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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2013. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: *Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.


January 2013


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Moses Anderson Bishop Moses Bosco Anderson, SSE (September 9, 1928 – January 1, 2013) was a bishop in the Catholic Church. Biography He was born on September 9, 1928 in Selma, Alabama, and graduated from Knox Academy there in the year 1949. He was a member ...
, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit (1983–2003), cardiac arrest. *
Lory Blanchard David Lory Blanchard (4 September 1924 – 1 January 2013) was a New Zealand rugby union and professional rugby league football player who played representative rugby league (RL) for New Zealand in the 1954 World Cup and coached them at ...
, 88, New Zealand rugby league player and coach. * Robert J. Callahan, 82, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (1996–1999), Parkinson's disease. * Michael Patrick Cronan, 61, American graphic designer and artist, named TiVo,
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, colon cancer. * Jack Davis, 80, American football player (
Boston Patriots Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most ...
). * Ross Davis, 94, American
Negro league baseball The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...
player. * Lucio Dell'Angelo, 74, Italian footballer. *
Paul du Feu Paul Bernard du Feu (September 1935 – 1 January 2013) was a Welsh people, Welsh builder, painter, author and model. He is best known for his marriages to the feminist Germaine Greer and the poet Maya Angelou. He published the memoir ''Let's H ...
, 77, Welsh painter, builder, cartoonist and model. *
Bruce Eisner Bruce Jay Ehrlich (February 26, 1948 – January 1, 2013), better known by his pen name Bruce Eisner, was an American writer, psychologist, and counterculture spokesman mostly known for his book ''Ecstasy: The MDMA Story''. Biography Eisner w ...
, 64, American writer, gastrointestinal hemorrhage. *
Lloyd Hartman Elliott Lloyd Hartman Elliott ( – ) was President of the George Washington University from 1965 to 1988. He was born in Crosby, Clay County, West Virginia in 1918. He was also a professor of educational administration at Cornell University and Pres ...
, 94, American educator, President of George Washington University (1965–1988). * Avrohom Yaakov Friedman, 84, Austrian–born Israeli rabbi. *
Hugh Gillis Hugh Marion Gillis (September 6, 1918 – January 1, 2013) was an American politician. Early life and education Born in Soperton, Georgia, Gillis was a farmer and timber grower. He graduated from University of Georgia with a degree in agricu ...
, 94, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1950–1962) and
Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
(1962–2004). *
Allan Hancox Allan Robin Winston Hancox (1932 – 1 January 2013) was a Chief Justice of Kenya. He served between 1989 and 1993, and was succeeded by Fred Kwasi Apaloo. Early career Born and educated in England, Justice Hancox first joined the judiciary ...
, 80, British-born Kenyan justice, Chief Justice (1989–1993). *
Roz Howard Roswell Howard, Sr. (January 1, 1922 – January 1, 2013) was an American stock car racing driver. He competed in the NASCAR Grand National Series and the NASCAR Convertible Division in the 1950s and early 1960s, in addition to racing throughout ...
, 91, American racing driver. * Christopher Martin-Jenkins, 67, British cricket journalist ('' Test Match Special'', '' The Cricketer'') and BBC radio commentator, cancer. * Alois Moser, 82, Canadian Olympic ski jumper (
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...
). *
Louis J. Nigro, Jr. Louis John Nigro Jr. (May 19, 1947 – January 1, 2013) was an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Chad from 2007 to 2010. Biography Louis Nigro was born in 1947. He joined the US Foreign Service in 1980. Prior to doing so, ...
, 65, American diplomat, cancer. *
Patti Page Clara Ann Fowler (November 8, 1927 – January 1, 2013), known professionally as Patti Page, was an American singer and actress. Primarily known for pop and country music, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female ar ...
, 85, American singer ("
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", " Confess") and actress (''
Elmer Gantry ''Elmer Gantry'' is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that presents aspects of the religious activity of America in fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it. The novel's protagonis ...
''), heart and lung disease. *
Slobodan Rakitić Slobodan Rakitić (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Ракитић; 30 September 1940 – 1 January 2013) was a Serbian writer and politician. Biography Rakitić was born in Vlasovo, Prokuplje, Serbia. He attended the elementary school in Ra ...
, 72, Serbian writer and politician. *
Mojtaba Tehrani Grand Ayatollah Agha Mojtaba Tehrani (Persian: مجتبي تهراني) (4 April 1933 – 1 January 2013) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja' taqlid, which is described as "a high-ranking Shia cleric who is regarded as a source of emulation". ...
, 79, Iranian Twelver Marja'. *
Brihaspati Dev Triguna Brihaspati Dev Triguna (1920–2013) was a Vaidya or Ayurveda practitioner and an expert in Pulse diagnosis (''Nadi vaidyam'' in Ayurvedic terms)''. He completed his formal ayurvedic studies under the guidance of Rajvaidya Pandit Gokul Chand ji ...
, 92, Indian traditional healer. * Barbara Werle, 84, American actress ('' Battle of the Bulge'', '' Charro!'', '' The Virginian''). *
Phyllis Wiener Phyllis Wiener (September 17, 1921 – January 1, 2013) was an American painter. Wiener was one of the first female artists to embrace the Abstract Art Movement in Minnesota. Life and work Wiener was born in Iowa City, Iowa. She studied with Gra ...
, 91, American artist. * Zhang Wenbin, 93, Chinese politician, Vice Minister of the Petroleum Industry (1965–1987). * Wendell Young III, 76, American labor leader, Liver cancer


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* Yuri Alexandrov, 49, Russian boxer, heart attack. * Charles W. Blackwell, 70, American Chickasaw Nation diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (since 1995). * Wren Blair, 87, Canadian ice hockey coach and manager ( Minnesota North Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins). * Beatrice Bolam, 93, English politician and magistrate. * Jim Boyd, 79, American actor ('' The Electric Company''). *
Margaret A. Brewer Brigadier General Margaret A. Brewer (July 1, 1930 – January 2, 2013) was the first woman in the United States Marine Corps to reach general officer rank. Early years Brewer was born in Durand, Michigan, on July 1, 1930, to Maurice and Anne ...
, 82, American USMC brigadier general. * Council Cargle, 77, American stage and film actor ('' Jackie Brown'', '' Detroit 9000''). *
Karel Čáslavský Karel Čáslavský (28 January 1937 in Lipnice nad Sázavou – 2 January 2013 in Prague) was a Czech film historian and television host. Čáslavský worked as a historian for the National Film Archive (Národní filmový archiv) of the Czech Repub ...
, 75, Czech film historian and television host, pneumonia. * Charles Chilton, 95, British BBC Radio writer, producer and presenter ('' Journey into Space''), pneumonia. *
Angelo Coia Angelo Anthony Coia (April 21, 1938 – January 2, 2013) was an American football end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Bears, the Washington Redskins, and the Atlanta Falcons. Biography Coia played college football at the ...
, 74, American football player (
Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NF ...
, Washington Redskins,
Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The Falcons joined th ...
). * John Commins, 71, South African cricketer. *
Lee Eilbracht Lee Paul Eilbracht (March 22, 1924 – January 2, 2013) was an American college baseball coach and player in the Chicago Cubs organization. Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Eilbracht was raised in Waterloo, Illinois. Eilbracht is the ...
, 88, American baseball coach ( University of Illinois) (1952–1978). *
Zaharira Harifai Zaharira Harifai ( he, זהרירה חריפאי; December 12, 1929 – January 2, 2013) was an Israeli film, stage, and television actress and recipient of the Israel Prize in Theater, which she was awarded in 2003. ''The Jerusalem Post'' called ...
, 83, Israeli actress, cancer. *
Merv Hunter Mervyn (Merv) Leslie Hunter (23 February 1926 – 2 January 2013) was an Australian politician. He was the state Member of Parliament for the electorate of Lake Macquarie representing the Labor Party (ALP) in the New South Wales Legislative As ...
, 86, Australian politician, New South Wales MLA for Lake Macquarie (1969–1991). * Géza Koroknay, 64, Hungarian actor. * Gerda Lerner, 92, Austrian-born American feminist historian. *
Ladislao Mazurkiewicz Ladislao Mazurkiewicz Iglesias (; 14 February 1945 – 2 January 2013) was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career Mazurkiewicz helped the Uruguay national team qualify for the semifinals of the 1970 World Cup, where the ''ch ...
, 67, Uruguayan footballer, respiratory illness. * Joe McGrath, Irish
Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...
and
hurling Hurling ( ga, iománaíocht, ') is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of p ...
coach (
Cork Cork or CORK may refer to: Materials * Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product ** Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container ***Wine cork Places Ireland * Cork (city) ** Metropolitan Cork, also known as G ...
). * Ian McKeever, 42, Irish mountaineer and Seven Summits record holder, lightning strike. *
Maulvi Nazir Maulvi Nazir (also Maulvi Nazir Wazir; 1975 – ) was a leading militant of the Pakistani Taliban in South Waziristan. Nazir's operations were based in Wana. He was opposed to foreigners exercising influence in Waziristan, including Americans and ...
, 37–38, Pakistani militant commander, drone strike. * Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, 53, American psychologist and author, complications from heart surgery. * Jamie Oglesby, 84, American politician. * Kishore Pawar, 86, Indian political and trade union leader. * Stephen Resnick, 74, American economist, leukemia. *
Alexei Rudeanu Alexei Rudeanu (April 12, 1939 – January 2, 2013) was a Romanian author. Works * ''Exilul Pisicilor'' (1969) * ''Ultimul Monac'' (1973) * ''Focul rece'' (1973) * ''Destine din nord'' (1974) * ''Pietrele acestel case'' (1975) * ''Mansarda colibe ...
, 73, Romanian writer. * Richard Shenton, 86, Jersey politician. * Renzo Soldani, 87, Italian cyclist. *
Rudolf Szanwald Rudolf Szanwald (6 July 1931 – 2 January 2013) was an Austrian football goalkeeper who played for Austria in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Wiener Sport-Club, FC Kärnten, and FK Austria Wien Fußballklub Austria Wien AG (; kn ...
, 81, Austrian footballer ( Wiener Sport-Club). * Teresa Torańska, 69, Polish journalist ('' Gazeta Wyborcza'') and writer. *
Wen-Ying Tsai Wen-Ying Tsai (; October 13, 1928 – January 2, 2013) was a Chinese-American pioneer cybernetic sculptor and kinetic artist best known for creating sculptures using electric motors, stainless steel rods, stroboscopic light, and audio feedb ...
, 84, Chinese–born American artist. *
Ned Wertimer Edward "Ned" Wertimer (October 27, 1923 – January 2, 2013) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Ralph Hart, the doorman on the sitcom ''The Jeffersons''. Life and career Early years Wertimer was born on October 27, 1923, in ...
, 89, American actor ('' The Jeffersons'', '' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End''), complications from a fall.


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* Lars T. Bjella, 90, Norwegian politician. * Sir Robert Clark, 88, British naval officer and businessman. *
George Falconer George Falconer (23 November 1946 – 3 January 2013) was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward. Falconer was best known for his time at Raith Rovers making 68 appearances and scoring 22 goals, he also played for Montrose, Dundee an ...
, 66, Scottish footballer (
Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...
, Raith Rovers), heart attack. * Alfie Fripp, 98, British RAF airman, longest-serving British POW during World War II. * Ted Godwin, 79, Canadian artist, complications from heart attack. *
M. S. Gopalakrishnan M.S. Gopalakrishnan, a.k.a. MSG, (10 June 1931 – 3 January 2013) was a violinist in the field of Carnatic music. He is commonly grouped with Lalgudi Jayaraman and T.N.Krishnan as part of the violin-trinity of Carnatic Music. He was awarded ...
, 81, Indian violinist. * Marianne Grunberg-Manago, 91, Russian-born French biochemist. *
Jimmy Halliday James Halliday (27 February 1927 – 3 January 2013) was a Scottish author, historian and politician. He was the chairman (leader) of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 1956 to 1960. Early life Halliday was born in Woodburn Cottage, Wemyss ...
, 85, Scottish politician, National Chairman of the
Scottish National Party The Scottish National Party (SNP; sco, Scots National Pairty, gd, Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba ) is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic political party in Scotland. The SNP supports and campaigns for Scottish independence from ...
(1956–1960). * Robert C. Holland, 87, American economist, member of Federal Reserve Board of Governors (19731976), dementia. *
Kanang anak Langkau WO1 Temenggong Datuk Kanang anak Langkau, SP, PGB, PGBK, PBS (Rt) (2 March 1945 – 3 January 2013) was a Malaysian hero and soldier from the Iban Dayak community in Sarawak. He was in the Royal Ranger Regiment and Regimental Sergeant Major ...
, 67, Malaysian soldier,
Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa The Grand Knight of Valour ( ms, Darjah Kebesaran Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa) is the highest federal award which can be presented in Malaysia. It was created on 29 July 1960 and was gazetted on 11 August 1960. The award is the highest ranking in ...
recipient, heart attack. *
Richard A. Long Richard A. Long (February 9, 1927 – January 3, 2013) was an American cultural historian and author, who has been called "one of the great pillars of African-American arts and culture". As an academic, he taught at University of Pennsylvania, Un ...
, 85, American author and historian. *
Ivan Mackerle Ivan Mackerle (March 19423 January 2013) was a Czech cryptozoologist, author, design engineer, and explorer. He organized expeditions to search for the Loch Ness monster of Scotland, the Tasmanian tiger in Australia, and the elephant bird in Mada ...
, 70, Czech cryptozoologist. *
William Maxson William B. Maxson (4 September 1930 – 3 January 2013) was an American Air Force Major General and vice commander, 15th Air Force, Strategic Air Command, March Air Force Base, Calif. Maxson was born in Ohio. He fought in the Vietnam War an ...
, 82, American military commander, complications from heart surgery. * John McAndrew, 85, Gaelic footballer. *
Preben Munthe Preben Hempel Munthe (15 October 1922 – 3 January 2013) was a Norwegian economist. He was born in Aker, the son of librarian Wilhelm Munthe (1883–1965) and his wife Jenny Hempel (1882–1975). Gerhard Munthe was his elder brother. The younger ...
, 90, Norwegian economist. * Sergiu Nicolaescu, 82, Romanian film director ('' Michael the Brave''), actor (''
A Police Superintendent Accuses ''A Police Superintendent Accuses'' ( ro, Un comisar acuză) is a 1973 Romanian crime drama film by Sergiu Nicolaescu and starring himself as Police Commissioner Tudor Moldovan. The film is based on a true event, the Jilava Massacre which took p ...
'') and
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(1992–2004, 2008–2012), cardiac arrest. *
Andrew P. O'Rourke Andrew Patrick O'Rourke (October 26, 1933 – January 3, 2013) was a judge and politician from New York State. A Republican, he served as the County Executive of Westchester County, New York from 1982 to 1997. He was the Republican candidate ...
, 79, American politician and judge (
New York Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the New York State Unified Court System. (Its Appellate Division is also the highest intermediate appellate court.) It is vested with unlimited civ ...
). *
Jaime Ortiz-Patino Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and ...
, 82, French-born Spanish golf promoter, creator of
Valderrama Golf Club The Real Club Valderrama (; "Royal Valderrama Club") is one of the best known golf clubs in the world. It is located in the resort of Sotogrande, San Roque in the Andalusia region of southern Spain, a few miles from Gibraltar, and has a single 18 ...
, President of the
World Bridge Federation The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the international governing body of contract bridge. The WBF is responsible for world championship competitions, most of which are conducted at a few multi-event meets on a four-year cycle. The most prestigiou ...
(1976–1986). *
Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao ( kn, ಶಿಕಾರಿಪುರ ರಂಗನಾಥ ರಾವ್) (1 July 1922 – 3 January 2013), commonly known as Dr. S. R. Rao, was an Indian archaeologist who led teams credited with discoveries of a number of ...
, 90, Indian archeologist. *
Vladimir Sargsyan , Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic , death_date = , death_place = Yerevan, Armenia , fields = Mechanics, Deformable body mechanics , work_institutions = Yerevan State University , alma_mater = Yerevan State University ...
, 77, Armenian scientist. * Hisayuki Sasaki, 48, Japanese golfer, cardiac arrest. *
Thomas Schäuble Thomas Schäuble (23 July 1948 – 3 January 2013) was a longtime German politician and younger brother of Wolfgang Schäuble and personal friend of Winfried Kretschmann. He was member of CDU. In 2004 he became the manager of brewery "Badische Sta ...
, 64, German politician, complications following a heart attack. * Selkirk, 24, English champion racehorse (
Queen Elizabeth II Stakes The Queen Elizabeth II Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is s ...
,
Celebration Mile The Celebration Mile is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Goodwood over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is scheduled to t ...
, Lockinge Stakes), natural causes. *
Patty Shepard Patricia Moran Shepard (October 1, 1945 – January 3, 2013) was an American film actress based in Madrid, Spain. She appeared in more than fifty Spanish, Italian and French films from the 1960s to the 1980s, notably several cult horror films. ...
, 67, American-born Spanish movie actress, heart attack. * Burry Stander, 25, South African Olympic (
2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
,
2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...
) mountain biker, traffic collision. * Paul Taff, 92, American television executive and executive producer ( Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, The French Chef).


