The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2013.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
May 2013
1
Martin Kevan, 66, Kenyan-born Canadian film and voice actor (Far Cry 3) and author, cancer. Massimo Mollica, 84, Italian actor and stage director. Pierre Pleimelding, 60, French football player (national team) and manager (SAS Épinal, Ivory Coast, FCSR Haguenau). Henry Hope Reed Jr., 97, American architecture critic. Gregory Rogers, 55, Australian children's book writer, cancer. Ruby Stone, 89, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives (1986–2002). Stuart Wilde, 66, British writer and metaphysical teacher, heart attack. Chob Yodkaew, 78, Thai economist and politician, stroke.
2
Sir Terence Beckett, 89, British businessman, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry. Marcel Bélanger, 92, Canadian academic. Roddy Blackjack, 86, Canadian Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation elder and chief, architect of Yukon Land Claims agreement. Elbert Crawford, 46, American football offensive lineman, heart attack. Mihail Dolgan, 85, Moldovan professor. Boris Elik, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings). Ernie Field, 70, English boxer, cancer. Jeff Hanneman, 49, American guitarist (Slayer), liver failure. Ken Lippiatt, 93, Australian rules footballer. Joseph P. McFadden, 65, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Harrisburg (since 2010), heart attack. Allen McKay, 86, British politician, MP for Penistone (1978–1983) and Barnsley West and Penistone (1983–1992). Tancred Melis, 79, South African cricketer. Danny Ray Mitchell, 69, American pastor, businessman and politician. Dvora Omer, 80, Israeli author, recipient of the Israel Prize (2006). Jo Pitt, 34, Scottish paralympic equestrian, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease. Bob Rafkin, 69, American singer songwriter, cancer. James E. Ramsey, 81, American politician, member of North Carolina House of Representatives (1963–1974), Speaker (1973–1974), complications from a stroke. Harry Randall Jr., 86, American politician. Sylvester Sanfilippo, 87, American pediatrician. Gordon Sherwood, 83, American classical composer. Sarabjit Singh, 49, Indian convicted spy, injuries sustained from blunt force trauma. Ronald Thresher, 82, English cricketer. Ivan Turina, 32, Croatian footballer (AIK Stockholm), cardiac dysrhythmia. Selma Urfer, 85, Swiss author and actress. Lefteris Vogiatzes, 68, Greek theater actor and director, cancer. Charles Banks Wilson, 94, American artist.
3
Joe Astroth, 90, American baseball player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics). Herbert Blau, 87, American theater director, scholar and theorist, sarcomatoid carcinoma of the chest. Cedric Brooks, 70, Jamaican musician (The Skatalites), cardiac arrest. Keith Carter, 88, American Olympic silver medalist swimmer (1948). Bruno Chersicla, 75, Italian painter and sculptor. Walt Clay, 89, American football player. Brad Drewett, 54, Australian tennis player and administrator, ATP Executive Chairman (2012–2013), motor neurone disease. David Morris Kern, 103, American pharmacist, developed Orajel to fight toothaches. Curtis Rouse, 52, American football player (Minnesota Vikings, San Diego Chargers). Branko Vukelić, 55, Croatian politician, Minister of Defence (2008–2010), pancreatic cancer. Sir David Innes Williams, 93, British paediatric urologist.