* 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.

This was a topic of major commercial effort at the time, dominating shows like the National Computer Conference ( NCC ) in Anaheim in May 1983.

To maintain the momentum of the perceived commercial interest in this new investment opportunity, in 1983, the Government itself granted eleven interim franchises for new broadband systems each covering a community of up to around 100, 000 homes, but the competitive franchising process was otherwise left to the new regulatory body, the Cable Authority, which took on its powers from January 1, 1985.

Introduced in 1983, the Yamaha DX7 was an early all digital synthesizer that obtained relatively broad commercial success.

He then reached a new commercial peak in 1983 with Let's Dance, which yielded several hit singles.

Bowie reached a new peak of popularity and commercial success in 1983 with Let's Dance.

In addition, as part of the first commercial implementation of DPNSS ( in the Government Telephone Network or GTN in 1983 ), BT insisted that the core of the network be made from PBXs of different manufacture to prove the interoperability in real life.

* 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.

Campbell-Lyons subsequently worked as a solo artist and issued further albums: Me And My Friend, 1973, The Electric Plough, 1981, and The Hero I Might Have Been, 1983, though these did not enjoy commercial success.

In 1983 only two sections of the Nile had regular commercial transport services.

* 1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace.

1983 saw the release of Speaking in Tongues, a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's only American Top 10 hit, " Burning Down the House ".

In the 1980s, as part of economic reform, the commercial banking functions of the PBC were split off into four independent but state-owned banks and in 1983, the State Council promulgated that the PBC would function as the central bank of China.

Knighted in 1983, Sinclair formed Sinclair Vehicles and released the Sinclair C5, a battery electric vehicle that was a commercial failure.

For some time after 1983, Poplog was sold and supported internationally as a commercial product, by Systems Designers Ltd, whose name changed as ownership changed.

In 1939 numbers first appeared on shirt backs, and in 1983 Holsten became the first commercial sponsor logo to appear on the shirt.

Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt — already facing criticism related to his alleged hostility to environmentalism and his support of the development and use of federal lands by foresting, ranching, and other commercial interests, and for banning The Beach Boys from playing a 1983 Independence Day concert on the National Mall out of concerns of attracting " an undesirable element "— resigned abruptly after a September 21, 1983, speech in which he said about his staff: " I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple.

By the early 80s, the Kinks revived their commercial fortunes considerably by adopting a much more mainstream arena rock style ; and the band's four remaining studio albums for Arista — Low Budget ( 1979 ), Give the People What They Want ( 1981 ), State of Confusion ( 1983 ) and Word of Mouth ( 1984 )— showcased a decidedly canny and opportunistic approach.

The publicity surrounding the commercial landed her in a front page article in The Wall Street Journal in June 1983 entitled A Onetime Choirgirl Rules as Sex Goddess On Puerto Rican TV.

In 1983, Congress passed the Fur Seal Act Amendments, which ended government control of the commercial seal harvest and most of the federal presence on the island.

The game's commercial failure and resulting effects on Atari are frequently cited as a contributing factor to the video game industry crash of 1983.

Los Alamitos Television began as a small local Public-access television cable TV channel in 1983 under authorization of the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) with the mission to provide non commercial local programming to, and by, the greater Los Alamitos community.

Successful efforts to suppress the latch-up of the parasitic thyristor and the scaling of the voltage rating of the devices at GE allowed the introduction of commercial devices in 1983, which could be utilized for a wide variety of applications.

During this interim period, the band released the single This Is Not A Love Song in 1983, the song's lyric lampooning the ire from some fans and the music press over the band's movement towards a more commercial style.

He appeared in a commercial for the Apple Lisa and Table for Five in 1983, and, the same year, had a small role in the nuclear holocaust film Testament.