Deaths in March 2000

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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2000.

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 2000

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  • Raymond Badin, 71, French gymnast and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Raymond Badin |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/I7Y_2BWGXjvW |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Odell Barnes, 31, American convict, execution by lethal injection.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Odell Barnes |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb137372130 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Jesper Høm, 68, Danish photographer and film director.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jesper Høm - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w66d72r5 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Vlastimir Peričić, 72, Serbian composer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Vlastimir Peričić |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12818129z |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Lionel Salter, 85, English pianist, conductor, and writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Lionel Salter |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13941245q |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Sumie Tanaka, 91, Japanese screenwriter and playwright.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sumie Tanaka |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb170372767 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=French |date=}}

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  • John Calvin Aker, 60, American judge.{{Cite news|url=http://www.somerset-kentucky.com/news/local_news/justice-aker-s-portrait-unveiled/article_dc6e9e48-54e8-11e4-8fd8-8fbe8d92fc7a.html|title=Justice Aker’s portrait unveiled|last=Shmidheiser|first=Ken|work=Commonwealth Journal|access-date=2017-06-24|language=en}}
  • Audun Boysen, 70, Norwegian middle distance runner and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Audun Boysen |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/74114 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Jimmy Lewis, 81, American double bassist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jimmy Lewis - Library of Congress |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007018554 |website=id.loc.gov |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Jack Robinson, 79, American baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/3940ef4e|last=Nowlin|first=Bill|title=Jack Robinson|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=2018-12-30}}
  • Sandra Schmirler, 36, Canadian curling champion, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Kathleen McElroy |title=Sandra Schmirler, 36, Dies; Olympic Curling Champion |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/04/sports/sandra-schmirler-36-dies-olympic-curling-champion.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=4 March 2000 |page=B 7}}
  • Charles E. Wiggins, 72, American politician and judge, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Charles Wiggins, 72, Dies; Led Nixon's Defense in Hearings |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/08/us/charles-wiggins-72-dies-led-nixon-s-defense-in-hearings.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=8 March 2000 |page=C 24}}

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  • Ranjana Deshmukh, 45, Indian actress, heart attack.
  • Paul Doguereau, 91, French pianist and piano teacher.{{cite news |author1= |title=Paul Doguereau, 91, Pianist and Teacher |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/09/arts/paul-doguereau-91-pianist-and-teacher.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=9 March 2000 |page=B 15}}
  • Toni Ortelli, 95, Italian composer and alpinist.
  • Nicole Van Goethem, 58, Belgian animator and illustrator.{{cite news |title=Oscar treurt om het verlies van Nicole |url=https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/oscar-treurt-om-het-verlies-van-nicole~bf9e2d28 |access-date=19 March 2023 |work=De Morgen |date=6 March 2000 |language=nl}}

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  • Hermann Brück, 94, German astronomer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Hermann Brück - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6pc6mcg |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Władysław Daniłowski, 97, Polish-American pianist, composer and singer.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Walter Dana, Polka Promoter, Dies at 96 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/13/arts/walter-dana-polka-promoter-dies-at-96.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=13 March 2000 |page=A 19}}
  • Kyi Kyi Htay, 75, Burmese actress.
  • Geeta Mukherjee, 76, Indian politician and social worker.
  • Julian Ritter, 90, American painter.
  • Donn J. Robertson, 83, United States Marine Corps officer.
  • Alphons Silbermann, 90, German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, and publicist.
  • Ta-You Wu, 92, Chinese theoretical physicist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Wu Ta-You - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w62r6h66 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Xie Xide, 78, Chinese physicist, breast cancer.

