradulin, 79, Belarusian poet, heart failure.
March 2 - Molly Bobak, 95, Canadian war artist, last surviving World War II artist, natural causes.
March 2 - Peter Bares, 78, German organist and composer.
March 3 - Stan Rickaby, 89, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion), natural causes.
March 3 - Aino-Maija Tikkanen, 86, Finnish actress (The Harvest Month), natural causes.
March 3 - Xu Chongde, 85, Chinese political scientist and professor.
March 3 - Curtis McClarin, 44, American actor (The Happening, Law & Order), brain aneurysm.
March 4 - Wu Tianming, 74, Chinese movie director and producer, heart attack.
March 4 - Mark Freidkin, 60, Russian poet, writer and singer.
March 4 - William R. Pogue, 84, American astronaut and Air Force pilot, natural causes.
March 4 - Jack Kinzler, 94, American aeronautical engineer, NASA technical director that helped save Skylab, natural causes.
March 4 - Boris Pustyntsev, 78, Russian human rights activist.
March 4 - Richard W. Burkhardt, 95, American academic, President of Ball State University (1978–1979), natural causes.
March 5 - Luis Villoro, 91, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher and writer, respiratory failure.
March 5 - Geoff Edwards, 83, American game show host (Starcade, Treasure Hunt) and actor (Petticoat Junction), pneumonia.
March 5 - Leopoldo María Panero, 65, Spanish poet.
March 6 - Rafael Aburto, 100, Spanish architect, natural causes.
March 6 - Sérgio Guerra, 66, Brazilian economist and politician, member of the Federal Senate (2003–2011), lung cancer.
March 6 - Manlio Sgalambro, 89, Italian philosopher and writer.
March 6 - Maurice Faure, 92, French politician and diplomat.
March 6 - Martin Nesbitt, 67, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (2004–2014), stomach cancer.
March 6 - Frank Jobe, 88, American orthopedic surgeon.
March 6 - Sheila MacRae, 92, English actress (The Honeymooners).
March 6 - Ron Murphy, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins).
March 6 - Alemayehu Atomsa, 45, Ethiopian politician, President of Oromia Region (2010–2014), typhoid fever.
March 7 - Tamás Nádas, 44, Hungarian aerobatics pilot and world champion air racer, plane crash.
March 7 - Heiko Bellmann, 63, German biologist, writer and photographer.
March 7 - Uwe Timm, 82, German writer and anarchist.
March 7 - Hal Douglas, 89, American voice actor and announcer, pancreatic cancer.
March 7 - Ned O'Gorman, 84, American poet, pancreatic cancer.
March 8 - William Guarnere, 90, American World War II veteran and author, natural causes.
March 8 - Victor Shem-Tov, 99, Bulgarian-born Israeli politician, Minister of Health (1970–1977).
March 8 - Wendy Hughes, Australian actress, cancer.
March 9 - Leo Bretholz, 93, Austrian-born American Holocaust survivor, activist and writer (Leap into Darkness).
March 9 - Gerard Mortier, 70, Belgian opera director and administrator, pancreatic cancer.
March 9 - Glenn McDuffie, 86, American World War II sailor, heart attack.
March 9 - Mohammed Fahim, Afghan politician and military commander, heart attack.
March 9 - William Clay Ford, Sr., 88, American businessman, pneumonia.
March 9 - Carlos Moreno, 75, Argentine actor and director, heart attack.
March 9 - Tonie Nathan, 91, American politician, first woman to receive an electoral vote in a presidential election, Alzheimer's disease.
March 10 - Joe McGinniss, 71, American author and political journalist, prostate cancer.
March 10 - Cynthia Lynn, 76, Latvian-born American actress, multiple organ failure.
March 11 - Bob Crow, 52, British trade union leader, heart attack.
March 11 - Marga Spiegel, 101, German writer and Holocaust survivor, natural causes.
March 11 - Nils Horner, 51, Swedish-British journalist (Sveriges Radio), shot.
March 11 - Brett Borgen, 79, Norwegian writer.
March 12 - Věra Chytilová, 85, Czech movie director.
March 12 - Jackie Gaughan, 93, American casino owner and gambler.
March 12 - Richard Coogan, 99, American actor.
