Celebrity Deaths: 2013
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Sen. Frank Lautenberg
New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg died on June 3, 2013 of complications from viral pneumonia. He was 89. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters died on April 11, 2013 of natural causes at age 87. (credit: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for TV Land)
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher, the first female British prime minister referred to by both ardent supporters and critics as "The Iron Lady," died April 8, 2013. She was 87. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Fashion Designer Lilly Pulitzer with her clothes
Fashion Designer Lilly Pulitzer with her clothes (credit: lillypulitzer.com)
Fashion Designer Lilly Pulitzer with her clothes (credit: lillypulitzer.com)
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert, the most famous and most popular film reviewer of his time who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation's most influential thumb, died April 4, 2013. He was 70.(Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
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Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths, the versatile British actor who played the boy wizard's unsympathetic Uncle Vernon in the "Harry Potter'' movies, died on March 28, 2013. He was 65. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)
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Mindy McCready
Singer Mindy McCready performs at the V-Day Presentation of Any One Of Us: Words From Prison at Alice Tully Hall - Lincoln Center June 21, 2006 in New York City. (Credit: Brad Barket/Getty Images)
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Ed Koch
The quintessential New Yorker and 105th Mayor of New York City died Feb. 1. He was 88. (Photo by JP Yim/Getty Images)
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Michael Winner
"Death Wish'' director Michael Winner, a British filmmaker, restaurant critic and bon vivant, died Jan. 21. He was 77. (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
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'Dear Abby' Pauline Friedman Phillips
Pauline Friedman Phillips, who under the name of Abigail Van Buren wrote the long-running "Dear Abby'' advice column, died on Jan. 16, 2013. She was 94. (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
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Patti Page
Country singer Patti Page, best known for her hit "Tennessee Waltz,” died Jan 1 at the age of 86. (Page in 2001/credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images).
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Conrad Bain
Conrad Bain, a veteran stage and film actor who became a star in middle age as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes,'' died on Monday, Jan. 14. He was 89. (credit: Robert Mora/Getty Images Entertainment)
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C. Everett Koop
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 Feb. 25 in New Hampshire at age 96.(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Hugo Chavez
President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who once called President George W. Bush “the devil” on the floor of the U.N. General Assembly, declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. (credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images News)
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Bonnie Franklin
Bonnie Franklin, who won fame as a divorced mom on the long-running sitcom "One Day at a Time," died at the age of 69 on March 1, 2013. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images)
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Henry Bromell
Henry Bromell, an executive producer for the TV series "Homeland,'' died March 18. He was 66. (credit: Frederick M. Brown
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Annette Funicello kisses Mickey Mouse
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 April 8. She was 70. (VINCE BUCCI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Jeanne Cooper
Young And The Restless star Jeanne Cooper passed away May 8 at age 84. (credit: (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
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