1983
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1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar).
Events of 1983
January
February
March
April
May
- May 6 – Stern Magazine publishes the "Hitler Diaries" (which are later found to be forgeries).
- May 16 – NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down, in response to allegations raised by the ABC program Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW Magistracy.
- May 17 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
- May 26 – A powerful earthquake and tsunami in northern Honshū, Japan kills 104 and injures 163.
- May 28 – The 9th G7 summit begins at Williamsburg, Virginia.
June
July
August
September
October
- October 2 – Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party.
- October 4 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
- October 7 – A plan to abolish the Greater London Council is announced.
- October 9 – The Rangoon bombing kills South Korea's Foreign Minister, Lee Bum Suk, and 21 others.
- 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 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 22 – In Bonn, West Germany, people demonstrate for nuclear disarmament.
- October 23 – Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French and the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.
- October 25 – United States troops invade Grenada at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica, a member of the Organization of American States.
- October 30 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after 7 years of military rule are held.
November
- November 2
- November 3 – The Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the 1984 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
- November 5 – Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident: Off the coast of Norway, 5 divers are killed and one severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident.
- November 10 – The anticancer drug etoposide is approved by the FDA, leading to a curative treatment regime in the field of combination chemotherapy of testicular carcinoma.
- November 11 – Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. President to address the Diet, Japan's national legislature.
- November 13 – The first United States cruise missiles arrive at Greenham Common Airbase in England 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 16 – A jury in Gretna, Louisiana acquits Ginny Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses Chaiyo.
- 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 24 – Lynda Mann, 15, is found raped and strangled in the village of Narborough, England (Colin Pitchfork is sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988).
- November 26 – Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport. Only a fraction of the gold is ever recovered, and only 2 men are convicted of the crime.
- November 27 – Colombian Avianca Flight 11 crashes near Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, killing 181 of the 192 on board.
December
Undated
- Zlatko Ugljen receives the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Šerefudin's White Mosque, built in Visoko.
- The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program is launched in the U.S.
- Flashdance and Return of the Jedi are box-office hits.
- Gerard Debreu wins the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
- Kellogg's introduces Crispix cereal.
- Leopold Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter Lovins / Rocky Mountain Institute and Manfred Max-Neef / CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award.
- McDonald's introduces the McNugget.
- Kary Mullis discovers polymerase chain reaction while working for Cetus.
- The De Lorean Motor Company ceases production.
- The meteorological El Nino phenomenon brought severe weather worldwide.
- Chrysler starts production on the first minivans: the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager.
Ongoing
Births
January
- January 1 - Calum Davenport, English footballer
- January 2 – Kate Bosworth, American actress
- January 4 – Spencer Chamberlain, American musician
- January 7
- Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
- Robert Ri'chard, American actor
- January 8
- Chris Masters, American wrestler
- Chen Xiexia, Chinese weightlifter
- January 9 – Gala Évora, Spanish actress
- January 10- Li Nina, Chinese aerial free-style skier
- January 11- Adrian Sutil, German Formula One driver
- January 12 – Shawn Desman, Canadian singer
- January 13
- Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
- Imran Khan, Indian actor
- January 14 – Takako Uehara, Japanese singer
- January 16 – Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
- January 17 – Johannes Herber, German basketball player
- January 18 – Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
- January 19 – Hikaru Utada, Japanese singer and songwriter
- January 20 – Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
- January 21 – Moritz Volz, German footballer
- January 22 – Shaun Cody, American football player
