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Notable deaths of 2013 A look at those who have died this year.
Ray Manzarek
Ray Manzarek, second from right, co-founded the Doors after meeting then-poet Jim Morrison in California. The band went on to become one of the most successful rock-and-roll acts to emerge from the 1960s and continues to resonate with fans decades after Morrison’s death brought an effective end to the band.PHOTOS: Manzarek’s career
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Joyce Brothers
Popular psychologist Joyce Brothers is seen with boxers Sugar Ray Robinson, left, and Carl "Bobo" Olson in 1955. The pop psychologist, who pioneered the television advice show in the 1950s and enjoyed a long and prolific career as a syndicated columnist, author and television and film personality, died in New York City. She was 85.READ: Her celebrity took off after being featured on a quiz show
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Andrew Simpson
After winning gold and silver at the Olympics, there wasn’t much more for Andrew “Bart” Simpson, left, to accomplish in sailing — except for capturing the America’s Cup. A day after he died at age 36 when his catamaran capsized during training with Sweden’s Artemis Racing team in the San Francisco Bay, Simpson was remembered as a smart sailor and a mentor who shrugged off an early warning about the dangers of the latest generation of yachts.READ: After Olympics successes, Andrew Simpson pursued America’s Cup glory despite safety warning
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Ottavio Missoni
Ottavio Missoni, right, a onetime Olympic athlete became the patriarch of a fashion brand known for its zigzag-patterned knitwear. Known to friends by his nickname, "Tai," Missoni founded the company in 1953, along with his wife, Rosita Jelmini, who survives him. They went on to create a fashion dynasty, with the couple’s three children and their offspring involved in the business.READ: Ottavio Missoni, patriarch of Italian fashion-label dynasty, dies at 92
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Jeanne Cooper
Jeanne Cooper, the actress who played Katherine Chancellor on the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless” and the mother of actor Corbin Bernsen, died May 8. She was 84.READ: Jeanne Cooper was soap opera grande dame .
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Frederic Franklin
Frederic Franklin, an exuberant, British-born ballet dancer who was an early inspiration for choreographers George Balanchine and Agnes de Mille and a frequent stage partner of the renowned ballerina Alexandra Danilova, died May 4 at a New York hospital. He was 98.READ: Frederic Franklin danced with many leading ballerinas
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Otis Bowen
Otis R. Bowen, a small-town family doctor who overhauled Indiana’s tax system as governor before helping promote safe sex practices in the early years of AIDS as the top federal health official under President Ronald Reagan, died May 4. He was 95.READ: Otis R. Bowen was a wildly popular Republican governor
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George Jones
George Jones, a hard-living honky-tonk singer whose piercing, emotive voice spawned countless imitators and whose marriage to Tammy Wynette was one of the most turbulent in country music, died April 26 at a hospital in Nashville. He was 81. READ: George Jones, legend in country music, dies at 81
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Richie Havens
U.S. folk musician Richie Havens reprises his 1969 performance of "Freedom" at the site of the original Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 14, 2009. Havens died April 22 at the age of 72, his talent agency.VIDEO: ‘Here Comes The Sun’ (1974)
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Pat Summerall
Pat Summerall, left, the NFL player-turned-broadcaster whose deep, resonant voice called games for more than 40 years, died April 16 at the age of 82. Summerall was part of network television broadcasts for 16 Super Bowls. His last championship game was for Fox on Feb. 3, 2002, also his last game with longtime partner John Madden, right. The popular duo worked together for 21 years, moving to Fox in 1994 after years as the lead team for CBS. Summerall played 10 NFL seasons (1952-61) with the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants.READ: Former football player, broadcaster Pat Summerall dies at 82
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Maria Tallchief
Maria Tallchief, a ballet dancer of electrifying passion and technical ability who forged a pathbreaking career that took her from an Oklahoma Indian reservation to world acclaim and who was a crucial artistic inspiration for choreographer George Balanchine, her first husband, died April 11 at a hospital in Chicago. She was 88.
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Anne Smedinghoff
American diplomat Anne Smedinghoff was killed April 6 in a bomb attack by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan. She was traveling in a heavily armored convoy on her way to distribute textbooks to schoolchildren. Smedinghoff, 25, was a graduate of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.
