notable deaths in march 2022
This is a list of recent notable deaths in March 2022.
The following deaths of notable and famous people occurred in March 2022.
Death list of celebrities, athletes, politicians and other famous peoples who died in March 2022. Huge list of all important deaths organized by day. Names are reported under the date of death. New deaths articles are added to their respective date in March 2022.
A typical entry reports in the list of Recent notable Deaths in March 2022 contains the following information:
Name, age, country of citizenship, what subject was noted for, cause of death, and reference.
March 31, 2022
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March 30, 2022
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Tom Parker, 33
(4 August 1988 – 30 March 2022)
English pop singer (The Wanted).
Cause of death: glioblastoma.
After suffering an aggressive brain tumor for 18 months, Tom Parker (born Thomas Anthony Parker) of The Wanted died accompanied by his family and bandmates. On social media, wife Kelsey Parker stated, "It is with the heaviest of hearts that we report Tom passed away peacefully earlier today with all of his family by his side."
The 33-year-old was one of five members of the British-Irish boy band, which was famous for singles including Glad You Came, a party song. The band has sold over 12 million albums worldwide and has ten UK Top Ten songs. With All Time Low and Glad You Came, they achieved two number ones. The latter was a worldwide smash, peaking at #3 in the United States.
Parker and his bandmates starred in the E! channel reality shows The Wanted Life in early 2013.
The Wanted broke up in 2014, but reassembled this year in support of Parker, releasing a greatest hits CD and performing at the Royal Albert Hall for a cancer charity concert. The singer was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a kind of severe cancer that may develop in the brain or spinal cord, and was given a grade four diagnosis.
After numerous inexplicable seizures, it was discovered. However, in early 2021, he stated that the tumor's size had shrunk "significantly," and in November, he stated that he felt "tears in his eyes" after learning it was "under control."
Martin Hochertz, 53
(October 21, 1968 – March 30, 2022)
American football player (Washington Redskins, Miami Dolphins).
Cause of death: unknown.
American football defensive end who has played for the Atlanta Falcons, Washington Redskins, and Miami Dolphins in the National Football League. Hochertz attended the University of Southern Illinois during his collegiate football career.
He starred in "The Waterboy," a sports comedy starring Kathy Bates and Fairuza Balk, as well as Oliver Stone's sports drama starring Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, and Jamie Foxx. Hochertz also played for the Florida Bobcats and the New Jersey Red Dogs in the Arena Football League.
Hochertz also taught Business and Finance at Archbishop McCarthy High School.
March 29, 2022
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Paul Herman, 76
(March 29, 1946 – March 29, 2022)
American actor (The Sopranos, The Irishman).
Cause of death:unknown.
Herman is most recognized for his appearances as Randy in David O. Russell's dramedy Silver Linings Playbook and Whispers DiTullio in Martin Scorsese's criminal epic The Irishman, among others (2019).
Other films in which he has appeared include Once Upon a Time in America, Sleepers, Cop Land, The Fan, and Analyze That. He had recurring roles on The Sopranos as "Beansie" Gaeta and on Entourage as Vincent Chase's accountant, Marvin. Herman has previously appeared in two more Scorsese crime films as a small background figure. In Goodfellas, he played The Pittsburgh Connection, and in Scorsese's Casino, he played a gambler who rushes to the phone booth to place the identical wager that Sam Rothstein (Robert De Niro) placed.
Herman portrayed Jeff Bridges' character's manager in the 2009 film Crazy Heart. In the 1990s, Herman and his brother Charlie managed the Columbus Cafe. It was frequented by actors, ballet dancers, criminals, and FBI and DEA operatives and was located across from Lincoln Center. Herman, along with Mikhail Baryshnikov and other performers, held a modest financial part in the bistro.
Miguel Van Damme, 28
(25 September 1993 – 29 March 2022)
Belgian professional soccer player - goalkeeper (Cercle Brugge)
Cause of death: leukaemia.
Miguel Van Damme, a 28-year-old goalkeeper for Cercle Brugge, has passed away in Belgium. Last September, he received the worst possible news. His cancer had progressed to the point where he could no longer receive chemotherapy.
