The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2013.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
March 2013
1
Jewel Akens, 79, American R&B singer ("The Birds and the Bees"), complications from back surgery. Janez Albreht, 87, Slovenian actor. Campbell Armstrong, 69, Scottish author. Chris Canavan, 84, British actor (Coronation Street). W. Gene Corley, 77, American consulting engineer. Helga Cranston, 91, German film editor. Robert Danhof, 87, American judge, member (1969–1992) and Chief Judge (1976–1992) of the Michigan Court of Appeals. Bonnie Franklin, 69, American actress (One Day at a Time, The Young and the Restless, Please Don't Eat the Daisies), pancreatic cancer. Mukesh Gadhvi, 50, Indian politician, MP for Banaskantha, complications from a stroke. Sammy Guillen, 88, Trinidadian-born New Zealand cricketer, represented both countries. D. V. J. Harischandra, 74, Sri Lankan psychiatrist and Buddhist scholar, complications from a heart attack. Margaret Johansen, 89, Norwegian novelist. Gaynelle Griffin Jones, 64, American lawyer and judge, US Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, member of the Texas Court of Appeals, cancer. Pat Keen, 79, English actress (Fawlty Towers, Shadowlands). Naw Kham, 43, Burmese drug lord, execution by lethal injection. Magic, 37, American rap vocalist (Sky's the Limit), traffic collision. Ric Menello, 60, American writer (Two Lovers), music video director ((You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)), heart attack. John Paul Miller, 94, American goldsmith. Trevor Morley, 79, English cricketer. Erich Pennekamp, 83, German Olympic water polo player. Rafael Puyana, 81, Colombian harpsichordist. Sir Alan Smith, 95, British World War II Spitfire fighter ace. Ken Stanley, 91, English table tennis player. Gabriel Vanel, 88, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Auch (1985–1996). Ludwig Zausinger, 84, German footballer.
2
Phillip Bonosky, 96, American novelist and journalist. Tom Borland, 80, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), MVP of the College World Series (1955). Francesca Forrellad, 85, Spanish writer, aneurysm. Walther Gerhold, 91, German Marine-Schreiber-Obergefreiter in the Kriegsmarine during World War II. Peter Harvey, 68, Australian television journalist (Nine Network), pancreatic cancer. William F. Hyland, 89, American politician and lawyer, New Jersey Attorney General (1974–1978). Jimmy Jackson, 81, Scottish footballer (Notts County). Eriya Kategaya, 67, Ugandan politician, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs. Giorgos Kolokithas, 67, Greek basketball player, cardiac arrest. Thomas McEvilley, 73, American art critic and academic, complications from cancer. Master O'Reilly, 10, New Zealand-bred Australian racehorse, winner of Caulfield Cup (2007). Bryce Rope, 90, New Zealand All Blacks rugby union coach (1983–1984). Hans Schnitger, 97, Dutch Olympic bronze-medalist field hockey player (1936). Shabnam Shakeel, 70, Pakistani poet and author. Bjørn Skau, 84, Norwegian politician, Minister of Justice and the Police (1981). Jorge Vago, 85, Argentine Olympic sailor. Zdeněk Švestka, 87, Czech astronomer.