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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the office. As prime minister, she implemented policies that came to be known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was a Venezuelan politician, revolutionary, and military officer who was the president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until his death.

British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer (1919–2013)

Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)

Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic (1930-2013)

British-Irish actor (1932–2013)

American actor (1973–2013)

Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

American actor (1961–2013)

Indian actor (1920–2013)

British biochemist (1918–2013)

Italian politician and statesman (1919–2013)

Vietnamese general and communist politician (1911–2013)

Canadian-American actor, personality, entertainer, and activist (1923–2013)

American television personality (1945-2013)

American physicist and neurobiologist (1926–2013)

American rock musician (1942–2013)

American author (1947–2013)

British actress (1917–2013)

Argentine dictator (1925–2013)

British actor

American engineer and inventor (1925–2013)

English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisation

American comedian, actor, artist (1925–2013)

Nobel prize winning US physicist

Belgian biochemist, cytologist (1917–2013)

Afghan cleric who founded the Taliban (1960–2013)

French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965

American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1919–2013)

American physicist

British economist and Nobel laureate (1910–2013)

86th Prime Minister of France (1928-2013)

American fiction writer (1926–2013)

American economist and historian (1926–2013)

American physical chemist (1918–2013)

Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946-2013)

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

American economist (1920-2013)

Scottish writer (1954–2013)

American keyboardist (1939–2013)

brazilian association football player (1929-2013)

Indian writer and mental calculator (1929-2013)

American country-pop singer (1927–2013)

19th President of Bangladesh (1929-2013)

American actress (1922-2013)

Hungarian politician (1932–2013)

queen consort of Iran from 1941 to 1948

American swimmer and actress (1921–2013)

Brazilian association football player (1925-2013)

German-born British-American author (1927-2013)

Italian Prime Minister, politician (1920-2013)

Canadian neurophysiologist

Japanese association football player (1928–2013)

American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)

Polish-born German literary critic (1920–2013)

American actress (1925–2013)

American novelist and screenwriter (1925–2013)

Gylmar dos Santos Neves (; 22 August 1930 – 25 August 2013), known simply as Gilmar, was a Brazilian footballer who played goalkeeper for Corinthians and Santos and was a member of the Brazil national team in three World Cups. He was elected the best Brazilian goalkeeper of the 20th century and one of the best in the world by the IFFHS. He is remembered for his sober style on the pitch and his peaceful personality.

Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013)