His wife had just told him he was going to be a father two days before, so he only had one wish in the end. Van Damme said, "I want to do everything I can to hold my child in my arms," and his wish was granted.
Camille, the couple's daughter, was born in May of last year, but Van Damme only spent a few months with her before succumbing to the disease. The young soccer player started his career as a striker, but he still managed better on goal, so he decided to continue in that position. He made his debut for Lembeke's main team at the age of 17, and two years later he moved to Cercle Brugge. He was usually a replacement in the first league, but when they dropped to the second, he became an indispensable player of the first squad. Van Damme performed admirably, but then came the devastating news.
The physicians realized something was wrong during the tests before the new season, and that's when his fight began, which he regrettably lost in the end. He was diagnosed with leukemia, so instead of preparing with the team, he ended up on chemotherapy. That gave the initial results, and he even returned to the field, but then the disease returned. Van Damme tried everything to return to soccer and recover, but he was unable to win that game.
March 28, 2022
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Mira Calix, 52
(1970 – 28, March 2022)
South African-born British visual artist, adventurous electronic musician and sound artist
Cause of death: unknown.
Mira Calix originally worked as a publicist for Warp, as well as producing club nights and DJing, before signing with the label and releasing music. Calix was born Chantal Passamonte in South Africa in 1970 and came to London in early 1991 to pursue a career in music.
Beginning with One on One in 2000 and most recently with the sample-heavy Absent Origin, published in 2021 and acclaimed as one of her best works, she recorded music in the traditional album format.
However, she also composed music for installations such as My Secret Heart, which premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall in 2008, and the monolithic sound sculpture Nothing Is Set In Stone, which was created for the Cultural Olympiad in conjunction with the London 2012 Olympics, with Boris Johnson, then-London mayor, stating:
"Mira Calix has wrested not blood, but song from a stone, transforming the sound into rock and launching a new cultural phenomenon."
Her label, Warp Records, reported her death but did not specify the cause.
March 27, 2022
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James Vaupel, 76
(born May 2, 1945, died March 27, 2022)
American scientist in the fields of aging research, biodemography, and formal demography.
Cause of death: unknown.
James Vaupel earned his Ph.D. in public policy after studying mathematical statistics at Harvard University. He became the Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research in 1996 after working as a professor at Duke University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Southern Denmark.
James W. Vaupel was a pioneer in the field of aging research, and he was a key figure in creating and popularizing the concept of longevity plasticity. He was a pioneer in the study of mortality risk heterogeneity and the slowing of death rates at the highest ages.
Vaupel was also a Duke University research professor and the head of the university's Population, Policy, Aging, and Research Center. Vaupel is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He is also a regular scientific member of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. James Vaupel (born James W. Vaupel) has worked on a variety of projects and has written over twenty books.
Martin Pope, 103
(August 22, 1918 – March 27, 2022)
American physical chemist and professor at New York University.
Cause of death: natural causes.
Martin Pope's study paved the path for today's electronics, which may be found in digital cameras, cell phones, solar panels, and televisions. Organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, are utilized in digital cameras, mobile phones, solar panels, and televisions, thanks to his groundbreaking work on molecular semiconductors more than six decades ago.
Dr. Pope (who changed his last name from Poppick to escape anti-Semitism) made a series of discoveries in the late 1950s and early 1960s that created the groundwork for the study of molecular biology.
Dr. Pope received the Dewey Medal from the Royal Society in early 2006, an annual honor given to a scientist whose research has contributed to outstanding development in any discipline of chemistry. Many Nobel Prizes have been awarded to persons who have expanded on Dr. Pope's work. Martin Pope (born Isidore Poppick) died aged 103 at his Brooklyn home of natural causes.
Joan Joyce, 81
(August 18, 1940 – March 26, 2022)
American softball player and coach (Florida Atlantic Owls).
Cause of death: unknown.
Joyce, a native of Waterbury, Connecticut, was a member of the Brakettes from 1954 to 1963, the Lionettes from 1964 to 1966, and the Brakettes again from 1967 to 1975. Joan Joyce, the lone coach in the program's 28-year existence, has died, according to the school. Joyce had various claims to fame, including striking out Ted Williams once.
