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People Who Died in the Year 2013
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January
Patti Page
(singer) -- Dead. Died January 1, 2013.
Born November 8, 1927. "Tennessee Waltz." 
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Jeanne Manford
(teacher/activist) -- Dead. Died January 8, 2013. Born December 4, 1920. In 1972, a founder of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Make memorial contribution to PFLAG's Jeanne Manford Legacy Fund
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Aaron H. Swartz
(Programmer/activist) -- Dead. Suicide. Died
January 11, 2013. Born November 8, 1986. Helped write RSS 1.0 while still a teenager, involved with Reddit, started Demand Progress which fought SOPA and PIPA, got in trouble with the FBI over downloading and sharing many tech journals from JSTOR.
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Conrad Bain
(actor) -- Dead. Died January 14, 2013.
Born February 4, 1923. Philip Drummond on Diff'rent
Strokes, Arthur on Maude.
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Andre Cassagnes
(inventor/technician) -- Dead. Died January 16, 2013. Born September 23, 1926.
Invented the Etch A Sketch, first released in 1960.
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Abigail Van Buren
(advice columnist) -- Dead. Died January 16, 2013.
Born July 4, 1918. "Dear Abby..." (column now written by her daughter Jeanne) but her real name was Pauline Friedman Phillips and she was the twin sister of Ann Landers.
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Patty Andrews (singer) -- Dead. Died January 30, 2013. Born February 16, 1918. Andrews Sisters, recorded the original "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." IMDb Obituary
February
Chris Kyle
(Navy SEAL/author) -- Dead. Murdered by a gun on a shooting range (along with another former soldier). Died February 2, 2013. Born April 8, 1974. Author of
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Stuart Freeborn
(make-up artist) -- Dead. Died February 6, 2013. Born September 5, 1914.
Did make-up for Alec Guinness in movies like Oliver Twist and Bridge on the River Kwai, later created the monkey make-up for 2001 and sculpted Yoda for The Empire Strikes Back.
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C. Everett Koop
(former Surgeon General) -- Dead. Died
February 25, 2013. Born October 14, 1916.
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Van Cliburn
(pianist) -- Dead. Bone cancer. Died February 27, 2013. Born July 12, 1934. First American to win Tchaikovsky Competition (1958) and went on to help popularize classical piano in the US.
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Dale Robertson
(actor) -- Dead. Lung cancer, pneumonia. Died February 27, 2013.
Born July 14, 1925. Western actor who hosted Death Valley
Days in the late '60s and early '70s.
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March
Bonnie Franklin
(actress) -- Dead. Pancreatic cancer. Died
March 1, 2013. Born January 6, 1944. The mother on One Day at
a Time.
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Malachi Throne
(actor) -- Dead. Died March 13, 2013. Born December 1, 1928. Popular TV actor, on multiple versions of Star Trek, Noah Bain on It Takes a Thief.
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Frank Thornton
(actor) -- Dead. Died March 16, 2013.
Born January 15, 1921. Captain Stephen Peacock on Are You
Being Served?, was active in British TV in his 80s.
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Rick Hautala
(writer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died March 21, 2013. Born February 3, 1949. Wrote the bestselling Night Stone and the award-winning Bedbugs. The "other" horror writer from Maine. How to help Rick's family
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Derek Watkins
(trumpeter) -- Dead. Died March 26, 2013.
Born March 2, 1945. British trumpeter who played for many movie scores, notably every James Bond film from Dr. No through Skyfall.
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Fay Kanin
(writer/producer) -- Dead. Died March 27, 2013. Born May 9, 1917. Co-writer of Teacher's Pet, won an Emmy for producing Friendly Fire.
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Richard Griffiths
(actor) -- Dead. Died March 28, 2013. Born July 31, 1947. Many movies and much theater, probably best-known as Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter movies.
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April
Milo O'Shea
(actor) -- Dead. Died April 2, 2013. Born June 2, 1926.
Starred as Leopold Bloom in Ulysses and Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet, many bit parts on TV from the '60s through the '90s, including The Golden Girls and The West Wing.
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
(classy writer) -- Dead. Died April 3, 2013.
Born May 7, 1927. The German writer for Merchant Ivory
Productions, she won two Oscars (for A Room With a
View and Howards End) and a Booker (for Heat and Dust) and is a former MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Roger Ebert
(critic) -- Dead. Cancer. Died April 4, 2013.
Born June 18, 1942. With longtime movie debator Gene Siskel, invented the tagline "Two Thumbs Up," voiceless but eloquent online,
born on the same day as Sir Paul McCartney, wrote a great rumination on life and death published in 2009.
