Year (''' MCMLXXXIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian Calendar ).
- January 1 - The New Jersey Transit Police Department is created in the state of New Jersey
- January 2 - The musical '' Annie '' is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows at the Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City..
- January 3 - CITV was launched in the United Kingdom on the channel ITV .
- January 8 - A riot breaks out at Sing Sing prison, New York .
- January 19 - High ranking Nazi War Criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia .
- January 22 - Björn Borg retires from Tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon Championships .
- January 24 - Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Aldo Moro .
- January 26 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM-PC Compatible computers.
- January 26 - Red rain falls in the UK, caused by sand from the Sahara Desert in the droplets.
- January 30 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins 27-17 in Super Bowl XVII at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena , California .
- January 31 - Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom .
- February 2 - Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial for multiple counts of Bigamy involving 105 women.
- February 3 - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament for elections on March 5 . Bob Hawke replaces Bill Hayden as leader of the Australian Labor Party .
- February 6 - Klaus Barbie is officially charged with War Crime s.
- February 7 - Iran opens an invasion in the southeast of Iraq .
- February 13 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims 1983 "The Year of the Bible ".
- February 13 - A Cinema fire in Turin , Italy kills 64.
- February 16 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 76 people in one of Australia's worst fires ever.
- in Seattle, Washington .
- February 23 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intention to buy out and evacuate the Dioxin -contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri .
- February 24 - A special commission of the Congress Of The United States releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese Internment during World War II .
- February 25 - United States playwright Tennessee Williams is found dead in his Hotel room.
- February 28 - '' M---A---S---H (TV Series) '' ends after 11 years and 251 episodes on CBS . The series finale, '' Goodbye, Farewell And Amen '', becomes the Highest Rated Episode In TV History .
- March 1 - The Irish band U2 releases its 3rd album '' War ''.
- March 1 - The Balearic Islands and Madrid become Autonomous Communities of Spain .
- March 1 - Swatch introduces their first watches.
- March 5 - Bob Hawke is elected Prime Minister Of Australia .
- March 8 - IBM releases the IBM PC XT .
- March 8 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an " Evil Empire ."
- March 9 - Anne Burford resigns as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency amid scandal.
- March 11 - Australia's First Hawke Ministry is sworn in; Andrew Peacock becomes Federal Opposition leader.
- March 16 - The Transmitter Ismaning , the last wooden radio tower in Germany, is demolished.
- makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars."
- '' astronauts Story Musgrave and Donald H. Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
- April 11 - The National Economic Summit is held in Canberra, Australia .
- April 12 - The British film '' Gandhi '' wins 8 Oscars .
- April 12 - Harold Washington is elected the first African American mayor of Chicago .
- April 15 - American Public Radio is founded (becomes Public Radio International in 1994 ).
- April 15 - The first non-American Disney Theme Park opens in Japan as Tokyo Disneyland .
- April 18 - The U.S Embassy Is Bombed in Beirut , killing 63 people.
- April 22 - Soviet Embassy official Valery Ivanov is expelled from Australia for allegedly trying to recruit spies in the Australian government.
- April 23 - '' Stern '' magazine in West Germany announces it has the Hitler Diaries .
- April 23 - Corinne Hermès wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 for Luxembourg with the song, ''Si la vie est cadeau''.
- April 25 - Manchester, Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov , after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about Nuclear War .
- May 6 - Stern magazine publishes the " Hitler Diaries " (later found to be forgeries).
- May 9 - Pope John Paul II retracts the ban on Galileo Galilei .
- May 11 - Aberdeen FC wins the European Cup Winners Cup - beating Real Madrid 2-1 in the final played in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- May 16 - London police begin the use of Wheel Clamp s on illegally-parked vehicles.
- May 16 - NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down, in response to allegations raised by ABC program Four Corners that he attempted to influence the NSW Majestry.
- May 17 - Lebanon , Israel , and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
- May 25 - '' Return Of The Jedi '' opens in the United States .