At FAU, Joyce had a career record of 1,002-674-1. She was named conference coach of the year eight times after leading the Owls to 11 NCAA playoff tournament appearances. In 1989, Joyce was named to the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame.
She was a member of the LPGA Tour for 19 years, and in 1982, she completed a round with only 17 putts. Joan Joyce was also the women's golf coach at FAU (1996 - 2014).
March 26, 2022
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Jeff Carson, 58
(December 16, 1963 – March 26, 2022)
American country singer ("Not on Your Love", "The Car", "I Never Was the Same Again'").
Cause of death: heart attack.
The video of the year for the performer's 1995 hit "The Car" earned the Academy of Country Music Award. He was signed to Curb Records in 1995 and released his self-titled debut album that year, followed by Butterfly Kisses in early 1998, and Real Life in late 2002.
He began his career as a session musician in Branson, Missouri, and then as a demo vocalist. On the Billboard country charts, he had 14 songs, including the No. 1 success "Not on Your Love," the Top Ten hits "The Car" and "Holdin' Onto Somethin'," and the Top Twenty hit "Real Life (I Never Was the Same Again)."
Jeff Carson left music in early 2009 to pursue a career as a police officer.
Carson returned to music more recently, signing a deal with MC1 Nashville and releasing a new version of the song "God Save the World" in 2019. Since then, he'd signed with Encore Music Group and was working on music with Michael Ray and Darryl Worley, among others. Jeff Carson (born Jeffrey Lee Herndon) died at Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tennessee, following a heart attack.
Joe Williams, 88
(1934 - March 26, 2022)
American basketball coach - Jacksonville University (1964 - 1970), Furman University (1970 - 1978) and Florida State University from 1978 to 1986.
Cause of death: cancer.
When Williams took over the Jacksonville team in 1964, he was an assistant coach at Furman, and the school remained in the NAIA for one more season before switching to the NCAA, where it immediately climbed to prominence.
Joe Williams led Artis Gilmore and Jacksonville University to the NCAA tournament championship game in 1970 when they faced powerhouse UCLA. Williams, who previously coached at Furman and Florida State, died in Enterprise, Mississippi, while in hospice care, according to his son Joe Williams Jr., after a long battle with illness.
When many coaches declined to recruit Black players to Southern institutions, Williams was ready to do so and safeguarded them while on the road. Williams is one of just 25 head coaches in NCAA history to have coached three separate teams to the final four.
Joe Williams was inducted into the Jacksonville University Hall of Fame in 1994, and the Furman University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.
Gianni Cavina, 81
(9 December 1940 – 26 March 2022)
Italian actor (The Kiss ,The House with Laughing Windows, Flashback).
Cause of death: unknown.
Gianni Cavina featured in over 45 films beginning in 1949. Cavina, who was born in Bologna, Italy, studied as a theater actor at the Teatro Stabile di Bologna under the supervision of the renowned Franco Parenti.
He made his cinematic debut in the 1968 horror picture Balsamus, l'uomo di Satana, directed by Pupi Avati, with whom he worked extensively, starring in several of his films.
Cavina earned the Silver Ribbon for Best Supporting Actor in 1997 for his performance in 'Festival,' a film directed by Pupi Avati. Cavina has the traits of a complete actor in that he could transition from the most humorous and exaggerated characters, such as those he portrayed in his early films, to highly sincere and meaningful ones, which he brought to his films.
March 25, 2022
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Dirck Halstead, 85
(December 24, 1936 – March 25, 2022)
American photojournalist, editor and publisher of The Digital Journalist.
Cause of death: cerebral hemorrhage.
Dirck Halstead (born Dirck Storm Halstead), who photographed world-changing events for United Press International, Time magazine, and other news organizations for half a century, died in Boquete, Panama, at the age of 85. The cause of death was a brain hemorrhage, according to his long-time friend and fellow photographer David Hume Kennerly.
Presidents were photographed by Dirck Halstead, including Richard M. Nixon on his historic trip to China in 1972, President Ronald Reagan during his assassination attempt, and a particularly well-known portrait of Bill Clinton with Monica Lewinsky in 1996. In 1965, Halstead created U.P.I.'s first picture bureau in Saigon, where he captured domestic protests and covered the conflict in Vietnam.
Halstead was the photographer who shot the most Time magazine covers (49).
Taylor Hawkins, 50
(February 17, 1972 – March 25, 2022)
American Hall of Fame musician (Foo Fighters). "Best Rock Drummer" 2005 (Rhythm).
Cause of death: unknown.
Taylor Hawkins (born Oliver Taylor Hawkins), the drummer for the rock band Foo Fighters, was discovered dead in a hotel room in Bogota, Colombia, where the band was scheduled to perform at a festival. The band had just finished a string of South American tour dates and was scheduled to perform at the Grammys in April.
He was the touring drummer for Sass Jordan and Alanis Morissette before joining the band in 1997, as well as the drummer in the advanced experimental band Sylvia. Hawkins and his side project, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, released a self-titled LP in 2006. Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders followed up with two additional studio albums, Red Light Fever in 2010 and Get the Money in 2019. Hawkins was a member of a Police cover band known as "The Cops" and "Fallout" at times.
Hawkins was a member of SOS Allstars, which included Roger Taylor of Queen and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, at Live Earth in 2007. Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, a side project in which he played drums and sang, was created in early 2004. In 2005, the British drumming magazine Rhythm named him "Best Rock Drummer."
Keith Martin, 55
(January 11, 1945 – March 24, 2022)(September 22, 1966 – March 25, 2022)
American R&B singer and record producer.
Cause of death: unknown.
Keith Martin began creating music when he was 19 years old. Martin was recruited to Ruffhouse/Columbia Sony by Michael McCary of Boyz II Men. Adrian Taylor, Martin's then-manager, who had previously managed Martin while he was the main vocalist of Masquerade, signed Martin to Columbia Ruffhouse Records.
In early 1995, he published his debut album, 'It's Long Overdue,' which reached No. 82 on the US Billboard R&B Albums list. Martin relocated to Manila in 2004 to work as the EMI's home coordinator. Martin created and produced two songs for Ron Kingston, an Australian music artist, in 2011. The first song, "My Friend," was a duet between Kingston and Indonesian artist Mia. Martin was well known for his passionate love songs, which he wrote and sang.
March 24, 2022
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Harold Akin, 77
(January 11, 1945 – March 24, 2022)
American football player (San Diego Chargers).
Cause of death: unknown.
In the 1960s, Harold Akin played under coach Phil Cutchin and finished with a business degree. Following his graduation from OSU, he was taken in the third round of the 1967 NFL Draft by the San Diego Chargers, where he played tackle until injuries ended his career (1968).
Born in McAlester, Oklahoma, and raised in Bethany, Oklahoma, Akin put his business degree to good use when his football career ended, starting Carpet World in Oklahoma City – a firm now known as Akin Bros, which now has four locations across Oklahoma. Floor Stores, which he runs with the help of two of his sons.
March 23, 2022
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Madeleine Albright, 84
( May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022)
Czechoslovakian-born American politician, first female US secretary of state(1997–2001) and ambassador to the United Nations (1993–1997).
Cause of death: cancer.
Albright, who was born Marie Jana Korbelova, was appointed as the United States' top diplomat in 1996 and served for the final four years of Bill Clinton's presidency. She was the highest-ranking woman in US government history at the time.
Her family escaped Prague for London after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939 when she was a small kid. She was reared as a devout Catholic, only to realize decades later that her parents were Jewish and that some of her relatives had perished in the Holocaust.
Albright earned a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1959. She worked as a journalist before going on to Columbia University to study international affairs, earning a master's degree in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1976.
Prior to Clinton's election, Albright served for the National Security Council under the Carter administration and counseled Democrats on international affairs. In 1993, he nominated her to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations. She was instrumental in pushing Clinton to go to war against Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic for his treatment of Kosovar Albanians in 1999 as Secretary of State.
She favored a severe US foreign policy at her UN job, notably in the instance of Milosevic's treatment of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Under Syria's late President Hafez al-Assad, she also led an ill-fated effort to broker a peace settlement between Israel and Syria in early 2000.
