List of Famous people who died in 1983

Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH was an English conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family, he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London for the Royal Opera House and Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company. His first prominent post was conductor of the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1924. When the British Broadcasting Corporation appointed him director of music in 1930, he established the BBC Symphony Orchestra and became its chief conductor. The orchestra set standards of excellence that were rivalled in Britain only by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), founded two years later.

Thomas Henry Raymond Ashton, 2nd Baron Ashton of Hyde JP DL. The son of Thomas Gair Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde and Eva Margaret James. He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Ashton of Hyde on the latter's death on 1 May 1933. On his death in 1983 he was succeeded in the barony by his son.

Sir Rudolph Edgar Francis de Trafford, 5th Baronet, OBE was a British aristocrat and banker who succeeded his brother to the de Trafford baronetage at the age of 77.

Vladimir Gelfand was a diarist and Soviet soldier in World War II.