Deaths in May 1983
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 1983
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[edit]- Shūji Terayama, 47, Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, film director, and photographer, [1][2] cirrhosis of the liver[3]
5
[edit]- John Williams, 80, English actor, heart disease[4][5]
7
[edit]- József Romhányi, 62, Hungarian screenwriter, poet, and translator[6]
8
[edit]- John Fante, 74, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter[7]
9
[edit]- Marjorie Beebe, 74, American actress.[8]
14
[edit]- 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[9][10][11]
- Roger J. Traynor, 83, American lawyer and judge, served as the Chief Justice of California from 1964 until 1970, [12][13][14] 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[15]
15
[edit]- Rodolfo Gucci, 70, Italian actor and entrepreneur, shareholder in his family's eponymous fashion house Gucci[16][17]
16
[edit]- Will Ahern, 86, American vaudeville entertainer[18][19]
17
[edit]- Jake Day, 90, American sculptor, photographer, naturalist and illustrator, designed the character of Bambi for the 1942 animated feature film Bambi.[20][21][22][23]
18
[edit]- 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[24][25][26], later served as Tánaiste from 1965 to 1969, death from unspecified "natural causes"[27]
21
[edit]- Gladys Blake, 73, American character actress[28][29]
- Kenneth Clark, 79, British art historian, museum director and broadcaster, arteriosclerosis[30][31]
- 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, [32][33]heart failure[34]
22
[edit]- John Barrett, 73, British actor[35][36]
- Albert Claude, 83, Belgian American cell biologist and medical doctor, his collective works established the complex functional and structural properties of cells.[37][38][39]
23
[edit]- 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, [40]heart attack[41]
25
[edit]- Cy Hungerford, 93, American editorial cartoonist, produced daily cartoons for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1927 until his retirement in 1977[42][43][44]
- Idris of Libya, 93, he served as the only monarch of the short-lived Kingdom of Libya from 1951 until his deposition in 1969[45][46][47]
- Kay Williams, 66, American actress, heart failure[48][49]
27
[edit]- Lilita Bērziņa, 79, Latvian actress[50]
28
[edit]- John C. Howard, 52, American film editor[51]
29
[edit]- Arvīds Pelše, 84, Latvian politician and historian, Chairman of the Party Control Committee from 1966 until 1983[52], head of the "Pelše Commission" which investigated the assassination of Sergei Kirov, [53]cardiac arrest[54]
31
[edit]- Jack Dempsey, 87, American boxer, world heavyweight champion from 1919 until 1926, [55]heart failure[56]
References
[edit]- ^ Tate. "'I am a Terayama Shūji' – Conference at Tate Modern". Tate. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
- ^ "Tony Rayns on Terayama Shuji". Art Forum. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
- ^ Sorgenfrei, Carol Fisher (2005). Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-garde Theatre of Terayama Shūji and Postwar Japan. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2796-0.
- ^ Folkart, Burt A. (May 8, 1983). "Gentlemanly Actor John Williams Dies". Los Angeles Times. p. B1, 5. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
- ^ "John Williams Is Dead at 80; Stage, Screen and TV Actor". The New York Times. May 8, 1983. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ^ "Alkotó · Romhányi József". Moly. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "John Fante". New York Times. May 13, 1983. Archived from the original on September 15, 2022. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- ^ Wollstein, Hans J. "Marjorie Beebe". AllMovie. Archived from the original on June 11, 2021. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- ^ "Miguel Alemán | president of Mexico".
- ^ Cline, Howard F. Mexico: Revolution to Evolution 1940-1960. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 157-58.
- ^ "Mexico - World War II, 1941–45".
- ^ "Past & Present Justices". courts.ca.gov. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ^ Les Ledbetter, "Roger J. Traynor, California Justice", New York Times, 17 May 1983, B6. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
- ^ D.J. DeBenedictis, "Traynor dies at 83: led state court in progressive era," Los Angeles Daily Journal, May 17, 1983, pg. 1
- ^ D.J. DeBenedictis, "Traynor dies at 83: led state court in progressive era," Los Angeles Daily Journal, May 17, 1983, pg. 1
- ^ "Rodolfo Gucci Is Dead at 71; Brother in Leather Goods Firm (Published 1983)". The New York Times. May 16, 1983. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
- ^ Moore, Claire (January 6, 2006). "PrimeTime: Gucci, Glamour and Greed". ABC News. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
- ^ Slide, Anthony (March 12, 2012). The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 4. ISBN 978-1617032493.