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  • Jon Barwise, 57, American mathematician, philosopher and logician, colon cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jon Barwise - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6t27gcb |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Lolo Ferrari, 37, French dancer, pornographic actress, actress and singer, suicide.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/667728.stm|title=Eurotrash star Lolo dies|work=BBC|date=2000-03-06|access-date=2018-12-24}}
  • Franklin Garrett, 93, American historian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Franklin Garrett - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6np3hx2 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Roma Mitchell, 86, Australian lawyer and Governor of South Australia, bone cancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/mar/10/guardianobituaries2|last=Zinn|first=Christopher|title=Dame Roma Mitchell: Woman at the forefront of legal reform in Australia|work=The Guardian|date=2000-03-09|access-date=2018-12-24}}
  • Todd Thomas, 40, American gridiron football player, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Todd Thomas Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Todd+Thomas |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Daniel Abraham Yanofsky, 74, Canadian chess grandmaster, writer, and arbiter.{{cite news |author1=Dylan Loeb McClain |title=Daniel Yanofsky, 74, Canadian Chess Champion |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/10/arts/daniel-yanofsky-74-canadian-chess-champion.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=10 March 2000 |page=B 9}}
  • Mikola Yermalovich, 78, Belarusian writer and historian.
  • Alexander Young, 79, British operatic tenor.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/mar/21/guardianobituaries3|last=Blyth|first=Alan|title=Alexander Young: Tenor whose interpretation of The Rake's Progress delighted Stravinsky|work=The Guardian|date=2000-03-20|access-date=2018-12-24}}

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  • S. Arumugam, 94, Sri Lankan Tamil engineer and writer.
  • Chris Balderstone, 59, English professional in cricket and football, prostate cancer.
  • John Colicos, 71, Canadian actor (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, X-Men), heart attack.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/08/arts/john-colicos-tv-film-and-stage-actor-71.html|last=The Associated Press|title=John Colicos, TV, Film and Stage Actor, 71|work=The New York Times|date=2000-03-08|access-date=2018-12-24}}
  • Jean-Pascal Curtillet, 57, French freestyle swimmer and Olympian.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Jean-Pascal Curtillet |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/46827 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 March 2023}}
  • Mirko Grmek, 76, Croatian and French historian of medicine, writer and scientist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mirko Grmek - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6pc75qz |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Ole Jacob Hansen, 59, Norwegian jazz musician (drums).
  • Abraham Waligo, 71, Ugandan politician, Prime Minister (1985-1986).

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  • Bill Daniels, 79, American cable television executive.{{cite news |author1=Nick Ravo |title=Bill Daniels, 79, Innovator In Cable Television Industry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/09/business/bill-daniels-79-innovator-in-cable-television-industry.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 March 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=9 March 2000 |page=B 15}}
  • Eileen Fowler, 93, English physical exercise instructor.
  • Charles Gray, 71, English actor (Diamonds Are Forever, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Mirror Crack'd), cancer.{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| title=Charles Gray, 71, Cats' Friend, Bond's Enemy| date=March 10, 2000| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/10/arts/charles-gray-71-cats-friend-bond-s-enemy.html}}
  • W. D. Hamilton, 63, British evolutionary biologist, organ dysfunction.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/mar/09/guardianobituaries3|last=Grafen|first=Alan|title=WD Hamilton: Biologist who died after Congo expedition was leading Darwinian theorist who explained how natural selection acts on social behaviour|work=The Guardian|date=2000-03-08|access-date=2018-12-24}}
  • Robert Hart, 86, English gardening pioneer.
  • Pee Wee King, 86, American singer-songwriter (co-wrote "Tennessee Waltz"), heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Neil Strauss |author-link1=Neil Strauss |title=Pee Wee King, 86, 'Tennessee Waltz' Writer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/10/arts/pee-wee-king-86-tennessee-waltz-writer.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=10 March 2000 |page=B 9}}
  • Edward H. Levi, 88, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General (1975–1977), Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |author1=Neil A. Lewis |author-link1=Neil Lewis (journalist) |title=Edward H. Levi, Attorney General Credited With Restoring Order After Watergate, Dies at 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/08/us/edward-h-levi-attorney-general-credited-with-restoring-order-after-watergate.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=8 March 2000 |page=C 25}}
  • Hirokazu Ninomiya, 82, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
  • Alimineti Madhava Reddy, 51, Indian politician, homicide.
  • Jack Sanford, 70, American baseball player, brain cancer.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Jack Sanford, 70; Pitcher Won 16 Straight |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/13/sports/jack-sanford-70-pitcher-won-16-straight.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=13 March 2000 |page=A 19}}
  • Kazuto Tsuruoka, 83, Japanese baseball player and manager.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kazuto Tsuruoka Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Kazuto+Tsuruoka |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Byron M. Tunnell, 74, American politician.
  • Nicolas Walter, 65, British anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Nicolas H. Walter Dies at 65; Feisty Atheist and Anarchist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/19/world/nicolas-h-walter-dies-at-65-feisty-atheist-and-anarchist.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=19 March 2000 |page=1 45}}
  • Masami Yoshida, 41, Japanese javelin thrower.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Masami Yoshida |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72683 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}

