1983

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1983 by topic:
Subject: Archaeology - Architecture - Art
Aviation - Film - Home video - Literature Meteorology - Music (Country, Metal) Rail transport - Radio - Science
Sports - Television - Video gaming
Countries: Australia - Canada - India - Ireland
Malaysia - New Zealand - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe
Leaders: Sovereign states - State leaders
Religious leaders - Law
Categories: Births - Deaths - Awards - Works
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar).

Contents (full)

1 Events of 1983

- Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

- Undated ^. Ongoing ^. Fictional

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel prizes - Templeton Prize

5 See also - Notes - External links

[edit] Events of 1983

[edit] January

January 2 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows at the Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City..
January 3 - CITV was launched in the United Kingdom on the channel ITV.

January 8 - A riot breaks out at Sing Sing prison, New York.
January 19 - High ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
January 22 - Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
January 24 - Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Aldo Moro.
January 26 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM-PC compatible computers.
January 26 - Red rain falls in the UK, caused by sand from the Sahara Desert in the droplets.
January 30 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins 27-17 in Super Bowl XVII at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
January 31 - Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.

[edit] February

February 2 - Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial for multiple counts of bigamy involving 105 women.
February 3 - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament for elections on March 5. Bob Hawke replaces Bill Hayden as leader of the Australian Labor Party.
February 6 - Klaus Barbie is officially charged with war crimes.
February 7 - Iran opens an invasion in the southeast of Iraq.
February 13 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims 1983 "The Year of the Bible".
February 13 - A cinema fire in Turin, Italy kills 64.
February 16 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 76 people in one of Australia's worst fires ever.
February 18 - Wah Mee massacre: 13 people are killed in an attempted robbery in Seattle, Washington.
February 23 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announces its intention to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
February 24 - A special commission of the Congress of the United States releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
February 25 - United States playwright Tennessee Williams is found dead in his hotel room.
February 28 - M*A*S*H (TV series) ends after 11 years and 251 episodes on CBS. The series finale, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, becomes the highest rated episode in TV history.

[edit] March

March 1 - The Irish band U2 releases its 3rd album War.
March 1 - The Balearic Islands and Madrid become autonomous communities of Spain.
March 1 - Swatch introduces their first watches.
March 5 - Bob Hawke is elected Prime Minister of Australia.
March 8 - IBM releases the IBM PC XT.
March 8 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire."
March 9 - Anne Burford resigns as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency amid scandal.
March 11 - Australia's First Hawke Ministry is sworn in; Andrew Peacock becomes Federal Opposition leader.
March 16 - The Transmitter Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany, is demolished.
March 23 - Strategic Defense Initiative: U.S. President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars."

[edit] April

April 7 - STS-6: Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts Story Musgrave and Donald H. Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
April 11 - The National Economic Summit is held in Canberra, Australia.
April 12 - The British film Gandhi wins 8 Oscars.
April 12 - Harold Washington is elected the first African American mayor of Chicago.
April 15 - American Public Radio is founded (becomes Public Radio International in 1994).
April 15 - The first non-American Disney theme park opens in Japan as Tokyo Disneyland.
April 18 - The U.S Embassy is bombed in Beirut, killing 63 people.
April 22 - Soviet Embassy official Valery Ivanov is expelled from Australia for allegedly trying to recruit spies in the Australian government.
April 23 - Stern magazine in West Germany announces it has the Hitler Diaries.
April 23 - Corinne Hermès wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 for Luxembourg with the song, Si la vie est cadeau.
April 25 - Manchester, Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov, after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

[edit] May

May 6 - Stern magazine publishes the "Hitler Diaries" (later found to be forgeries).
May 9 - Pope John Paul II retracts the ban on Galileo Galilei.
May 11 - Aberdeen FC wins the European Cup Winners Cup - beating Real Madrid 2-1 in the final played in Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 16 - London police begin the use of wheel clamps on illegally-parked vehicles.
May 16 - NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down, in response to allegations raised by ABC program Four Corners that he attempted to influence the NSW Majestry.
May 17 - Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
May 25 - Return of the Jedi opens in the United States.
May 28 - The 9th G7 summit begins at Williamsburg, Virginia.
May 29 - Indianapolis 500: Tom Sneva wins his first race after three previous runner-up finishes.

