Deaths in June 1983
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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[1]
- Anna Seghers, 82, German writer, repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1972.[2][3]
2
- Stan Rogers, 33, Canadian folk musician and songwriter, smoke inhalation, one of the victims of the fire in Air Canada Flight 797[4][5][6]
3
- John Trent, 48, British-born Canadian film director and producer, killed in a car accident involving a head-on collision with a police car[7][8]
4
- Daniele Amfitheatrof, 81, Russian, American, and Italian composer and conductor[9][10]
- Ivan Tors, 66, Hungarian playwright, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and television producer, heart attack[11]
8
- Miško Kranjec, 74, Slovene writer[12]
- Jacques Van Melkebeke, 78, Belgian painter, journalist, comic strip writer, and playwright, first chief editor of the Tintin magazine,[13][14][15] one of the main sources of inspiration for the Blake and Mortimer character Philip Angus Mortimer[13]
10
- Larry Hooper, 66, American singer and pianist, member of Lawrence Welk's band, kidney failure[16][17]
12
- Norma Shearer, 80, Canadian-American actress, active on film from 1919 through 1942,[18] feminist pioneer,[19]bronchial pneumonia[20]
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 1969[21]
16
- Ofelia Montesco, 46, Peruvian expatriate actress, stomach cancer[22]
17
- George Benson, 72, British actor[23]
18
- Ana María González, 64, Mexican singer[24]
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- Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, 64, Cuban politician, served as President of Cuba from 1959 until 1976, suicide by firearm[25]
- Jonathan Latimer, 76, American crime writer, screenwriter, and journalist, his stories typically combined hardboiled crime fiction with elements of screwball comedy,[26][27] lung cancer[28]
25
- Alberto Ginastera, 67, Argentine classical composer[29]
27
- Juan Torena, 85, Filipino footballer and Hollywood actor, played as a forward for Barcelona in the late 1910s[30][31]
28
- Dorothy Annan, 83, English painter, potter and muralist[32][33]
30
- Herbert Baker, 62, American songwriter and screenwriter[34]
- Mary Livingstone, 78, American radio comedienne, actress, and biographer, heart disease[35][36]