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  • Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 97, American socialite, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Enid Nemy |author-link1=Enid Nemy |title=Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 97, Socialite Turned Hunter and Prisoner of War |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/13/us/gertrude-sanford-legendre-97-socialite-turned-hunter-and-prisoner-of-war.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=13 March 2000 |page=A 19}}
  • Earle Gorton Linsley, 89, American entomologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Earle Gorton Linsley - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6qk0sd3 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Joe Mullaney, 75, American basketball player and coach, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Lena Williams |author-link1= |title=Joe Mullaney, 75, Providence Basketball Coach |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/11/sports/joe-mullaney-75-providence-basketball-coach.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=11 March 2000 |page=A 13}}
  • Vilho Ylönen, 81, Finnish cross-country skier, rifle shooter and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Vilho Ylönen |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/42059 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}

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  • Artyom Borovik, 39, Russian journalist and media magnate, plane crash.{{Cite web |title=Russian crash: search for terrorist link |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/672849.stm |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=news.bbc.co.uk}}
  • Ziya Bazhayev, 39, Russian businessman, plane crash.{{Cite news |date=20 March 2000 |title=Кому мешал Зия Бажаев |url=https://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/11278.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202181248/http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/11278.html |archive-date=2 February 2014 |work=Novaya Gazeta |language=ru}}
  • Jean Coulthard, 92, Canadian composer and music educator.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jean Coulthard - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6g44qq5 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Miguel Cruz, 89, Salvadoran football player.
  • Jim Egan, 79, Canadian LGBT rights activist, lung cancer.
  • Pierre Ghestem, 78, French bridge and checkers player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Pierre Ghestem |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/s-ZCz9K7sEDv |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Peter Hauser, 65, British football player and manager.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Peter Hauser |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/peter-hauser/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Pathanay Khan, Pakistan folk singer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Pathanay Khan |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15529833g |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Usha Kiran, 70, Indian actress.{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/2000/03/10/stories/0210000d.htm|title=Usha Kiran dead|work=The Hindu|date=2000-03-09|access-date=2018-12-24}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
  • Robert Parry, 67, British politician.
  • Ivo Robić, 77, Croatian singer-songwriter.

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  • Judith Barrett, 91, American film actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Judith Barrett - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/38420 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Barbara Cooney, 82, American author and illustrator.{{cite news |author1=Eden Ross Lipson |author-link1=Eden Ross Lipson |title=Barbara Cooney, 83, Children's Book Creator |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/15/books/barbara-cooney-83-children-s-book-creator.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=15 March 2000 |page=B 9}}
  • Ivan Hirst, 84, British Army officer and engineer.{{cite news |author1=Phil Patton |title=Ivan Hirst, British Officer Who Revived VW, Is Dead at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/22/business/ivan-hirst-british-officer-who-revived-vw-is-dead-at-84.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=22 March 2000 |page=B 10}}
  • William Porter, 73, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.{{cite news|url=https://www.worldathletics.org/news/news/olympic-gold-medallist-william-porter-dead-at|title=Olympic Gold Medallist William Porter dead at 73|work=International Association of Athletics Federations|date=2000-03-12|access-date=2018-12-24}}
  • John Sladek, 62, American science fiction author.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=John Sladek - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6px32p8 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}

