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The following is a list of notable deaths in 1983 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Deaths in 1983
January
Garrincha
Louis de Funès
January 8 –
Gerhard Barkhorn , German World War II fighter ace (b.
1919 )
January 11
January 12 –
Nikolai Podgorny , Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1965 to 1977 (b.
1903 )
January 15 –
Meyer Lansky , American gangster (b.
1902 )
January 16 –
Doodles Weaver , American comedian (b.
1911 )
January 18 –
Arturo Umberto Illia , Argentine politician and physician, 34th
President of Argentina (b.
1900 )
January 20 –
Garrincha , Brazilian footballer (b.
1933 )
January 23 –
Marcolino Gomes Candau , Brazilian medical doctor, 2nd Director-General of
World Health Organization (b.
1911 )
January 24
January 26 –
Bear Bryant , American football player and coach (b.
1913 )
January 27
January 28
February
Karen Carpenter
March
Dame
Rebecca West
Umberto II of Italy
March 1
March 3 –
Hergé , Belgian comics creator (b.
1907 )
March 6 –
Donald Maclean , British spy (b.
1913 )
March 7 –
Igor Markevitch , Ukrainian conductor (b.
1912 )
March 8
March 9
March 14 –
Maurice Ronet , French film actor and director (b.
1927 )
March 15
March 16 –
Arthur Godfrey , American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer (b.
1903 )
March 17 –
Haldan Keffer Hartline , American physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903 )
March 18
March 20 –
Maria Babanova , Soviet and Russian actress (b.
1900 )
March 26 –
Anthony Blunt , British spy and art historian (b.
1907 )
March 30 –
Lisette Model , Austrian-American photographer (b.
1901 )
April
Gloria Swanson
Dolores del Río
May
Idris of Libya
Jack Dempsey
May 1
May 2
May 5 –
John Williams , British actor (b.
1903 )
May 8 –
John Fante , American writer (b.
1909 )
May 14 –
Miguel Alemán Valdés , 46th
President of Mexico (b.
1900 )
[1]
May 18 –
Frank Aiken , Irish politician (b.
1898 )
May 19 –
Jean Rey , 2nd
President of the European Commission (b.
1902 )
May 21 –
Kenneth Clark , British art historian (b.
1903 )
May 22
May 25 –
Sid Daniels , British merchant marine worker, last surviving crewmember of the
RMS Titanic (b.
1895 )
May 29 –
Arvīds Pelše , Latvian historian, Soviet politician and functionary (b.
1899 )
May 31 –
Jack Dempsey , American heavyweight champion boxer (b.
1895 )
June
Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
June 1
June 2
June 8 –
Miško Kranjec , Slovenian writer (b.
1908 )
June 11 –
G.D. Birla , Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationalist (b.
1894 )
[3]
June 12 –
Norma Shearer , Canadian-American actress (b.
1902 )
June 15 –
Mario Casariego y Acevedo , Spanish-Guatemalan
Roman Catholic cardinal (b.
1909 )
June 17 –
Peter Mennin , American composer and teacher (b.
1923 )
June 18 –
Marianne Brandt , German industrial designer (b.
1893 )
[4]
June 23 –
Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado , Cuban politician, 21st
President of Cuba (b.
1919 )
June 25 –
Alberto Ginastera , Argentine composer (b.
1916 )
July
Buckminster Fuller
David Niven
July 1 –
Buckminster Fuller , American architect (b.
1895 )
July 2 –
László Budai , Hungarian footballer (b.
1928 )
July 4 –
John Bodkin Adams , British suspected serial killer (b.
1899 )
July 5 –
Harry James , American musician and band leader (b.
1916 )
July 7 –
Herman Kahn , American futurist (b.
1922 )
July 10
July 11 –
Ross Macdonald , American-Canadian writer (b.
1915 )
July 12 –
Chris Wood , British rock musician, lead singer and guitarist of the band
Traffic (b.
1944 )
July 14 –
Jack MacBryan , English cricketer (b.
1892 )
July 16
July 17 –
Roosevelt Sykes , American blues musician (b.
1906 )
July 23 –
Georges Auric , French composer (b.
1899 )
[6]
July 26 –
Charlie Rivel , Spanish Catalan circus clown (b.
1896 )
July 29
July 30 –
Lynn Fontanne , British actress (b.
1887 )
August
Carolyn Jones
Ninoy Aquino
September
Felix Bloch
Leopold III of Belgium
September 1 –
Henry M. Jackson , American politician (b.
1912 )
September 8 –
Ibrahim Abboud , 3rd Prime Minister and 1st President of Sudan (b.
1900 )
September 10
September 12 –
Sabin Carr , American Olympic athlete (b.
1904 )
September 15 –
LeRoy Prinz , American choreographer, director and producer (b.
1895 )
September 16 –
Gunnar Olsson , Swedish actor (b.
1904 )
September 17 –
Humberto Sousa Medeiros , Portuguese-American
Roman Catholic clergyman (b.
1915 )
September 19 –
Bruno Pittermann , Austrian Social Democratic politician, 19th
Vice-Chancellor of Austria (b.
1905 )
September 20 –
Ángel Labruna , Argentine footballer and manager (b.
1918 )
September 21 –
Xavier Zubiri , Spanish philosopher (b.
1898 )
September 25 – King
Leopold III of Belgium (b.
1901 )
September 26 –
Tino Rossi , French singer (b.
1907 )
September 29 –
Alan Moorehead , Australian-English war correspondent and historian (b.
1910 )
October
Joan Hackett
Ruben Rausing
October 4 –
Andrés Córdova , acting
President of Ecuador (b.
1892 )
October 5 –
Earl Tupper , American businessman (b.
1907 )
October 6 –
Terence Cooke , American cardinal (b.
1921 )
October 7
October 8
October 10 – Sir
Ralph Richardson , British actor (b.
1902 )
October 14 –
Paul Fix , American actor (b.
1901 )
October 15 –
Pat O'Brien , American actor (b.
1899 )
October 17 –
Raymond Aron , French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. (b.
1905 )
October 19
October 26 –
Alfred Tarski , Polish-American logician and mathematician (b.
1901 )
October 28 –
Otto Messmer , American cartoonist (b.
1892 )
October 31 –
George Halas , American football player and coach (b.
1895 )
November
George Headley
November 7 –
Germaine Tailleferre , French composer (b.
1892 )
November 8 –
Betty Nuthall , English tennis champion (b.
1911 )
November 11 –
Arno Babajanyan , Armenian composer and pianist (b.
1921 )
November 13 –
Aliagha Aghayev , Azerbaijani actor (b.
1913 )
November 15 –
John Le Mesurier , British actor (b.
1912 )
November 19 –
Tom Evans , English musician and songwriter (b.
1947 )
November 20
November 22 –
Michael Conrad , American actor (b.
1925 )
November 23 –
Waheed Murad , Pakistani actor, film producer, writer and director (b.
1938 )
November 27
November 28 –
Christopher George , American actor (b.
1931 )
November 30
December
Sir
Keith Holyoake
Joan Miró
Dennis Wilson
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^
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ISBN
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^
"Georges Auric - French composer" . Encyclopædia Britannica .
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"Klaus and effect" , The Advocate , archived from
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^ Kashiwahara, Ken (16 October 1983).
"Aquino's Final Journey" . The New York Times . Retrieved 4 January 2017 .
^
Westindian Digest . Hansib Pub. 1984. p. 45.