Albright was given the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President Barack Obama in 2012, citing her life as an example to all Americans.
March 22, 2022
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Elnardo Webster, 74
(March 6, 1948 – March 22, 2022)
Former American basketball player.
Cause of death: heart issue.
Webster was a key member of the last great Saint Peter's squad, which was dubbed "Run Baby Run" for its fast-paced style and 94-point-per-game average. That squad, led by Webster, beat Duke in the NIT playoffs and went on to win 24 games, tying a program record.
In the 1969–70 season, Webster played for UG Gorizia in Italy's top-tier competition, Serie A. While recuperating from TB, he was forced to miss the 1970–71 season. During the 1971–72 season, Webster was a member of the New York Nets and the Memphis Pros of the American Basketball Association (ABA).
He was first inducted into the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Hall of Fame in 2012, and then into the Saint Peter's Hall of Fame in 2016.
Barrington Renford Patterson, 56
(25 August 1965 – 22 March 2022)
English kickboxer and mixed martial artist.
Cause of death: heart attack.
Barrington won several honors for fighting all around the world, including Japan and the United States, during his active years as a professional kickboxer. In early 1997, Patterson faced Dennis Alexio for the VACANT International Kickboxing Federation (IKF) World championship but was defeated by KO.
Barrington has faced prominent opponents including former heavyweight WBC boxing world champion Vitali Klitschko and Dennis Alexio throughout his almost 60-fight career. Patterson's fame grew to the point that he was included in Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men series in 2008. He has been speaking at schools and passing on wisdom to tackle knife and drug violence in the West Midlands in recent years.
Despite his big tough attitude, he risked his life delivering food packs to the sick during the coronavirus outbreak. He was also noted for his work with the homeless in the area.
March 21, 2022
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LaShun Pace, 60
(September 6, 1961 – March 21, 2022)
American gospel singer.
Cause of death: multiple organ failure.
According to her family, the famed singer known for classics such as "I Know I've Been Changed" and "Act Like You Know" died of multiple organ failure. LaShun began her career in music with her eight sisters as a member of the gospel singing ensemble The Anointed Pace Sisters in the mid-1970s. The Grammy-nominated ensemble collaborated to share their music with the local community and churches. Their skill was quickly noticed, and they rose to prominence as a well-known Gospel group.
LaShun Pace, a well-known gospel singer from Atlanta, had been on dialysis for several years and was waiting for a kidney transplant.
March 20, 2022
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Tom Young, 89
(September 17, 1932 – 19, March 2022)
American college basketball coach (Catholic University, Rutgers, Old Dominion).
Cause of death: natural causes.
Former men's basketball coach Tom Young died at the age of 89, leaving the Rutgers community with a renowned figure. Young coached Rutgers for 12 years and guided the team to the Final Four in 1976. He coached Rutgers basketball from 1973 to 1985, with a 239-116 record. Young began his coaching career at Catholic University, where he stayed for nine seasons. He went on to coach at American University for four years before taking over at Rutgers.
He attended the University of Maryland but took a 19-month leave to serve in the United States Army, where he was stationed in Germany. Young has been inducted into both the Maryland and Rutgers Halls of Fame.
March 19, 2022
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March 18, 2022
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John Clayton, 67
(May 11, 1954 – March 18, 2022)
American Hall of Fame sportswriter (The Pittsburgh Press, The News Tribune) and reporter (ESPN - Entertainment and Sports Programming Network).
Cause of death: short illness.
Mr. Clayton's five-decade journalism career took him from the pages of The Pittsburgh Press, where he covered the Steelers as a teenager in the 1970s, to the studios of ESPN, where he became a mainstay on the network's shows and an icon of NFL reporting. He co-hosted the show with Sean Salisbury, a former NFL quarterback, and included "Four Downs," a debate with Salisbury about current NFL topics.
John Clayton (born John Travis Clayton) was noted for his solid reporting rather than any showy, attention-getting approach during his on-air appearances. He wore rimless spectacles and had a sharp delivery. Clayton's family's death was confirmed by the Seattle Seahawks in a statement.
