List of Famous people who died in 1983
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo
Admiral José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo was a Portuguese political figure, reformer and revolutionary. He helped overthrow Marcelo Caetano in 1974. He served as the 104th Prime Minister of Portugal between 19 September 1975 and 23 June 1976. He ran for president in 1976, and lost.
Rose Repetto
Rose Repetto was an Italian-born French business owner. She established the Repetto ballet shoe company.
Fayza Ahmed
Fayza Ahmed was a Syrian-Egyptian-Lebanese singer and actress. During her career, she appeared in six films.
Naif bin Abdullah
Prince Nayef bin Abdullah was the youngest son of King Abdullah I of Jordan and his second wife, Suzdil Khanum.
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).
Ana Cristina Cesar
Ana Cristina César was a poet, literary critic and translator from Rio de Janeiro. She came from a middle-class Protestant background and was usually known as "Ana C." She had written since childhood and developed a strong interest in English literature. She spent some time in England in 1968 and, on returning to Brazil, she became a published author of note. The 1970s and early 1980s were the peak of her poetic career.
Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Catalan novelist.
George Cukor
George Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's Head of Production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major films, including What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Our Betters (1933), and Little Women (1933). When Selznick moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933, Cukor followed and directed Dinner at Eight (1933) and David Copperfield (1935) for Selznick and Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Camille (1936) for Irving Thalberg.
Ganjirō Nakamura
Nakamura Ganjirō II was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 48 films between 1957 and 1982. He starred in the film The End of Summer, which was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.
Georges Bidault
Georges-Augustin Bidault was a French politician. During World War II, he was active in the French Resistance. After the war, he served as foreign minister and prime minister on several occasions. He joined the Organisation armée secrète; however he always denied his involvement.