We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in March 2008

3/2/08
Jeff Healey, 41, Canadian jazz and blues-rock guitarist and vocalist, lung cancer

3/3/08
Norman "Hurricane" Smith, 85, British singer, recording engineer (The Beatles, Pink Floyd) and record producer.

3/4/08
Leonard Rosenman, 83, American Academy Award-winning composer, heart attack.

3/5/08
Eve Carson, 22, American student leader (UNC Chapel Hill), shot.

Stephen Oliver, 66, American actor (Peyton Place), gastric cancer.

3/6/08
Gloria Shayne Baker, 84, American songwriter (Rain Rain Go Away, Do You Hear What I Hear?), lung cancer.

3/16/08
Ivan Dixon, 76, American actor and director (Hogan's Heroes), hemorrhage.

3/23/08
Big Jack Armstrong, 62, American radio DJ.

Al Copeland, 64, American restaurateur, founder of Popeyes Chicken, salivary gland cancer.

Chase Tatum, 34, American WCW wrestler and road manager for Outkast, apparent accidental drug overdose.


3/24/08
Chalmers Alford, 53, American jazz guitarist, diabetes.

Richard Widmark, 93, American Academy Award-nominated actor (Kiss of Death, Judgment at Nuremberg), after long illness.

3/25/08
Abby Mann, 80, American Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Judgment at Nuremberg), heart failure.

Herb Peterson, 89, American fast food pioneer, inventor of the McDonald's Egg McMuffin.

3/26/08
Wally Phillips, 82, American radio personality, pioneer of talk radio, Alzheimer's disease.

3/27/08
Beverly Broadman, 60, American broadcaster with CNN and CBS News, cancer.

3/30/08
Sean Levert, 39, American R&B singer.

Jim Mooney, 88, American comic book artist.

Dith Pran, 65, Cambodian-born American journalist, survivor of the Killing Fields, pancreatic cancer.

3/31/08
Jules Dassin, 96, American Academy Award–nominated film director (The Naked City, Rififi, Never on Sunday), influenza.