Ray Manzarek
May 20
Ray Manzarek, keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, died at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, after being diagnosed with bile duct cancer. Read more.
Pictured: Manzarek in an undated photo.
NOTABLE DEATHS OF 2013
Ray Manzarek
May 20
Ray Manzarek, keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, died at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, after being diagnosed with bile duct cancer. Read more.
Pictured: Manzarek in an undated photo.
Joyce Brothers
May 13
Joyce Brothers, 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.
Jeanne Cooper
May 8
Jeanne Cooper, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on ‘‘The Young and the Restless,’’ died. She was 84.
Chris Kelly
May 1
Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade’s most memorable songs with the frenetic ‘‘Jump,’’ died in Atlanta of an apparent drug overdose. He was 34.
George Jones
April 26
George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic ‘‘He Stopped Loving Her Today,’’ died in Nashville at 81.
April 23
Joseph R. Nolan (pictured with his family), a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for 14 years, died at age 87.
Richie Havens
April 22
Richie Havens, the folk singer and guitarist who was the first performer at Woodstock, died at age 72.
Chrissy Amphett
April 21
Chrissy Amphlett, the raunchy lead singer of the Australian rock band Divinyls whose hit ‘‘I Touch Myself’’ brought her international fame in the early 1990s, died at her home in New York City. She was 53.
Pat Summerall
April 16
Pat Summerall, the NFL player turned broadcaster whose deep, resonant voice called games for more than 40 years, died in Dallas at 82.
Maria Tallchief
April 12
Legendary New York City Ballet prima ballerina Maria Tallchief died at age 88.
Jonathan Winters
April 11
Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, died. He was 87.
Robert Edwards
April 10
Robert Edwards, a Nobel Prize recipient who co-developed the in vitro fertilization procedure that resulted in the 1978 birth of the world's first test-tube baby, died at 87.
Annette Funicello
April 8
Annette Funicello, the most popular Mouseketeer on ‘‘The Mickey Mouse Club,’’ who matured to a successful career in records and ’60s beach party movies but struggled with illness in middle age and after, died at 70.
Margaret Thatcher
April 8
Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s “Iron Lady,” whose 11½ years as prime minister transformed British society as much as it did British politics, died of a stroke. She was 87.
Lilly Pulitzer
April 7
Lilly Pulitzer, a Palm Beach socialite turned designer whose tropical print dresses became a sensation in the 1960s and later a fashion classic, died at 81. Read more.
Anne Smedinghoff
April 6
Anne Smedinghoff, 25, a US diplomat who grew up outside of Chicago, died in a terrorist attack while traveling with a group that was delivering textbooks in Afghanistan, officials said. Read more.
Milo O’Shea
April 6
The Irish actor Milo O’Shea, whose many roles on stage and screen included a friar in Franco Zeffirelli’s ‘‘Romeo and Juliet,’’ an evil scientist in ‘‘Barbarella,’’ and a Supreme Court justice on ‘‘The West Wing,’’ died in New York City. He was 86.
Matthew Warren
April 5
Matthew Warren, 27, the son of Pastor Rick Warren, committed suicide after struggling with mental illness and deep depression throughout his life, according to his father’s church.
Roger Ebert
April 4
Roger Ebert (shown above right with TV partner Gene Siskel), was among the most famous and popular film reviewers of his time, wielding the nation’s most influential thumb. He died at 70 after a long battle with cancer. Read more.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
April 3
Oscar-winning screenwriter and award-winning novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died at 85. She won two Academy Awards for her adaptations of the E.M. Forster novels ‘‘Howards End’’ and ‘‘A Room With a View.’’ She was also nominated for adapting 1993’s ‘‘The Remains of the Day.’’ All three films were also best-picture contenders.
Chuck Fairbanks
April 2
Former New England Patriots coach Chuck Fairbanks, credited as helping to bring legitimacy to a woebegone franchise when he took over in 1973, died at age 79. Read more.
Jane Henson
April 2
Jane Henson, co-founder of the Muppets and wife of Jim Henson, died at her Connecticut home following a battle with cancer. She was 78.Read more.
William Ginsburg
April 1
William H. Ginsburg, who was Monica Lewinsky’s lawyer during the sex scandal of the Clinton presidency, died of cancer in Los Angeles. He was 70. Read more.
Elsie Thompson
March 21
Elsie Thompson, the oldest person in the United States, died at age 113, just weeks before her 114th birthday. Thompson often said the secret to her longevity was loving people and greeting each day with a smile. Read more.
Shain Gandee
April 1
Shain Gandee, star of MTV’s reality show “Buckwild,” was found dead in a vehicle in a remote area of West Virginia on April 1.
Phil Ramone
March 30
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 at 72.
Anthony Lewis
March 25
Anthony Lewis, a journalist and author who won two Pulitzer Prizes and penned a column for The New York Times for more than three decades, died at age 85.
Joe Weider
March 23
Joe Weider, a legendary figure in bodybuilding who helped popularize the sport worldwide and played a key role in introducing a charismatic young weightlifter named Arnold Schwarznenegger to the world, died at age 93.
