page_title: 1983
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1983 / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Joan Miro, Barcelona.
context_page_description: 1983 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1983rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 983rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1980s decade.
  The year 1983 saw both the contested beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
context_section_description: December 2 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
  December 5
  Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
  John Robinson, British Anglican bishop (b. 1919)
  December 6
  Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
  Gul Khan Nasir, Baloch politician and poet from Pakistan (b. 1914)
  December 8
  Keith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
  Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
  December 9
  Tito Junco, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
  David Rounds, American actor (b. 1930)
  December 10, Elwyn Flint, Australian linguist and academic (b. 1910)
  December 11 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (b. 1897)
  December 13
  Leora Dana, American actress (b. 1923)
  Mary Renault, English author (b. 1905)
  December 15 – David Markham, British actor (b. 1913)
  December 19 – Cameron Hall, British actor (b. 1897)
  December 20
  Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco (b. 1935)
  Bill Brandt, German-British photographer and photojournalist(b. 1904)
  December 21
  Rod Cameron, American actor (b. 1910)
  Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
  December 23 – Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
  December 25 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (b. 1893)
  December 26 – Violet Carson, British actress (b. 1898)
  December 27
  William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)
  Walter Scott, American performer (b. 1943)
  December 28
  Jimmy Demaret, American golf champion (b. 1910)
  Dennis Wilson, American singer, songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)
caption: Joan Miró
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