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  • Kazimierz Brandys, 83, Polish essayist and script writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kazimierz Brandys |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kazimierz-Brandys |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Alex Dreier, 83, American news reporter and commentator, heart failure.
  • HB Jassin, 82, Indonesian literary critic and documentarian.
  • Noel Mulligan, 73, Australian rugby player.
  • Edgar Charles Polomé, 79, Belgian-American philologist and religious studies scholar.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Edgar C. Polomé - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w64c5ds1 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Will Roberts, 92, Welsh painter.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/mar/15/guardianobituaries|last=Evans|first=Rian|title=Will Roberts|work=The Guardian|date=2000-03-14|access-date=2018-12-24}}
  • Laureano López Rodó, 79, Spanish lawyer, diplomat and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Laureano López Rodó - DB~e |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/12351/laureano-lopez-rodo |website=dbe.rah.es |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=es |date=}}
  • Alfred Schwarzmann, 87, German Olympic gymnast.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Alfred Schwarzmann |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/30304 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}

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  • Billy Ivison, 79, British football and rugby player.
  • Aleksandar Nikolić, 75, Serbian basketball player and coach.
  • Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, 98, Chinese Catholic Bishop of Shanghai, stomach cancer.{{cite news |author1=Elisabeth Rosenthal |author-link1=Elisabeth Rosenthal |title=Cardinal Ignatius Kung, 98, Long Jailed by China, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/14/world/cardinal-ignatius-kung-98-long-jailed-by-china-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=14 March 2000 |page=C 30}}
  • Mack Robinson, 85, American track and field athlete, pneumonia.{{cite news |author1=Frank Litsky |author-link1=Frank Litsky |title=Mack Robinson, 85, Second to Owens in Berlin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/14/sports/mack-robinson-85-second-to-owens-in-berlin.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=14 March 2000 |page=C 30}}

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  • Harry Bright, 70, American baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/0f7c5f9e|last=Faber|first=Charles F.|title=Harry Bright|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=2018-12-30}}
  • Rex Everhart, 79, American actor (Beauty and the Beast, Friday the 13th, Family Business) and singer, lung cancer.{{cite news |author1=Robin Pogrebin |author-link1=Robin Pogrebin |title=Rex Everhart, An Actor, 79; Played Franklin on Broadway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/20/theater/rex-everhart-an-actor-79-played-franklin-on-broadway.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=20 March 2000 |page=B 8}}
  • Hamid Gada, Indian commander in the militant organisation Hizbul Mujahideen, K.I.A.
  • Cab Kaye, 78, Ghanaian-English jazz singer and pianist.
  • Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, 86, Indian Army general.
  • Carlo Tagnin, 67, Italian football player and manager, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Carlo Tagnin |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/carlo-tagnin/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Malcolm Wilson, 86, American politician and Governor of New York.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Former Gov. Malcolm Wilson, 86, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/14/nyregion/former-gov-malcolm-wilson-86-is-dead.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=3 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=14 March 2000 |page=C 31}}

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  • Kovai Chezhiyan, 68, Indian film producer and Kongu community leader.
  • Tommy Collins, 69, American country musician.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-mar-16-mn-9468-story.html|title=Tommy Collins; Writer of Country Music Hits|work=Los Angeles Times|date=2000-03-16|access-date=2018-12-24}}
  • C. Jérôme, 53, French singer, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - C. Jérôme |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/9sCnFcQs-_a6 |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Paul Smith, 54, American gridiron football player, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Paul Smith Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SmitPa01.htm |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Anne Wibble, 56, Swedish politician, cancer.
  • Ponchai Wilkerson, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

