List of Famous people who died in 2013
Gilles Verlant
Gilles Verlant was a Belgian journalist, best known as a music critic and rock expert. He was also Serge Gainsbourg's friend and wrote his definitive biography. He died from falling down a set of stairs.
Ai Iino
Ai Iino is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1-dan.
Paul Soros
Paul Soros was a Hungarian-born American mechanical engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist. Soros founded Soros Associates, which designs and develops bulk handling and port facilities. Soros Associates currently operates in ninety-one countries worldwide, as of 2013. Paul Soros, often called "the invisible Soros", was the older brother of George Soros, a successful businessman and financier.
Robert Kindersley, 3rd Baron Kindersley
Robert Hugh Molesworth "Hugo" Kindersley, 3rd Baron Kindersley DL was a British peer, politician and businessman.
Olivier Philip
Princess Margarita of Baden
Princess Margarita of Baden was the only daughter of Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark. She was the eldest niece of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Patricia Buller
Patricia Buller was a British fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Nigel Davenport
Arthur Nigel Davenport was a British stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.
Élisabeth de Gaulle
Ilan Halevi
Ilan Halevi Arabic: إيلان هاليفي; Hebrew: אִילָן הַלֵּוִי; born Georges Alain Albert in France; 12 October 1943 – 10 July 2013) was a French-Israeli Jewish pro-Palestinian journalist and politician, and one of the very few high-ranking Jewish members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He was a member of the Palestinian delegation in the 1991–93 negotiations in Madrid and Washington, and was Assistant Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Palestinian Government. Writing in both French and English, he was also a novelist and the author of non-fiction books, his publications including The Crossing (1964), Face à la guerre (2003), and Allers-retours (2005).