[edit] June

June 9 - Conservative Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1979, wins a landslide victory (42% of the popular vote) over Michael Foot, who led a highly-divided and weakened Labour Party which earned only 28% of the vote. The much improved economy (after 2-3 years of restructuring), her victory in the Falkands, as well as shrinking unemployment rates consolidates her election victory.
June 13 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.
June 18 - STS-7: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
June 25 - India wins the Prudential world cup 1983.

[edit] 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.
July 1 - The High Court of Australia blocks construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania.
July 7 - Samantha Smith flies to the Soviet Union (see April 25).
July 15 - The Nintendo Entertainment System goes on sale in Japan
July 16 - Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
July 17 - American television series CHiPs ends their original run.
July 20 - The government of Poland announces end of martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.
July 21 - Diana Ross stages a free concert in Central Park in front of 800,000 people, enduring the severe weather but vows to return the next day.
July 22 - Diana Ross and the crowds return for day two of the performer's legendary Central Park show.
July 22 - Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation in a helicopter.
July 23 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 crash-lands in Gimli, Manitoba.
July 23 - The Black July, a communal riot occurs in Sri Lanka.
July 24 - George Brett is expelled from a baseball game in Yankee Stadium, New York, after charging an umpire who called him out for having more pine tar on his bat than technically allowed.
July 25 - Anti-Tamil riots break out in Sri Lanka, leaving over 3,000 Tamils massacred and millions of dollars worth of their property destroyed. This genocide is the beginning of a deadly civil war and ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka.
July 25 - Metallica releases their debut album Kill 'Em All.
July 28 - New South Wales premier Neville Wran is exonerated by the Street Royal Commission, over claims raised by ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) programme Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW magistracy.

[edit] August

August 4 - Thomas Sankara becomes President in Upper Volta.
August 16 - The Bill first airs as Woodentop.
August 18 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.
August 18 - Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock (Uluru), NT (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 24 - The Old Philadelphia Arena is destroyed by arson.
August 30 - STS-8: Space Shuttle Challenger carries Guion S. Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, into space.

[edit] September

September 1 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed.
September 4 - Six men walk underwater across the Sydney Harbor - 82.9 km in 48 hours.
September 5 - Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for NBC Nightly News.
September 6 - The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
September 16 - Donna Griffiths of Pershore in England stops sneezing after a continual series of sneezes for 978 days (since January 13, 1981).
September 17 - Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first African-American to be crowned Miss America, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
September 23 - Violence erupts in New Caledonia between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence.
September 25 - Long Kesh escape. 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HMP Maze. The largest prison escape since WWII and in British history
September 25-September 26 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
September 26 - Australia wins America's Cup.
September 27 - The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.

[edit] 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 4 - Hooters opens up in Clearwater, Florida.
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, the Prime Minister of Grenada, and 40 others are executed 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 US servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.
October 24 - Arthur Hutchinson kills 3 members of the Laitner family and rapes their daughter in the Sheffield suburb of Dore.
October 25 - United States troops invade Grenada at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica, a member of the Organization of American States.
October 25 - Microsoft Word is first released.
October 27 - Pope John Paul II visits his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca in prison to forgive him.
October 30 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after 7 years of military rule are held.

[edit] November

November 2 - Martin Luther King Day: At the White House Rose Garden, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
November 3 - The Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the 1984 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
November 5 - The Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident off the coast of Norway. Five divers are killed and one severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident.
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 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.

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 - A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid, Spain killing 181 of the 192 on board.

