Deaths in June 1983

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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

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

• 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]

References

1. "Actor Ernest Graves, 64". Ford Lauderdale News. Florida, Fort Lauderdale. The New York Times. June 4, 1983. p. 25. Retrieved April 23, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
2. "Anna Seghers, Novelist, 82; 1942 Work Made into Movie". The New York Times. June 2, 1983.
3. Nomination archive – Anna (Netty) Seghers (Reiling) nobelprize.org
4. Bureau of Accident Investigation (January 31, 1986). NTSB/AAR-86/02 (PDF). Washington, D.C.: National Transportation Safety Board. Archived from the original on March 22, 2006 – via AirDisaster.Com.
5. Winick, Stephen (January 30, 2017). "Murder Ballad Monday | How Legends Are Made: Stan Rogers". Sing Out!. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
6. Aircraft Accident Report: Air Canada Flight 797, McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, C-FTLU, Greater Cincinnati International Airport, Covington, Kentucky, June 2, 1983 (Supersedes NTSB/AAR-84/09) (PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. January 31, 1986. NTSB/AAR-86/02.
7. "Bob Clark RIP".
8. Cine Mag magazine, August 1983, page 8
9. Palmer & Miceli 2013.
10. "Composer, conductor Daniele Amfitheatrof". Miami Herald. Associated Press. June 8, 1983. p. 82. Archived from the original on October 18, 2023. Retrieved October 18, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
11. Ivan Tors, producer of animal movies and marine-oriented television series such as Flipper and Sea Hunt, died of a heart attack June 4 while engaged in pre-production work in Brazil (New York Times, June 7, 1983).
12. "Umrl je Miško Kranjec". Delo. No. 132. June 9, 1983. p. 1. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
13. Van Melkebeke entry, Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Accessed 16 December 2013.
14. Ce mysteriéux Monsieur Hergé ("That Mysterious Mister Hergé"), published by La Dernière Heure in 2003
15. Lofficier, Jean-Marc and Lofficier, Randy (2002). The Pocket Essential Tintin. Harpenden, Hertfordshire: Pocket Essentials, pp. 73–74.
16. "LARRY HOOPER, 66, STARRED WITH WELK". Philadelphia Daily News. June 13, 1983. p. 20. Retrieved August 24, 2008.
17. Obituaries – UPI Archives
18. Shipman, David. The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years. Crown Publishers, 1970. p. 487-492
19. LaSalle 2000, p. 6.
20. Pace, Eric (June 14, 1983). "Norma Shearer, Film Star Two Decades, is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
21. Mario Casariego, arzobispo de Guatemala. El País, 18 June 1983, Spain.(in Spanish)
22. "Ofelia Montesco: la bella vampiresa que sufrió por una terrible enfermedad y su parentesco con Angélica María". El Heraldo de México (in Spanish). May 26, 2023. Retrieved October 8, 2024.
23. Obituary in The Times, 21 June 1983
24. "Murió Ana María González, la intérprete del chotis 'Madrid'". El País. June 20, 1983. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
25. "Osvaldo Dorticos, An Ex-President and Aide to Castro, Kills Himself". The New York Times. June 25, 1983. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
26. "Latimer, Jonathan". PBworks. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
27. "Author Jonathan Latimer". tomrizzo.com. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
28. "Jonathan Latimer Dies at 76; Writer of 'Perry Mason' Show". The New York Times. AP. June 25, 1983.
29. Deborah Schwartz-Kates, "Ginastera, Alberto (Evaristo)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001); Evett, Robert. 1966. "The South American Way", New Republic 154, no. 12 (19 March): 35; Anon. "Obituary: Alberto Ginastera". The Musical Times 124, no. 1687, Music of the French Baroque (September 1983): 568; Aurelio de la Vega, "Trends of Present-Day Latin-American Music", Journal of Inter-American Studies 1, no. 1 (January 1959): 97–102, citation on p. 10; Norman Lebrecht, Companion to Twentieth-century Music (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992): 134. Reprint New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306807343; Levin Houston, "Kennedy Center Sees Beatrix Cenci", The Free Lance-Star [Fredericksburg, Virginia] 87, no. 215 (13 September 1971); Suzanne Spicer Tiemstra, The Choral Music of Latin America: A Guide to Compositions and Research, Contributions in Afro-American & African Studies 36 (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992): 2. ISBN 9780313282089.
30. "Who was... Juan Torena: the former Barcelona player who ended up as a Hollywood heartthrob". 20minutos. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
31. "From Manila Party Boy to Hispanic-Hollywood Heartthrob". Positively Filipino. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
32. Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-106-6.
33. David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.
34. Obituary, Variety, July 6, 1983; accessed August 5, 2015.
35. "Mary Livingstone, Wife of Jack Benny, Dies in Calif. at 77". The Washington Post. July 1, 1983. Retrieved February 21, 2022. Mary Livingstone, 77, the wife and partner in comedy of the late Jack Benny, died today at her home here, apparently of a heart attack.
36. Ledbetter, Les (July 2, 1983). "Mary Livingstone, Radio Star with Husband. Jack Benny". The New York Times. Mary Livingstone, the widow of Jack Benny, who for decades on radio and television served as her husband's comedic foil, died after a short illness Thursday at her home in Holmby Hills, near Los Angeles. She was 77 years old.

Sources

• LaSalle, Mick (2000). Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood. New York: St Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-25207-6.
• Obituary of Mr George Benson, The Times, 21 June 1983 (pg. 12; Issue 61564; col G)
• Palmer, Christopher; Miceli, Sergio (November 26, 2013). "Amfitheatrof [Amfitheatrov; Amfiteatrov], Daniele (Alexandrovich)". Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.3000000173.

External links

• List of June 1983 deaths at IMDb