Boris Berezovsky
March 23
Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled and outspoken Russian tycoon who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead in southeast England. He was 67.
Ray Williams
March 22
Ray Williams (pictured left, with teammates Dennis Johnson and Greg Kite), who reached the NBA Finals in 1985 with the Celtics, died March 22 in a New York City hospice after suffering a stroke while undergoing treatment for late-stage colon cancer.
Chinua Achebe
March 22
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who wrote the classic ‘‘Things Fall Apart,’’ died at age of 82.
Achebe’s novel, published in 1958, is widely regarded as the first major work of modern African fiction and inspired others to tell the continent’s story through the eyes of those who lived there.
Hugo Chavez
President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, died at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. Read more.
Bonnie Franklin
March 1
Bonnie Franklin, the pert, redheaded actress loved by millions of viewers for her role as divorced mom Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom ‘‘One Day at a Time,’’ died in Los Angeles of complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 69.
Dale Robertson
Feb. 27
Actor Dale Robertson, best remembered for his portrayal of Jim Hardie from 1957-62 in the TV series “Tales of Wells Fargo,” died from lung cancer and pneumonia at age 89.
Van Cliburn
Feb. 27
Van Cliburn, the internationally celebrated pianist whose triumph at a 1958 Moscow competition helped thaw the Cold War, died in Fort Worth, Texas, at age 78. Read more.
Pictured: Van Cliburn performed in the final round of the Tchaikovsky International Piano & Violin competition in Moscow on April 11, 1958.
C. Everett Koop
Feb. 25
Former US surgeon general Dr. C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America's attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, died in New Hampshire at age 96. Read more.
Otis ‘Damon’ Harris
Feb. 18
Otis “Damon” Harris, second from right, died of prostate cancer at age 62. He performed with the celebrated Motown act The Temptations from 1971 to 1975 and sang on hits including ‘‘Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone’’ and ‘‘Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are).”
Jerry Buss
Feb. 18
Jerry Buss, the Los Angeles Lakers’ playboy owner who shepherded the NBA franchise to 10 championships from the ’80s Showtime dynasty to the Kobe Bryant era, died at 80.
He had been hospitalized for cancer, but the immediate cause of death was kidney failure, his assistant said. Read more.
Mindy McCready
Feb. 17
Country star Mindy McCready apparently took her own life at her home in Heber Springs, Ark. She was 37, and left behind two young sons.
Cardiss Collins
Feb. 3
Cardiss Collins, the first African-American woman to represent Illinois in Congress, died of complications from pneumonia at a Virginia hospital at age 81. Collins, pictured with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, originally was elected to fill the seat left vacant when her husband, Representative George W. Collins, was killed in a 1972 airplane crash.
Ed Koch
Feb. 1
Ed Koch, who served four terms (1969-1977) in Congress and three terms (1978-1989) as mayor of New York City, died at 88. The combative, acid-tongued Democrat who rescued the city from near-financial ruin embodied New York chutzpah for the rest of the world.
Caleb Moore
Jan. 31
Caleb Moore, an innovative freestyle snowmobile rider who was hurt in a dramatic crash at the Winter X Games in Colorado, died at 25. His death was the first in the 18-year history of the X Games.
Patty Andrews
Jan. 30
Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the singing Andrews Sisters trio whose hits, such as the rollicking “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B,” captured the home-front spirit of World War II, died at 94.
Stan Musial
Jan. 18
Stan Musial, one of baseball’s greatest hitters and a Hall of Famer with the St. Louis Cardinals for more than two decades, died at 92.
“Stan the Man” won seven National League batting titles, was a three-time MVP and helped the Cardinals capture three World Series championships in the 1940s.
Earl Weaver
Jan. 18
The fiery former manager of Baltimore Orioles, pictured with former Orioles player Cal Ripken Jr., right, died while on a Caribbean cruise associated with the team. He was 82.
Pauline Friedman Phillips
Jan. 16
“Dear Abby” advice columnist Friedman Phillips, known to millions of readers as Abigail van Buren, lost a battle to Alzheimer’s disease and died at age 82. Read more.
Conrad Bain
Jan. 14
Bain, who starred as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom ‘‘Diff’rent Strokes,’’ died at 89 in his hometown of Livermore, Calif.
Eugene Patterson
Jan. 11
The Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist who helped fellow Southern whites understand the civil rights movement died at age 89 at his Florida home.
Aaron Swartz
Jan. 11
The Web entrepreneur and political activist, who made headlines in 2011 when he was charged with hacking into MIT’s network and stealing millions of documents, took his life in New York City at age 26.
Rex Trailer
Jan. 10
Rex Trailer, host of “Boomtown,” a children’s TV show that beguiled generations of New England children, died at 84.
Patti Page
Jan. 1
Patti Page, who made ‘‘Tennessee Waltz’’ the third best-selling recording ever, died at age 85. She was the top-selling female singer in history with more than 100 million record sales. Her career included 15 gold records and three gold albums. Read more.
