March 31st
* Claudia Heill, 29, Austrian judoka, silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, suspected suicide.
* Mel McDaniel, 68, American country music singer ("Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On"), cancer.
* Henry Taub, 83, American entrepreneur, founder of Automatic Data Processing, leukemia.
March 30th
* Harley Allen, 55, American bluegrass and country singer, cancer.
* Jack Fulk, 78, American businessman, co-founder of Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits.
* Johnny Harra, 64, American actor, Elvis impersonator.
* Wally Peterson, 93, American actor, singer and stage manager.
March 29th
* Jim Seymour, 64, American football player (Chicago Bears).
March 28th
* Guy M. Townsend, 90, American Air Force brigadier general and test pilot.
March 27th
* David E. Davis, 80, American automotive writer, editor and publisher (Car and Driver, Automobile), complications from bladder surgery.
* Farley Granger, 85, American actor (Strangers on a Train, Rope), natural causes.
* Ellen McCormack, 84, American pro-life activist and politician, two-time Presidential candidate (1976, 1980),
* DJ Megatron, 32, American disc jockey, shot.
March 26th
* Paul Baran, 84, American Internet pioneer, complications from lung cancer.
* Carl Bunch, 71, American drummer (Buddy Holly and the Crickets).
* Harry Coover, 94, American inventor (Super Glue).
* Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1979–1985) and 1984 Vice Presidential nominee, multiple myeloma.
March 25th
* Almena Lomax, 95, American journalist and civil rights activist, founder of the Los Angeles Tribune, after short illness.
March 24
* Lanford Wilson, 73, American playwright.
March 23rd
* José Argüelles, 72, American New Age author.
* Elizabeth Taylor, 79, British-American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cleopatra, BUtterfield 8), heart failure.
* Leonard Weinglass, 78, American civil rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer.
March 22nd
* Zoogz Rift, 57, American musician, painter and professional wrestler.
March 21st
* Michael Abramson, 62, American artist and photographer, kidney cancer.
* Barry Ackerley, 76, American businessman (Ackerley Group), former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, stroke.
* Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics, after long illness.
* Mayhew Foster, 99, American brigadier general, flew captured Hermann Goering to interrogation.
* Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician, heart failure.
* Joe Wizan, 76, Mexican born-American film producer and studio executive (Jeremiah Johnson, Dunston Checks In), after long illness.
March 20th
* Dorothy Young, 103, American actress, assistant to Harry Houdini.
March 19th
* Jim Roslof, 64, American artist (Dungeons and Dragons), cancer.
* Robert Ross, 92, American physician and medical school founder (Ross University), cancer.
March 18th
* Warren Christopher, 85, American diplomat, Secretary of State (1993–1997), complications from kidney and bladder cancer.
* Drew Hill, 54, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers), stroke.
* Charlie Metro, 91, American baseball player and manager (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics), mesothelioma.
March 17th
* Michael Gough, 94, British actor (Sleepy Hollow, Batman), after short illness.
* Ferlin Husky, 85, American country music singer, heart failure.
March 16th
* Lloyd Oliver, 88, American veteran, World War II code talker.
* James Pritchett, 88, American actor (The Doctors).
* James C. Tyree, 53, American businessman, chairman and CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times, cancer.
March 15th
* Melvin Sparks, 64, American jazz and soul guitarist, heart attack.
March 14th
* Big Jack Johnson, 70, American guitarist and blues singer.
March 13th
* Virginia Klinekole, 86, American politician, first female President of the Mescalero Apache.
* Jean Smith, 82, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* Owsley Stanley, 76, American-born Australian underground LSD chemist and sound engineer (Grateful Dead), traffic accident.
March 12th
* Ali Hassan al-Jaber, 56, Qatari photojournalist (Al Jazeera), shot.
* Margaret Fish, 112, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the United Kingdom.
* Joe Morello, 82, American drummer (The Dave Brubeck Quartet).
March 11th
* Jack Hardy, 63, American singer-songwriter.
* Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and film composer (Meet Me in St. Louis), natural causes.
* Frank Neuhauser, 97, American patent attorney and spelling bee champion, winner of the 1925 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
March 10th
* Bill Blackbeard, 84, American comic strip writer and editor.
* Eddie Snyder, 92, American composer ("Strangers in the Night", "Spanish Eyes").
March 9th
* David S. Broder, 81, American journalist (The Washington Post), complications from diabetes.
* Doris Burn, 87, American children's book author and illustrator.
March 8th
* Steven Kroll, 69, American children's book author, surgical complications.
* St. Clair Lee, 66, American musician (Hues Corporation).
* Mike Starr, 44, American bassist (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun). (body found on this date)
March 6th
* Jean Bartel, 87, American actress, Miss America 1943.
* Mike DeStefano, 44, American comedian (Last Comic Standing), heart attack.
March 4th
* 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.
March 3rd
* James L. Elliot, 67, American astronomer, discovered rings of Uranus.
* Al Morgan, 91, American novelist and television producer (The Today Show), after long illness.
March 2nd
* Bernard Cywinski, 70, American architect (Apple Store), partner and founder of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, cancer.
* John Haines, 86, American poet.
March 1st
* 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.
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