List of Famous people who died in 1983

Terence James Cooke was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of New York from 1968 until his death, quietly battling leukemia throughout his tenure. He was named a cardinal in 1969. Nine years after his death, he was designated a Servant of God, the first step in the process that leads to beatification and then canonization as a saint.

Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd, known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, was a British novelist.

Ernst van Aaken was a German sports physician and athletics trainer. Van Aaken became known as the "Running Doctor" and was the founder of the training method called the Waldnieler Dauerlauf. He is generally recognized as the founder of the long slow distance method of endurance training.

Gregory Hugh Wannier (1911–1983) was a Swiss physicist.

Heinrich Josef Konietzny was a German musician, professor and composer.

Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski was a Polish screenwriter and film director. He wrote for more than 25 films between 1951 and 1981. he was born in aristocratic family of Clan Ostoja.

Felix Bloch was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel physics laureate who worked mainly in the U.S. He and Edward Mills Purcell were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "their development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements." In 1954–1955, he served for one year as the first Director-General of CERN. Felix Bloch made fundamental theoretical contributions to the understanding of electron behavior in crystal lattices, ferromagnetism, and nuclear magnetic resonance.