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1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1983rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) 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 official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.

Events

January

• January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet).
• January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro.
• January 25
  • High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
  • IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space.

February

• February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women.
• February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequent leadership spill Bob Hawke is elected as Hayden's successor unopposed.
• February 5–6 – The team of A. J. Foyt, Preston Henn, Bob Wollek and Claude Ballot-Léna win the 24 Hours of Daytona automobile race in a Porsche 935
• February 6 – Klaus Barbie is officially charged with war crimes.
• February 12 – 100 women protest in Lahore, Pakistan, against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women are tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up but are successful in repealing the law.
• February 16 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfire disasters.
• February 18
  • The Venezuelan bolívar is devalued and exchange controls are established in an event now referred to as Black Friday by many Venezuelans (the Bolívar had been the most stable and internationally accepted currency).
  • Nellie massacre: Over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, are massacred in Assam, India, during the Assam agitation.
  • Wah Mee massacre: 13 people are killed in an attempted robbery in the Chinatown area of Seattle, United States.

March

• March 1 – The Balearic Islands and Madrid become Autonomous communities of Spain.
• March 5 – Australian federal election: The Labor Party led by Bob Hawke defeats the Liberal/National Coalition Government led by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Hawke would be sworn in on March 11. As soon as the results became clear, Fraser resigned from the Liberal leadership; he would be replaced by outgoing Minister for Industry and Commerce Andrew Peacock.
• March 9 – The 3D printer is invented by Chuck Hull.
• March 21 – Yamoussoukro officially becomes the Ivorian political capital after transfer from Abidjan.

April

• April 4 – The Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on its maiden voyage: STS-6.
• April 11 – Spain's Seve Ballesteros won the 47th PGA Masters Tournament
• April 18 – The 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people.
• April 22 – A reactor shut-down due to failure of fuel rods occurs at Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, Russia.

May

• May 6 – Stern magazine publishes the "Hitler Diaries" (which are later found to be forgeries).
• May 11 – Aberdeen F.C. beat Real Madrid 2–1 (after extra time) to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 and become only the third Scottish side to win a European trophy.
• May 17 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
• May 20
  • Two separate research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier independently declare that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting people with HIV/AIDS, and publish their findings in the same issue of the journal Science.
  • Church Street bombing: A car bombing in Pretoria, South Africa, kills 19 people. The bomb has been planted by members of Umkhonto we Sizwe, a military wing of the African National Congress.
• May 25 – Hamburger SV defeat Juventus 1-0 in the final of the European Cup.
• May 26 – The 7.8 M_w  Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
• May 27 – Benton fireworks disaster. An explosion at an unlicensed and illegal fireworks operation near Benton, Tennessee, kills eleven and injures one. The blast is heard within a radius of 20 miles (32 km).
• May 28 – The 9th G7 summit begins at Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.

June

• June 9 – Britain's Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected by a landslide majority.
• June 13 – Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the vicinity of the major planets of the Solar System.
• June 18 – Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women are hanged because they are members of the Baháʼí Faith.
• June 18–19 – The team of Vern Schuppan, Al Holbert and Hurley Haywood wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
• June 22 - Emanuela Orlandi, a 15 years old Vatican girl, misteriously disappears in Rome while returning home from a music lesson. The disappearance of the girl led to many speculations which see the involving of international terrorism, italian organized crime and even a plot inside the Vatican to cover a sexual scandal inside the Holy See. Because of all these theories, the missing of Emanuela Orlandi would later become Italy's most famous unsolved mystery.
• June 25 – India wins the Cricket World Cup, defeating the West Indies by 43 runs.
• June 30 – A total loss of coolant occurs at the Embalse Nuclear Power Station, Argentina. It is classified as an "Accident With Local Consequences" – level 4 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

