May 1983
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- Ruth Roche, 66, American writer and editor in the Golden Age of Comic Books, [1] she started her career in 1940 as a writer at the Eisner-Iger Studio, a packager for Fiction House, she wrote such features as Phantom Lady , Senorita Rio, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle , Kaanga, and Camilla, in 1944, she created Kismet, Man of Fate, the first Muslim superhero [2] [3]
- Shūji Terayama, 47, Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, film director, and photographer, [4] [5] cirrhosis of the liver [6]
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- John Williams, 80, English actor, heart disease [7] [8]
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- Claire Myers Owens, 87, American author [9]
- József Romhányi, 62, Hungarian screenwriter, poet, and translator [10]
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- John Fante, 74, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter [11]
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- Marjorie Beebe, 74, American actress [12]
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- Miguel Alemán Valdés, 83, Mexican politician, served as the President of Mexico from 1946 until 1952, his administration is credited with the Mexican Miracle of rapid industrialization [13] [14] [15]
- Roger J. Traynor, 83, American lawyer and judge, served as the Chief Justice of California from 1964 until 1970, [16] [17] [18] several of Traynor's decisions were credited with transforming California from a conservative and somewhat repressive state into a progressive, innovative jurisdiction in the forefront of American law [19]
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- Rodolfo Gucci, 70, Italian actor and entrepreneur, shareholder in his family's eponymous fashion house Gucci [20] [21]
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- Will Ahern, 86, American vaudeville entertainer [22] [23]
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- Frank Aiken, 85, Irish revolutionary and politician, served as the chief of staff of the Anti-Treaty IRA at the end of the Irish Civil War, [28] [29] [30] later served as Tánaiste from 1965 to 1969, death from unspecified "natural causes" [31]
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- Gladys Blake, 73, American character actress [32] [33]
- Kenneth Clark, 79, British art historian, museum director and broadcaster, arteriosclerosis [34] [35]
- Boris Stepantsev, 53, Soviet animation director, animator, and book illustrator, he served as a vice-president of the International Animated Film Association (ASIFA) from 1972 until 1982 and as the creative director of the Multtelefilm animation department of the Studio Ekran from 1980 until 1983, [36] [37] heart failure [38]
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- John Barrett, 73, British actor [39] [40]
- Albert Claude, 83, Belgian American cell biologist and medical doctor, his collective works established the complex functional and structural properties of cells. [41] [42] [43]
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- George Bruns, 68, American film composer, he served as an arranger, composer, and musical director for The Walt Disney Company from 1953 until his retirement in 1976, [44] heart attack [45]
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- Cy Hungerford, 93, American editorial cartoonist, produced daily cartoons for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1927 until his retirement in 1977 [46] [47] [48]
- Idris of Libya, 93, he served as the only monarch of the short-lived Kingdom of Libya from 1951 until his deposition in 1969 [49] [50] [51]
- Kay Williams, 66, American actress, heart failure [52] [53]
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- Lilita Bērziņa, 79, Latvian actress [54]
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- John C. Howard, 52, American film editor [55]
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- Arvīds Pelše, 84, Latvian politician and historian, Chairman of the Party Control Committee from 1966 until 1983, [56] head of the "Pelše Commission" which investigated the assassination of Sergei Kirov, [57] cardiac arrest [58]
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- Jack Dempsey, 87, American boxer, world heavyweight champion from 1919 until 1926, [59] heart failure [60]