The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1983.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
October 1983 1 Hermione Hannen, 70, English actressObituary, The Times, 10 October 1983
3 John McCaffery, 69, American television host and anchorman Earl Tupper, 76, American businessman and inventor (Tupperware)
4 Dino Battaglia, 60, Italian comics artist, co-founder of the magazine Asso di Picche, adapted gothic fiction short stories and novels into comic books, focusing primarily on the works Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and François Rabelais
6 Terence Cooke, 62, American Catholic prelate, Archbishop of New York from 1968 until his death, cardinal since 1969, leukemia Dennis Vance, 59, British television producer, television director, and occasional actor
7 George O. Abell, 56, American astronomer and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), heart attack Christophe Soglo, 74, Beninese military officer and political leader, World War II veteran of the Allies' landings in Corsica, Elba, and southern France, President of Dahomey from 1965 until 1967https://web.archive.org/web/20150921143432/http://www.gouv.bj/personnalites-politiques/m-christophe-soglo-24121965-18121967-0
8
Joan Hackett, 49, American actress, ovarian cancerObituary, Variety, October 12, 1983.
10 Salise Abanozoğlu, 78–79, Turkish teacher and politician, member of the Republican People's Party and political representative for the Trabzon constituency Ruby Myers, 75–76, Indian actress, founder of the film production house Rubi PicsSilent Screen Stars' India Heritage:Performing Arts:Cinema In India:Personalities:Silent Screen Stars. Ralph Richardson, 80, English actor, series of strokesMorley, Sheridan, "Richardson, Sir Ralph David (1902–1983)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, January 2011, retrieved 13 January 2014
11 Fay Tincher, 99, American actress and comedian
12 Ernie Roth, 57, American professional wrestling manager, heart attack
14 Paul Fix, 82, American character actor, kidney failure Hon Sui Sen, 67, Singaporean politician.PRIME MINISTER’S TRIBUTE TO THE LATE MR HON SUI SEN IN PARLIAMENT ON 20 DECEMBER 1983
15 Pat O'Brien, 83, American actor, heart attack
16 George Liberace, 72, American musicianGEORGE LIBERACE, 71, VIOLINIST
17 Mary Ellen Bute, 76, American animator, producer, and director, creator of some of the first electronically generated film images, specialist in visual music, heart failure. 18 Barbara Karinska, 97, Russian costume designer, complications from a debilitating stroke which had left her unable to speak or move for the last years of her life
19 Maurice Bishop, 39, Grenadian revolutionary, leader of the New JEWEL Movement (NJM), head of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada (PRG) from 1979 until 1983, deposed as Prime Minister and executed by firing squad during a coup d'état. Dorothy Stuart Russell, 88, Australian-born British pathologist Carel Willink, 83, Dutch painter, representative of Magical realismCarel Willink, Netherlands Institute for Art History. Retrieved on 26 March 2015.
20 Otto Aasen, 89, Norwegian Nordic skier Merle Travis, 65, American country and western singer, songwriter, actor, and guitarist, heart attack
23 Jessica Savitch, 36, American television journalist, served as the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News, a daily newsreader for NBC News, and the host of Frontline, drowned in the then-defunct Pennsylvania Canal following a car crashAlmost Golden, Blair; The fatal accident is described from the last paragraph of page 343 to 345. Tamara Shayne, 80, Russian-born American actress, complications following a heart attack"Tamara Shayne, 80, Actress; Was Jolson's Mother in Films", The New York Times, 27 October 1983.
26 Norman Cohen, 47, Irish film director and producer, heart attackThe Independent, Retrieved 14 September 2014
28 Otto Messmer, 91, American animator and alleged creator or co-creator of Felix the Cat, heart attack
30 Lillian Gordy Carter, 85, American nurse, Peace Corps volunteer in India, housemother of the Kappa Alpha Order from 1956 until 1962,the Birmingham News Sunday, May 2, 1976 letter writer with a published volume of correspondence, breast cancer metastasized to the bone
References
Sources Blair, Gwenda. Almost Golden: Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. .
External links List of October 1983 deaths at IMDb