July

• July 1
  • A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet, en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea, crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
  • A technical failure causes the release of iodine-131 from the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant, Germany.
• July 15
  • Nintendo's Family Computer, also known as the Famicom, goes on sale in Japan.
  • The Orly Airport attack in Paris leaves eight dead and 55 injured.
• July 16 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
• July 20 – The government of Poland announces the end of martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.
• July 21 – The lowest temperature on Earth is recorded in Vostok Station, Antarctica with −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
• July 22 – Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter.
• July 23
  • 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, starting the Sri Lankan Civil War which continued until 2009.
  • Heavy rain and mudslides at western Shimane Prefecture, Japan, kill 117.
• July 24 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

August

• August 4 – Thomas Sankara becomes President of Upper Volta.
• August 18
  • Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.
  • Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory of Australia (the driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, is convicted in March 1984).
• August 21 – Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippines opposition leader, is assassinated in Manila just as he returns from exile.
• August 26 – Heavy rain triggers flooding at Bilbao, Spain, and surrounding areas, killing 44 people and causing millions in damages.

September

• September 1 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet Union Air Force Su-15 Flagon pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed, including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.
• September 6 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
• September 19 – Saint Kitts and Nevis becomes an independent state.
• September 23
  • Gulf Air Flight 771 crashes in the United Arab Emirates after a bomb explodes in the baggage compartment, killing 117.
  • Violence erupts in New Caledonia between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence.
• September 26
  • 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a warning of attack by U.S. missiles as a false alarm.
  • The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown. The escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and Soyuz spacecraft, fires immediately, pulling the crew safe from the vehicle a few seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex.
  • The Australian yacht Australia II wins the America's Cup, the first successful challenge to the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the sailing trophy.
• September 27 – The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.

October

• October 2 – Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party.
• October 4 – British entrepreneur Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
• October 9 – The Rangoon bombing kills South Korea's Foreign Minister, Lee Bum Suk, and 21 others. The perpetrators are believed to be North Koreans.
• October 12 – Japan's former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed, and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
• October 13 – The world's first commercial mobile cellular telephone call is made, in Chicago, United States.
• October 19 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, and 40 others are assassinated in a military coup.
• October 21 – At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the metre is defined in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
• October 23 – Beirut barracks bombing: Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French Army and United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.
• October 25
  • Invasion of Grenada by United States troops at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica, a member of the Organization of American States.
  • Word processor software Multi-Tool Word, soon to become Microsoft Word, is released in the United States. It is primarily the work of programmers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi. Free demonstration copies on disk are distributed with the November issue of PC World magazine.
• October 30 – Argentine general election: The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.

November

• November 2 – South Africa approves a new constitution granting limited political rights to Coloureds and Asians as part of a series of reforms to apartheid.
• November 3 – Commencement of the battle of Tripoli between Arafat loyalists and PLO dissidents.
• November 5 – Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident: Off the coast of Norway, 5 divers are killed and 1 severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident.
• November 7
  • Able Archer 83: Many Soviet officials misinterpret this NATO exercise as a nuclear first strike, causing the last nuclear scare of the Cold War.
  • 1983 U.S. Senate bombing A bomb explodes in the United States Senate with the intent to kill Republican senators; no one is injured. The perpetrators are members of the May 19th Communist Organization.
• November 11 – Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. president to address the National Diet, Japan's national legislature.
• November 13 – The first United States cruise missiles arrive at RAF Greenham Common in the UK amid protests from peace campaigners.
• November 14 – The immunosuppressant cyclosporine is approved by the FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.
• November 15 – The Turkish part of Cyprus declares independence.
• November 17 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
• November 19 – An attempted hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 6833 in Soviet Georgia results in several dead and wounded.
• November 27 – Colombian Avianca Flight 011 crashes near Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, killing 181 of the 192 on board.