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* Mohammad Aeltemesh, 64, Indian lawyer. * Bashir Ahmed, 88, Indian cricketer. * Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue, 81, British
Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art The office of Surveyor of the King's/Queen's Works of Art in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of works of art own ...
(1972–1996). *
Bhanumati Devi Bhanumati Devi (15 May 1934 – 4 January 2013) was a Burmese-born Indian film and theater actress. Devi was born in British Burma on 15 May 1934. She moved to Puri, Odisha, India, with her Indian family following World War II. Devi began ac ...
, 78, Burmese-born Indian actress (''
Matira Manisha ''Matira Manisha'' (Man of the Soil) is a 1966 Odia film directed by Mrinal Sen. Based on the novel by Kalindi Charan Panigrahi of the same name, the film contrasts traditional and modern values as exemplified by the different attitudes of two ...
''), heart failure. *
Frank Eke Frank Adiele Eke (27 June 1931 – 4 January 2013), was a Nigerian medical doctor and politician. He was the first Deputy Governor of Rivers State, serving from 1979 to 1983 under Governor Melford Okilo and the first Ikwerre man to study at the Ha ...
, 81, Nigerian medical doctor and politician. * Pete Elliott, 86, American
Hall of Fame A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or Wiktionary:fame, fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actu ...
college football player ( Michigan), Executive Director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1979–1995). * Ed Emory, 75, American football coach (
East Carolina University East Carolina University (ECU) is a public university, public research university in Greenville, North Carolina. It is the fourth largest university in North Carolina. Founded on March 8, 1907, as a Normal school, teacher training school, East ...
, 1980–1984). *
Wally Feurzeig Wallace "Wally" Feurzeig (June 10, 1927 – January 4, 2013) was an American computer scientist who was co-inventor, with Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon, of the programming language Logo, and a well-known researcher in artificial intellige ...
, 85, American computer scientist, invented Logo. * Pir Gohar, 81, Pakistani poet, songwriter, critic and freedom activist, cardiac arrest. * Murray Henderson, 91, Canadian hockey player ( Boston Bruins). *
Thomas Holtzmann Thomas Holtzmann (1 April 1927 – 4 January 2013) was a German stage and film actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1955 to 2004. Filmography References External links

* 1927 births 2013 deaths German male film actors ...
, 85, German stage and film actor. * Nilmar Janbu, 91, Norwegian engineer and geotechnician. *
Sammy Johns Sammy Reginald Johns (February 7, 1946 – January 4, 2013) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his million-selling 1975 hit single, "Chevy Van (song), Chevy Van". Career Johns was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. Johns ...
, 66, American singer-songwriter (" Chevy Van", "
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"). * Derek Kevan, 77, English footballer ( West Bromwich Albion). *
Salik Lucknawi Salik Lucknawi (16 December 1913 – 4 January 2013) was the '' nom de plume'' of Shaukat Riaz Kapoor, an Indian Urdu poet and journalist. He was a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Shri. Early life Salik Lucknawi was born on ...
, 99, Indian Urdu poet. *
Tony Lip Frank Anthony Vallelonga Sr. (July 30, 1930 – January 4, 2013), better known by his stage name Tony Lip, was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of crime boss Carmine Lupertazzi in the HBO series, ''The Sopranos''. Lip ...
, 82, American actor (''
Donnie Brasco Joseph Dominick Pistone (born September 17, 1939), is an American former FBI agent who worked undercover as Donnie Brasco between September 1976 and July 1981, as part of an infiltration primarily into the Bonanno crime family, and to a lesser ...
'', '' Goodfellas'', '' The Sopranos''). * Vittorio Missoni, 58, Italian fashion designer, CEO of
Missoni Missoni is an Italian luxury fashion house based in Varese, and known for its colorful knitwear designs. The company was founded by Ottavio ("Tai") and Rosita Missoni in 1953. History Early beginnings The business was founded in 1953, when O ...
, plane crash. *
Lassaâd Ouertani Lassaâd Ouertani aka "Zgaw" (2 May 1980 – 4 January 2013) was a Tunisian football player who played for Jeunesse Sportive Kairouanaise, Stade Tunisien, Club Africain, ES Zarzis Esperance Sportive de Zarzis ( ar, الترجي الرياض ...
, 32, Tunisian footballer, traffic collision. *
Yevgeny Pepelyaev Yevgeny Georgievich Pepelyaev (russian: Евгений Георгиевич Пепеляев; 18 March 1918 – 4 January 2013) a Soviet fighter pilot in the Korean war; most Russian sources credit him as the second-highest scoring pilot in the wa ...
, 94, Russian Soviet-era fighter pilot, Korean War flying ace. *
Robert Phelps Robert Ralph Phelps (March 22, 1926 – January 4, 2013) was an American mathematician who was known for his contributions to analysis, particularly to functional analysis and measure theory. He was a professor of mathematics at the Univers ...
, 86, American mathematician. *
Nikos Samaras Nikos Samaras (1 July 1970 – 4 January 2013) was a Greek volleyball player, who competed for various Greek, Italian, Spanish and Turkish clubs. Samaras was born in Stuttgart. He led Orestiada, helping the team to become successful in Greec ...
, 42, Greek volleyball player, brain aneurysm. *
Gene Segerblom Genevieve Segerblom (née Wines; March 15, 1918 – January 4, 2013) was an American politician who served as a member of the Nevada Assembly from 1992 to 2000. Early life and education Segerblom was born in Ruby Valley, Nevada Ruby Vall ...
, 94, American politician, member of the
Nevada State Assembly The Nevada Assembly is the lower house of the Nevada Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Nevada, the upper house being the Nevada Senate. The body consists of 42 members, elected to two-year terms from single-member distric ...
(1992–2000). * Şenay, 62, Turkish singer, respiratory failure. *
Anwar Shamim Air Chief Marshal Mohammad Anwar Shamim ( ur, ); (1 October 1931 – 4 January 2013) was a senior air officer of the Pakistan Air Force and was the Chief of Air Staff, appointed to the post in 1978 until retiring in 1985. Born in Haripur, B ...
, 81, Pakistani Air Force air marshal, Chief of Air Staff (1978–1985). *
Amanda Stassart Amanda "Mouchka" Stassart (1923–2013) was a member of the Resistance during World War II and later a president of the Belgian Association of Air Hostesses. Life Stassart was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, to Belgian parents on 17 February 1923. ...
, 89, Belgian resistance member. *
Bryan Stoltenberg Bryan Stoltenberg (August 25, 1972 – January 4, 2013) was a professional American football player who played offensive lineman for the San Diego Chargers, New York Giants, and Carolina Panthers. He was drafted in the sixth round of the 1996 ...
, 40, American football player (
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, Carolina Panthers), injuries sustained in traffic collision. * Sándor Szoboszlai, 87, Hungarian actor. * Jim Watson, 95, English politician, Mayor of Blackburn (1982–1983), pneumonia. *
Zoran Žižić Zoran Žižić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Жижић; 4 March 1951 – 4 January 2013) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro in the first two Đukanović cabinets from 1991 to 1996, and wa ...
, 61, Montenegrin politician, Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000–2001).


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* Haradhan Bandopadhyay, 86, Indian actor, pneumonia. *
Piet de Bekker Petrus Johannes Josephus Maria (Piet) de Bekker (17 April 1921, Empel – 5 January 2013, Breda) was a Dutch politician. De Bekker started his career as a civil servant in his native municipality of Empel en Meerwijk. Subsequently he work ...
, 91, Dutch politician. * Gwendoline Butler, 90, British author. * Anders Carlberg, 69, Swedish politician, writer and social worker. *
Pierre Cogan Pierre Cogan (10 January 1914 – 5 January 2013) was a French professional cyclist who competed between the 1930s and the 1950s. Biography A professional from 1935 to 1951, Cogan notably won the Grand Prix de Plouay in 1936 and the Grand Prix d ...
, 98, French racing cyclist. *
T. S. Cook Thomas Steven "T. S." Cook (August 25, 1947 – January 5, 2013) was an American screenwriter and producer, who wrote ''The China Syndrome'' (1979) with Mike Gray and James Bridges, which garnered him Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nomina ...
, 65, American screenwriter (''
The China Syndrome ''The China Syndrome'' is a 1979 American disaster thriller film directed by James Bridges and written by Bridges, Mike Gray, and T. S. Cook. The film stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas (who also produced), Scott Brady, James Ham ...
''), cancer. *
Willi Dreesen Willi Dreesen (16 February 1928 – 5 January 2013) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. Personal life Dreesen was born on 16 February 1928 in Essen-Werden, Germany. In 1944, at the age of 16, Dreesen was drafted into the German airplane defense. ...
, 84, Swiss painter and sculptor. * Dave Edwards, 74, American politician, member of the
Wyoming House of Representatives The Wyoming House of Representatives is the lower house of the Wyoming State Legislature. There are 60 Representatives in the House, representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts across the state, each with a population of ...
(2000–2008), complications from a stroke. *
Trygve Goa Trygve Sterner Goa (10 October 1925 – 5 January 2013) was a Norwegian printmaker. He was born in Haugesund. Largely autodidactic, he received artistic grants at a grown age. He made his debut at Høstutstillingen in 1978, and had numerous ...
, 87, Norwegian printmaker. *
Martha Greenhouse Martha Miriam Greenhouse (June 14, 1921 – January 5, 2013) was an American stage, film and television actress, who also served as an actors' union leader. The Omaha, Nebraska-born actress spent her formative years in New York City, and was a 1 ...
, 91, American stage and television actress, Screen Actors Guild official. *
Abraham Hecht Abraham Hecht (Avraham Berl Hecht) (April 5, 1922 – January 5, 2013) was a Chabad-affiliated American Orthodox rabbi, and president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America – ''Igud HaRabanim''. Known as a "rabbi's rabbi" and a scholar of Torah, ...
, 90, American rabbi and sect leader. *
Joselo José Manuel Díaz Márquez (September 27, 1936 – January 5, 2013) was a Venezuelan actor and comedian in television and film. Born in Barbacoas, Aragua, he was the younger brother of the singer and composer Simón Díaz. He played professional ...
, 76, Venezuelan actor, liver illness. *
Leung Ping-kwan Leung Ping-kwan, ( Chinese: 梁秉鈞, 12 March 1949 – 5 January 2013) whose pen name was Yesi (Chinese: 也斯), was a Hong Kong poet, novelist, essayist, translator, teacher, and scholar who received the Hong Kong Medal of Honor ( MH). He ...
, 63, Hong Kong poet, novelist, essayist, translator, teacher, and scholar, lung cancer. * Jeff Lewis, 39, American football player ( Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos), accidental drug overdose. * Ann-Britt Leyman, 90, Swedish Olympic athlete. *
Bruce McCarty Bruce McCarty, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, FAIA (December 28, 1920 – January 5, 2013) was an American architect, founder and senior designer (retired 2010) at McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects of Knoxville, Tennessee. ...
, 92, American architect. *
Mary Susan McIntosh Mary Susan McIntosh (13 March 1936 – 5 January 2013) was a British sociologist, feminist, political activist and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights in the UK. Early life and education Mary Susan McIntosh was born on 13 March 1936 in Ham ...
, 76, British sociologist, feminist and political activist, stroke. *
Richard McWilliam Richard P. McWilliam (October 20, 1953 – January 5, 2013) was the chairman and co-founder of Upper Deck Company, a successful and award-winning Carlsbad-based collectibles business that specializes in trading cards for Major League Baseball, Nati ...
, 59, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Upper Deck Company, alcohol poisoning. * Yvonne Marie Louise Odette Renée Ménard, 83, French burlesque dancer * Fitzroy Newsum, 94, American military pilot ( Tuskegee Airmen). * Joe Padilla, 48, American baseball umpire. *
Joseph-Aurèle Plourde Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, (January 12, 1915 – January 5, 2013) was a Canadians, Canadian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario. Early years Archbishop Plourde was born in Saint-François-de-Madawaska, New Brunswick to Antoine Plourde a ...
, 97, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ottawa (19671989). *
Fay Bellamy Powell Fay D. Bellamy Powell (May 1, 1938 – January 5, 2013) was an African-American civil rights activist. Known for her involvement in many organizations tracing the movements of the civil rights movement, Bellamy Powell began her career in the Uni ...
, 74, American civil rights activist. *
Claude Préfontaine Claude Préfontaine (January 24, 1933 - January 5, 2013) was a Canadian actor who also appeared in many films and Canadian versions of cartoons. He died, aged 79, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Filmography Movie * 1966 : '' YUL 871'' * 1968 ...
, 79, Canadian comedian. *
Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski (21 June 1949 – 5 January 2013)Death notice
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, 63, German composer. *
Marie-Hélène Schwartz Marie-Hélène Schwartz (1913 – 5 January 2013) was a French mathematician, known for her work on characteristic numbers of spaces with singularities... Education and career Born Marie-Hélène Lévy, she was the daughter of mathematician Pau ...
, 99, French mathematician. * Harry Searson, 88, English footballer ( Leeds United, York City), cancer. *
Vladimir Šenauer Vladimir "Geza" Šenauer (Schönauer) (29 November 1930 – 5 January 2013) was a Croatian professional footballer. Early life and family Šenauer was born in Split, Littoral Banovina, to Geza Schönauer, Jewish leather merchant from Daruvar, ...
, 82, Croatian footballer. * Chandler Williams, 27, American football player ( Toronto Argonauts). *
Sol Yurick Solomon "Sol" Yurick (January 18, 1925 – January 5, 2013) was an American novelist. He was known for his book ''The Warriors (Sol Yurick novel), The Warriors'' which became a The Warriors (film), major motion picture. Personal life and career ...
, 87, American author ('' The Warriors''), lung cancer.


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Neil Adcock Neil Amwin Treharne Adcock (8 March 1931 – 6 January 2013) was a South African international cricketer who played in 26 Test matches. A tall aggressive fast bowler, he could lift the ball sharply off a length. He was the first South Afri ...
, 81, South African cricketer, bowel cancer. * Qazi Hussain Ahmad, 74, Pakistani politician, Ameer of
Jamaat-e-Islami Jamaat-e-Islami ( ur, ) () is an Islamic movement founded in 1941 in British India by the Islamic theologian and socio-political philosopher, Syed Abul Ala Maududi.van der Veer P. and Munshi S. (eds.''Media, War, and Terrorism: Responses fro ...
(1987–2009), cardiac arrest. * Cho Sung-min, 39, South Korean baseball player ( Yomiuri Giants), suicide by hanging. * Paul Grundy, 77, Australian civil engineer and academic. *
Gerard Helders Gerardus Philippus "Gerard" Helders (9 March 1905 – 6 January 2013) was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the defunct Christian Historical Union (CHU) party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist. Helders ap ...
, 107, Dutch politician, Minister of Colonial Affairs (1957–1959), Member of the Council of State (1959–1975), nation's oldest living man (since 2012), natural causes. * John Ingram, 83, American politician,
North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance The Commissioner of Insurance is a statewide elected office in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The commissioner is a constitutional officer who leads the state's Department of Insurance. The commissioner also oversees the Office of the State Fi ...
(1973–1985), heart attack. *
Metin Kaçan Metin Kaçan (15 November 1961 – 6 January 2013) was a Turkish author, who is best known for his novel '' Ağır Roman'' (''Cholera Street''), which was translated into German (Kaçan 2003), and a movie ('' Ağır Roman''), directed by Mustafa ...
, 51, Turkish novelist, suicide by jumping. * Jon Ander López, 36, Spanish footballer, heart attack. *
Jeffrey O'Connell Jeffrey Thomas O'Connell (September 29, 1928 – January 6, 2013) was an American legal expert, professor, and attorney. In 1965, O'Connell and Harvard Law School professor Robert Keeton co-authored the book ''Basic Protection for the Traffic V ...
, 84, American legal expert, professor and attorney, champion of no-fault insurance. *
Madanjeet Singh Madanjeet Singh (16 April 1924 – 6 January 2013) was an Indian diplomat, painter, photographer, and writer. Biography Madanjeet Singh was born on 16 April 1924 in Lahore, British India. During Mahatma Gandhi's "Quit India" movement in 1942 a ...
, 88, Indian diplomat, artist, writer and philanthropist, stroke. * Luigi Spaventa, 78, Italian politician and academic, MP (1976–1983), Minister of Treasury (1988–1989), Minister of Budget (1993–1994). *
Ruth Carter Stevenson Ruth Carter Stevenson (October 19, 1923 – January 6, 2013) was an American patron of the arts and founder of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, which opened in Fort Worth, Texas, in January 1961. Stevenson was born to Amon G. Carter and Nene ...
, 89, American museum founder, President of the Amon Carter Museum. * Myron Stolaroff, 92, American psychedelic researcher. * Bart Van den Bossche, 48, Belgian singer and television presenter, aortic aneurysm. * Roy Walker, 81, British production designer (''
Barry Lyndon ''Barry Lyndon'' is a 1975 period drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel ''The Luck of Barry Lyndon'' by William Makepeace Thackeray. Starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard ...
'', '' The Shining'', ''
The Talented Mr. Ripley ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' is a 1955 psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. This novel introduced the character of Tom Ripley, who returns in four subsequent novels. It has been adapted numerous times for screen, including ''Purpl ...
''), Oscar winner (
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
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Nancy Burley Nancy Burley (8 March 1930 – 7 January 2013) was an Australian figure skater. She represented Australia at the 1952 Winter Olympics, where she placed 14th. She and Gweneth Molony were the first ladies singles skaters to represent Australia at ...
, 82, Australian Olympic figure skater. *
Larry Clapp Larry R. Clapp (October 4, 1946 – January 7, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician. Clapp served in the Wyoming House of Representatives, as a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, in 1978–1979, on the Casper, Wyoming city co ...
, 66, American politician, member of
Wyoming House of Representatives The Wyoming House of Representatives is the lower house of the Wyoming State Legislature. There are 60 Representatives in the House, representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts across the state, each with a population of ...
(19781979), suicide by gunshot. * Stanley Cohen, 70, British sociologist, Parkinson's disease. *
Jim Cosman James Henry Cosman (February 19, 1943 – January 7, 2013) was an American professional baseball pitcher who appeared in Major League Baseball over parts of three seasons for the – St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs. A right-hander, h ...
, 69, American baseball player ( St. Louis Cardinals,
Chicago Cubs The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as part of the National League (NL) Central division. The club plays its home games at Wrigley Field, which is located ...
), Alzheimer's disease. *
Richard Ben Cramer Richard Ben Cramer (June 12, 1950 – January 7, 2013) was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1979 for his coverage of the Middle East. Biography Cramer was born and r ...
, 62, American journalist, author ('' What It Takes: The Way to the White House'') and
Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
winner (
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
), lung cancer. *
Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias (12 October 1958 – 7 January 2013) was an Azorean historian, author, and academic. A professor in the Department of Management and Economics at the University of the Azores, she specialized in the history o ...
, 54, Portuguese Azorean historian and academic. *
Birck Elgaaen Birck Elgaaen (2 August 1917 – 7 January 2013) was a Norwegian equestrian who competed in the individual show jumping event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. A member of the ''Oslo Rideklubb'', he was unable to complete the competit ...
, 95, Norwegian Olympic equestrian. *
David R. Ellis David Richard Ellis (September 8, 1952 – January 7, 2013) was an American film director and stunt performer born in Santa Monica, California in 1952. His credits included dozens of films and television series including ''National Lampoon's Vacat ...
, 60, American stuntman ('' Lethal Weapon'', '' Scarface'') and film director ('' Snakes on a Plane''). * Jeremy Hindley, 69, British horse trainer, motor neurone disease. * Huell Howser, 67, American television personality ('' California's Gold'') and actor ('' Winnie the Pooh''), prostate cancer. *
Ada Louise Huxtable Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public's awareness of the ...
, 91, American architecture critic ('' Wall Street Journal'') and Pulitzer Prize winner (
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
), cancer. *
Kabir Ahmad Jaisi Prof. Kabir Ahmad Jaisi was born 16 November 1934 at Jais in District Raebarely, Uttar Pradesh. He got his early education in Azamgarh at Shibli High School and Shibli Inter College. He joined the AMU in 1961 for his graduation. He topped the ...
, 78, Indian academic. * Jiřina Jirásková, 81, Czech actress and UNICEF Czech Committee President (20022011). *
Maruša Krese Maruša Krese (13 April 1947 – 7 January 2013) was a Slovene poet, writer and journalist. Krese was born in Ljubljana in 1947. She studied literature and art history at the University of Ljubljana and psychodrama and Gestalt therapy in the U ...
, 65, Slovene poet, writer and journalist. *
Louise Laurin Louise Laurin (1935 – 7 January 2013) was an educator and activist in Quebec. She was a prominent supporter of both secular education and Quebec sovereignty. Educator Laurin was an elementary school principal for a number of years and is credit ...
, 77, Canadian educator and activist. * Mary Madkour, 85, American politician. *
Epifanie Norocel Epifanie Norocel (; December 14, 1932 – January 7, 2013) was the Romanian Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Buzǎu and Vrancea, Romania. He was ordained a bishop in 1975.Gonzalo Puyat II Gonzalo "Lito" G. Puyat II (May 21, 1933 – January 7, 2013) was a Filipino sport administrator and politician. Puyat was the longest-serving president of the Basketball Association of the Philippines from 1968 to 1995 and was the president of FI ...
, 79, Filipino sport administrator and politician, President of FIBA (1976–1984), cardiac arrest. * Joseph Roney, 77, Haitian politician. * Harvey Shapiro, 88, American poet and newspaper editor ('' The New York Times''), complications from surgery. *
Fred L. Turner Frederick Leo Turner (January 6, 1933 – January 7, 2013) was an American restaurant industry executive, chair and CEO of McDonald's. He is credited with helping to massively expand McDonald's, introducing new meals and setting service stand ...
, 80, American restaurant industry executive, CEO of McDonald's (19741987), Chairman (19771987), complications of pneumonia. * Dorothy Vest, 93, American tennis player. * Nadeane Walker, 91, American journalist, fashion editor and foreign correspondent ( Associated Press, ''
International Herald Tribune The ''International Herald Tribune'' (''IHT'') was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France for international English-speaking readers. It had the aim of becoming "the world's first global newspaper" and could fairly be said ...
''). *
Zvi Yavetz Zvi Yavetz (26 April 1925 – 7 January 2013) was an Israeli historian. He was a professor of ancient history at Tel Aviv University. Biography Zvi Zucker (later Yavetz) was born in Czernowitz, Ukraine. When he was five years old, he was diagno ...
, 87, Romanian-born Israeli historian and
Israel Prize The Israel Prize ( he, פרס ישראל; ''pras israél'') is an award bestowed by the State of Israel, and regarded as the state's highest cultural honor. History The Israel Prize is awarded annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state cer ...
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Asbjørn Aarnes Asbjørn Aarnes (20 December 1923 – 8 January 2013) was a Norwegian professor and literary historian. Biography He was born at Vågbø in Tingvoll, Norway. He studied from 1951-52 at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 1957, Aarnes becam ...
, 89, Norwegian literary historian. * Tandyn Almer, 70, American musician. * Kenojuak Ashevak, 85, Canadian
Inuit art Inuit art, also known as Eskimo art, refers to artwork produced by Inuit, that is, the people of the Arctic previously known as Eskimos, a term that is now often considered offensive. Historically, their preferred medium was walrus ivory, but s ...
ist, lung cancer. *
Mike Brannan Michael Alan Brannan (December 27, 1955 – January 8, 2013) was an American golfer. Brannan was born in Salinas, California. He won the U.S. Junior Amateur in 1971, beating Robert Steele in the final, 4 and 3, to become the tournament's youngest ...
, 57, American golf player, kidney cancer. *
Bernard Delcampe Bernard Delcampe (12 September 1932 – 8 January 2013) was a French footballer who played as a forward. Starting his career at Stade de Reims, he joined AS Troyes-Savinienne in 1952. He was a finalist in the Coupe de France with the Troyens in ...
, 80, French footballer. *
Matthew Dickens Matthew Dickens (October 19, 1961 – January 8, 2013) was a writer, producer and director. Early life Matthew Dickens was born in an ambulance on a highway on the outskirts of Nancy, France. Matthew's early training as an actor began at the ...
, 51, American actor and choreographer ('' The Aviator'', ''
Rent Rent may refer to: Economics *Renting, an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property *Economic rent, any payment in excess of the cost of production *Rent-seeking, attempting to increase one's share of e ...
'', '' Dreamgirls''), cancer. *
Antonio Frasconi Antonio Frasconi (28 April 1919 in Montevideo, Uruguay – 8 January 2013 in Norwalk, CT, USA) was an Uruguayan - American visual artist, best known for his woodcuts. He was raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, and lived in the United States since ...
, 93, Argentine-born American woodcut artist and educator. * Otto Hornung, 92, Czech philatelist and journalist. * Jeanne Manford, 92, American gay rights activist. * Shirley Matthews, 70, Canadian pop singer. *
Alasdair Milne Alasdair David Gordon Milne (8 October 19308 January 2013) was a British television producer and executive. He had a long career at the BBC, where he was eventually promoted to Director-General, and was described by ''The Independent'' as "one ...
, 82, British television producer, Director-General of the BBC (1982–1987), stroke. * Manuel Mota, 46, Spanish fashion designer, suicide. *
Watson Parker Watson Parker (June 15, 1924 – January 9, 2013) was an American historian, author and academic. Parker, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, specialized in the history of the Black Hills of South Dakota and eastern Wyo ...
, 88, American historian and author, specialist on the Black Hills. * Cornel Pavlovici, 70, Romanian footballer ( Steaua București), Liga I top scorer in 1964. *
Ole A. Sæther Ole Anton Sæther (9 December 1936 – 8 January 2013) was a Norwegian entomologist. He was scientific assistant and university lecturer at Department of Limnology, University of Oslo, from 1960 to 1966; research scientist at Freshwater Institu ...
, 76, Norwegian entomologist. * Ten Most Wanted, 12, American thoroughbred racehorse, winner of Travers Stakes (2003). * A. K. Warder, 88, Canadian academic. *
Percy White Percy Rowett White (1888–1918) was an Australian pioneer rugby league player. He played in the New South Wales Rugby League competition at the time of the code's Australian foundation in 1908, and won a premiership with Sydney's Sydney Roost ...
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Werner Altegoer Werner Altegoer (18 June 1935 – 9 January 2013) was a German entrepreneur; president and later chairman of the advisory board of football club VfL Bochum. He headed the club from 1993 until 2010, and was named honorary chairman of the supervisory ...
, 77, German businessman and football administrator (
VfL Bochum Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as simply VfL Bochum (), is a Football in Germany, German association football club based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has spent 35 seas ...
). *
Brigitte Askonas Brigitte Alice Askonas (1 April 1923 – 9 January 2013) was a British immunologist and a visiting professor at Imperial College London from 1995. Education Brigitte Askonas was born to Czechoslovak parents, Jewish converts to Catholicism, wh ...
, 89, Austrian-born British immunologist. *
Samuel E. Blum Samuel E. Blum (August 28, 1920 – January 9, 2013) was an American chemist and physicist. He was a researcher at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, working for government and private companies. He worked with semiconductor mate ...
, 92, American chemist and physicist. * Vivian Brown, 85, American media personality. *
James M. Buchanan James McGill Buchanan Jr. (; October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013) was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962, ''The Calculus of Consen ...
, 93, American economist, Nobel Prize (1986). *
Sakine Cansız Sakine Cansız (; ku, Sakîne Cansiz, ; 1958 – 9 January 2013) was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A Kurdish activist in the 1980s, she was arrested and tortured by Turkish police. A close associate of Ab ...
, 54–55, Turkish Kurdish activist (
Kurdistan Workers' Party The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of south ...
), shooting. *
Peter Carson Peter Carson (3 October 1938 – 9 January 2013) was an English publisher, editor and translator of Russian literature. He was educated at Eton College and learnt Russian at home from his mother and during his National Service years at the Joint ...
, 74, English publisher, editor and translator. *
Anscar Chupungco Dom Anscar Chupungco, O.S.B., STD (10 November 1939 - 9 January 2013) was a Filipino Benedictine monk, who was a noted liturgist, theologian and a mentor to all Filipino liturgists and countless students of the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm ...
, 73, Filipino Benedictine monk and liturgist. * Juan Curet, 84, Puerto Rican Olympic boxer. * Frank Esposito, 84, American politician, Mayor of
Norwalk, Connecticut , image_map = Fairfield County Connecticut incorporated and unincorporated areas Norwalk highlighted.svg , mapsize = 230px , map_caption = Location in Fairfield County, Connecticut, Fairfield County and ...
(1987–2001). * Jim Godbolt, 90, British jazz writer and historian. *
Hoàng Hiệp Hoàng Hiệp (1 October 1931, in Chợ Mới – 9 January 2013, in Saigon) was a Vietnamese songwriter. He was a recipient of the Hồ Chí Minh Prize in 2000.Charly Jacobs, 64, Belgian footballer *
Katchit Katchit (23 February 2003 – 9 January 2013) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, the peak of whose flat racing and hurdling career came in 2008 when, against the odds, he won the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival ...
, 9, Irish Thoroughbred hurdler, colic. *
Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich (died 9 January 2013) was a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords. He was born in India and he was the first Sikh member of the House of Lords. King served as Councillor on Sandwel ...
, 75, British Labour politician and peer, suspected heart attack. *
Ralph G. Martin Ralph G. Martin (March 4, 1920 – January 9, 2013) was an American journalist who authored or co-authored about thirty books, including popular biographies of recent historical figures, among which, ''Jennie'', a two-volume (1969 and 1971) stud ...
, 92, American journalist. *
Rizana Nafeek Rizana Nafeek ( si, රිසානා නෆීක්, ta, ரிசானா நபீக்; 4 February 1988 – 9 January 2013) was a Sri Lankan woman convicted and subsequently executed in Saudi Arabia for the murder of four-month-old Naif ...
, 24, Sri Lankan domestic helper, convicted of murder in Saudi Arabia, execution by beheading. *
Edward Odell Edward "Ted" Wilfred Odell, Jr. (15 March 1947, in Pleasantville, New York – 9 January 2013, in Houston, Texas) was an American mathematician, specializing in the theory of Banach spaces. Odell received in 1969 in his B.S. degree from the State ...
, 65, American mathematician. *
Willis Page Willis Page (born September 18, 1918, Rochester, N.Y., died January 9, 2013.), was a musician and symphony orchestra conductor. He conducted three major US orchestras – in Nashville, Tennessee, Des Moines, Iowa, and Jacksonville, Florida. He was ...
, 94, American symphony orchestra conductor. * Robert L. Rock, 85, American politician,
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana The lieutenant governor of Indiana is a constitutional office in the US state of Indiana. Republican Suzanne Crouch, who assumed office January 9, 2017, is the incumbent. The office holder's constitutional roles are to serve as the president of t ...
(1965–1969). *
Rex Trailer Rex Trailer (September 16, 1928 – January 9, 2013) was a Boston-based regional television personality, broadcast pioneer, cowboy and Country and Western recording artist. He is best known as the host of the children's television show ''Boomt ...
, 84, American television host ('' Boomtown'', WBZ-TV) and musician, pneumonia. * John Wise, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Elgin (1972–1988); Minister of Agriculture (1979–1980; 1984–1988).


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Christel Adelaar Christine Cornelie Thoma (Christel) Adelaar (14 February 1935 – 10 January 2013) was a Dutch actress. She was most notable for playing ''Mammaloe'' in the Dutch TV series Pipo de Clown. Life Adelaar was born in Semarang, Dutch East Indies ...
, 77, Dutch actress, lung cancer. * Delmo Alberghini, 90, American athlete. * Antonino Calderone, 77, Italian criminal, Sicilian Mafioso. * Geoffrey Coates, 95, English chemist. *
Evan S. Connell Evan Shelby Connell Jr. (August 17, 1924 – January 10, 2013) was a U.S. novelist, short-story writer, essayist and author of epic historical works. He also published under the name Evan S. Connell Jr. In 2009, Connell was nominated for the M ...
, 88, American novelist, poet, and short story-writer. *
Ted Cooke-Yarborough Edmund Harry Cooke-Yarborough (25 December 1918 – 10 January 2013) was the lead designer of the Harwell Dekatron, one of the world's early electronic computers and also a pioneer of radar. Life Ted Cooke-Yarborough was born at Campsall in th ...
, 94, English physicist and engineer. * James Draper, 87, South African cricket umpire. *
Bob Fenton William Robert Fenton (9 October 1923 – 10 January 2013), known as Bob Fenton, was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. Biography Fenton was born on 9 October 1923 at Napier, and was educated at Hastings High School. He served ...
, 89, New Zealand politician, MP for Hastings (1975–1978). * Peter Fitz, 81, German stage and film actor. * Trevor Gordon, 64, British–born Australian singer ( The Marbles). *
George Gruntz George Gruntz (24 June 1932 – 10 January 2013) was a Swiss jazz pianist, organist, harpsichordist, keyboardist, and composer known for the George Gruntz Concert Big Band and his work with Phil Woods, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Don Cherry, Chet Baker, ...
, 80, Swiss jazz musician. *
Jay Handlan John Bernard "Jay" Handlan (February 2, 1928 – January 10, 2013) was an American college basketball star at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia from 1948 to 1952. He was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. A forward, Handlan is be ...
, 84, American basketball player ( Washington and Lee University, Akron Goodyear Wingfoots). *
Michael Hofbauer Michael Hofbauer (6 January 1964, Prague – 10 January 2013) was a Czech film actor who gained popularity mainly in children's roles. He became popular as Otík in the TV series and films featuring the character of Pan Tau and as Osvald in the film ...
, 49, Czech film actor, cancer. *
Karl-Erik Israelsson Karl-Erik "Cacka" Israelsson (23 August 1929 – 10 January 2013) was a Swedish long jumper, who won the national title in 1951 and finished seventh at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Oly ...
, 83, Swedish long jumper. *
Luigi Kuveiller Luigi Kuveiller (3 October 1927 – 10 January 2013) was an Italian cinematographer, best known for his collaboration with Elio Petri. Born in Rome, the son of a craftsman - interior decorator, Kuveiller soon abandoned his studies and began workin ...
, 85, Italian cinematographer. * Franz Lehrndorfer, 84, German organist. * Daniel McCarthy, 86, Canadian television producer ('' The Friendly Giant'', ''
Mr. Dressup ''Mr. Dressup'' is a Canadian children's television series, starring Ernie Coombs, a former understudy of Fred Rogers, in the title role. It originally ran on CBC from 1967 to 1996, soon becoming an iconic presence in Canadian media. Productio ...
'', ''
Sesame Park ''Sesame Park'' is the Canadian version of ''Sesame Street'' co-produced by Sesame Workshop and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The series originally functioned as a re-edited version of the original American series, and was named ''Sesam ...
''). *
Claude Nobs Claude Nobs (February 4, 1936 – January 10, 2013) was the founder and general manager of the Montreux Jazz Festival. Biography Nobs was born in Montreux, Switzerland. After apprenticing as a cook, Nobs worked in the Tourism Office of Montreux. ...
, 76, Swiss founder and general manager of Montreux Jazz Festival, complications from skiing accident. *
Lucien Poirier Lucien Poirier (1918 – 10 January 2013) was a general of the French Army and a theoretician of nuclear deterrence. Military career Poirier began his military service at the beginning of World War II, after graduating from Special Militar ...
, 94, French Army general. *
Jean R. Preston Jean Rouse Preston (May 25, 1935 – January 10, 2013) served for 20 years in the North Carolina General Assembly, including seven terms in the North Carolina House of Representatives and three in the North Carolina Senate. She retired in 2012 whe ...
, 77, American politician and teacher, member of the
North Carolina General Assembly The North Carolina General Assembly is the Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of the Government of North Carolina, State government of North Carolina. The legislature consists of two chambers: the North Carolina Senate, Senate and the North Ca ...
(1992–2012), complications from a fall. *
Jorge Selarón Jorge Selarón (1947 – January 10, 2013) was a Chilean painter and ceramist. He is perhaps best known for his work on the Escadaria Selarón, a world-famous set of ceramic tile-covered stairs located in the Lapa and Santa Teresa neighborhoo ...
, 65, Chilean-born Brazilian painter and ceramist (
Escadaria Selarón Escadaria Selarón, also known as the 'Selaron Steps', is a set of world-famous steps in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They are the work of Chilean-born artist Jorge Selarón who claimed it as "my tribute to the Brazilian people". History In 1990, ...
). *
Vincent Sombrotto Vincent Raymond Sombrotto (June 15, 1923 – January 10, 2013) was a letter carrier at Grand Central Station in New York City, and the 16th president of the National Association of Letter Carriers between 1978 and 2002. He was born in Manhattan ...
, 89, American union official, president of NALC (19782002). *
Zhang Yongming Zhang Yongming (; 1956 – January 10, 2013) was a Chinese serial killer and cannibal who was convicted of, and subsequently confessed to, the murder of 11 men between March 2008 and April 2012. It is believed that he fed flesh from some of his ...
, 56, Chinese murderer, executed.


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* Thomas Bourgin, 26, French motorcycle racer, traffic collision. *
Gordon Chavunduka Gordon Lloyd Chavunduka (c.16 August 1931 – 11 January 2013) was a Zimbabwean sociologist and traditional healer. Biography He served as a member of Abel Muzorewa's delegation to the 1979 Lancaster House Conference that led to Zimbabwe's i ...
, 81, Zimbabwean sociologist and traditional healer. * Dave Chisnall, 64, English rugby league player ( Warrington Wolves). *
Guido Forti Guido Forti (10 July 1940 – 11 January 2013) was the founder and team manager of the now-defunct Formula One team Forti. Forti co-founded his "Forti Corse" racing team with businessman Paolo Guerci in the late 1970s, initially running in ...
, 72, Italian motor racing team owner. * Claude Fredericks, 89, American playwright and memoirist. *
Siegfried Gerstner The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (german: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded ...
, 96, German army officer, awarded
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (german: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes), or simply the Knight's Cross (), and its variants, were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight' ...
. *
Sam Halloin Samuel J. Halloin (March 20, 1923 - January 11, 2013) was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin from 1979 to 1995. Halloin, who served for four consecutive terms, is the second longest-serving Mayor of Green Bay in ...
, 89, American politician, longest-serving mayor of
Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The county seat of Brown County, it is at the head of Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It is above sea lev ...
(1979–1995). *
Brian Heffel Brian Heffel (17 May 1944 – 11 January 2013) was a Canadian wrestler. He competed in two events at the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX ...
, 68, Canadian Olympic wrestler. *
D. Brainerd Holmes Dyer Brainerd Holmes (May 24, 1921 – January 11, 2013), known professionally as D. Brainerd Holmes, was an American engineer and business executive. He was perhaps best known for directing NASA's manned spaceflight program from September 1961 to ...
, 91, American aeronautics executive, NASA Director of Manned Space Flight (19611963), complications from pneumonia. *
Sergei Issakov Sergei Gennadievich Issakov (Russian language, Russian: Сергей Геннадиевич Исаков; 8 October 1931, Narva – 11 January 2013, Tartu) was an Estonian literary scholar and politician. Issakov was born into a family of firs ...
, 81, Estonian literary scholar, politician, and professor. * Corinne Jacker, 79, American playwright and screenwriter. * Robert Kee, 93, British writer, journalist and broadcaster. *
Liz Lands Elizabeth Lands (February 11, 1939 – January 11, 2013) was an American soul singer. Her purported five octave vocal range started her Motown career before Berry Gordy tried to make a name for her in the R&B/Pop market on Gordy Records. Life and ...
, 73, American soul singer. *
Paul J. Lunardi Paul J. Lunardi (September 30, 1921 - January 11, 2013) was an American politician. Early life On September 30, 1921, Lunardi was born in Roseville, California. He served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. Lunardi graduated f ...
, 91, American politician. *
James Charles Macnab of Macnab James Charles Macnab of Macnab JP (14 April 1926 – 11 January 2013), otherwise known as The Macnab, was the 23rd Chief of Clan Macnab, and a member of the Royal Company of Archers, Queen Elizabeth II's bodyguard in Scotland. Early life Born ...
, 86, Scottish aristocrat, chief of Clan MacNab. *
Ba Mamadou Mbaré Ba Mamadou dit Mbaré (1946 – 10 January 2013) was a Mauritanian politician who served as President of the Senate of Mauritania from 2006 until his death. As President of the Senate, he succeeded Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz as Head of State on 15 Ap ...
, 67, Mauritanian politician,
President of the Senate President of the Senate is a title often given to the presiding officer of a senate. It corresponds to the speaker in some other assemblies. The senate president often ranks high in a jurisdiction's succession for its top executive office: for e ...
(since 2007),
Interim President An acting president is a person who temporarily fills the role of a country's president when the incumbent president is unavailable (such as by illness or a vacation) or when the post is vacant (such as for death, injury, resignation, dismissal ...
(2009). * Mariangela Melato, 71, Italian actress ('' Swept Away'', ''
Flash Gordon Flash Gordon is the protagonist of a space adventure comic strip created and originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by, and created to compete with, the already established ''Buck Rogers'' adve ...
'', '' So Fine''), pancreatic cancer. *
Khushi Murali Korivi Muralidhar, popularly known as Khushi Murali (1963 – 11 January 2013), was an Indian playback singer. He became popular as a result of his hit song "Aadavari Matalaku" from the movie, '' Kushi''. Life He was born in Renigunta in Chittoo ...
, 49, Indian pop singer, cardiac arrest. *
Nguyễn Khánh Nguyễn Khánh (; 8 November 192711 January 2013) was a South Vietnamese military officer and Army of the Republic of Vietnam general who served in various capacities as head of state and prime minister of South Vietnam while at the head of a ...
, 85, Vietnamese politician and military leader, President of South Vietnam (1964–1965), illnesses related to diabetes. *
Tatsuji Nomura M.D., Ph.D. (May 15, 1922 – January 11, 2013) was a pioneer in the development of laboratory animals with the aim of assuring reproducibility of experimental results in medical research. He was Director of the Central Institute for Experimenta ...
, 90, Japanese scientist. * Jimmy O'Neill, 73, American disc jockey and television host ('' Shindig!''), diabetes and heart complications. *
Tom Parry Jones Thomas Parry Jones OBE (27 March 1935 – 11 January 2013) was a Welsh scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, who was responsible for developing and marketing the first handheld electronic breathalyser, winning the Queen's Award for Technologica ...
, 77, Welsh inventor ( electronic breathalyser). * Murray Merle Schwartz, 81, American senior (former chief) judge ( U.S. District Court for Delaware). *
Alemayehu Shumye Alemayehu Shumye Tafere (1988 – 11 January 2013; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) was an Ethiopian long-distance runner who specialised in marathon running. Born in Nazret, he took up running seriously in 2004 when he moved to Addis Ababa with the hope of ...
, 24, Ethiopian long-distance runner, traffic collision. *
W. Reece Smith, Jr. William Reece Smith Jr. (September 19, 1925 – January 11, 2013) was an American lawyer. Smith served as the interim president of the University of South Florida, and the president of the American Bar Association. He was born in 1925 in A ...
, 87, American lawyer and academic. * Aaron Swartz, 26, American programmer and internet activist, co-creator of Reddit, suicide by hanging. *
Fred Talbot Frederick Wilson Talbot (born 17 December 1949) is a Scottish former television presenter. He spent much of his career in North West England. In February 2015, and again in May 2017, he was found guilty of a string of indecent sexual assaults ...
, 71, American baseball player ( New York Yankees). * Billy Varga, 94, American professional wrestler and actor ('' Raging Bull''), Alzheimer's disease. *
Lars Werner Lars Helge Werner (25 July 1935 – 11 January 2013) was a Swedish socialist politician. Werner was born in Stockholm. He was a member of the Riksdag from 1965 to 1994. A construction worker by profession, he was elected vice chairman of the ...
, 77, Swedish politician, leader of the Left Party (1975–1993), heart failure. * John Wilkinson, 67, American rhythm guitarist ( Elvis Presley's TCB Band), cancer.


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Guy de Alwis Ronald Guy de Alwis (February 15, 1959 - January 12, 2013) was a Sri Lankan cricketer who played in 11 Tests and 31 ODIs from 1983 to 1988. De Alwis was married to Sri Lankan Women's cricketer Rasanjali Silva Sendapperuma Archchige Rasanjal ...
, 53, Sri Lankan cricketer, cancer. * Gregory Victor Babic, 49, Australian writer. * Precious Bryant, 71, American blues and country musician, complications of diabetes and heart failure. *
Anthony Cavendish Anthony John Cavendish (20 July 1927 – 12 January 2013) was a British MI6 officer who served in Germany and Austria during the early years of the Cold War. Cavendish was born in London, but raised in Switzerland and grew up speaking English, G ...
, 85, English MI6 officer. *
Flor María Chalbaud Flor María Chalbaud Castro (3 July 1921 – 12 January 2013) was First Lady of Venezuela between 2 December 1952 and 23 January 1958 and one of the founders of the Bolivarian Ladies Society. Biography On 4 February 1945, Chalbaud married Gener ...
, 91, First Lady of Venezuela. *
Harold Crowchild Harold Crowchild, also known as Iron Shield (March 18, 1915 – January 12, 2013) was a Canadian Tsuu T'ina Nation elder and veteran of World War II. Crowchild was the last surviving Tsuu T'ina veteran of World War II, as well as the last surv ...
, 97, Canadian Tsuu T'ina elder and soldier, last Treaty 7 World War II veteran. *
William J. Cullerton William J. "Bill" Cullerton Sr. (June 2, 1923 – January 12, 2013) was an American World War II flying ace, entrepreneur, radio show host, and outdoorsman. Cullerton destroyed twenty-one Axis planes during the war, including sixteen destroyed in ...
, 90, American fighter pilot, World War II flying ace. *
Chuck Dalton Charles “Chuck” Harwood Dalton (September 1, 1927 – January 12, 2013) was a Canadian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. Dalton was born in Windsor, Ontario, graduated from London South Collegiate Institute in 1 ...
, 85, Canadian basketball player, member of Olympic team (
1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
). *
John Martin Darko John Martin Darko (30 May 1945 – 12 January 2013) was a Ghanaian Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1976, he was named bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Sekondi–Takoradi, Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), offici ...
, 67, Ghanaian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi (1998–2011). *
Helen Elliot Helen Elliot (20 January 1927 – 12 January 2013) was an international table tennis player from Scotland. Table tennis career Helen started playing table tennis aged 16. In 1946 she won the first of 13 consecutive Scottish Open women's sin ...
, 85, Scottish table tennis player, world champion (
1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...
and
1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...
). * Harry Fearnley, 77, English footballer. *
Emmett Forrest William Emmett Forrest, Jr. (September 3, 1927 – January 12, 2013) was an American pop culture collector, museum founder, and longtime friend of actor Andy Griffith. Forrest was an extensive collector of memorabilia spanning Griffith's career. He ...
, 85, American collector, founder of the
Andy Griffith Museum The Andy Griffith Museum is a museum dedicated to the life and career of American actor, television producer, and singer Andy Griffith. The museum, which houses the world's largest collection of Andy Griffith memorabilia, is located in Griffith' ...
. *
Bubba Harris Burlin Buntster Harris III (born August 7, 1985 from Palmdale, California United States, U.S.) is an American professional "New/Current School" BMX, Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years are from 1999 to the present. Usually ...
, 86, American baseball player (
Philadelphia Athletics The Philadelphia Athletics were a Major League Baseball team that played in Philadelphia from 1901 to 1954, when they moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and became the Kansas City Athletics. Following another move in 1967, the team became the Oaklan ...
, Cleveland Indians). *
Jake Hartford Jake Hartford (born Jim Edwards, December 1, 1949 – January 12, 2013), was a talk radio host who anchored the 9-11 a.m. slot on 89 WLS with Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass. Hartford had been a personality on WLS-AM 890 since 1991 with ...
, 63, American radio personality, heart attack. *
Delilah Jackson Delilah Jackson (circa 1929 - January 12, 2013) was a cultural historian who specialized in collecting the history of black entertainers in Harlem. Biography Jackson grew up close to the Apollo Theater in Harlem. She attended school at P.S. 15 ...
, 84, American historian. *
Jean Krier Jean Krier (2 January 1949 – 12 January 2013) was a Luxembourg poet who in 2011 was awarded both the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize for the best work by a non-German author and the Servais Prize for the best literary work written by a Luxembourge ...
, 64, Luxembourgian poet. * Leon Leyson, 83, Polish-American Holocaust survivor. *
Anna Lizaran Anna Lizaran (31 August 1944 – 12 January 2013) was a Catalan actress of stage, film and television. Biography Early life Lizaran's father was a mechanic and her mother a dressmaker. She showed enormous interest in the theatre when she was a c ...
, 68, Spanish actress, cancer. *
William Andrew MacKay William Andrew MacKay (March 20, 1929 – January 12, 2013) was a Canadian lawyer and former judge, civil servant, legal academic, and university president. Education and early career Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of Robert Alex ...
, 83, Canadian academic, President of
Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the fou ...
(19801986). * Hasan Mahdi, 76, Indian anatomist. *
Walt McPherson Walter James McPherson (December 5, 1916 – January 12, 2013) was an American basketball coach and was regarded as one of the best at San Jose State University, and former West Coast Athletic Conference commissioner. McPherson graduated from San ...
, 96, American basketball coach ( San Jose State University), Commissioner of the WCC (19651969). * Ourasi, 32, French Trotter harness racing horse, winner of
Prix d'Amérique Prix d'Amérique is a harness race held at the Hippodrome de Vincennes in Paris, France. The race takes place on the last Sunday of January every year, and has been doing so since 1920, with the exception for the years 1940-1941 when it was cancell ...
(1986–1988, 1990). *
Eugene Patterson Eugene Corbett Patterson (October 15, 1923 – January 12, 2013), sometimes known as Gene Patterson, was an American journalist and civil rights activist. He was awarded the 1967 Pulitzer Prize, 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. Early lif ...
, 89, American newspaper editor ('' The Atlanta Journal-Constitution''), Pulitzer Prize winner (
1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
), cancer. * Viktor Platan, 93, Finnish Olympic pentathlete. *
Norma Redpath Norma Redpath (20 November 192812 January 2013) was a prominent Australian sculptor, who worked in Italy and Melbourne. Early life and education Norma Redpath was born on 20 November 1928. She studied painting from 1942 to 1948 (with a lo ...
, 84, Australian artist. *
Roxana Ng Roxana Chu-Yee Ng (1951–2013) was an activist and scholar for fair migrant labour, gender and racial equality, and decolonising pedagogy. She is noted for her research on the garment industry in Canada and its relation to immigration, gender, rac ...
, 61, Canadian academic, cancer. *
John C. Rule John Corwin Rule, (2 March 1929 Warren, Indiana – 12 January 2013 Columbus, Ohio) was a widely respected historian of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French history at Ohio State University from 1958 to 1995. Early life and education The s ...
, 83, American historian. * Yuri Schmidt, 76, Russian lawyer and human rights activist, cancer. *
Roy Sinclair Roy Sinclair (10 December 1944 – 12 January 2013) was an English professional football midfielder. He spent eleven seasons in the lower English divisions before moving to the United States where he played in the North American Soccer League ( ...
, 68, English footballer ( Watford). * Steven Utley, 64, American science-fiction writer, cancer.


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Diogenes Allen Diogenes Allen (October 17, 1932 – January 13, 2013) was an American philosopher and theologian who served as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, whi ...
, 80, American philosopher. * Bille Brown, 61, Australian actor (''
Oscar and Lucinda ''Oscar and Lucinda'' is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker. Plot introduction It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the D ...
'', '' Killer Elite'', '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader''), bowel cancer. *
Stanley Caine Stanley Caine (born Stanley Victor Micklewhite; October 1935 – 13 January 2013) was an English actor and the younger brother of actor Sir Michael Caine. He was best known for his role as "Coco" in ''The Italian Job'', a film released in 1969 a ...
, 76, English actor ('' The Italian Job''). *
Andrea Carrea Andrea Carrea (14 August 1924 – 13 January 2013) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. He was the first to ride the Alpe d'Huez in the yellow jersey of leadership in the Tour de FranceL'Équipe, 13 July 2003 and probably the only ...
, 88, Italian road bicycle racer. *
Jacki Clérico Jacki Clérico (March 18, 1929 – January 13, 2013) was a French businessman who owned the Moulin Rouge cabaret of Paris from 1962 until his death in 2013. Clérico is credited with reviving the popularity of the Moulin Rouge over the course of f ...
, 83, French businessman, owner of the Moulin Rouge, cancer. *
Rodney Mims Cook, Sr. Rodney Mims Cook (March 23, 1924 – January 13, 2013) was a Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia public figure who served for over twenty years as an Atlanta city alderman and member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Cook was one of the first R ...
, 88, American politician. * David Gibbs, 76, American politician, member of the
Mississippi House of Representatives The Mississippi House of Representatives is the lower house of the Mississippi Legislature, the lawmaking body of the U.S. state of Mississippi. According to the state constitution of 1890, it is to comprise no more than 122 members elected fo ...
(since 1992), cancer. * Enzo Hernández, 63, Venezuelan baseball player ( San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers), suicide. *
Jürgen Himmelbauer Jürgen Himmelbauer (born 20 November 1958 died 13 January 2013) was an Austrian politician. He served as a The Greens – The Green Alternative, Green Party councilor in the Linz city council. Death On 13 January 2013 he died of an illness at ...
, 54, Austrian politician. *
Mykhailo Horyn Mykhailo Mykolayovych Horyn ( uk, Михайло Миколайович Горинь; 17 June 1930 – 13 January 2013) was a Ukrainian human rights activist, Soviet dissident, and politician. He was a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the first c ...
, 82, Ukrainian politician, prisoner of conscience and member of
Soviet dissidents Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features of Soviet ideology or with its entirety and who were willing to speak out against them. The term ''dissident'' was used in the Soviet Union in the period from the mid-1960s until t ...
movement. *
Itaru Ishida was a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. The bulk of his success was on the Grand Prix circuit, where he reached the top eight seventeen times. In addition to his Grand Prix success, Ishida had success in the teams format, with second-place f ...
, 33, Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. *
Kari Jormakka Kari Juhani Jormakka (21 January 1959, in Helsinki – 13 January 2013, in Vienna) was a Finland, Finnish architect, historian, critic and pedagogue. Though born in Helsinki, his family soon afterwards moved to the city of Lappeenranta, where he sp ...
, 53, Finnish architect, historian, theoretician, critic and teacher, heart attack. *
Riki Kawara was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. Biography Kawara was a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Nanao, Ishikawa and graduate of Chuo University, he was elected for the f ...
, 75, Japanese politician, Director General of the Defense Agency (1987–1988), pneumonia. *
Deyan Kolev Deyan Kolev ( bg, Деян Колев) (18 December 1965 – 13 January 2013) was a Bulgarian gymnast. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de ...
, 47, Bulgarian Olympic gymnast. *
Sanivalati Laulau Sanivalati Laulau (Nawaka, 1952 – 13 January 2013) was a Fijian rugby union footballer. He played on the wing. He represented Nawaka. Laulau had 32 caps for Fiji, scoring 20 tries, 80 points in aggregate. He is the current record holder for hi ...
, 61, Fijian rugby union player. * Gordon Lee, 54, American comic book store owner, complications from a stroke. *
H. Craig Lewis Harold Craig Lewis (July 22, 1944 – January 13, 2013) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 6th district from 1975 to 1994. Lewis was chair of the Judiciary ...
, 68, American politician, member of the
Pennsylvania State Senate The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania state legislature. The State Senate meets in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg. Senators are elected for four year terms, staggered ev ...
(19751995), heart attack. * Chia-Chiao Lin, 96, Chinese-born American applied mathematician and professor. *
Benny Luke Benny Luke (March 4, 1939 in Oakland (California), Oakland, California – January 13, 2013) was an American-French actor and dancer established in Paris. He is best known for playing the role of Jacob, the domestic of Renato and Albin in th ...
, 73, American-French actor and dancer. *
Alfred K. Mann Alfred K. Mann (September 4, 1920 – January 13, 2013) was a particle physicist, known for his role in the discovery of fundamental properties of neutrinos. Education and career Born in New York, Mann earned all three of his degrees from the Un ...
, 92, American physicist. * Gerald McKee, 83, American construction management executive. *
Jack Recknitz Jack Recknitz (born Hans-Joachim Recknitz; 1931-2013) was a German and Polish actor. Born 25 May 1931 in Baden-Baden to a family of actors: Hans-Joachim Zinke senior and Katharina Recknitz. Early in his youth he started working for the Leipzig Rad ...
, 81, German actor. *
Jerry Sisk, Jr. Gerald D. "Jerry" Sisk Jr. (February 2, 1953 – January 13, 2013) was an American gemologist who co-founded Jewelry Television (JTV) in 1993. Sisk also served as the executive vice president of Jewelry Television until his death in 2013. Biograp ...
, 59, American gemologist, co-founder of Jewelry Television. *
Rusi Surti Rusi Framroze Surti ( 25 May 1936 – 13 January 2013) was an Indian cricketer who played in 26 Tests from 1960 to 1969. He was a left-arm medium pace and left-arm spin bowler and a lower-order batsman. Surti was also a popular professional fo ...
, 76, Indian cricketer, complications from a stroke. *
Katie Stewart Katharine Elizabeth Allen Stewart (23 July 1934 – 13 January 2013) was a British cookery writer whose columns in ''The Times'' made her a household name in the 1960s and 1970s. After training at the Westminster Hotel School, she worked as nan ...
, 78, British cookery writer. * Balagangadharanatha Swamiji, 67, Indian religious sect leader, multiple organ failure. *
Joseph Syoz Joseph Syoz (18 January 1937 – 13 January 2013) was a French boxer. He competed in the men's heavyweight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games o ...
, 75, French Olympic boxer. * Geoff Thomas, 64, Welsh footballer (
Swansea City Swansea City Association Football Club (; cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Cymdeithas Dinas Abertawe) is a professional football club based in Swansea, Wales that plays in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Swansea have played their ho ...
). *
Arthur Wightman Arthur Strong Wightman (March 30, 1922 – January 13, 2013) was an American mathematical physicist. He was one of the founders of the axiomatic approach to quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman axioms. With his rigorous treatm ...
, 90, American mathematical physicist (
Wightman axioms In mathematical physics, the Wightman axioms (also called Gårding–Wightman axioms), named after Arthur Wightman, are an attempt at a mathematically rigorous formulation of quantum field theory. Arthur Wightman formulated the axioms in the ear ...
).