- January 23 – Justyna Kowalczyk, Polish cross-country skier
- January 24 – Scott Speed, American Formula One driver
- January 25 – Yasuyuki Konno, Japanese footballer
- January 31 – James Sutton, British actor
February
- February 2 – Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete
- February 3
- Hillary Scott, American pornographic actress
- Damiel Dossevi, French pole vaulter
- Gabriel Sargissian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
- February 6 – Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
- February 7 – Elin Grindemyr, Swedish model
- February 8 – Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian footballer
- February 11 – Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer
- February 15
- Philipp Degen and David Degen, Swiss footballers
- Alan Didak, Australian rules footballer
- Russell Martin, Canadian baseball player
- February 16 – Agyness Deyn, English supermodel
- February 18 – Jason Maxiell, American basketball player
- February 19
- Kotoōshū Katsunori (Kaloyan Mahlyanov), Bulgarian sumo wrestler
- Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player
- February 20
- Justin Verlander, American baseball player
- Emad Moteab, Egyptian footballer
- February 21 – Mélanie Laurent, French actress and director
- February 22 – Penny Flame, American pornographic actress
- February 23
- Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby union player
- Mido, Egyptian footballer
- Emily Blunt, English actress
- February 25 – Eduardo da Silva, Croatian soccer player
- February 26 – Andrew Baggaley, English table tennis player
- February 27 – Devin Harris, American basketball player
March
- March 3 – Katie White, English singer (The Ting Tings)
- March 4 – Samuel Contesti, Italian figure skater
- March 9
- Mayte Perroni, Mexican singer and actress
- Clint Dempsey, American footballer
- March 10
- March 14
- Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
- Taylor Hanson, American musician (Hanson (band))
- March 15 – Florencia Bertotti, Argentine actress and singer
- March 20 – Eiji Kawashima, Japanese footballer
- March 21 – Bruno Langley, British actor
- March 27 – Shawntinice Polk, American basketball player (d. 2005)
- March 30 – Zach Gowen, American wrestler
April
- April 1
- April 2 – Yung Joc, American rapper
- April 4 – Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player
- April 10 – Jamie Chung, American actress
- April 12
- Jelena Dokić, Australian tennis player
- Jonti Richter Australian soccer player
- April 13 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
- April 15 – Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
- April 16 – Alex Antônio de Melo Santos, Brazilian footballer
- April 17 – Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
- April 19
- Joe Mauer, American baseball player
- Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
- Alberto Callaspo, American baseball player
- April 20 – Miranda Kerr, Australian model
- April 21
- Tarvaris Jackson, American football player
- Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer
- April 22 – Matt Jones, American football player
- April 23 – Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player
- April 29
- Jay Cutler, American football player
- David Lee, American basketball player
- Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese actress and gravure idol
May
- May 1 – Alain Bernard, French swimmer
- May 2 – Dani Sordo, Spanish rally driver
- May 3 – Myriam Fares, Lebanese singer
- May 6
- Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian supermodel
- Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
- May 9 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
- May 11
- Matt Leinart, American football player
- Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
- May 12 – Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer
- May 13
- Yaya Toure, Ivory Coast footballer
- Aza Bataeva, Chechen singer
- Natalie Cassidy, British actress
- Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
- May 14 – Amber Tamblyn, American actress
- May 14 – Anahi, Mexican singer and actress
- May 16 – Daniel Kerr, Australian rules footballer
- May 16 – Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
- May 17 – Channing Frye, American basketball player
- May 18 – Vince Young, American football player
- May 19 – Eve Angel, Hungarian model
- May 19 – Jessica Fox, British actress
- May 22 – John Hopkins, American MotoGP racer
- May 23 – Heidi Range, British singer (Sugababes member)
- May 24 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model
- May 27 – Bobby Convey, American soccer player
- May 28 – Toby Hemingway, British/ American actor
- May 30 – Jennifer Ellison, British actress
- May 31 – David Hernandez, American singer
June
- June 6
- Joe Rokocoko, New Zealand rugby union player
- Gemma Bissix, British actress
- June 8
- June 11
- Andy Ologun, Nigerian mixed martial artist
- José Reyes, Dominican baseball player
- June 12 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby union player
- June 13 – Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
- June 15 – Julia Fischer, German violinist