December

• December 4 – General elections are celebrated in Venezuela in which the opposition party, Democratic Action, wins a majority in both chambers of the Venezuelan Congress and the presidency for the 1984–1989 period under Jaime Lusinchi. Voter turn out is 87.3% and Lusinchi obtains 58.4% of the votes.
  • Solar eclipse of December 4, 1983.
• December 5 – ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal this same year.
• December 7 – Two Spanish passenger planes collide on the foggy runway at a Madrid airport, killing 90 people.
• December 9 – The Australian dollar is floated, by Federal treasurer Paul Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve Bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative is taken by the government of Bob Hawke.
• December 10 – Military rule ends and democracy is restored in Argentina, with the beginning of Raúl Alfonsín's first term as President of Argentina.
• December 13 – Turgut Özal, of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (45th government); beginning a new civilian regime.
• December 17
  • The Alcalá 20 nightclub fire in Madrid, Spain, injuring 47 and killing 83 people.
  • Harrods bombings: a Provisional IRA car bomb kills 6 people and injures 90 outside Harrods department store in London.
• December 19 – The Jules Rimet Trophy is stolen from the Brazilian Soccer Confederation building in Rio de Janeiro. As of 2022, the trophy has not been recovered.
• December 27 – Pope John Paul II visits Rebibbia prison to forgive his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca.
• December 31 – Two bombs explode in France: one on a Paris train kills 3 and injures 19; the other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34.

Date unknown

• Leopold Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter Lovins/Rocky Mountain Institute and Manfred Max Neef/CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award.
• The meteorological 1982–83 El Niño event brings severe weather worldwide.

Births and deaths

Deaths

January

• January 2 – Dick Emery, British comedian (b. 1915)
• January 8 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German World War II fighter ace (b. 1919)
• 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)

February

• February 4 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)
• February 6 – Eben Bartlett, American military officer and politician (b. 1912)
• February 7 – Raja Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
• February 8
  • Harry Boot, English physicist (b. 1917)
  • Maria Josefa Alhama y Valera, Spanish Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1893)
• February 9 – Patriarch Khoren I Paroian (b. 1914)
• February 12
  • Italo Acconcia, Italian football player and manager (b. 1925)
  • Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)
• February 13 – Lorenzo Bianchi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1899)
• February 14 – Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
• February 19 – Alice White, American actress (b. 1904)
• February 22 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
• February 23 – Herbert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)
• February 25 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
• February 27 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1908)
• February 28 – Winifred Atwell, British pianist (b. 1914)

March

• March 1
  • Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese author (b. 1902)
  • Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
• March 3 – Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
• March 6 – Donald Maclean, British spy (b. 1913)
• March 7 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor (b. 1912)
• March 8
  • Sir William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
  • Chabuca Granda, Peruvian singer and composer (b. 1920)
• March 9
  • Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
  • Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• March 11 – Will Glickman, American playwright (b. 1910)
• March 14 – Maurice Ronet, French film actor and director (b. 1927)
• March 15
  • Dame Rebecca West, British writer (b. 1892)
  • Josep Lluís Sert, Spanish architect and urbanist (b. 1902)
• March 16 – Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer (b. 1903)
• March 17 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• March 18
  • Umberto II of Italy, 4th and last King of Italy (b. 1904)
  • Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
• March 20 – Maria Babanova, Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1900)
• March 22 – Blanton Collier, American football coach (b. 1906)
• March 25 – Bob Waterfield, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1920)
• March 26 – Anthony Blunt, British spy and art historian (b. 1907)
• March 27
  • Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer (b. 1898)
  • James Hayter, British actor (b. 1907)
• March 30
  • Gunnar Bigum, Danish actor (b. 1914)
  • Lisette Model, Austrian-American photographer (b. 1901)
• March 31 – Stephen Murray, British actor (b. 1912)

April

• April 3 – Jimmy Bloomfield, English football player and manager (b. 1934)
• April 4
  • Jacqueline Logan, American actress (b. 1901)
  • Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)
• April 11 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1904)
• April 12
  • Desmond Bagley, English novelist (b. 1923)
  • Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (b. 1906)
• April 13 – Gloria Marín, Mexican actress (b. 1919)
• April 15
  • Gyula Illyés, Hungarian poet and novelist (b. 1902)
  • Corrie ten Boom, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1892)
• April 19 – Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (b. 1909)
• April 20
  • Mária Mezei, Hungarian actress (b. 1909)
  • Walther Nehring, German general (b. 1892)
  • Pedro Quartucci, Argentine boxer and actor (b. 1905)
• April 21 – Walter Slezak, Austrian-American actor (b. 1902)
• April 22 – Earl "Fatha" Hines, American musician (b. 1903)
• April 23
  • Buster Crabbe, American actor and athlete (b. 1908)
  • Selena Royle, American actress and writer (b. 1904)
• April 30
  • George Balanchine, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
  • Joel Henry Hildebrand, American chemist (b. 1881)
  • Muddy Waters, American musician (b. 1913)

