Deaths Date 1983 April | History by KabAstro

Gloria Swanson (1899-1983)

Apr 4 American actress (Airport 1975, Sunset Boulevard) and producer, dies of a heart ailment at 84

Apr 4 Jacqueline Logan, American actress and silent film leading lady (WAMPAS Baby Star), dies at 78
Apr 5 Cliff Carlisle, American country and blues musician, singer, songwriter, and yodeler ("Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad"), dies at 79
Apr 6 Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered
Apr 7 Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82
Apr 10 Issam Sartawi, PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered
Apr 10 Phillip Burton, American politician (US Representative from California, 1964-83), advocate for the disabled and the environment, dies of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm at 56
Apr 11 Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78
Apr 12 Carl Morton, American baseball pitcher (NL Rookie of the Year 1970; Montreal Expos, Atlanta Braves), dies of a heart attack at 39
Apr 13 Christmas Humphreys, English lawyer and prominent British Buddhist (Awakening of Zen), dies at 82
Apr 13 Gerry Hitchens, English footballer, dies at 48
Apr 13 Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (La plaça del diamant), dies at 74
Apr 13 Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist, dies at 87
Apr 14 Elisabeth Lutyens, English composer, dies at 76
Apr 14 Nina Dumbadze, Russian discus thrower (Olympic bronze 1952), dies at 64

Pete Farndon (1952-1983)

Apr 14 English rock bassist (The Pretenders - "Brass In Pocket"), drowns in his bathtub after a drug overdose at 30

Apr 14 Willem Frederik Bon, Dutch composer (Les Prédictions) and pedagogue, dies at 42
Apr 15 Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author (The Hiding Place) & Holocaust survivor, dies at 91
Apr 15 Gyula Illyés, Hungarian author and poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80
Apr 15 Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Mexican-American actor (The Brave One; Viva Valdez -"Luis"), dies from a stroke at 67
Apr 17 Dutch Leonard, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1940, 43, 44, 45, 51; Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs), dies of congestive heart failure at 74
Apr 17 Felix Pappalardi, American rock music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist (Mountain - "Mississippi Queen"), shot and killed by his wife, Gail, at 43
Apr 18 Alan Melville, South African cricket batsman (11 Tests, 4 x 100, HS 189; Natal, Oxford University CC, Sussex CCC, Transvaal), dies at 72
Apr 19 Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish writer (Ashes and Diamonds), dies at 73
Apr 19 Lorene Scott, actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74
Apr 21 Walter Slezak, Austrian-American stage and screen actor (Bedtime for Bonzo; Lifeboat; The Inspector General), commits suicide at 80
Apr 22 Earl "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist and bandleader (Deep Forest), dies at 79
Apr 22 Gunta Stölzl, German textile artist (teacher at the Bauhaus School), dies at 86
Apr 23 Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, American swimmer (Olympic gold 1932) and actor (Tarzan the Fearless, Flash Gordon), dies of a heart attack at 75
Apr 23 Selena Royale, American actress (Date With Judy, Robot Monster), dies at 78
Apr 24 Rolf Stommelen, German auto racer (24 Hours of Daytona 1968, 78, 80, 82; 61 x F1 GP), dies in a racing accident at 39
Apr 26 Bronislaw Kaper, Polish-American Academy Award-winning film composer (Green Dolphin Street; Lili; The Brothers Karamazov), dies at 81
Apr 26 Vaughn Taylor, American actor (Jailhouse Rock, Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72
Apr 26 Vaughn Taylor, American character actor (Jailhouse Rock; Johnny Jupiter; Psycho), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 73
Apr 28 Charlie LaVere [Johnson], American jazz pianist, arranger, bandleader (Chicago Loopers), and composer (Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue), dies at 72
Apr 28 Ron James, Australian cricketer (NSW's Sheffield Shield captain 1949-50), dies at 62

George Balanchine (1904-1983)

Apr 30 Russian-American ballet composer and choreographer who founded the New York City Ballet, dies from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease at 79

Apr 30 Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa, actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T & Tina), dies at 71
Apr 30 Joel H. Hildebrand, American chemist and educator (research led to new treatments for divers with the 'bends' through the use of helium and oxygen breathing mixtures), dies at 101