Yes Paul Walker died, but did you know these people also died in 2013..... Just a few of many but didnt see Facebook go crazy on these deaths. Michael Palmer, a physician and best-selling suspense author whose Extreme Measures was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant and Gene Hackman, has died. Palmer was a native of Springfield, Mass. He drew upon his medical background for such novels as Side Effects and The First Patient, a thriller about the presidents doctor. Lou Reed, the punk-poet of rock n roll who profoundly influenced generations of musicians as leader of the 1960s cult band Velvet Underground and remained a vital solo performer for decades after, has died. Reed never approached the commercial success of such contemporaries as the Beatles and Bob Dylan, but no songwriter to emerge after Dylan so radically expanded the territory of rock lyrics. Marcia Wallace, the voice of Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons, has died. The longtime TV actress credits ranged from playing a wise-cracking receptionist on The Bob Newhart Show to appearances on Candice Bergens Murphy Brown. Musician Noel Harrison, who sang the Academy Award-winning ballad The Windmills of Your Mind, has died at 79. The son of British actor Rex Harrison, Noel Harrison was an Olympic skier before becoming a professional musician. Windmills was the theme to 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair and won the best-song Oscar. Ed Lauter, whose long, angular face and stern bearing made him an instantly recognizable figure in scores of movies and TV shows for five decades, has died at age 74.His presence as an irascible authority figure, a brutal thug or a conniving con man made him all but impossible to miss in any film. He was the brutal prison guard who was Burt Reynolds nemesis in The Longest Yard and the sleazy gas station attendant in Alfred Hitchcocks last film, The Family Plot. The second American to orbit the Earth and one of the last surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts has died. Astronaut Scott Carpenter was 88. As an astronaut and aquanaut who lived underwater for the U.S. Navy, Carpenter was the first man to explore both the depths of the ocean and the heights of space. Carpenter gave the famous send-off - Godspeed, John Glenn - when Glenn became the first American in orbit in February 1962. Phil Chevron, the guitarist for boisterous Anglo-Irish band The Pogues, has died at 56. The Dublin-born musician was a member of seminal Irish punk rockers The Radiators From Space before joining the London-based Pogues in the early 1980s. The band, fronted by singer Shane MacGowan, fused Irish traditional music, rock and punk into an exhilarating hybrid on albums such as Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and If I Should Fall From Grace With God. Tom Clancy, the best-selling author of The Hunt for Red October and other wildly successful technological thrillers, has died. He was 66. Clancy sold the manuscript for The Hunt for Red October to the first publisher he tried, the Naval Institute Press, which had never bought original fiction. A string of other hits soon followed, including Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. Influential Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan has died at the age of 89. Hazan was best known for her six cookbooks. The recipes were traditional, tasty and sparse. Her famous tomato sauce contained only four ingredients: tomatoes, onion, butter and salt. It was her 1973 cookbook, The Classic Italian Cookbook, that led gourmets to draw comparisons between Hazan and another larger-than-life cookbook author: Julia Child. Former heavyweight champion Ken Norton, who beat Muhammad Ali and then lost a controversial decision to him in Yankee Stadium, has died. Norton broke Alis jaw in their first fight, beating him by split decision in 1973 in a non-title fight in San Diego. They fought six months later, and Ali narrowly won a split decision. They met for a third time on Sept. 28, 1976, at Yankee Stadium and Ali narrowly won to keep his heavyweight title. David Frost,who was famous for his interview with Richard Nixon, was 74 and died of a heart attack on Saturday night aboard the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship, where he was due to give a speech, his family said. Seamus Heaney, Irelands foremost poet who won the Nobel literature prize in 1995, has died after a half-century exploring the wild beauty of Ireland and the political torment within the nations soul. He was 74. Broadway star Julie Harris, who won an unprecedented five Tony Awards for best actress, has died. She was 87. Marian McPartland, a jazz pianist and host of the National Public Radio show Piano Jazz, has died in New York. She was 95. Her career spanned more than six decades. She became a fixture in the jazz world as a talented musician and well-loved radio personality. She was married to Chicago cornetist Jimmy McPartland. Marian McPartland recorded more than 50 albums for the Concord Jazz label and played in venues across the country. More in this link archive.13wmaz/news/photo-gallery.aspx?storyid=210674
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