The following is a list of notabledeaths in 1983. Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• January 11
  • Gerhard Barkhorn, German World War II fighter ace (b.1919)
  • Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b.1894)
  • Tikhon Kiselyov, Belarusian statesman in the Soviet Union, the de facto leader of the Byelorussian SSR from 1980 to 1983 (b.1917)
• 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, 34thPresident of Argentina (b.1900)
• January 20 –Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b.1933)
• January 23 –Marcolino Gomes Candau, Brazilian medical doctor, 2nd Director-General ofWorld Health Organization (b.1911)
• January 24
  • Carmen Clemente Travieso, Venezuelan journalist and activist (b.1900)
  • George Cukor, American film director (b.1899)
  • Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine Olympic athlete (b.1911)
• January 26 –Bear Bryant, American football player and coach (b.1913)
• January 27
  • Georges Bidault, French Resistance leader and politician, 82ndPrime Minister of France (b.1899)
  • Louis de Funès, French actor (b.1914)
• January 28
  • Frank Forde, Australian politician, 15thPrime Minister of Australia, leader of theWorld War II (b.1890)
  • Billy Fury, British musician (b.1940)
• January 29 –Stuart H. Ingersoll, American admiral (b.1898)

• February 4 –Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b.1950)
• February 12
  • Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b.1887)
• February 13 –Lorenzo Bianchi, ItalianRoman Catholic cardinal (b.1899)
• February 14 –Lina Radke, German athlete (b.1903)
• February 19 –Alice White, American actress (b.1904)
• February 22 – SirAdrian Boult, English conductor (b.1889)
• February 23 –Herbert Howells, English composer (b.1892)
• February 25 –Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b.1911)
• February 27 –Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b.1908)
• February 28 –Winifred Atwell, British pianist (b.1914)

• March 1
  • Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese author (b.1902)
  • Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b.1905)
• 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
  • SirWilliam Walton, English composer (b.1902)
  • Chabuca Granda, Peruvian singer and composer (b.1920)
• March 9
  • Faye Emerson, American actress (b.1917)
  • Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1905)
• March 14 –Maurice Ronet, French film actor and director (b.1927)
• March 15
  • DameRebecca West, British writer (b.1892)
  • Josep Lluís Sert, Spanish architect and urbanist (b.1902)
• 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 lastKing of Italy (b.1904)
• March 20
  • Maria Babanova, Soviet and Russian actress (b.1900)
  • Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b.1891)
• March 26 –Anthony Blunt, British spy and art historian (b.1907)
• March 27 –Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer (b.1898)
• March 28 –Suzanne Belperron, French jewellery designer (b.1900)^[1]
• March 30 –Lisette Model, Austrian-American photographer (b.1901)

• April 3 –Jimmy Bloomfield, English football player and manager (b.1934)
• April 4
  • Jacqueline Logan, American actress (b.1902)
  • Gloria Swanson, American actress (b.1899)
• April 11 –Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b.1904)
• April 12
  • Desmond Bagley, English novelist (b.1923)
  • Kenneth Callow, British biochemist (d.1983)^[2]
  • Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (b.1906)
• April 13 –Gloria Marín, Mexican actress (b.1919)
• April 15
  • Gyula Illyés, Hungarian poet and novelist (b.1902)
  • Corrie ten Boom, Dutch resistance fighter (b.1892)
• April 19 –Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (b.1909)
• April 20
  • Walther Nehring, German general (b.1892)
  • Pedro Quartucci, Argentine boxer and actor (b.1905)
• April 21 –Walter Slezak, Austrian-born American actor (b.1902)
• April 22 –Earl "Fatha" Hines, American musician (b.1903)
• April 23
  • Buster Crabbe, American actor and athlete (b.1908)
  • Suzanne La Follette, Americanlibertarian feminist (b.1893)
  • Selena Royle, American actress and writer (b.1904)
• April 30
  • George Balanchine, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b.1904)
  • Muddy Waters, American musician (b.1913)

• May 1
  • George Hodgson, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b.1893)
  • Joseph Ruttenberg, Russian-American cinematographer (b.1889)
• May 2
  • Pridi Banomyong, Thai politician and professor, 7thPrime Minister of Thailand (b.1900)
  • Ernesto de la Guardia, 32ndPresident of Panama (b.1904)
• May 5 –John Williams, British actor (b.1903)
• May 8 –John Fante, American writer (b.1909)
• May 14
  • Miguel Alemán Valdés, 46thPresident of Mexico (b.1900)^[3]
  • Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b.1900)
• May 18 –Frank Aiken, Irish politician (b.1898)
• May 19 –Jean Rey, 2ndPresident of the European Commission (b.1902)
• May 21 –Kenneth Clark, Baron Clark, British art historian (b.1903)
• May 22
  • Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.1899)
  • KingIdris of Libya (b.1889)
• May 25 –Sid Daniels, British merchant marine worker, last surviving crewmember of theRMSTitanic (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 1
  • Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, regent of Belgium (b.1903)
  • Sarah Kafrit, Israeli politician (b.1900)^[4]
  • Anna Seghers, German writer (b.1900)^[5]
• June 2
  • Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b.1949)
  • Julio Rosales, FilipinoRoman Catholic cardinal (b.1906)
• June 5 –Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer (b.1898)^[6]
• June 8
  • Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (b.1912)
  • Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (b.1908)
• June 11 –G.D. Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationalist (b.1894)^[7]
• June 12 –Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b.1902)
• June 15 –Mario Casariego y Acevedo, Spanish-GuatemalanRoman Catholic cardinal (b.1909)
• June 17 –Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b.1923)
• June 18 –Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (b.1893)^[8]
• June 23 –Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Cuban politician, 21stPresident of Cuba (b.1919)
• June 25 –Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b.1916)
• June 28 –Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist (b.1900)^[9]