Annette Funicello
(actress) -- Dead. Multiple sclerosis. Died
April 8, 2013.
Born October 22, 1942. An early Mouseketeer, she starred in many
Beach movies in the '60s.
Lady Margaret Thatcher
(first female Prime Minister of the UK) -- Dead. [rumors] Stroke. Died
April 8, 2013.
Born October 13, 1925. Prime
Minister and great ally of Ronald
Regan, often called "The Iron Lady," wrote
Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher.
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Robert Edwards
(physiologist) -- Dead. Died April 10, 2013. Born September 27, 1925. Developed in vitro fertilization with Patrick Steptoe and they successfully impregnated Lesley Brown with the first test tube baby.
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Jonathan Winters
(comedian/actor) -- Dead. Died April 11, 2013.
Born November 11, 1925. Comic and improvisational genius, It's
a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, played Maude Frickert, performed
Papa Smurf in smurfy movies, major influence on Robin Williams
(and later played Mork's son, Merth), The Unknown Jonathan Winters - On the Loose.
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Frank Bank
(actor) -- Dead. Died April 13, 2013.
Born April 12, 1942. Lumpy on Leave It to Beaver
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Allan Arbus
(actor/photographer) -- Dead. Died April 18, 2013.
Born February 15, 1918. Maj. Sidney Freedman, the psychiatrist on
M*A*S*H, married to Diane Arbus and worked with her in New
York advertising in the '50s.
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E. L. Konigsburg
(writer) -- Dead. Complications of a stroke. Died April 20, 2013. Born
February 10, 1930. Writer who understood generations of kids.
Won the Newbery Award for From the Mixed-Up Files of
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and, again for The View from
Saturday twenty-nine years later, graduated from Carnegie
Mellon with a chemistry degree.
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Richie Havens
(singer/guitarist) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died April 22, 2013. Born January 21, 1941. "Freedom" and "Motherless Child," his Woodstock opening act which ran for three hours, wrote commercial jingles like "The Fabric of Our Lives" for cotton.
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Virginia Gibson
(actress/dancer) -- Dead. Died April 25, 2013.
Born April 9, 1925. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,
co-host of the '60s kid's science show Discovery with Frank Buxton.
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Deanna Durbin
(singer) -- Dead. Died April 27, 2013.
Born December 4, 1921. A magnificently-voiced teenager who
retired young, married to director Charles David for nearly 50 years.
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andrew j. offutt
(writer) -- Dead. Died April 30, 2013. Born
August 16, 1934. Sword and Sorcery writer who wrote a number of
Conan novels, but made most of his living by selling porn under
many pseudonyms.
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May
Ray Harryhausen
(special effects wizard) -- Dead. Died May 7, 2013.
Born June 29, 1920. He revitalized stop-motion photography in memorable movies like Jason and the Argonauts and The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad.
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Dr. Joyce Brothers
(writer/therapist/game show winner) -- Dead.
Died May 5, 2013. Born October 20, 1927. Popular talk show guest on psychology
who got her start by winning the The $64,000 Question in
the '50s.
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Jack Vance
(writer) -- Dead. Died May 26, 2013. Born August 28, 1916. Wrote SF and mysteries and a charming autobiography.
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Father Andrew Greeley
(Priest/professor/writer) -- Dead. Died May 29, 2013. Born February 5, 1928. Sociology professor, writer of fiction (
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Jean Stapleton
(actress) -- Dead. Died May 31, 2013.
Born January 19, 1923. Best-known as Edith Bunker, played Birdie
in You've Got Mail.
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June
Frank Lautenberg
(senator, businessman) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died June 3, 2013. Born January 23, 1924. A founder of ADP, he was the last member of the Senate who was a veteran of World War II, he pushed for the drinking age to be 21 nationally.
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Esther Williams
(actress/swimmer) -- Dead. Died June 6, 2013.
Born August 8, 1923. The swimmer turned star in movies like
Neptune's Daughter, married to Fernando Lamas in the '70s, wrote
her autobiography, Million Dollar Mermaid, step-mother of
Lorenzo Lamas.
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Iain Banks
(writer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died June
9, 2013. Born February 16, 1954. The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road, the Culture series, and many other books, one of the great British writers of late 20th, early 21st centuries, was due to be the Guest of Honor at the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention.
