List of Famous people who died in 1983
Tsai Pei-huo
Shāʻir al-Qarawī
Abraham Drucker
Chien Shih-Liang
Chien Shih-Liang aka S. L. Chien, was a Chinese chemist
Yūtarō Hayashi
Wolfgang Mülberger
Howard Swift
Kurt Tank
Kurt Waldemar Tank was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931 to 1945. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II, including the Fw 190 fighter aircraft, the Ta 152 fighter-interceptor and the Fw 200 Condor airliner. After the war, Tank spent two decades designing aircraft abroad, working first in Argentina and then in India, before returning to Germany in the late 1960s to work as a consultant for Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB).
Clemens Holzmeister
Clemens Holzmeister was a prominent Austrian architect and stage designer of the early twentieth century. The Austrian Academy of Fine Arts listed his life's work as containing 673 projects. He was the father of Judith Holzmeister.
Doğan Avcıoğlu
Doğan Avcıoğlu (1926–1983) was a Turkish writer, journalist and politician.