Deaths in 1983 explained
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
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- 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
March
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- 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 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 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
May
- May 1
- 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
- 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
- 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
September
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- 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
- 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 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
- November 22 – Michael Conrad, American actor (b. 1925)
- November 23 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, film producer, writer and director (b. 1938)
- November 28 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1931)
December
Notes and References
- Web site: BIOGRAFÍA. Fundacion Miguel Aleman, A.C. . es . May 29, 2019.
- Web site: Anna Seghers . Jewish Women's Archive . 18 January 2022 .
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kurt-Tank Kurt Tank German aircraft designer and test pilot
- https://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/ghanshyam-das-birla.html Ghanshyam Das Birla Profile
- Book: Photography at the Bauhaus. MIT Press. 9780262061261. 1990. 342.
- Book: Julie Anne Sadie . Stanley Sadie. Calling on the Composer. Yale University Press. 2005. 9780300183948. 166.
- Web site: Georges Auric - French composer. Encyclopædia Britannica.
- News: Kashiwahara. Ken. Aquino's Final Journey. The New York Times. 16 October 1983. 4 January 2017. en.
- Book: Westindian Digest. 1984. Hansib Pub.. 45.