List of Famous people who died in 2013

Datuk Choong Ewe Beng was a Malaysian badminton player. He was David Choong's brother and they played men's doubles together.

Mirko Kovač was a Yugoslav writer. In his rich career he wrote novels, short stories, essays, film scripts, TV and radio plays. Among his best known works are the novels "Gubilište", "Životopis Malvine Trifković", "Vrata od utrobe", "Grad u zrcalu", the short story collection "Ruže za Nives Koen", the book of essays "Europska trulež" and the scripts for some of the most successful films of Yugoslav cinema like Lisice (1969), Playing Soldiers and Occupation in 26 Pictures among others. He was one quarter of the infamous Belgrade quartet, the other three being Danilo Kiš, Borislav Pekić and Filip David.

Gabriel Marie Étienne Vanel was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Auch, France.

Leo Sachs was a German-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher. Born in Leipzig, he emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1933, and to Israel in 1952. There he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Ivan Pavlovych Kazanets was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR from 1963 to 1965. He was the minister of ferrous metallurgy of the Soviet Union for almost 20 years.