Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1983

Aina Wifalk was a Swedish social scientist and inventor of the modern walker.

Norah Royce Docker, Lady Docker was an English socialite. A dance hostess at a club in her youth, she married three times, on each occasion to an executive of a business that sold luxury goods. Her third marriage, to Sir Bernard Docker, the chairman of Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) and its subsidiary, Daimler, was notable for the couple's extravagant lifestyle. This was often funded by tax writeoffs and company expenditure that could not be legitimately defended, which led to Sir Bernard's removal from BSA's board of directors. She was also banned from Monaco by Prince Rainier after an incident in which she tore up a Monegasque flag.

Frank James Reynolds was an American television journalist for CBS and ABC News.

Joe Alton Delaney was an American football running back who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL). In his two seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, Delaney set four franchise records that would stand for more than 20 years. His nephew is Terrace Marshall Jr.

Charles Burke Elbrick was a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer. During his career, he served three ambassadorships: in Portugal, Yugoslavia and Brazil, in addition to numerous minor postings.

Erik Ode fue un actor y director de nacionalidad alemana. Fue sobre todo conocido por interpretar al Comisario Herbert Keller en la serie televisiva Der Kommissar en los años 1970.

Pearl Gibbs (Gambanyi) fue una originaria australiana de la tribu yolngu, destacada líder, activista, académica, educadora, traductora, lingüista, mujer de familia y una de las personalidades más destacadas dentro del movimiento indígena en el siglo XX. Fue miembro de la Aborigines Progressive Association (APA), habiendo estado involucrada en numerosas protestas, como la de 1938 Día de Luto por el genocidio australiano.

Cornelius Rost was an Austrian drafted into the German army as a soldier in World War II who claimed that he escaped from a Soviet Gulag camp in Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia. His supposed experiences were the basis for a book, a television series, and a film. However, gross inaccuracies have led to his story being dismissed as a fraud in Germany.

Janete Clair, nombre artístico de Jenete Stocco Emmer Dias Gomes, fue una famosa escritora brasilera, autora de diversos seriales para la radio y la televisión. El apellido Dias Gomes proviene de su marido, y también escritor, Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes.

Klaus Sperber conocido artísticamente como Klaus Nomi, fue un contratenor de origen alemán. Ha sido vastamente reconocido por sus únicas e inusuales interpretaciones vocales y por fusionar la ópera con el rock y el pop. También es recordado por sus extravagantes actuaciones teatrales, su maquillaje recargado, su vestuario futurista y su peinado único y estilizado que exageraba las entradas de su cabello. Especialmente buscaba dar la imagen de que era un extraterrestre que cayó de una galaxia más glamorosa para cantar a través de su condición de falsetto. Sus composiciones musicales eran singulares y abarcaban desde interpretaciones en sintetizador de la ópera clásica hasta varias versiones de canciones de pop como «El Twist» de Chubby Checker y «Lightning Strikes» de Lou Christie.