List of Famous people who died at 83

Charles Frederick Rycroft was a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He studied medicine at University College London, and worked briefly as a psychiatrist for the Maudsley Hospital. For most of his career he had a private psychiatric practice in London. He was the author of a number of notable books, including A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (1968), The Innocence of Dreams (1979) and Psychoanalysis and Beyond (1985).

Rémy Stricker was a French pianist, music educator, radio producer, musicologist and writer.

Alastair McCorquodale was a Scottish athlete and cricketer.

Guy Héraud was a French politician and lawyer. He was the candidate of the European Federalist Party in the 1974 French presidential election, where he won only 0.08% of the vote and last place. His result remains the lowest score ever obtained by a candidate in any French presidential election.

Mercy Seiradaki was a British archaeologist who worked in Crete in the 1930s, mostly on projects led by John Pendlebury, including excavations at Knossos. She co-authored several reports on the work undertaken with him and published a later key text on the pottery from Karphi in 1960. During the war she worked at Bletchley Park, and then joined the Red Cross. She worked with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Crete in the post-war years and lived in Greece for the rest of her life.

Francis Stanley "Gabby" Gabreski was a Polish-American career pilot in the United States Air Force who retired as a colonel after 26 years of military service. He was the top American and United States Army Air Forces fighter ace over Europe during World War II and a jet fighter ace with the Air Force in the Korean War.