• 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
  • Werner Egk, German composer (b.1901)^[10]
  • Estrellita Castro, Spanish singer and actress (b.1908)
• July 11 –Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b.1915)
• July 12 –Chris Wood, British rock musician, lead singer and guitarist of the bandTraffic (b.1944)
• July 14 –Jack MacBryan, English cricketer (b.1892)
• July 16
  • Michel Micombero, Burundian military officer and statesman, 8thPrime Minister and 1stPresident of Burundi (b.1940)
  • Samson Raphaelson, American screenwriter (b.1894)
• July 17 –Roosevelt Sykes, American blues musician (b.1906)
• July 23 –Georges Auric, French composer (b.1899)^[11]
• July 26 –Charlie Rivel, Spanish Catalan circus clown (b.1896)
• July 29
  • Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker (b.1900)
  • Rocco Chinnici, Italian judge (b.1925)
  • Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b.1896)
  • David Niven, British soldier and actor (b.1910)
• July 30 –Lynn Fontanne, British actress (b.1887)

• August 2 –James Jamerson, American musician (b.1936)
• August 3
  • Carolyn Jones, American actress (b.1930)
  • Jobriath, American rock musician and actor (b.1946)
• August 5
  • Bart Bok, Dutch-American astronomer (b.1906)
  • Judy Canova, American actress (b.1913)
• August 6 –Klaus Nomi, German singer and performance artist (b.1944)^[12]
• August 10
  • José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, 104thPrime Minister of Portugal (b.1917)
  • Ruben Rausing, Swedish entrepreneur, founder ofTetra Pak (b.1895)
• August 11 –Mamie Phipps Clark, American psychologist (b.1917)
• August 16
  • Earl Averill, American baseball player and member of theMLB Hall of Fame (b.1902)
  • Heinz Warneke, American sculptor (b.1895)
• August 17 –Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b.1896)
• August 18 –Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, German-British art historian (b.1902)
• August 21 –Ninoy Aquino, Filipino politician (b.1932)^[13]
• August 28
  • Jan Clayton, American actress and singer (b.1917)
  • José Bergamín, Spanish writer (b.1895)
• August 29 –Simon Oakland, American actor (b.1915)

• September 1
  • Otto Hulett, American actor (b.1898)
  • Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b.1912)
• September 8 –Ibrahim Abboud, 3rd Prime Minister and 1st President of Sudan (b.1900)
• September 10
  • Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1905)
  • Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (b.1941)
  • John Vorster, 8thPrime Minister of South Africa and 5thPresident of South Africa (b.1915)
• 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-AmericanRoman Catholic clergyman (b.1915)
• September 19 –Bruno Pittermann, Austrian Social Democratic politician, 19thVice-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 – KingLeopold 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 4 –Andrés Córdova, actingPresident of Ecuador (b.1892)
• October 5 –Earl Tupper, American businessman (b.1907)
• October 6 –Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b.1921)
• October 7
  • George O. Abell, American astronomer (b.1927)
  • Christophe Soglo, 3rdPresident of Dahomey (b.1909)
• October 8
  • Joan Hackett, American actress (b.1934)
  • Ruben Rausing, Swedish entrepreneur, founder ofTetra Pak (b.1895)
• October 10 – SirRalph 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
  • Maurice Bishop, Grenadian politician and revolutionary, 2ndPrime Minister of Grenada (b.1944)
  • Dorothy Stuart Russell, Australian-born British pathologist (b.1895)
  • Carel Willink, Dutch painter (b.1900)
• 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 3 –Alfredo Antonini, Italian-born American conductor and composer (b.1901)^[14]
• 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 18 –Marcel Dalio, French actor (b.1900)
• November 19 –Tom Evans, English musician and songwriter (b.1947)
• November 20 –Richard Loo, Chinese-American actor (b.1903)
• November 22 –Michael Conrad, American actor (b.1925)
• November 23 –Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, film producer, writer and director (b.1938)
• November 27
  • Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Mexican novelist and playwright (b.1928)
  • Ángel Rama, Uruguayan writer and literary critic (b.1926)
• November 28 –Christopher George, American actor (b.1931)
• November 30
  • George Headley, West Indian cricketer (b.1909)^[15]
  • Richard Llewellyn, British writer (b.1906)

• December 2 –Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American actress and singer (b.1904)
• December 5
  • Robert Aldrich, American film director (b.1918)
  • John Robinson, BritishAnglican bishop (b.1919)
• December 6
  • Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b.1901)
  • Gul Khan Nasir, Baloch politician and poet from Pakistan (b.1914)
• December 7 –Fanny Cano, Mexican actress and producer (b.1944)
• December 8
  • SirKeith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, 26thPrime Minister of New Zealand (b.1904)
  • Slim Pickens, American actor (b.1919)
• December 11 – SirNeil Ritchie, British general (b.1897)
• December 13
  • Leora Dana, American actress (b.1923)
  • Mary Renault, English author (b.1905)
• December 20
  • Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco (b.1935)
  • Bill Brandt, German-British photographer and photojournalist(b.1904)
• December 21 –Paul de Man, Belgian-American literary critic (b.1919)
• December 25 –Joan Miró, Spanish painter (b.1893)
• December 26 –Violet Carson, British actress (b.1898)
• December 28
  • William Demarest, American actor (b.1892)
  • Jimmy Demaret, American golf champion (b.1910)
  • Dennis Wilson, American singer, songwriter and drummer (b.1944)

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