May

• May 1
  • George Hodgson, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1893)
  • Joseph Ruttenberg, Russian-born American cinematographer (b. 1889)
  • Arthur D. Struble, American admiral (b. 1894)
• May 2
  • Pridi Banomyong, Thai politician and professor, 7th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1900)
  • Ernesto de la Guardia, 32nd President of Panama (b. 1904)
  • Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and coach (Minnesota Vikings) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1926)
• May 5 – John Williams, British actor (b. 1903)
• May 8 – John Fante, American writer (b. 1909)
• May 13 – Allauddin, Pakistan actor (b. 1923)
• May 14
  • Miguel Alemán Valdés, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)
  • Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
• May 15 – James Van Der Zee, American photographer (b. 1886)
• May 18 – Frank Aiken, Irish politician, former Tánaiste and Foreign Minister of Ireland (b. 1898)
• May 19 – Jean Rey, 2nd President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
• May 21 – Kenneth Clark, British art historian (b. 1903)
• May 22
  • Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
  • King Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
  • John Penrose, British actor (b. 1914)
• May 23 – John Seward Johnson I, American art collector (b. 1895)
• May 25 – Sid Daniels, British merchant marine worker, last surviving crewmember of the RMS Titanic (b. 1895)
• May 29 – Arvīds Pelše, Latvian historian, Soviet politician and functionary (b. 1899)
• May 31 – Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight champion boxer (b. 1895)

June

• June 1
  • Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (b. 1903)
  • Ernest Graves, American actor (b. 1919)
  • Anna Seghers, German writer (b. 1900)
• June 2
  • Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
  • Julio Rosales, Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1906)
• June 4 – Gordon Kahl, American tax protester and cop-killer (b. 1920)
• June 6 – Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Egyptian actor and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• June 8 – Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (b. 1908)
• June 10 – Larry Hooper, American singer (b. 1917)
• June 11 – George Douglas, American actor (b. 1903)
• June 12 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1902)
• June 15
  • Mario Casariego y Acevedo, Spanish-born Guatemalan Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1909)
  • Srirangam Srinivasarao, Indian Telugu poet (b. 1910)
• June 17
  • George Benson, British actor (b. 1911)
  • Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b. 1923)
• June 18
  • Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (b. 1893)
  • Robert Riddles, British locomotive engineer (b. 1892)
• June 23 – Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Cuban politician, 21st President of Cuba (suicide) (b. 1919)
• June 24 – Charles Phelps Taft II, American politician, son of President William Howard Taft (b. 1897)
• June 25 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
• June 30
  • Choo Seng Quee, Singaporean football coach (b. 1914)
  • Mary Livingstone, American radio and voice actress (b. 1908)

