List of Famous people who died in 2013

Scarlet Moon de Chevalier, was a Brazilian actress, journalist and writer.

Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau was the younger brother of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. Prince Friso was a member of the Dutch Royal Family, but because of his marriage without an Act of Consent in 2004, he lost his membership of the Dutch Royal House and was no longer in the line of succession to the throne.

Yvonne Helen "Patsy" Swayze was an American film choreographer, dancer, and dance instructor. Her credits include choreography for Urban Cowboy, Liar's Moon and Hope Floats.

Denise Vernay-Jacob was a member of the French Resistance during World War II, who operated under the aliases of "Miarka" and "Annie" from 1941. She narrowly avoided the March 1944 roundup of Jews in Nice, France which resulted in the deportation of her parents to Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. Captured less than three months later, she survived torture by the Gestapo and imprisonment at two Nazi concentration camps – Ravensbrück and Mauthausen. She was rescued by the Red Cross in April 1945 and returned home to France at the conclusion of the war.

Mandawuy Djarrtjuntjun Yunupingu, , was an Aboriginal Australian musician and educator.

Wolfgang Herrndorf was a German author, painter, and illustrator.

Dinkar Balu Patil was an Indian politician and Member of Parliament. He was a senior member of the Peasants and Workers Party of India.

Donna Hartley-Wass MBE, born Donna-Marie Louise Murray and formerly known as Donna Hartley, was a British athlete.

Mike Jenkins was an American professional strongman competitor from Westminster, Maryland. Jenkins worked as a high school athletics director at Milton Hershey School in Hershey Pa, when not competing as a strongman. He was a college and professional football player before switching over to strongman competition in 2007. He won the Maryland's Strongest Man contest in 2007 which qualified him for the North American amateur national strongman championships later that year and he placed sixth in that contest. He placed second in the North American nationals in 2009.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.