* 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.

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.

* 1983 – Gianni Rodari, Italian writer and journalist ( b. 1920 )

Parkinson and his wife divorced in 1952 and he married the writer and journalist Ann Fry ( 1921 – 1983 ), with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

* 1913 – Tom McCall, American politician and journalist, 30th Governor of Oregon ( d. 1983 )

* 1911 – Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist ( d. 1983 )

* 1905 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English author and journalist ( d. 1983 )

The 1983 film Last Plane Out about journalist Jack Cox's experiences in Nicaragua portrayed the Sandanistas as crazed communist psychopaths while making Anastasio Somoza Debayle look like a sympathetic hero.

AIM was critical of journalist Helen Marmor, who in 1983 produced a documentary for NBC concerning the Russian Orthodox Church.

From September 1983 to February 1984, Gary S. Chafetz, an American journalist and author, led an expedition — sponsored by Harvard University, The National Geographic Society, the Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority, and the Ligabue Research Institute — that searched for the Lost Army of Cambyses.

* Turner Catledge ( 1901 — 1983 ) was an American journalist who was managing editor of the New York Times.

* Jessica Savitch ( 1947 – 1983 ), Broadcast journalist

She subsequently became a journalist as well as a social worker and discusses " The Night of the Meek " at length in her partially autobiographical book about child actors, Pretty Babies, published in 1983 by McGraw-Hill.

In 1983, Doty also contacted UFO researcher and journalist Linda Moulton Howe, revealing alleged high-level UFO documents, including those describing crashed alien flying saucers and recovery of aliens.

In 1983, he starred in the television pilot, The Invisible Woman, as the bumbling mad scientist father of the title character, a journalist.

ZTT Records is a record label founded in 1983 by NME journalist Paul Morley, record producer Trevor Horn, and businesswoman Jill Sinclair.

In 1983, a report entitled " The Bahamas: A Nation For Sale " by investigative television journalist Brian Ross was aired on NBC in the United States.

Wilfred Graham Burchett ( 16 September 191127 September 1983 ) was an Australian journalist known for his reporting of conflicts in Asia and his Communist sympathies.

Michael Crick, political journalist and author of The March of Militant, contends that, " For a number of reasons the years 1982 and 1983 probably saw Militant at its peak in terms of influence within the Labour Party.

The comic book " City of Devils " ( 1983 ) features two Doctor Who companions, journalist Sarah Jane Smith ( likeness ' Elisabeth Sladen ) and robot dog K-9 uncover a hidden city of Silurians ( here, ' Eocenes ') in an Egyptian archaeological dig, who seek peaceful coexistence with humans ; this comic strip is based on the premise of failed television spin-off series K9 and Company.

* Rebecca West ( 1892 – 1983 ), novelist, feminist and journalist

A long term relationship with Daily Express journalist Philip Geddes ended in 1983 when Geddes died in the IRA bomb attack on Harrods in London.

Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron (; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983 ) was a French philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientist.

* Dorota Masłowska ( born 1983 ), journalist

In 2001 Joan Kruckewitt, an American journalist who lived in Nicaragua from 1983 to 1991 and covered the war between the Sandinistas and the Contras for ABC Radio wrote a book The Death of Ben Linder ( Seven Stories Press 2001 ) giving a more sympathetic portrait of Linder's life, work, and death.

* January 25-Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, playwright and journalist ( d. 1983 )