March 17, 2022
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March 16, 2022
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Ralph Terry, 86
(January 9, 1936 – March 16, 2022)
American baseball player (NY Yankees, K. City Athletics, NY Mets).
World Series champion (1961, 1962).
Cause of death: complications
from head injury.
Right-handed starting pitcher who spent twelve seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). From 1956 through 1967, Terry was a member of the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Cleveland Indians, and New York Mets.
From 1960 through 1964, he was a part of the Yankees pitching rotation on five straight league championship teams, with his greatest season coming in 1962, when he was named to his only All-Star team and led the American League with 23 victories. He was selected the Most Valuable Player in the 1962 World Series after winning two of the final three games, including a 1–0 shutout in Game Seven. Ralph Terry died in a Larned long-term care facility. Ralph Terry died in a Larned long-term care facility. He was 86 years old when he slipped on ice on New Year's Eve 2021 and sustained a brain injury.
March 15, 2022
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March 14, 2022
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Charles Greene, 76
(March 21, 1945 – March 14, 2022)
American sprinter, Olympic champion (1968).
Cause of death: unknown.
Charles Edward "Charlie" Greene was an American track and field sprinter who won the gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 4 x 100-meter relay. Greene placed third in the 100-meter dash at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, despite hamstring problems late in the race. He was the quickest in the trials and semifinals, but he was injured before the final race and had to start with a bandaged leg.
Despite his injuries, he was a key member of the American four-by-100-meter relay team that won gold and set a new world mark. Greene became an Army officer after his sports career, serving as the sprint coach at West Point and the head coach of the All-Army team. Edward "Charlie" Greene became a director for Special Olympics International after retiring from the Army.
Scott Hall, 63
(Oct. 20, 1958 – March 14, 2022)
American Hall of Fame professional wrestler
(WWE, WCW, TNA).
Cause of death: complications from hip surgery.
Scott Oliver Hall is most known for his work with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) as Razor Ramon and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Scott Oliver Hall. Hall began his career in 1984 before joining the WWF in May 1992 under the moniker Razor Ramon and rising to stardom. He won the WWF Intercontinental Championship four times while working for the organization.
In early 1996, Scott Oliver Hall left the business and defected to WCW, where Hall was a founding member of the New World Order (nWo) group, with famous professional wrestlers Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash. Hall was a 2-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion, a one-time WCW World Television Champion, and a 9-time WCW World Tag Team Champion during his stint with the promotion.
In February 2000, he departed WCW and briefly returned to the WWF (later called WWE) in early 2002.
March 13, 2022
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Vic Elford, 86
(10 June 1935 – 13 March 2022)
British racing driver
Cause of death: cancer.
Vic Elford was an English sports car racer, rally driver, and Formula One driver who competed in 13 World Championship F1 Grands Prix after making his debut on July 7, 1968. He ended up with a total of eight championship points. His peers dubbed him "Quick Vic." Elford was mostly known as a skilled rally driver and a notable sports car racer. He was frequently connected with Porsche.
William Hurt, 71
(March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022)
American actor, Oscar winner (1986)
Cause of death: prostate cancer.
William Hurt was a well-known American actor. He attended the Juilliard School and began performing professionally in the 1970s. Hurt made his cinematic debut in Ken Russell's science-fiction picture Altered States, which was released in 1980 and earned him a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year.
In 1981, he co-starred with Kathleen Turner in the neo-noir Body Heat. He had three straight Academy Award nominations for Best Actor for "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (1985), "Children of a Lesser God" (1986), and "Broadcast News" (1987), winning for the first.
Brent Renaud, 50
(Oct. 13, 1971 – March 13, 2022)
American photojournalist, writer
(The New York Times), and filmmaker.
Cause of death: killed by Russian soldiers in a suburb near Kyiv.
Brent Anthony Renaud was a photographer, documentary filmmaker, and journalist from the United States. Renaud was a previous contributor to The New York Times and worked with his brother Craig to make documentaries for HBO and Vice News. He was slain by Russian forces on March 13, 2022, while reporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a neighborhood near Kyiv, according to Ukrainian sources.