- June 15 – Derek Anderson, American football player
- June 17
- Connie Fisher, British actress and singer
- Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese actor, idol, and singer
- June 19 – Mark Selby, British snooker player
- June 20 – Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress
- June 24 – Alexander Beyer, German actor
- June 30 – Cheryl Cole, British singer and TV personality
July
- July 1 – Leeteuk, Korean singer (Super Junior)
- July 2 – Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers)
- July 3 – Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player
- July 4 – Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian fashion model
- July 5
- Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
- Kumiko Ogura, Japanese badminton player
- July 6 – Gregory Smith, Canadian-born American actor
- July 10 – Kim Heechul, Korean actor and singer (Super Junior)
- July 11 – Marie Eleonor Serneholt, Swedish singer (A*Teens)
- July 12 – Megumi Kawamura, Japanese model
- July 13 – Liu Xiang, Chinese athlete
- July 16 – Zhang Xiangxiang, Chinese weightlifter
- July 21
- Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer
- Kellen Winslow II, American football player
- July 22 – Juliana Felisberta, Brazilian beach volleyball player
- July 23 – Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
- July 24
- July 30 – Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
August
- August 2 – Huston Street, American baseball player
- August 5 – Sam Stacey, British model
- August 6 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
- August 7
- Tina O'Brien, British actress
- Christian Chávez, Mexican singer and actor
- August 10 – Mathieu Roy, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- August 13 – Ales Hemsky, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player
- August 14
- Mila Kunis, Ukrainian/American actress
- Spencer Pratt, American television personality
- August 16 – Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player
- August 17 – Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
- August 18
- Mika, Lebanese-British singer
- Cameron White, Australian cricketer
- August 19 – Tammin Sursok, Australian actress
- August 20 – Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer
- August 23 – James Collins, British footballer
- August 27 – Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
- August 28 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
- August 30 – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
September
- September 1 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish football player
- September 3 – Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
- September 8 – Chris Judd, Australian rules footballer
- September 12 – Carly Smithson, Irish singer
- September 13 – Kaoklai Kaennorsing, Thai Muay Thai kickboxer
- September 14 – Amy Winehouse, British singer
- September 16 – Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean swimmer
- September 17 – Jennifer Peña, American singer
- September 18 – Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
- September 21 – Maggie Grace, American actress
- September 22 – Eriko Imai, Japanese singer (Speed)
- September 23 – Märt Israel, Estonian discus thrower
- September 24
- Randy Foye, American basketball player
- Lyndon Ferns, South African swimmer
- September 26 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
- September 30 – Reiko Shiota, Japanese badminton player
October
- October 2 – Gerran Walker, American football player
- October 3 – Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
- October 4 – Risa Kudo, Japanese gravure idol
- October 5
- Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
- Nicky Hilton, American model and socialite
- October 8 – Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper
- October 10 – Alyson Hau, Hong Kong radio DJ
- October 14
- Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
- Zesh Rehman, English-Pakistani footballer
- October 15 – Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress
- October 16 – Jennifer Hurt, Playboy model
- October 17 – Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
- October 19 – Vladimir Gabulov, Russian footballer
- October 21 – Matt Dallas, American actor, leading actor in the ABC Family's TV Series Kyle XY
- October 24 – Brian Vickers, American race car driver
- October 25 – Princess Yōko of Mikasa, member of the Japanese Imperial Family
- October 26 – Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer
- October 29 – Amit Sebastian Paul, Swedish singer (A*Teens)
- October 30 – Diana Karazon, Jordanian singer
November
- November 17
- Ryan Bradley, American figure skater
- Ryan Braun, American baseball player
- Harry Lloyd, British actor
- Rocsi, American television personality
- Ioannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
- November 18 – Jon Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer
- November 19 – DeAngelo Hall, American football player
- November 24
- Dean Ashton, British footballer
- José López, Venezuelan baseball player
- November 25 – Atsushi Itō, Japanese actor
