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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 actress ^[1]

3

• John McCaffery, 69, American television host and anchorman ^[2]
• Earl Tupper, 76, American businessman and inventor, eponymous inventor of the airtight plastic container Tupperware, founder of the home products company Tupperware Plastics Company ^[3]

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 ^[4]

6

• Terence Cooke, 62, American Catholic prelate, Archbishop of New York from 1968 until his death, cardinal since 1969, leukemia ^{[5] [6]}
• Dennis Vance, 59, British television producer, television director, and occasional actor ^[7]

7

• George O. Abell, 56, American astronomer and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), heart attack ^[8]
• Christophe Soglo, 74, Beninese military officer and political leader, World War II veteran of the Allies' landings in Corsica, Elba, and southern France, ^[9] President of Dahomey from 1965 until 1967 ^[10]

8

• Joan Hackett, 49, American actress, ovarian cancer ^[11]

10

• Salise Abanozoğlu, 78-79, Turkish teacher and politician, member of the Republican People's Party and political representative for the Trabzon constituency ^{[12] [13]}
• Ralph Richardson, 80, English actor, series of strokes ^[14]

11

• Fay Tincher, 99, American actress and comedian ^{[15] [16]}

12

• Ernie Roth, 57, American professional wrestling manager, heart attack ^{[17] [18]}

14

• Paul Fix, 82, American character actor, kidney failure ^[19]

15

• Pat O'Brien, 83, American actor, heart attack ^{[20] [21]}

17

• Mary Ellen Bute, 76, American animator, producer, and director, creator of some of the first electronically generated film images, ^{[22] [23] [24]} , specialist in visual music, heart failure ^[25]

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 ^[26]

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. ^{[27] [28] [29]}
• Dorothy Stuart Russell, 88, Australian-born British pathologist ^[30]
• Carel Willink, 83, Dutch painter, representative of Magical realism ^[31]

20

• Otto Aasen, 89, Norwegian Nordic skier ^[32]
• Merle Travis, 65, American country and western singer, songwriter, actor, and guitarist ^[33] , heart attack ^[34]

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 crash ^{[35] [36] [37]}
• Tamara Shayne, 80, Russian-born American actress, complications following a heart attack ^{[38] [39]}

26

• Norman Cohen, 47, Irish film director and producer, heart attack ^[40]

28

• Otto Messmer, 91, American animator and alleged creator or co-creator of Felix the Cat ^[41] , heart attack ^[42]

30

• Lillian Gordy Carter, 85, American nurse, Peace Corps volunteer in India, housemother of the Kappa Alpha Order from 1956 until 1962, ^[43] letter writer with a published volume of correspondence, breast cancer metastasized to the bone ^[44]