- May 28 - The 9th G7 Summit begins at Williamsburg, Virginia .
- wins his first race after three previous runner-up finishes.
- June 9 - Conservative Margaret Thatcher , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom since 1979, wins a landslide victory (42% of the popular vote) over Michael Foot , who led a highly-divided and weakened Labour Party which earned only 28% of the vote. The much improved economy (after 2-3 years of restructuring), her victory in the Falkands, as well as shrinking unemployment rates consolidates her election victory.
- June 13 - '' Pioneer 10 '' becomes the first manmade object to leave the Solar System .
- becomes the first American woman in space, on the Space Shuttle '' Challenger ''.
- June 25 - India wins the Prudential world cup 1983.
- July 1 - A North Korea n Ilyushin Il-62 M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea , crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau , killing all 23 people on board.
- July 1 - The High Court Of Australia blocks construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania .
- July 7 - Samantha Smith flies to the Soviet Union (see April 25).
- July 15 - The Nintendo Entertainment System goes on sale in Japan
- , causing 20 fatalities.
- July 17 - American Television Series CHiPs ends their original run.
- July 20 - The government of Poland announces end of Martial Law and Amnesty for Political Prisoner s.
- July 21 - Diana Ross stages a free concert in Central Park in front of 800,000 people, enduring the severe weather but vows to return the next day.
- July 22 - Diana Ross and the crowds return for day two of the performer's legendary Central Park show.
- July 22 - Australia n Dick Smith completes his solo Circumnavigation in a Helicopter .
- Flight 143 crash-lands in Gimli, Manitoba .
- July 23 - The Black July , a communal riot occurs in Sri Lanka .
- July 24 - George Brett is expelled from a baseball game in Yankee Stadium , New York, after charging an umpire who called him out for having more Pine Tar on his bat than technically allowed.
- July 25 - Anti-Tamil riots break out in Sri Lanka , leaving over 3,000 Tamils massacred and millions of dollars worth of their property destroyed. This Genocide is the beginning of a deadly Civil War and Ethnic Cleansing in Sri Lanka .
- July 25 - Metallica releases their debut album '' Kill 'Em All ''.
- July 28 - New South Wales premier Neville Wran is exonerated by the Street Royal Commission, over claims raised by ABC ( Australian Broadcasting Corporation ) programme '' Four Corners '', that he attempted to influence the NSW magistracy.
- August 4 - Thomas Sankara becomes President in Upper Volta .
- August 16 - The Bill first airs as Woodentop .
- August 18 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.
- August 18 - Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock ( Uluru ), NT (The driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, is convicted in March 1984).
- August 21 - Benigno Aquino, Jr. , Philippines opposition leader, is assassinated in Manila just as he returns from exile.
- August 24 - The Old Philadelphia Arena is destroyed by arson.
- '' carries Guion S. Bluford , the first African-American astronaut, into space.
- is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed.
- September 4 - Six men walk underwater across the Sydney Harbor - 82.9 km in 48 hours.
- September 5 - Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for '' NBC Nightly News ''.
- September 6 - The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight 007 , stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian Aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
- September 16 - Donna Griffiths of Pershore in England stops sneezing after a continual series of sneezes for 978 days (since January 13 , 1981 ).
- September 17 - Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first African-American to be crowned Miss America , in Atlantic City , New Jersey .
- September 23 - Violence erupts in New Caledonia between native Kanak s and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of Independence .
- September 25 - Long Kesh escape. 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HMP Maze . The largest prison escape since WWII and in British history
- September 25- September 26 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
- September 26 - Australia wins America's Cup .
- September 27 - The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft Newsgroup s.
- October 2 - Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party .
- October 4 - Richard Noble sets a new Land Speed Record of 633.468 Mph , driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert , Nevada .
- October 4 - Hooters opens up in Clearwater, Florida .
- October 7 - A plan to abolish the Greater London Council is announced.
