Deaths in 2013
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- Zao Wou-Ki
- Darondo, American musician ("Didn't I").
- Jean Rustin, 85, French painter.
- Yusef Lateef, 93, American Grammy Award-winning saxophonist (Jazz Mood).
- Al Goldstein, 77, American publisher and pornographer, renal failure.
- Ronnie Biggs, 84, English criminal (Great Train Robbery) and fugitive.
- Peter O'Toole, 81, Irish actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Troy).
- Kate Barry, 46, British photographer, fall.
- Édouard Molinaro, 85, French film director and screenwriter.
- Nelson Mandela, 95, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician.
- Colin Wilson, 82, English writer.
- Junior Murvin, 64, Jamaican reggae singer ("Police and Thieves").
- Martin Sharp, 71, Australian artist, emphysema.
- Oliver Cheatham, 65, American singer ("Get Down Saturday Night").
- Chico Hamilton, 92, American jazz drummer.
- Doris Lessing, 94, British novelist, poet, playwright and librettist.
- William Weaver, 90, American translator.
- Lou Reed, 71, American rock musician (The Velvet Underground) and songwriter ("Walk on the Wild Side"), liver disease.
- Arthur Danto, 89, American philosopher and art critic.
- Hal Needham, 82, American stuntman and film director (Smokey and the Bandit, The Cannonball Run), cancer.
- Benjamin Walker, 99, Indian-born British author (Body Magic: An Encyclopedia of Esoteric Man).
- Prince Jazzbo, 62, Jamaican reggae deejay, lung cancer.
- José Ramón Larraz, 84, Spanish film director (Vampyres) and comics writer.
- Elmore Leonard, 87, American novelist (Get Shorty, Three-Ten to Yuma, Out of Sight), complications from a stroke.
- Jacques Vergès, 88, French lawyer.
- JJ Cale, 74, American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter ("After Midnight", "Cocaine") and musician, heart attack.
- George Duke, 67, American Grammy Award-winning jazz fusion keyboardist, chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
- Karen Black, 74, American actress (Five Easy Pieces, Nashville, Easy Rider, The Great Gatsby).
- Dixie Evans, 86, American burlesque dancer, stroke.
- Richard Matheson, 87, American author and screenwriter (I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man, The Twilight Zone).
- Bobby Bland, 83, American blues and soul singer.
- Kim Thompson, 56, American comic book editor and publisher (Fantagraphics Books), lung cancer.
- Iain Banks, 59, Scottish author (The Wasp Factory), cancer.
- Tom Sharpe, 85, British author, complications from diabetes.
- Franca Rame, 83, Italian theatre actress, playwright, politicial activist, and wife of Dario Fo
- Jack Vance, 96, American science fiction author.
- Otto Muehl, 87, Austrian painter and activist, Parkinson's disease and cardiac ailment.
- Georges Moustaki, 79, Egyptian-born French singer and songwriter.
- Wayne F. Miller, 94, American photographer.
- Ray Manzarek, 74, American rock musician (The Doors), bile duct cancer.
- Taylor Mead, 88, American writer, actor and Andy Warhol star.
- Ray Harryhausen, 92, American stop-motion animator (Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans)
- Chris Kelly, 34, American rap artist (Kris Kross), suspected drug overdose.
- Richie Havens, 72, American folk singer and guitarist, heart attack.
- Vincent Montana, Jr., 85, American musician.
- Don Blackman, 59, American jazz-funk pianist, singer and songwriter, cancer.
- Sara Montiel, 85, Spanish actress and singer.
- Margaret Thatcher, 87, British politician and life peer.
- Bigas Luna, 67, Spanish film director (The Ages of Lulu), cancer.
- Roger Ebert, 70, American film critic.
- Jesús Franco, 82, Spanish film director and screenwriter (Count Dracula).
- Joe Weider, 93, Canadian-born American bodybuilder and publisher.
- Emílio Santiago, 66, Brazilian singer, complications from a stroke ("Bananeira").
- Damiano Damiani, 90, Italian film director (The Empty Canvas).
- Hugo Chávez, 58, Venezuelan politician and military officer, President (since 1999), cancer.
- Jérôme Savary, 70, Argentine-born French theater director and actor, cancer.
- Kevin Ayers, 68, English psychedelic rock songwriter and musician (Soft Machine, Wilde Flowers).
- Otfried Preußler, 89, German children's book author (Krabat).
- Donald Byrd, 80, American jazz trumpeter.
- Reg Presley, 71, British singer and musician (The Troggs), lung cancer.
- Cecil Womack, 65, American musician and singer.
- Michel Guiomar, 92, French writer.
- Roger Raveel, 91, Belgian painter, pneumonia.
- Jacques Sadoul, 78, French writer and book editor.
- Michael Winner, 77, British film director (Death Wish) and food critic.
- Nagisa Oshima, 80, Japanese director and screenwriter (Empire of Passion).
- Ada Louise Huxtable, 91, American architecture critic.
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