* 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 – The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel ( 53. 85 km ) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.

* 1983 – The U. S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee ( ultimately found to be 4. 2 million pounds ), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.

* 1983 – Roland MSQ-700: The world's first MIDI-compatible sequencer.

In 1983, the VAL, the world's first automated rapid transit underground network, was opened.

Barbara McClintock ( June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992 ), the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists.

* The Walton sextuplets, the world's first all-female surviving sextuplets, born in 1983

Between the fight against Jones and the fight versus Jose Ortiz in 1983, Callejas had a streak of 15 knockout wins in a row, winning Puerto Rico's Jr. Featherweight title and earning a ranking among the world's top Jr. Featherweights with the WBA along the way.

In 1983, having obtained more funding and outgrown its former site, it moved and is now located on Castlefield, near the site of the original Roman fort in Manchester ( Mamucium ); it incorporates Liverpool Road Station ( vacated by British Rail in 1975 ), one of the original termini of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first passenger railway.

The TSE runup from 1983 to 1990 was unprecedented, in 1990 it accounted for over 60 % of the world's stock market capitalization ( by far the world's largest ) before falling precipitously in value and rankings today, but still remains one of the 3 largest exchanges in the world by market capitalization of listed shares.

The stadium was built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but since then Ullevi has also hosted the 1995 World Championships in Athletics and the 2006 European Championships in Athletics, the UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup finals in 1983 and 1990, the UEFA Euro 1992 final, the UEFA Cup final in 2004, and annually hosted the opening ceremony of the Gothia Cup — the world's largest football tournament.

In 1983, following a shift in its business teachings to international trade, Wharton faculty created the world's first MBA / MA program in international management.

* June 20, 1983: CISI Wharton, part of the French CEA, announces plans to invest USD 12 million over the next three years to position the newly enlarged entity as one of the world's leading economic forecasters.

It was announced in 1982 as the " cleaned up " successor to the 1975 Cray-1, and was the world's fastest computer from 1983 to 1985.

* The Samban-Lei Sekpil in Manipur, India, begun in 1983 and recently measuring in height, is the world's tallest topiary, according to Guinness Book of World Records.

Also in 1983, U. S. audiences voted Ward one of the world's 10 most beautiful women.

When it was constructed in 1983, it was also the world's tallest skyscraper outside of a city's central business district.

According to Gartz ( 1995 ), P. semilanceata is Europe's most popular psychoactive species, and Psilocybe authority Gastón Guzmán, in his 1983 monograph on psilocybin mushrooms, claimed it is the world's most common psychoactive mushroom.

" Armando ( Ricardo Montalbán ) explains that in 1983 ( ten years after the end of Escape from the Planet of the Apes, which was set two years ahead of its theatrical release date ), a disease killed the world's cats and dogs, leaving humans with no pets.

The HP-150 from 1983 was one of the world's earliest commercial touchscreen computers.

These tables were used to calculate the world's ephemerides between 1900 and 1983, so this second became known as the ephemeris second.

When originally opened on June 19, 1983, it was the world's largest air-supported stadium.

Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, ( 12 May 1901, Tisbury, Wiltshire, – 22 June 1983, London ) was a British nuclear engineer, and supervisor of the construction of Calder Hall, the world's first large-scale commercial nuclear power station.

From 1956 until his formal retirement in 1983 and after, he covered many of the world's biggest news stories.