List of Famous people who died in 1983

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Edward Lambton

First Name Edward

Last Name Lambton

Born on April 29, 1918

Died on June 23, 1983 (aged 65)

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George Colville

First Name George

Last Name Colville

Born on September 9, 1903

Died on August 18, 1983 (aged 79)

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June Valentine Park

First Name June

Last Name Park

Born on April 14, 1923

Died on April 30, 1983 (aged 60)

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Victor Provo

Victor Émery Georges Provo

First Name Victor

Last Name Provo

Born on August 30, 1903

Died on October 4, 1983 (aged 80)

Born in France, Hauts-de-France

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Yale Gracey

First Name Yale

Last Name Gracey

Born on September 3, 1910

Died on September 5, 1983 (aged 73)

Born in People's Republic of China

Yale Wilbur Gracey was a Disney Imagineer, writer, and layout artist for many Disney animated shorts, including classics such as The Three Caballeros and Fantasia. Gracey joined the company in 1939 as a layout artist for Pinocchio. He designed many of the special effects for the Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion attractions at Disneyland. The Haunted Mansion character Master Gracey was named in homage to him. Gracey retired from the company on October 4, 1975.

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Wim Kan

First Name Wim

Born on January 15, 1911

Died on September 8, 1983 (aged 72)

Born in Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, South Holland

Willem Cornelis "Wim" Kan was a Dutch cabaret artist. Together with Toon Hermans and Wim Sonneveld, he is considered to be one of the Great Three of Dutch cabaret.

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Doris Marie Verrières

First Name Doris

Last Name Verrières

Died on February 20, 1983 (aged 13)

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Wallace P. Rowe

First Name Wallace

Last Name Rowe

Born on February 20, 1926

Died on July 4, 1983 (aged 57)

Born in United States of America, Maryland

Wallace Prescott Rowe was an American virologist, known for his research on retroviruses and oncoviruses and as a co-discoverer of adenoviruses.

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Alistair Stewart-Richardson

First Name Alistair

Born on August 16, 1906

Died on January 1, 1983 (aged 76)

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Adriano Buzzati-Traverso

First Name Adriano

Last Name Buzzati-Traverso

Born on April 6, 1913

Died on April 22, 1983 (aged 70)

Born in Italy, Lombardy

Adriano Buzzati-Traverso was an Italian geneticist. In 1962 he founded in Naples the Laboratorio Internazionale di Genetica e Biofisica.

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