- October 9 - The Rangoon Bombing kills South Korea 's Foreign Minister, Lee Bum Suk , and 21 others.
- October 12 - Japan 's former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed , and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
- October 19 - Maurice Bishop , the Prime Minister of Grenada , and 40 others are executed in a military coup.
- October 21 - At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the Metre is defined in terms of the Speed Of Light as the distance light travels in a Vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
- October 22 - In Bonn , West Germany , people demonstrate for Nuclear Disarmament .
- October 23 - Simultaneous Suicide Truck-bombings destroy both the French and the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut , killing 241 US servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians. The game show "GO!" premieres on NBC.
- October 24 - Arthur Hutchinson kills 3 members of the Laitner family and rapes their daughter in the Sheffield suburb of Dore .
- October 25 - United States troops invade Grenada at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica , a member of the Organization Of American States .
- October 25 - Microsoft Word is first released.
- October 27 - Pope John Paul II visits his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca in prison to forgive him.
- October 30 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after 7 years of military rule are held.
- November 24 - Lynda Mann, 15, is found raped and strangled in the village of Narborough , England ( Colin Pitchfork is sentenced to Life Imprisonment in 1988).
- , 6,800 Gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport . Only a fraction of the gold is ever recovered, and only 2 men are convicted of the crime.
- November 27 - A Colombia n Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid , Spain killing 181 of the 192 on board.
The references to 1983 in popular fiction are:
-In the TV series Supernatural , there are several 'special children,' who were all born in 1983.
- January 1 - Emi Kobayashi , Japanese gravure idol
- January 2 - Kate Bosworth , American actress
- January 4 - Spencer Chamberlain , American musician
- January 7 - Natalie Gulbis , American golfer
- January 8 - Chris Masters , American wrestler
- January 13 - William Hung , Chinese-American musician
- January 13 - Ronny Turiaf , French basketball player
- January 17 - Johannes Herber , German basketball player
- January 18 - Samantha Mumba , Irish singer and actress
- January 19 - Hikaru Utada , Japanese singer and songwriter
- January 20 - Mari Yaguchi , Japanese singer and DJ
- January 21 - Moritz Volz , German footballer
- January 23 - David Firth , British flash animator
- January 24 - Scott Speed , American Formula One driver
- January 31 - James Sutton , British actor
- February 2 - Carolina Klüft , Swedish athlete competing in heptathlon, long jump and pentathlon.
- February 3 - Hillary Scott , American pornographic actress
- February 7 - Elin Grindemyr , Swedish model
- February 8 - Jim Verraros , American singer
- February 8 - Atiba Hutchinson , Canadian footballer
- February 15 - Alan Didak , Australian footballer
- February 18 - Juelz Santana , American rapper
- February 19 - Mika Nakashima , Japanese singer and actress
- February 19 - Ryan Whitney , American hockey player
- February 23 - Mirco Bergamasco , Italian rugby player
- February 23 - Mido , Egyptian footballer
- February 23 - Emily Blunt , English actress
- February 27 - Devin Harris , American basketball player
- February 28 - Tim Redwine , American actor
- March 4 - Max Vergara Poeti , Colombian writer
- March 10 - Carrie Underwood , American singer
- March 10 - Reena Virk , Canadian murder victim (d. 1997 )
- March 14 - Bakhtiyar Artayev , Kazakh boxer
- March 14 - Taylor Hanson , American musician
