2013

2013 (MMXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2010s decade.

From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment factory collapse in Bangladesh kills over 1,000 people; The streak from the Chelyabinsk meteor that rocketed across the Russian morning sky; Protests occur amid the coup d'état that overthrew President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt; Smoke rises as a result of the Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, carried out by Al-Shabaab militants; The Boston Marathon bombing marks the first terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11; Pope Francis is elected to the Papacy in the 2013 papal conclave.

This article is about the year 2013. For other uses, see 2013 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century 21st century 22nd century
Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years:	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

2013 by topic:

Arts

Animation (Anime) – Architecture – Comics – Film (Horror, Science fiction) – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea) – Radio – Photo – Television – Video games

Politics and government

Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors

Science and technology

Archaeology – Biotechnology – Computing – Palaeontology – Quantum computing and communication – Senescence research – Space/Astronomy – Spaceflight – Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

Birding/Ornithology – Climate change – Weather

Transportation

Aviation – Rail transport – Transportation technology

Sports

American football – Association football – Athletics (sport) – Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Chess – Combat sports – Cricket – Cycling – Golf – Ice hockey – Rugby union – Swimming – Tennis – Volleyball

By place

Afghanistan – Albania – Algeria – Andorra – Angola – Antarctica – Antigua and Barbuda – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – The Bahamas – Bahrain – Barbados – Belarus – Belgium – Belize – Benin – Bhutan – Bolivia – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Botswana – Brazil – Brunei – Bulgaria – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cambodia – Cameroon – Canada – Cape Verde – Central African Republic – Chad – Chile – China – Colombia – Costa Rica – Comoros – Congo – D.R. Congo – Croatia – Cuba – Cyprus – Czech Republic – Denmark – Djibouti – Dominica – Dominican Republic – East Timor – Ecuador – Egypt – El Salvador – Eritrea – Estonia – Ethiopia – Eswatini – Equatorial Guinea – Fiji – Finland – France – Gabon – The Gambia – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Grenada – Guatemala – Guinea – Guinea-Bissau – Guyana – Haiti – Honduras – Hong Kong – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iran – Iraq – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Ivory Coast – Jamaica – Japan – Jordan – Kazakhstan – Kenya – Kiribati – Kosovo – Kuwait – Kyrgyzstan – Laos – Latvia – Lebanon – Lesotho – Liberia – Liechtenstein – Libya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macau – Madagascar – Marshall Islands – Malawi – Malaysia – Maldives – Mali – Malta – Mauritania – Mauritius – Mexico – Micronesia – Moldova – Monaco – Mongolia – Montenegro – Morocco – Mozambique – Myanmar – Nauru – Namibia – Nepal – Netherlands – New Zealand – Nicaragua – Niger – Nigeria – North Korea – North Macedonia – Norway – Oman – Pakistan – Palau – Palestine – Panama – Papua New Guinea – Paraguay – Peru – Philippines – Poland – Portugal – Qatar – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Saint Kitts and Nevis – Saint Lucia – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Samoa – San Marino – São Tomé and Príncipe – Saudi Arabia – Senegal – Serbia – Seychelles – Sierra Leone – Singapore – Slovakia – Slovenia – Somalia – Somaliland – South Africa – Solomon Islands – South Korea – South Sudan – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sudan – Suriname – Sweden – Switzerland – Syria – Taiwan – Tajikistan – Tanzania – Thailand – Togo – Tonga – Trinidad and Tobago – Tunisia – Turkey – Turkmenistan – Tuvalu – Uganda – Ukraine – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Uruguay – Uzbekistan – Vanuatu – Vatican City – Venezuela – Vietnam – Yemen – Zambia – Zimbabwe

