Deaths in 2013
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- 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)
- Mike Gray, 77, American drug documentary filmmaker, screenwriter (The China Syndrome, Star Trek: The Next Generation) and author.
- 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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