* 1983 – Diora Baird, American actress and model

* 1983 – Mehdi Ballouchy, Moroccan footballer

* 1983 – Eliza Coupe, American actress

* 1983 – Jerome Kaino, New Zealand rugby player

* 1983 – Mitsuru Nagata, Japanese footballer

* 1983 – Remi Nicole, English singer-songwriter and actress

* 1983 – Jade Seah, Singaporean model and actress

* 1983 – Dash Shaw, American writer and artist

* 1983 – Bobbi Starr, American porn actress

* 1983 – James Wade, English darts player

* 1983 – Katie Weatherston, Canadian hockey player

* 1983 – Jelena Dokić, Serbian-Australian tennis player

* 1983 – Genta Ismajli, a Kosovan-Albanian singer

* 1983 – Anthony Sedlak, Canadian chef ( d. 2012 )

* 1983 – Dwayne Smith, Indian cricketer

* 1897 – Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter ( d. 1983 )

* 1910 – Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu poet and lyricist ( d. 1983 )

* 1983 – Tatjana Hüfner, German luger

* 1983 – Marina Tomić, Slovenian athlete

* 1983 – Troy Williamson, American football player

* 1904 – Norah Lofts, English author ( d. 1983 )

* 1983 – Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor

* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American writer and educator ( d. 1983 )

* 1983 – Annevig Schelde Ebbe, Danish actress

* 1983 – Neil Harvey, English-Barbadian footballer

* 1983 – Stephen James King, Australian actor

* 1983 – James Rossiter, English race car driver

* 1983 – James Collins, Welsh footballer

* 1983 – James McFadden, Scottish footballer

Robert James Lee " Bob " Hawke AC GCL ( born 9 December 1929 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

NASA's Advanced Automation for Space Missions study directly inspired the science fiction novel Code of the Lifemaker ( 1983 ) by author James P. Hogan.

* Bamford, James ; The Puzzle Palace, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-006748-5 ; 1983

The second edition Gamma World boxed set ( with rules designed by Ward, Jaquet, and David James Ritchie ) was released in 1983.

Through nudism, Gardner made a number of notable friends, including James Laver ( 1899 – 1975 ), who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Cottie Arthur Burland ( 1905 – 1983 ), who was the Curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.

James Madison's baseball team advanced to the 1983 College World Series, the only Division I institution in Virginia to do so besides the University of Virginia in 2009.

He is best known in Europe for playing the pirate Sandokan in the highly popular TV mini series and for his role as the villainous Gobinda in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy.

In 1983 he performed on the demo of the Stephen Sondheim – James Lapine production Sunday in the Park with George, starring Mandy Patinkin.

Following his role in Mephisto, Brandauer appeared in his first English-speaking role in playing Maximillian Largo in Never Say Never Again ( 1983 ), a remake of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball.

That role eventually went to Oscar winner Sean Connery, who played James Bond to Brandauer's Largo in Never Say Never Again ( 1983 ).

* 1983 – James Hayden, American actor ( b. 1953 )

In 1982, the so-called TTAPS team ( Richard P. Turco, Owen Toon, Thomas P. Ackerman, James B. Pollack and Carl Sagan ) undertook a computational modeling study of the atmospheric consequences of nuclear war, publishing their results in Science in December 1983.

* 1983 – Bradley James, British actor

The Murrah building had been previously targeted in October 1983 by white supremacist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, including founder James Ellison and Richard Snell.

He is also a character in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and was the hero of James Hill's UK TV movie Owain, Prince of Wales, broadcast in 1983 in the early days of Channel 4 / S4C.

* 1983 – James P. Hogan, Voyage from Yesteryear

Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 ( six Eon Productions films and the non-canonical Thunderball remake, Never Say Never Again ).

* 1983 – James Bourne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Busted and Son of Dork )

** James Hayter, British actor ( d. 1983 )