List of Famous people who died in 1983

Paul Hardwick was an English actor.

Albert Claude was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. His elementary education started in a comprehensive primary school at Longlier, his birthplace. He served in the British Intelligence Service during the First World War, and got imprisoned in concentration camps twice. In recognition of his service, he was granted enrolment at the University of Liège in Belgium to study medicine without any formal education required for the course. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1928. Devoted to medical research, he initially joined German institutes in Berlin. In 1929 he found an opportunity to join the Rockefeller Institute in New York. At Rockefeller University he made his most groundbreaking achievements in cell biology. In 1930 he developed the technique of cell fractionation, by which he discovered the agent of the Rous sarcoma, components of cell organelles such as mitochondrion, chloroplast, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, ribosome and lysosome. He was the first to employ the electron microscope in the field of biology. In 1945 he published the first detailed structure of cell. His collective works established the complex functional and structural properties of cells.

Shepperd Strudwick was an American actor of film, television and stage. He was also billed as John Shepperd for some of his films and for his acting on stage in New York.

Juan de Garchitorena de Carvajal, known in cinema as Juan Torena (1898–1983), was a Spanish footballer and actor. After emigrating to Argentina at a young age, he became a footballer who eventually played for the Spanish club FC Barcelona. Later in his life, he went to North America where he acted in Hollywood films, appearing in both English and Spanish-language versions. He was married to the actress Natalie Moorhead.

William Gaspard Guy Romilly, 4th Baron Romilly was a British hereditary peer.

Julius "Izzy" Yablok was an American football back who played two seasons in the National Football League with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Staten Island Stapletons. He played college football at Colgate University and attended Boys High School in Brooklyn, New York.