List of Famous people who died at 83

Juan José Arreola Zúñiga was a Mexican writer and academic. He is considered Mexico's premier experimental short story writer of the twentieth century. Arreola is recognized as one of the first Latin American writers to abandon realism; he used elements of fantasy to underscore existentialist and absurdist ideas in his work. Although he is little known outside his native country, Arreola has served as the literary inspiration for a legion of Mexican writers who have sought to transform their country's realistic literary tradition by introducing elements of magical realism, satire, and allegory. Alongside Jorge Luis Borges, he is considered one of the masters of the hybrid subgenre of the essay-story. He published only one novel, La feria.

Günter Kießling was a German general in the Bundeswehr, who became famous as the subject of what became known as the Kießling Affair.

Maria Martha Hacker Rocha was a Brazilian model, the first winner of Miss Brasil in 1954, and the runner-up to Miss Universe.

Can Bartu was a Turkish basketball and football player of Circassian origin. After retirement, he also worked as a pundit and sports journalist.

John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie. Hooker was ranked 35 in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of 100 greatest guitarists.

Eduardo Humberto del Río García, better known by his pen name Rius, was a Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist and writer born in Zamora, Michoacán.

Peggy Hayama born Shigeko Kotakari was a Japanese singer.

Peter Benenson was a British lawyer, human rights activist and the founder of human rights group Amnesty International (AI). He refused all honours, but in his 80s, largely to please his family, he accepted the Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2001.

Igor Konstantinovich Kashintsev was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. He was a People's Artist of Russia (2003) and was awarded the Order of Friendship (2008).

Tony Garnett was a British film and television producer, and actor. Best known for his thirteen-year association with director Ken Loach, his work as a producer continued into the 21st century.