March 2005
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Deaths in March

  • 31 – Terri Schiavo
    Terri Schiavo
    The Terri Schiavo case was a legal battle in the United States between the legal guardians and the parents of Teresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo that lasted from 1998 to 2005...

  • 30 – Mitch Hedberg
    Mitch Hedberg
    Mitchell Lee "Mitch" Hedberg was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and unconventional comedic delivery. His comedy typically featured short, sometimes one-line jokes, mixed with absurd elements and non sequiturs...

  • 29 – Johnnie Cochran
    Johnnie Cochran
    Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. was an American lawyer best known for his leadership role in the defense and criminal acquittal of O. J...

  • 27 – Wilfred Bigelow
    Wilfred Bigelow
    Wilfred Gordon "Bill" Bigelow, OC, FRSC was a Canadian heart surgeon known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker and the use of hypothermia in open heart surgery.Born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Dr...

  • 26 – Paul Hester
    Paul Hester
    Paul Newell Hester was an Australian musician and television personality; he was the drummer for the related bands Split Enz and Crowded House.-The early years:...

  • 26 – James Callaghan
    James Callaghan
    Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC , was a British Labour politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980...

  • 21 – Jeff Weise
    Jeff Weise
    Jeffrey James "Jeff" Weise was an Ojibwe Native American adolescent, and a student at Red Lake Senior High School in Red Lake, Minnesota. He murdered nine people and wounded five others in a shooting spree on March 21, 2005, in the Red Lake Indian Reservation located in northwest Minnesota...

  • 21 – Bobby Short
    Bobby Short
    Robert Waltrip "Bobby" Short was an American cabaret singer and pianist, best known for his interpretations of songs by popular composers of the first half of the 20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Noel Coward and George and Ira Gershwin.He...

  • 19 – John De Lorean
    John De Lorean
    John Zachary DeLorean was an American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry, most notably with General Motors, and founder of the DeLorean Motor Company....

  • 18 – Gary Bertini
    Gary Bertini
    Gary Bertini was an Israeli conductor.-Biography:Gary Bertini was born Shloyme Golergant in Bricheva, Bessarabia, then in Romania, now in Donduşeni District, Moldova. His father, K. A. Bertini , was a poet and translator of the Russian and Yiddish Gary Bertini (Hebrew: גארי ברתיני) (born 1 May...

  • 17 – George F. Kennan
    George F. Kennan
    George Frost Kennan was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War...

  • 17 – Andre Norton
    Andre Norton
    Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...

  • 17 – Czesław Słania
  • 10 – Dave Allen (comedian)
    Dave Allen (comedian)
    David Tynan O'Mahoney , better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish comedian, very popular in Great Britain, Australia, and Canada in the 1960s and 1970s. He also became known in the United States through repeats of his shows on public television. His career had a major resurgence during the late...

  • 9 – Chris LeDoux
    Chris LeDoux
    Chris Ledoux was an American country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion.During his career LeDoux recorded 36 albums which have sold more than six million units in the United States as of January 2007...

  • 8 – Aslan Maskhadov
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was a leader of the Chechen separatist movement and the third President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.He was credited by many with the Chechen victory in the First Chechen War, which allowed for the...

  • 6 – Hans Bethe
    Hans Bethe
    Hans Albrecht Bethe was a German-American nuclear physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. A versatile theoretical physicist, Bethe also made important contributions to quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid-state physics and...

  • 6 – Tommy Vance
    Tommy Vance
    Tommy Vance was a British pop radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. He was one of the few music broadcasters in the United Kingdom to champion hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans...

  • 4 – Yuri Kravchenko
  • 3 – Rinus Michels
    Rinus Michels
    Marinus Jacobus Hendricus Michels OON was a Dutch association football player and coach...

  • Other deaths
    Deaths in 2005
    The following is a list of notable deaths in 2005. Names are listed under the date of death and not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name....


Election results

6: Moldovan parliamentary
Moldovan parliamentary elections, 2005
Moldovan parliamentary elections took place on March 6, 2005. Turnout was 63.7 percent.- Election outcome :As a result of the 2005 parliamentary elections, the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova gained 56 seats in the 101-member Parliament - more than the minimum 51 seats required to...

 

12: Maltese Local Council Elections
Maltese local council elections, 2005
Local elections were held in Malta on 12 March 2005. The Malta Labour Party won an absolute majority. Approximately 68% of the eligible voters turned up on election day...

 

13: Central African Rep. federal
Central African Republic elections, 2005
Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in the Central African Republic on March 13, 2005 and May 8, 2005 , marking the end of the transitional process that began with the seizure of power by François Bozizé in a March 2003 coup...

 

13: Liechtenstein parliamentary
Elections in Liechtenstein
Elections in Liechtenstein gives information on election and election results in Liechtenstein.Liechtenstein elects a legislature at the national level...

 

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