March 12 - Jean Vallée, 72, Belgian songwriter and performer.
March 12 - David Sive, 91, American environmental lawyer.
March 12 - Ola L. Mize, 82, American army officer, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
March 12 - Paul C. Donnelly, 90, American aerospace pioneer.
March 12 - Kjell Nupen, 58, Norwegian artist, cancer.
March 13 - Reubin Askew, 85, American politician, Governor of Florida (1971-1979), stroke.
March 13 - Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 82, Sierra Leonean politician, President (1996–1997, 1998–2007).
March 13 - Icchokas Mera, 79, Lithuanian writer and screenwriter.
March 13 - Henk Weerink, 77, Dutch association football referee.
March 13 - Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr., 80, American real estate developer, natural causes.
March 14 - Tony Benn, 88, British politician and diarist.
March 14 - Otakar Brousek, Sr., 89, Czech actor.
March 14 - Meir Har-Zion, 80, Israeli military commando, natural causes.
March 14 - Ken Utsui, 82, Japanese actor (Super Giant), natural causes.
March 14 - Werner Rackwitz, 84, German opera director and politician.
March 14 - Sam Lacey, 66, American basketball player (Kansas City Kings), natural causes.
March 15 - David Brenner, 78, American comedian, cancer.
March 15 - Everett L. Fullam, 82, American Episcopalian scholar.
March 15 - Howard H. Callaway, 86, American politician, United States Secretary of the Army (1973–1975), brain hemorrhage.
March 15 - Clarissa Dickson Wright, 66, British celebrity chef.
March 15 - Cees Veerman, 70, Dutch musician (The Cats).
March 15 - Jürgen Kurbjuhn, 73, German footballer (Hamburger SV).
March 15 - Paddy Cronin, 88, Irish fiddler.
March 16 - Gary Bettenhausen, 72, American race car driver.
March 16 - Markus Brüderlin, 55, Swiss art historian and curator.
March 16 - Alexander Pochinok, 56, Russian economist, politician, and civil servant, cardiac arrest.
March 16 - Donald Crothers, 77, American academic and educator, cancer.
March 16 - Lapiro de Mbanga, 56, Cameroonian musician, political and social activist, cancer.
March 17 - Mareike Carrière, 59, German actress, cancer.
March 17 - Marek Galiński, 39, Polish cyclist, traffic collision.
March 17 - Oswald Morris, 98, British cinematographer.
March 17 - Antoni Opolski, 101, Polish physicist, natural causes.
March 17 - Mercy Edirisinghe, 68, Sri Lankan actress and singer.
March 18 - Jorge Arvizu, 81, Mexican actor, heart failure.
March 18 - Kaiser Kalambo, 60, Zambian association football player and coach, prostate cancer.
March 18 - Dokka Umarov, 49, Chechen militant.
March 18 - Lucius Shepard, 70, American science fiction writer.
March 18 - Ben Staartjes, 85, Dutch Olympic sailor.
March 19 - Fred Phelps, 84, American pastor, congestive heart failure.
March 19 - Robert Schwarz Strauss, 95, American politician and diplomat, natural causes.
March 19 - Ernest Mühlen, Luxembourgish politician.
March 19 - Lawrence Walsh, 102, American lawyer and judge, Independent Counsel for the Iran–Contra affair, natural causes.
March 19 - Patrick Joseph McGovern, 76, American technology executive, founder and chairman of IDG.
March 20 - Khushwant Singh, 99, Indian journalist and writer (Train to Pakistan), natural causes.
March 20 - Hilderaldo Bellini, 83, Brazilian footballer, two-time World Cup winner (1958, 1962), cardiac arrest.
March 20 - Iñaki Azkuna, 71, Spanish politician, Mayor of Bilbao (since 1999), prostate cancer.
March 20 - Marc-Adélard Tremblay, 91, Canadian anthropologist.
March 20 - Gerhard Bondzin, 83, German painter and graphic artist.
March 21 - James Rebhorn, 65, American actor (Scent of a Woman, Independence Day, Homeland).
March 21 - Dennis Jackson, 82, English footballer.
March 21 - Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, 80, Iraqi religious leader, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church (since 1980).
March 21 - André Lavagne, 100, French composer.
March 22 - Mickey Duff, 84, Polish-English boxing promoter and manager, natural causes.
March 22 - Patrice Wymore, 87, American actress and philanthropist, natural causes.
March 22 - Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, 85, Indian author.
March 22 - Yngve A. A. Larsson, 97, Swedish medicine professor and diabetologist, natural causes.
March 22 - Riina Gerretz, 74, Estonian pianist.
March 23 - Adolfo Suárez, 81, Spanish politician and lawyer, Prime Minister (1976–1981), respiratory infection.
March 23 - Jaroslav Šerých, 86, Czech painter, printmaker and illustrator.
March 23 - Miroslav Štěpán, 68, Czechoslovakian politician, member of the Central Committee for the Communist Party (1988–1989), complications from cancer.
March 23 - Dave Brockie, 50, Canadian-American musician (Gwar).
March 23 - Peter Oakley, 86, British Internet vlogger, cancer.
March 23 - Jürg Neuenschwander, 67, Swiss organist and composer.
March 23 - David Henshaw, 74, New Zealand cartoonist.
March 24 - Robert F. Coleman, 59, American mathematician.
March 24 - Paulo Schroeber, 40, Brazilian guitarist (Almah), heart failure due to surgical complications.
March 24 - Rodney Wilkes, 89, Trinidadian Olympic medal-winning weightlifter (1948, 1952).
March 25 - Nanda, 75, Indian actress (Teen Devian, Gumnaam, Chhoti Bahen), heart attack.
March 25 - Ralph Wilson, 95, American businessman and owner of Buffalo Bills.
March 25 - Jerry Roberts, 93, British wartime codebreaker, worked with Adolf Hitler.
March 25 - Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi, 89, Iranian historian and writer.
March 25 - Jonathan Schell, 70, American writer, journalist and anti-war activist, cancer.
March 25 - Sonny Ruberto, 68, American baseball player (San Diego Padres), cancer.
March 26 - Dick Guidry, 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1950–1954, 1964–1976).
March 26 - George Bookasta, 96, American child actor and television director, pneumonia.
March 27 - James R. Schlesinger, 85, American politician, Secretary of Defense (1973–1975), Secretary of Energy (1977–1979), pneumonia.
March 27 - Jeffery Dench, 85, British actor (First Knight).
March 27 - Per Lillo-Stenberg, 85, Norwegian actor.
March 27 - Richard Nelson Frye, 94, American orientalist and historian.
March 27 - Derek Martinus, 82, British television director (Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Z-Cars), Alzheimer's disease.
March 27 - Edwin Kagin, 73, American lawyer, national legal director for the American Atheists, heart disease.
March 28 - Jeremiah Denton, 89, American politician and rear admiral, Senator from Alabama (1981–1987), recipient of the Navy Cross, heart failure.
March 28 - Lorenzo Semple, Jr., 91, American screenwriter, creator of Batman, natural causes.
March 29 - Karl Spillman Forester, 73, American judge.
March 29 - Yosef Hamadani Cohen, 98, Iranian Jewish leader, Chief Rabbi of Iran (since 1994).
March 29 - Marc Platt, 100, American dancer and actor, natural causes.
March 29 - Hobart Alter, 80, American surfer and boat designer (Hobie cat).
March 30 - Phuntsok Wangyal, 91, Chinese Tibetan politician, military leader and government critic, lung failure.
March 30 - Kate O'Mara, 74, English actress (Dynasty, Doctor Who).
March 30 - Birgitta Valberg, 97, Swedish actress.
March 30 - Dane Witherspoon, 56, American actor (Santa Barbara).
March 30 - Jan de Graaff, 70, Dutch television journalist.
March 31 - Irene Fernandez, 67, Malaysian human rights activist, heart failure.
March 31 - Frankie Knuckles, 59, American disc jockey and record producer, diabetes complications.
March 31 - Enrique Plancarte Solís, 43, Mexican drug lord, shot.
March 31 - Gonzalo Anes, 82, Spanish economist, professor and historian.
March 31 - Charles Keating, 90, American banker in the savings and loan crisis.
March 31 - David Hannay, 74, Australian movie producer, cancer.
March 31 - Ferdinand Masset, 93, Swiss politician, natural causes.
March 31 - Władysław Filipowiak, 87, Polish archaeologist and historian.

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