- March 15 - Sean Biggerstaff , British actor
- March 17 - Christian And Joseph Cousins , American twin actors
- March 21 - Bruno Langley , British actor
- March 27 - Shawntinice Polk , American basketball player (d. 2005 )
- March 28 - Ryan Ashington , English footballer
- March 30 - Zach Gowen , American wrestler
- March 30 - Hebe Tian , member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
- April 2 - Yung Joc , American rapper
- April 4 - Amanda Righetti , American actress
- April 4 - Doug Lynch , Canadian ice hockey player
- April 9 - Clint Dempsey , American soccer player
- April 10 - Ryan Merriman , American actor
- April 13 - Schalk Burger , South African rugby player
- April 15 - Ilya Kovalchuk , Russian ice hockey player
- April 17 - Miguel Cabrera , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
- April 21 - Paweł Brożek , Polish footballer
- April 22 - Matt Jones , American football player
- April 22 - Sean Muir , American playwright
- April 23 - Daniela Hantuchova , Slovakian tennis player
- April 26 - Jake Wall , Australian model
- April 29 - Jay Cutler , American football player
- May 9 - Ryuhei Matsuda , Japanese actor
- May 11 - Matt Leinart , American football player
- May 11 - Holly Valance , Australian actress and singer
- May 13 - Aza Bataeva , Chechen singer
- May 14 - Natalie Cassidy , British actress
- May 14 - Amber Tamblyn , American actress
- May 18 - Vince Young , American football player
- May 19 - Eve Angel , Hungarian model
- May 19 - Jessica Fox , British actress
- May 27 - Bobby Convey , American soccer player
- May 30 - Jennifer Ellison , British actress
- June 6 - Joe Rokocoko , New Zealand rugby player
- June 6 - Gemma Bissix , British actress
- June 6 - Gianna Michaels , American pornstar
- June 8 - Kim Clijsters , Belgian tennis player
- June 8 - Mamoru Miyano , Japanese seiyuu
- June 10 - Leelee Sobieski , American actress
- June 13 - Jason Spezza , Canadian hockey player
- June 15 - Julia Fischer , German violinist
- June 15 - Derek Anderson , American football player
- June 17 - Lee Ryan , British singer
- June 18 - Billy Slater , Australian Rugby League player
- June 19 - Paul Dano , American actor
- June 19 - Mark Selby , British snooker player
- June 20 - Cherrie Ying , Hong Kong actress
- June 24 - Alexander Beyer , German actor
- June 27 - Evan Taubenfeld , American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
- June 30 - Brendon James , English drummer ( Thirteen Senses )
- June 30 - Cheryl Cole , British singer ( Girls Aloud )
- June 30 - Patrick Apps , British singer, songwriter and musician ( Patrick Wolf )
- July 1 - Marit Larsen , Norwegian musician
- July 2 - Michelle Branch , American singer
- July 6 - Gregory Smith , Canadian-born American actor
- July 8 - Elizabeth Del Mar , American pornographic actress
- July 9 - Ben Ziff , American actor
- July 11 - Marie Eleonor Sernehlot , Swedish-born American singer ( A---Teens )
- July 12 - Megumi Kawamura , Japanese model
- July 13 - Liu Xiang , Chinese athlete
- July 18 - Aaron Gillespie , drummer ( Underoath )
- July 21 - Eivør Pálsdóttir , Faroese singer and composer
- July 21 - Kellen Winslow II , American football player
- July 23 - Bec Cartwright , Australian actress
- July 23 - Aaron Peirsol , American swimmer
- July 30 - Sean Dillon , Irish footballer
- August 5 - Sam Stacey , British model
- August 6 - Robin Van Persie , Dutch football player
- August 7 - Tina O'Brien , Coronation Street actress
- August 8 - Fred Meyers , American actor
- August 8 - Guy Burnet , British actor
- August 10 - Mathieu Roy , Canadian professionial ice hockey player
- August 12 - Martina Warren , British model
- August 13 - Ales Hemsky , Czechoslovakian professional ice hockey player
- August 14 - Mila Kunis , Ukrainian-American actress
- August 15 - Lilly Ann , American adult model and porn star
- August 16 - Colin Griffiths , TV presenter and DJ
