List of Famous people who died in 2013

Johannes Peter "Hans" Riegel, Hans Riegel Jr. was a German entrepreneur who owned and operated the confectioner Haribo since 1946.

Chris Howland was a British radio and TV presenter. For most of his career he worked in (Western) Germany, where he started a few years after World War II at BFN in Hamburg. He became a popular disc jockey and presenter also at German networks. He also was a prolific Schlager-singer and starred in films.

Walter Jens was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer.

Madeleine Jeanne Louise "Mado" Maurin was a French actress, whose career spanned over 55 years.

Nagisa Ōshima was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. One of the foremost directors within the Japanese New Wave, his films include In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a sexually explicit film set in 1930s Japan, and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), about World War II prisoners of war held by the Japanese.

Aleksei Yuryevich German was a Soviet and Russian director and screenwriter.

Wolfgang Frank was a German football manager and player.

Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces. These were demonstrated at The Mother of All Demos in 1968. Engelbart's law, the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him.

Verla Eileen Regina Brennan was an American film, stage, and television actress. She made her film debut in the satire Divorce American Style (1967), followed by a supporting role in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971), which earned her a BAFTA award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Muhammad Taufiq Kiemas was the Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly of Indonesia from 2009 until his death in 2013. Taufiq was the husband of Megawati Sukarnoputri, President of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004.