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An alphabetical listing of names beginning with the letter M which have been in RECENT DEATHS since we started that feature. Names remain in RECENT DEATHS for two months, based on date of death.
After two months, they are moved here in the DEATHS ARCHIVES. For a listing of people who have died less than two months ago, visit RECENT DEATHS.

Donald Macdonald - June 13, 2003 (83) Former Dow Jones vice chairman
Clark MacGregor - February 10, 2003 (80) [Respiratory failure] Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota
Frederick Machetanz - October 6, 2002 (94) Artist
William Paden Mack - January 15, 2003 (87) [Cerebral vascular disease] Former superintendent of the Naval Academy
Gisele MacKenzie - September 5, 2003 (76) [Colon cancer] Singer and actress
Peter MacLean - May 28, 2003 (67) Actor
Robert MacLeod - January 13, 2003 (85) [Complications from a stroke] Former All-American football player for Dartmouth College, former football player for the Chicago Bears and former publisher of Teen magazine and Seventeen magazine
Kevin MacMichael - December 31, 2002 (51) [Lung cancer] Guitarist and former member of the rock band Cutting Crew
Ian MacNaughton - December 10, 2002 (76) [Injuries from a car crash] Television director of Monty Python's Flying Circus
Lester Maddox - June 25, 2003 (87) [Complications from a fall] Former governor of Georgia
William Mallow - July 30, 2002 (72) Chemist
Bernard Mann - October 31, 2002 (73) Former president and part owner of the New Jersey Nets
Herbie Mann - July 1, 2003 (73) [Prostate cancer] Jazz musician
Woodrow Wilson Mann - August 6, 2002 (85) Former mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas
John Mantley - January 14, 2003 (82) [Alzheimer's disease] Actor and television writer, director and producer
Wallace Markfield - May 23, 2002 (75) Writer
Marlene Adler Marks - September 5, 2002 (54) Columnist for the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
Lorian L. Marlantes - September 28, 2002 (59) President of Rockefeller Group International
William Marrie - November 16, 2002 (33) Broadway show dancer
Burke Marshall - June 1, 2003 (800 [Myelodysplasia] Former U.S. assistant attorney general
Thomas Oliver Marshall Jr. - June 12, 2003 (82) [Complications from surgery] Former chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
William Marshall - June 11, 2003 (78) [Alzheimer's disease] Actor
Andrea Martin - August 6, 2003 (57) [Brain cancer] Founder and former executive director of The Breast Cancer Fund
Archer Martin - July 28, 2002 (92) Chemist
Buck Martin - June 18, 2002 (73) Former Georgia Tech college football player
Eric Martin - October 9, 2002 (33) ARCA race car driver
Jim "Jughead" Martin - October 9, 2002 (78) Former football player for the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Baltimore Colts and Washington Redskins
Ned Martin - July 23, 2002 (79) Former sportscaster
Stan Martin (real name Stanley Martin Feuerman) - January 28, 2003 (64) [Stroke] Former program director and host for radio station WQEW-AM in New York City
Tony Martinex - September 16, 2002 (82) Actor
Jesse Martinez - August 17, 2002 (34) Drummer for the musical group Hometown Boys
John S. Martinez - October 11, 2002 (48) Connecticut Deputy House Majority Leader
Susan Marx - December 22, 2002 (94) [Heart attack] Actress. Wife of Harpo Marx.
Henry Mason - June 22, 2003 (81) [Leukemia] Writer and former Tulane University political science professor
Evamarie Mathaey - December 9, 2002 (65) [Car crash] One of the three founders of Nature Photographer Magazine
Kohei Matsuda - July 10, 2002 (80) Former president and former chairman of Mazda Motor Corporation
Carol Matthau - July 20, 2003 (78) [Brain aneurysm] Writer and actress
Peter Matz - August 9, 2002 (73) Composer, arranger and musical director for movies, plays and television
Bill Mauldin - January 22, 2003 (81) [Alzheimer's disease complications including pneumonia] Cartoonist
Johnny Mauro - January 23, 2003 (92) [Car crash] Former Indianapolis 500 race car driver and founder of the U.S. Truck Driving School
Frank G. Mautte - September 9, 2003 (88) Former captain of the Fordham football team
Maury Maverick - January 28, 2003 (82) Former member of the Texas House of Representatives
Lee Maye - July 17, 2002 (67) Former major league baseball player and professional singer
Lila Mayoral - January 7, 2003 (60) [Colon cancer] Former first lady of Puerto Rico
John McAleenan - August 25, 2002 (69) Newspaper columnist
Keith McCaw - December 15, 2002 (49) [Accidental drowning in his hottub] Billionaire and philanthropist. Made his fortune from the McCaw Cellular Communications family business.
