Deaths in November 1983
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.
November 1983
1
- Maurice Woods, 45, American actor, cancer[1]
3
- Alfredo Antonini, 82, Italian–American orchestral conductor and composer, worked for the CBS radio and television networks from the 1930s until the early 1970s,[2][3][4][5] died during his heart surgery[6][7]
5
- Jean-Marc Reiser, 42, French comics creator and black comedy artist, bone cancer[8]
7
- Germaine Tailleferre, 91, French composer, the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six[9][10]
8
- James Hayden, 29, American actor, heroin overdose[11]
- Betty Nuthall, 72, English tennis player, coronary arrest[12]
13
- Aliagha Aghayev, 70, Azerbaijani actor[13]
- Jam Handy, 97, American Olympic breaststroke swimmer, water polo player, film producer, and pioneer in distance education[14][15]
- Junior Samples, 57, American comedian, heart attack[16][17]
- Louise Tracy, 87, founder of the John Tracy Clinic, a private, non-profit education center for the deaf[18]
15
19
- Peter Coffield, 38, American actor, AIDS-related illness[25][26]
- Tom Evans, 36, English bass guitarist, singer, and songwriter, member of the Welsh rock band Badfinger and influential musician in the power pop genre,[27][28]suicide by hanging[29]
- Carolyn Leigh, 57, American lyricist, heart attack[30][31]
20
- Richard Loo, 80, American character actor[32]
22
- Michael Conrad, 58, American actor, urethral cancer[33][34]
- Leonard Wibberley, 68, Irish novelist, satirist, historian, and biographer, heart attack[35]
23
- Waheed Murad, 45, Pakistani film actor, producer, and screenwriter, died after chewing a paan leaf containing an unidentified substance; unclear if the cause of death was a heart attack or suicide.[36][37]
23
- Alberto Uribe Sierra, 50, Colombian rancher, businessman, and father of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, assassination.[38]
27
- Jorge Ibargüengoitia, 55, Mexican novelist, playwright, satirist, and short-story writer, one of the victims of the Avianca Flight 011[39][40][41]
- Ángel Rama, 57, Uruguayan academic and literary critic, one of the victims of the Avianca Flight 011[41]
- Rosa Sabater, 54, Spanish pianist, one of the victims of the Avianca Flight 011[41]
- Manuel Scorza, 55, Peruvian novelist, poet, and exiled political activist, one of the victims of the Avianca Flight 011[42][41]
- Marta Traba, 53, Argentine art critic, museum director, and university teacher, one of the victims of the Avianca Flight 011[42][43][41]
28
- Christopher George, 52, American actor, heart attack.[44][45][46][47] George had a known heart disease, and had undergone coronary bypass surgery about five years prior to his death.[48]
30
- George Headley, 74, Jamaican cricketer, considered one of the best batsmen to play for the West Indies cricket team and one of the greatest cricketers of all time[49][50]
- Richard Llewellyn, 77, British novelist, heart attack[51]
- Michael Witney, 52, American actor, minor league pitcher for the Hornell Dodgers and the Great Falls Electrics,[52]heart attack[53]
