Deaths in December 2013

5

 * Barry Jackson, 75, English actor.
 * Nelson Mandela, 95, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, President (1994−1999).

4

 * Hassan al-Laqqis, Lebanese paramilitary officer, senior commander of Hezbollah, shot.
 * Robert Allman, 86, Australian operatic baritone.
 * Paul Aussaresses, 95, French army general.
 * José Esteban Muñoz, 46, Cuban-born American academic.
 * Joana Raspall i Juanola, 100, Spanish Catalan writer.

3

 * Fernando Argenta, 68, Spanish classical music journalist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Norbert Kuchinke, 73, German journalist and actor (Autumn Marathon).
 * Ahmed Fouad Negm, 84, Egyptian vernacular poet.
 * Sefi Rivlin, 66, Israeli actor and comedian, cancer.
 * Sacha Sosno, 76, French sculptor and painter.

2

 * William Allain, 85, American politician, Governor of Mississippi (1984–1988), Attorney General (1980–1984).
 * Antonio Ansola, 82, Spanish footballer (Real Sociedad).
 * Iván Bächer, 56, Hungarian writer and journalist.
 * Bill Beckwith, 38, American contractor and actor (Curb Appeal), motorcycle collision.
 * Marcelo Déda, 53, Brazilian politician, Governor of Sergipe (since 2007), cancer.
 * Brian Hitchen, 77, British journalist, Editor of the Daily Star (1987–1994) and Sunday Express (1994–1995), traffic collision.
 * Salim Kallas, 77, Syrian actor and politician.
 * Toshiko Karasawa, 102, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives (1946–1952).
 * Junior Murvin, Jamaican reggae singer ("Police and Thieves").
 * Bekhithemba Ndlovu, 46, Zimbabwean football manager.
 * Mary Riggans, 78, Scottish television and stage actress (Take the High Road, Balamory), complications of a stroke.
 * Pedro Rocha, 70, Uruguayan footballer (Peñarol, São Paulo FC).
 * Katsumi Satō, 84, Japanese human rights activist, pneumonia.
 * Vernon Shaw, 83, Dominican politician, President (1998–2003).
 * Christopher Evan Welch, 48, American actor (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Master, Rubicon).

1

 * Heinrich Boere, 92, Dutch-German convicted war criminal and member of the Waffen-SS.
 * Maria Mambo Café, 68, Angolan politician.
 * Maurice Cockrill, 78, British artist.
 * Stirling Colgate, 88, American physicist.
 * Walter E. Ellis, 53, American serial killer.
 * T. R. Fehrenbach, 88, American author and historian.
 * Lino Grech, 83, Maltese actor, writer and director.
 * Edward Heffron, 90, American World War II veteran, portrayed in Band of Brothers.
 * Fernando Sabogal Viana, 72, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (since 1996).
 * André Schiffrin, 78, French-born American publisher and editor.
 * Martin Sharp, 71, Australian artist, emphysema
 * Antônio Lino da Silva Dinis]], 70, Portuguese-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itumbiara (since 1999).
 * Dany Vandenbossche, 57, Belgian politician, member of the Federal Parliament (1995–1999) and Flemish Parliament for East Flanders (1999–2009).
 * James von der Heydt, 94, American lawyer and judge.