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Bernard Sahlins
(theater manager) -- Dead. Died June 16, 2013. Born circa 1922. Founded and managed the original Second City which developed talented comics and became something of a training ground for
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James Gandolfini
(actor) -- Dead. Died June 19, 2013. Born September 16, 1961. Bit part player who shot to stardom as Tony Soprano in 1999, died while on vacation in Italy.
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Slim Whitman
(country singer) -- Dead.
Died June 19, 2013. Born January 20, 1924. Guitarist and yodler known for
"Indian Love Call," discovered by Colonel Tom Parker, generally better-known in Europe than America, but made a ubiquitous American commercial for his records in 1979 which made him more popular in the US.
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Gary David Goldberg
(producer/writer) -- Dead. Brain cancer. Died June 23, 2013. Born June 25, 1944. Created Family Ties, Brooklyn Bridge and Spin City, may have created the first funny closing card with "Sit, Ubu, it."
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Richard Matheson
(writer) -- Dead. Died June 23, 2013. Born February 20, 1926 . Wrote books like Bid Time Return (later filmed as Somewhere In Time) and the famous Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet."
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July
Douglas Engelbart
(engineer) -- Dead. Kidney disease. Died July 2, 2013. Born January 25, 1925. He presented the famous "mother of all demos" in 1968 where he demonstrated a number of his ideas, including the mouse, multiple computer windows, hypertext and teleconferencing, later won the Turing prize.
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Amar Bose
(sound engineer/entreprenuer) -- Dead. Died July 12, 2013. Born November 2, 1929. Developer of advanced acoustic systems for halls and for home systems.
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Elaine Morgan
(Writer) -- Dead. Died July 12, 2013. Born November 7, 1920. TV writer who became interested in science and anthropology and wrote The Aquatic Ape.
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Cory Monteith
(actor) -- Dead. Drug overdose. Died July 13, 2013. Born May 11, 1982. Tall star of Glee, in and out of rehab since he was 19.
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Mel Smith
(comic) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died July 19,
2013. Born December 3, 1952. Part of the British comedy team Smith and Jones, he played the memorable albino in The Princess Bride.
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Helen Thomas
(journalist) -- Dead. Died July 20, 2013.
Born August 4, 1920. Feisty White House correspondent for UPI and
the Hearst papers for many years, one of the first female White
House reporters, covered presidents from Eisenhower until Obama.
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Dennis Farina
(actor/police officer) -- Dead. Pulmonary embolism. Died July
22, 2013. Born February 29, 1944. Played
many bit parts while an active officer, later became a star of
Law and Order.
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Ali Maow Maalin
(polio erradication worker) -- Dead. Virus. Died July 22, 2013. Born circa 1954. The last known person to have smallpox, he worked on vaccinating people to erradicate polio in Africa.
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Virginia Johnson
(sex researcher/psychologist) -- Dead. Died
July 24, 2013. Born February 11, 1925. Masters and Johnson, one of the
writers of Human Sexual Response.
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Eileen Brennan
(actress) -- Dead. Died July 28, 2013.
Born September 3, 1932. The Sting, Private
Benjamin, survived a terrible car accident in the early '80s.
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Michael Ansara
(actor) -- Dead. Died July 31, 2013.
Born April 28, 1922. Bit parts in many movies and TV shows, may
be most memorable as a Star Trek Klingon, once married to Barbara Eden.
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August
John Palmer
(TV news reporter) -- Dead. Died August 3, 2013. Born September 10, 1935.
Reported the news for on NBC for nearly 40 years, news anchor on the Today Show during the '80s.
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Karen Black
(actress) -- Dead. Cancer. Died August 8, 2013. Born July 1, 1939. Five Easy Pieces, Nashville, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
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Elizabeth Peters
(mystery writer) -- Dead. Died August 8,
2013. Born September 29, 1927. Mystery writer who also wrote as
Barbara Michaels, real name was Barbara Mertz who studied
Egyptology in college and wrote books about Egypt.
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Eydie Gormé
(singer/actress) -- Dead. Died August 10,
2013. Born August 16, 1928. Mostly sang with her husband, Steve Lawrence, Best of Steve
and Eydie, had a solo hit with "Blame It on the Bossa Nova,"
won a Grammy for "If He Walked Into My Life," of Spanish &
Turkish descent.
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Lisa Robin Kelly
(actress) -- Dead. Died August 14, 2013. Born March 5, 1970.
Best known as the original Laurie on That 70s Show, she was on other comedies and suffered from addictions to drugs and alcohol.