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* Giorgio Alverà, 69, Italian world champion (1975) and Olympic bobsledder. * Conrad Bain, 89, Canadian-born American actor ('' Maude'', '' Diff'rent Strokes'', '' Mr. President''), complications from a stroke. *
Danny Beath David Daniel Nicholas Beath (6 September 1960 – 14 January 2013) was a British landscape and wildlife photographer and botanist. He was renowned for his images of Scottish, Welsh and Shropshire flora and fauna, in particular butterflies and ...
, 52, British photographer and botanist, heart attack. *
Yehudith Birk Yehudith Birk (30 September 1926 – 14 January 2013) was a Polish-born Israeli biochemist, awarded the 1998 Israel Prize for agricultural research. Biography Yehudith Gershtanski (later Birk) was born in Grajewo, Poland to Frida (née Borowitz; 1 ...
, 86, Israeli biochemist (
Bowman–Birk protease inhibitor In molecular biology, the Bowman–Birk protease inhibitor family of proteins consists of eukaryotic proteinase inhibitors, belonging to MEROPS inhibitor family I12, clan IF. They mainly Enzyme inhibitor, inhibit serine peptidases of the S1 family, ...
). *
Yaakov Blau Yaakov Yeshayah Blau (1929–2013) was a rabbi and a '' dayan'' on the Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem. He was known as an expert in the '' halakhot'' of '' Choshen Mishpat'' and served as halakhic decisor for over 50 years. He was bo ...
, 84, Israeli rabbi. * Neville Bonitto, 88, Jamaica cricketer. *
Tony Conran Tony Conran (7 April 1931 – 14 January 2013) was an Anglo-Wales, Welsh poet and Translation, translator of Welsh language, Welsh poetry. His own poetry was mostly written in English and Modernist in style but was very much influenced by Wel ...
, 81, Welsh poet and translator. * Paul Droubay, 86, American radio broadcaster ( KDAB), fought the U.S. Federal Communications Commission over expanded area radio coverage. * Fred Flanagan, 88, Australian
VFL The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...
football player (
Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...
),
Hall of Fame A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or Wiktionary:fame, fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actu ...
member (1998). *
Prospero Gallinari Prospero Gallinari (1 January 1951 – 14 January 2013), also known as "Gallo" (i.e. " rooster"), was an Italian terrorist, a member of the Red Brigades (BR) in the 1970s and 1980s. Biography Gallinari was born in Reggio Emilia into a farm ...
, 62, Italian terrorist ( Red Brigades). *
John McKinlay John McKinlay (26 August 1819 – 31 December 1872)
, Maharani Gina Narayan Maharani Gina Narayan (born Georgina May Egan; 6 May 1930 – 14 January 2013), was a British-born Indian royal, the second wife of Jagaddipendra Narayan, the Maharaja of Cooch Behar. Early life and background Georgina May Egan was born on 6 May ...
, 82, British-born Indian royal. *
Eric Norstad Eric Norstad (1924-2013) was an American potter and architect who worked primarily on the west coast of the United States. Biography Early life and education Norstad was born in Valhalla, New York, the youngest of four children to Magnus Norsta ...
, 88, American potter and architect. * José Posada, 72, Spanish politician and entrepreneur, president of Galician Coalition,
MEP MEP may refer to: Organisations and politics * Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, a political party in Sri Lanka * Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (1956), a former political alliance in Sri Lanka * Maison européenne de la photographie, a photography centre ...
(1993–1994, 1999). *
Vic Rowen Victor Rowen (July 24, 1919 – January 14, 2013) was an American football, basketball. and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Defiance College from 1951 to 1953 and at San Francisco State University from 1961 to 1989, compi ...
, 93, American football coach (
San Francisco State San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different b ...
). *
Jasuben Shilpi Jasuben Shilpi or Jasu Shilpi (10 December 1948 – 14 January 2013) was an Indian bronze sculpture artist. In her career she made more than 525 bust size and 225 large size statues. She was popularly known as "The Bronze woman of India". Caree ...
, 64, Indian sculptor, cardiac arrest.


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Princess Margarita of Baden Princess Margarita of Baden (''Margarete Alice Thyra Viktoria Marie Louise Scholastica''; 14 July 1932 – 15 January 2013) was the only daughter of Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark. She was the cousin of K ...
, 80, German aristocrat. *
Wickrama Bogoda Bogoda Appuhamilage Don Wickrama Bogoda ( si, බෝගොඩ අප්පුහාමිලාගේ දොන් වික්‍රම බෝගොඩ; June 16, 1940 – January 15, 2013), popularly as Wickrama Bogoda, was an actor in Sri Lanka ...
, 72, Sri Lankan movie actor. *
Jennings Michael Burch Jennings Michael Burch (April 27, 1941 – January 15, 2013) was an American writer and author of the 1984 best-selling autobiography '' They Cage the Animals At Night''.Burch, Jennings MichaelThey Cage The Animals At Night New American Library. ...
, 71, American writer. *
Maurice Camyré Maurice Camyré (March 10, 1915 – January 15, 2013) was a Canadian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in St. Vital St. Vital (french: Saint-Vital) is a ward and neighbourhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Locat ...
, 97, Canadian Olympic boxer. *
Carlos Castillo Medrano Carlos Castillo Medrano (died January 15, 2013) was a Guatemalan politician, who was the mayor of Jutiapa Jutiapa is a city and a municipality in the Jutiapa department of Guatemala. Located 124 km from the city of Guatemala City, at an ...
, 39, Guatemalan politician, shot. *
Chucho Castillo Jesús Castillo Aguilera (June 17, 1944 – January 15, 2013) was a Mexican professional boxer. Better known as Chucho Castillo, he was the Lineal, WBA and WBC bantamweight world champion in 1970. Castillo and Rubén Olivares sustained o ...
, 68, Mexican boxer, WBA and WBC Bantamweight Champion (1970–1971), heart attack. * Zakiah Daradjat, 86, Indonesian psychologist. *
Aida Desta Princess Aida Desta (8 April 1927 – 15 January 2013), baptismal name Bisrate Gabriel, was the eldest granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie, eldest child and daughter of ''Ras'' Desta Damtew and Princess Tenagnework. She was the wife of '' Leul ...
, 85, Ethiopian royal. *
Daniel Edelman Daniel Joseph Edelman (July 3, 1920 – January 15, 2013) was an American public relations executive who founded the world's largest public relations firm, Edelman. Hevesi, Dennis (January 15, 2013)Daniel J. Edelman, a Publicity Pioneer, Dies a ...
, 92, American public relations executive, founder of
Edelman Edelman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Abram Wolf Edelman (a.k.a. Abraham Edelman; 1832–1907), Polish-born American rabbi; the first rabbi in Los Angeles, California * Adam Edelman (born 1991), American-born four-time Is ...
, heart failure. * Generous, 24, Irish Thoroughbred horse, winner of the
Irish Derby The Irish Derby (Irish: Dearbaí na hÉireann) is a Group 1 flat horse race in Ireland open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at the Curragh over a distance of 1 ...
,
Epsom Derby The Derby Stakes, also known as the Epsom Derby or the Derby, and as the Cazoo Derby for sponsorship reasons, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old colts and fillies. It is run at Epsom Downs Racecourse in Surrey o ...
and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (1991). * Bill Glynn, 87, American baseball player (
Philadelphia Phillies The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) National League East, East division. Since 2004, the team's home sta ...
, Cleveland Indians). *
George Gund III George Gund III (May 7, 1937 – January 15, 2013) was an American businessman and sports entrepreneur. Gund was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 7, 1937, to Jessica Roesler and George Gund II, a powerful banker in Cleveland. A high-school dro ...
, 75, American sports franchise co-owner ( San Jose Sharks,
Cleveland Cavaliers The Cleveland Cavaliers (often referred to as the Cavs) are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland. The Cavaliers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference (NBA), Ea ...
), cancer. * Eifan Saadoun Al Issawi, 37, Iraqi politician, MP for
Fallujah Fallujah ( ar, ٱلْفَلُّوجَة, al-Fallūjah, Iraqi pronunciation: ) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from Babylonian times and was host to important Jew ...
, bombing. *
Balthazar Korab Balthazar Korab ( hu, Koráb Boldizsár; 1926–2013) was a Hungarian-American photographer based in Detroit, Michigan, specializing in architectural, art and landscape photography. Biography Korab was born in Budapest, Hungary, and migrated to Fr ...
, 86, Hungarian-born American architectural photographer. *
Magomed Gadjievich Magomedov Magomed Magomedov (16 January 1957 - 15 January 2013) was a senior judge at the Supreme Court of Dagestan. Early life Magomedov was born in Kubachi, Dagestan, in 1957. Career Magomedov was a judge at the Supreme Court of Dagestan and dealt wit ...
, 55, Russian judge, member of the Supreme Court of
Dagestan Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North C ...
, shot. *
Susan Manning Susan Manning is a dance historian and Professor of English and Theatre at Northwestern University where she holds joint appointments in the English Department and Performance Studies. She is currently chair of English at Northwestern.
, 59, Scottish academic. * Ferenc Nádasdy, 75, Hungarian aristocrat, last male member of the
House of Nádasdy A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condi ...
. * Nagisa Oshima, 80, Japanese director and screenwriter ('' In the Realm of the Senses''). *
Michel Pollien Michel Pollien (22 August 1937 − 15 January 2013) was a French Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1966, Pollien was appointed titular bishop of ''Pulceriopolis'' and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pari ...
, 75, French Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (1996–2012). *
Zurab Popkhadze Zurab Popkhadze ( ka, ზურაბ ფოფხაძე; 2 June 197215 January 2013) was a Georgian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Meore Liga in 1990 for FC Hereti Lagodekhi. He also won four caps for the Ge ...
, 40, Georgian footballer and manager, suicide by hanging. * Robert Gordon Robertson, 95, Canadian civil servant, 7th
Commissioner of the Northwest Territories The commissioner of the Northwest Territories (french: Commissaire des Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is the Government of Canada's representative in the Northwest Territories. Similar in certain functions to a lieutenant governor, the commissioner s ...
. *
Aron Schvartzman Aron Schvartzman (also written as Aarón Schvartzman and Aron Schwartzman) (2 December 1908 – 15 January 2013) was an Argentine chess master who was prominent in chess tournaments of the 1930s and 1940s. Between 1933 and 1949, Schvartzman wa ...
, 104, Argentine chess master. *
Clayton Silva Clayton Silva (February 6, 1938 – January 15, 2013) was a Brazilian actor and comedian. He was a regular cast member on the SBT television series, ''A Praça é Nossa ''A Praça é Nossa'' (''The Square is Ours'') is a Brazilian comedy show p ...
, 74, Brazilian actor and comedian (''
A Praça é Nossa ''A Praça é Nossa'' (''The Square is Ours'') is a Brazilian comedy show produced and broadcast by SBT. It was created in 1956 by Manuel de Nóbrega, with the name of ''A Praça da Alegria''. It is based using a simple and practical scenario: ...
''), cancer. *
Nii Tackie Tawiah III Nii Tackie Tawiah III (6 October 1940December 2012) was the Ga Mantse in the Ga State, a traditional kingship in the Greater Accra Region in Ghana from 2006 until his death in 2012. Before his installation in June 2006, King Tackie Tawiah had bee ...
, 72, Ghanaian royal, Ga Mantse (since 2006). (death announced on this date) *
John Thomas John Thomas may refer to: Politics United Kingdom * John Thomas (c. 1490–1540/42), British Member of Parliament for Truro * John Thomas (c. 1531–1581/90), British Member of Parliament for Mitchell * John Thomas (British politician) (1897 ...
, 71, American Olympic high-jumper. *
Yuli Turovsky Yuli Turovsky OC CQ (7 June 193915 January 2013) was a Soviet-born Canadian cellist, conductor and music educator. His name is mostly associated with the I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra, which he founded in 1983 and led until his dea ...
, 73, Russian-born Canadian conductor and cellist (
I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra I Musici de Montréal is a Canadian chamber orchestra, founded in 1984 by cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky. About I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra has been sharing its passion for classical music for over 35 years. The 15 exceptional m ...
). * Dharam Singh Uppal, 53, Indian international track and field athlete, cardiac arrest. * Yang Baibing, 92, Chinese military leader and politician.


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Wayne D. Anderson Wayne Delbert Anderson (December 10, 1930 – January 16, 2013) was an American college basketball coach, the head coach for eight seasons at the University of Idaho, his alma mater. He was also the head baseball coach at Idaho for nine seasons, ...
, 82, American baseball and basketball coach ( University of Idaho). * Peter Barnes, 50, British pilot,
helicopter crash A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...
. *
Gerry Brisson Gerald Joseph Brisson (September 3, 1937 – January 16, 2013) was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger. He played 4 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens during the 1962–63 season. The rest of his caree ...
, 75, Canadian ice hockey player ( Montreal Canadiens). *
André Cassagnes André Cassagnes (September 23, 1926 – January 16, 2013) was a French inventor, electrical technician, toymaker, and kite designer. Cassagnes is best known as the inventor of the Etch A Sketch, a popular mechanical drawing toy manufactured sin ...
, 86, French electrical engineer, inventor of the Etch A Sketch. * Robert Citron, 87, American politician. *
Burhan Doğançay Burhan C. Doğançay (11 September 1929 – 16 January 2013) was a Turkish-American artist. Doğançay is best known for tracking walls in various cities across the world for half a century, integrating them in his artistic work. Biography ...
, 83, Turkish artist and photographer. *
Jake Froese Jake Froese (September 21, 1925 - January 16, 2013) was a Canadian politician, who served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada in the 31st Canadian Parliament.Niagara Falls, Lord Mayor of
Niagara-on-the-Lake Niagara-on-the-Lake is a town in Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Niagara Peninsula at the point where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario, across the river from New York, United States. Niagara-on-the-Lake is in the Niagara Region of On ...
. * Robert Charles Gleason, Jr., 42, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair. * Noé Hernández, 34, Mexican Olympic silver medal-winning (
2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
) race walker, cardiac arrest. *
Ralph B. Hodges Ralph B. Hodges (also known as R. B. Hodges) was born and raised in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He earned his J. D. degree from the University of Oklahoma. After serving as Bryan County Attorney and as District Judge, Hodges was appointed to the Oklaho ...
, 82, American politician. * Sir Barry Holloway, 78, Australian-born Papua New Guinean politician, Speaker of the National Parliament (1972–1977). *
Samson Kimobwa Samson Kimobwa (15 September 1955 – 16 January 2013) was a runner from Kenya. He set a 10000 metres world record of 27:30.5 on 30 June 1977 in Helsinki, Finland. The record was broken the following year by his compatriot Henry Rono. Before Kim ...
, 57, Kenyan long-distance runner, stomach ailment. *
Yevdokiya Mekshilo Yevdokiya Panteleyevna Mekshilo (russian: Евдокия Пантелеевна Мекшило) (23 March 1931 – 16 January 2013) was a female Soviet cross-country skier who competed in the 1960s for Armed Forces sports society. At the 196 ...
, 81, Russian cross-country skier, Olympic champion (
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
). * Gussie Moran, 89, American tennis player. * Isidro Pérez, 48, Mexican boxer,
WBO The World Boxing Organization (WBO) is an organization which sanctions professional boxing bouts. It is recognized by the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) as one of the four major world championship groups, alongside the World Boxing ...
Flyweight Champion (19901992). (body discovered on this date) * Pauline Phillips, 94, American advice columnist ("
Dear Abby Dear Abby is an American advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name "Abigail Van Buren" and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name. History According to Pauline ...
"), complications from Alzheimer's disease. *
Kroum Pindoff Kroum Pindoff ( bg, Крум Пиндов) (1915 – 16 January 2013) was a Bulgarian Canadian businessman. Pindoff was born in Emporio, Eordaia municipality, Kozani regional unit, Greece, and raised in Bulgaria. Pindoff participated in the S ...
, 97, Greek-born Canadian businessman and philanthropist. *
James W. Plummer James W. Plummer (January 29, 1920 – January 16, 2013) was an engineer who served as the fifth Director of the National Reconnaissance Office. Plummer was the first Director NRO to come from the private industry. He previously served as the ...
, 92, American aerospace engineer, United States Under Secretary of the Air Force (1973–1976). *
Nic Potter NIC may refer to: Banking and insurance companies * National Insurance Corporation, Uganda * NIC Bank, a commercial bank in Kenya Politics, government and economics * National Ice Center, an agency that provides worldwide navigational ice a ...
, 61, British bassist ( Van der Graaf Generator), pneumonia. * Perrette Pradier, 74, French actress, heart attack. *
Glen P. Robinson Glen Parmelee Robinson, Jr. (September 10, 1923 – January 16, 2013), called the "father of high-tech industry in Georgia", was an American businessman and founder of Scientific Atlanta, now a subsidiary of Cisco Systems. Robinson was the fi ...
, 89, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta. *
Hōō Tomomichi Hōō Tomomichi, born Tomomichi Kabetani (7 December 1956 – 16 January 2013), was a sumo wrestler from Gamagōri, Aichi, Japan. He made his professional debut in September 1971, and reached the top division in July 1979. His highest rank w ...
, 56, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart disease. * Aslan Usoyan, 75, Georgian-born Russian mobster, shooting. *
Dick Westcott Richard John Westcott (19 September 1927 – 16 January 2013) was a South African cricketer who played in five Tests from 1954 to 1958. He was the first Test cricketer to have been born in Portugal. Australian Moises Henriques is the only other ...
, 85, Portuguese-born South African cricketer ( Western Province, national team).


