Deaths in 1983

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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

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, 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
- 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, 82nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1899)
- Louis de Funès, French actor (b. 1914)
January 28
- Frank Forde, Australian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia, leader of the World War II (b. 1890)
- Billy Fury, British musician (b. 1940)
January 29 – Stuart H. Ingersoll, American admiral (b. 1898)

February

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, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1899)
February 14 – Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
February 19 – Alice White, American actress (b. 1904)
February 22 – Sir Adrian 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

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
- Sir William 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
- Dame Rebecca 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 last King 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 30 – Lisette Model, Austrian-American photographer (b. 1901)

April

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)
- 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-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, American libertarian 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

May 1
- George Hodgson, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1893)
- Joseph Ruttenberg, Russian-American cinematographer (b. 1889)
May 2
- Pridi Banomyong, Thai politician and professor, 7th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1900)
- Ernesto de la Guardia, 32nd President 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, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)^[1]
- Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
May 18 – Frank Aiken, Irish politician (b. 1898)
May 19 – Jean Rey, 2nd President 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 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
- King Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
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

June 1
- Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, regent of Belgium (b. 1903)
- Sarah Kafrit, Israeli politician (b. 1900)^[2]
- Anna Seghers, German writer (b. 1900)^[3]
June 2
- Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
- Julio Rosales, Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1906)
June 5 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1898)^[4]
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)^[5]
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)^[6]
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)^[7]

July

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)^[8]
- 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 band Traffic (b. 1944)
July 14 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer (b. 1892)
July 16
- Michel Micombero, Burundian military officer and statesman, 8th Prime Minister and 1st President 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)^[9]
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

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)^[10]
August 10
- José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, 104th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1917)
- Ruben Rausing, Swedish entrepreneur, founder of Tetra Pak (b. 1895)
August 11 – Mamie Phipps Clark, American psychologist (b. 1917)
August 16
- Earl Averill, American baseball player and member of the MLB 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)^[11]
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

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, 8th Prime Minister of South Africa and 5th President 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-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

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
- George O. Abell, American astronomer (b. 1927)
- Christophe Soglo, 3rd President of Dahomey (b. 1909)
October 8
- Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
- Ruben Rausing, Swedish entrepreneur, founder of Tetra Pak (b. 1895)
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
- Maurice Bishop, Grenadian politician and revolutionary, 2nd Prime 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

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
- Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
- 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)^[12]
- Richard Llewellyn, British writer (b. 1906)

December

December 2 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
December 5
- Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
- John Robinson, British Anglican bishop (b. 1919)
December 6
- Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
- Gul Khan Nasir, Baloch politician and poet from Pakistan (b. 1914)
December 7 – Fanny Cano, Mexican actress and producer (b. 1944)
December 8
- Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
- Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
December 11 – Sir Neil 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)

References

^ "BIOGRAFÍA" (in Spanish). Fundacion Miguel Aleman, A.C. Archived from the original on August 25, 2015. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
^ "Knesset Member, Sarah Kafrit". knesset.gov.il. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
^ "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.

[1] "BIOGRAFÍA" (in Spanish). Fundacion Miguel Aleman, A.C. Archived from the original on August 25, 2015. Retrieved May 29, 2019.

[2] "Knesset Member, Sarah Kafrit". knesset.gov.il. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-22.

[3] "Anna Seghers". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

[4] Kurt Tank German aircraft designer and test pilot

[5] Ghanshyam Das Birla Profile

[6] Photography at the Bauhaus. MIT Press. 1990. p. 342. ISBN 9780262061261.

[7] ARTISTS Dorothy Annan 1908–1983 British

[8] Julie Anne Sadie; Stanley Sadie (2005). Calling on the Composer. Yale University Press. p. 166. ISBN 9780300183948.

[9] "Georges Auric - French composer". Encyclopædia Britannica.

[10] Kort, Michele (February 15, 2005), "Klaus and effect", The Advocate, archived from the original on February 12, 2008, retrieved 2007-11-02

[11] Kashiwahara, Ken (16 October 1983). "Aquino's Final Journey". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 January 2017.

[12] Westindian Digest. Hansib Pub. 1984. p. 45.

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