Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Chinua Achebe and Doris Lessing, Hugo Chavez and Lou Reed among noteworthy people who died in 2013 THE first woman prime minister of the UK, the first black president of South Africa and the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange were among the notable deaths of 2013.Margaret Thatcher, 87, died in April; Nelson Mandela, 95, died in December; and Muriel Siebert, 84, died in August.The year also included the deaths of politicians Edward Koch, 88, in February, and Hugo Chavez, 58, in March; entertainers James Gandolfini, 51, in June, Lou Reed, 71, in October.The world of business, finance and investing lost Fred Turner, 80, the former McDonald’s CEO who introduced Chicken McNuggets, Egg McMuffins and Happy Meals, in January; Martin Zweig, 70, who predicted the 1987 stock-market crash, in February; and Alfred Feld, 98, whose 80 years at Goldman Sachs Group made him the firm’s longest-serving employee, in November.Here are the year’s n...
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