References

1. Obituary, The Times , 10 October 1983
2. Fowler, Glenn (October 6, 1983). "John K.M. McCaffrey of TV; WNBC Newscaster Was 69" . The New York Times. p. D 23. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
3. Treaster, Joseph B. (October 7, 1983). "EARL TUPPER, THE FATHER OF TUPPERWARE, DIES". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved September 28, 2022.
4. "Dino Battaglia". lambiek.net.
5. Powers, Ron (October 6, 1983). "Cardinal Cooke dies of leukemia". The Day. (New London, Connecticut). Associated Press. p. 1.
6. Miranda, Salvador. "COOKE, Terence James". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church.
7. "Dennis Vance". BFI. Archived from the original on July 31, 2019.
8. "Dr. George O. Abell, 57, Dies; Observer of Galaxy Clusters". New York Times . UPI. October 8, 1983. Archived from the original on January 19, 2017.
9. Houngnikpo & Decalo 2012, p. 326.
10. https://web.archive.org/web/20150921143432/http://www.gouv.bj/personnalites-politiques/m-christophe-soglo-24121965-18121967-0
11. Obituary, Variety , October 12, 1983.
12. Candeğer, Ümmügülsüm (2015). TBMM Kadın Matematikçi Üyeleri[Female Mathematician Members of Parliament] (in Turkish). Woman Mathematics Association Workshop.
13. Sahin, Cemile (2010). Türk Parlamentosundaki Kadin Milletvekilleri (1935-2007) [Female Deputies in the Turkish Parliament (1935-2007)](PDF) (in Turkish). Erzurum: Atatürk University. p. 71.
14. Morley, Sheridan, "Richardson, Sir Ralph David (1902–1983)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, January 2011, retrieved 13 January 2014 (subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required)
15. Doyle & Slide 1995, p. 318.
16. "Women Film Pioneers - Fay Tincher". wfpp.columbia.edu/. Columbia University Libraries. 2024. Retrieved May 11, 2024. Women Film Pioneers Project, a scholarly resource exploring women's global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
17. "The Grand Wizard bio". WWE . Retrieved June 8, 2017.
18. Slagle, Steve. "The Grand Wizard". Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on January 25, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
19. "Paul Fix, Actor, Is Dead; In 300 Movies Since 1926". The New York Times . October 19, 1983. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
20. Eve Zibart. "Pat O'brien dies. ". The Washington Post , October 16, 1983.
21. "Heart Attack Kills Actor Pat O'Brien". Washington, PA: Observer-Reporter. AP. October 17, 1983. Retrieved June 8, 2014.
22. "Women Artists Newsletter". Vol. 7, no. 2. Women Artists News. Summer 1981. p. 1. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
23. Brophy, Stephen (1998). "BUTE, Mary Ellen". Women filmmakers & their films. Detroit: St. James Press. pp. 55–56. ISBN   1-55862-357-4. OCLC   38862487.
24. Moen, Kristian (July 2019). "Expressive Motion in the Early Films of Mary Ellen Bute" . Animation. 14 (2): 102–116. doi:10.1177/1746847719859194. hdl: 1983/8d505684-cdb1-47be-a6cc-7eac2bb01947 . ISSN   1746-8477. S2CID   199212485.
25. "Mary Ellen Bute, Film Maker". The New York Times . October 19, 1983. p. 25. (age given as 79)
26. "Barbara Karinska: Costume Couturier". Dance Teacher. November 9, 2008. Archived from the original on February 26, 2022. Retrieved February 25, 2022.
27. "Biography: Maurice Bishop". Government of Grenada . September 23, 2009. Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
28. McFadden, David (June 8, 2012). "Grenada trying to find remains of slain Marxist PM". Fox News . Retrieved October 9, 2019.
29. "'The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop': Podcast episode guide". The Washington Post. October 23, 2023. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
30. Catharine M. C. Haines (January 1, 2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 . ABC-CLIO. p.  271. ISBN   978-1-57607-090-1.
31. Carel Willink, Netherlands Institute for Art History. Retrieved on 26 March 2015.
32. J.V. (October 28, 1983). "Otto Aasen". Aftenposten.
33. Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 1189. ISBN   1-85227-745-9.
34. "New York Times, October 22, 1983, Section 1, Page 28". The New York Times . October 22, 1983. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
35. Kerr, Peter (October 25, 1983). "Jessica Savitch of NBC-TV Killed in Car Accident". The New York Times . Retrieved March 6, 2016.
36. Almost Golden, Blair; The fatal accident is described from the last paragraph of page 343 to 345.
37. "Exam Finds Little Alcohol". Spokane Chronicle . Associated Press. November 2, 1983. p. A6. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
38. "Biography for Tamara Shayne", TCM.com; accessed 20 June 2017.
39. "Tamara Shayne, 80, Actress; Was Jolson's Mother in Films", The New York Times , 27 October 1983.
40. The Independent, Retrieved 14 September 2014
41. Barrier, Michael (2003). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-516729-0.
42. McGill, Douglas C. (October 29, 1983). "Otto Messmer is Dead at 91; Created 'Felix the Cat' Films". The New York Times.
43. the Birmingham News Sunday, May 2, 1976
44. Charlotte Evans (October 31, 1983). "Lillian Carter is Dead at 85; Mother of 39th President". The New York Times .

Sources

• Blair, Gwenda. Almost Golden: Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. ISBN   978-0671632854.
• Doyle, B.H.; Slide, A. (1995). The Ultimate Directory of the Silent Screen Performers: A Necrology of Births and Deaths and Essays on 50 Lost Players. G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-2958-9 . Retrieved May 11, 2024.
• Houngnikpo, Mathurin C.; Decalo, Samuel (2012). Historical Dictionary of Benin (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN   9780810873735.

External links

• List of October 1983 deaths at IMDb