[edit] December

December 7 - Two Spanish passenger planes collide on the foggy runway at a Madrid airport killing 90.
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.
December 13 - The Denver Nuggets and the visiting Detroit Pistons combine for an NBA record 370 points, with Detroit winning in triple overtime, 186-184.
December 17 - A discotheque fire in Madrid, Spain, kills 83 people.
December 17 - A Provisional IRA car bomb kills 6 Christmas shoppers and injures 90 outside Harrods in London.
December 27 - A propane explosion in Buffalo, New York kills five firefighters and two civilians.
December 29 - The Reverend Jesse Jackson travels to Syria to secure the release of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman, who has been in Syrian captivity after being shot down over the country on a reconnaissance mission.
December 31 - Brunei gains independence from the United Kingdom.
December 31 - Two bombs explode in France. One on the Paris train kills 3 and injures 19. The other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34.

[edit] Undated

Zlatko Ugljen received Aga Khan Award for Architecture for White Mosque built in Visoko.
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program launched in 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
The immunosuppressant cyclosporine was approved by FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.
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.
Roxanne Pulitzer divorces Herbert Pulitzer.
Kary Mullis discovers polymerase chain reaction while working for Cetus.
The De Lorean Motor Company ceases production.

[edit] Ongoing

Cold War

[edit] Fictional

The references to 1983 in popular fiction are: -In the TV series Supernatural, there are several 'special children,' who were all born in 1983.

**1983 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1983 MCMLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2736
Armenian calendar	1432 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԲ
Bahá'í calendar	139 – 140
Buddhist calendar	2527
Chinese calendar	4619/4679-11-18 (壬戌年十一月十八日) — to — 4620/4680-11-28 (癸亥年十一月廿八日)
Coptic calendar	1699 – 1700
Ethiopian calendar	1975 – 1976
Hebrew calendar	5743 – 5744
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2038 – 2039
- Shaka Samvat	1905 – 1906
- Kali Yuga	5084 – 5085
Holocene calendar	11983
Iranian calendar	1361 – 1362
Islamic calendar	1403 – 1404
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 58 (昭和58年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2643 (皇紀2643年)
- Jōmon Era	11983
Julian calendar	2028
Korean calendar	4316
Thai solar calendar	2526
v • d • e

[edit] Births

[edit] January-February

January 1 - Emi Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol
January 2 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
January 4 - Spencer Chamberlain, American musician
January 8 - Chris Masters, American wrestler
January 13 - William Hung, Chinese-American musician
January 13 - Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
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 - Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer and DJ
January 23 - David Firth, British flash animator
January 24 - Scott Speed, American Formula One driver

February 3 - Hillary Scott, American pornographic actress
February 7 - Elin Grindemyr, Swedish model
February 8 - Jim Verraros, American singer
February 8 - Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian footballer
February 15 - Alan Didak, Australian footballer
February 18 - Juelz Santana, American rapper
February 19 - Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress
February 19 - Ryan Whitney, American hockey player
February 23 - Mido, Egyptian footballer
February 23 - Emily Blunt, English actress
February 27 - Devin Harris, American basketball player
February 28 - Tim Redwine, American actor

[edit] March-April

March 4 - Max Vergara Poeti, Colombian writer
March 10 - Carrie Underwood, American singer
March 10 - Reena Virk, Canadian murder victim (d. 1997)
March 14 - Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
March 14 - Taylor Hanson, American musician
March 15 - Sean Biggerstaff, British actor
March 17 - Christian and Joseph Cousins, American twin actors
March 21 - Bruno Langley, British actor
March 27 - Shawntinice Polk, American basketball player (d. 2005)
March 28 - Ryan Ashington, English footballer
March 30 - Zach Gowen, American wrestler
April 2 - Yung Joc, American rapper
April 4 - Amanda Righetti, American actress
April 4 - Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player
April 9 - Clint Dempsey, American soccer player
April 10 - Ryan Merriman, American actor
April 13 - Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
April 15 - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
April 17 - Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
April 21 - Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer
April 22 - Matt Jones, American football player
April 22 - Sean Muir, American playwright
April 23 - Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakian tennis player
April 26 - Jake Wall, Australian model
April 29 - Jay Cutler, American football player

