List of Famous people who died in 2013

Katharina von Arx. was a journalist and artist known for her travel writing and restoration of the Maison du Prieuré in Romainmôtier, a national heritage site in Switzerland. She is also known for promoting utopian visions in her writing as well as in a textile art project called Histoires des villes.

Stanley Cohen was a sociologist and criminologist, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, known for breaking academic ground on "emotional management", including the mismanagement of emotions in the form of sentimentality, overreaction, and emotional denial. He had a lifelong concern with human rights violations, first growing up in South Africa, later studying imprisonment in England and finally in Palestine. He founded the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics.

Jiroemon Kimura was a Japanese supercentenarian who lived for 116 years and 54 days. He became the oldest verified man in history on 28 December 2012, when he surpassed the age of Christian Mortensen who had died in 1998. Kimura died from natural causes on 12 June 2013, at a hospital in his hometown of Kyōtango, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. He was the last verified living man born in the 19th century.

Joaquín Cordero was a Mexican actor of the cinema, theatre and telenovelas.

Orlando Sabino Camargo, known as the Monster of Capinópolis, was a Brazilian suspected serial killer charged with the murder of 12 people using revolvers and rifles, as well as with the beating and stabbing of 19 calves to death with a sickle in the regions of Triângulo Mineiro; Alto Paranaíba, and in southern Goiás. Sabino was also accused committing numerous crimes such as theft, robbery and rape.

Chen Jui-chin was a Taiwanese serial killer and one of the country's most infamous criminals. Because of his gambling addiction, he owed debts to loan sharks, and in order to pay them off, he turned towards violence. He murdered his spouse and three children, and fraudulently used their life insurance to amass $38 million NT, for which he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. Finally, he was sentenced to death for raping, robbing, and killing his girlfriend, Chen, from whom he stole millions worth of money. In total, he is suspected of killing eight people, including two female friends. In the media, he was nicknamed The Chiayi Demon.

Denys de La Patellière was a French film director and scriptwriter. He also directed Television series.

Hayri Kozakçıoğlu was a Turkish high-ranking civil servant and politician. He served as district governor, police chief, province governor in various administrative divisions. He was known as the first regional governor in the state of emergency ("OHAL") imposed in the provinces of Southeastern Anatolia and governor of Istanbul Province. He was found dead on May 23, 2013 in his house at Sarıyer, Istanbul.

Zao Wou-Ki was a Chinese-French painter. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Zao Wou-Ki graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he studied under Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu.

Tadeusz Mazowiecki was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and Christian-democratic politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946.