Other topics

Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

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2013 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2013 MMXIII
Ab urbe condita	2766
Armenian calendar	1462 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԲ
Assyrian calendar	6763
Baháʼí calendar	169–170
Balinese saka calendar	1934–1935
Bengali calendar	1420
Berber calendar	2963
British Regnal year	61 Eliz. 2 – 62 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2557
Burmese calendar	1375
Byzantine calendar	7521–7522
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4709 or 4649     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4710 or 4650
Coptic calendar	1729–1730
Discordian calendar	3179
Ethiopian calendar	2005–2006
Hebrew calendar	5773–5774
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2069–2070
- Shaka Samvat	1934–1935
- Kali Yuga	5113–5114
Holocene calendar	12013
Igbo calendar	1013–1014
Iranian calendar	1391–1392
Islamic calendar	1434–1435
Japanese calendar	Heisei 25 (平成２５年)
Javanese calendar	1946–1947
Juche calendar	102
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4346
Minguo calendar	ROC 102 民國102年
Nanakshahi calendar	545
Thai solar calendar	2556
Tibetan calendar	阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 2139 or 1758 or 986     — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 2140 or 1759 or 987
Unix time	1356998400 – 1388534399

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2013 was designated as:

• International Year of Water Cooperation^[1]
• International Year of Quinoa^[1]

Events

January

• January 5: A 7.7 earthquake shakes Prince of Wales Island generating a 1.5 m tsunami.
• January 10 – At least 130 people are killed and 270 are injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
• January 11 – The French military begins a 5-month intervention into the Northern Mali conflict, targeting the militant Islamist Ansar Dine group.^[2][3]
• January 16–20 – Thirty-nine international workers and 1 security guard die in a hostage crisis at a natural gas facility near In Aménas, Algeria.^[4][5][6][7]
• January 20 – Barack Obama is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
• January 27 – An estimated 245 people die in a nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.^[8]

February

• February 12 – North Korea conducts its third underground nuclear test, prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the international community.^[9][10]
• February 15 – A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,489–1,492 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century.^[11] The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.^[12][13]
• February 21 – American scientists use a 3D printer to create a living lab-grown ear from collagen and animal ear cell cultures. In the future, it is hoped that similar ears could be grown to order as transplants for human patients with ear trauma or amputation.^[14]
• February 25 – Park Geun-hye becomes the first woman to become the president of South Korea.^[15]
• February 28 – Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294.^[16]

March

• March 13 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the name Francis^[17][18][19] and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.^[20]
• March 24 – Central African Republic President François Bozizé flees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after rebel forces capture the nation's capital, Bangui.^[21][22]
• March 25 – The European Union agrees to a €10 billion economic bailout for Cyprus. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, and the International Monetary Fund. The deal precipitates a banking crisis in the island nation.^[23][24]

April

• April 2 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Arms Trade Treaty to regulate the international trade of conventional weapons.^[25]
• April 13
  • Venezuelan presidential election, Nicolás Maduro was declared winner with a narrow victory over his opponent Henrique Capriles Radonski.^[26]
  • Venezuelan presidential election protests.^[27]
• April 15 – Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (1 of whom was a United States citizen) detonate 2 bombs at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others.^[28][29]
• April 20 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake jolts Sichuan, China, leaving 193 people dead and more than 11,000 injured.^[30]
• April 21 – Businessman Horacio Cartes wins the 2013 Paraguayan general election against Efraín Alegre.
• April 24 – The 2013 Savar building collapse, one of the worst industrial disasters in the world, kills 1,134 people in Bangladesh.^[31][32]
• April 30 – Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.^[33]

May

• May 14–18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 takes place in Malmö, Sweden, and is won by Danish entrant Emmelie de Forest with the song "Only Teardrops".
• May 15 –
  • In a study published in the scientific journal Nature, researchers from Oregon Health & Science University in the United States describe the first production of human embryonic stem cells by cloning.^[34]
  • The World Health Organization names the novel coronavirus Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).^[35]
• May 22 – British Army soldier Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is murdered in Woolwich, southeast London by Islamic terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.^[36]
• May 31 - The largest tornado ever recorded hit El Reno.This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded. Remaining over mostly open terrain, the tornado did not impact many structures; however, measurements from mobile weather radars revealed extreme winds up to 296 mph (476 km/h) within the vortex. These are among the highest observed wind speeds on Earth, just slightly lower than the wind speeds of 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado. As it crossed U.S. 81, it had grown to a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km).

