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.
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 )
Karen Carpenter
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 )
Gloria Swanson
Dolores del Río
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 )
Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
June 1
June 2
June 5 – Kurt Tank , German aeronautical engineer (b. 1898 )[ 3]
June 8
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 )
June 28 – Dorothy Annan , English painter, potter, and muralist (b. 1900 )[ 6]
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 )[ 8]
July 26 – Charlie Rivel , Spanish Catalan circus clown (b. 1896 )
July 29
July 30 – Lynn Fontanne , British actress (b. 1887 )
Carolyn Jones
Ninoy Aquino
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 )
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 )
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
Sir Keith Holyoake
Joan Miró
Dennis Wilson
^ "BIOGRAFÍA" (in Spanish). Fundacion Miguel Aleman, A.C. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
^ "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 9780262061261 .
^ ARTISTS Dorothy Annan 1908–1983 British
^ 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.