Ammon News - ( AFP ) - From Nelson Mandela to Hugo Chavez and Margaret Thatcher , the year 2013 saw the departure of many of the major figures of the most prominent :

February

- 27 : Stephane Hessel ( 95 years ) former French diplomat and author of "angry!" Who achieved the best sales.

March

- 05 : Hugo Chavez , 58, president of Venezuela since 1999, and the spiritual son of Cuban leader Fidel Castro , go after a struggle with cancer a few months after his re-election for a fourth term .

April

- 08 : Margaret Thatcher ( 87 years ) , the Prime Minister of Britain between 1979 and 1990 , dubbed the " iron woman " .

May

- 06 : Giulio Andreotti ( 94 years ) and Prime Minister of Italy seven times , which was one of the poles of the Christian Democratic Party and formerly one of the pillars of Italian political life in the post- World War II.

- 09 : Italian fashion designer Ottavio Missoni ( 92 years old).

- 17 : Jorge Videla , 87, former Argentine dictator , who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the bloody crackdown that took place under his presidency ( 1976-1981 ) .

- 17 : Palestinian journalist Nasser Eddin Nashashibi ( 94 years old).

- 23 : French singer George Mustaki ( 79 years ) .

June

- 19 : French fashion designer Jean-Louis Scherrer ( 78 years ) .

July

- 11 : Representative of the Syrian struggle will be (48 years old).

August

- 17 : The lawyer Jacques Verges (88 years), one of the most French lawyers controversial because of his defense of the people in the very sensitive issues .

- 30 : Seamus Heaney ( 74 years), the Irish poet, Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1995 and the greatest voices of the English-speaking Ireland since the poet William Butler Yeats .

October

- 04 : Gen. Vu Nguyen Giap ( 102 years ) , the hero of the independence of Vietnam and author of military plans , which managed to defeat the French and the Americans.

- 07 : Patrice Chéreau ( 68 years), French playwright and one of the top names of the European theater for more than forty years .

- 12 : Lebanese singer Wadih El Safi ( 92 years old).

- 27 : Lou Reed ( 71 years ) Foundation band " Velvet Underground ," the myth of American rock music that inspired generations of musicians .

- 28 : Tadeusz Mazowiecki , 86, head of the first non-communist government in Poland, who was appointed after elections in June 1989 which was won by the opposition wrapped around the Solidarity ( Soledarnowsk ) .

November

- 15 : Former Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides ( 94 years old).

- 17 : Doris Lessing ( 94 years), the famous British novelist winning the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, which condemned the ethnic and social injustice and oppression against women .

December

01 - : American actor Poole Walker in a traffic accident about 44 years.

- 03 : Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm ( 84 years ) code political poetry in the Arab world .

- 04 : French General Paul Aosarris ( 95 years), who admitted to the practice of torture during the Algerian war of independence .

- 05 : Nelson Mandela ( 95 years ), the hero of the struggle against the apartheid regime and the architect of national reconciliation winning the Nobel Peace Prize and was the first black president of South Africa.

- 14 : Peter O'Toole ( 81 years old ) : representative of the Irish is one of the most important movie stars since his role in the film Lawrence of Arabia in 1962.

- 21 : Esmat Abdel Meguid ( 90 years ) , former Secretary General of the Arab League .

- 21 : Iraqi artist Fouad Salim , 69, one of the most prominent pioneers of the song Septuagint in Iraq .

- 27 : Former Lebanese Minister Mohammed Shatah , 62, political adviser and former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri .