Achebe, Chinua
The Nigerian author of 1958's Things Fall Apart
Famous People Who Died in 2013
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Banks, Iain
The author of The Wasp Factory -
Black, Karen
Jack Nicholson's girlfriend in Five Easy Pieces -
Brothers, Joyce
The blond pop psychologist from the 1960s -
Browne, Sylvia
The popular TV psychic with a 'spirit guide' known as Francine -
Carpenter, Scott
The astronaut who also lived on Sealab -
Chavez, Hugo
President of Venezuela, 1999-2013 -
Clancy, Tom
The "techno-thriller" author who wrote The Hunt for Red October -
Ebert, Roger
The "two thumbs up" movie critic and TV personality -
Fontaine, Joan
The Oscar-winning star of the Hitchcock thriller Suspicion. -
Frost, Sir David
The British TV host who interviewed Richard Nixon -
Gandolfini, James
Tony Soprano in the TV series The Sopranos -
Harryhausen, Ray
The stop-motion filmmaker who did Jason and the Argonauts -
Hijuelos, Oscar
The author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love -
Jones, George
The country music legend who sang "He Stopped Loving Her Today" -
Kauffmann, Stanley
The film reviewer for The New Republic, 1958-2013 -
Konigsburg, E.L.
The author of The View From Saturday -
Kyle, Chris
The author of American Sniper -
Leonard, Elmore
The author of Get Shorty and other funny crime novels -
Lessing, Doris
The author of The Golden Notebook -
Mandela, Nelson
The first black president of South Africa -
Matheson, Richard
The author of I Am Legend -
Monteith, Cory
Finn Hudson on the TV show Glee -
O'Toole, Peter
Star of the epic film Lawrence of Arabia -
Pohl, Frederik
The sci-fi author of The Space Merchants and Gateway -
Porter, Bill
The plucky salesman with cerebral palsy who inspired the film Door to Door -
Ramone, Phil
The legendary music producer of Billy Joel's 52nd Street -
Reed, Lou
Co-founder of The Velvet Underground -
Steenkamp, Reeva
The South African model killed by Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius in 2013 -
Thatcher, Margaret
The first woman to be prime minister of the United Kingdom -
Walker, Paul
The clean-cut cop from The Fast and the Furious -
Williams, Esther
The swimming beauty who was a movie star in the 1940s -
Winters, Jonathan
Improvisational comedian of the 1960s and '70s