- ^ Cullen, Frank, with Hackman, Florence, and McNeilly, Donald. Vaudeville, Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America, Volume 1. (New York and London: Routledge, 2006).
- ^ "Maurice E. Day, Animator, 90; Drew Deer for Movie 'Bambi'". NY Times. Associated Press. May 19, 1983. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
- ^ The Miami News. May 17, 1983. Maurice Day, animator for "Bambi", dies.
- ^ Hrehovck, Steve (May 1, 2016). "Damariscotta's Favorite Son Maurice "Jake" Day". Discover Maine. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
- ^ Hallet, Richard (October 3, 1942). "THE REAL BAMBI". Collier's. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
- ^ Síobhra Aiken et al. (ed.), The Men Will Talk to Me. Ernie O'Malley's Interviews with the Northern Divisions (2018), pp. 205–206
- ^ Lewis, Frank Aiken's War, p. 197
- ^ Henry Boylan, A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1998.
- ^ MacEoin, Uinseann (1997), The IRA in the twilight years 1923-1948, Argenta Publications, Dublin, pg 913, ISBN 0951117246
- ^ "Gladys Blake (actress) profile". Omnilexica. Retrieved January 10, 2015.
- ^ "Gladys Blake biography". MoviePictures.org. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2015.
- ^ Stourton, p. 398
- ^ Piper, David. "Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie, Baron Clark (1903–1983)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, retrieved 14 June 2017 (subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required)
- ^ Giannalberto Bendazzi (2016). Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style - The Three Markets at Google Books, p. 287, 77
- ^ Sergei Kapkov (2006). Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation. — Moscow: Algorithm, p. 615—616
- ^ Curiosity Is My Teacher interview with Anatoly Savchenko at Animator.ru
- ^ "Deaths". The Stage (5328): 22. May 26, 1983. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
- ^ "Obituaries – John Barrett". The Stage (5331): 8. June 16, 1983. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
- ^ Altman, Lawrence K. (May 24, 1983). "DR. ALBERT CLAUDE DEAD AT 84; WON NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE". The New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
- ^ Claude, Albert. "Albert Claude – Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
- ^ "Claude, Albert". Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. The Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- ^ "Oregon-born composer dies". The Oregonian. May 25, 1983. p. B7.
- ^ "The Original Mickey Mouse Club Show: Big George". Originalmmc.com. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
- ^ "Cy Hungerford biography at The Pennsylvania Department". Info-ren.org. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- ^ "Cy Hungerford biography at". Lambiek.net. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- ^ AP (May 27, 1983). "Cyrus C. (Cy) Hungerford obituary, New York Times, May 27, 1983". New York Times. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- ^ "1969: Bloodless coup in Libya". BBC News. September 1, 1969.
- ^ "Idris I | Libya, Biography, & History". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
- ^ The New York Times (26 May 1983): "KING IDRIS, OUSTED IN '69 BY QADDAFI, DIES IN CAIRO".
- ^ "Clark Gable's widow dead". UPI. May 26, 1983. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
- ^ "Kay Gable, 65, Is Dead; Mother of Film Star's Son". The New York Times. May 27, 1983. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- ^ "Lilita Bērziņa". Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka (in Latvian). Retrieved May 15, 2025.
- ^ "John C. Howard". BFI.org. Archived from the original on April 25, 2017. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
- ^ "Handbook of the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991. Central Control Commission of the CPSU". Archived from the original on July 11, 2007.
- ^ Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery, 2000
- ^ Medical assessment that appeared in Soviet newspapers on 31 May 1983
- ^ "Professional boxing record: Jack Dempsey". Retrieved March 14, 2020.
- ^ Smith, Red (June 1, 1983). "OBITUARY: Jack Dempsey, 87, is Dead; Boxing Champion of 1920s". The New York Times. Retrieved June 23, 2012.
Sources
[edit]- Lewis, Matthew, Frank Aiken's War, The Irish Revolution 1916–1923, UCD Press (Dublin 2014)
- Remeikis, Thomas: “A Latvian in the Politbureau: A Political Portrait of Arvids Pelše.” Lituanus 12:1 (1966) 81-84. ISSN 0024-5089
- Ridgely, Steven C.. "Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji", Univ of Minnesota Press (2011).
- Sorgenfrei, Carol Fisher. Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji And Postwar Japan, University of Hawaii Press (2005).
- Stourton, James (2016). Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation. London: Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-749341-8.