The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 1983 1 Ernest Graves, 64, American actor, cancer Anna Seghers, 82, German writer, repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1972.Nomination archive – Anna (Netty) Seghers (Reiling) nobelprize.org
2 Stan Rogers, 33, Canadian folk musician and songwriter, smoke inhalation, one of the victims of the fire in Air Canada Flight 797
3 John Trent, 48, British-born Canadian film director and producer, killed in a car accident involving a head-on collision with a police carCine Mag magazine, August 1983, page 8
4 Daniele Amfitheatrof, 81, Russian, American, and Italian composer and conductor Ivan Tors, 66, Hungarian playwright, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and television producer, heart attackIvan Tors, producer of animal movies and marine-oriented television series such as Flipper and Sea Hunt, died of a heart attack June 4 while engaged in pre-production work in Brazil (New York Times, June 7, 1983).
8 Miško Kranjec, 74, Slovene writer Jacques Van Melkebeke, 78, Belgian painter, journalist, comic strip writer, and playwright, first chief editor of the Tintin magazine,Van Melkebeke entry, Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Accessed 16 December 2013.Ce mysteriéux Monsieur Hergé ("That Mysterious Mister Hergé"), published by La Dernière Heure in 2003Lofficier, Jean-Marc and Lofficier, Randy (2002). The Pocket Essential Tintin. Harpenden, Hertfordshire: Pocket Essentials, pp. 73–74. one of the main sources of inspiration for the Blake and Mortimer character Philip Angus Mortimer
10 Larry Hooper, 66, American singer and pianist, member of Lawrence Welk's band, kidney failureObituaries – UPI Archives
12 Norma Shearer, 80, Canadian-American actress, active on film from 1919 through 1942,Shipman, David. The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years. Crown Publishers, 1970. p. 487-492 feminist pioneer,bronchial pneumonia
15 Mario Casariego y Acevedo, 74, Spanish-born Guatemalan Catholic, served as the Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala from 1964 until his death in 1983, Cardinal since 1969Mario Casariego, arzobispo de Guatemala. El País, 18 June 1983, Spain.
16 Ofelia Montesco, 46, Peruvian expatriate actress, stomach cancer
17 George Benson, 72, British actorObituary in The Times, 21 June 1983
18 Ana María González, 64, Mexican singer
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Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, 64, Cuban politician, served as President of Cuba from 1959 until 1976, suicide by firearm Jonathan Latimer, 76, American crime writer, screenwriter, and journalist, his stories typically combined hardboiled crime fiction with elements of screwball comedy, lung cancer
25 Alberto Ginastera, 67, Argentine classical composerDeborah Schwartz-Kates, "Ginastera, Alberto (Evaristo)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001); Evett, Robert. 1966. "The South American Way", New Republic 154, no. 12 (19 March): 35; Anon. "Obituary: Alberto Ginastera". The Musical Times 124, no. 1687, Music of the French Baroque (September 1983): 568; Aurelio de la Vega, "Trends of Present-Day Latin-American Music", Journal of Inter-American Studies 1, no. 1 (January 1959): 97–102, citation on p. 10; Norman Lebrecht, Companion to Twentieth-century Music (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992): 134. Reprint New York: Da Capo Press. ; Levin Houston, "Kennedy Center Sees Beatrix Cenci", The Free Lance-Star [Fredericksburg, Virginia] 87, no. 215 (13 September 1971); Suzanne Spicer Tiemstra, The Choral Music of Latin America: A Guide to Compositions and Research, Contributions in Afro-American & African Studies 36 (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992): 2. .
27 Juan Torena, 85, Filipino footballer and Hollywood actor, played as a forward for Barcelona in the late 1910s
28 Dorothy Annan, 83, English painter, potter and muralist
30 Herbert Baker, 62, American songwriter and screenwriterObituary, Variety, July 6, 1983; accessed August 5, 2015. Mary Livingstone, 78, American radio comedienne, actress, and biographer, heart disease
References
Sources
Obituary of Mr George Benson, The Times, 21 June 1983 (pg. 12; Issue 61564; col G)
External links List of June 1983 deaths at IMDb