Deaths In March 2012

March 2012

1st
Phillip R. Allen, 72, American actor (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, The Bad News Bears).
Alice Arden, 97, American Olympic (1936) high jumper.
Luigi Bazzoni, 82, Italian film director (Pride and Vengeance, The Fifth Cord).
Andrew Breitbart, 43, American publisher and political commentator, apparent heart attack.
Jerome Courtland, 85, American actor, director, and producer, heart disease.
Jack Fouts, 86, American football player and coach.
Callan Pinckney, 72, American fitness professional, created Callanetics.

2nd
Doug Furnas, 52, American professional wrestler, heart disease.
John Panelli, 85, American football player (Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals).
Stan Stearns, 76, American photographer (John F. Kennedy, Jr. salute), lung cancer.
James Q. Wilson, 80, American political scientist, co-author of the broken windows theory, leukemia.

3rd
Steve Bridges, 48, American impressionist.
Leonardo Cimino, 94, American actor (Moonstruck, Dune), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Lloyd Hittle, 88, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
Franklin McMahon, 90, American artist and reporter.
Ralph McQuarrie, 82, American conceptual designer and illustrator (Star Wars, Cocoon).
Frank Marocco, 81, American accordionist, arranger and composer.
Ronnie Montrose, 64, American guitarist (Montrose), suicide.
Jim Obradovich, 62, American baseball player (Houston Astros).
Norris Stevenson, 72, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Edmonton Eskimos, BC Lions), cancer.
Alex Webster, 80, American football player (New York Giants, Montreal Alouettes) and coach (New York Giants).

4th
Paul McBride, 46, British lawyer.
Pete McCaffrey, 74, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) basketball player.
Don Mincher, 73, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, California Angels, Oakland Athletics), President of the Southern League (2000–2011).
Joan Taylor, 82, American actress (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, The Rifleman), natural causes. (Awwwwwww....Millie, the owner of the General Store.)

5th
Bill Green, 50, American sprinter, cancer.
William Heirens, 83, American serial killer.
Rushworth Kidder, 67, American ethicist and writer, natural causes.
Roland Lakes, 72, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants).
Philip Madoc, 77, Welsh actor (Dad's Army, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George).
Robert B. Sherman, 86, American songwriter (Sherman Brothers).
Ken Shipp, 83, American football coach.
William O. Wooldridge, 89, American army officer.

6th
Maurice Moyer, 93, American reverend and civil rights leader.
Helen Walulik, 82, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).

7th
Cris Alexander, 92, American actor and photographer.
Greg Novak, 61, American writer and wargame designer.
Big Walter Price, 97, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist.

8th
LaVerne Carter, 86, American bowler, heart failure.
Leslie Cochran, 60, American street personality, activist, and politician, head trauma.
Bugs Henderson, 68, American blues guitarist, cancer.
Charlie Hoag, 81, American Olympic gold-medal winning basketball player (1952).
Steve Romeo, 40, American ski mountaineer, avalanche.
Steven Rubenstein, 49, American anthropologist.(body discovered on this date)

9th
Peter Bergman, 72, American comedian (The Firesign Theater), leukemia.
Dennis Bowen, 61, American actor (Caddyshack II; Welcome Back, Kotter).
Willye Dennis, 85, American civil rights activist and politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1992–1999).
Thomas Locker, 74, American author and painter.
Selma Rubin, 96, American activist and environmentalist.
Terry Teene, 70, American singer and clown, injuries from a traffic collision.
Harry Wendelstedt, 73, American baseball umpire.

10th
Bert R. Bulkin, 82, American aeronautical engineer.
Julio César González, 35, Mexican Olympic boxer, injuries from a hit and run.
Jay McMullen, 90, American journalist (CBS News).
Frank Sherwood Rowland, 84, American chemistry professor, Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1995), Parkinson's disease.

11th
Hub Andrews, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants).
Sid Couchey, 92, American comic book artist (Richie Rich, Little Lotta, Little Dot), Burkitt's lymphoma.
Wayne Frazier, 73, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs).
James B. Morehead, 95, American World War II flying ace, stroke complications.
Lanier W. Phillips, 88, American civil rights activist.
John Souza, 91, American soccer player (1950 World Cup, 1948 and 1952 Olympics).
Leon Spencer, 66, American jazz organist.

12th
Samuel Glazer, 89, American entrepreneur and businessman, co-developer of Mr. Coffee, leukemia.
Dick Harter, 81, American basketball coach (Charlotte Hornets, University of Oregon), cancer.
Michael Hossack, 65, American drummer (The Doobie Brothers), cancer.

13th
Tom Johnson, 89, American astronomer and businessman, founder of Celestron.
Eileen McDonough, 49, American child actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Waltons).

14th
Josie DeCarlo, 82, French model, inspiration for Josie of Josie and the Pussycats.
Eddie King, 73, American Chicago blues musician.