June

• June 6 – Former CIA employee Edward Snowden discloses operations engaged in by a U.S. government mass surveillance program to news publications and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia.^[37][38][39]
• June 25 – Emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani abdicates and his son Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani assumes power.^[40][41]
• June 26
  • Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in an Australian Labor Party leadership ballot^[42] and consequently becomes Prime Minister of Australia, three years after Gillard replaced Rudd.^[43]
  • United States v. Windsor (570 U.S. 744) decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, overturning a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act and hence granting federal recognition to same-sex marriage in the United States.

July

• July 1 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.^[44]
• July 3 – Amid mass protests across Egypt, President Mohamed Morsi is deposed in a military coup d'état, leading to widespread violence.^[45][46]
• July 21 – Philippe is sworn in as King of the Belgians, following the abdication of Albert II.^[47]
• July 22–28 – XIV World Youth Day, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

August

• August 14 – Following the military coup in Egypt, two anti-coup camps are raided by the security forces, leaving 2,696 dead.^[48] The raids were described by Human Rights Watch as "one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history".^[49]
• August 15 – Horacio Cartes is sworn in as President of Paraguay.
• August 21 – 1,429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attack during the Syrian Civil War.^[50]
• August 29 – The United Kingdom Parliament votes against UK military attacks on Syria.^[51]

September

• September 7
  • 2013 Australian federal election: The Liberal/National Coalition led by Tony Abbott defeats the Labor Government led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.^[52] Abbott would be sworn in on September 18th.^[53]
  • The International Olympic Committee awards Tokyo the right to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[54]
• September 8 – The 2013 Colorado Floods begin, resulting from heavy rain in the Colorado River Basin.
• September 17 – Rockstar Games releases video game Grand Theft Auto V.
• September 21 – al-Shabaab militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170.^[55]

October

• October 10 – Delegates from some 140 countries and territories sign the Minamata Treaty, a UNEP treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds.^[56]
• October 15 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Bohol, Philippines, leaving 222 dead, 8 missing, and 976 people injured.^[57]
• October 18 – Saudi Arabia rejects a seat on the United Nations Security Council, making it the first country to reject a seat on the Security Council. Jordan takes the seat on December 6.^[58]

November

• November 5 – The uncrewed Mars Orbiter Mission is launched by India from its launch pad in Sriharikota.^[59]
• November 8 – Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record, hits the Philippines and Vietnam, causing devastation with at least 6,241 dead.^[60]
• November 12 – Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a series of portraits of Lucian Freud by the British painter Francis Bacon, sells for US$142.4 million in a New York City auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.^[61][62]
• November 17 – Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
• November 21
  • Euromaidan pro-EU demonstrations begin in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych rejects an economic association agreement between the European Union and Ukraine in favor of closer ties to Russia.^[63]
  • Moldovan-flagged cargo ship MV Rhosus makes port in Beirut, Lebanon, carrying 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. After inspection by port state control, the Rhosus is deemed unseaworthy, and is forbidden to set sail. By order of an Urgent Matters judge in Beirut, the cargo is brought ashore in 2014 and placed in Warehouse 12 at the port, where it will remain for six years. The ammonium nitrate will erupt in a massive explosion on August 4, 2020.^[64][65]
• November 24 – Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief.^[66][67]

December

• December 7 – Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization delegates sign the Bali Package agreement aimed at loosening global trade barriers.^[68]
• December 14 – Chinese uncrewed spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-land on the Moon since 1976 and the third ever robotic rover to do so.^[69]
• December 15 – Fighting between ethnic Dinka and Nuer members of the presidential guard break out in Juba, South Sudan, plunging the country into civil war.^[70]

Births

• July 22 – Prince George of Wales^[71]

Deaths

Further information: Category:2013 deaths

January

Main article: Deaths in January 2013

 

Patti Page

 

Stan Musial

• January 1 – Patti Page, American singer (b. 1927)^[72]
• January 2
  • Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian and woman's history author (b. 1920)^[73]
  • Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945)^[74]
• January 3 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian film director, actor, and politician (b. 1930)^[75]
• January 4 – Tony Lip, American actor (b. 1930)^[76]
• January 7
  • David R. Ellis, American film director (b. 1952)^[77]
  • Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress (b. 1931)^[78]
• January 9
  • James M. Buchanan, American Nobel-winning economist (b. 1919)^[79]
  • Sakine Cansız, Kurdish terrorist (b. 1958)^[80]
• January 11
  • Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (b. 1941)^[81]
  • Nguyễn Khánh, South Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1927)
  • Aaron Swartz, American programmer, entrepreneur, and Internet hacktivist (b. 1986)^[82]
• January 14 – Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (b. 1923)^[83]
• January 15 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director (b. 1932)^[84]
• January 19 – Stan Musial, American baseball player (b. 1920)^[85]
• January 21 – Michael Winner, British film director and producer (b. 1935)^[86]
• January 23 – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (b. 1929)^[87]
• January 31 – Hassan Habibi, 1st Vice President of Iran (b. 1937)^[88]

February

Main article: Deaths in February 2013

 

Robert Coleman Richardson

 

Donald A. Glaser

• February 1 – Ed Koch, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)^[89]
• February 2 – Chris Kyle, United States Navy sniper (b. 1974)^[90]
• February 4
  • Donald Byrd, American trumpet player (b. 1932)^[91]
• February 14
  • Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and lawyer (b. 1931)^[92]
  • Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (b. 1983)
• February 17 – Mindy McCready, American country singer (b. 1975)^[93]
• February 18
  • Kevin Ayers, British singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1944)
  • Otfried Preußler, German children author (b. 1923)^[94]
• February 19
  • Armen Alchian, American economist (b. 1914)^[95]
  • Robert Coleman Richardson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1937)
• February 22 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist (b. 1923)^[96]
• February 23 – Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920)^[97]
• February 25 – Carmen Montejo, Cuban-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
• February 26 – Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat and writer (b. 1917)^[98]
• February 27
  • Van Cliburn, American pianist (b. 1934)
  • Dale Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
• February 28 – Donald A. Glaser, American Nobel physicist (b. 1926)

March

Main article: Deaths in March 2013

 

Hugo Chávez

 

Princess Lilian

 

Richard Griffiths

• March 1 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress (b. 1944)
• March 3 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1940)
• March 4 – Seki Matsunaga, Japanese footballer (b. 1928)
• March 5
  • Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
  • Paul Bearer, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954)
• March 6
  • Alvin Lee, British guitarist (b. 1944)
  • Andrei Panin, Russian actor (b. 1962)
• March 7
  • Peter Banks, British guitarist (b. 1947)
  • Damiano Damiani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• March 8 – Hartmut Briesenick, German athlete (b. 1949)
• March 10 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (b. 1915)
• March 12 – Clive Burr, British drummer (b. 1957)
• March 13 – Malachi Throne, American actor (b. 1928)
• March 14 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-born Cambodian politician (b. 1925)
• March 20 – Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh 2009–2013 (b. 1929)
• March 21
  • Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (b. 1930)^[99]
  • Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete (b. 1952)
• March 22 – Bebo Valdés, Cuban pianist, bandleader, and composer (b. 1918)
• March 23
  • Boris Berezovsky, Russian businessman (b. 1946)
  • Joe Weider, Canadian-born American bodybuilder and publisher (b. 1919)
• March 27 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian skater (b. 1923)
• March 28 – Richard Griffiths, English actor (b. 1947)
• March 31 – Ronnie Ray Smith, American athlete (b. 1949)

April

Main article: Deaths in April 2013

 

Roger Ebert

 

Margaret Thatcher

 

