The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1983 1 Arthur Koestler, 77, Austro-Hungarian-born novelist, memoirist, and journalist, associate of the propaganda organization Information Research Department (IRD) which funded and distributed much of his work, suicide by an overdose of the barbiturate Tuinal taken with alcohol.Cesarani p. 547.
2 Fiorella Mari, 54, Brazilian-born Italian actress,
3 Hergé, 75, Belgian comic strip artist and representative of the ligne claire drawing style,Fingeroth, Danny. The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels. Rough Guides, 2008. (p. 25). created the series The Adventures of Tintin, Quick & Flupke, and The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko, died while hospitalised in intensive care, since he had suffered cardiac arrest in late February Peter Ivers, 36, American singer, songwriter, film composer, and television host, bludgeoned to death with a hammer
6 Donald Maclean, 69, British diplomat and Soviet double agent, a member of the spy ring Cambridge Five, complications from pneumoniaLucy Hodges, "Maclean may have pneumonia", The Times, 6 December 1982, p. 1.
7 Robert Bray, 65, American actor Igor Markevitch, 60, Russian composer and conductor
8 William Walton, 80, English composerKennedy, Michael. "Walton, Sir William Turner (1902–1983)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2008, retrieved 27 September 2010 Obituary, The Times, 29 March 1982, p. 5
9 Faye Emerson, 65, American actress and talk show host, stomach cancername="Euler"> Rex Marshall, 64, American actor, television announcer, and radio personality, spokesman for the Reynolds Aluminum Company and the Maxwell House coffee brand
11 Will Glickman, 73, American playwrightWill Glickman Musicals
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Rebecca West, 90, British novelist, travel writer, literary critic, and journalistLinda Charlton, "Dame Rebecca West Dies in London, The New York Times, 16 March 1983.
16 Arthur Godfrey, 79, American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer, spokesman for the anti-tobacco movement, emphysema
17 Haldan Keffer Hartline, 80, American physiologist, primarily known for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision.
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Devora Bakon, 32, Israeli actress, traffic collision. דבורה הגדולה: סיפור חייה הסוערים של דבורה בקון (in Hebrew) Adelaide Klein, 82, American actress, brain tumor Catherine Marshall, 68, American writer and book editor, she had started her career with a biography of her deceased husband Peter Marshall,heart failure Umberto II of Italy, 78, he briefly served as the King of Italy in 1946 and was the last monarch of the country, he died in exileDenis Mack Smith, Italy and Its Monarchy, New Haven: Yale University Press p. 340
20 Maria Babanova, 82, Russian actress, regarded as the first great actress to emerge after the October Revolution, she both voiced the Snow Queen in the animated fantasy film The Snow Queen (1957), and she was used as the character's live-action model in the rotoscoping process Ivan Vinogradov, 91, Soviet mathematician, one of the creators of the modern analytic number theory, he served as the director of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics from 1934 until 1941, and again from 1946 until his death, he was regarded as an informal leader among the Soviet mathematicians
23 Serge de Poligny, 79, French film director and screenwriterArchives de Paris (online), 1903, Naissances:: 16 Acte de naissance no. 159 (vue 26.31). Archives en ligne de la Ville de Paris, état-civil du 16ème arrondissement, registre des naissances de 1903 (includes notes of marriages and death).
25 Martha Sleeper, 72, American actress, heart attack Bob Waterfield, 62, American professional football player and coach, actor, and film producer, co-founder of the production company Russ-Field Productions, respiratory failureAssociated Press, "Ex-Rams Star Dies after Long Illness," Spokane Spokesman Review, March 26, 1983, pg.17.
26 Anthony Blunt, 75, British art historian and Soviet spy, member of the spy ring known as the Cambridge Five,
27 Elsie Eaves, 84, American engineer, she was the first female associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the first female member of the American Association of Cost Engineers (still extant under the name Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering) James Hayter, 75, British actor.James Hayter - a working life
28 Suzanne Belperron, 82, French jewellery designer, head of the jewellery house Herz-Belperron,Possémé, Evelyn. Bijoux Art Deco et Avant Garde. Norma, 2009. . accidental death by scalding in her bath
29 Richard O'Brien, 65, American actor, cancer
30 Lisette Model, 81, Austrian-born American photographer, primarily known for her street photography, heart and respiratory disease
31 Ole Aavatsmark, 65, Norwegian politician and lawyer, County Governor of Nordland county from 1966 until his death in office
References
Sources
Cesarani, David, 1998. Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind. .
GM Arthur Koestler: The Story of a Friendship (George Mikes)
External links List of March 1983 deaths at IMDb