[edit] May-June

May 11 - Matt Leinart, American football player
May 11 - Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
May 13 - Natalie Cassidy, British actress
May 14 - Amber Tamblyn, American actress
May 18 - Vince Young, American football player
May 19 - Eve Angel, Hungarian model
May 27 - Bobby Convey, American soccer player
May 30 - Jennifer Ellison, British actress
June 6 - Cherrie Ying, Taiwanese actress
June 6 - Joe Rokocoko, New Zealand rugby player
June 6 - Gianna Michaels, American pornstar
June 8 - Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
June 8 - Mamoru Miyano, Japanese seiyuu
June 10 - Leelee Sobieski, American actress
June 13 - Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
June 15 - Julia Fischer, German violinist
June 15 - Derek Anderson, American football player
June 17 - Lee Ryan, British singer
June 18 - Billy Slater, Australian Rugby League player
June 19 - Paul Dano, American actor
June 19 - Mark Selby, British snooker player
June 24 - Alexander Beyer, German actor
June 27 - Evan Taubenfeld, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
June 30 - Brendon James, English drummer (Thirteen Senses)
June 30 - Cheryl Cole, British singer (Girls Aloud)
June 30 - Patrick Apps, British singer, songwriter and musician (Patrick Wolf)

[edit] July-August

July 1 - Marit Larsen, Norwegian musician
July 2 - Michelle Branch, American singer
July 6 - Gregory Smith, Canadian-born American actor
July 8 - Elizabeth Del Mar, American pornographic actress
July 9 - Ben Ziff, American actor
July 11 - Marie Eleonor Sernehlot, Swedish-born American singer (A*Teens)
July 12 - Megumi Kawamura, Japanese model
July 13 - Liu Xiang, Chinese athlete
July 18 - Aaron Gillespie, drummer (Underoath)
July 21 - Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer
July 21 - Kellen Winslow Jr., American football player
July 23 - Bec Cartwright, Australian actress
July 23 - Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
July 30 - Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
August 5 - Sam Stacey, British model
August 6 - Robin van Persie, Dutch football player
August 7 - Tina O'Brien, Coronation Street actress
August 8 - Fred Meyers, American actor
August 10 - Mathieu Roy, Canadian professionial ice hockey player
August 12 - Martina Warren, British model
August 13 - Ales Hemsky, Czechoslovakian professional ice hockey player
August 14 - Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress
August 15 - Lilly Ann, American adult model and porn star
August 16 - Colin Griffiths, TV presenter and DJ
August 16 - Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player
August 18 - MIKA, British singer
August 19 - Tammin Sursok, Australian actress
August 21 - Chantelle Houghton, British reality TV star
August 23 - Nicol David, Malaysian squash player
August 24 - Christopher Parker, British actor
August 28 - Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
August 28 - Luke McAlister, New Zealand Rugby Union player
August 30 - Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
August 30 - Jonne Aaron, Finnish musician

[edit] September-October

September 1 - José Antonio Reyes, Spanish football player
September 14 - Amy Winehouse, British singer
September 17 - Jennifer Peña, American singer
September 21 - Maggie Grace, American actress
September 21 - Joseph Mazzello, American actor
September 24 - Randy Foye, American basketball player
September 26 - Samantha Hammel, American producer, actress and singer
October 3 - Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
October 4 - Risa Kudo, Japanese gravure idol
October 5 - Nicky Hilton, American model and socialite
October 8 - Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper
October 10 - Alyson Hau, Hong Kong radio DJ
October 14 - Vanessa Lane, American porn star
October 17 - Michelle Ang, Australian actress
October 24 - Adrienne Bailon, American singer and actress
October 24 - Alycia Purrott, Canadian actress
October 24 - Brian Vickers, American race car driver
October 29 - Amit Sebastian Paul, Swedish-born American singer (A*Teens)
October 29 - Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor/musician (Power Rangers: Mystic Force)
October 30 - Diana Karazon, Jordanian singer

