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Deaths in February 2013

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ3968148 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 2013

1

Barney, 12, American Scottish Terrier, First Dog of President George W. Bush (2001–2009), lymphoma.

Gertrude Berman, 88, American politician.

Rudolf Dašek, 79, Czech guitarist.

Carol Brewster, 85, American actress (Untamed Women, Cat-Woman of the Moon, The Barkleys of Broadway) and model.

Gisèle Guillemot, 90, French writer and a member of the French Resistance.

Helene Hale, 94, American politician, Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives (2000–2006).

John Hamber, 81, United States Virgin Islands Olympic sailor.

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“Deaths in February 2013” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Deaths, February and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2001, 2009, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Deaths, February and Wikimedia.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3968148. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2001, 2009 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Deaths in February 2013” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.