Remembered

Shamshad Begum

1919 – 2013

Singer

Indian playback singer whose influential recordings featured in Hindi and Punjabi films from the 1930s onward. Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

P. B. Sreenivas

1930 – 2013

Singer

P. B. Sreenivas was an Indian playback singer who recorded songs in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi. His voice became especially associated with lea…

Jonathan Winters

1925 – 2013

Actor, Television actor, Film actor, Voice actor, Screenwriter, Writer

Jonathan Harshman Winters III (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American comedian, actor, author, television host and artist. He started performing as…

Binod Bihari Chowdhury

1911 – 2013

Revolutionary

Binod Bihari Chowdhury (Bengali: বিনোদ বিহারী চৌধুরী; 10 January 1911 – 10 April 2013) was a Bangladeshi social worker and anti-colonial revolutionary. An influ…

Robert Edwards

1925 – 2013

Physician, Physiologist, Biologist, Researcher

Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (27 September 1925 – 10 April 2013) was a British physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF…

Margaret Thatcher

1925 – 2013

Politician, Chemist, Autobiographer, Barrister, Statesperson, Research scientist

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Ki…

Roger Ebert

1942 – 2013

Screenwriter, Film critic, Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter

Roger Joseph Ebert ( EE-bərt; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, essayist, screenwriter, journalist, and author. He wr…

Amanul Haque

— – 2013

Photographer

Amanul Haque (c. 1925 – 3 April 2013) was a Bangladeshi photographer. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2011 by the Government of Bangladesh. Source: Wikipedia —…

Mazharul Haque

— – 2013

Bangladesh-associated historical figure. Imported from the user-provided death-anniversary catalogue; biographical enrichment can be added after verification.

Richard Griffiths

1947 – 2013

Voice actor, Stage actor, Film actor, Television actor, Actor

Richard Thomas Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) was an English actor. He was known for his portrayals of Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films (2001–…

Chinua Achebe

1930 – 2013

Novelist, Poet, Literary critic, Essayist, Writer, Philosopher

Chinua Achebe ( ; born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figu…

Zillur Rahman

1929 – 2013

Politician

Mohammed Zillur Rahman (9 March 1929 – 20 March 2013) was a Bangladeshi politician who served as President of Bangladesh from 2009 until his death in 2013. He w…

Jamal Nazrul Islam

1939 – 2013

Mathematician, Physicist

Jamal Nazrul Islam FRAS (24 February 1939 – 16 March 2013) was a Bangladeshi mathematical physicist and cosmologist. He was a professor at University of Chittag…

Perween Rahman

1957 – 2013

Social entrepreneur, Architect

Perween Rahman (22 January 1957 – 13 March 2013) was a Pakistani social activist, director of the Orangi Pilot Project Research and Training Institute. She was…

Abdul Jalil

1939 – 2013

Politician, Businessperson

Abdul Jalil was a Bangladeshi politician and businessman who served as a member of parliament and as minister of commerce. He held senior positions in the Awami…

Ahmed Zaman Chowdhury

1947 – 2013

Journalist, Screenwriter

Ahmed Zaman Chowdhury (28 December 1947 – 6 March 2013) was a Bangladeshi film journalist, screenwriter and lyricist. He won the Bangladesh National Film Award…

Hugo Chávez

1954 – 2013

Politician, Military officer

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician, revolutionary, and military officer who was the president of Venezuela from…

Donald Glaser

1926 – 2013

Physicist, Neuroscientist, University teacher, Inventor, Neurobiologist, Molecular biologist

Donald Arthur Glaser (September 21, 1926 – February 28, 2013) was an American physicist and biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his in…

Ahmed Rajib Haider

— – 2013

Architect

Ahmed Rajib Haider (died 15 February 2013) was a Bangladeshi atheist blogger. He used to blog in the blogging communities namely somewhereinblog.net, amarblog.c…

Abdus Shakur

1941 – 2013

Writer

Abdus Shakur (25 February 1941 – 15 January 2013) was a Bangladeshi litterateur and musicologist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh i…