page_title: 1983
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1983 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Brazilian football player, Manoel Francisco dos Santos (Garrincha), during the 1962 FIFA World Cup.
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: January 2
  Dick Emery, British comedian (b. 1915)
  Edward Howard, American Roman Catholic prelate and venerable (b. 1877)
  January 7 – Fred Church, American actor (b. 1889)
  January 8 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German World War II fighter ace (b. 1919)
  January 10 – Roy DeMeo, American Mafia hitman (b. 1942)
  January 11
  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 13 – David M. Shoup, American general (b. 1904)
  January 15
  Masatane Kanda, Japanese general (b. 1890)
  Meyer Lansky, American gangster (b. 1902)
  January 17 – 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 21 – Howard Clark, Canadian Anglican primate (b. 1903)
  January 22 – Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine, British trade unionist (b. 1887)
  January 23
  Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
  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)
caption: Garrincha
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