The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2011.
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 2011
1
Barklie Lakin, 96, British industrialist (Chairman of Vickers Armstrong) and naval officer. Leonard Lomell, 91, American World War II veteran, recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart, natural causes. John M. Lounge, 64, American NASA astronaut (1981–1991), complications from liver cancer. Ion Monea, 70, Romanian Olympic silver (1968) and bronze (1960) medal-winning boxer. Alina Paim, 91, Brazilian novelist. Fateh Singh Rathore, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist. Hazel Rowley, 59, British-born Australian writer (Tête-à-tête), cerebral haemorrhage.
2
Nicholas Alden, 25, American airman, shot. Simeonie Amagoalik, 77, Canadian carver, cancer. Louis Bazin, 90, French orientalist. Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, Minister for Minorities (since 2008), shot. Anthony Brooke, 98, British heir to the Sarawakan throne. Bernard Cywinski, 70, American architect (Apple Store), partner and co-founder of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, cancer. John Haines, 86, American poet. Erling Kroner, 67, Danish trombonist and bandleader, cancer. Edward Barnes Leisenring, Jr., 85, American businessman. Sir Allan Louisy, 94, Saint Lucian politician and judge, Prime Minister (1979–1981). Luis Martínez Villicaña, 71, Mexican politician, Governor of Michoacán (1986–1988), Secretary of Agrarian Reform (1982–1986). Ruby Muhammad, 103, American spiritual figure, lung cancer. Art Statuto, 85, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). Thor Vilhjálmsson, 85, Icelandic author, natural causes. Wu Jieping, 94, Chinese medical scientist and politician.
3
Aldo Clementi, 85, Italian composer. May Cutler, 87, Canadian author and publisher, founder of Tundra Books, first female Mayor of Westmount, Quebec (1987–1991). Paquito Diaz, 73, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke. James L. Elliot, 67, American astronomer, discovered rings of Uranus. Lasse Eriksson, 61, Swedish comedian. Goga Kapoor, 70, Indian actor. Irena Kwiatkowska, 98, Polish actress. Al Morgan, 91, American novelist and television producer (The Today Show), after long illness. Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, 81, Indian astrophysicist, cardiac complications. Theron Strinden, 91, American politician. James Travers, 62, Canadian journalist, political correspondent (Toronto Star), editor in chief (Ottawa Citizen, 1991–1996), post-surgery complications.
4
Bertil Almgren, 92, Swedish archaeologist. Charles F. Ashley, 74, American member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1982–1983). Paul Baxley, 87, American actor and stunt coordinator (The Dukes of Hazzard, Star Trek, Kolchak: The Night Stalker). Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 86, Nepali Prime Minister (1990–1991, 1999–2000), multiple organ failure. Mary Bowermaster, 93, American masters athletics champion. Frank Chirkinian, 84, American producer (CBS Sports), lung cancer. Annie Fargue, 76, French actress and manager, cancer. Vivienne Harris, 89, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish Telegraph. Charles Jarrott, 83, British film director (Anne of the Thousand Days, Mary, Queen of Scots, Condorman), prostate cancer. Chester Kahapea, 65, American soil scientist, known as the "face of Hawaiian statehood", complications of Lou Gehrig's disease. Ed Manning, 68, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets) and coach (San Antonio Spurs), heart condition. Johnny Preston, 71, American pop singer ("Running Bear"), heart failure. Mikhail Simonov, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness. Arjun Singh, 80, Indian politician, Minister of Human Resource Development (2004–2009), heart attack. Alenush Terian, 90, Iranian astronomer and physicist. María Ugarte, 97, Spanish-Dominican author, historian and journalist. Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
5
Eivor Alm, 86, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier. Jimmy Carnes, 76, American track and field athlete, coach and administrator, cancer. Mario Coppola, 74, Italian nuclear physicist. Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries). Oswald Georg Hirmer, 81, German-born South African Roman Catholic missionary, Bishop of Umtata (1997–2008). Manolis Rasoulis, 65, Greek singer-songwriter, author and journalist. Viktor Voroshilov, 84, Soviet footballer.