List of Famous people who died at 83

Maria Tekla Famiglietti (1936–2020) was the Abbess General of the Order of the Most Holy Savior, commonly called the Bridgettine Sisters, founded by Elizabeth Hesselblad. On 28 October 2016 Famiglietti retired and was replaced by Fabia Kattakayam.

Anatoli Konstantinovich Isayev was a Soviet football player and Soviet and Russian coach.

Monique Papon was a French politician who was member of the Senate of France, representing the Loire-Atlantique department. She was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement; most recently she served as a vice-president of the Senate.

James Schwarzenbach was a right-wing Swiss politician and publicist. In the 1970s he was head of the short-lived Republican Movement. He also was publisher of fascist, völkisch, and antisemitic literature as the owner of Thomas-Verlag. He served in the National Council from December 12, 1967 to February 28, 1979, representing the Canton of Zürich.

Hisham Mohieddin Nazer was Saudi Arabia's oil minister and the first Saudi board chairman of ARAMCO, which was later called Saudi Aramco. He was one of the significant people in developing the domestic policy of Saudi Arabia. He also served as Saudi ambassador to Egypt from 2005 to 2011.

Hideyuki Fujisawa , also known as Shuko Fujisawa, was a Japanese professional Go player. A younger uncle of another professional, Hosai Fujisawa and grandfather of professional Go player Hideyuki Fujisawa.

May Sarton was the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, a Belgian-American poet, novelist and memoirist. Although her best work is strongly personalised with erotic female imagery, she resisted the label of ‘lesbian writer’, preferring to convey the universality of human love.

Bernardo Neustadt was an Argentinian journalist born in Romania. For 30 years he was the TV host of the famous New Time news program.

Bert Olav Holmquist was a Swedish trombonist who was active in the European music scene since the 1960s. Holmquist was born in Skellefteå. A completely self-taught musician, he began his career in a Swedish armed forces band (I20). He first took up the tuba, switched to valve trombone, and then to slide trombone. Starting as a freelance musician, he managed to land a job with the Swedish Radio big band in 1963 but continued to freelance throughout the 1960s. During this period, he often worked with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, who were later members of ABBA.

Melvin John Ramos was an American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art.