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  • Jaime García Añoveros, 68, American politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jaime García Añoveros - DB~e |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/10286/jaime-garcia-anoveros |website=dbe.rah.es |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=es |date=}}
  • Timothy Gribble, 36, American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer, execution by lethal injection.{{cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/2000/03/15/Texas-killer-executed-for-kidnap-murder/7574953096400/ |title=Texas killer executed for kidnap, murder |date=March 15, 2000 |work=United Press International |access-date=August 21, 2021}}
  • Clement L. Hirsch, 85, American businessman and racehorse owner, cancer.
  • Tomio Hora, 93, Japanese historian and academic.
  • Durward Kirby, 88, American television host and announcer.
  • Bobb McKittrick, 64, American gridiron football coach, cancer.
  • Darrell Keith Rich, 45, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.{{cite news|date=March 15, 2000|title=Remorse Before Execution|work=CBS News|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remorse-before-execution/|access-date=October 9, 2021}}
  • Rolf Römer, 64, German actor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Rolf Römer |url=https://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16131931s |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Idris Abdul Wakil, 74, Zanzibari politician, President (1985-1990).
  • Robert Welch, 70, English designer and silversmith.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/mar/23/guardianobituaries3|last=MacCarthy|first=Fiona|title=Robert Welch: His clocks, cutlery and candlesticks helped to define 'contemporary' style|work=The Guardian|date=2000-03-22|access-date=2018-12-24}}

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  • Morris Berthold Abram, 81, American lawyer, civil rights activist and university president.{{cite news |author1=William Honan |author-link1=William Honan |title=Morris Abram Is Dead at 81; Rights Advocate Led Brandeis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/17/us/morris-abram-is-dead-at-81-rights-advocate-led-brandeis.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=4 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=17 March 2000 |page=C 19}}
  • Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa, 53, Nigerian air marshal.
  • Herta Bothe, 79, German nazi concentration camp guard during World War II and war criminal.
  • Thomas Ferebee, 81, U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier aboard the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Thomas Ferebee Dies at 81; Dropped First Atomic Bomb |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/18/us/thomas-ferebee-dies-at-81-dropped-first-atomic-bomb.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=18 March 2000 |page=A 11}}
  • Roy Henderson, 100, British opera singer.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/21/arts/roy-henderson-100-scottish-baritone-and-teacher.html|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|title=Roy Henderson, 100, Scottish Baritone and Teacher|work=The New York Times|date=2000-03-21|access-date=2018-12-24}}
  • Pavel Prudnikau, 88, Belarusian writer.
  • Ivo Rinkel, 79, Dutch tennis and field hockey player.
  • Stanley Ralph Ross, 64, American writer and actor, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Stanley Ralph Ross |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb141333660 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 March 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Michael Starr, 89, Canadian politician.
  • Phil Terranova, 80, American boxer.
  • Carlos Velázquez, 51, Puerto Rican baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/velazca01.shtml|title=Carlos Velázquez|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=2018-12-30}}

=17=

  • Jack Davis, 83, Australian playwright.{{cite news|url=https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/jack-davis-1917-2000|last=Sexton|first=Maureen|title=Jack Davis, 1917-2000|work=Green Left Weekly|date=2000-03-29|access-date=2018-12-24}}
  • Lonia Dvorin, 82, Israeli football player and coach.
  • Sonny Hine, 69, American thoroughbred horse trainer.{{cite news |author1=Joseph Durso |title=Sonny Hine, 69, Skip Away's Adventurous Owner and Trainer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/19/sports/sonny-hine-69-skip-away-s-adventurous-owner-and-trainer.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 March 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=19 March 2000 |page=1 45}}
  • Charlie Holt, 77, American ice hockey coach, cancer.
  • Edward F. Knipling, 90, American entomologist.{{cite news |author1=Eric Nagourney |title=Edward Knipling, 90, Enemy Of the Dangerous Screwworm |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/27/us/edward-knipling-90-enemy-of-the-dangerous-screwworm.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=27 March 2000 |page=B 8}}
  • Pete Mangum, 69, American football player.{{Cite web|url=https://www.profootballarchives.com/playerm/mang01000.html|title=Pete Mangum Stats - Pro Football Archives|website=www.profootballarchives.com|access-date=May 10, 2021|archive-date=November 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124050611/https://www.profootballarchives.com/playerm/mang01000.html|url-status=dead}}

