List of Famous people who died in 1983

General Higinio Morínigo Martínez was a general and political figure in Paraguay. He was the President and military dictator of Paraguay from September 7, 1940 to June 3, 1948. Opposition to his rule led to the Paraguayan civil war of 1947. The Paraguayan city General Higinio Morínigo is named in his honor.

Rudolf Petersen was a German naval officer during World War II. Petersen, in his role as Commodore, was the head of the court of what might have been the last desertion-trial of Nazi Germany. Matrose Fritz Wehrmann, age 26 from Leipzig, Funker Alfred Gail, age 20 from Kassel, and Obergefreiter Martin Schilling, age 22 from Ostfriesland were executed on board Buéa on 10 May 1945 two days after the unconditional surrender of Germany.

Walter Simon Notheis, Jr., best remembered by his stage name of Walter Scott, was an American singer who fronted Bob Kuban and The In-Men, a St. Louis, Missouri-based rock 'n' roll band that had brief national popularity during the 1960s.

Glikeriya Vasilyevna Bogdanova-Chesnokova was a Soviet musical comedy theatre and film actress. In 1970, she was made a People’s Artist of the RSFSR.

Eduardo Benavente was a Spanish musician and the leader of Parálisis Permanente, a cult band of La Movida Madrileña. Benavente died at the age of 20 in a car accident. His untimely death made him into a symbol of the Spanish music scene of the 1980s.

Rod Cameron was a Canadian-born film and television actor whose career extended from the 1930s to the 1970s. He appeared in horror, war, action and science fiction movies, but is best remembered for his many westerns.

Edmond Ardisson was a French actor. He appeared in more than ninety films between 1938 and 1983.

Princess Isabelle Françoise Hélène Marie d'Orléans was a member of the House of Orléans and, by marriage, a member of the ducal Harcourt family and of the princely House of Murat.