Deaths in November 1983

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 1983

1

• Maurice Woods, 45, American actor, cancer^[1]

3

• Alfredo Antonini, 82, Italian-American symphony conductor and composer, worked for the CBS radio and television networks from the 1930s until the early 1970s,^[2][3][4][5]died during his heart surgery^[6][7]

5

• Jean-Marc Reiser, 42, French comics creator and black comedy artist, bone cancer^[8]

7

• Germaine Tailleferre, 91, French composer, the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six^[9][10]

8

• James Hayden, 29, American actor, heroin overdose^[11]
• Betty Nuthall, 72, English tennis player, coronary arrest^[12]

13

• Aliagha Aghayev, 70, Azerbaijani actor^[13]
• Jam Handy, 97, American Olympic breaststroke swimmer, water polo player, film producer, and pioneer in distance education^[14][15]
• Junior Samples, 57, American comedian, heart attack^[16][17]
• Louise Tracy, 87, founder of the John Tracy Clinic, a private, non-profit education center for the deaf^[18]

15

• John Le Mesurier, 71, English actor, recurring haemorrhage^[19][20], had slipped into a coma shortly before his death^{[21][22][23][24]}

19

• Peter Coffield, 38, American actor, AIDS-related illness^[25][26]
• Tom Evans, 36, English bass guitarist, singer, and songwriter, member of the Welsh rock band Badfinger and influential musician in the power pop genre,^[27][28]suicide by hanging^[29]
• Carolyn Leigh, 57, American lyricist, heart attack^[30][31]

20

• Richard Loo, 80, American character actor^[32]

22

• Michael Conrad, 58, American actor, urethral cancer^[33][34]
• Leonard Wibberley, 68, Irish novelist, satirist, historian, and biographer, heart attack^[35]

23

• Waheed Murad, 45, Pakistani film actor, producer, and screenwriter, died after chewing a paan leaf containing an unidentified substance, unclear if the cause of death was a heart attack or suicide.^[36][37]

27

• Jorge Ibargüengoitia, 55, Mexican novelist, playwright, satirist, and short story writer, one of the victims of the Avianca Flight 011^[38][39][40]
• Ángel Rama, 57, Uruguayan academic and literary critic, one of the victims of the Avianca Flight 011^[40]
• Rosa Sabater, 54, Spanish pianist, one of the victims of the Avianca Flight 011^[40]
• Manuel Scorza, 55, Peruvian novelist, poet, and exiled political activist, one of the victims of the Avianca Flight 011 ^[41][40]
• Marta Traba, 53, Argentine art critic, museum director, and university teacher, one of the victims of the Avianca Flight 011^[42][43][40]

28

• Christopher George, 52, American actor, heart attack.^{[44][45][46][47]} George had a known heart disease, and had undergone coronary bypass surgery about five years prior to his death.^[48]

30

• George Headley, 74, Jamaican cricketer, considered one of the best batsmen to play for the West Indies cricket team and one of the greatest cricketers of all time^[49][50]
• Richard Llewellyn, 77, British novelist, heart attack^[51]
• Michael Witney, 52, American actor, minor league pitcher for the Hornell Dodgers and the Great Falls Electrics,^[52]heart attack^[53]