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Comedian Jonathan Winters died at age 87 on April 11, 2013. Winters performs on stage during an 80th birthday salute to political satirist Mort Sahl featuring top name comedians in Los Angeles, June 28, 2007. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

Actress Annette Funicello died at age 70 on April 8, 2013. Funicello, best known as a member of the Mickey Mouse Club and for co-starring in the Beach Party movie series with Frankie Avalan, poses with Disney characters Minnie Mouse and Mickey Mouse, February 15, 1997. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

Ieng Sary, founding member of the Khmer Rouge, died at age 87 on March 14, 2013. Sary sits in the dock in the courtroom for his public hearing at the U.N.-backed genocide tribunal at the ECCC, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, April 30, 2010...

Los Angeles Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss died at age 80 on February 18, 2013. Under his ownership, the Lakers won ten championships. Buss watches the WBC middleweight championship at the Staples Center in Los Angeles February 19, 2005. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Irish poet and Nobel literature laureate Seamus Heaney died at age 74 on Aug. 30, 2013. Heaney smiles as his medal falls off his neck, moments after being awarded "Commandeur dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres ' by French Culture Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy on March 22, 1996...

German industrialist Berthold Beitz died at age 99 on July 30, 2013. The head of German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp AG saved hundreds of Jews from Nazi persecution during World War II by employing them as essential workers or hiding them. Beitz, the chairman of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and...

Actor Dennis Farina, known for his roles in Law and Order, Get Shorty and Snatch, died at age 69 on July 22, 2013. Farina arrives at the Hollywood premiere of the HBO series "Luck" in Los Angeles, January 25, 2012. REUTERS/Gus Ruelas

Ray Manzarek, founding member and keyboardist of The Doors, died at age 74 on May 20, 2013. Manzarek performs during a concert of their European tour which commemorates the 40th anniversary of the band The Doors in Valencia, January 14, 2007. REUTERS/Heino Kalis

Country music singer Mindy McCready died at 37 from an apparent self-inflicted gun shot wound on February 17, 2013. McCready attends the premiere of the horror film "Scream 2" at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, December 10, 1997. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

Former St. Louis Cardinals and hall of famer Stan Musial died at age 92 on January 19, 2013. Musial, widely regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball, greets fans before the start of a game in St. Louis, October 18, 2012. REUTERS/Jeff Haynes

Ottavio Missoni, who founded the Missoni fashion empire with his wife Rosita, died at age 92 on May 9, 2013. Missoni poses during an interview with Reuters at their house in Sumirago, northern Italy April 24, 2012. Missoni ran in the 1948 Olympics in London, where he met Rosita, who was studying...

Internet activist and programmer Aaron Swartz died at age 26 of an apparent suicide on January 11, 2013. Swartz, who helped create an early version of RSS and later played a key role in stopping a controversial online piracy bill in Congress, poses in a Borderland Books in San Francisco on...

Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, one of Britain's most notorious criminals, known for his role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, died at age 84 on December 18, 2013. Biggs is seen posing for a photograph in Brazil in this September 1992 file photograph. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes

Country singer George Jones died at age 81 on April 26, 2013. Jones is pictured with his former wife, the late Tammy Wynette, at the Country Music Association Awards in Nashville on October 4, 1995. REUTERS

Ed Koch, who served as Mayor of New York from 1978 to 1989, then went on to preside over the reality court show The People's Court, died at age 88 on February 1, 2013. Koch introduces current Mayor Michael Bloomberg as he opens his Manhattan campaign office as he kicks off his bid for...

Novelist Tom Clancy, whose espionage and military novels were often spun-off into films, video games and book series, died at age 66 on Oct. 1, 2013. Clancy is seen wearing a Minnesota Vikings jacket after a press conference where he announced his intentions to purchase the NFL franchise for...

Advice columnist Pauline Phillips, better known as Dear Abby, died at age 94 on January 16, 2013. Phillips applauds after her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled, February 14, 2001, in Hollywood. REUTERS/Files

British actor Peter O'Toole, best known for his roles in "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Becket," died at age 81 on Dec. 14, 2013. O'Toole arrives at the opening night gala of the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival featuring a screening of a restoration of 'An American In Paris' in Hollywood, California...

Lou Reed, who influenced rock with his band The Velvet Underground and later as a solo musician, died at age 71 on Oct. 27, 2013. Reed looks on during a Q&A session after the world premiere of his first film "Red Shirley" at the Vision du Reel Documentary film Festival in Nyon, April 20, 2010...

General Vo Nguyen Giap, the self-taught Vietnamese general who masterminded the defeats of France in the First Indochina War and the United States in the Vietnam War to become one of the 20th century's most notable military commanders, died at age 102 on October 4, 2013. Giap speaks during an...