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
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
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
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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