15th
Alice Amsden, 68, American economist and MIT professor.
Bob Day, 67, American Olympic (1968) distance runner, bladder cancer.
Fran Matera, 87, American comic strip artist.
Dave Philley, 91, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Athletics)
Joe Stanley, 104, American World War II pilot, commander of Eglin Air Force Base.

16th
Lee Balterman, 91, American photographer.
M. A. R. Barker, 83, American professor, fantasy novelist, and role-playing game creator.
Robert Hails, 89, American air force general, vice commander of Tactical Air Command.
Robert L. Hall, 85, American anthropologist, authority on Native American culture, complications from carcinoid cancer.
Donald E. Hillman, 93, American World War II flying ace.
Eldon Nelson, 85, American jockey.
Anita Steckel, 82, American feminist artist.

17th
Patience Abbe, 87, American children's author.
Paul Boyer, 76, American historian.
Bernard Cohen, 87, American nuclear physicist.
Chaleo Yoovidhya, 88, Thai businessman (Red Bull), natural causes.
Fakhra Younus, 33, Pakistani acid attack victim, suicide by jumping.

18th
Furman Bisher, 93, American sports writer (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), heart attack.
William G. Moore Jr., 91, American Air Force general.

19th
Gene DeWeese, 78, American author.

20th
Ralph P. Hummel, 74, American political scientist.
Noboru Ishiguro, 73, Japanese animator and animation director (Space Battleship Yamato, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Megazone 23).
Mel Parnell, 89, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), cancer.

21st
Lacy Banks, 68, American sports columnist (Chicago Sun Times) and author, heart disease.
Ron Erhardt, 81, American football coach (New England Patriots, New York Giants, New York Jets).
Murray Lender, 81, American entrepreneur (Lender's Bagels), complications from a fall.

22nd
Joe Blanchard, 83, American player of Canadian football (Edmonton Eskimos), professional wrestler and promoter, squamous-cell carcinoma.
Ted Cutting, 85, British automotive engineer, designed Aston Martin DBR1.
Jackson Narcomey, 70, American painter.
John Payton, 65, American civil rights attorney (Gratz v. Bollinger).
Mickey Sullivan, 80, American baseball coach.

23rd
Jim Duffy, 75, American animator (Rugrats, The Smurfs), cancer.
Eric Lowen, 60, American singer and songwriter ("We Belong", "Everything I Wanted"), complications from ALS.
Lonnie Wright, 68, American football (Denver Broncos) and basketball (Denver Rockets) player, heart failure.

24th
Dennis Bennett, 72, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox.
Marion Marlowe, 83, American singer and stage actress, natural causes.
Nick Noble, 85, American pop and country singer ("The Tip of My Fingers", "Moonlight Swim").

25th
Priscilla Buckley, 90, American writer, managing editor of National Review, sister of William F. Buckley, Jr.
Hal Chester, 91, American film producer and former child actor.
Lex, 12, American Marine service dog, awarded honorary Purple Heart, cancer.
Roger Molander, 71, American anti-nuclear activist, complications from liver cancer.
Larry Stevenson, 81, American skateboard innovator, pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.
Bert Sugar, 74, American boxing writer and historian, cardiac arrest.


26th
Sisto Averno, 86, American football player (Baltimore Colts).

27th
Hilton Kramer, 84, American art critic, co-founder of The New Criterion.
Adrienne Rich, 82, American feminist poet and essayist, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.
Warren Stevens, 92, American actor (Forbidden Planet, The Barefoot Contessa), lung disease.
Garry Walberg, 90, American actor (Quincy, M.E., The Odd Couple). chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure.

28th
Etel Billig, 79, American actress, brain aneurysm.
Harry Crews, 76, American author, neuropathy.
Jerry McCain, 81, American blues musician.
Willie May, 75, American Olympic hurdle medalist (1960), amyloidosis.
Earl Scruggs, 88, American bluegrass musician, natural causes.
Neil Travis, 75, American film editor (Dances with Wolves, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines), natural causes.
Addie L. Wyatt, 88, American labor and civil rights leader, long illness.

29th
Luke Askew, 80, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Easy Rider, The Green Berets).
Gerald Estrin, 90, American computer science pioneer.
Bill Jenkins, 81, American NHRA drag racer.
Kenneth Libo, 74, American historian of Jewish immigration.
Montjeu, 16, Irish racehorse, septicemia.
Ray Narleski, 83, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), natural causes.

30th
Raja Ashman Shah, 53, Malaysian royal, son of the Sultan of Perak, asthma attack.
Granville Semmes, 84, American entrepreneur, founder of 1-800-FLOWERS.

31st
G. Emerson Cole, 93, American radio broadcaster.
Dale R. Corson, 97, American physicist, President of Cornell University (1969–1977), heart failure.
Bernard O. Gruenke, 99, American stained glass artist.
Jerry Lynch, 81, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds), prostate cancer.
Micah True, 58, American ultramarathon runner. (body found on this date)
Halbert White, 61, American economist, cancer.