page_title: Deaths in 2013
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2013 / December
caption_attribution_description: Михаил Калашников
context_page_description: January 1 - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, 67, English sportscaster and cricket journalist, lymphoma.
  January 1 - Lloyd Hartman Elliott, 94, American educator, natural causes.
  January 1 - Slobodan Rakitić, 72, Serbian writer and politician, illness.
  January 1 - Louis J. Nigro, Jr., 65, American diplomat, cancer.
  January 1 - Roz Howard, 91, American racing driver, natural causes.
  January 1 - Patsy May, 78, American actress, natural causes.
  January 1 - Phyllis Wiener, 91, American artist, natural causes.
  January 1 - Patti Page, 85, American singer, natural causes.
  January 1 - Barbara Werle, 84, American actress, natural causes.
  January 2 - Teresa Torańska, 69, Polish journalist and writer, illness.
  January 2 - Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, 67, Uruguayan footballer, after short illness.
  January 2 - Ned Wertimer, 89, American actor, fall.
  January 3 - Sergiu Nicolaescu, 82, Romanian movie director, actor and politician, cardiac arrest.
  January 3 - Burry Stander, 25, South African mountain biker, training accident.
  January 4 - Tony Lip, 82, American movie and television actor.
  January 5 - Reg Dean, 110, British supercentenarian, natural causes.
context_section_description: December 1 - Heinrich Boere, 92, Dutch-German Nazi war criminal, natural causes.
  December 1 - Lino Grech, 83, Maltese actor, writer and director, prostate cancer.
  December 1 - Edward Heffron, 90, American World War II veteran, natural causes.
  December 2 - Brian Hitchen, 77, British journalist and editor, car accident.
  December 2 - Salim Kallas, 77, Syrian actor and politician, lung cancer.
  December 2 - William Allain, 85, American politician, Governor of Mississippi (1984–1988), Attorney General (1980–1984).
  December 2 - Pedro Rocha, 70, Uruguayan footballer, stomach cancer.
  December 2 - Christopher Evan Welch, 48, American (Lincoln) actor, lung cancer.
  December 2 - Vernon Shaw, 83, Dominican politician, 5th President of Dominica, heart attack.
  December 3 - Ahmed Fouad Negm, 84, Egyptian vernacular poet, long-illness.
  December 3 - Ida Pollock, 105, British romance novelist, natural causes.
  December 3 - Ronald Hunter, 70, American actor (Law & Order, The Big Bang Theory), heart and kidney failure.
  December 4 - Joana Raspall i Juanola, 100, Spanish-Catalan writer, natural causes.
  December 5 - Nelson Mandela, 95, South African politician and activist, 1st President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize-winner, lung infection.
  December 5 - Barry Jackson, 75, English actor (Doctor Who), stroke.
  December 5 - Fred Bassetti, 96, American architect, natural causes.
  December 5 - Colin Wilson, 82, English writer, stroke.
  December 6 - Stan Tracey, 86, British jazz pianist, prostate cancer.
  December 6 - Nya Quesada, 94, Argentine actress, natural causes.
  December 7 - Édouard Molinaro, 85, French movie director and screenwriter, heart attack.
  December 7 - Józef Kowalski, 113, Polish WWI-era veteran, last surviving veteran of the 1919–1921 Polish-Soviet War, natural causes.
  December 8 - Sándor Szokolay, 82, Hungarian composer and professor, pneumonia.
  December 8 - Richard S. Williamson, 64, American lawyer and diplomat, United States ambassador to the United Nations, cerebral hemorrhage.
  December 9 - Eleanor Parker, 91, American actress (The Sound of Music), complications of pneumonia.
  December 9 - Kees Brusse, 88, Dutch actor and movie director, natural causes.
  December 10 - Jim Hall, 83, American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger, heart attack.
  December 10 - Don Lund, 90, American baseball player, natural causes.
  December 10 - Rossana Podestà, 79, Italian actress (Ulysses), brain cancer.
  December 11 - Nadir Afonso, 93, Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter, heart failure.
  December 12 - Barbara Branden, 84, American writer, breast cancer.
  December 12 - Jang Sung-taek, 67, North Korean politician, Vice-Chancellor of the National Defence Commission, executed.
  December 12 - Mac McGarry, 87, American television quiz show host (It's Academic), pneumonia.
  December 12 - Audrey Totter, 95, American actress (Medical Center), stroke.
  December 12 - Tom Laughlin, 82, American actor, (Billy Jack), pneumonia.
  December 13 - Zafer Önen, 92, Turkish movie actor, heart failure.
  December 14 - Sir John Cornforth, 96, Australian-British chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975), natural causes.
  December 14 - Peter O'Toole, 81, Irish actor (Lawrence of Arabia), stomach cancer.
  December 14 - George Rodrigue, 69, American painter, prostate cancer.
  December 14 - France Roche, 92, French actress, natural causes.
  December 15 - Joan Fontaine, 96, British actress (Suspicion), natural causes.
  December 15 - Harold Camping, 92, American evangelist and doomsday predictor, pneumonia.
  December 16 - Ray Price, 87, American singer, pancreatic cancer.
  December 17 - Janet Rowley, 88, American cancer researcher, complications of ovarian cancer.
  December 18 - Ronnie Biggs, 84, British criminal, heart failure.
  December 19 - Nae Lăzărescu, 72, Romanian actor and comedian, chronic liver disease.
  December 19 - Ned Vizzini, 32, American writer, suicide.
  December 20 -  Nelly Omar, 102, Argentine actress and singer, cardiac arrest.
  December 21 - John Eisenhower, 91, American historian, son of Dwight D. Eisenhower, natural causes.
  December 21 - David Coleman, 
caption: Mikhail Kalashnikov 1919-2013
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