List of Famous people who died in 2013
Gia Allemand
Gia Marie Allemand was an American actress, model, and reality television contestant. She was known for appearing in Maxim and competing on two ABC reality shows, The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love and Bachelor Pad.
Rentarō Mikuni
Rentarō Mikuni was a Japanese film actor from Gunma Prefecture. He appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and won three Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actor, and a further seven nominations. He also won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, in 1960 and in 1989. The 1987 film Shinran: Path to Purity (親鸞:白い道), which he wrote and directed, was awarded the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Actor Kōichi Satō is his son.
Juan Luis Panero
Juan Luis Panero was a Spanish poet, born in Madrid.
Dick Trickle
Richard Leroy Trickle, mostly referred to as "Dick", was an American race car driver. He raced for decades around the short tracks of Wisconsin, winning many championships along the way. Trickle competed in the ASA, ARTGO, ARCA, All Pro, IMCA, NASCAR, and USAC.
Otfried Preußler
Otfried Preußler was a German children's books author. More than 50 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide and they have been translated into 55 languages. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill (Krabat).
Virginia E. Johnson
Virginia E. Johnson, born Mary Virginia Eshelman, was an American sexologist, best known as a member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team. Along with her partner, William H. Masters, she pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunctions and disorders from 1957 until the 1990s.
Ranchordas Pagi
Ranchordas Pagi Rabari (1901–2013) worked as a scout on behalf of the Indian Army.He Has A Special Ability To Find How Many persons Goes Through The Way By just Seeing their Footprints.
Aslan Usoyan
Aslan Ûsoyan, also known as Grandpa Hassan or just Grandpa ("Дедушка"), was a Russian mafia boss, an ethnic Kurdish Yazidi mobster and thief in law, who began his career operating in Georgia, continued in Moscow, Ural, Siberia, Uzbekistan, Krasnodar, Sochi, and other parts of the former Soviet Union. According to The Economist, he was "reputed to be Russia’s mafia boss."
Kenji Utsumi
Kenji Utsumi was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Kitakyūshū, affiliated with the self-founded Ken Production.
Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).