- November 30 – Nicholas Kole, American figure skater
December
- December 2 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
- December 3 – Troy Bergeron, American football player
- December 4
- Roman Zaretski, Israeli figure skater
- Jimmy Bartel Australian rules footballer
- December 5 – Tiffany Weimer, American footballer
- December 9 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
- December 10 – Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
- December 12 – Katrina Elam, American singer
- December 13
- Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
- Alan Hoyle, British basketball player
- December 15
- René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler
- Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player
- December 16 – Danielle Lloyd, British model
- December 17 – Erik Christensen, Canadian hockey player
- December 20 – Jonah Hill, American actor
- December 22 – Jennifer Hawkins, Australian television personality, Miss Universe 2004
- December 23 – Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
- December 25 – Kwai Lun-mei, Taiwanese actress
- December 27 – Cole Hamels, American baseball player
- December 28 – Aiko Nakamura, Japanese tennis player
Deaths
January
- January 2 – Dick Emery, British comedian (b. 1915)
- January 10 – Roy DeMeo, American Mafia hitman (b. 1942)
- January 11 – Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
- January 11 – Tikhon Kiselyov (also Kiselev), Belarusian statesman in the Soviet Union, the de-facto leader of the Byelorussian SSR from 1980 to 1983 (b. 1917)
- January 12 – Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1965 to 1977 (b. 1903)
- January 15 – Meyer Lansky, American gangster (b. 1902)
- January 17 – Doodles Weaver, American comedian and uncle of Sigourney Weaver (b. 1911)
- January 23 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
- January 24 – George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
- January 24 – Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine athlete (b. 1911)
- January 26 – Paul "Bear" Bryant, American college football coach (b. 1913)
- January 27
- Georges Bidault, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
- Michael "Pat" Bilon, American dwarf actor (b. 1947)
- Louis de Funès, French actor (b. 1914)
- January 28
February
- February 4 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (b. 1950)
- February 8 – Harry Boot, English physicist (b. 1917)
- February 12 – Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)
- 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)
- March 3 – Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
- March 3 – Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
- March 6 – Donald Maclean, British spy (b. 1913)
- March 7 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor (b. 1912)
- March 8 – William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
- March 9
- Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
- Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
- March 14 – Maurice Ronet, French film actor and director (b. 1927)
- March 15 – Rebecca West, English-born writer (b. 1892)
- March 16 – Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer (b. 1903)
- March 16 – Freda Dudley Ward, former royal mistress (b. 1894)
- March 17 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- March 18
- 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 – Lisette Model, Austrian-born American photographer (b. 1901)
April
- April 3 – Jimmy Bloomfield, English football player and manager (b. 1934)
- April 4
- April 11 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1905)
- April 12 – Desmond Bagley, English novelist (b. 1923)
- April 15
- Corrie ten Boom, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1892)
- Gyula Illyés, Hungarian poet and novelist (b. 1902)
- April 19 – Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (b. 1909)
- April 21 – Walter Slezak, Austrian actor (b. 1902)
- April 22 – Earl 'Fatha' Hines, American musician (b. 1903)
- April 23 – Buster Crabbe, American actor and athlete (b. 1908)
- April 23
- Selena Royle, American actress (b. 1904)
- Alberto Zorrilla, Argentine Olympic swimmer (b. 1906)
- April 30
May
- May 1
- George Hodgson, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1893)
- Joseph Ruttenberg, Russian-born cinematographer (b. 1889)
- May 2 – Norm Van Brocklin, former National Football League quarterback (b. 1926)
- May 5 – John Williams, British actor (b. 1903)
- May 8 – John Fante, American writer (b. 1909)
- May 14 – Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
- May 15 – James Van Der Zee, American photographer (b. 1886)
- May 18 – Frank Aiken, Irish Foreign Minister (b. 1898)
- May 19 – Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
- May 21 – Kenneth Clark, British art historian (b. 1903)
- May 22
- 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 of Belgium (b. 1903)
- June 2 – Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
- June 8 – Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (b. 1908)
- June 10 – Larry Hooper, American singer (b. 1917)
