List of Famous people who died in 2013

Nadezhda Vasilyevna Popova was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Regiment during the Second World War who achieved significant domestic publicity after completing 18 bombing sorties in one night with navigator Yekaterina Ryabova. Awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 23 February 1945 for completing 737 sorties, she was featured in Ogonyok magazine and many other major Soviet publications during the war.

Princess Fawzia was the second daughter of King Farouk I of Egypt from his first wife Queen Farida.

Sarah Kirsch was a German poet.

Maurice Nadeau was a French teacher, writer, literary critic, and editor. He was born in Paris.

Vasili Viktorovich Tikhonov was a Russian ice hockey coach.

Jean-Claude Gardin was a French archaeologist who is recognized as being one of the founders of archaeological computing.