[edit] November-December

November 1 - Yuko Ogura, Japanese gravure idol
November 3 - Julie Berman, American actress
November 8 - Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
November 11 - Philipp Lahm, German footballer
November 11 - Sora Aoi, Japanese model
November 14 - Lil Boosie, American rapper
November 16 - Fallon Bowman, South African-born guitarist (Kittie)
November 16 - K, South Korean singer
November 17 - Harry Lloyd, British actor
November 18 - Mila J, American singer/rapper
November 18 - Jon Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer

December 2 - Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
December 6 - Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
December 9 - Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
December 10 - Patrick Flueger, American actor (Law & Order: SVU, The 4400)
December 12 - Katrina Elam, American singer
December 12 - Brad Smith, American football player
December 13 - Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
December 13 - Alan Hoyle, UK basketball player
December 15 - René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler
December 16 - Danielle Lloyd, British model
December 17 - Erik Christensen, Canadian hockey player
December 20 - Lucy Pinder, British model
December 22 - Jennifer Hawkins, Australian television personality, crowned Miss Universe in 2004
December 27 - Cole Hamels, American baseball player
December 31 - Sayaka Ichii, Japanese singer

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January-March

January 10 - Roy DeMeo, Mafia hitman (b. 1942)
January 11 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
January 15 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b. 1902)
January 23 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
January 24 - George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
January 27 - Louis de Funès, French actor (b. 1899)
January 28 - Frank Forde, fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
January 28 - Billy Fury, British Rock 'n' Roll artist of the 1960s
February 4 - Karen Carpenter, American singer (b. 1950)
February 12 - Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)
February 14 - Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
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)
March 3 - Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
March 3 - Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
March 8 - William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
March 9 - Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
March 15 - Rebecca West, English-born writer (b. 1892)
March 17 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
March 27 - Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer, George Norlin Silver Medal from the University of Colorado (b. 1898)

[edit] April-June

April 4 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1897)
April 22 - Earl 'Fatha' Hines, American musician (b. 1903)
April 30 - McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield, American musician (b. 1915)
May 8 - John Fante, American writer (b. 1909)
May 14 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
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 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
May 31 - Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight champion boxer (b. 1895)
June 2 - Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
June 10 - Larry Hooper, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show (b. 1917)
June 12 - Norma Shearer, Canadian-born actress
June 18 - Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (b. 1893)
June 25 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)

[edit] July-September

July 1 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect (b. 1895)
July 4 - John Bodkin Adams, alleged English murderer (b. 1899)
July 7 - Vicki Morgan, American model (murdered) (b. 1952)
July 11 - Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
July 12 - Chris Wood, British rock musician (b. 1944)
July 20 - Frank Reynolds, American journalist (b. 1923)
July 23 - Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
July 29 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
July 29 - David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
August 3 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
August 16 - Earl Averill, baseball player (b. 1902)
August 17 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
August 21 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
September 1 - Larry McDonald, U.S. Congressman (plane crash) (b. 1935)
September 10 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
September 10 - Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (b. 1941)
September 25 - King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
September 26 - Tino Rossi, Corsican singer (b. 1907)

[edit] October-December

October 6 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921)
October 8 - Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
October 18 - Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
October 23 - Jessica Savitch, American journalist (drowned in a car accident) (b. 1947)
October 28 - Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (b. 1892)
October 31 - George S. Halas, American football player and coach (b. 1895)
November 3 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
November 7 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
November 15 - John Le Mesurier, British actor (b. 1912)
December 2 - Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)
December 6 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
December 8 - Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
December 11 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (b. 1897)
December 21 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
December 23 - Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
December 25 - Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)
December 28 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (drowned) (b. 1944)

[edit] Nobel prizes

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

[edit] Templeton Prize

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[edit] See also

20th century

[edit] Notes

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Category: 1983

January
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February
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	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28

March
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

April
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30

May
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

June
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30

July
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

August
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

September
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30

October
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31

November
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30

December
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31