List of Famous people who died in 2013
Stirling Colgate
Stirling Auchincloss Colgate was an American physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a professor emeritus of physics, past president at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology from 1965 to 1974, and an heir to the Colgate toothpaste family fortune. He was America's premier diagnostician of thermonuclear weapons during the early years at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. While much of his involvement with physics is still highly classified, he made many contributions in the open literature including physics education and astrophysics.
Pan An-bang
Pan An-bang, was a Taiwanese pop and folk singer, television presenter and actor. He was famous for the song "Grandma's Penghu Bay" (外婆的澎湖灣), which is one of the classic Taiwanese campus folk songs in the late 1970s. He was also one of the first pop singers from Taiwan to perform in mainland China in the 1980s. After the successful nationwide television performance on CCTV New Year's Gala in 1989, he became well-known on both sides of the Strait. He died from kidney cancer in 2013.
Leandro Díaz
Leandro José Díaz Duarte was a Colombian vallenato music composer. He is mostly known for his ability to compose very descriptive and narrative vallenato songs despite his blindness. His songs have been recorded by many Colombian musicians including Carlos Vives, Diomedes Diaz, Jorge Oñate, Ivan Villazon, among others.
Elvira Quintillá
Elvira Quintillá was a Spanish actress, whose career spanned over six decades.
Jorge Dória
Jorge Pires Ferreira, known professionally as Jorge Dória, was a Brazilian actor and humorist.
Peter Banks
Peter William Brockbanks, known professionally as Peter Banks, was an English guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer. He was best known as the original guitarist in the rock bands the Syn, Yes, Flash, and Empire. Former Sniffin' Glue and NME journalist Danny Baker described Banks as "the architect of progressive music".
Jérôme Savary
Jérôme Savary was an Argentinian-French theater director and actor. His work has democratized and widened the appeal of musical theater in France, drawing together and blending such genres as opera, operetta, and musical comedy.
Jelena Genčić
Jelena Genčić was a Serbian tennis and handball player and coach.
Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey
George Charles Henry Victor Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey,, styled Earl of Uxbridge until 1947, was a British peer and a military historian.
Elliott Reid
Edgeworth Blair "Elliott" Reid was an American actor.