Notable Deaths in March 2026

Ted Turner

Founder of CNN and Turner Broadcasting System

Complications from Lewy body dementia

Bernadette Chirac

Former First Lady of France, widow of President Jacques Chirac

Kevin Keegan

Football legend — Liverpool, Hamburg, England captain and manager

Stomach cancer

Bobby Cox

Baseball Hall of Fame manager — Atlanta Braves

Peabo Bryson

R&B singer — "A Whole New World", "Beauty and the Beast"

Complications from a stroke

Sonny Rollins

Jazz saxophone legend — Saxophone Colossus

Jürgen Habermas

Philosopher — The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Brenda Fricker

Oscar-winning actress — My Left Foot

Doris F. Fisher

Co-founder of Gap Inc.