List of Famous people who died in 2013

Peter Seamus O'Toole was a British stage and film actor of Irish descent. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company. In 1959 he made his West End debut in The Long and the Short and the Tall, and played the title role in Hamlet in the National Theatre’s first production in 1963. Excelling on the London stage, O'Toole was known as a "hellraiser" off it.

Chiyoko Shimakura was an enka singer and TV presenter in Japan. She was considered "the Goddess of Enka".

Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed Soviet film and theatre actors. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.
Yakovlev has played over 100 roles in theater and cinema and is well known for his roles in Soviet comedies.

Arquímedes Rafael Puccio nicknamed "The crazy sweeper " was an Argentinian accountant, lawyer, entrepreneur, SIDE member and member of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, he also leaded the Batallón de Inteligencia 601 and also participated of the Tacuara nacionalist movement. He was mainly known for being the leader of the Puccio Clan, a criminal organization famous for abducting and murder three entrepreneurs: Ricardo Manoukian, Eduardo Aulet and Emilio Naum. He was captured along with other clan members while trying to charge the rescue fee to their fourth victim; The funerary establishment owner and entrepreneur Nélida Bollini de Prado thanks to the victim's family collaboration, who succeeded to survive.

Antonio Nicomedes Gerona, Sr. was a lawyer by profession and former Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court in Naga, Camarines Sur, Philippines. He is better known as the father of Vice President Leni Robredo.

Ricardo Aníbal Fort Campa was an Argentine socialite, entrepreneur and television director. Although his career lasted four years, Fort was one of the more popular personalities in his country.

María Antonia Abad Fernández MML, known professionally as Sara Montiel, and as Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish singer and actress. She has been called a "sexual, feminist, and gay icon for Francoist Spain."

Toyoko Yamasaki was a Japanese novelist.

Lisa Robin Kelly was an American actress. She was best known for her role as Laurie Forman on the TV series That '70s Show.

Ruth Aiko Asawa was an American sculptor. Asawa's work is in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Fifteen of her wire sculptures are on permanent display in the tower of San Francisco's de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, and several of her fountains are located in public places in San Francisco. Asawa was an arts education advocate and the driving force behind the creation of the San Francisco School of the Arts, which was renamed the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts in 2010 in tribute to her.