* 1940 – Billy Fury, British singer ( d. 1983 )

* Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers

* 1983 – Jon Stead, British footballer

The British strategic bombing force largely came to an end when the V bomber force was phased out ; the last of which left service in 1983.

* The Cleopatras, a 1983 British series

It was also awarded the Sutherland Trophy at the 1983 British Film Institute Awards.

Geoffrey Crawley, editor of the British Journal of Photography, undertook a " major scientific investigation of the photographs and the events surrounding them ", published between 1982 and 1983, " the first major postwar analysis of the affair ".

CND's demonstration on the eve of Cruise missile deployment in October 1983 was one of the largest in British history, with 300, 000 taking part in London as three million protested across Europe.

* 1983 – Lucy Pinder, British model

On 1 January 1983 the Falkland Islanders gained British citizenship under the British Nationality ( Falkland Islands ) Act 1983, and on 3 October 1985 the Constitution of the Falkland Islands was established.

* 1983 – Emily Blunt, British actress

* 1983 – Will South, British musician ( Thirteen Senses )

* 1983 – Alex Westaway, British musician ( Fightstar )

* 1983 – Agyness Deyn, British model

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.

In 1983, British journalist Anthony Grey published a controversial book in which he claimed that Holt had been an agent for the People's Republic of China and that he had been picked up by a Chinese submarine off Portsea and taken to China.

Modern drug therapy for ED made a significant advance in 1983, when British physiologist Giles Brindley, Ph. D. dropped his trousers and demonstrated to a shocked Urodynamics Society audience his papaverine-induced erection.

* 1983 – Nominee, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The King of Comedy, British Academy Film Awards

* British Mesozoic Fossils, 1983, The Natural History Museum, London.

* 1904 – Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, British politician ( d. 1983 )

* 1932 – Keith Wickenden, British politician ( d. 1983 )

The British Rail typefaces of choice from 1965 were Helvetica and Univers, with others ( particularly Frutiger ) coming into use during the sectorisation period after 1983.

The incident has been commemorated by Irish band, U2, in their 1983 protest song " Sunday Bloody Sunday ".

In 1983, he was invited to record a session on the John Peel BBC Radio show with his band, performing six poems, which was his first professional engagement.

Art in America was the first known rock band featuring a pedal harp to appear on a major record label, and released only one record, in 1983.

Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band, formed in Washington, D. C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983.

Minor Threat, which had returned to being a four-piece group with the departure of Hansgen, played its last show on September 23, 1983, with go-go band Trouble Funk and the Big Boys, ending with " Last Song ", which was the original title of " Salad Days ".

In 1983, the band changed management from Coffman to Doug Thaler and Doc McGhee.

The band toured the world extensively in 1983.

** Madness ( Madness album ), 1983 release by the band

The band's 1983 hit " Blue Monday ", the best-selling 12-inch single of all time, is one example of how the band transformed their sound.

Power, Corruption & Lies, released in May 1983, was a synthesiser-based outing and a dramatic change in sound from Joy Division and the preceding album, although the band had been hinting at the increased use of technology during the music-making process for a number of years then, including their work as Joy Division.

* 1983 – Ueda Tatsuya, Japanese boy band singer ( KAT-TUN )

* Psyche ( band ), a dark synthpop music group ( formed 1983 )

* Phalanx ( album ), a 1983 live album by Australian surf rock band, Australian Crawl

For their first gig, at Harris-Millis Cafeteria ( a location students fondly call " The Grundle ") at the University of Vermont on Dec. 2, 1983, the band was billed as " Blackwood Convention.

Hugh Syme, creator of graphics on many of Rush's albums, stated in a 1983 interview that the Starman " didn't begin as an identity factor for the band, it just got adopted.

Demands for the " classic " line-up of the band — Macainsh, Bob Starkie, Strachan, Strauks and Symons — to reform were successful and on 23 April 1983, they started the Living in the 80's Tour.

Asia Minor from Turkey released Between Flesh and Devine ( 1981 ), Bacamarte from Brazil released Depois Do Fim ( 1983 ) and Hungarian band Solaris released Marsbéli Krónikák ( Martian Chronicles ) ( 1984 ).

At the end of 1983, ARB's bassist was imprisoned, leaving the band with a problem for their forthcoming tour.

The Stems were an alternative rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1983 and were heavily influenced by 1960s garage rock and 1970s power pop.

The Undertones released thirteen singles and four studio albums between 1978 and 1983 before Sharkey announced his intention to leave the band in May 1983, citing musical differences as the reason for the break up.

The band embarked on their first tour of the U. S. in April 1983, joined by Bill Sullivan, a young security guard, as roadie, who approached the band after a show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

* Warrant ( German band ), a German speed metal band that formed in 1983