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Mehmet Ali Birand Mehmet Ali Birand (9 December 1941 – 17 January 2013) was a Turkish journalist, political commentator and writer. Biography He was born to İzzet and his wife Mürvet on 9 December 1941 in Beyoğlu, Istanbul. His mother was of Kurdish descen ...
, 71, Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian, cardiac arrest. * Bill Albright, 83, American football player (
New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. ...
). *
Ilmar Aluvee Ilmar Aluvee (25 November 1969 – 17 January 2013) was an Estonian ski jumper, biathlete, and coach. He competed in the Nordic combined event at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Early life Ilmar Aluvee was born in Tallinn to former biathlete Val ...
, 43, Estonian Olympic skier, fall. *
Jakob Arjouni Jakob Bothe (born Jakob Michelsen; 8 October 1964 – 17 January 2013), better known by his pen name Jakob Arjouni, was a German author. He received the 1992 Deutscher Krimi Preis, German Crime Fiction Prize for ''One Man, One Murder''. Life J ...
, 48, German author, cancer. * Tissa Balasuriya, 89, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic priest and theologian. * Claude Black, 80, American jazz pianist, cancer. *
Robert F. Chew Robert Francell Chew (December 28, 1960 – January 17, 2013) was an American acting coach and actor. He was best known for portraying drug kingpin Proposition Joe on the HBO drama series ''The Wire''. Early life Chew was born on December 28, 19 ...
, 52, American actor ('' The Wire''), heart attack. *
Yves Debay Yves Debay (24 December 1954 – 17 January 2013), was a veteran French-Belgian war correspondent, who founded and reported for the French-language magazines ''Raids'' and later ''Assaut'' (Translation: Assault), which is published out of Bou ...
, 58, Belgian journalist, shot. * Fernando Guillén, 80, Spanish actor. *
Eric Handley Eric Walter Handley, (12 November 1926 – 17 January 2013) was a British classical scholar, noted for his work on the Greek new comic poet Menander. He was Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London from 1967 to 198 ...
, 86, British classical scholar. * Sophiya Haque, 41, English actress (''
Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford. Origi ...
'', '' Wanted'', '' House of Anubis''), singer and dancer, cancer. * James Hood, 70, American civil rights pioneer, among first African Americans to register at the University of Alabama. *
Sanjeewa Hulangamuwa Sanjeewa Gotabhaya Hulangamuwa ( si, සංජීව හුලංගමුව; 27 October 1955 – 17 January 2013), also known as ''Sanjeewa Hulangamuwa'', was a Sri Lankan politician and businessman. He was also UPFA Councillor for Kandy Munic ...
, 57, Sri Lankan politician and businessman, heart attack. *
Homayoun Khorram Ostad Homayoun Khorram ( fa, همایون خرم), (June 30, 1930 – January 17, 2013) was an Iranian musician, composer, violinist, and a member of the high council of Iran's house of music. Khorram began his music career as a violinist at the ...
, 82, Iranian violinist, colorectal cancer. * Fred J. Lincoln, 75, American actor, director (''
The Last House on the Left ''The Last House on the Left'' is a 1972 American exploitation horror film written, directed and edited by Wes Craven in his directorial debut. The film follows Mari Collingwood (Sandra Peabody), a hippie teenager who is abducted, raped, and ...
'') and pornographic director. * Linh Quang Viên, 94, Vietnamese army general. * Tony Martin, 70, Trinidadian-born American historian. * Paul McKeever, 57, British police officer, Chairman of the
Police Federation of England and Wales The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) is the statutory staff association for police constables, sergeants, inspectors, chief inspectors and special constables in the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales. Under UK lab ...
, embolism. * Eng Abner Nangwale, 79, Ugandan politician. * John Nkomo, 78, Zimbabwean politician, Second Vice President (2009–2013), cancer. *
John R. Powers John R. Powers (November 30, 1945 – January 17, 2013) was an American novelist and playwright. Early life Powers grew up in the Mt. Greenwood neighborhood on the far southwest side of Chicago. He held a Ph.D. in Communications from Northw ...
, 67, American author (''
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? ''Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?'' is a novel published in 1975 by author John R. Powers. It was subsequently adapted into a Broadway musical and a screenplay. Film in development Director and author Ken Kwapis (''Sisterhood of ...
''), heart attack. * Guram Sagharadze, 84, Georgian actor. *
Sumihiro Tomii was a Japanese alpine skier. He competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics and the 1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympique ...
, 63, Japanese Olympic skier. * Michael Triplett, 48, American journalist, cancer. * Lizbeth Webb, 86, English soprano and stage actress.


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Martin Barbarič Martin Barbarič (14 October 1970 – 18 January 2013) was a Czech football player who is best known as key striker at club Slovan Liberec in the late 1990s. He was also a U-11 coach at FC Hradec Králové. On 11 January 2013 Barbarič shot and ...
, 42, Czech footballer, suicide by gunshot. * Bobby Bennett, 74, American musician, member of singing group The Famous Flames. *
Peter Boyle Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor. Known as a character actor, he played Frank Barone on the CBS sitcom ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' and the comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof ''Young Fra ...
, 61, Scottish-born Australian association footballer. (death announced on this date) *
Walmor Chagas Walmor de Souza Chagas (28 August 1930 – 18 January 2013) was a Brazilian actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1965 and 2012. Chagas died on 18 January 2013, in his home in Guaratin ...
, 82, Brazilian actor (''
Xica da Silva ''Xica'' ( pt, Xica da Silva) is a 1976 Brazilian comedy film directed and written by Carlos Diegues, based on the novel by João Felício dos Santos, which is a romanticized retelling of the true story of Chica da Silva,http://dicionarioegrama ...
'', ''
São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima ''São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima'' is a 1965 Brazilian drama film written and directed by Luis Sérgio Person. The film was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 38th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a ...
''), apparent suicide by gunshot. * Sean Fallon, 90, Irish association footballer (
Celtic Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to: Language and ethnicity *pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia **Celts (modern) *Celtic languages **Proto-Celtic language * Celtic music *Celtic nations Sports Fo ...
). *
Jim Horning James Jay Horning (24 August 1942 – 18 January 2013) was an American computer scientist and ACM Fellow. Overview Jim Horning received a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1969 for a thesis entitled ''A Study of Grammatical Infe ...
, 70, American computer scientist. * Ken Jones, 77, Welsh footballer. *
Wolfgang Ilgenfritz Wolfgang Ilgenfritz (10 January 1957; Villach, Austria – 18 January 2013; Villach) was an Austrian politician and most notably a non-attached Member of the European Parliament. He served for one parliamentary term (20 July 1999 – 19 July 2004 ...
, 56, Austrian politician. *
Alfons Lemmens Alfons Lemmens (April 19, 1919 – January 18, 2013) was a Dutch association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to p ...
, 93, Dutch footballer. * David Lewis, 85, Zimbabwean cricketer (
Rhodesia Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the ''de facto'' successor state to the British colony of S ...
). * Wilhelm Löwinger, 96, Austrian Olympic speed skater. * Jon Mannah, 23, Australian rugby league player ( Cronulla Sharks), Hodgkin's lymphoma. * Lewis Marnell, 30, Australian skateboarder, diabetes. * Harold Marshall, 94, Canadian military veteran. * Morné van der Merwe, 39, South African rugby union player ( Western Province,
Stormers The Stormers (known for sponsorship reasons as the DHL Stormers) is a South African professional rugby union team based in Cape Town in the Western Cape that competes in the United Rugby Championship, a trans-hemispheric competition that also ...
), brain cancer. *
Ron Nachman Ron Nachman ( he, רון נחמן, 6 August 1942 – 18 January 2013) was an Israeli politician and former Knesset member for the Likud. The founder of Ariel, one of the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank, he was its mayor from 1985 unti ...
, 70, Israeli politician and Knesset member, cancer. *
Borghild Niskin Borghild Niskin (19 February 1924 – 18 January 2013)"Skiløperen Borghild Nis ...
, 88, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier and Holmenkollen medalist. *
Jacques Sadoul Jacques Sadoul (1934  – 18 January 2013) was a French novelist, book editor and non-fiction author. Work on science fiction His ''Histoire de la science fiction moderne'' (1973) was a major encouragement for the serious, academic study of ...
, 78, French writer and book editor. * Gordon Snee, 82, British abstract painter. *
Theodore Stern Theodore Sanders Stern (December 25, 1912 – January 18, 2013),Lynn Willis Lynn Willis (died January 18, 2013) was a wargame and role-playing game designer, best known for his work with Metagaming Concepts, Game Designers' Workshop (GDW), and Chaosium. Biography Willis began by designing science fiction wargames for Me ...
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Toktamış Ateş Toktamış Ateş (4 April 1944 – 19 January 2013) was a Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist and writer. He was professor of political sciences at Istanbul University. Biography Toktamış Ateş was born in Istanbul. After g ...
, 68, Turkish academic (
Istanbul University , image = Istanbul_University_logo.svg , image_size = 200px , latin_name = Universitas Istanbulensis , motto = tr, Tarihten Geleceğe Bilim Köprüsü , mottoeng = Science Bridge from Past to the Future , established = 1453 1846 1933 ...
), political commentator and writer, multiple organ failure. * Anatoly Bannik, 91, Ukrainian chess player. * Mehnaz Begum, 63, Pakistani singer. *
Gayle Bluth Gayle Bluth (19 April 1925 – 19 January 2013) was a Mexican basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Bluth was also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served in the U ...
, 87, Mexican Olympic basketball player. *
Milt Bolling Milton Joseph Bolling (August 9, 1930 – January 19, 2013) was a shortstop in Major League Baseball who played from 1952 through 1958 for the Boston Red Sox (1952–1957), Washington Senators (1957) and Detroit Tigers (1958). Bolling batted a ...
, 82, American baseball player ( Boston Red Sox), complications from heart surgery. *
John Braheny John Braheny (December 9, 1938 – January 19, 2013) was an American author and singer-songwriter. He released a solo album in 1968, ''Some Kind of Change'', on the Pete label. He was born in 1938 in Iowa. He also wrote songs for others, incl ...
, 74, American songwriter. *
Nick Broad Nick Broad was an English football nutritionist and worked for some of Britain's biggest football clubs including Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Chelsea Football Club and in Paris, he worked for Paris St-Germain. Broad was a close friend of f ...
, 38, English football nutritionist ( Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain), traffic collision. *
Michael Colley Michael Christian Colley, USN (Ret.), (February 19, 1938 – January 19, 2013) was a United States Navy officer who served as vice admiral and whose career included several high-ranking commands in the submarine force and elsewhere in national se ...
, 74, American navy officer and politician. * Happy Fernandez, 74, American political activist and
Philadelphia City Council The Philadelphia City Council, the legislative body of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, consists of ten members elected by district and seven members elected at-large. The council president is elected by the members from among their number. Each ...
woman (1992–1999), stroke. *
Abderrahim Goumri Abderrahim Goumri ( ar, عبد الرحيم الغومري; 21 May 1976 – 19 January 2013 in Temara, Morocco) was a Moroccan long-distance runner. He had competed in cross country, track, road running and marathon races. He spent the early pa ...
, 36, Moroccan Olympic (
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
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) long-distance runner, traffic collision. *Viggo Hagstrøm, 58, Norwegian legal scholar. *Basil Hirschowitz, 87, American gastroenterologist. *İsmet Hürmüzlü, 75, Iraqi Turkmen actor (''Valley of the Wolves: Iraq''), screenwriter and director. *Steve Knight (musician), Steve Knight, 77, American musician (Mountain (band), Mountain) and councilman, complications from Parkinsons disease. *Taihō Kōki, 72, Japanese sumo wrestler, ventricular tachycardia. *Michel Las Vergnas, 72, French mathematician. *Li Minhua, 95, Chinese physicist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. *Jim Marking, 85, American college basketball coach (South Dakota State Jackrabbits men's basketball, South Dakota State). *Hans Massaquoi, 87, German-born American journalist and author. *Steven Muller, 85, American educator, President of Johns Hopkins University (1972–1990), respiratory failure. *Stan Musial, 92, American National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Hall of Fame baseball player ( St. Louis Cardinals), Alzheimer's disease. *Julia Penelope, 71, American linguist, author, and philosopher. *Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, 86, American music historian, heart failure. *Frank Pooler, 86, American choirmaster and composer. *Andrée Putman, 87, French interior and product designer. *A. Rafiq, 64, Indonesian singer and actor. *Marcel Sisniega Campbell, 53, Mexican chess player and film director, heart attack. *John Trim (linguist), John Trim, 88, British linguist. *Earl Weaver, 82, American National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Hall of Fame baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles), apparent heart attack. *Ian Wells, 48, English footballer (Hereford United).


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*Ron Fraser, 79, American National College Baseball Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame college baseball coach (Miami Hurricanes baseball, University of Miami). *Richard Garneau, 82, Canadian sports journalist. *Matilde Lindo, 58, Nicaraguan feminist and activist, heart attack. *Pavlos Matesis, 80, Greek writer. *Donald Oesterling, 85, American politician. *Dolores Prida, 69, Cuban-born American advice columnist (''Latina magazine, Latina''). *Toyo Shibata, 101, Japanese poet. *Helen Wyatt Snapp, 94, American aviator, complications of a broken hip. *Adusumilli Srikrishna, 58, Indian organic chemist. *Tracy Sugarman, 91, American illustrator. *John Melville Turner, 90, Canadian politician. *Freddie Williams (speedway rider), Freddie Williams, 86, Welsh motorcycle speedway world champion (1950 Individual Speedway World Championship, 1950, 1953 Individual Speedway World Championship, 1953), stroke.


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*Kamal Basu, 94, Indian politician, Mayor of Calcutta (1985–1990). *Alden W. Clausen, 89, American banking executive, President of the World Bank (1981–1986), complications from pneumonia. *David Coe (businessman), David Coe, 58, Australian businessman, suspected heart attack. *Riccardo Garrone (entrepreneur), Riccardo Garrone, 76, Italian entrepreneur, cancer. *Jean Giambrone, 91, American sportswriter (''Rochester Times-Union, Times-Union''), first female writer awarded full press credentials at Masters Tournament, The Masters, blood clot in lung. *Zina Harman, 98, British-born Israeli politician. *Donald Hornig, 92, American chemist, explosives expert, Manhattan Project member, teacher and presidential science advisor, List of Presidents of Brown University, President of Brown University (1970–1976). *Ahmet Mete Işıkara, 72, Turkish professor of geology and earthquake expert, respiratory failure. *Geoffrey Matthews, 89, British ornithologist. *Inez McCormack, 69, Northern Irish trade union leader and human rights campaigner, cancer. *Jake McNiece, 93, American World War II paratrooper, leader of the Filthy Thirteen. *Chumpol Silpa-archa, 72, Thai politician, Ministry of Tourism and Sports (Thailand), Minister of Tourism and Sports (since 2008), Prime Minister of Thailand, Deputy Prime Minister (2011–2013), renal failure. *M.S. Udayamurthy, 85, Indian Tamil language writer. *Andrew Weekes, 72, Kittitian cricket umpire. *Michael Winner, 77, British film director (''Death Wish (1974 film), Death Wish'') and food critic.


