List of Famous people who died at 83
Turgut Özakman
Turgut Özakman was a Turkish lawyer, a civil servant, a dramaturge and a writer.
James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist was an American artist and one of the proponents of the pop art movement. Drawing from his background working in sign painting, Rosenquist's pieces often explored the role of advertising and consumer culture in art and society, utilizing techniques he learned making commercial art to depict popular cultural icons and mundane everyday objects. While his works have often been compared to those from other key figures of the pop art movement, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist's pieces were unique in the way that they often employed elements of surrealism using fragments of advertisements and cultural imagery to emphasize the overwhelming nature of ads. He was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
Nicolas Alfonsi
Nicolas Alfonsi was a French politician, member of the Senate of France, representing the department of Corse-du-Sud.
Juvenal Juvêncio
Juvenal Juvêncio was a Brazilian lawyer, state representative, investigator of police, and president of São Paulo Futebol Clube. During the legislature 1963–1967, he took over in alternate condition, state deputy mandate. He was also head of Cecap, during the government of São Paulo state governor Laudo Natel (1971–1975). After leaving the presidency, he later became the director of an amateur football club.
Olga Ivinskaya
Olga Vsevolodovna Ivinskaya was a Russian poet and writer. She was friend and lover of Nobel Prize-winning writer Boris Pasternak during the last 13 years of his life and the inspiration for the character of Lara in his novel Doctor Zhivago (1957).
Don Bragg
Donald George Bragg was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault and won a gold medal in that event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Rafael Bardem
Rafael Bardem Solé was a Spanish film actor whose career stretched from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Karl Schiller
Karl August Fritz Schiller was a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1966 to 1972, he was Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and from 1971 to 1972 Federal Minister of Finance. He was the inventor of the magic square, depicting Economic equilibrium, and of the Concerted activity to reflate the German market. He is thus seen as one of the most influential German economists beside Ludwig Erhard.
Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Anthony Rzewski was an American composer and pianist who is considered to be one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time. His major compositions, which often incorporate social and political themes, include the minimalist Coming Together and the variation set The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, which has been called "a modern classic".
Gebhard Ludwig Himmler
Gebhard Ludwig Himmler was a German Nazi functionary, mechanical engineer and older brother of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.