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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 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
January 29 –
Stuart H. Ingersoll , American admiral (b.
1898 )
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 –
Umberto II of Italy , 4th and last
King of Italy (b.
1904 )
March 20
March 26 –
Anthony Blunt , British spy and art historian (b.
1907 )
March 27 –
Elsie Eaves , American civil engineer (b.
1898 )
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 5 –
Kurt Tank , German aeronautical engineer (b.
1898 )
[3]
June 8 –
Miško Kranjec , Slovenian writer (b.
1908 )
June 11 –
G.D. Birla , Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationalist (b.
1894 )
[4]
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 )
[5]
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 )
[7]
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
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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"BIOGRAFÍA" (in Spanish). Fundacion Miguel Aleman, A.C. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
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"Anna Seghers" . Jewish Women's Archive . Retrieved 18 January 2022 .
^
Kurt Tank German aircraft designer and test pilot
^
Ghanshyam Das Birla Profile
^ Photography at the Bauhaus . MIT Press. 1990. p. 342.
ISBN
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^ Julie Anne Sadie; Stanley Sadie (2005). Calling on the Composer . Yale University Press. p. 166.
ISBN
9780300183948 .
^
"Georges Auric - French composer" . Encyclopædia Britannica .
^ Kort, Michele (February 15, 2005),
"Klaus and effect" , The Advocate , archived from
the original on February 12, 2008, retrieved 2007-11-02
^ Kashiwahara, Ken (16 October 1983).
"Aquino's Final Journey" . The New York Times . Retrieved 4 January 2017 .
^
Westindian Digest . Hansib Pub. 1984. p. 45.