The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 1983 1
Buckminster Fuller, 87, American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist, heart attack
4 John Bodkin Adams, 84, British general practitioner, convicted fraudster, and suspected serial killer.Chest infection while hospitalized for a fractured hip.
5 Harry James, 67, American bandleader, trumpeter, and actor, lymphatic cancer
7 Herman Kahn, 61, American physicist and futurist, he posited the idea of a "winnable" nuclear exchange in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War, for which he was one of the historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove,Paul Boyer, 'Dr. Strangelove' in Mark C. Carnes (ed.), Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies, New York, 1996. stroke
Alexander Fu Sheng, 28, Hong Kong martial arts actor, chest injuries and shock as a passenger in a car accident
Vic Wertz, 58, American baseball player, during heart surgery
9 Robert Dawn, 61, American make-up artist and fighter pilot during World War II, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart and the Silver Star for his wartime service
10 Paul Blaisdell, 55, American painter, sculptor and visual effects creator, created the effects for several science fiction and horror fiction B movies, cancerPalmer, Randy (2009). Paul Blaisdell, Monster Maker: A Biography of the B Movie Makeup and Special Effects Artist. McFarland & Company. p. 259. ISBN 978-0786440993.The Strange Creature of Topanga Canyon: Paul Blaisdell, His Life and Times (Tor.com, 2011) Estrellita Castro, 75, Spanish singer and actress
11 Ross Macdonald, 67, American-Canadian crime fiction writer, representative of the hardboiled genre, creator of the character Lew Archer, Alzheimer's diseaseFlash From the Past: Kitchener writers’ family lives were like a bad plot 6 November 2020Ross Macdonald Invented Modern Detective Lew Archer 13 October 2015
12 Chris Wood, 39, British rock musician, founding member of the rock band Traffic, liver disease[ Traffic Biography.] AllMusic.
13 Gabrielle Roy, 74, Canadian novelist and sketch artist
15 Eddie Foy Jr., 78, American actor and vaudeville performer, pancreatic cancer
16 Michel Micombero, 42, Burundian military officer and politician, ruled the country as a de facto military dictator from 1966 until 1976, heart attackMichel Micombero, ex presidente de Burundi
17 Byron Kennedy, 33, Australian film producer, co-creator of the media franchise Mad Max, killed in a helicopter crash Hendra Gunawan, 65, Indonesian painter and sculptor, heart attack
18 George Lichty, 78, American cartoonist, creator of the daily strip and Sunday strip Grin and Bear It, heart attackNational Cartoonists Society: George Lichty
19 Erik Ode, 72, German actor.Erik ODE
20 Frank Reynolds, 59, American television journalist for CBS and ABC News, acute viral hepatitis Ann Tyrrell, 74, American actress and dialectician, heart attack
22 Jack Rickard, 61, American illustrator and comics artist, key contributor to Mad, cancer
25 Jerome Moross, 69, American composer, complications of a stroke and congestive heart failure
28 Katharine Bard, 66, American actress, cancer
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Luis Buñuel, 83, Spanish-born Mexican filmmaker, representative of surrealist cinema, diabetes complicationsReference Jeanne Rucar, "Memorias de una mujer sin piano". Cabaret Voltaire, Spain 1990. Rocco Chinnici, 58, Italian anti-Mafia magistrate, creator of the Antimafia Pool,Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino and the Procura of Palermo , Peter Schneider & Jane Schneider, May 2002, essay is based on excerpts from Chapter Six of Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider, Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo, Berkeley: University of California Press killed by a car bombStille, Excellent Cadavers, p. 81. Raymond Massey, 86, Canadian actor, pneumonia David Niven, 73, English actor, soldier, raconteur, memoirist and novelist, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
30 Howard Dietz, 86, American publicist, lyricist, and librettist, specialist in musical revues, Parkinson's diseaseHoward Dietz PapersNew York Public Library, accessed August 10, 2009 Lynn Fontanne, 95, English actress, pneumonia"Lynn Fontanne is Dead at 95; A Star with Lunt for 37 Years", The New York Times, 31 July 1983. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
References
Sources Schneider, Jane T. & Peter T. Schneider (2003). Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo, Berkeley: University of California Press Stille, Alexander (1995). Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, New York: Vintage
Notes
External links List of July 1983 deaths at IMDb