Jonathan Winters

• April 1 – Moses Blah, 23rd President of Liberia (b. 1947)
• April 2
  • Jesús Franco, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
  • Milo O'Shea, Irish actor (b. 1926)
• April 3 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born British novelist and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• April 4 – Roger Ebert, American film critic and writer (b. 1942)
• April 6
  • Bigas Luna, Spanish film director (b. 1946)
  • Don Shirley, American classical and jazz pianist and composer (b. 1927)^[100]
• April 8
  • Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (b. 1942)
  • Sara Montiel, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1928)
  • Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990) (b. 1925)^[101]
• April 9 – Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect (b. 1919)
• April 10 – Robert Edwards, British Nobel physiologist (b. 1925)
• April 11
  • Maria Tallchief, American prima ballerina (b. 1925)
  • Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor (b. 1925)
  • Hilary Koprowski, Polish virologist and immunologist (b. 1916)
• April 13 – Chi Cheng, American musician (b. 1970)
• April 14
  • Colin Davis, British conductor (b. 1927)
  • Armando Villanueva, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1915)
• April 17
  • Deanna Durbin, Canadian-born singer and actress (b. 1921)
  • Carlos Graça, 6th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. 1931)
• April 18 – Storm Thorgerson, British graphic designer (b. 1944)^[102]
• April 19
  • Allan Arbus, American actor and photographer (b. 1918)
  • François Jacob, French Nobel biologist (b. 1920)
  • Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Russian-American terrorist (b. 1986)
• April 21 – Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer (b. 1959)
• April 22 – Richie Havens, American folk singer (b. 1941)
• April 26 – George Jones, American country music singer (b. 1931)^[103]
• April 28 – János Starker, Hungarian-born American cellist (b. 1924)

May

Main article: Deaths in May 2013

 

Giulio Andreotti

 

Jorge Rafael Videla

• May 2
  • Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (b. 1964)
  • Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980)
• May 4 – Christian de Duve, Belgian Nobel biochemist (b. 1917)
• May 5 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet (b. 1935)
• May 6 – Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
• May 7 – Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker and creator of visual effects (b. 1920)
• May 8
  • Jeanne Cooper, American actress (b. 1928)
  • Bryan Forbes, English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist (b. 1926)
• May 13 – Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
• May 15 – Henrique Rosa, President of Guinea-Bissau (2003–2005) (b. 1946)
• May 16 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss Nobel physicist (b. 1933)
• May 17 – Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian politician, 42nd President of Argentina (b. 1925)
• May 18
  • Steve Forrest, American actor (b. 1925)
  • Nam Duck-woo, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1924)
• May 20 – Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (b. 1939)
• May 22 – Henri Dutilleux, French composer (b. 1916)
• May 23 – Georges Moustaki, French singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
• May 26 – Jack Vance, American novelist (b. 1916)
• May 31 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (b. 1923)

June

Main article: Deaths in June 2013

 

Esther Williams

 

James Gandolfini

 

Gyula Horn

• June 3
  • Frank Lautenberg, American politician (b. 1924)
  • Jiah Khan, British-Indian actress and singer (b. 1988)
• June 6
  • Jerome Karle, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (b. 1918)
  • Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
• June 7
  • Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)
  • Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (b. 1960)
• June 8
  • Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli writer (b. 1930)
  • Taufiq Kiemas, 5th First Spouse of Indonesia (b. 1942)
• June 9 – Iain Banks, Scottish novelist (b. 1954)
• June 11 – Robert Fogel, American Nobel Prize-winning economic historian (b. 1926)
• June 15
  • Heinz Flohe, German footballer (b. 1948)
  • Kenneth G. Wilson, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (b. 1936)
• June 16
  • Josip Kuže, Croatian footballer and coach (b. 1952)
  • Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924)
• June 19
  • James Gandolfini, American actor and film producer (b. 1961)
  • Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary (1994–1998) (b. 1932)
• June 23
  • Bobby Bland, American singer and songwriter (b. 1930)
  • Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• June 24 – Emilio Colombo, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920)
• June 26 – Marc Rich, Belgian-born American commodities trader and criminal (b. 1934)
• June 27 – Alain Mimoun, French track and field athlete (b. 1921)
• June 29
  • Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (b. 1922)
  • Jim Kelly, American martial artist and actor (b. 1946)

July

Main article: Deaths in July 2013

 

Princess Fawzia

 

