Famous Deaths for Year 1983

Months in Year 1983: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 303

Jan 2nd - Bernard George Stevens, composer, dies at 66
Jan 2nd - Dick Emery, actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love), dies at 65
Jan 2nd - Harriet Parsons, producer (Susan Slept Here), dies at 76 of cancer
Jan 7th - August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79
Jan 8th - Gale Page, actress (4 Daughters, Knute Rockney), dies of cancer at 72
Jan 8th - Lois Wilson, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 88
Jan 8th - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
Jan 8th - Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
Jan 8th - Ron Frazer, Australian actor (b. 1924)
Jan 11th - Nikolaj V Podgorny, president USSR, dies at 79
Jan 11th - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
Jan 12th - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (b. 1944)
Jan 13th - Arthur Space, actor (Doc Weaver-Lassie), dies of cancer at 74
Jan 13th - D Mack Reynolds, US writer (Amazon Planet, Once Departed), dies
Jan 13th - Doodles Weaver, comedian (Spike Jones & City Slickers), dies at 71
Jan 13th - John McHugh, actor (Unspeakable), dies of a heart attack at 69
Jan 15th - Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Fla at 80
Jan 15th - Shepperd Strudwick, actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75
Jan 17th - Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian (Ring of Fire), shoots himself at 71
Jan 20th - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
Jan 22nd - Fred Bakewell, cricketer (dashing England bat of 30s, 6 Tests), dies
Jan 24th - George Cukor, director, dies of stroke & heart attack at 83
Jan 26th - Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
Jan 27th - Louis De Funes, actor/writer (Mad Adv of Rabbi Jacobs), dies at 68
Jan 27th - Paul "Bear" Bryant, US football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
Jan 27th - Robert Christian, actor (Bustin' Loose), dies of cancer at 42
Jan 28th - Billy Fury, actor (That'll Be the Day), dies at 42 of heart failure
Jan 28th - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
Jan 30th - Joan Valerie, actress (Pier 13), dies of pneumonia
Jan 30th - [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65
Feb 1st - Tullio Campagnolo, Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies
Feb 2nd - Bryan Valentine, cricketer (7 Tests for England, 454 runs), dies
Feb 2nd - Roy Horb, Suriname sergeant/putschist, commits suicide
Feb 2nd - Sam Chatman, elder statesman of the blues, dies
Feb 4th - Jim Ameche, actor (Festival of Stars), dies at 68
Feb 4th - Karen Carpenter, rock drummer (Carpenters), dies of anorexia at 32
Feb 4th - Reginald Denham, director/writer (Death at BC House), dies at 89
Feb 5th - Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67
Feb 10th - Eduard Franz, actor (Zorro), dies at 80
Feb 12th - Eubie Blake, ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at 100
Feb 13th - Marian Nixon, actress (Dr Bull, Sweepstakes), dies of cancer at 78
Feb 14th - Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
Feb 19th - Alice White, actress (Employees' Entrance), dies at 78 of a stroke
Feb 20th - James G Richardson, (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), dies at 37 in ski accident
Feb 20th - Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33
Feb 20th - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician (b. 1910)
Feb 22nd - Christina E "Christine" Auwen, singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at 75
Feb 22nd - Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935), dies at 70
Feb 23rd - Adrian Boult, conductor, dies
Feb 24th - Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
Feb 25th - John Cowles Sr, US publisher, dies at 84
Playwright Tennessee Williams (Feb 25th) Feb 25th - Tennessee Williams, US playwright and writer (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 71
Mar 3rd - Arthur Koestler, Hung/Brit writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77
Mar 3rd - Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
Mar 6th - Thelma Pelish, actress (Pajama Game), dies at 55
Mar 7th - Igor Markevich, composer, dies at 70
Mar 7th - Robert Bray, actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65
Mar 8th - William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80
Mar 9th - Faye Emerson, actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65
Mar 12th - Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85
Mar 13th - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at 58
Mar 13th - Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 86
Mar 14th - Maurice Ronet, actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at 55
Mar 15th - Jose Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80
Mar 15th - Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
Mar 16th - Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79
Mar 16th - Fred Rose, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
Mar 17th - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
Mar 18th - Umberto of Piemonte, King Umberto II of Italy (1946), dies
Mar 18th - Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (b. 1910)
Mar 20th - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
Mar 23rd - Barney Clark, 1st artifical heart recipient, dies after 112 days at 62
Mar 25th - Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72
Mar 25th - Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
