List of Famous people who died at 83

Thomas Stephen Chalmers was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre-forward and spent the majority of his career with Celtic. He is the club's fifth-highest goalscorer with 236 goals and is considered one of their greatest players. He is particularly known for scoring the winning goal in the 1967 European Cup Final against Inter Milan. Chalmers later played for Morton and Partick Thistle. He also represented Scotland five times in international matches.

Ricardo Alberto Barreda was an Argentine convicted mass murderer and former dentist. He was born in La Plata, Argentina. In 1992, he murdered his wife, two daughters and his mother-in-law. In 1995, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was granted house arrest in 2011 and let out of prison on parole in 2016.

Raymond Octave Joseph Barre was a French centre-right politician and economist. He was a Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs under three Presidents and later served as Prime Minister under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from 1976 until 1981. As a candidate for the presidency in 1988, he came in third and was eliminated in the first round. He was born in Saint-Denis, in the French island of Réunion, then still a colony.

Sim was a French humourist, writer and comedian.

Dominick John Dunne was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer.

Peter Härtling was a German writer, poet, publisher and journalist. He received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his major contribution to German literature.

Jacques Foccart was a French businessman and politician, best known as a chief adviser to French presidents on African affairs. He was also a co-founder of the Gaullist Service d'Action Civique (SAC) in 1959 with Charles Pasqua, which specialized in covert operations in Africa.

Albert Speer was a German architect and urban planner. He was the son of Albert Speer (1905–1981), Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming the office of Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich during World War II. His grandfather, Albert Friedrich Speer, was also an architect.

Haroun Tazieff was a Polish, Belgian and French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes. He was also a government adviser and Cabinet minister.

Abderrahmane Amalou was a Moroccan academic and politician. He served as Minister of Justice under the second government of Abdellatif Filali from 1995 to 1997.