March 1983
1
- Arthur Koestler, 77, Austro-Hungarian-born novelist, memoirist, and journalist, associate of the propaganda organization Information Research Department (IRD) which funded and distributed much of his work, [1] [2] suicide by an overdose of the barbiturate Tuinal taken with alcohol. [3]
2
- Fiorella Mari, 54, Brazilian-born Italian actress, [4] [5]
3
- Hergé, 75, Belgian comic strip artist and representative of the ligne claire drawing style, [6] created the series The Adventures of Tintin , Quick & Flupke , and The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko , died while hospitalised in intensive care, since he had suffered cardiac arrest in late February [7] [8]
- Peter Ivers, 36, American singer, songwriter, film composer, and television host, bludgeoned to death with a hammer [9] [10] [11]
6
- Donald Maclean, 69, British diplomat and Soviet double agent, a member of the spy ring Cambridge Five, complications from pneumonia [12]
7
- Robert Bray, 65, American actor [13] [14]
- Igor Markevitch, 60, Russian composer and conductor [15]
8
- William Walton, 80, English composer [16] [17]
9
- Faye Emerson, 65, American actress and talk show host, stomach cancer [18] [19] [20]
- Rex Marshall, 64, American actor, television announcer, and radio personality, spokesman for the Reynolds Aluminum Company and the Maxwell House coffee brand [21]
11
- Will Glickman, 73, American playwright [22]
15
- Rebecca West, 90, British novelist, travel writer, literary critic, and journalist [23]
16
- Arthur Godfrey, 79, American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer, spokesman for the anti-tobacco movement, emphysema [24]
17
- Haldan Keffer Hartline, 80, American physiologist, primarily known for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision. [25]
18
- Adelaide Klein, 82, American actress, brain tumor [26]
- Catherine Marshall, 68, American writer and book editor, [27] she had started her career with a biography of her deceased husband Peter Marshall, [28] heart failure [29]
- Umberto II of Italy, 78, he briefly served as the King of Italy in 1946 and was the last monarch of the country, he died in exile [30]
20
- Maria Babanova, 82, Russian actress, regarded as the first great actress to emerge after the October Revolution, she both voiced the Snow Queen in the animated fantasy film The Snow Queen (1957), and she was used as the character's live-action model in the rotoscoping process [31]
- Ivan Vinogradov, 91, Soviet mathematician, one of the creators of the modern analytic number theory, he served as the director of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics from 1934 until 1941, and again from 1946 until his death, [32] he was regarded as an informal leader among the Soviet mathematicians [33]
23
- Serge de Poligny, 79, French film director and screenwriter [34]
25
- Martha Sleeper, 72, American actress, heart attack [35] [36]
- Bob Waterfield, 62, American professional football player and coach, actor, and film producer, co-founder of the production company Russ-Field Productions, [37] respiratory failure [38]
26
- Anthony Blunt, 75, British art historian and Soviet spy, member of the spy ring known as the Cambridge Five, [39] [40]
27
- Elsie Eaves, 84, American engineer, she was the first female associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the first female member of the American Association of Cost Engineers (still extant under the name Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering) [41]
- James Hayter, 75, British actor. [42]
28
- Suzanne Belperron, 82, French jewellery designer, head of the jewellery house Herz-Belperron, [43] [44] accidental death by scalding in her bath [45]
29
- Richard O'Brien, 65, American actor, cancer [46] [47]
30
- Lisette Model, 81, Austrian-born American photographer, primarily known for her street photography, heart and respiratory disease [48] [49]
31
- Ole Aavatsmark, 65, Norwegian politician and lawyer, County Governor of Nordland county from 1966 until his death in office [50]
