List of Famous people who died at 83
Raymond Poulidor
Raymond Poulidor, nicknamed "Pou-Pou", was a French professional racing cyclist, who rode for Mercier his entire career.
Harry Caray
Harry Christopher Caray was an American sportscaster on radio and television. He covered five Major League Baseball teams, beginning with 25 years of calling the games of the St. Louis Cardinals with two of these years also spent calling games for the St. Louis Browns. After a year working for the Oakland Athletics and eleven years with the Chicago White Sox, Caray spent the last sixteen years of his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.
Paul Belmondo
Paul Belmondo was a French sculptor. He is the father of the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Arquímedes Puccio
Arquímedes Rafael Puccio nicknamed "The crazy sweeper " was an Argentinian accountant, lawyer, entrepreneur, SIDE member and member of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, he also leaded the Batallón de Inteligencia 601 and also participated of the Tacuara nacionalist movement. He was mainly known for being the leader of the Puccio Clan, a criminal organization famous for abducting and murder three entrepreneurs: Ricardo Manoukian, Eduardo Aulet and Emilio Naum. He was captured along with other clan members while trying to charge the rescue fee to their fourth victim; The funerary establishment owner and entrepreneur Nélida Bollini de Prado thanks to the victim's family collaboration, who succeeded to survive.
Mikhail Kokshenov
Mikhail Mikhailovich Kokshenov was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of Russia (2002).
Janet Okell
Janet Hay Okell was an English wargamer who joined the Western Approaches Tactical Unit (WATU) as a young Naval rating in the Women's Royal Naval Service. Shortly after Admiral Max Horton was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Western Approaches Command, in November 1942, he visited WATU, and played one of their wargames. As one of the Royal Navy's most experienced submarine commanders he opted to play the role of a U-boat commander. Captain Gilbert Roberts, head of WATU decided that Okell should play the role of the escort group commander. Horton was somewhat dismayed to find that Okell was able to outsmart him five times out of five. Despite his initial horror on discovering he had been beaten by a twenty year old female rating, he soon sanctioned the use of her method, known as Beta Search to be included in the next revision of Fleet Orders.
Sergei Yursky
Sergei Yurievich Yursky was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter. His best known film role is Ostap Bender in The Golden Calf (1968)
Martin Held
Martin Held (1908–1992) was a German television and film actor.
Meadowlark Lemon
Meadow Lemon III, known professionally as Meadowlark Lemon, was an American basketball player, actor, and Christian minister. Beginning in 1994, he ran Meadowlark Lemon Ministries in Scottsdale, Arizona. For 22 years, he was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. He played in more than 16,000 games for the Globetrotters and was a 2003 inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols was an American film and theater director, producer, actor, and comedian. He was noted for his ability to work across a range of genres and for his aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their experience. Nichols began his career in the 1950s with the comedy improvisational troupe The Compass Players, predecessor of The Second City, in Chicago. He then teamed up with his improv partner, Elaine May, to form the comedy duo Nichols and May. Their live improv act was a hit on Broadway, and the first of their three albums won a Grammy Award.