* 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

It was founded after the 1983 season when multiple Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault broke from the Renault-Elf team that featured another Tour winner in Laurent Fignon after a falling-out with team manager, Cyrille Guimard.

Laurent Blanc played with the team from 1983 – 1991.

The brand was synonymous with French bicycle racing from the 1960s through the mid-1980s, sponsoring riders such as Jacques Anquetil ( 1963 – 1965 ), Lucien Van Impe ( 1974 – 1976 ), Bernard Hinault ( 1975 – 1983 ), Laurent Fignon ( 1982 – 1988 ), and Greg LeMond ( 1981 – 1984 ).

** 1963, 1964 ( Jacques Anquetil ), 1976 ( Lucien Van Impe ), 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 ( Bernard Hinault ), 1983, 1984 ( Laurent Fignon )

* Jared David St. Laurent ( also known as Mister Saint Laurent ) ( b. 1983 ) ( Louis II )

Ullrich's simultaneous victories in both the General Classification category and the young riders category marked the first time the same rider had won both categories in the same Tour since Laurent Fignon in 1983.

The 1983 Tour de France was the 70th Tour de France, run from 1 to 22 July 1983 in 22 stages and a prologue, over a total distance of 3862 km., won by French rider Laurent Fignon.

* 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer ( d. 1983 )

* 1983 – Franck Ribéry, French footballer

Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.

* 1983 – Bacary Sagna, French footballer

* 1899 – Georges Auric, French composer ( d. 1983 )

* 1904 – Antonin Magne, French cyclist ( d. 1983 )

* The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing ( by the Islamic Jihad Organization ), that killed 241 U. S. marines, 58 French paratroopers and 6 civilians at the US and French barracks in Beirut

* 1983 – Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player

In 1983, French President François Mitterrand proposed, as one of the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand the Grand Louvre plan to renovate the building and relocate the Finance Ministry, allowing displays throughout the building.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

* 1983 – Virginie Razzano, French tennis player

* 1983 – Grégory Lemarchal, French singer ( d. 2007 )

* 1983 – Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, French tennis player

* 1983 – Katy French, Irish model ( d. 2007 )

* 1983 – Yves Thériault, French Canadian author ( b. 1915 )

* 1983 – Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer

After seeing an early film of this event, French skiers / surfers Augustin Coppey, Olivier Lehaneur, Olivier Roland and Antoine Yarmola made their first successful attempts during the winter of 1983 in France ( Val Thorens ), using primitive, home-made clones of the Winterstick.

* August 18 – Lucienne Boyer, French singer ( d. 1983 )

** Tino Rossi, French singer ( d. 1983 )

* April 19 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer ( d. 1983 )

* French — Alain Kan: " Au pays de Pierrot " (" In Pierrot Country " ); Chantal Goya: " Les pierrots de Paris " and " Pierrot tout blanc " (" Pure White Pierrot "), in Monsieur le Chat Botté ( 1982 ); Danielle Licari: " Les Chansons de Pierrot " ( 1981 ); Guy Béart: " Pierrot la tendresse " (" Pierrot the Tender "), from Béart à l ' université de Louvain ( 1974 ); Gérard Lenorman: " Pierrot chanteur ", from Le Soleil des Tropiques ( 1983 ); Jacques Dutronc: " Où est-il l ' ami Pierrot?