Deaths in June 1983

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 1983.

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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.

June 1983

1

• Ernest Graves, 64, American actor, cancer^[1]
• Anna Seghers, 82, German writer, repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1972.^[2][3]

2

• Stan Rogers, 33, Canadian folk musician and songwriter, smoke inhalation, one of the victims of the fire in Air Canada Flight 797^[4][5][6]

3

• John Trent, 48, British-born Canadian film director and producer, killed in a car accident involving a head-on collision with a police car^[7][8]

4

• Daniele Amfitheatrof, 81, Russian, American, and Italian composer and conductor^[9][10]
• Ivan Tors, 66, Hungarian playwright, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and television producer, heart attack^[11]

8

• Miško Kranjec, 74, Slovene writer^[12]
• Jacques Van Melkebeke, 78, Belgian painter, journalist, comic strip writer, and playwright, first chief editor of the Tintin magazine, ^[13][14][15] one of the main sources of inspiration for the Blake and Mortimer character Philip Angus Mortimer^[13]

10

• Larry Hooper, 66, American singer and pianist, member of Lawrence Welk's band, kidney failure^[16][17]

12

• Norma Shearer, 80, Canadian-American actress, active on film from 1919 through 1942, ^[18]feminist pioneer, ^[19]bronchial pneumonia^[20]

15

• Mario Casariego y Acevedo, 74, Spanish-born Guatemalan Catholic, served as the Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala from 1964 until his death in 1983, Cardinal since 1969^[21]

16

• Ofelia Montesco, 46, Peruvian expatriate actress, stomach cancer^[22]

17

• George Benson, 72, British actor^[23]

18

• Ana María González, 64, Mexican singer^[24]

23

• Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, 64, Cuban politician, served as President of Cuba from 1959 until 1976, suicide by firearm^[25]
• Jonathan Latimer, 76, American crime writer, screenwriter, and journalist, his stories typically combined hardboiled crime fiction with elements of screwball comedy, ^[26][27]lung cancer^[28]

25

• Alberto Ginastera, 67, Argentine classical composer^[29]

27

• Juan Torena, 85, Filipino footballer and Hollywood actor, played as a forward for Barcelona in the late 1910s^[30][31]

28

• Dorothy Annan, 83, English painter, potter and muralist^[32][33]

30

• Herbert Baker, 62, American songwriter and screenwriter^[34]
• Mary Livingstone, 78, American radio comedienne, actress, and biographer, heart disease^[35][36]