March 12, 2022
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Traci Braxton, 50
(April 2, 1971 – March 12, 2022)
American R&B singer (The Braxtons) and TV personality.
Cause of death: esophageal cancer.
Crash & Burn, Braxton's solo debut album, was released in October 2014, following the success of the song "Last Call." "Last Call" reached number 16 on the R&B Adult chart in the United States. With 4,000 first-week sales, "Crash & Burn" debuted at No. 108 on the Billboard Hot 200 list and went on to No. 11 on the relaunched Billboard R&B Albums chart and No. 1 on the Heatseekers Albums chart.
She released the tune "Broken Things" in early 2018 with her sisters Toni, Towanda, and Trina. Braxton and her sisters reunited in 2011 for the WE tv reality program Braxton Family Values. The first season was WE tv's highest-rated reality show, and after the third episode, the network commissioned a 13-episode second season. Braxton launched her radio show, "The Traci Braxton Show on the BLIS.F.M. radio," in 2013.
March 11, 2022
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March 10, 2022
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Emilio Delgado, 81
(May 8, 1940 – March 10, 2022)
American actor (Sesame Street, A Case of You)
Cause of death: multiple myeloma.
Emilio Delgado is most recognized for his role as Luis, the proprietor of the Fix-it Shop, in the children's television show Sesame Street. Delgado joined the Sesame Street cast in 1971 and stayed until his contract was not extended in 2016, as part of the series' retooling by Sesame Workshop.
In 1968, he started his professional career in Los Angeles. Delgado and his wife Carole lived in New York City, where he was a board member of the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, an LGBT safe haven, community activist center, and educational bridge committed to remembering Bayard Rustin via their purpose and good actions.
Odalis Pérez, 44
(June 11, 1977 – March 10, 2022)
Dominican baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, Kansas City Royals)
Cause of death: fall.
Dominican professional baseball pitcher who spent time with the Atlanta Braves (1998–2001), Los Angeles Dodgers (2002–2006), Kansas City Royals (2006–2007), and Washington Nationals (2008). On March 10, 2022, Pérez died after falling off a ladder at his house in Santo Domingo. He was 44 years old. At the time of his death, Pérez was living alone at home.
March 9, 2022
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March 8, 2022
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Ron Miles, 58
(May 9, 1963 – March 8, 2022)
American jazz musician
Cause of death: complications from
polycythemia vera.
Jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and composer from the United States. He released music on the labels Prolific (1986), Capri (1990), and Gramavision (1991). Rainbow Sign, his final album, was his first on the Blue Note label. Miles passed away on March 8, 2022, at his home in Denver. He had polycythemia vera (a rare blood malignancy).
March 7, 2022
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March 6, 2022
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Pavlo Lee, 33
(10 July 1988 – 6 March 2022)
Ukrainian actor and television presenter
Cause of death: bombing.
Lee worked as a host on the Dom Channel. He was recognized for his roles in the movie Tini nezabutykh predkiv, 'Tayemnytsi molfara' (2013), Shtolnya (2006), 'Pravilo boya' (2017), 'Zustrich odnoklasnykiv' (2019), and voice dubbing of the popular English-language blockbusters The Lion King and The Hobbit into Ukrainian.
On the first day of the Russian invasion, Lee joined in the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces. Several times throughout his fight, he commented on his Instagram account about the circumstances and the might of the Ukrainians. On March 6, he was murdered by Russian shelling in the Kyiv neighborhood of Irpin, and the Odesa International Film Festival reported his death.
March 5, 2022
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Lynda Baron, 82
(24 March 1939 – 5 March 2022)
British actress (Open All Hours,
Come Outside, EastEnders).
Cause of death: unknown.
Lynda Baron is best known for her role as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the BBC comedy Open All Hours, which starred Ronnie Barker and David Jason and aired for four seasons in 1976, 1981 to 1982, and 1985, and was named the seventh-best sitcom in the United Kingdom in 2004. Auntie Mabel in the award-winning children's program Come Outside (1993–1997), and Linda Clarke in EastEnders in 2006, 2008, and 2009, with a brief comeback in 2016,
March 4, 2022
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Mitchell Ryan, 88
(January 11, 1934 – March 4, 2022)
American actor (Dark Shadows,
Dharma & Greg, Lethal Weapon),
Cause of death: heart failure.
