The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2005.
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 2005
1
Edmund Adams, 90, English cricketer. Cissy van Bennekom, 93, Dutch film actress. George "Wild Child" Butler, 68, American blues musician. Sergio Campanato, 75, Italian mathematician. Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, American priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based. Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricketer, cancer. Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann. Stephen Anthony Mobley, 39, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
2
Bala Bredin, 88, British army general. Martin Denny, 93, American founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader. Hermann Dörnemann, 111, German supercentenarian and World War I veteran, oldest living person in Germany, heart failure. Tillie K. Fowler, 62, U.S. politician, former four-term Florida congresswoman. Rick Mahler, 51, American baseball pitcher, heart attack.
3
George Atkinson, 69, American businessman, inventor of the video rental. James Corbett, 96, Australian politician. Max M. Fisher, 96, American millionaire philanthropist, listed in Forbes 400. Rinus Michels, 77, Dutch football player and coach, former Netherlands national football team coach. Raveendran, 61, Indian composer and playback singer. Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress (Earth: Final Conflict, Fast Track, Angel Eyes), cancer. Brock Myrol, 29, RCMP officer.
4
Mihai Brediceanu, 84, Romanian musician. Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US Army in Iraq. Douglas Dumbleton, 86, New Zealand cricket umpire. Una Hale, 82, Australian operatic soprano. Yuri Kravchenko, 53, Ukrainian General of Internal Service and statesman, former interior minister of Ukraine. Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer.
5
George Worsley Adamson, 92, American-born British illustrator. Harold Brooks-Baker, 71, American publishing director of Burke's Peerage Limited. Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor. Morris Engel, 86, American photographer, cinematographer and filmmaker. Vance Gerry, 75, American animator and screenwriter (The Aristocats, Hercules, The Fox and the Hound). James McGirr Kelly, 76, American federal judge. David Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, English former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer.
6
Larned B. Asprey, 85, American chemist. Hans Bethe, 98, German-born American Nobel Laureate in Physics, discover of stellar fusion. Danny Gardella, 85, American baseball player, New York Giants outfielder. Gladys Marín, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer. Keith Rawle, 80, Australian rules footballer. Chuck Thompson, 83, American Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications of massive stroke. Tommy Vance, 64, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke. Teresa Wright, 86, American actress (Mrs. Miniver, Shadow of a Doubt, The Best Years of Our Lives, Oscar winner (1943), heart attack.
7
Walter Arendt, 80, German politician. A. W. Baxter, 78, Canadian winemaker. Helon Blount, 76, American musical theatre actress, born in Texas. John Box, 85, British production designer (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Oliver!), 4-time Oscar winner. Terry Buck, 61, Australian swimmer. Debra Hill, 54, American screenwriter and film producer (Halloween, Escape from New York, The Fisher King). Bildad Kaggia, 82, Kenyan politician. Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet. Sir Peregrine Rhodes, 79, British diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1982–1985) James Stuart, 76, American opera director.
8
Ross Benson, 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent. Larry Bunker, 76, American jazz drummer. Anna Haycraft, 72, English writer, lung cancer. César Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles and discovered the pion. Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops. Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress. Fred Rice, 86, American football coach. Jeremy Russell, 60, American cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer.