David Niven (March 1st, 1910 - July 29th, 1983) was named after the Saint's Day on which he was born, St. David, patron Saint of Wales. He attended Stowe School and Sandhurst Military Academy and served for two years in Malta with the Highland Light Infantry. At the outbreak of World War II, although a top-line star, he re-joined the army (Rifle Brigade). He did, however, consent to play in two films during the war, both of strong propaganda value--The First of the Few (1942) and The Way Ahead (1944). In spite of six years' virtual absence from the screen, he came in second in the 1945 Popularity Poll of British film stars. On his return to Hollywood after the war he was made a Legionnaire of the Order of Merit (the highest American order that can be earned by an alien). This was presented to Lt. Col. David Niven by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Joan Miro (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a painter from the Catalan region of Spain. His work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous writings and interviews dating from the 1930s forward, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods and his desire to abandon them (in his words "kill","murder", or "rape" them) in favor of more contemporary means of expression.

Louis Bert Lindley, Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by the stage name Slim Pickens, was a cowboy and actor.

His most famous role was as B-52 pilot Major T. J. "King" Kong in Dr. Strangelove, which ended with Pickens riding an H-bomb down to global destruction. He was chosen because he naturally fit the role of an absurdly patriotic and gung-ho cowboy-type officer, and in fact was not even told that the movie was a comedy: he was instructed to play the role straight, and was only given script portions for the scenes he was in, rather than a script for the whole film. He is best known for both the scene riding the bomb to destruction, and his over-the-top speech early in the film, after his character learns of the mission to bomb Russia:

Leopold III of the Belgians (Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel) (November 3, 1901 – September 25, 1983) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of his Heir Apparent, his son Baudouin.

Leopold III was born in Brussels as Prince Leopold of Belgium, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke in Saxony, and succeeded to the throne of Belgium on February 23, 1934 on the death of his father, King Albert I.

Richard Buckminster ("Bucky") Fuller (July 12th 1895 – July 1th 1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor.

Fuller wrote twenty-eight books, coining and popularizing terms such as "spaceship earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome.

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name "Tennessee" was a name given to him by college friends because of his southern accent and his father's background in Tennessee. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat On a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In addition to those two plays, The Glass Menagerie in 1945 and The Night of the Iguana in 1961 received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. His 1952 play The Rose Tattoo (dedicated to his boyfriend, Frank Merlo), received the Tony Award for best play. Genre critics maintain that Williams writes in the Southern Gothic style.

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the father of Chicago blues". He is also the actual father of blues musician Big Bill Morganfield. Muddy Waters is generally considered one of the greatest bluesmen of all time, and in 2004 he was ranked #17 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Shri Ghanshyam Das "GD" Birla (April 10, 1894 - January 11, 1983) was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi. He advised Gandhi on economic policies.

In 1957, he was awarded India's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India.

Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 in New Haven, Connecticut – February 4, 1983 in Downey, California) was a singer, drummer, and, with her brother, Richard, made up the band The Carpenters .

Billy Fury (born April 17, 1940, at Smithdown Hospital Lancashire, now Sefton General Hospital, Smithdown Road, Sefton, Merseyside – January 28, 1983 at St Mary Abbott's Hospital, Paddington, West London) was an English pop singer and songwriter of the 1950s to 1980s from Wavertree, Liverpool.

Roy Albert DeMeo (September 7, 1940 – January 10, 1983) was a ranking member of the Gambino crime family, formerly one of the largest and most feared crime families in New York. He is most infamous for heading a crew of car thieves, drug dealers and murderers suspected by the FBI of somewhere between 75-200 murders from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. The crew also gained notoriety due to their affinity for dismemberment as a method of disposing of their victims.

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (April 11, 1916 Buenos Aires - June 25, 1983 Geneva) was an Argentinian composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.

He studied at the conservatory in Buenos Aires, graduating in 1938. After a visit to the United States of America in 1945–47, where he studied with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood, he returned to Buenos Aires and co-founded the League of Composers. He held a number of teaching posts. He moved back to the USA in 1968 and from 1970 lived in Europe. He died in Geneva.

John Le Mesurier (Bedford, 5 April 1912 – Ramsgate, 15 November 1983), born John Charles Elton Le Mesurier De Somerys Halliley, was an English actor. He is most famous for his role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson on the popular 1970s BBC comedy Dad's Army.