Mar 26th - Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at 75
Mar 27th - James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75
Mar 27th - Janis Ivanovs, composer, dies at 76
Mar 28th - Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies at 71
Mar 28th - Martinus A Jansen, bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies at 77
Mar 31st - Stephen Murray, actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70
Mar 31st - Christina Stead, Australian writer (b. 1902)
Actress Gloria Swanson (Apr 4th) Apr 4th - Gloria Swanson, actress (Airport 1975), dies of a heart ailment at 84
Apr 4th - Jacqueline Logan, silent film leading lady, dies at 78
Apr 5th - Danny Rapp, American musician (Danny & the Juniors) (b. 1941)
Apr 6th - Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered
Apr 7th - Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82
Apr 10th - Issam Sartawi, PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered
Apr 10th - Ulf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist, dies at 78
Apr 11th - Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78
Apr 12th - Carl Morton, American baseball player (b. 1944)
Apr 13th - Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist (b. 1896)
Apr 14th - Nina Dumbadze, Russian discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1952), dies at 64
Apr 14th - Pete Farndon, rock bassist (Pretenders), dies
Apr 14th - Willem F Bon, Dutch composer, dies at 42
Apr 15th - Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80
Apr 15th - Rodolfo Hoyos, actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68
Musician Pete Farndon (Apr 14th) Apr 15th - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
Apr 17th - Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies
Apr 17th - Mark W Clark, US general (WW II), dies at 87
Apr 17th - Peter Potter, DJ (Peter Potter Show, Juke Box Jury), dies at 78
Apr 18th - Alan Melville, cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies
Apr 19th - Jerzy Andrzejewski, writer (Ashes & Diamonds), dies at 73
Apr 19th - Lorene Scott, actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74
Apr 20th - Jerzy Andrezjewski, writer, dies
Apr 22nd - Earl "Fatha" Hines, US, jazz pianist/conductor, dies
Apr 22nd - Walter Slezak, actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in NY at 80
Apr 23rd - Buster Crabbe, 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932), dies at 73
Apr 23rd - Selena Royale, actress (Robot Monster), dies at 78
Apr 24th - Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
Apr 26th - Bronislaw Kaper, composer, dies at 81
Apr 26th - Vaughn Taylor, actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72
Apr 28th - Ron James, cricketer (NSW's Sheffield Shield capt 1949-50), dies
Ballet choreographer George Balanchine (Apr 30th) Apr 30th - George Balanchine, Russian/US ballet composer/choreographer, dies from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease at 79
Apr 30th - Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa, actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T & Tina), dies at 71
Apr 30th - Muddy Waters, US blues singer/guitarist (Mad Love), dies at 70
May 1st - V N Swamy, Indian cricket pace bowler (without distinction), dies
May 2nd - Marius F Duintjer, architect, dies
May 2nd - Norm Van Brocklin, American football star (b. 1926)
May 3rd - Vaughn Taylor, act (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebal hemmorrhage at 72
May 4th - Nino Sanzogno, composer, dies at 72
May 5th - John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80
May 5th - Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (b. 1901)
May 6th - Kai Winding, American trombonist and jazz composer (b. 1922)
May 7th - Peter Edel, writer, dies
May 10th - John P Strijbos, writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92
May 11th - Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65
May 14th - Miguel Aleman Valdes, attorney/pres of Mexico (1946-52), dies at 80
May 14th - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
May 16th - Carel Brons, composer, dies at 52
May 19th - Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission dies at 80
May 21st - Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at 61
May 21st - Kenneth Clark, English art historian (b. 1903)
May 23rd - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84
May 25th - Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76
May 25th - Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
May 25th - Black Jack Stewart, Canadian NHL hockey player (b. 1917)
May 27th - Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer, dies at 67
May 28th - Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1909)
May 29th - Arvīds Pelše, Soviet Latvian statesman (b. 1899)
May 30th - Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84
Jun 1st - Anna Seghers, writer, dies at 82
Jun 1st - Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies
Jun 2nd - Stan Rogers, musician, dies in aircraft fire
Jun 3rd - Miroslav "Standa" Bares, actress (Te Gkek Om Los te Lopen), dies at 60
Jun 3rd - Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Lollywood actor, Lahore
Jun 7th - Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried
Jun 7th - Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer, dies at 81
Jun 12th - Norma Shearer, actress (Escape, Romeo & Juliet), dies at 82
Jun 15th - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910)
Jun 17th - Eelco N van Kleffens, Dutch min of Foreign affairs 1939-46, dies at 88