List of Famous people who died in 1983

James E. Casey was an American businessman, known for being the founder of the American Messenger Company, today known as United Parcel Service.

Mícheál Ó Móráin was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Justice from 1968 to 1970, Minister for the Gaeltacht from 1957 to 1959 and 1961 to 1968 and Minister for Lands from 1959 to 1968. He served as Teachta Dála (TD) from 1938 to 1973.

Giovanni Cazzulani was an Italian cyclist. He competed in the individual road race event at the 1932 Summer Olympics. He finished in third place in the 1934 Giro d'Italia.

Serafino Biagioni was an Italian professional road bicycle racer.

Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living.

Mary Josephine Dunn was an American stage and film actress of the 1920s and 1930s.

Florence La Caze Gould was American writer and salon-holder who became involved in a money laundering plot before creating a legacy as a patron of the arts at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She held a salon under the Nazi Occupation of Paris entertaining Nazi officers, and narrowly escaped high treason charges in 1945.

Leopold Godowsky Jr. was an American violinist and chemist, who together with Leopold Mannes created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome.

Romain Maes was a Belgian cyclist who won the 1935 Tour de France after wearing the yellow jersey of leadership from beginning to end. Maes was the 13th child in his family. He started racing when he was 17. He turned professional in 1933 and won the Omloop van het Westen. The following year he started the Tour de France and twice finished stages in second place. He then crashed on the day from Digne to Nice and left the race in an ambulance.