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Robert G. Edwards
British physiologist Robert G. Edwards, who won a Nobel Prize in 2010 for helping develop the in-vitro fertilization techniques that led to the birth of the first “test tube” baby in 1978, died April 10. He was 87. As early as the 1950s, Edwards had the idea that fertilization outside the body could represent a possible treatment for infertility.READ: Robert G. Edwards. ‘test-tube’ baby pioneer, dies at 87
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Margaret Thatcher
Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to lead a major Western power, died Monday after a stroke, her spokesman said in a statement. She was 87. 1
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2 uninterrupted years in office before stepping down Nov. 28, 1990, making her the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.READ: Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister, dead at 87
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Lilly Pulitzer
Fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer was known for her line of garments with colorful tropical prints. She started the line by accident when she was asked to create clothes that would disguise fruit juice stains. She died in Florida at age 81.READ: Fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer became a fashion classic
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the British novelist and lead screenwriter of films such as “A Room With a View,” “Howards End” and “The Remains of the Day,” died April 3 at her home in New York. She was 85. In 1939, she and her Polish-Jewish family fled her native Germany for England to escape the Nazi tyranny. A graduate of London University, she married a young Indian architect and lived for 24 years in Delhi. India was frequently a setting for her books. READ: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter, dies at 85
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Jane Henson
Jane Henson, who with husband Jim Henson developed the Muppets, died April 2 at her home in Connecticut after a long battle with cancer. She was 78. The Hensons met in a University of Maryland puppetry class in the mid- 1950s. They married in 1959 and had five children. They separated in 1986. Jim Henson died in 1990. READ: Jane Henson, Jim Henson’s partner in Muppets and marriage, dies at 78
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Shain Gandee
Shain Gandee, a star of the MTV reality series ‘’Buckwild,’’ was among three men found dead in a vehicle April 1 in the Sissonville area of West Virginia. MTV noted in its Web site report on Gandee’s death that he was one of the most popular cast members on “Buckwild,” earning the nickname “Gandee Candy” “for his wild stunts and sunny disposition.” He was 21. READ: MTV’s ‘Buckwild’ star Shain Gandee, 21, found dead after being reported missing
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Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone, the masterful Grammy Award-winning engineer, arranger and producer whose platinum touch included recordings with Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Paul Simon, died March 30 at 72, his family said.READ: Phil Ramone dies at 72.
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Richard Griffiths
From left, actors James Corden, Clive Merrison, Richard Griffiths and Stephen Campbell Moore take the curtain call at the opening night of the play "The History Boys" on April 23, 2006, in New York. Griffiths, the British actor who played Harry Potter's unsympathetic Uncle Vernon in the movies, died March 28. He was 65.READ: Richard Griffiths, Tony Award-winning actor, dies at 65
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Joe Weider
Joe Weider was a legendary figure in bodybuilding who helped popularize the sport worldwide and played a key role in introducing a charismatic young weightlifter named Arnold Schwarzenegger to the world. He died March 23 at age 93.READ: Weider created the Mr. Olympia competition
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Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident who gave literary birth to modern Africa with “Things Fall Apart” and continued for decades to rewrite and reclaim the history of his native country, died March 21 at age 82.READ: Chinua Achebe, groundbreaking Nigerian novelist, dies at 82
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Bonnie Franklin
Bonnie Franklin, second from right, the spunky, ginger-haired stage performer who became best remembered as the independent-minded divorcee with two teenage daughters on the long-running sitcom “One Day at a Time,” died March 1 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 69.PHOTOS: Bonnie Franklin
READ: Bonnie Franklin dies at 69
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Magic Slim
Magic Slim, a contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf who helped shape the sound of Chicago’s electric blues, died Feb. 20 at age 75.
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Anna B. Tate
Anna B. Tate, who ran one of the first Tupperware distributorships in the Washington area, died Feb. 18 at age 97. From 1961 and on, her business helped stock thousands of homes with plastic containers that kept the cookies fresh and the lettuce crisp — and gave saleswomen greater independence than many of them had ever thought possible.READ: Anna B. Tate, D.C. area Tupperware maven, helped boost women’s independence
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Mindy McCready
The troubled singer hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career. The 37-year-old mother of two sons died Feb. 17 from what investigators said appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Her chart-topping hits included “Guys Do It All the Time” and “Ten Thousand Angels.”PHOTOS: McCready had a stormy life
READ: Mindy McCready dies at 37
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Reeva Steenkamp
The 30-year-old model and TV reality star, who had spoken out about violence against women, was fatally shot four times Feb. 14 at the home of South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius. Steenkamp was to appear in a celebrity TV reality show and had been named one of the “100 sexiest women in the world'' by FHM magazine. She also had a law degree.READ: Who was Reeva Steenkamp?