- June 12 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-born actress (b. 1902)
- June 15 – Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910)
- June 17 – Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b. 1923)
- June 18 – Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (b. 1893)
- June 23 – Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Cuban politician and 21st President of Cuba (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 – Mary Livingstone, American comedienne (b. 1905)
July
- July 1 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect (b. 1895)
- July 4
- Dr John Bodkin Adams, British suspected serial killer (b. 1899)
- Ted Berrigan, American poet (b. 1934)
- Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Dominican business man and the President of the Dominican Republic, from 1978 to 1982 (b. 1911)
- July 5 – Harry James, American musician and band leader (b. 1916)
- July 7
- Herman Kahn, American futurist (b. 1922)
- Vicki Morgan, American model (murdered) (b. 1952)
- July 9 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (b. 1932)
- July 10 – Werner Egk, German composer (b. 1901)
- July 11 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
- July 12 – Chris Wood, British rock musician (b. 1944)
- July 15 – Eddie Foy, Jr., American actor (b. 1905)
- July 16 – Samson Raphaelson, American screenwriter (b. 1894)
- July 17 – Roosevelt "Honeydripper" Sykes, American blues musician (b. 1906)
- July 20 – Frank Reynolds, American journalist (b. 1923)
- July 23 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
- July 26 – Charlie Rivel, Spanish Catalan circus clown (b. 1896)
- July 29
- July 30
- Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
- Lynn Fontanne, British actress (b. 1887)
August
- August 1 – Peter Arne, British actor (b. 1920)
- August 2 – James Jamerson, American musician (b. 1938)
- August 3
- Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
- Jobriath, American musician and actor (b. 1946)
- August 5 – Judy Canova, American actress (b. 1913)
- August 6 – Klaus Nomi, German singer and performance artist (b. 1944)
- August 16 – Earl Averill, baseball player (b. 1902)
- August 17 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
- August 18 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
- August 21 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
- August 28 – Jan Clayton, American actress (b. 1917)
- August 29 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)
September
October
- October 6 – Terence Cooke, Cardinal Archbishop of New York (b. 1921)
- October 8 – Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
- October 10 – Ralph Richardson, British actor (b. 1902)
- October 15 – Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
- October 18 – Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
- October 19 – Maurice Bishop, Grenadian politician and revolutionary (b. 1944)
- October 23
- Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
- Toru Takahashi, Japanese race car driver (b. 1960)
- October 28
- Roderick Gill, Irish cricketer (b. 1919)
- Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (b. 1892)
- October 31 – George S. Halas, American football player, coach and co-founder of the National Football League (b. 1895)
November
- November – Barney Bubbles, English graphic artist (b. 1942)
- November 3 – Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
- November 7 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
- November 8
- Robert Agnew, American actor (b. 1899)
- Betty Nuthall, English tennis champion (b. 1911)
- November 13 – Junior Samples, American comedian (b. 1926)
- November 14 – Tómas Guðmundsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1901)
- November 15 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (b. 1912)
- November 19 – Carolyn Leigh, American lyricist (b. 1926)
- November 20
- Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
- Richard Loo, Chinese-American actor (b. 1903)
- November 25 – Michael Conrad, American actor (b. 1925)
- November 28 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1931)
- November 30 – Richard Llewellyn, British writer (b. 1906)
December
- December 2 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)
- December 5 – Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
- December 6 – Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
- December 8 – Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
- December 9 – 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 21
- Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
- Rod Cameron, American actor (b. 1910)
- December 23 – Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
- December 25 – Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)
- December 26 – Violet Carson, British actor (b. 1898)
- December 28
- William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)
- Jimmy Demaret, American golf champion (b. 1910)
- Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944)
Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
External links
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