=18=

  • Tom Ah Chee, 72, New Zealand businessman, liver cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.businesshalloffame.co.nz/past-laureates/ |title=Past laureates |website=Business Hall of Fame |access-date=19 February 2023}}
  • Eberhard Bethge, 90, German Protestant theologian.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Eberhard Bethge, 90, Writer, Theologian and Biographer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/18/world/eberhard-bethge-90-writer-theologian-and-biographer.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=18 April 2000 |page=B 8}}
  • Pei Lisheng, 93, Chinese politician.
  • Glen Mervyn, 63, Canadian rower, Olympic medalist and Olympic coach, colorectal cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Glen Mervyn |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/36219 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Herman B Wells, 97, American academic.{{cite news |author1=Andy Newman |title=Herman B Wells, 97, President Of Indiana U. in a Crucial Era |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/21/us/herman-b-wells-97-president-of-indiana-u-in-a-crucial-era.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=21 March 2000 |page=C 31}}
  • Robert Wynn, 78, American officer with Easy Company, in the 101st Airborne Division.
  • Assaf Yaguri, 69, Israeli soldier and politician.

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  • Graham Balcombe, 93, British cave diver.
  • Li Huanzhi, 81, Chinese classical composer.
  • Egon Jönsson, 78, Swedish football player.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Egon Jönsson |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/700595 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=3 November 2024}}
  • Giovanni Linscheer, 27, Surinamese swimmer, car accident.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Giovanni Linscheer |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/50205 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Jayne Regan, 90, American film actress.
  • Dewey Williams, 84, American baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/b5728a34|last=Bohn|first=Terry|title=Dewey Williams|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=2018-12-30}}
  • Mikhail Yefremov, 88, Soviet politician and diplomat.

=20=

  • Johan Anthierens, 62, Belgian journalist, columnist, and writer, Hodgkin's disease.
  • Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, 57, Yemeni author and politician.
  • Gene Eugene, 38, Canadian actor, record producer, composer and musician.
  • Michael Ferris, 68, Irish politician.
  • Vivian Fine, 86, American composer, car collision.{{cite news |author1=Allan Kozinn |author-link1=Allan Kozinn |title=Vivian Fine, 86, a Composer For Voice, Orchestra and Ballet |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/24/arts/vivian-fine-86-a-composer-for-voice-orchestra-and-ballet.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=24 March 2000 |page=B 9}}
  • Jean Howard, 89, American actress and photographer.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Jean Howard, the House Photographer For Hollywood's Glamour Set, Dies at 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/24/movies/jean-howard-the-house-photographer-for-hollywood-s-glamour-set-dies-at-89.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 March 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=24 March 2000 |page=B 9}}
  • Ruth Kirk, 77, New Zealand anti-abortion campaigner, cancer.
  • Ramon Mitra, Jr., 72, Filipino statesman, diplomat, and pro-democracy activist.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Ramon Mitra, 72, Foe of Marcos Regime During Martial Law |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/22/world/ramon-mitra-72-foe-of-marcos-regime-during-martial-law.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=22 March 2000 |page=B 10}}
  • Ādolfs Skulte, 90, Latvian composer and pedagogue.

=21=

  • Johan Haanes, 87, Norwegian sportsman.
  • Seumas McNally, 21, Canadian computer programmer and founder of DX Ball 2, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  • Bai Shouyi, 91, Chinese ethnologist, historian, social activist, and writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bai Shouyi - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6n15j0k |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Mircea Zaciu, 71, Romanian critic, literary historian and prose writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mircea Zaciu |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb131630837 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 March 2023 |language=French |date=}}

=22=

  • John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil, 73, British diplomat.
  • Polita Grau, 84, Cuban political prisoner, First Lady.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Polita Grau, 84; Headed Effort On Behalf of Cuban Children |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/25/world/polita-grau-84-headed-effort-on-behalf-of-cuban-children.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 March 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=25 March 2000 |page=A 15}}
  • Mark Lombardi, 48, American neo-conceptual artist, suicide by hanging.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mark Lombardi - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6np2p87 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Wayne McAllister, 92, American architect, head injury.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Wayne McAllister - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w60g6jxn |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Carlo Parola, 78, Italian football player and coach.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Carlo Parola |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/carlo-parola/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Vamüzo Phesao, 62, Naga politician.
  • Godwin Samararatne, 67, Sri Lankan meditation teacher.