Sarah McClendon - January 7, 2003 (92) [Pneumonia] White House reporter
Robert McCloskey - June 30, 2003 (88) Writer of children's books
Norma McClure - July 26, 2003 (69) [Congestive heart failure] Actress
William McCool - February 1, 2003 (41) [Breakup of the space shuttle Columbia] Astronaut
Tex McCrary - July 29, 2003 (92) Publicist
Albert L. McCready - June 30, 2003 (85) Former managing editor of The Oregonian
Walter C. McCrone Jr. - July 10, 2002 (86) Scientist
Mickey McDermott - August 7, 2003 (74) [Colon cancer and heart disease] Former baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals
Will McDonough - January 9, 2003 (67) Sports columnist for The Boston Globe and former sports commentator for CBS and NBC
O. Currier McEwen - June 23, 2003 (101) Physician. Former dean of the New York University School of Medicine
Hector McGeachy Jr. - January 1, 2003 (85) Former majority leader of the North Carolina state Senate
Ronald (Jock) McGregor - May 24, 2004 (57) [Died while jogging] President and CEO of gold minning company Vista Gold Corp., in Littleton, Colorado
Jack McGuire - September 30, 2002 (72) Reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News
Leo McKern - July 23, 2002 (82) Actor
Loren D. McKinley - August 28, 2003 (83) [Cancer] Former director of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Jack McKinney - August 10, 2002 (73) Former Philadelphia Daily News reporter, and former radio and television talk show host
Tim McLaurin - July 11, 2002 (48) Writer
John McLucas - December 1, 2002 (82) [Heart problems] Former secretary of the Air Force and former administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
Colin McMillan - July 24, 2003 (67) [Suicide] Former assistant defense secretary, oilman and nominee for Navy secretary
Dave McNally - December 1, 2002 (60) [Cancer] Former baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos
Tom McNally - July 29, 2002 (78) Former outdoors editor of the Chicago Tribune
James McReynolds - December 31, 2002 (75) [Thyroid cancer] Bluegrass musician
Edwin L. Mechem - November 27, 2002 (90) Former governor of New Mexico and former United States senator from New Mexico
Matt S. Meier - August 11, 2003 (86) [Complications from leukemia] Writer and professor emeritus of history at the University of Santa Clara, in California
Arthur "Spud" Melin - June 28, 2002 (77) Wham-O toy company co-founder
Jim Mellody - November 23, 2002 (63) Founder of Beef O'Brady's restaurant chain
Aileen Sauders Mellott - September 25, 2002 (76) Co-founder of the Flying Samaritans
Stanley Mendelson - October 4, 2002 (79) Jazz pianist
Durwood Merrill - January 11, 2003 (64) [Complications from a heart attack] Former American League baseball umpire
Leslie Midgley - June 19, 2002 (87) Television news producer
Connye Miller - June 15, 2003 (37) [Porphyria] Former editor and co-publisher of The Local Planet in Spokane, Washington
Leonard Miller - July 28, 2002 (69) Co-founder and chairman of Lennar Corporation
Ralph T. Millet - December 20, 2002 (85) [Lung problems] Former president of Saab U.S. Imports
Patsy Mink - September 28, 2002 (74) United States House of Representatives member from Hawaii
Grover Mitchell - August 6, 2003 (73) [Cancer] Musician and band leader
Thomas Patrick Mitchell - September 1, 2003 (89) Former Tennessee state senator
Mamie Till Mobley - January 6, 2003 (81) [Heart failure] Civil rights leader
Ivan Moffat - July 4, 2002 (84) Screenwriter
Frederic E. Mohs - July 1, 2002 (88) Surgeon
Paul Monash - January 14, 2003 (85) Producer, director and screenwriter
Marion Montgomery - July 22, 2002 (67) Singer
Jamie Moore - December 24, 2002 (96) Former Birmingham, Alabama police chief
Joe Moore - July 3, 2003 (71) [Lung cancer] Former offensive line coach for Notre Dame and the University of Pittsburgh
Peggy Moran - October 25, 2002 (84) Actress
Clark Morphew - December 24, 2002 (64) [Lung cancer] Former religion writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press
Ellen "Maximum" Morphonios - December 22, 2002 (73) [Stomach cancer] Former judge and radio talk show host
Edward "Ted" Mortimer - July 20, 2002 (80) Pediatrician
Edward Mortola - October 21, 2002 (85) Former president and chancellor of Pace University
Dan Moschetti - November 12, 2002 (53) Host of the syndicated The Golf Guy's Radio Show
Frank "Ted" Moss - January 29, 2003 (91) Former United States senator from Utah
Stanley E. Muir - June 15, 2003 (78) Former scorekeeper for the Boston Celtics
Brianne Murphy - August 20, 2003 (70) [Brain cancer] Cinematographer
Chester M. "Chet" Murphy - July 5, 2003 (77) [Lung cancer] Former owner of KYSS-AM and KYSS-FM radio stations in Missoula, Montana
John A. Murphy - June 16, 2002 (72) Former president of Miller Brewing Company
Robert Murphy - August 23, 2003 (80) Former team physician for the Ohio State football team
Allen E. Murry - August 11, 2002 (73) Former chairman and chief executive of Mobil
Allen Myerson - August 22, 2002 (47) New York Times weekends assistant business editor