List of Famous people who died in 1983

Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. was a Ukrainian-born American photojournalist and cinematographer.

Georges Vandenberghe was a professional Belgian cyclist.

Buster Phelps was an American actor.

Alexia Marie Bryn was a Norwegian pair skater. She competed with Yngvar Bryn. They won silver medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics and at the 1923 World Figure Skating Championships, as well as the bronze at the 1912 Worlds.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikhailov was a Russian astronomer who was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He worked at Pulkovo Observatory from 1947 to 1982. He was its director until 1964 and is credited with leading its post-war revival after the fall of Leningrad.

Eduard Franz was an American actor of theatre, film and television. Franz portrayed King Ahab in the 1953 biblical low-budget film Sins of Jezebel, Jethro in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956), and Jehoam in Henry Koster's The Story of Ruth (1960).

John C. Howard was an American film editor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the film Blazing Saddles (1974). He also won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1970, which he shared with Richard C. Meyer.