July

• July 1 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect (b. 1895)
• July 2 – László Budai, Hungarian footballer (b. 1928)
• July 4
  • Dr. John Bodkin Adams, British suspected serial killer (b. 1899)
  • Ted Berrigan, American poet (b. 1934)
• July 5 – Harry James, American musician and band leader (b. 1916)
• July 7 – Herman Kahn, American futurist (b. 1922)
• July 9 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (b. 1932)
• July 10
  • Werner Egk, German composer (b. 1901)
  • Estrellita Castro, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1908)
• July 11 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
• July 12 – Chris Wood, British rock musician, lead singer and guitarist of the band Traffic (b. 1944)
• July 14 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer (b. 1892)
• July 15 – Eddie Foy, Jr., American actor (b. 1905)
• July 16
  • Michel Micombero, Burundian military officer and statesman, 8th Prime Minister and 1st President of Burundi (b. 1940)
  • Samson Raphaelson, American screenwriter (b. 1894)
• July 17 – Roosevelt Sykes, American blues musician (b. 1906)
• July 20 – Frank Reynolds, American journalist (b. 1923)
• July 23 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
• July 25 – Jerome Moross, American composer (b. 1913)
• July 26
  • Larry Gains, Canadian boxer (b. 1901)
  • Charlie Rivel, Spanish Catalan circus clown (b. 1896)
• July 29
  • Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker (b. 1900)
  • Rocco Chinnici, Italian judge (b. 1925)
  • Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
  • David Niven, British soldier and actor (b. 1910)
• July 30
  • Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
  • Lynn Fontanne, British actress (b. 1887)

August

• August 1 – Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla (b. 1954)
• August 2 – James Jamerson, American musician (b. 1936)
• August 3 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
• August 4 – Jobriath, American rock musician and actor (b. 1946)
• August 5
  • Bart Bok, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1906)
  • Judy Canova, American actress (b. 1913)
• August 6 – Klaus Nomi, German singer and performance artist (b. 1944)
• August 10 – José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Portuguese military officer and political figure, 104th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1917)
• August 11 – Mamie Phipps Clark, American psychologist (b. 1917)
• August 16
  • Earl Averill, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1902)
  • Heinz Warneke, American sculptor (b. 1895)
• August 17 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
• August 18 – Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b. 1902)
• August 21 – Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
• August 24 – Scott Nearing, American political activist, economist, and simple living advocate (b. 1883)
• August 26 – Nazir Ahmed Khan, Pakistan-born Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1904)
• August 28
  • Jan Clayton, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
  • José Bergamín, Spanish writer (b. 1895)
• August 29 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)

September

• September 1 – Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, American politician (suffered an aortic aneurysm after giving a news conference condemning the shooting down of KAL 007) (b. 1912)
• September 2 – Feri Cansel, Turkish-Cypriot actress (b. 1944)
• September 8 – Ibrahim Abboud, 4th Prime Minister and 1st President of Sudan (b. 1900)
• September 9 – Leo Lemay, American-born Solomonian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1909)
• September 10
  • Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
  • Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (b. 1941)
  • Dai Rees, British golfer (b. 1913)
  • John Vorster, 8th Prime Minister of South Africa and 5th President of South Africa (b. 1915)
• September 12 – Sabin Carr, American Olympic athlete (b. 1904)
• September 14 – Robert Leahy Fair, American lieutenant general (b. 1923)
• September 16
  • Gunnar Olsson, Swedish actor (b. 1904)
  • José María Reyes Mata, Honduran revolutionary leader (b. 1943)
• September 17 – Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-born American Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1915)
• September 18 – María Esther Podestá, Argentine actress (b. 1896)
• September 19 – Bruno Pittermann, Austrian Social Democratic politician, 19th Vice-Chancellor of Austria (b. 1905)
• September 20
  • Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1906)
  • Ángel Labruna, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1918)
• September 21 – Xavier Zubiri, Spanish philosopher (b. 1898)
• September 25 – King Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
• September 26 – Tino Rossi, French singer (b. 1907)
• September 29 – Alan Moorehead, Australian-born English war correspondent and historian (b. 1910)
• September 30 – William Elliott, American actor (b. 1934)

