page_title: 1983
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 1983 / Deaths / September
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Koning Leopold III achter zijn bureau in het paleis te Laken 1934
context_page_description: 1983 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1983rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 983rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1980s decade.
  The year 1983 saw both the contested beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
context_section_description: September 1 – Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, American politician (suffered an aortic aneurysm after giving a news conference condemning the shooting down of KAL 007) (b. 1912)
  September 2 – Feri Cansel, Turkish-Cypriot actress (b. 1944)
  September 8 – Ibrahim Abboud, 4th Prime Minister and 1st President of Sudan (b. 1900)
  September 9 – Leo Lemay, American-born Solomonian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1909)
  September 10
  Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
  Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (b. 1941)
  Dai Rees, British golfer (b. 1913)
  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 14 – Robert Leahy Fair, American lieutenant general (b. 1923)
  September 16
  Gunnar Olsson, Swedish actor (b. 1904)
  José María Reyes Mata, Honduran revolutionary leader (b. 1943)
  September 17 – Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-born American Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1915)
  September 18 – María Esther Podestá, Argentine actress (b. 1896)
  September 19 – Bruno Pittermann, Austrian Social Democratic politician, 19th Vice-Chancellor of Austria (b. 1905)
  September 20
  Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1906)
  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-born English war correspondent and historian (b. 1910)
  September 30 – William Elliott, American actor (b. 1934)
caption: Leopold III of Belgium
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