=23=

  • Stig Emanuel Andersson, 85, Swedish ice hockey, football and bandy player.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/83618 |title=Stig Emanuel Andersson |work=Olympedia |access-date=30 October 2020}}
  • John Andrews, 65, British cyclist.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=20604 |title=John Andrews |accessdate=16 July 2016 |work=Cycling Archives}}
  • Ed McCurdy, 81, American folk singer, songwriter and actor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ed McCurdy - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6g02pc4 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Antony Padiyara, 79, Indian Syro Malabar prelate.
  • Carl Shoup, 97, American economist and public finance expert.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Carl Shoup - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w69k8h89 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Udham Singh, 71, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Udham Singh |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/19312 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Gert Willner, 59, German politician.
  • Romeo B. Garrett 90, American professor

=24=

  • Albert Duncanson, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Albert Duncanson |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/85330 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Robert Hugo Dunlap, 79, United States Marine Corps major.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Robert Hugo Dunlap - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6b130qt |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Al Grey, 74, American jazz trombonist.{{cite news |author1=Ben Ratliff |author-link1=Ben Ratliff |title=Al Grey, 74, a Sly Trombonist Who Played With Count Basie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/27/arts/al-grey-74-a-sly-trombonist-who-played-with-count-basie.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=27 March 2000 |page=B 8}}
  • George Kirby, 66, British football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George Kirby |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/george-kirby/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Kazuo Komatsubara, 56, Japanese animator, animation director and character designer.
  • Juan Zurita, 82, Mexican lightweight boxing world champion.

=25=

  • Jim Cash, 59, American film writer (Top Gun, Dick Tracy, Turner & Hooch), intestinal disorders.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jim Cash |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12721624z |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 March 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Paul Călinescu, 97, Romanian film director and screenwriter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Paul Călinescu |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16201803t |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 March 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Daphne Le Breton, 67, New Zealand international lawn bowler.
  • Helen Martin, 90, American actress, heart attack.{{cite news |author1= |title=Helen Martin, 90, an Actress On Broadway, Film and TV |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/04/arts/helen-martin-90-an-actress-on-broadway-film-and-tv.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=4 April 2000 |page=B 8}}
  • Eduardo Enrique Rodríguez, 82, Argentine football player.
  • Sandy Sanford, 83, American gridiron football player and coach.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sandy Sanford Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Sandy+Sanford |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}

=26=

  • Alfredo Bruniera, 93, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
  • Alex Comfort, 80, British scientist, physician and author (The Joy of Sex), cerebral haemorrhage.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Alex Comfort, 80, Dies; a Multifaceted Man Best Known for Writing 'The Joy of Sex' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/29/us/alex-comfort-80-dies-a-multifaceted-man-best-known-for-writing-the-joy-of-sex.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=29 March 2000 |page=C 27}}
  • Karel Thole, 85, Dutch-Italian painter and illustrator.
  • Len Younce, 83, American football player and coach.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Len Younce Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Len+Younce |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Werner Zeyer, 70, German politician.

=27=

  • George Allen, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George Allen Stats - Hockey-Reference.com |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=George+Allen |website=hockey-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Sue Wah Chin, 99, Chinese-born Australian entrepreneur.[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/chin-sue-wah-33257 Sue Wah Chin (1901–2000)]
  • Ian Dury, 57, British actor and rock and roll singer (Kilburn and the High Roads, Ian Dury and the Blockheads), cancer.{{cite news |author1= |title=Ian Dury, 57, Roguish Voice of Punk Music |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/31/arts/ian-dury-57-roguish-voice-of-punk-music.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=31 March 2000 |page=A 25}}
  • Yrjö Lehtilä, 83, Finnish Olympic shot putter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Yrjö Lehtilä |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/67676 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Priya Rajvansh, 63, Indian film actress, murdered.