Cory Monteith

• July 2
  • Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Queen consort of Iran (1941–1948) (b. 1921)
  • Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist and inventor (b. 1925)
• July 3 – Radu Vasile, Romanian politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1942)
• July 12
  • Amar Bose, American engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1929)
  • Pran, Indian actor (b. 1920)
• July 13 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician (b. 1982)
• July 19
  • Mel Smith, British comedian and actor (b. 1952)
  • Bert Trautmann, German-born British footballer (b. 1923)
• July 20 – Helen Thomas, American journalist (b. 1920)
• July 22 – Dennis Farina, American actor (b. 1944)
• July 23
  • Emile Griffith, American welterweight boxer (b. 1938)
  • Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1929)
• July 25
  • Walter De Maria, American sculptor and composer (b. 1935)
  • Bernadette Lafont, French actress (b. 1938)
• July 26 – JJ Cale, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
• July 28 – Eileen Brennan, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• July 29 – Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1986)
• July 30 – Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer (b. 1924)
• July 31 – Michael Ansara, American actor (b. 1922)

August

Main article: Deaths in August 2013

 

Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau

 

Julie Harris

 

Sir David Frost

• August 5 – George Duke, American keyboardist (b. 1946)
• August 8 – Karen Black, American actress (b. 1939)
• August 10
  • László Csatáry, Hungarian war criminal (b. 1915)
  • Eydie Gormé, American singer (b. 1928)
• August 12 – Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau (b. 1968)
• August 14
  • Gia Allemand, American actress (b. 1983)
  • Allen Lanier, American musician (b. 1946)
• August 15
  • Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman and entrepreneur (b. 1944)
  • Sławomir Mrożek, Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist (b. 1930)
  • August Schellenberg, Canadian-American actor (b. 1936)
  • Marich Man Singh Shrestha, 28th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1942)
  • Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (b. 1970)
• August 18 – Dezső Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1927)
• August 19
  • Abdul Rahim Hatif, Acting President of Afghanistan (b. 1926)
  • Cedar Walton, American pianist (b. 1934)
  • Lee Thompson Young, American actor (b. 1984)
• August 20
  • Elmore Leonard, American novelist (b. 1925)
  • Marian McPartland, British-born pianist (b. 1918)
• August 21 – C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (b. 1936)
• August 22 – Jetty Paerl, Dutch singer (b. 1921)
• August 24 – Julie Harris, American actress (b. 1925)
• August 25 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
• August 27 – Anatoly Onoprienko, Soviet-Ukrainian mass murderer (b. 1959)
• August 30 – Seamus Heaney, Irish Nobel poet (b. 1939)
• August 31 – Sir David Frost, British journalist and broadcaster (b. 1939)

September

Main article: Deaths in September 2013

 

Otto Sander

 

Ken Norton

• September 1
  • Pál Csernai, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1932)
  • Tommy Morrison, American boxer (b. 1969)
• September 2
  • Ronald Coase, British Nobel economist (b. 1915)
  • Frederik Pohl, American writer (b. 1998)
• September 4 - Ariel Castro, Puerto Rican-American convicted kidnapper and rapist (b. 1960)^[104]
• September 5
  • Sushmita Banerjee, Indian writer (b. 1963)
  • Rochus Misch, German bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (b. 1532)
• September 11 – Jimmy Fontana, Italian actor, composer and singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
• September 12
  • Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor (b. 1933)
  • Otto Sander, German actor (b. 1941)
• September 17 – Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrialist (b. 1913)
• September 18
  • Ken Norton, American boxer (b. 1943)
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic (b. 1920)
• September 19
  • Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (b. 1927)
  • Saye Zerbo, 3rd President and 4th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1932)
• September 22 – David H. Hubel, Canadian-born American Nobel neuroscientist (b. 1926)
• September 23 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist (b. 1907)^[105][106]

October

Main article: Deaths in October 2013

 

Tom Clancy

 

Lou Reed

 

