List of Famous people who died at 83

Leonard Allchurch was a Welsh professional footballer. Allchurch played in the Football League for almost twenty years, playing in the top flight with Sheffield United and having lengthy spells with Swansea City and Stockport County. A Welsh international, he was born in Swansea and was the brother of fellow international Ivor Allchurch. He had the distinction of never receiving a booking or a caution throughout his entire Football League career.

Aécio Ferreira da Cunha was a Brazilian politician.

Norio Nobuhito Maeda was a Japanese jazz composer and pianist.

Zeng Shiqiang was a Chinese-born Taiwanese sinologist best known for studying I Ching, the oldest of the Chinese classics. Zeng is acclaimed as having been the "Father of the Chinese Style of Management". He served as president of Hsing Kuo University of Management (HKU) and professor at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU).

Jean Robert François Matouk was a French economist, banker, and professor of economics.

Muzaffer İzgü was a Turkish writer and teacher. He was known for his children's books and works of humour, and had authored 154 books, 98 of which were for children.

Philippe Louis Jean Breton was a French Roman Catholic bishop.

Carlos Francisco Theodoro Machado Ribeiro de Lessa, better known simply as Carlos Lessa was a Brazilian economist and professor.

Hans Egon Holthusen was a German Nazi, lyric poet, essayist, and literary scholar.

Hermann Langbein was an Austrian communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and a historian who fought in the Spanish Civil War with the International Brigades for the Spanish Republicans against the Nationalists under Francisco Franco. The former concentration camp prisoner was a co-founder of the International Auschwitz Committee in 1954.