Thursday, December 26, 2013

2013 Deaths


Deaths 2013:

January:

2nd: Margaret A. Brewer, 82, American USMC brigadier general

2nd: Ned Wertimer, 89, American actor (The Jeffersons, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End), complications from a fall

3rd: Alfie Fripp, 98, British RAF airman, longest-serving British POW during World War II

4th: Yevgeny Pepelyaev, 94, Russian Soviet-era fighter pilot, Korean War flying ace

5th: Fitzroy Newsum, 94, American military pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).

6th: Gerard Helders, 107, Dutch politician, Minister of Colonial Affairs (1957–1959), Member of the Council of State (1959–1975), Netherlands oldest man, natural causes

11th: Nguyễn Khánh, 85, Vietnamese politician and military leader, President of South Vietnam (1964–1965), illnesses related to diabetes

12th: Harold Crowchild, 97, Canadian Tsuu T'ina elder and soldier, last Treaty 7 World War II veteran

12th: William J. Cullerton, 89, American fighter pilot, World War II flying ace

13th: Mykhailo Horyn, 82, Ukrainian politician, prisoner of conscience and member of Soviet dissidents movement.

16th: Pauline Phillips, 94, American advice columnist ("Dear Abby"), complications from Alzheimer's disease

17th: James Hood, 70, American civil rights pioneer, among first African Americans to register at the University of Alabama

21st: Jake McNiece, 93, American World War II paratrooper, leader of the Filthy Thirteen

27th: Ivan Bodiul, 95, Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party (1961–1980), Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers (1980–1985).

28th: Mark Palmer, 72, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Hungary (1986–1990).

30th: Patty Andrews, 94, American singer, last surviving member of The Andrews Sisters, natural causes

30th: Christopher Van Hollen, 90, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives (1972-1976), Alzheimer's disease

February:

1st: Ed Koch, 88, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1969–1977), Mayor of New York City (1978–1989), television judge (The People's Court), heart failure

2nd: Pepper Paire, 88, American AAGPBL baseball player, inspiration for A League of Their Own.

3rd: James Muri, 93, American World War II pilot

10th: Sara Braverman, 95, Romanian-born Israeli Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine member, co-founder of the IDF Women's Corps

14th: Peter Olver, 95, British World War II fighter ace

16th: Jan Dahm, 91, Norwegian World War II resistance member

25th: C. Everett Koop, 96, American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator, Surgeon General of the United States (1982–1989).

26th: Tom Griffin, 96, American aviator, member of the Doolittle Raid

26th: Stéphane Hessel, 95, German-born French author and diplomat, member of the French Resistance, survivor of Buchenwald, Mittelbau-Dora and Bergen-Belsen

 March:

1st: Sir Alan Smith, 95, British World War II Spitfire fighter ace

5th: Hugo Chavez, 58, Venezuelan politician and military officer, President (since 1999), heart attack

8th: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, 90, German Army officer and publisher, last surviving member of the 20 July Plot

8th: Raymond Telles, 97, American politician and diplomat, Mayor of El Paso (1957–1961), Ambassador to Costa Rica (1961–1967).

10th: Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, 97, Welsh-born Swedish royal

17th: Svein Blindheim, 96, Norwegian military officer, WWII resistance fighter and historian

 April:

2nd: Jane Henson, 78, American puppeteer, co-founder of The Muppets, cancer

2nd: Benjamin Purcell, 85, American military officer and politician, highest ranking POW during the Vietnam conflict, member of Georgia House (1993–1997), natural causes

4th: Roger Ebert, 70, American film critic (Chicago Sun-Times, Siskel & Ebert), thyroid cancer

8th: Leslie Broderick, 91, British military officer, one of the last three survivors of "The Great Escape".

8th: Annette Funicello, 70, American actress (The Mickey Mouse Club) and singer ("Tall Paul"), complications from multiple sclerosis

15th: Richard LeParmentier, 66, American actor (Star Wars, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Octopussy).

18th: Alan Wood, 90, American Navy officer, supplied the American flag for the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photograph, heart failure

19th: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, Russian suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, shot and blunt force trauma

23rd: Shirley Abbott, 88, American politician, US Ambassador to Lesotho (1983–1989), member of the Texas House of Representatives (1977–1979), cardiac complications

 May:

1st: Chris Kelly, 34, American rap artist (Kris Kross), drug overdose

12th: Sergei Alexeyev, 88, Russian politician, author of the Constitution of Russia, heart attack

13th: Lilo Ramdohr, 99, German Resistance fighter, member of the White Rose

24th: Erling Welle-Strand, 96, Norwegian writer and resistance member

26th: Graham Leggett, 92, British RAF squadron leader, youngest surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain

28th: Viktor Kulikov, 91, Russian military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1977), Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief (1977–1989).

31st: Jean Stapleton, 90, American actress (All in the Family, You've Got Mail).

 June:

8th: Paul Cellucci, 65, American politician and diplomat, Governor of Massachusetts (1997–2001), Ambassador to Canada (2001–2005), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

19th: James Gandolfini, 51, American actor (The Sopranos, In the Loop, Zero Dark Thirty), heart attack

21st: Curtis W. Tarr, 88, American civil servant and academic, head of the Selective Service System during Vietnam, pneumonia

 July:

1st: Sidney Bryan Berry, 87, American military officer, commandant of United States Military Academy at West Point, Parkinson's disease

1st: Charles Foley, 82, American toy and board game inventor, co-creator of Twister, complications of Alzheimer's disease

2nd: Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, 91, Egyptian royal, Queen consort of Iran (1941–1948).

