The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1983 2 Fifi D'Orsay, 79, Canadian-American actress and singer, cancer
5 John Robinson, 64, English New Testament scholar, Anglican Bishop of Woolwich,. lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later Dean of Chapel at Trinity College,. cancer.
6 Gul Khan Nasir, 69, Pakistani politician, historian, and journalist, lung cancerMir Gul Khan Nasir's Bitter Last Days by Lal Bakhsh Rind http://baask.com/diwwan/index.php?topic=4746.0
7 Fanny Cano, 39, Mexican actress and producer, one of the passengers killed in the 1983 Madrid Airport runway collision Antal Molnár, Hungarian musicologist, violist, composer, and music educator. "One of the founders of modern Hungarian musicology". Marc Raubenheimer, 31, South African pianist, winner of the 1982 version of the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition, one of the passengers killed in the 1983 Madrid Airport runway collision
8 Keith Holyoake, 79, New Zealand politician, Governor-General of New Zealand (term 1977-1980) and Prime Minister of New Zealand (terms 1957, 1960–1972)
9 David Rounds, 53, American actor, cancer
10 Nicolay Aarestrup, 85, Norwegian businessperson, former chief executive officer of Hygea
11 Neil Ritchie, 86, British military officer and businessperson, veteran of both world wars, the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, and the Malayan Emergency
13 Leora Dana, 60, American actress, cancer Mary Renault, 78, British historical novelist whose work focused on Ancient Greece, lung cancer and pneumonia
15 Eden Hartford, 53, American actress, endometrial cancerProfile, stuffnobodycaresabout.com, September 11, 2013; accessed November 20, 2015.
19 Alan Dexter, 65, American actor, heart attack
20 John Vivyan, 68, American actor, heart failure
21 Rod Cameron, 73, Canadian actor, cancer
22 Charles Lloyd-Pack, 81, British actorBFI.org
24 Paul Gégauff, 61, French screenwriter, winner of an Edgar Award, mariticide, fatally stabbed by his second wife
25
Joan Miró, 90, Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist, representative of Surrealism, Fauvism, and Expressionism,heart failure
26 Violet Carson, 85, British actress, singer, and pianist, heart failure
28
William Demarest, 91, American actor Jimmy Demaret, 73, American professional golfer, heart attack Dennis Wilson, 39, American drummer, singer, and songwriter, co-founder of the rock band The Beach Boys, associate and landlord of the commune Manson Family, drowned as a probable result of shallow-water blackout
29 Lloyd Ahern, 78, American cinematographer, complications from strokes.
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External links List of December 1983 deaths at IMDb