Photos: Notable deaths from 2013

Country singer Ray Price, whose 1956 hit “Crazy Arms” helped revolutionize the sound of country music in the 1950s, died on Dec. 16 at his home in Mount Pleasant, Texas, following a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 87.  (Frazer Harrison / Getty Images)

Irish actor Peter O’Toole died on Dec. 14. The “Lawrence of Arabia” star was 81.  (Chris Ball / Getty Images)

Jazz guitarist Jim Hall died in his sleep December 10, 2013 at the age of 83.  (Douglas Mason / Getty Images)

Paul Walker, star of the “Fast and Furious” series of films, was killed in a car crash at age 40.   (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

Psychic medium and author Sylvia Browne speaks to the audience during an appearance in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2010. She died at age 77.  (Steve Snowden / Getty Images)

Nobel Scientist Frederick Sanger has died aged 95. Sanger was an English biochemist and double Nobel prize winner.  (Keystone / Getty Images)

Diane Disney Miller, daughter of Walt Disney, died at age 79.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Syd Field, the “guru of all screenwriters,” died on Nov. 17 at the age of 77. Field authored “Screenplay: The Basics of Film Writing,” which is credited with helping establish the now traditional three-act structure for feature film scripts.  (SydField.com/Handout)

Doris Lessing after winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 2007.   (Richard Lewis / EPA)

Former Carolina Panthers president and Pro Football Hall of Fame offensive lineman Mike McCormack died on Nov. 15. He was 83 years old.   (George Rose / Getty Images)

Sir John Tavener, celebrated composer, passed away November 12, 2013 at his home in England. He was 69.  (Gareth Davies / Getty Images)

Lou Reed, Velvet Underground leader, has died at the age of 71.  (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for John Varvatos)

Marcia Wallace, voice of “The Simpsons” character Edna Krabappel died October 26, 2013. Wallace had a reoccurring role on “The Bob Newhart Show” and made guest appearances on shows like “ALF” and “Murphy Brown.”   (Michael Buckner/Getty Images (L); Fox Broadcasting (R))

Renowned British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro died of a heart attack on Oct. 23. He was 89.  (Ben Stansall / AFP/Getty Images)

Singer Noel Harrison, pictured here in 1970, died on Oct. 22. He was 79.  (Michael Ochs/Getty Images)

This file photo taken on September 20, 1952 shows the new wife of Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia, Jovanka Broz. The widow of the former Yugoslav communist dictator Josip Broz Tito died on October 20, 2013 aged 88 after suffering heart failure, the hospital treating her said in a statement. Jovanka Broz had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Serbia, where she spent around 30 years in isolation and poverty after her husband’s death in 1980.  (INTERCONTINENTALE/AFP/Getty Images)

Lou Scheimer, president of Filmation Studios, in 1987.   (Los Angeles Times / Los Angeles Times)

Former Speaker of the House Tom Foley stands next to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in this 1992 photo. Foley, who spent 30 years in Congress before a conservative mood shift made him one of the few speakers ever defeated for re-election, died at age 84 on October 18, 2013.  (DAVID AKE / AFP/Getty Images)

Hans Riegel, son of the founder of Germany’s Haribo confectionery and much-loved gummy bears, died from heart failure. He was 90.  (ROLF VENNENBERND/AFP/Getty Images)

Cuban-American writer Oscar Hijuelos, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling novel “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” has died at the age of 62, the New York Times reported on Sunday, Oct. 13.  (Myrna Suarez/Getty Photo)

Joshua Marks, 26, was a finalist on the third season of FOX’s “MasterChef.” Marks was found dead outdoors in Chicago from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Marks was open with fans about suffering from bipolar disorder.  (Nico Stipcianos / Getty Images)

Guitarist Phil Chevron of the Anglo-Irish folk-punk band The Pogues died October 08, 2013 at the age of 56 after a long battle with cancer.  (Mike Coppola / Getty Images)

Patrice Chereau, the celebrated French theatre, opera and cinema director whose works ranged from the epic 1994 film “La Reine Margot” to the seminal 1976 production of Wagner’s “Ring Cycle”, has died aged 68 following a battle with lung cancer.  (PABLO HOJAS/AFP/Getty Images)

Vietnam’s legendary general Vo Nguyen Giap died at the age of 102 on Ocotber, 4, 2013. Giap was a Vietnamese general who led defeats against France and the United States, becoming one of the 20th century’s most notable military commanders.  (HOANG DINH NAM / AFP/Getty Images)

Novelist Tom Clancy, pictured here with one of his books in 2002, passed away at age 66.  (Robert Mora/Getty Images)

Engineer and inventor of the Dolby Noise Reduction system Ray Dolby died at age 80, according to media reports on 12 September 2013.  (PAUL BUCK / EPA)

Saul Landau, an American documentary filmmaker best known for his expose on atomic bomb testing and films on Cuba, has died from cancer, the Institute for Policy Studies, where Landau was a fellow, said on Tuesday, Sept. 10. He was 77.  (Amanda Edwards/Getty Photo)

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, one of the world’s best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, has died aged 74.  (JACK MIKRUT/AFP/Getty Images)

Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, died on Saturday in New York, according to the New York Times.  (Neilson Barnard/Getty Photo)

Julie Harris, the celebrated star of Broadway and movies including “East of Eden,” has died at 87.  (CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty Images)

Sid Bernstein, famed promoter for top acts like the Beatles and Judy Garland, passed away August 21, 2013 in New York. He was 95.  (John Lamparski / Getty Images)

Best-selling American author Elmore Leonard died at age 87 after having suffered from a stroke the month before. The crime writer wrote more than 45 books, including best-sellers such as “Get Shorty,” “Out of Sight” and “3:10 to Yuma.” Many of his novels were made into successful Hollywood movies.  (Vince Bucci/Getty Photo)

Former Disney Channel actor Lee Thompson Young was found dead in his home of an apparent suicide. Young rose to fame in 1998, starring in Disney Channel’s “The Famous Jett Jackson.”  (Peter Kramer / Getty Images)

Actor August Schellenberg, who starred in “Free Willy” and “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” passed away in Texas after battling cancer. He was 77.  (Frazer Harrison / Getty Images)

Gia Allemand finished third on the ABC reality show “The Bachelor” in 2010. Allemand went on to star in “The Bachelor” spin-off “Bachelor Pad.” She died in New Orleans after being admitted to University Hospital following an apparent suicide attempt. Allemand was 29.   (Joe Corrigan / Getty)

Dutch Prince Johan Friso, who went into a coma following a skiing accident in February, 2012, died “from complications that arose as a consequence of the brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation following his skiing accident,” the government said in a statement.  (TOUSSAINT KLUITERS/Getty-AFP Photo)

Eydie Gorme, the popular nightclub vocalist and half of the longtime musical partnership Steve & Eydie, died in a Las Vegas hospital Saturday, aUG. 10, after an undisclosed illness. She was 84 years old.  (GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Photo)

“Cowboy” Jack Clement, maybe the most important figure in country music that most fans dont know, died Thursday at his home in Nashville after battling liver cancer. He was 82..  (Beth Gwinn / Getty Images)

Michael Ansara, best known for playing “Star Trek’s” Kang and “Batman’s” Mr. Freeze dies at his Calabasa, Calif. home at the age of 91.  (Ron Galella / WireImage)

American Democratic senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. of Virginia seated before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The oldest former U.S. senator, Byrd died at the age of 98.  (Getty Images / Getty Images)

Eileen Brennan, an actress nominated for an Oscar in 1981 for her supporting role as tough-talking drill captain Doreen Lewis in Goldie Hawn comedy “Private Benjamin,” died. She was 80.  (Ron Galella / WireImage)

J.J. Cale, the famed songwriter who wrote Eric Clapton’s hits “Cocaine” and “After Midnight,” sits backstage at The Boarding House Nightclub in San Francisco in 1977. Cale died of a heart attack at 74.  (Richard McCaffrey / Getty Images)

George P. Mitchell, a billionaire philanthropist credited with making the extraction of natural gas from shale rock commercially viable using the innovation of hydraulic fracturing, died at the age of 94.  (Richard Carson/Reuters)

Virginia Johnson, part of the husband-wife research team (with husband Dr. William Masters) that transformed the study of sex in the 1960s, has died. She was 88.  (MARK CARDWELL/Getty-AFP Photo)

Dennis Farina, a former Chicago policeman turned tough-guy actor, died in Scottsdale, Arizona, the actor’s publicist said. He was 69.  (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

John Casablancas, the brash upstart who transformed the modeling business in the late 1970s when he founded the Elite agency and turned its young beauties including Linda Evangelista, Gisele Bundchen and Naomi Campbell into celebrities, died Saturday in Rio de Janeiro. He was 70.0.  (Studio Fernanda Calfat / Getty Images)

Long-time White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who covered every president from Eisenhower to Barack Obama, has died at age 92, according to CNN.  (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune)

Canadian actor Cory Monteith, the 31-year-old heart throb of Fox’s musical-comedy television series “Glee”, was found dead in a hotel room in Vancouver.  (Gus Ruelas/Reuters)

Bernadette Nolan, the youngest member of the original Nolan Sisters, has died of cancer. The singer was 52. The Nolans had a worldwide hit in 1979 with “I’m In the Mood For Dancing” and gained large followings from Britain to Japan.  (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)

Marc Rich, pictured here in 1998, was a multimillionaire international commodities trader who fled the U.S. for Switzerland in 1983 after being accused of failing to pay more than $48M in taxes, among other violations. Former President Bill Clinton pardoned Rich right before leaving office, a decision that came under the scrutiny of Congress in 2001.   (Guido Roeoesli/AFP/Getty Images)

Gary David Goldberg, an Emmy-winning TV writer and producer who created “Family Ties” and other series, has died. Goldberg died at his home in Montecito, Calif., after fighting brain cancer. He was 68.  (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

‘Sopranos’ star James Gandolfini died at age 51.  (Matt Carr / Getty Images)

Country singer and songwriter Slim Whitman, known for his smooth falsetto and yodeling talent, died in Florida at the age of 90.  (Edward Miller/Getty Images)