Deaths in March 2007
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2007. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. March 2007 1 Manuel Bento, 58, Portuguese football goalkeeper (Portugal, S.L. Benfica), cardiac arrest. Otto Brandenburg, 72, Danish singer and actor. Colette Brosset, 85, French actress. Eddie Firestone, 86, American actor (Gunsmoke, Dallas, Duel), heart and respiratory failure. George Gabb, 79, Belizean artist, sculptor and writer, cardiac arrest. Sir Sydney Gun-Munro, 90, Vincentian politician, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979–1985), after long illness. Harold Michelson, 87, American production designer (Terms of Endearment, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Planes, Trains & Automobiles). Tinos Rusere, 61, Zimbabwean Deputy Minister for Mines and Environment, kidney failure. Bobby Speight, 76, American basketball player (NC State) and businessman, cancer. 2 Doris Anderson, 85, Canadian feminist, writer and editor of Chatelaine, pulmonary fibrosis. Thomas S. Kleppe, 87, American Secretary of Interior (1975–1977), Representative from North Dakota, Alzheimer's disease. Clem Labine, 80, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn and LA Dodgers), complications of brain surgery. Mike Mooney, 37, American football player with Georgia Tech and the 1993 San Diego Chargers. Ivan Safronov, 51, Russian defence correspondent for Kommersant, fall from building. William C. Sturtevant, 80, American Smithsonian Institution curator, emphysema. Henri Troyat, 95, French writer and historian, member of the Académie française. 3 Osvaldo Cavandoli, 87, Italian cartoonist. Jim Kaldis, 74, Australian politician. Benito Lorenzi, 81, Italian football striker (Italy, Inter Milan). Gene Oliver, 71, American baseball player in the 1960s, complications from lung surgery. Türkan Rado, 91, Turkish writer, educator and jurist. Saul Swimmer, 70, American documentary filmmaker (The Concert for Bangladesh), heart failure. Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, American etiquette authority and author, pneumonia. 4 Natalie Bodanya, 98, American operatic soprano. H. E. Carter, 96, American biochemist. Thomas Eagleton, 77, American Senator for Missouri (1969–1987), heart and respiratory complications. Bob Hattoy, 56, American President of California Fish & Game Commission, AIDS activist, complications from AIDS. Richard Joseph, 53, British video games soundtrack composer, lung cancer. Sunil Kumar Mahato, 41, Indian parliamentarian, shot. Tadeusz Nalepa, 63, Polish blues and rock singer, after long illness. Robert Prince, 77, American composer. John Thow, 57, American composer. Renee Williams, 29, American heaviest woman in the world, heart attack. Ian Wooldridge, 75, British sports journalist, cancer. 5 Alan Black, 64, British disc jockey. Joseph H. Conlin, 79, American impresario and opera director. Yvan Delporte, 78, Belgian editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine (1956–1968). Milton N. Hopkins, 80, American ornithologist and farmer. Ivo Lorscheiter, 79, Brazilian Catholic Bishop and advocate of liberation theology, multiple organ failure. Ivan Supek, 91, Croatian scientist, philosopher and writer. 6 Jean Baudrillard, 77, French postmodernist philosopher and sociologist. Allen Coage, 63, American-born Olympic judo bronze medalist and professional wrestler known as "Bad News Brown". Ernest Gallo, 97, American co-founder of E & J Gallo Winery. Pierre Moinot,