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Elmore Leonard
(writer) -- Dead. Stroke. Died August 20, 2013. Born October 11, 1925. Wrote Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Rum Punch and a number of other best-selling books.
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Marian McPartland
(pianist, composer) -- Dead. Died August 20, 2013.
Born March 21, 1918. Well-respected pianist and long-time host of
NPR's Piano Jazz.
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Julie Harris
(actress) -- Dead. Congestive heart failure. Died August 24, 2013. Born December 2, 1925.
Member of the Wedding (playing a 12-year-old at 27), East of Eden, received 10 Tony nominations (won 5), voiced Mary Chestnut for Ken Burn's Civil War documentary.
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David Frost
(interviewer/writer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died August 31, 2013. Born April 7, 1939. Interviewer probably best-known for his in-depth interviews with Richard Nixon, he worked with John Cleese on That Was the Week That Was.
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September
Fred Pohl
(writer/editor) -- Dead. Died September 2, 2013. Born November 26, 1919. Author of Man Plus and Gateway, co-author of the classic The Space Merchants, major editor in the '60s, '70s and '80s.
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Ann C. Crispin
(writer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died September 6, 2013. Born April 5, 1950. Wrote the Star Trek tie-in books Yesterday's Son and Sarek, a prequel novel to The Pirates of the Carribean series, and she co-created Writer Beware, a site that helped writers avoid scams
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October
Tom Clancy
(bestselling author) -- Dead. Died October 1, 2013. Born April 12, 1947. Wrote Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games and other technothrillers, part owner
of the Baltimore Orioles.
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Scott Carpenter
(Mercury astronaut) -- Dead. Stroke. Died October 10, 2013. Born May 1, 1925.
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Noel Harrison
(actor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died October
22, 2013. Born January 26, 1934. Good-looking son of Rex Harrison, did some TV (The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.) in the '60s, sang "Windmills of Your Mind," was also a ski champ.
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Marcia Wallace
(actress) -- Dead. Breast cancer. Died October 25, 2013.
Born November 1, 1942. Carol on The Bob Newhart Show, Miss Krabappel on The Simpsons.
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Lou Reed
(singer) -- Dead. Six months after a liver
transplant. Died October 27, 2013. Born March 2, 1942. Member of
the Velvet Underground, may be best known for the classic
"Take a Walk on the Wild Side," married to Laurie Anderson.
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November
Doris Lessing
(author) -- Dead. Died November 16, 2013. Born October 22, 1919. The Golden Notebook, in 2007 was the oldest Nobel Prize winner.
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Jane Kean
(actress) -- Dead. Died November 26, 2013. Born April 10, 1924. Second actress to play Trixie in The Honeymooners
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Tony Musante
(actor) -- Dead. Post-surgical hemorrhage. Died November 26, 2013. Born June 30, 1936. Starred in Toma, appeared in the first season of Oz.
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Paul Walker
(actor) -- Dead. Ironically, in a high-speed
car crash. Died November 30, 2013. Born September 12, 1973.
Starred in five of the first six Fast and Furious movies,
killed during a break from filming the seventh.
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December
Nelson Mandela
(politician/activist) -- Dead. Lung disease.
Died December 5, 2013.
Born July 18, 1918. For many years, the world's most famous political prisoner, later elected as the first black president of South Africa after the fall of apartheid and won a Nobel Peace Prize. "Grandfather of the World." There are very individuals who changed history by themselves - Mandela was one of them.
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Eleanor Parker
(actress) -- Dead. Pnemonia. Died December 9,
2013. Born June 26, 1922. Elegant American actress who played
The Countess in The Sound of Music.
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Tom Laughlin
(actor/writer) -- Dead. Died December 12, 2013. Born August 10, 1931. Created and starred an early vigilante series, Billy Jack, ran for president. Make memorial contributions to Friends of the Pine Ridge Reservation
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Peter O'Toole
(actor) -- Dead. Died December 14, 2013.
Born August 2, 1932. Extremely talented actor in
Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, A Lion in Winter, My Favorite Year, awarded an honorary Oscar in 2003, married to Sian Phillips for 20 years.
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Joan Fontaine
(actress) -- Dead. Died December 15,
2013. Born October 22, 1917. Rebecca and
Suspicion, sister of Olivia De Havilland.
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Ray Price
(singer) -- Dead. Died December 16, 2013. Born January 12, 1926. "For the Good Times," longtime country singer, rumored dead the day before he died.
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James Avery
(actor) -- Dead. Complications after heart surgery. Died December 31, 2013. Born November 27, 1945. Uncle Phil in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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