=28=

  • Kanti Abdurakhmanov, 83-84, Soviet Chechen soldier.{{Cite web|url=https://chechnyatoday.com/content/view/291818|title=Герой из Аргуна Канти Абдурахманов {{!}} ИА Чечня Сегодня|website=chechnyatoday.com|access-date=2019-05-08}}
  • Pat Bishop, 53, Northern Irish-Australian actress.
  • Bill Christiansen, 86, American politician.
  • Christian Norberg-Schulz, 73, Norwegian architect and author.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Christian Norberg-Schulz - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6xd1xwj |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Frances Gray Patton, 94, American short story writer and novelist.{{cite news |author1= |title=Frances Gray Patton, 94, Writer Of Stories and 1954's 'Miss Dove' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/02/nyregion/frances-gray-patton-94-writer-of-stories-and-1954-s-miss-dove.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=2 April 2000 |page=1 36}}
  • George Petersen, 78, Australian politician.
  • Anthony Powell, 94, British author.{{cite news |author1=William Grimes |author-link1=William Grimes (journalist) |title=Anthony Powell, 94, Chronicler of the Changing Fortunes of Britain's Upper Class, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/30/books/anthony-powell-94-chronicler-changing-fortunes-britain-s-upper-class-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=30 March 2000 |page=B 15}}
  • Yuri Tarasov, 39, Soviet and Ukrainian football player.
  • Adam Ulam, 77, Polish-American historian and political scientist, lung cancer.{{cite news |author1=Blaine Harden |author-link1=Blaine Harden |title=Adam Ulam, a Top Historian Of Soviet Union, Dies at 77 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/31/world/adam-ulam-a-top-historian-of-soviet-union-dies-at-77.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=31 March 2000 |page=A 25}}

=29=

  • Yevgeny Feofanov, 62, Soviet boxer and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Yevgeny Feofanov |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/8490 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Hans Gustav Güterbock, 91, German-American Hittitologist ang linguist.{{cite news |author1=Nick Ravo |title=Hans Gustav Guterbock, 91, Expert in Ancient Languages |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/03/us/hans-gustav-guterbock-91-expert-in-ancient-languages.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=3 April 2000 |page=B 8}}
  • Shirley Palmer, 91, American (silent) film actress, fall.
  • Anna Sokolow, 90, American dancer and choreographer.{{cite news |author1=Jack Anderson |title=Anna Sokolow, a Modern Choreographer Known for Studies in Alienation, Dies at 90 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/30/arts/anna-sokolow-a-modern-choreographer-known-for-studies-in-alienation-dies-at-90.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=30 March 2000 |page=B 14}}

=30=

  • George Batchelor, 80, Australian mathematician.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/apr/12/guardianobituaries|last=Pedley|first=TJ|title=George Batchelor: Marrying maths and mechanics in Cambridge|work=The Guardian|date=2000-04-11|access-date=2018-12-23}}
  • Salvador Abascal Infante, 90, Mexican politician.
  • Jean E. Karl, 72, American book publisher.{{cite news |author1=Eden Ross Lipson |author-link1=Eden Ross Lipson |title=Jean Karl, 72; A Publisher Of Books For Children |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/03/arts/jean-karl-72-a-publisher-of-books-for-children.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=3 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=3 April 2000 |page=B 8}}
  • Rudolf Kirchschläger, 85, Austrian politician, President (1974-1986), cardiovascular disease.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/31/world/rudolf-kirchschlager-85-judge-who-became-austria-s-president.html|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|title=Rudolf Kirchschlager, 85, Judge Who Became Austria's President|work=The New York Times|date=2000-03-31|access-date=2018-12-23}}
  • Beryl McBurnie, 86, Trinidadian dancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/apr/29/guardianobituaries1|last=Connor|first=Pearl|title=Beryl McBurnie|work=The Guardian|date=2000-04-28|access-date=2018-12-17}}
  • Mihrimah Sultan, 77, Ottoman princess, granddaughter of Mehmed V.

=31=

  • Hardev Bahri, 93, Indian linguist, literary critic, and lexicographer.
  • Hjalmar Bergström, 93, Swedish world champion cross-country skier and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Hjalmar Bergström |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/84053 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Adrian Fisher, 47, British guitarist, myocardial infarction.
  • Gisèle Freund, 91, German-French photographer and photojournalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gisèle Freund |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gisele-Freund |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=20 March 2023 |language= |date=}}

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