List of Famous people who died at 83

Marie Besnard

First Name Marie
Last Name Besnard
Born on August 15, 1896
Died on February 14, 1980 (aged 83)

Marie Besnard, also known as 'The Good Lady of Loudun', was accused serial poisoner in the mid-20th century.

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Dean Smith

First Name Dean
Last Name Smith
Born on February 28, 1931
Died on February 7, 2015 (aged 83)

Dean Edwards Smith was an American men's college basketball head coach. Called a "coaching legend" by the Basketball Hall of Fame, he coached for 36 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories, which was the NCAA Division I men's basketball record at that time. Smith had the ninth-highest winning percentage of any men's college basketball coach (77.6%). During his tenure as head coach, North Carolina won two national championships and appeared in 11 Final Fours. Smith played college basketball at the University of Kansas, where he won a national championship in 1952 playing for Hall of fame coach Phog Allen.

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Kira Muratova

Kira Gueórguievna Korotkova
First Name Kira
Last Name Muratova
Born on November 5, 1934
Died on June 6, 2018 (aged 83)

Kira Heorhiyivna Muratova was a Soviet and Ukrainian award-winning film director, screenwriter and actress, known for her unusual directorial style. Her films underwent a great deal of censorship in the Soviet Union.

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Veronika Fitz

First Name Veronika
Born on March 27, 1936
Died on January 2, 2020 (aged 83)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Veronika Fitz was a German television actress.

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Katsuhisa Hattori

First Name Katsuhisa
Last Name Hattori
Born on November 1, 1936
Died on June 11, 2020 (aged 83)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Katsuhisa Hattori was a Japanese classical composer who also wrote music for anime films, television series and OVAs. Hattori was a respected composer in Japan; his style was classical, although he was experienced and respected in many other genres, such as New Age, Jazz, etc. He was the son of Ryoichi Hattori and father of Takayuki Hattori, both musical composers as well.

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Ted Williams

Teddy Samuel
First Name Ted
Born on August 30, 1918
Died on July 5, 2002 (aged 83)
Height 195 cm | 6'5

Theodore Samuel Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War. Nicknamed "Teddy Ballgame", "The Kid", "The Splendid Splinter", and "The Thumper", Williams is regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history.

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Keith Barron

First Name Keith
Last Name Barron
Born on August 8, 1934
Died on November 15, 2017 (aged 83)

Keith Barron was an English actor and television presenter who appeared in films and on television from 1961 until 2017. His television roles included the police drama The Odd Man, the sitcom Duty Free, and Gregory Wilmot in Upstairs, Downstairs.

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Denise Robertson

First Name Denise
Last Name Robertson
Born on June 9, 1932
Died on March 31, 2016 (aged 83)

Denise Robertson was a British writer and television broadcaster. She made her television debut as the presenter of the Junior Advice Line segment of the BBC's Breakfast Time programme in 1985, though she is best known as the resident agony aunt on the ITV show This Morning from its first broadcast on 3 October 1988 until her death. In the course of her career, she dealt with over 200,000 letters from viewers seeking advice. In 2006 she was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to broadcasting.

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Fred MacMurray

Frederick Martin MacMurray
First Name Fred
Born on August 30, 1908
Died on November 5, 1991 (aged 83)
Height 190 cm | 6'3

Frederick Martin MacMurray was an American actor and singer who appeared in more than 100 films and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s.

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Ken Kercheval

Kenneth Marine Kercheval
First Name Ken
Last Name Kercheval
Born on July 15, 1935
Died on April 21, 2019 (aged 83)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Ken Kercheval was an American actor, best known for his role as Cliff Barnes on the television series Dallas and its 2012 revival.

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