Deaths in December 1983
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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.
2
- Fifi D'Orsay, 79, Canadian-American actress and singer, cancer[1]
5
- John Robinson, 64, English New Testament scholar, Anglican Bishop of Woolwich,[2] lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later Dean of Chapel at Trinity College,[3] cancer[4][5][6]
6
- Gul Khan Nasir, 69, Pakistani politician, historian, and journalist, lung cancer[7]
7
- Fanny Cano, 39, Mexican actress and producer, one of the passengers killed in the 1983 Madrid Airport runway collision[8]
- 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[9][10]
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)[11]
9
- David Rounds, 53, American actor, cancer[12]
10
- Nicolay Aarestrup, 85, Norwegian businessperson,[13] former chief executive officer of Hygea[14]
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[15][16]
13
- Leora Dana, 60, American actress, cancer[17]
- Mary Renault, 78, British historical novelist whose work focused on Ancient Greece,[18] lung cancer and pneumonia[19]
15
- Eden Hartford, 53, American actress, endometrial cancer[20]
19
- Alan Dexter, 65, American actor, heart attack[21]
20
- John Vivyan, 68, American actor, heart failure[22]
21
- Rod Cameron, 73, Canadian actor, cancer[23][24]
22
- Charles Lloyd-Pack, 81, British actor[25]
24
- Paul Gégauff, 61, French screenwriter, winner of an Edgar Award,[26] mariticide, fatally stabbed by his second wife[27]
25
- Joan Miró, 90, Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist, representative of Surrealism, Fauvism, and Expressionism,[28]heart failure[29]
26
- Violet Carson, 85, British actress, singer, and pianist, heart failure[30][31]
28
- William Demarest, 91, American actor[32]
- Jimmy Demaret, 73, American professional golfer, heart attack[33][34][35]
- 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,[36][37] drowned[38] as a probable result of shallow-water blackout[39]
29
- Lloyd Ahern, 78, American cinematographer, complications from strokes.[40]
