Monday, December 30, 2013

Some Famous People Who Died in 2013



Al Ruscio (June 2, 1924 – November 12, 2013)
was an American character actor who appeared in numerous television series and film.



Aubrey Woods (9 April 1928 – 7 May 2013)
was a British actor, born in London.



Brian Griffin is a fictional character from the animated television series Family Guy.
An anthropomorphic dog, voiced by Seth MacFarlane, he is one of the show's
main characters and a member of the Griffin family. Brian died in the season 12 episode
It is said the dog will return



Chi Cheng (July 15, 1970 – April 13, 2013)
was an American musician, best known as the bassist for the
American alternative metal band Deftones.



Chris Kelly, one half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross,
died in an Atlanta hospital at the age of 34. 2 May 2013



Christian Rogelio Benítez Betancourt (May 1, 1986 – July 29, 2013),
also known as Chucho, was an Ecuadorian footballer who played as
a forward for El Jaish of the Qatar Stars League at the time of his death.



Conrad Stafford Bain (February 4, 1923 – January 14, 2013)
was a Canadian-born American actor. His television credits include
a leading role as Phillip Drummond in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes
and as Dr. Arthur Harmon on Maude.



Cory Allan Michael Monteith (May 11, 1982 – July 13, 2013)
was a Canadian actor and musician, best known for his role as
Finn Hudson on the Fox television series Glee.



Dennis Henry Burkley (September 10, 1945 – July 14, 2013)
was an American actor. In a career spanning four decades,
he appeared in numerous films and television series.



Dennis Farina (February 29, 1944 – July 22, 2013)
was an American actor of film and television and former Chicago police officer.
He was a character actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer.
His most known film roles are those of mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy
Midnight Run and Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty. He starred on television
as Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. He also hosted and narrated a
revived version of Unsolved Mysteries. His last major television role was in
HBO's Luck, which premièred on January 29, 2012.



Frank Jacob Chamberlin (January 2, 1978 – November 17, 2013)
was an American football linebacker.



6 Jan 2013 Age 22 YouTube comedian and rapper Freddy E
committed suicide through a self-inflicting gunshot wound whilst Tweeting



Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内 溥 Yamauchi Hiroshi?, real name: 山内 博;
November 7, 1927 – September 19, 2013
was a Japanese businessman. He was the third president of Nintendo,
joining the company in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002,
to be succeeded by Satoru Iwata. Yamauchi is credited with transforming
Nintendo from a small hanafuda card-making company in Japan to a
multi-billion dollar video game company.



James Joseph Gandolfini, Jr. (September 18, 1961 – June 19, 2013)
was an American actor best known for his role as Tony Soprano
in the award-winning HBO series, The Sopranos, in which he played
a troubled American Mafia crime boss.



John Weldon Cale (December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013)

known as JJ Cale or J.J. Cale, was an American singer-songwriter
and musician who was one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound,
a genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz influences.
Cale's personal style has often been described as "laid back".
Songs written by Cale that have been covered by other musicians
include "After Midnight" by Eric Clapton, Phish and Jerry Garcia,
"Cocaine" by Eric Clapton, "Clyde" by Waylon Jennings and
Dr. Hook, and "Call Me the Breeze" by Lynyrd Skynyrd,
John Mayer and Bobby Bare. In 2008 he was a Grammy winner,
jointly with Clapton.



Kenneth Howard Norton Sr. (August 9, 1943 – September 18, 2013)
was an American heavyweight boxer.
He was a former WBC world heavyweight champion.



Lee Thompson Young (February 1, 1984 – August 19, 2013)
was an American actor. He was known for his teenage role as
the title character on the Disney Channel television



Lisa Robin Kelly (March 1970 – August 14, 2013)
was an American actress best known for her roles on
That '70s Show and Amityville Dollhouse. Prior to her role
in That '70s Show, she had small roles in several sitcoms.



Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013)
was an American musician, singer and songwriter





Marcia Karen Wallace (November 1, 1942 − October 25, 2013)
was an American actress, game show panelist, voice artist, and comedian,
primarily known for her roles in television situation comedies.
She is perhaps best known for her roles as receptionist Carol Kester
on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show, and as the voice of
elementary school teacher Edna Krabappel on the animated series
The Simpsons, for which she won an Emmy in 1992.



Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG OM PC FRS
(13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013)

was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is the only woman
to have held the office.
A Soviet journalist called her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated
with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister,
she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.



Melvin Kenneth "Mel" Smith (3 December 1952 – 19 July 2013)
was an English comedian, writer, film director, producer and actor.

Smith was best known for his work on the sketch comedy shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones along with his comedy partner Griff Rhys Jones. Smith and Jones founded Talkback, which grew to be one of the UK's largest producers of television comedy and light entertainment programming.



Malinda Gayle "Mindy" McCready (November 30, 1975 – February 17, 2013)
 was an American country music singer. Active from 1995 until her death in 2013



Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013)

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary,
politician, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999



Paul William Walker IV (September 12, 1973 – November 30, 2013)

was an American actor and the founder of Reach Out Worldwide.
He became famous in 1999 after his role in the hit film Varsity Blues,
but later garnered fame as Brian O'Conner in The Fast and the Furious film series.



Raymond Daniel Manczarek Jr. (February 12, 1939 – May 20, 2013)
was an American musician, singer, producer, film director, and author,
best known as a founding member and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973.



Richard Griffiths, OBE (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013)

was an English actor of stage, film and television. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor and a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, all for his role in the play The History Boys.

He is also known for his portrayal of Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films, Uncle Monty in Withnail and I, Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky, and King George II in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. He also appeared as a British journalist in Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning 1982 film Gandhi.



Richard Pierce Havens

(January 21, 1941 – April 22, 2013) — known as Richie Havens — was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.[2] His music encompassed elements of folk, soul, and rhythm and blues. He is best known for his intense and rhythmic guitar style (often in open tunings), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.



Buckwild star Shain Gandee aged 21



Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE Kt (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013)

was an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and television host.
After graduating from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Frost rose to prominence in the UK when he was chosen to host the satirical programme That Was the Week That Was in 1962. His success on this show led to work as a host on US television. He became known for his television interviews with senior political figures, among them The Nixon Interviews with former United States President Richard Nixon in 1977, which were adapted into a stage play and film.

Frost was one of the "Famous Five" who were behind the launch of ITV breakfast station TV-am in 1983. For the BBC, he hosted the Sunday morning interview programme Breakfast with Frost from 1993 to 2005. He spent two decades as host of Through the Keyhole. From 2006 to 2012 he hosted the weekly programme Frost Over the World on Al Jazeera English and from 2012, the weekly programme The Frost Interview.

Frost died on 31 August 2013, aged 74, on board the cruise ship MS Queen Elizabeth, on which he had been engaged as a speaker



Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013)

was an American author and historian best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War, and for video games that bear his name for licensing and promotional purposes. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print.[1] His name was also a brand for similar movie scripts written by ghost writers and non-fiction books on military subjects. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and Vice Chairman of their Community Activities and Public Affairs committees.