- August 16 - Nikos Zisis , Greek basketball player
- August 17 - Dustin Pedroia , American Baseball Player
- August 18 - MIKA , British singer
- August 19 - Tammin Sursok , Australian actress
- August 21 - Chantelle Houghton , British reality TV star
- August 23 - Nicol David , Malaysia n Squash player
- August 24 - Christopher Parker , British actor
- August 27 - Wilson Chen , Taiwanese actor
- August 28 - Lasith Malinga , Sri Lankan cricketer
- August 28 - Luke McAlister , New Zealand Rugby Union player
- August 30 - Jun Matsumoto , Japanese singer and actor
- August 30 - Jonne Aaron , Finnish musician
- October 3 - Hiroki Suzuki , Japanese actor
- October 4 - Risa Kudo , Japanese gravure idol
- October 5 - Nicky Hilton , American model and socialite
- October 8 - Michael Fraser , Scottish football goalkeeper
- October 10 - Alyson Hau , Hong Kong radio DJ
- October 14 - Vanessa Lane , American porn star
- October 15 - Stephy Tang , Hong Kong singer and actress
- October 17 - Michelle Ang , Australian actress
- October 24 - Adrienne Bailon , American singer and actress
- October 24 - Alycia Purrott , Canadian actress
- October 24 - Brian Vickers , American race car driver
- October 29 - Amit Sebastian Paul , Swedish-born American singer ( A---Teens )
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- October 30 - Diana Karazon , Jordanian singer
- November 1 - Yuko Ogura , Japanese gravure idol
- November 3 - Julie Berman , American actress
- November 8 - Blanka Vlašić , Croatian high jumper
- November 11 - Philipp Lahm , German footballer
- November 11 - Sora Aoi , Japanese model
- November 14 - Lil Boosie , American rapper
- November 16 - Fallon Bowman , South African-born guitarist ( Kittie )
- November 16 - K , South Korean singer
- November 17 - Harry Lloyd , British actor
- November 18 - Mila J , American singer/rapper
- November 18 - Jon Johansen , Norwegian computer programmer
- December 2 - Bibiana Candelas , Mexican volleyball player
- December 6 - Bryan Habana , South African rugby player
- December 9 - Dariusz Dudka , Polish footballer
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- December 12 - Katrina Elam , American singer
- December 12 - Brad Smith , American football player
- December 13 - Otylia Jędrzejczak , Polish swimmer
- December 13 - Alan Hoyle , UK basketball player
- December 15 - René Duprée , Canadian professional wrestler
- December 16 - Danielle Lloyd , British model
- December 17 - Erik Christensen , Canadian hockey player
- December 20 - Lucy Pinder , British model
- December 22 - Jennifer Hawkins , Australian television personality, crowned Miss Universe in 2004
- December 27 - Cole Hamels , American baseball player
- December 31 - Sayaka Ichii , Japanese singer
- January 10 - Roy DeMeo , Mafia hitman (b. 1942 )
- January 11 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla , Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894 )
- January 15 - Meyer Lansky , Russian-born gangster (b. 1902 )
- January 23 - Fred Bakewell , English cricketer (b. 1908 )
- January 24 - George Cukor , American film director (b. 1899 )
- January 27 - Louis De Funès , French actor (b. 1899 )
- January 28 - Frank Forde , fifteenth Prime Minister Of Australia (b. 1890 )
- January 28 - Billy Fury , British Rock 'n' Roll artist of the 1960s
- February 4 - Karen Carpenter , American singer (b. 1950 )
- February 12 - Eubie Blake , American musician and songwriter (b. 1887 )
- February 14 - Lina Radke , German athlete (b. 1903 )
- February 22 - Sir Adrian Boult , English conductor (b. 1889 )
- February 23 - Herbert Howells , English composer (b. 1892 )
- February 25 - Tennessee Williams , American playwright (b. 1911 )
- February 27 - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev , Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1908 )
- March 3 - Hergé , Belgian comics creator (b. 1907 )