October

• October 4 – Andrés Córdova, acting President of Ecuador, Leader of the World War II (b. 1892)
• October 5 – Earl Tupper, American businessman (b. 1907)
• October 6 – Terence Cooke, American Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop and servant of God (b. 1921)
• October 7
  • George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor at UCLA, science popularizer, and skeptic (b. 1927)
  • Christophe Soglo, Beninese military officer and political leader, 3rd President of Dahomey (b. 1909)
• October 8
  • Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
  • Ruben Rausing, Swedish entrepreneur, founder of Tetra Pak (b. 1895)
• October 10
  • Georgia Cozzini, American socialist politician (b. 1915)
  • Sir Ralph Richardson, British actor (b. 1902)
• October 12 – Prince Nayef bin Abdullah (b. 1914)
• October 13 – Ajitesh Bandopadhyay Indian actor, playwright and director (b. 1933)
• October 14
  • Alice Lardé de Venturino, Salvadoran poet and writer (b. 1895)
  • Paul Fix, American actor (b. 1901)
• October 15 – Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
• October 16 − George Liberace, American musician and television performer (b. 1911)
• October 17 – Raymond Aron, French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. (b. 1905)
• October 19
  • Maurice Bishop, Grenadian politician and revolutionary, 2nd Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
  • Dorothy Stuart Russell, Australian-British pathologist (b. 1895)
  • Carel Willink, Dutch painter (b. 1900)
• October 20 – Peter Dudley, British actor (b. 1935)
• October 21 – Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (b. 1919)
• October 23
  • Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
  • Toru Takahashi, Japanese race car driver (b. 1960)
  • Lakshman Wickremasinghe, Sri Lankan Anglican bishop (b. 1927)
• October 26
  • Mike Michalske, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)
  • Alfred Tarski, Polish-born American logician and mathematician (b. 1901)
• October 28
  • Roderick Gill, Irish cricketer (b. 1919)
  • Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (b. 1892)
• October 31 – George S. Halas, American football player and coach; member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1895)

November

• November 3 – Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
• November 7 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
• November 8 – Betty Nuthall, English tennis champion (b. 1911)
• November 13 – Aliagha Aghayev, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1913)
• November 14
  • Barney Bubbles, English graphic artist (b. 1942)
  • Tómas Guðmundsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1901)
• November 15 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (b. 1912)
• November 19
  • Tom Evans, English musician and songwriter (b. 1947)
  • Carolyn Leigh, American lyricist (b. 1926)
• November 20
  • Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
  • Richard Loo, Chinese-born American actor (b. 1903)
• November 22 − Michael Conrad, American actor (b. 1925)
• November 23 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, film producer, writer and director (b. 1938)
• November 27
  • Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Mexican novelist and playwright (b. 1928)
  • Ángel Rama, Uruguayan writer and literary critic (b. 1926)
  • Marta Traba, Colombian-Argentine art critic and writer (b. 1930)
  • Rosa Sabater, Spanish pianist (b. 1929)
• November 28 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1931)
• November 30
  • George Headley, West Indian cricketer (b. 1909)
  • Richard Llewellyn, British writer (b. 1906)

December

• December 2 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
• December 5
  • Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
  • John Robinson, British Anglican bishop (b. 1919)
• December 6
  • Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
  • Gul Khan Nasir, Baloch politician and poet from Pakistan (b. 1914)
• December 7 – Fanny Cano, Mexican actress and producer (b. 1944)
• December 8
  • Keith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
  • Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
• December 9
  • Tito Junco, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
  • David Rounds, American actor (b. 1930)
• December 11 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (b. 1897)
• December 13
  • Leora Dana, American actress (b. 1923)
  • Mary Renault, English author (b. 1905)
• December 15 – David Markham, British actor (b. 1913)
• December 19 – Cameron Hall, British actor (b. 1897)
• December 20
  • Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco (b. 1935)
  • Bill Brandt, German-British photographer and photojournalist(b. 1904)
• December 21 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
• December 23 – Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
• December 25 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (b. 1893)
• December 26 – Hans Liska, Austrian-German artist (b. 1907)
• December 27 – William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)
• December 28
  • Jimmy Demaret, American golf champion (b. 1910)
  • Dennis Wilson, American singer, songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)

Date unknown

• Mary Cohan, Broadway composer and lyricist, daughter of George M. Cohan (b. 1909)
• Freda Simmonds, New Zealand artist (b. 1912)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler
• Chemistry – Henry Taube
• Medicine – Barbara McClintock
• Literature – William Golding
• Peace – Lech Wałęsa
• Economics – Gérard Debreu

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