The following is a list of notable deaths in February 1983.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
February 1983 1 Elena Fiore, 68, Italian actress
3 Josephine Dunn, 76, American actress, cancer
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Jim Ameche, 67, American actor, lung cancerCox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. . Page 29. Karen Carpenter, 32, American musician, she served as the lead vocalist and the drummer of the sibling duo the Carpenters, death from cardiac arrest, officially attributed to "emetine cardiotoxicity due to or as a consequence of anorexia nervosa" Reginald Denham, 89, English playwright, screenwriter, theatre and film director, actor and film producer, stroke
6 Eben Bartlett, 70, American army officer and politicianState Representative Dies
8 Charlotte Francis, 79, English actress and playwright Listed as "Charlotte Frances"
9 Zinaida Semyonovna Brumberg, 82, Soviet animation director, animator, and screenwriter, one of the pioneers of the Soviet animation industryGiannalberto Bendazzi (2016). Animation: A World History: Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age at Google Books, p. 177Sergey Kapkov (2006). Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, pp. 129–130, 14
10 Eduard Franz, 80, American actor
11 Max Ehrlich, 73, American writer.Summary Bibliography: Max Ehrlich
12 Eubie Blake, 96, American pianist and composer of ragtime, jazz, and popular music, pneumonia
13 Marian Nixon, 78, American actress, identified as a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1924, post-surgery complications following an open heart surgery
16 Florence Hall, 94, American civil servant who was chief of the Women's Land Army
19 Charles Bluhdorn, 56, Austrian-born American industrialist, owner of the conglomerate Gulf and Western Industries and chairman of its subsidiary film studio Paramount Pictures, heart attack Alice White, 78, American actress, complications from a stroke
20 Caryl Lincoln, 79, American actress, she was selected as a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1929 Ray Vitte, 33, American actor, death from sickle cell disease while held in police custody
22 Sir Adrian Boult, 93, British conductor, founder and chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, director of music for the BBCKennedy, Michael. "Boult, Sir Adrian Cedric (1889–1983)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 1 March 2010. (subscription required)The Times obituary of Adrian Boult, 24 February 1983, p. 12 Georg Rydeberg, 75, Swedish actorGeorg Rydeberg
23 Herbert Howells, 90, English composer, organist, and teacher, known for his large output of Anglican church music
24 Roy Krenkel, 64, American illustrator, specialist in fantasy and historical drawings and paintings
25 Mignon Anderson, 90, American actress. Tennessee Williams, 71, American playwright and screenwriter, death from a toxic level of secobarbital while ingesting barbiturates
27 Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, 74, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist, primarily known for his 1958 observation of the transient lunar phenomenon in the crater Alphonsus on the Moon
28 Winifred Atwell, c. 73, Trinidad and Tobago-born British composer and pianist, known for a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records"Atwell, Winifred", in David Dabydeen, John Gilmore, Cecily Jones (eds), The Oxford Companion to Black British History, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 33.
Specific date unknown Helen Ogger, 73, American inker and cartoonist, worked in the Ink and Paint Department of the Walt Disney Animation Studios throughout the 1930s, she applied the dye used for Snow White's blush
References
Sources
Lahr, John. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh. W. W. Norton & Co. New York. Print. 2014. .
External links List of February 1983 deaths at IMDb