The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 1983 1 Peter Arne, 64, British actor, bludgeoned to death in a murder-suicideItalian's suicide after killing actor, The Times, 20 October 1983.
2 James Jamerson, 47, American bassist and session musician, served as the uncredited bassist on most of Motown Records' hits during the 1960s and the early 1970s, he is reported to have played on nearly every Motown recording between 1963 and 1968, with his body of work during this era covering over 60 top-fifteen pop singles, complications from cirrhosis, heart failure and pneumonia
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Jobriath, 36, American rock musician and actor, complications from AIDS Carolyn Jones, 53, American actress, colon cancer, died after falling into a coma
4 Yuri Levitan, 68, Soviet radio announcer, he served as the primary radio announcer of Radio Moscow from the 1940s until the 1960s, covering all the major international events of the era, heart attack
5 Bart Bok, 77, Dutch-born American astronomer, studied the structure and evolution of the Milky Way, he discovered the Bok globules , heart attack shortly after his return home from Java Judy Canova, 69, American comedienne, actress, singer and radio personality, cancerObituary, Variety, August 10, 1983. Joan Robinson, 79, British economist, one of the leaders of the neo-Ricardian and post-Keynesian schools Harold Shumate, 89, American screenwriter
6 Grace Bailey, 79, American animator, head of the ink and paint department at Walt Disney Animation Studios Klaus Nomi, 39, German countertenor and performance artist, complications from AIDS. He was one of the earliest known figures from the arts community to die from the illness.
7 David Ford, 57, American actor, heart attack
11 Mamie Phipps Clark, 65, American social psychologist, her work focused on the development of self-consciousness in black preschool children, cancerObituary, nytimes.com. August 12, 1983.A Brief Reflection On The Work of Mamie Phipps Clark, spgs.org. Accessed April 6, 2024. Satsuo Yamamoto, 73, Japanese film director
13 Bob Bailey, 70, American actor Sidney Ford, 73, British trade union leader, Parkinson's disease
15 Al Kilgore, 55, American cartoonist and filmmaker
16 Heinz Warneke, 88, German-born American sculptor and animalier, heart attack"Heinz Warneke, Ex-Chief At Corcoran, Dies" The Washington Post, August 17, 1983.
17 Ira Gershwin, 86, American lyricist, heart diseaseObituary Variety, August 24, 1983.
18 Nikolaus Pevsner, 81, German-born British historian, specialist in art history and the history of architecture
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Ninoy Aquino, 50, Filipino politician, served as the Governor of Tarlac from 1963 until 1967,"Benigno Simeon Aquino Jr.". Encyclopædia Britannica. and a senator from 1967 until 1972, assassinated shortly after his return from self-exile. The audio of the attack was recorded on a news camera, but the actual shooting of Aquino was not caught on camera due to the movement and exposure to bright sunlight.
24 Jack Somack, 64, American chemical engineer and actor, heart attack
26 Nazir Ahmed Khan, 78–79, Pakistani actor and filmmaker, considered one of the founding fathers for the cinema of Pakistan Mike Kellin, 61, American actor, lung cancer
29 Rory Hayes, 34, American underground cartoonist and landscape painter, drug overdose"Influential 'Naive' Underground Cartoonist Rory Hayes Dead at 34", The Comics Journal No. 87 (Dec. 1983).Hayes entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999. Accessed Sept. 22, 2016. Simon Oakland, 68, American actor and violinist, colon cancer
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External links List of August 1983 deaths at IMDb