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Deaths in March 2025

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ131318777 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2025.

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 2025

1

Paula Alvarellos, 62, Spanish politician and lawyer, mayor of Lugo (since 2024), heart attack.

Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky, 74, Georgian prince, throne claimant and theatre director, head of the House of Gruzinsky (since 1984).

Asoma Banda, 92, Ghanaian businessman and philanthropist.

Donald L. Bryant Jr., 82, American businessman.

Susantha Chandramali, 61, Sri Lankan actress (Gamane Yaa), cancer.

Alva Colquhoun, 83, Australian swimmer, Olympic silver medalist (1960).

Rosemary Crowley, 86, Australian politician, minister assisting the prime minister for the status of women (1993) and senator (1983–2002).

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“Deaths in March 2025” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Deaths, March and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 2024, 1984, 1960—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Deaths, March and Wikimedia.
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“Deaths in March 2025” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Deaths, March and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q131318777. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025, 2024, 1984 and 1960.

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This entry incorporates text from “Deaths in March 2025” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.