Tadeusz Mazowiecki

• October 1
  • Peter Broadbent, English footballer (b. 1933)
  • Tom Clancy, American writer (b. 1947)
  • Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (b. 1938)
• October 3 – Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player (b. 1944)
• October 4 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, North Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1911)
• October 5 – Carlo Lizzani, Italian film director (b. 1922)
• October 7
  • Terry Burnham, American actress (b. 1949)^[107]
  • Patrice Chéreau, French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer (b. 1944)
  • Ovadia Yosef, Israeli religious leader (b. 1920)
• October 9 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, 44th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936)
• October 10 – Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (b. 1925)
• October 11
  • María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (b. 1980)
  • Erich Priebke, German SS captain and convicted war criminal (b. 1913)
• October 12
  • George Herbig, American astronomer (b. 1920)
  • Oscar Hijuelos, American novelist (b. 1951)
• October 14 – Bruno Metsu, French football coach (b. 1954)
• October 16 – Ed Lauter, American actor (b. 1938)
• October 17 – Lou Scheimer, American producer (b. 1928)
• October 20
  • Jovanka Broz, First Lady of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
  • Lawrence Klein, American Nobel economist (b. 1920)
• October 23 – Anthony Caro, British sculptor (b. 1924)
• October 24 – Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer (b. 1931)
• October 25
  • Nigel Davenport, English actor (b. 1928)^[108]
  • Hal Needham, American stuntman, film director, actor and writer (b. 1931)
  • Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
  • Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (b. 1942)
• October 27 – Lou Reed, American singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1942)
• October 28 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 1st Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1927)

November

Main article: Deaths in November 2013

 

Frederick Sanger

 

Paul Walker

• November 1 – Hakimullah Mehsud, Emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (b. c. 1979)
• November 2 – Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
• November 7 – Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
• November 12
  • Al Ruscio, American actor (b. 1924)
  • John Tavener, British composer (b. 1944)
• November 15 – Glafcos Clerides, 4th President of Cyprus (b. 1919)
• November 17 – Doris Lessing, British Nobel writer (b. 1919)
• November 19 – Frederick Sanger, British Nobel biochemist (b. 1918)
• November 20 – Joseph Paul Franklin, American murderer (b. 1950)
• November 21 – Tôn Thất Đính, South Vietnamese Army general and politician (b. 1926)
• November 25
  • Bill Foulkes, British footballer (b. 1932)
  • Chico Hamilton, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1921)
• November 26
  • Arik Einstein, Israeli singer, songwriter, and actor (b. 1939)
  • Tony Musante, American actor (b. 1936)
• November 27 – Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1925)
• November 28 – Mitja Ribičič, Slovene politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1919)
• November 30
  • Paul Walker, American actor (b. 1973)^[109]
  • Yury Yakovlev, Soviet and Russian film actor (b. 1928)

December

Main article: Deaths in December 2013

 

Nelson Mandela

 

Peter O'Toole

 

Joan Fontaine

 

James Avery

• December 1 – Heinrich Boere, Dutch-German Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
• December 2
  • Pedro Rocha, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1942)
  • Vernon Shaw, 5th President of Dominica (b. 1930)
• December 5
  • Nelson Mandela, 1st President of South Africa and Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
  • Colin Wilson, English writer, philosopher and novelist (b. 1931)
• December 7 – Édouard Molinaro, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• December 8 – John Cornforth, Australian–British Nobel chemist (b. 1917)
• December 9 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (b. 1922)
• December 10
  • Jim Hall, American guitarist and composer (b. 1930)
  • Rossana Podestà, Libyan-born Italian actress (b. 1934)
• December 11 – Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter (b. 1920)
• December 12
  • Jang Song-thaek, North Korean politician (b. 1946)
  • Tom Laughlin, American actor, director, screenwriter, author, educator and activist (b. 1931)
  • Audrey Totter, American actress (b. 1917)
• December 14 – Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (b. 1932)
• December 15
  • Harold Camping, American evangelist (b. 1921)
  • Joan Fontaine, Japanese-born British American actress (b. 1917)
• December 16 – Ray Price, American singer and songwriter (b. 1926)
• December 18 – Ronnie Biggs, British criminal (b. 1929)
• December 21 – Peter Geach, British philosopher (b. 1916)
• December 23
  • Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian inventor (b. 1919)
  • Yusef Lateef, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1920)
• December 26 – Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American singer and actress (b. 1912)
• December 29
  • Wojciech Kilar, Polish composer (b. 1932)
  • Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1937)
• December 31 – James Avery, American actor (b. 1945)^[110]

Nobel Prizes

 

• Chemistry – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel
• Economics – Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller
• Literature – Alice Munro
• Peace – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
• Physics – François Englert and Peter Higgs
• Physiology or Medicine – James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof

New English words

• bingeable^[111]

See also

• List of international years
•   2010s portal

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