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Ann Rabson
Ann Rabson, whose barrelhouse piano propelled the rollicking, often bawdy music of Saffire — the Uppity Blues Women, a group she co-founded and led for more than 20 years, died Jan. 30 at her home in Hartwood, Va., in Stafford County. She was 67.READ: Ann Rabson dies at 67
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Caleb Moore
Caleb Moore, the innovative freestyle snowmobile rider, who was hurt in a crash at the Winter X Games in Colorado, died Jan. 31. He was 25. Moore was a Texas kid drawn to the snow, rehearsing complicated tricks on a snowmobile into a foam pit back home until they became second nature and ready for the mountains.
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Patty Andrews
Patty Andrews, the youngest and last surviving member of the Andrews Sisters, a vocal trio whose music was a defining sound of the home front during World War II, died Jan. 30 at her home in Northridge, Calif. She was 94. Andrews was lead singer in the sister act, which included the eldest, LaVerne, and second-born Maxene.READ: Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the Andrews Sisters, dies at 94
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Stanley Karnow
Stanley Karnow was an author and a journalist who wrote one of the seminal histories of the Vietnam War and won the Pulitzer Prize for his sweeping historical narrative of U.S. involvement in the Philippines. He died Jan. 27 at his home in Potomac. He was 87.READ: Vietnam changed the timbre of Karnow’s job
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Earl Weaver
Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver, left, who won 1,480 games with the Baltimore Orioles and took the team to the World Series four times in 17 seasons, died Jan. 19. He was 82. READ: Former Orioles manager Earl Weaver dead at 82
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Pauline Friedman Phillips
Pauline Friedman Phillips, who under the name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running “Dear Abby” advice column that was followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, died Jan. 16. She was 94. Phillips’ column competed for decades with the advice column of Ann Landers, written by her twin sister, Esther Friedman Lederer. Their relationship was stormy in their early adult years, but later they regained the close relationship they had growing up in Sioux City, Iowa.READ: ‘Dear Abby’ advice columnist Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at age 94
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Conrad Bain
Conrad Bain, who starred as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African American brothers in the TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” died Jan. 14. He was 89. The show that debuted on NBC in 1978 was most noticed for its child actors, especially Gary Coleman, right, who played the younger brother. Bain often was straight man to Coleman’s comic. Before “Diff’rent Strokes,” Bain played conservative neighbor Dr. Arthur Harmon on the feminist sitcom “Maude.” He also was a journeyman actor on stage, screen and television.Conrad Bain, who starred as doting dad of TV’s ‘Diff’rent Strokes,’ dead at 89
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Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz, an online activist who fought to make online content free to the public, died Jan. 11, prompting an outpouring of grief from prominent voices on the intersection of free speech and the Web. Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of journal articles from an electronic archive in an attempt to make them freely available. If convicted, he faced decades in prison and a fortune in fines.READ: Aaron Swartz, American hero
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Patti Page
Patti Page, the “Singing Rage” who became one of the most successful female singers of all time with dozens of pop hits, including the forlorn “Tennessee Waltz” and the yappy but irresistibly likable “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window,” died Jan. 1 in Encinitas, Calif. She was 85. Page got her start on a radio program sponsored by the Page Milk Co., hence her surname. She was later the host of her own television show.READ: Patti Page obituary
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Ada Louise Huxtable
Ada Louise Huxtable, an architecture writer who received the first Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism and was one of the most trenchant, biting and influential voices in her profession for more than half a century, died Jan. 7 at a hospital in New York. She was 91. Huxtable is pictured at her desk in New York in March 1974.READ: Ada Louise Huxtable obituary
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Richard Ben Cramer
Journalist Richard Ben Cramer, whose narrative nonfiction spanned presidential politics and baseball, died Jan. 7 at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. He was 62. Cramer celebrates his 1979 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting with his colleagues at the Philadelphia Inquirer.READ: Richard Ben Cramer obituary
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Jeanne Manford
A shy, traditional mother, Jeanne Manford founded the nation’s most prominent family support group for gays and lesbians. Her reason for organizing what is now known as Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or PFLAG: She “wasn’t going to let anybody walk over’’ her son because he was gay. She died Jan. 8 of undisclosed causes. She was 92.READ: Jeanne Manford obituary
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