page_title: Deaths in 2013
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2013 / February
caption_attribution_description: Edward I. Koch, mayor of New York City, sports a sailor's cap at the commissioning ceremony for the guided missile cruiser USS LAKE CHAMPLAIN (CG 57). Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK (NY) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)
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: February 1 - Ed Koch, 88, American politician and 105th Mayor of New York City, heart failure.
  February 1 - Barney, 12, American presidential pet dog of George W. Bush, lymphoma.
  February 1 - Robin Sachs, 61, British actor, heart attack.
  February 2 - John Kerr, 81, American actor, short illness.
  February 3 - David Oates, 50, English sports commentator, short-illness.
  February 3 - Peter Gilmore, 81, British actor.
  February 4 - Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 87, American schoolteacher and daughter of Strom Thurmond, natural causes.
  February 4 - Reg Presley, 71, British rock musician, lung cancer and stroke.
  February 5 - Egil Hovland, 88, Norwegian composer.
  February 5 - Stuart Freeborn, 98, British make-up artist, natural causes.
  February 6 - Chokri Belaid, 48, Tunisian lawyer and politician, shot.
  February 7 - Krsto Papić, 79, Croatian screenwriter and movie director, stomach cancer.
  February 8 - Giovanni Cheli, 94, Italian cardinal, natural causes.
  February 8 - Chris Brinker, 42, American movie producer, aortic aneurysm.
  February 9 - Keiki Fukuda, 99, American martial artist, natural causes.
  February 9 - Kåre Valebrokk, 72, Norwegian journalist, editor and television executive, natural causes.
  February 9 - Afzal Guru, 43, Indian Islamist terrorist, hanged.
  February 11 - D. Vinayachandran, 66, Indian Malayalam poet.
  February 12 - Christopher Dorner, 33, American former police officer and spree killer, apparent gunshot suicide.
  February 13 - Gerry Day, 91, American movie and television writer, natural causes.
  February 14 - Reeva Steenkamp, 29, South African model, shot.
  February 14 - Ronald Dworkin, 81, American philosopher, leukemia.
  February 15 - Todor Kolev, 73, Bulgarian actor, comedian, singer, presenter, lung cancer.
  February 16 - Tony Sheridan, 72, British musician and singer-songwriter, complications after heart failure.
  February 17 - Richard Briers, 79, British actor, emphysema.
  February 17 - Mindy McCready, 37, American country music singer, suicide by gunshot.
  February 18 - Jerry Buss, 80, American businessman and owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, cancer and renal failure.
  February 18 - Elspet Gray, 83, Scottish actress.
  February 18 - Kevin Ayers, 68, English singer-songwriter.
  February 18 - Otfried Preußler, 89, German children's author.
  February 19 - Joaquín Cordero, 90, Mexican actor, pneumonia.
  February 19 - John Brascia, 80, American dancer, Parkinson's disease.
  February 19 - Armen Alchian, 98, American economist, natural causes.
  February 19 - Donald Richie, 88, American writer, critic, journalist, and historian on Japanese history, natural causes.
  February 19 - Robert Coleman Richardson, 75, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist, heart attack.
  February 19 - Lou Myers, 77, American actor, pneumonia and heart failure.
  February 20 - Antonio Roma, 80, Argentine footballer.
  February 21 - Magic Slim, 75, American blues singer and guitarist, heart failure.
  February 21 - Bob Godfrey, 91, British Academy Award-winning animator, natural causes.
  February 21 - Raymond Cusick, 84, British TV designer, heart failure.
  February 22 - Hasse Jeppson, 87, Swedish footballer, natural causes.
  February 22 - Atje Keulen-Deelstra, 74, Dutch speed skater, pneumonia.
  February 22 - George Ives, 87, American actor, natural causes.
  February 22 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, 89, German conductor and pianist.
  February 23 - Julien Ries, 92, Belgian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
  February 24 - Dave Charlton, 76, South African racing driver.
  February 25 - Ray O'Connor, 86, 22nd Premier of Western Australia, natural causes.
  February 25 - Carmen Montejo, 87, Mexican actress, illness.
  February 25 - C. Everett Koop, 96, American politician, Surgeon General of the United States and spokesperson, renal failure.
  February 26 - Marie-Claire Alain, 86, French organist and teacher, natural causes.
  February 26 - Stéphane Hessel, 95, German-born French diplomat, writer and Resistance activist, natural causes.
  February 27 - Van Cliburn, 78, American pianist, bone cancer.
  February 27 - Ramon Dekkers, 43, Dutch kickboxer.
  February 27 - Dale
caption: Ed Koch 1924-2013
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