The following is a list of notabledeaths in November 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.

• Maurice Woods, 45, American actor, cancer^[1]

• Alfredo Antonini, 82, Italian–American orchestral conductor and composer, worked for theCBS radio and television networks from the 1930s until the early 1970s,^[2][3][4][5] died during hisheart surgery^[6][7]

• Jean-Marc Reiser, 42, Frenchcomics creator andblack comedy artist, bone cancer^[8]

• Germaine Tailleferre, 91, French composer, the only female member of the group of composers known asLes Six^[9][10]

• James Hayden, 29, American actor, heroin overdose^[11]
• Betty Nuthall, 72, English tennis player,coronary arrest^[12]

• Aliagha Aghayev, 70, Azerbaijani actor^[13]
• Jam Handy, 97, American Olympicbreaststroke swimmer,water polo player, film producer, and pioneer indistance education^[14][15]
• Junior Samples, 57, American comedian, heart attack^[16][17]
• Louise Tracy, 87, founder of theJohn Tracy Clinic, a private, non-profit education center for thedeaf^[18]

• John Le Mesurier, 71, English actor, recurring haemorrhage,^[19][20] had slipped into a coma shortly before his death^{[21][22][23][24]}

• Peter Coffield, 38, American actor, AIDS-related illness^[25][26]
• Tom Evans, 36, English bass guitarist, singer, and songwriter, member of the Welsh rock bandBadfinger and influential musician in thepower pop genre,^[27][28]suicide by hanging^[29]
• Carolyn Leigh, 57, American lyricist, heart attack^[30][31]

• Richard Loo, 80, American character actor^[32]

• Michael Conrad, 58, American actor,urethral cancer^[33][34]
• Leonard Wibberley, 68, Irish novelist, satirist, historian, and biographer, heart attack^[35]

• Waheed Murad, 45, Pakistani film actor, producer, and screenwriter, died after chewing apaan leaf containing an unidentified substance; unclear if the cause of death was a heart attack or suicide.^[36][37]

• Alberto Uribe Sierra, 50, Colombian rancher, businessman, and father of formerColombian PresidentÁlvaro Uribe Vélez, assassination.^[38]

• Jorge Ibargüengoitia, 55, Mexican novelist, playwright, satirist, and short-story writer, one of the victims of theAvianca Flight 011^[39][40][41]
• Ángel Rama, 57, Uruguayan academic and literary critic, one of the victims of theAvianca Flight 011^[41]
• Rosa Sabater, 54, Spanish pianist, one of the victims of theAvianca Flight 011^[41]
• Manuel Scorza, 55, Peruvian novelist, poet, and exiled political activist, one of the victims of theAvianca Flight 011^[42][41]
• Marta Traba, 53, Argentineart critic, museum director, and university teacher, one of the victims of theAvianca Flight 011^[42][43][41]

• Christopher George, 52, American actor, heart attack.^{[44][45][46][47]} George had a knownheart disease, and had undergonecoronary bypass surgery about five years prior to his death.^[48]

• George Headley, 74, Jamaicancricketer, considered one of the bestbatsmen to play for theWest Indies cricket team and one of the greatest cricketers of all time^[49][50]
• Richard Llewellyn, 77, British novelist, heart attack^[51]
• Michael Witney, 52, American actor, minor leaguepitcher for theHornell Dodgers and theGreat Falls Electrics,^[52]heart attack^[53]

• Le Mesurier, Joan (1988).Lady Don't Fall Backwards: A memoir dedicated to Tony Hancock and John Le Mesurier. London:Sidgwick & Jackson.ISBN 978-0-283-99664-1.
• McCann, Graham (2010).Do You Think That's Wise? The life of John Le Mesurier. London:Aurum Press.ISBN 978-1-84513-583-6.

• List of November 1983 deaths atIMDb

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