Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1983

Ghanshyam Das Birla was a pioneering Indian businessman and member of the Birla Family.

Carrie Elizabeth Buck was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, after having been ordered to undergo compulsory sterilization for purportedly being "feeble-minded." The surgery, carried out while Buck was an inmate of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, took place under the authority of the Eugenical Sterilization Act of 1924, part of the Commonwealth of Virginia's eugenics program.

Arthur Koestler, fue un novelista, ensayista, historiador, periodista, activista político y filósofo social húngaro de origen judío. Su nombre de nacimiento fue Artúr Kösztler, que cambió posteriormente a Arthur Koestler al nacionalizarse británico.

Sergey Anatolievich Preminin was a Soviet Russian sailor who, after an explosion aboard nuclear submarine K-219, prevented an impending nuclear meltdown by manually forcing damaged control rods into place. He was, however, unable to exit the reactor compartment because the hatch had jammed due to increased pressure, and died.

Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado fue un político cubano que desempeñó el cargo de presidente del país entre el 17 de julio de 1959 y el 2 de diciembre de 1976. Ese año entró en vigor la actual Constitución, que eliminó el cargo de "Presidente de la República" y estableció el máximo poder del Estado en un órgano colegiado electo por la Asamblea Nacional. Se suicidó en 1983.

Susan Dorothea Mary Therese Hilton was a British radio broadcaster for the Nazi regime in Germany during the Second World War.

Roy Radin was an American show business promoter who packaged vaudeville shows and oldies music nostalgia tours in the 1970s and early 1980s. He was probably best known for his attempts to help finance the film The Cotton Club (1984), and as the subsequent victim of a murder-for-hire at age 33. The trial in which four people were sentenced related to Radin's killing became known as "The Cotton Club Murder." The story of Radin's murder became the subject of a book, Bad Company: Drugs, Hollywood and the Cotton Club Murder.

Edith Thrower Munro was a United States Coast Guard officer and homemaker. She was the mother of the American war hero Douglas Albert Munro and the sister of the Canadian parliamentarian Francis Fairey.

Alfred Nakache –conocido como Artem Nakache– fue un deportista francés que compitió en natación. Ganó una medalla de plata en el Campeonato Europeo de Natación de 1938 en la prueba de 4 × 200 m libre.

Violet Helen Carson OBE fue una actriz británica, conocida principalmente por interpretar a Ena Sharples, uno de los personajes originales de la serie británica Coronation Street.