8th: Nadezhda Popova, 91, Russian military pilot, awarded Hero of the Soviet Union

13th: Cory Monteith, 31, Canadian actor (Glee, Kyle XY, Monte Carlo) and singer, heroin and alcohol overdose

18th: Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid, 88, Malaysian academic, sole Malaysian survivor of Hiroshima atomic bomb

27th: Bud Day, 88, American USAF commander (Vietnam War), Medal of Honor recipient

27th: Pete Tunstall, 94, British RAF squadron leader, World War II POW in Colditz.

29th: Tony Gaze, 93, Australian military officer, RAF World War II flying ace and Grand Prix race car driver

 August:

3rd: Yuri Brezhnev, 80, Russian Soviet politician, son of Leonid Brezhnev

8th: Ios Teper, 98, Ukrainian-born Australian Soviet military officer, awarded Order of the Red Banner for Battle of Berlin

10th: Eydie Gormé, 84, American singer ("Blame It on the Bossa Nova").

12th: Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, 44, Dutch royal, complications following 2012 skiing accident

26th: Hélie de Saint Marc, 91, French Resistance member and military officer, participant in 1961 Generals' Putsch

 September:

1st: Gordon Steege, 95, Australian military officer, RAAF flying ace

5th: Rochus Misch, 96, German SS non-commissioned officer, last survivor of the Führerbunker

9th: Shalom Yoran, 88, Polish Jewish partisan and author (The Defiant).

16th: Patsy Swayze, 86, American dancer and choreographer, mother of Patrick Swayze, complications from a stroke

 October:

1st: Tom Clancy, 66, American author (The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games).

4th: Nicholas Oresko, 96, American World War II veteran, Medal of Honor recipient, complications from surgery

7th: Yuri Churbanov, 76, Russian politician, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union (1980–1983)

10th: Joseph Gomer, 93, American pilot (Tuskegee Airman), cancer

11th: William H. Sullivan, 90, American diplomat, Ambassador to Laos (1964–1969), the Philippines (1973–1977) and Iran (1977–1979).

15th: Hans Riegel, 90, German entrepreneur (Haribo).

18th: Tom Foley, 84, American politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1989–1995); Ambassador to Japan (1997–2001), complications from a stroke

20th: Jovanka Broz, 88, Yugoslav army officer, First Lady (1953–1980), widow of Josip Broz Tito

24th: Frank Perconte, 96, American World War II veteran, portrayed in Band of Brothers

25th: Marcia Wallace, 70, American actress (The Simpsons, The Bob Newhart Show) and comedienne, pneumonia

29th: John Spence, 95, American World War II veteran, first combat frogman

 November:

4th: John D. Hawk, 89, American World War II veteran, Medal of Honor recipient

12th: Mavis Batey, 92, British World War II codebreaker

19th: Diane Disney Miller, 79, American philanthropist, complications from a fall

24th: Earl McClung, 90, American World War II veteran, portrayed in Band of Brothers

29th: Natalya Gorbanevskaya, 77, Russian poet, translator and civil rights activist

30th: Yury Yakovlev, 85, Russian actor (The Irony of Fate, Anna Karenina, Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future).

30th: Paul Walker, 40, American actor (The Fast and the Furious, Pleasantville, Timeline), car crash

 December:

1st: Edward Heffron, 90, American World War II veteran, portrayed in Band of Brothers.

3rd: Ronald Hunter, 70, American actor (Along Came Polly, Law & Order, The Big Bang Theory), heart and kidney failure

5th: William B. Edmondson, 86, American diplomat, Ambassador to South Africa (1978–1981).

5th: Nelson Mandela, 95, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, President (1994−1999), lung infection

7th: Józef Kowalski, 113, Polish soldier, last surviving veteran of the Polish–Soviet War.

8th: Don Mitchell, 70, American actor (Ironside, I Dream of Jeannie, CHiPs).

9th: Eleanor Parker, 91, American actress (The Sound of Music, Detective Story), pneumonia.

12th: Mac McGarry, 87, American television quiz show host (It's Academic), pneumonia

13th: Daniel Escobar, 49, American actor (Lizzie McGuire, Dharma & Greg, How I Met Your Mother), complications of diabetes

13th: Vivian Kellogg, 91, American AAGPBL baseball player (Fort Wayne Daisies).

14th: Peter O'Toole, 81, British-Irish actor (Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, Becket, Troy).

18th: Ronnie Biggs, 84, English criminal (Great Train Robbery) and fugitive

20th: Pyotr Bolotnikov, 83, Soviet Olympic champion athlete (1960).

20th: Yuri Dubinin, 83, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1986–1990

21st:  Edgar Bronfman, Sr., 84, Canadian businessman (Seagram), activist for Jewish and Israeli causes.

21st: John Eisenhower, 91, American historian, U.S. Ambassador to Belgium (1969–1971)

21st: Rodolfo P. Hernandez, 82, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.

23rd: Mikhail Kalashnikov, 94, Russian weapons designer (AK-47, AK-74)

25th: Viktor Savelyev, 85, Russian surgeon, Hero of Socialist Labor, recipient of the Demidov Prize in Medicine (2002)

 

 

 

 

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