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*Said Ali al-Shihri, 41–42, Saudi Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Al-Qaeda leader, drone strike. *Kevin Ash, 53, British motorcycling journalist, traffic collision. *Ignacio Barrios, 82, Mexican painter. *Robert Bonnaud, 83, French anti-colonialist historian. *William J. Breed, 84, American geologist. *Zulema Castro de Peña, 92, Argentine human rights activist (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo). *John Cheng, 52, Singaporean getai performer and actor, apparent heart attack. *Jean-Léon Destiné, 94, Haitian-born American dancer and choreographer. *Leslie Frankenheimer, 64, American set decorator (''Blade Runner'', ''Star Trek: Voyager'', ''Ben & Kate''), leukemia. *Anna Litvinova, 29, Russian fashion model, won Miss Russia#Miss Universe Russia, Miss Russia (Miss Universe competition) (2006), cancer. *George H. Ludwig, 85, American space scientist. *Günther Maritschnigg, 79, German Olympic wrestler. *Lídia Mattos, 88, Brazilian actress, pneumonia. *Hinton Mitchem, 74, American politician, Alabama Senate (1979–1986, 1987–2011), Alzheimer's disease. *Jimmy Payne, 86, English footballer (Liverpool F.C., Liverpool). *Ted Talbert, 70, American documentary filmmaker, heart attack. *Margareta Teodorescu, 80, Romanian chess player. *Lucyna Winnicka, 84, Polish actress.


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*Ismail al-Armouti, 80, Jordanian politician, Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs (1976). *Ed Bouchee, 79, American baseball player (
Philadelphia Phillies The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) National League East, East division. Since 2004, the team's home sta ...
,
Chicago Cubs The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as part of the National League (NL) Central division. The club plays its home games at Wrigley Field, which is located ...
, New York Mets). *Józef Glemp, 83, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warsaw, Warsaw (1981–2006) and Primate of List of archbishops of Gniezno and primates of Poland, Poland (1981–2009), lung cancer. *Jacques Grimonpon, 87, French footballer (Lille OSC, Le Havre AC, Girondins Bordeaux, Olympique Lyonnais). *Tom Jankiewicz, 49, American screenwriter (''Grosse Pointe Blank''). *Made Katib, 71, Malaysian Anglican prelate, Bishop of the Diocese of Kuching. *Janice Knickrehm, 87, American actress (''Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers''). *Jan Ormerod, 66, Australian illustrator of children's books, cancer. *Lucien Paiement, 80, Canadian politician, Mayor of Laval, Quebec, Laval (1973–1981). *Dolours Price, 61, Irish republican political activist and Provisional Irish Republican Army, PIRA volunteer, toxic prescription drugs mix. *Mike Rashkow, 71, American songwriter and advertising executive. *Jonathan Rendall, 48, English author. *Juan Carlos Rosero, 50, Ecuadorian Olympic and professional cyclist. *Susan Douglas Rubeš, 87, Austrian-born Canadian actress. *Tatsuo Sato (politician), Tatsuo Sato, 75, Japanese politician. *Peter van der Merwe (cricketer), Peter van der Merwe, 75, South African cricketer. *Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet, 90, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Dié, Saint-Dié (1964–1983) and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lille, Lille (1983–1998). *John Wood (canoeist), John Wood, 62, Canadian Olympic canoeist, suicide. *Frank Zakem, 81, Canadian politician and businessman, List of mayors of Charlottetown, Mayor of Charlottetown (1975–1978).


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*Yemi Ajibade, 83, Nigerian–born British playwright and actor. *Kevin Ashley (rugby league), Kevin Ashley, 71, Australian rugby league player (Sydney Roosters, Eastern Suburbs). *Zózimo Bulbul, 75, Brazilian actor (''Quilombo (film), Quilombo'', ''Sagarana: The Duel'') and filmmaker, heart attack. *José Colomer, 77, Spanish Olympic field hockey player. * Graeme Fellowes, 78, Australian football player. *Khuseyn Gakayev, 42, Chechen nationalist military leader, shot. *Emanuel R. Gold, American lawyer and politician. *Dave Harper (footballer), Dave Harper, 74, English footballer. *Nurul Islam (physician), Nurul Islam, 84, Bangladeshi physician and educator. *Miroslav Janů, 53, Czech footballer, heart attack. *Kristján Jóhannsson (athlete), Kristján Jóhannsson 83, Icelandic Olympic athlete. *Gottfried Landwehr, 83, German physicist. *Barbara Leonard (politician), Barbara Leonard, 88, American politician, Secretary of State of Rhode Island (1993–1995). *Jim Line, 87, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball, University of Kentucky). *Umashanker Singh, 73, Indian politician, lung infection. *Richard G. Stern, 84, American writer, cancer. *Lucien Stryk, 88, American poet and translator. *Harry Taylor (1957 pitcher), Harry Taylor, 77, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics). *Jim Wallwork, 93, British World War II glider pilot.


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*Martial Asselin, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Charlevoix (federal electoral district), Charlevoix (1958–1962; 1965–1972), Minister (1963), Senate of Canada, Senator (1972–1990) and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (1990–1996). *Leila Buckley, 96, British poet, novelist and translator. *Rade Bulat, 92, Croatian politician and partisan. *Gregory Carroll (R&B singer), Gregory Carroll, 83, American R&B singer (The Four Buddies, The Orioles) and songwriter ("Just One Look (song), Just One Look"), aneurysm. *Normand Corbeil, 56, Canadian composer (''Double Jeopardy (1999 film), Double Jeopardy'', ''Extreme Ops'', ''The Statement (film), The Statement'', ''V (2009 TV series), V''), pancreatic cancer. *Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer), Kevin Heffernan, 83, Irish Gaelic football player and manager. *Max Kampelman, 92, American diplomat, heart failure. *Frank Keating (journalist), Frank Keating, 75, English sports writer, pneumonia. *Irene Koumarianou, 82, Greek actress, cardiac arrest. *Aase Nordmo Løvberg, 89, Norwegian opera singer. *Lloyd Phillips, 63, South African-born New Zealand producer (''Inglourious Basterds'', ''Vertical Limit'', ''Man of Steel (film), Man of Steel''), heart attack. *Pepe Pimentel, 83, Filipino television presenter. *Shozo Shimamoto, 85, Japanese artist. *Cecil Womack, 65, American singer-songwriter (Womack & Womack). *Oleg Vassiliev (painter), Oleg Vassiliev, 81, Russian painter.


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*Peter Beales, 76, British wikt:rosarian, rosarian, author and lecturer. *Ann Bartlett, 92, American politician and political campaign chairwoman, First Lady of Oklahoma (1967–1971). *Leroy Bonner, 69, American funk singer and guitarist (Ohio Players), cancer. *Gökhan Budak, 45, Turkish academic administrator and professor of quantum physics, suicide. *Lesley Fitz-Simons, 51, Scottish actress (''Take the High Road''), cancer. *Christine M. Jones, 83, American politician, member of Maryland House of Delegates (1982–1994). *Sukekiyo Kameyama, 58, Japanese voice actor (''Winnie-the-Pooh''), pneumonia. *Gour Khyapa, 65, Indian Baul singer, traffic collision. *Stefan Kudelski, 83, Polish audio engineer, inventor of the Nagra recorder. *Hans Ulrich Lehmann, 75, Swiss classical composer. *Daurene Lewis, 69, Canadian politician, nation's first black female mayor. *Patricia Lovell, 83, Australian television host (''Mr. Squiggle'') and film producer (''Picnic at Hanging Rock (film), Picnic at Hanging Rock''), liver cancer. *Hiroshi Nakajima, 84, Japanese physician, Director-General of the World Health Organization (1988–1998). *Acer Nethercott, 35, British coxswain, Olympic silver medallist (Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's eight, 2008) and two-time The Boat Race, Boat Race winner, cancer. *Padma Kant Shukla, 62, Indian physicist, heart attack. *James Stewart (Irish politician), James Stewart, 78, Irish politician, chair of the Communist Party of Ireland (2001–2004). *Shōtarō Yasuoka, 92, Japanese writer.


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*Thakurdas Bang, 95, Indian Gandhian economist. *Ivan Bodiul, 95, Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldova, Moldovan Communist Party (1961–1980), Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union#Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers (1980–1985). *Éamon de Buitléar, 83, Irish filmmaker. *Harry L. Carrico, 96, American lawyer and state judge, Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. *Geoffrey Connard, 87, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1982–1996). *Joanne Conte, 79, American transgender politician. *Gérard Dufresne, 94, Canadian politician and military officer. *Lou Fitzgerald, 93, American professional baseball player, scout and manager. *Chuck Hinton, 78, American baseball player (Washington Senators (1961–71), Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, California Angels). *M Sirajul Islam, 77, Bangladeshi politician. *Stanley Karnow, 87, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning (Pulitzer Prize for History#1990s, 1990) historian, heart failure. *John Makumbe, 63, Zimbabwean political scientist and activist. *Barney Mussill, 93, American baseball player (
Philadelphia Phillies The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) National League East, East division. Since 2004, the team's home sta ...
). *Phạm Duy, 91, Vietnamese songwriter. *Sally Starr (TV hostess), Sally Starr, 90, American actress (''The Outlaws Is Coming'') and television personality.


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*Paul J. Achtemeier, 85, American biblical scholar. *Brian Brown (musician), Brian Brown, 79, Australian jazz musician. *Eddy Choong, 82, Malaysian badminton player. *Émmanuel Ducher, 41, French Olympic water polo player. *Trevor Elliott (geoscientist), Trevor Elliott, 63, British geoscientist and professor. *Florentino Fernández (boxer), Florentino Fernández, 76, Cuban boxer, heart attack. *Lonnie Goldstein, 94, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). *Charlie Green (golfer), Charlie Green, 80, Scottish amateur golfer. *Hattie N. Harrison, 84, American politician, Member of the Maryland House of Delegates (since 1973). *Bernard Horsfall, 82, British actor (''Doctor Who'', ''Gandhi (film), Gandhi'', ''Braveheart''). *John Karlin, 94, South African industrial psychologist. *Doug Kenna, 88, American football player. *Oldřich Kulhánek, 72, Czech painter and graphic designer, designer of Banknotes of the Czech koruna, Czech banknotes and Postage stamps and postal history of the Czech Republic, postage stamps. *Michael D. Lett, 74, Grenadian politician, prostate cancer. *Herbert Loebl, 89, British businessman and philanthropist. *Keith Marsh, 86, English actor (''Love Thy Neighbour (1972 TV series), Love Thy Neighbour''). *Dan Massey, 70, American sexual freedom activist. *Victor Ntoni, 65, South African musician, heart attack. *Mark Palmer (diplomat), Mark Palmer, 71, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Hungary (1986–1990). *Ladislav Pavlovič, 86, Slovak footballer. *Ceija Stojka, 79, Austrian Romani writer, painter, musician and Holocaust survivor. *Earl Williams (1970s catcher), Earl Williams, 64, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves), leukemia. *Xu Liangying, 92, Chinese physicist, translator, historian and philosopher. *Benedict Zilliacus, 92, Finnish writer.


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*Ferris Ashton, 86, Australian rugby league player (Sydney Roosters, Eastern Suburbs). *Malcolm Brodie (journalist), Malcolm Brodie, 86, British sports journalist. *Kenneth Clark (priest), 90, English priest. *Kerry Goulstone, 76, Welsh priest. *Frank Hahn, 87, British economist (Hahn's Problem). *Anselm Hollo, 78, Finnish poet and translator, pneumonia. *William Ingram (writer), William Ingram, 72–73, Welsh writer and actor. *Reg Jenkins, 74, English footballer (Rochdale A.F.C., Rochdale). *Augusto César Leal Angulo, 81, Mexican politician and chemist, member of the Senate of Mexico, Senate (2006–2012). *Louis Lesser, 96, American businessman. *Garrett Lewis, 77, American set decorator (''Hook (film), Hook'', ''Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film), Bram Stoker's Dracula'', ''Glory (1989 film), Glory''). *Jan Lužný, 86, Czech plant-breeder. *Gordon H. Mansfield, 71, American military veteran, United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs. *John Martinis, 82, American politician. *Borislav Milošević, 78, Serbian diplomat, Yugoslav ambassador to Russia (1998–2000), heart-related problems. *Butch Morris, 65, American jazz cornetist, conductor and composer, lung cancer. *Said al-Muragha, 86, Palestinian militant (Fatah al-Intifada), cancer. *László Nyers, 78, Hungarian Olympic wrestler. *Arif Peçenek, 53, Turkish footballer (MKE Ankaragücü) and manager, heart attack. *Death of Hadiya Pendleton, Hadiya Pendleton, 15, American student, shot. *Johan de Ridder, 86, South African architect. *Ferrol Sams, 90, American author and physician, natural causes. *Reinhold Stecher, 91, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck, Innsbruck (1980–1997). *David Taylor (veterinary surgeon), David Taylor, 78, British veterinarian and television personality (''No. 73''). *John Young (cyclist), John Young, 76–77, Australian cyclist.


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*Herluf Andersen, 81, Danish Olympian. *Patty Andrews, 94, American singer, last surviving member of The Andrews Sisters, natural causes. *Alexandre Denguet Atiki, 76, Congolese politician. *Gamal al-Banna, 92, Egyptian author and scholar, pneumonia. *Frank Kell Cahoon, 78, American businessman and politician. *José Cardona, 73, Honduran Association football, footballer, heart attack. *Sonaram Chutia, 98, Indian independence activist. *Harvey Einbinder, 86, American physicist and author. *Georg Gaertner, 92, German soldier and escapee. *Shirley Luhtala, 79, American baseball player. *Diane Marleau, 69, Canadian politician, MP for Sudbury (federal electoral district), Sudbury (1988–2008) and government minister, colorectal cancer. *Ann Rabson, 67, American blues singer and musician (Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women), cancer. *Roger Raveel, 91, Belgian painter, pneumonia. *Christopher Van Hollen (diplomat), Christopher Van Hollen, 90, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives (1972–1976), Alzheimer's disease. *George Witt (baseball), George Witt, 81, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Angels, Houston Colt .45's).


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*Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, 89, Mexican poet and classicist. *Amina Cachalia, 82, South African activist and politician. *Joseph Cassidy (bishop), Joseph Cassidy, 79, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tuam, Tuam (1987–1994). *R. Gilbert Clayton, 90, American set designer (''Armageddon (1998 film), Armageddon'', ''Batman & Robin (film), Batman & Robin'', ''The Untouchables (film), The Untouchables''). *Nolan Frizzelle, 91, American politician, Member of the California State Assembly (1980–1992), heart failure. *Hassan Habibi, 76, Iranian politician and scholar, Ministry of Justice (Iran), Minister of Justice (1985–1989); Vice President of Iran, First Vice President (1989–2001), heart attack. *Ron Hadfield, Sir Ron Hadfield, 73, British police officer, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police (1990–1996). *Keith Joubert, 65, South African artist and conservationist. *Larry Killick, 90, American basketball player. *Bob Lacourse, 86, Canadian Olympic cyclist. *Mohammad Mahseiri, Jordanian politician, Member of the Parliament of Jordan, House of Representatives (2013), heart attack. *Brett Matthews (cricketer), Brett Matthews, 50, South African cricketer, traffic collision. *Caleb Moore, 25, American snowmobile competitor, complications from a collision during Winter X Games XVII, competition. *Jacques Nguyễn Văn Mầu, 99, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Vĩnh Long, Vĩnh Long (1968–2001). *Tony Pierce (baseball), Tony Pierce, 67, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics, Kansas City/Oakland Athletics). *Timir Pinegin, 85, Soviet sports sailor and Olympic gold medallist (Sailing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Star, 1960). *Edward Stankiewicz, 92, American linguist of Polish descent. *Ingo Swann, 79, American parapsychologist. *Shail Upadhya, 77, Nepalese United Nations disarmament official, fashion designer and socialite. *Fred Whitfield (baseball), Fred Whitfield, 75, American baseball player ( Cleveland Indians). *Diane Wolkstein, 70, American storyteller, during emergency heart surgery.Vitello, Paul (February 3, 2013)
"Diane Wolkstein, Children's Author Who Spurred a Storytelling Revival, Dies at 70"
''The New York Times''.


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