* 1983 – Dwayne Smith, Indian cricketer

* 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

Contemporary systems of categories have been proposed by John G. Bennett ( The Dramatic Universe, 4 vols., 1956-65 ), Wilfrid Sellars ( 1974 ), Reinhardt Grossmann ( 1983, 1992 ), Johansson ( 1989 ), Hoffman and Rosenkrantz ( 1994 ), Roderick Chisholm ( 1996 ), Barry Smith ( ontologist ) ( 2003 ), and Jonathan Lowe ( 2006 ).

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

* 1983 – Cameron Smith, Australian rugby player

* 1983 – Gregory Smith, Canadian actor

* 1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U. S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.

* Joseph Smith ( bobsleigh ) ( 1925 – 1983 ), U. S. bobsledder

By the time of the January 1983 Winter NAMM Show, Smith was able to demonstrate a MIDI connection between his Prophet 600 analog synthesizer and a Roland JP-6.

* Smith, Bradley F. The Shadow Warriors: OSS and the Origins of the CIA ( New York: Basic, 1983 )

After the World Series championship, Smith and the Cardinals agreed on a new contract in January 1983 that paid Smith $ 1 million per year.

Smith was voted in as the National League's starting shortstop in the All-Star Game for the first time in 1983, and at season's end won a fourth consecutive Gold Glove Award.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

They dated for the next 20 years, and in 1983 Washington proposed to Smith in an attempt to silence questions about Washington's sexual orientation.

The Home School Legal Defense Association was cofounded in 1983 by Michael Farris, who would later establish Patrick Henry College, and Michael Smith.

With funds donated by Dick Smith, the Foundation established the Mungo Visitors Centre and Laboratory in 1983.

This was later revised by Smith ( 1983 ) who renamed these divisions Group I and Group II based on the isotopic affinities of these rocks using the Nd, Sr and Pb systems.

* Smith, C. B., 1983: Lead, strontium, and neodymium isotopic evidence for sources of African Cretaceous kimberlite, Nature, 304, pp 51 – 54.

It was restored by the Ed Smith Family from 1983 until the family moved out of the home.

* George Smith ( footballer born 1915 ) ( 1915 – 1983 ), footballer with Brentford and Queens Park Rangers, and manager of Portsmouth

* George " Harmonica " Smith ( 1924 – 1983 ), blues harmonica musician

Smith has also been involved in other musical projects, including stints in 1979 and 1982 – 84 as guitarist with Siouxsie and the Banshees, as well as a side project in 1983 with Banshee bassist Steven Severin called The Glove.

He would eventually become Grant's opening act and recorded his first Grammy-nominated solo album The Michael W. Smith Project ( which he also produced ) in 1983 on the Reunion Records label, a label started by Grant's brother-in-law, Dan Harrell, along with Michael Blanton.

Smith acted as Roy Hattersley's campaign manager for the party leadership election in October 1983 and after serving a year as Shadow Employment Secretary, was Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry between late 1984 and 1987.

In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye ( using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds ) as the character of Miss Marple.

Bowie starred in The Hunger ( 1983 ), a revisionist vampire film, with Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon.

The interconnection between horror and goth was highlighted in its early days by The Hunger, a 1983 vampire film, which starred David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon.

He began acting and composing for film with Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ), which he starred in and composed the score for ; the song " Forbidden Colours " which he composed for it became a worldwide hit and he won a BAFTA Award for the film's score.

Eastwood directed and starred in the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact, which was shot in the spring and summer of 1983 and is considered the darkest and most violent of the series.

The final stage performance in which he starred was a critically reviled production of Noël Coward's Private Lives, opposite his ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor, in 1983.

In 1983, he married actress Donna Dixon, with whom he starred in the movies Doctor Detroit, Spies Like Us, and The Couch Trip.

In 1983 Collins starred in Making of a Male Model with young model-actor Jon-Erik Hexum, and in 1984 played a soap star in The Cartier Affair with David Hasselhoff.

* Eddie Murphy starred in a 1983 Saturday Night Live sketch, playing the role of Clarence Walker, a man who claimed to be the fifth Beatle.

* Eureka ( 1983 film ), directed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Pesci

In 1983, he made a rare stage appearance when he starred in the thriller Underground at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto and after a UK tour, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London.

Crothers starred in three short-lived 1980s television series: One of the Boys ( 1982 ), Casablanca ( 1983 ), and Morningstar / Eveningstar ( 1986 ).

In 1983, he had a role in the short-lived NBC prime time soap opera Bare Essence ( which also starred his future wife Genie Francis ), and a supporting role in the equally short-lived primetime soap Paper Dolls in 1984.

In 1983 Farrell starred in the movie Memorial Day.

* Jesse Eisenberg ( born 1983 ), actor, starred in The Squid and the Whale, Zombieland, Adventureland and The Social Network.

Mercies starred Robert Duvall, who won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film.

He performed in the BBC radio comedy series Radio Active ( 1980 – 87 ) and has also starred in a number of TV comedy shows, including Who Dares Wins ( 1983 – 88 ), Chelmsford 123 ( 1988 – 90 ) and KYTV ( 1989 – 93 ) Round the Bend ( 1989 – 1991 ).

Throughout the 1970s, Trintignant starred in numerous films and in 1983 he made his first English language feature film, Under Fire.

In 1983 Hazes starred in comedy-series Zoals U Wenst Mevrouw ( At Your Service Madam ) as a down-and-out taking a gardening-job under false pretenses and singing new lyrics to recent hits.

The movie was followed in 1983 by a sequel, The Black Stallion Returns, which also starred Reno.

Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the original production at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, starred Kathy Bates as Jessie and Anne Pitoniak as Mama.

The BBC Television Shakespeare version, first broadcast in 1983, starred Ron Cook as Richard.

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

In 1983, Baxter starred in the television series Hotel, replacing Bette Davis after Davis became ill.

In 1983, he starred in Get Crazy as Reggie Wanker, a parody of Mick Jagger.