# Deaths in 1983

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:

## 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 28 – Suzanne Belperron, French jewellery designer (b. 1900)
* 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)
** Kenneth Callow, British biochemist (d. 1983)
** 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, 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)
** 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)
** Anna Seghers, German writer (b. 1900)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)

### 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)
** 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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 3 – Alfredo Antonini, Italian-born American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
* 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)
** 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. 1901)
** 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)