- March 3 - Arthur Koestler , Austrian writer (b. 1905 )
- March 8 - William Walton , English composer (b. 1902 )
- March 9 - Ulf Von Euler , Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905 )
- March 15 - Rebecca West , English-born writer (b. 1892 )
- March 17 - Haldan Keffer Hartline , American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903 )
- March 27 - Elsie Eaves , American civil engineer, George Norlin Silver Medal from the University of Colorado (b. 1898 )
- April 4 - Gloria Swanson , American actress (b. 1897 )
- April 22 - Earl 'Fatha' Hines , American musician (b. 1903 )
- April 30 - McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield , American musician (b. 1915 )
- May 8 - John Fante , American writer (b. 1909 )
- May 14 - Roger J. Traynor , American judge (b. 1900 )
- May 18 - Frank Aiken , Irish Foreign Minister (b. 1898 )
- May 19 - Jean Rey , President Of The European Commission (b. 1902 )
- May 21 - Kenneth Clark , British art historian (b. 1903 )
- May 22 - Albert Claude , Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1899 )
- May 31 - Jack Dempsey , American heavyweight champion boxer (b. 1895 )
- June 2 - Stan Rogers , Canadian musician (b. 1949 )
- June 8 - Miško Kranjec , Slovenian writer (b. 1908 )
- June 10 - Larry Hooper , American singer, '' The Lawrence Welk Show '' (b. 1917 )
- June 12 - Norma Shearer , Canadian-born actress
- June 18 - Marianne Brandt , German industrial designer (b. 1893 )
- June 25 - Alberto Ginastera , Argentine composer (b. 1916 )
- July 1 - Buckminster Fuller , American architect (b. 1895 )
- July 4 - John Bodkin Adams , alleged English murderer (b. 1899 )
- July 7 - Vicki Morgan , American model (murdered) (b. 1952 )
- July 11 - Ross Macdonald , American-Canadian writer (b. 1915 )
- July 12 - Chris Wood , British rock musician (b. 1944 )
- July 20 - Frank Reynolds , American journalist (b. 1923 )
- July 23 - Georges Auric , French composer (b. 1899 )
- July 29 - Raymond Massey , Canadian actor (b. 1896 )
- July 29 - David Niven , English actor (b. 1910 )
- August 3 - Carolyn Jones , American actress (b. 1930 )
- August 16 - Earl Averill , baseball player (b. 1902 )
- August 17 - Ira Gershwin , American lyricist (b. 1896 )
- August 21 - Benigno Aquino, Jr. , Filipino politician (b. 1932 )
- September 1 - Larry McDonald , U.S. Congressman (plane crash) (b. 1935 )
- September 10 - Felix Bloch , Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905 )
- September 10 - Jon Brower Minnoch , heaviest man who ever lived (b. 1941 )
- September 25 - King Léopold III Of Belgium (b. 1901 )
- September 26 - Tino Rossi , Corsican singer (b. 1907 )
- October 6 - Terence Cardinal Cooke , American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921 )
- October 8 - Joan Hackett , American actress (b. 1934 )
- October 18 - Willie Jones , baseball player (b. 1925 )
- October 23 - Jessica Savitch , American journalist (drowned in a car accident) (b. 1947 )
- October 28 - Otto Messmer , American cartoonist (b. 1892 )
- October 31 - George S. Halas , American football player and coach (b. 1895 )
- November 3 - Alfredo Antonini , American conductor and composer (b. 1901 )
- November 7 - Germaine Tailleferre , French composer (b. 1892 )
- November 15 - John Le Mesurier , British actor (b. 1912 )
- December 2 - Fifi D'Orsay , Canadian actress (b. 1904 )
- December 6 - Lucienne Boyer , French singer (b. 1903 )
- December 8 - Slim Pickens , American actor (b. 1919 )
- December 11 - Sir Neil Ritchie , British general (b. 1897 )
- December 21 - Paul De Man , Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919 )
- December 23 - Colin Middleton , Northern Irish artist (b. 1910 )
- December 25 - Joan Miró , Catalan painter (b. 1893 )
- December 28 - Dennis Wilson , American musician (The Beach Boys) (drowned) (b. 1944 )
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