Famous People Who Died In 1983
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1983. This list includes people like Karen Carpenter, David Niven, Meyer Lansky, Tennessee Williams, Carolyn Jones and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, novelists, journalists and composers who died in 1983. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Germany and many more countries.
Karen Carpenter02 March 1950, American
Singer
David Niven01 March 1910, British
Actor
Tennessee Williams26 March 1911, American
American playwright
Carolyn Jones08 April 1930, American
Actress
Jon Brower Minnoch29 September 1941, American
Heaviest Man
Meyer Lansky04 July 1902, Polish, American
Gangster
Muddy Waters04 April 1913, American
Musician
Jack Dempsey24 June 1895, American
American professional boxer
Slim Pickens29 June 1919, American
Actor & Rodeo Performer
Gloria Swanson27 March 1899, American
Joan Miró20 April 1893, Spanish
Painter
Norma Shearer10 August 1902, Canadian, American
Actress
Roy DeMeo07 September 1942, American
Gangster
Bear Bryant11 September 1913, American
Football Player, Coache
Paul Fix13 March 1901, American
Actor
Hergé22 May 1907, Belgian
Cartoonist (Creator of Tintin)
Jessica Savitch01 February 1947, American
News Anchor
Arthur Koestler05 September 1905, Hungarian, British
George Cukor07 July 1899, American
Film Director
Louise Tracy31 July 1897, American
Founder of The John Tracy Clinic
William Walton29 March 1902, British
Composer
Rebecca West21 December 1892, British
British author
Ghanshyam Das Birla10 April 1894, Indian
Indian businessman
Felix Bloch23 October 1905, Swiss
Physicist
Lynn Fontanne06 December 1887, British, American
Actress
Piero Sraffa05 August 1898, Italian
Founder of the Neo-Ricardian School of Economics
Germaine Tailleferre19 April 1892, French
Composer
Georges Bidault05 October 1899, French
French Politician
Albert Claude24 August 1899, Belgian
Cell Biologist
Ulf von Euler07 February 1905, Swedish
Physiologist and Pharmacologist
Haldan Keffer Hartline22 December 1903, American
Physiologist
Dora Gabe26 August 1886, Bulgarian
Poet
Dennis Wilson04 December 1944, American
Record producer, Singer, Drummer, Surfer, Composer
Buckminster Fuller12 July 1895, American
Architect
Dolores del Río03 August 1905, Mexican
singer, dancer, stage actor, film actor,
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Leopold III of Belgium03 November 1901, Belgian
King
Corrie ten Boom15 April 1892
Writer, Autobiographer
Umberto II of Italy15 September 1904, Italian
Military personnel
Luis Buñuel22 February 1900, Spanish, Mexican
Film director, Screenwriter, Actor, Film editor,
Louis de Funès31 July 1914, French
Actor, Film actor, Film director, Film producer,
Klaus Nomi24 January 1944, German
Vocalizer
Billy Fury17 April 1940, British
Actor, Singer, Songwriter
Garrincha28 October 1933, Brazilian
Association football player
Earl Hines28 December 1903, American
Pianist, Bandleader, Jazz musician, Composer
Anthony Blunt26 September 1907, British
Art historian, University teacher
Arthur Godfrey31 August 1903, American
Actor, Officer, Television presenter, Radio
Harry James15 March 1916, American
American musician
Stan Rogers29 November 1949, Canadian
Songwriter, Singer-songwriter, Composer, Singer
Pete Farndon12 June 1952, British
Guitarist
Sergei Preminin18 October 1965
Military personnel
John Bodkin Adams21 January 1899, British
Physician, Serial killer
Lillian Gordy Carter15 August 1898, American
Nurse, Politician
Robert Aldrich09 August 1918, American
Director
Henry M. Jackson31 May 1912, American
Politician, Lawyer
Harish-Chandra11 October 1924, Indian
mathematician, physicist, university teacher
Eric Hoffer25 July 1902, American
Writer, Philosopher, Psychologist
Walter Slezak03 May 1902, Austrian
Stage actor, Film actor
Alfred Tarski14 January 1901, Polish, American
Mathematician, Philosopher
Kurt Tank24 February 1898, German
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Scientist,
Waheed Murad02 October 1938, Pakistani
Actor, Film producer, Screenwriter, Film director
John Fante08 April 1909, American
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist
Frank Forde18 July 1890, Australian
Politician, Diplomat
Gerhard Barkhorn20 March 1919, German
Aviator, Officer
Raymond Aron14 March 1905, French
Journalist, Philosopher, Writer, Political
Eubie Blake07 February 1887, American
American composer
James Booker17 December 1939, American
Pianist, Songwriter
B. J. Vorster13 December 1915, South African
Politician
Paul de Man06 December 1919, Belgian, American
Philosopher, University teacher, Literary critic,
Victor Turner28 May 1920, British
Anthropologist, Sociologist
Alexander Fu Sheng20 October 1954
Actor, Film actor, Karateka
Earl Tupper28 July 1907, American
Entrepreneur
Nikolai Podgorny18 February 1903, Ukrainian
Statesman
Shizo Kanakuri20 August 1891, Japanese
Marathon runner, Athletics competitor
Herbert Howells17 October 1892, British
Composer
Robert A. Lewis18 October 1917, American
Tino Rossi29 April 1907, French
Actor, Singer
Shūji Terayama10 December 1935, Japanese
Poet, Playwright, Writer, Film director,
Anna Seghers19 November 1900, German
Writer
Benigno Aquino, Jr.27 November 1932, Filipino
Mordecai Kaplan11 July 1881, American
essayist, rabbi, translator, philosopher, diarist
James Van Der Zee29 June 1886, American
Photographer
Gabrielle Roy22 March 1909, Canadian
Writer, Novelist
Bill Brandt02 May 1904, British
Photographer, war photographer, photojournalist,
Mercè Rodoreda10 October 1908, Spanish
Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Howard Dietz08 September 1896, American
Opinion journalist
Alden Nowlan25 January 1933, Canadian
Novelist
Mignon McLaughlin06 June 1913, American
Journalist
John Beverley Nichols09 September 1898, British
Idris I of Libya12 March 1889, Egyptian, Libyan
Political leader
Sri Sri30 April 1910, Indian
author, poet, lyricist, songwriter
Richard Buckminster Fuller12 July 1895, American
Poet, Inventor, Engineer, Environmental Activist,
Shah Nawaz Khan24 January 1914, Indian
politician
Tom Evans05 June 1947, British
Cornelia ten Boom15 April 1892, Dutch
Christina Ellen Stead17 July 1902, Australian