List of Famous people who died in 1983

Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. After running two important art galleries in the 1930s and 1940s, he came to wider public notice on television, presenting a succession of programmes on the arts during the 1950s and 1960s, culminating in the Civilisation series in 1969.

Andrea Rizzoli was an Italian entrepreneur, publisher and film producer. He was the son of Angelo Rizzoli, president of the publishing house RCS MediaGroup, the first Italian publishing group in the seventies.

Sir Joscelyn Ambrose Cramer Coghill, 7th Baronet was an Anglo-Irish actor and aristocrat, being the 7th Baronet Coghill (1981–1983).

Alix Cléo Roubaud was a Canadian photographer and writer who lived in France after 1972.

Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter was the mother of the thirty-ninth president of the United States Jimmy Carter. She was also known for her contributions to nursing in her home state of Georgia and as a Peace Corps volunteer in India as well as writing two books during the Carter presidency.