In his six decades of television, he is most known for portraying Burke Devlin in the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, and subsequently for co-starring as Thomas Gibson's father Edward Montgomery on Dharma & Greg. In the 1987 buddy cop action thriller Lethal Weapon, he played the ruthless General Peter McAllister.
On the sitcom Dharma & Greg (1997–2002), he played Greg's father, Edward Montgomery. Ryan played Highfather on Justice League the next year. Mitchell Ryan was the Screen Actors Guild Foundation's president.
March 3, 2022
NOTABLE deaths
Tim Considine, 81
(Dec. 31, 1940 – March 3, 2022)
American actor (My Three Sons,
The Mickey Mouse Club, Patton).
Cause of death: unknown.
Considine's most well-known appearances were in the Disney TV serials Spin and Marty (as Spin) and Hardy Boys (as elder brother Frank opposite Tommy Kirk as Joe), both of which aired in 15-minute portions on The Mickey Mouse Club from 1955 to 1957. He also starred as Gabriel Marion, Francis Marion's nephew, in the Disney show The Swamp Fox; in the Disney film The Shaggy Dog; and as the eldest son, Mike Douglas, in the earliest years of the long-running television series My Three Sons, which aired on ABC.
He co-starred with Fred MacMurray in both The Shaggy Dog and My Three Sons. Considine appeared as Ted Nickerson in a CBS television pilot in 1957.
Thomas B. Hayward, 97
(May 3, 1924 – March 3, 2022)
American Navy admiral, chief of
naval operations (1978–1982).
Cause of death: natural causes.
Admiral Thomas Bibb Hayward served as the United States Navy's Chief of Naval Operations from July 1, 1978, until June 30, 1982, when he resigned from the military. He received the James H. Doolittle Award from the Society of Experimental Test Pilots in 1981. Admiral Thomas B. Hayward was named one of four recipients of the 2007 Distinguished Graduate Award by the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association in January 2007.
March 2, 2022
NOTABLE deaths
Johnny Brown, 84
(June 11, 1937 – March 2, 2022)
American actor (Good Times,
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) and singer.
Cause of death: cardiac arrest.
Johnny Brown was most known for his role as Nathan Bookman, the building superintendent on the CBS comedy Good Times in the 1970s. Brown played Bookman on the show until 1979, when it was terminated. Brown died on March 2, 2022, in Los Angeles, at the age of 84. He passed out immediately after leaving a doctor's visit for his pacemaker, and when he was taken to the hospital, he was pronounced dead.
March 1, 2022
NOTABLE deaths
Conrad Janis, 94
(Feb. 11, 1928 – March 1, 2022)
American musician and actor
(Mork & Mindy, Margie, That Hagen Girl).
Cause of death: natural causes.
Janis starred in "Fit to Kill" on The Web on November 19, 1950, which was her first television appearance. In 1953, he starred as Edward, the eldest son in the comedy Bonino. Following that, he played a KAOS agent in an episode of getting Smart, guest-starred on The Golden Girls as a dance marathon emcee, and appeared in the sci-fi comedies Quark and Mork and Mindy.
He also appeared in The Buddy Holly Story and The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, both starring Goldie Hawn and George Segal. In the jazz bar sequence from Nothing in Common, Janis made a quick cameo as himself.
Katie Meyer, 22
(Jan. 20, 2000 – March 1, 2022)
American soccer player
(Stanford Cardinal), NCAA champion (2019)
Cause of death: suicide.
American soccer goalkeeper for the Stanford Cardinal women's soccer team at Stanford University. Meyer was discovered dead in her dorm room at Crothers Hall, a Stanford residential housing complex, on March 1, 2022.
Meyer's mother stated she had gotten an email concerning disciplinary punishment and that "she had been getting letters for a couple months..." when asked about the circumstances surrounding her daughter's death. This letter was the last notice that there will be a trial or some other action taken.
