List of Famous people who died in 1983

Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield, known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph, and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason, later The New Meaning of Treason (1964), a study of the trial of the British fascist William Joyce and others; The Return of the Soldier (1918), a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, The Fountain Overflows (1956), This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund (1985). Time called her "indisputably the world's number one woman writer" in 1947. She was made CBE in 1949, and DBE in 1959; in each case, the citation reads: "writer and literary critic". She took the pseudonym "Rebecca West" from the rebellious young heroine in Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal.

Sydney Box was a British film producer and screenwriter, and brother of British film producer Betty Box. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Jay Lewis.

Joan Mabel Frederica du Plat Taylor was a British archaeologist and pioneer of underwater nautical archaeology.

Daniele Alexandrovich Amfitheatrof was a Russian-Italian composer and conductor.

Violet Mary Cripps, Baroness Parmoor, née Nelson (1891–1983), was a British peeress.

Grigori Lvovich Roshal was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 26 films between 1926 and 1968.

Georgiana Angela Maxwell, 26th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley was a British peeress.