Historical figures in 1983
The atlas holds 64 people and 94 moments here, in 1983. The most recorded lives are Thomas Sankara, Ronald Reagan and Diana, Princess of Wales. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Musicians and Composers.
Notable people
Gough Whitlam
in 1983
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Edward Gough Whitlam was an Australian lawyer, Royal Australian Air Force navigator, Labor politician and the 21st prime minister of Australia.…
Hastings Banda
in 1983
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Hastings Kamuzu Banda was a Malawian physician and politician who led Nyasaland to independence and served as Malawi's prime minister and first…
Hosni Mubarak
in 1983
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Egyptian military officer and politician who served as president of Egypt from 1981 until his resignation in 2011.…
Indira Gandhi
in 1983
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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian stateswoman who served as prime minister from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.…
Isaac Asimov
in 1983
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American writer and biochemist best known for science fiction, popular-science writing, and the Foundation and Robot series.…
Italo Calvino
in 1983
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Italian novelist, short-story writer, editor, journalist, and member of Oulipo. Born in Cuba, raised chiefly in Sanremo, and active across Italy,…
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
in 1983
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Peruvian diplomat and politician who became the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations (1982–1991).…
Jiddu Krishnamurti
in 1983
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Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer. Raised within the Theosophical Society, he became head of the Order of the Star in the East, dissolved it at…
Jorge Amado
in 1983
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Brazilian modernist writer, journalist, and Communist politician whose life moved between Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, South America, Europe,…
Kenneth Kaunda
in 1983
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Zambian teacher, nationalist leader, and first president of independent Zambia, serving from 1964 to 1991.…
Kenzaburō Ōe
in 1983
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Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, Nobel laureate, and prominent pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigner.…
Khaleda Zia
in 1983
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Bangladeshi politician who was prime minister of Bangladesh in 1991–1996 and 2001–2006, chaired the Bangladesh Nationalist Party from 1984 until her…
Kim Dae-jung
in 1983
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South Korean politician, democracy activist, and eighth president of South Korea (1998–2003).…
Kim Il Sung
in 1983
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Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju) was a Korean communist guerrilla leader, North Korean political leader, and founder of the Democratic People’s…
Kofi Annan
in 1983
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Ghanaian diplomat and statesman who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006.…
Lata Mangeshkar
in 1983
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Indian playback singer and occasional composer whose career spanned eight decades. Born in Indore, she moved to Mumbai in 1945 and became a central…
Luísa Diogo
in 1983
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Mozambican economist and FRELIMO politician who served as Minister of Planning and Finance and as Mozambique’s first female prime minister, from 2004…
Margaret Thatcher
in 1983
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British stateswoman Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the first woman to hold the…
Mario Vargas Llosa
in 1983
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Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and political figure. Vargas Llosa lived and worked across Peru, Bolivia, Spain, France, the United Kingdom,…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1983
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New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Mikhail Gorbachev
in 1983
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Soviet and Russian politician who led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991.…
Mother Teresa
in 1983
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Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa or Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun.…
Muammar Gaddafi
in 1983
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Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from the 1969 coup until his overthrow and killing during…
Muhammadu Buhari
in 1983
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Nigerian army officer, military head of state from 1983 to 1985, and elected president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.…
Moments
- 1983 Symposium in Plovdiv Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1983 Private Lives on Broadway Elizabeth Taylor
- 1983 Death at home in Antony Pridi Banomyong
- 1983 National Press Club address Bob Hawke
- 1983 Opened the Summer Universiade Diana, Princess of Wales
- 1983 New York City visit during U.S. state visit Félix Houphouët-Boigny
- 1983 Meeting with Secretary Shultz Ferdinand Marcos
- 1983 National Museum appearance Indira Gandhi
- 1983 Press conference in Belgrade Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
- 1983 Visit to Beijing in 1983 Kim Il Sung
- 1983 Stop in Newfoundland Diana, Princess of Wales
- 1983 Flood-relief friendly Pelé
- 1983 Credentials at UNESCO House Gough Whitlam
- 1983 Meets Mexican president in La Paz Ronald Reagan
- 1983 August Revolution Thomas Sankara
- 1983 Birth at Chase Farm Hospital Amy Winehouse
- 1983 America's Cup celebration Bob Hawke
- 1983 Overdose emergency at Saint-Tropez home Brigitte Bardot
- 1983 Departure from Mombasa Daniel arap Moi
- 1983 38th UN General Assembly Indira Gandhi
- 1983 Led public rally at BNP party office Khaleda Zia
- 1983 Meeting President Reagan Robert Mugabe
- 1983 Meeting with Moussa Traoré Thomas Sankara
- 1983 Interview at Vermont home Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 1983 Zorba at Broadway Theatre Anthony Quinn
- 1983 State visit to Japan Olav V
- 1983 CEAO summit Thomas Sankara
- 1983 Political Orientation Speech Thomas Sankara
- 1983 TWAS inauguration speech Abdus Salam
- 1983 Macau Formula Three Grand Prix victory Ayrton Senna
- 1983 Hosted Queen Elizabeth II Daniel arap Moi
- 1983 Visit to New Delhi Hastings Banda
- 1983 Gherao of the Secretariat Khaleda Zia
- 1983 Makes Tokyo state visit Ronald Reagan
- 1983 Visits Seoul Ronald Reagan
- 1983 Visits troops near Korean DMZ Ronald Reagan
- 1983 Treatment at Betty Ford Center Elizabeth Taylor
- 1983 PLO summit with Yasser Arafat Hosni Mubarak
- 1983 Triple-bypass surgery at NYU Lutheran Medical Center Isaac Asimov
- 1983 Indore fundraising concert Lata Mangeshkar
- 1983 Visit to Mehmet Ali Ağca in prison Pope John Paul II
- 1983 Rumsfeld meeting Saddam Hussein
- 1983 Nobel Prize award ceremony Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1983 A Billion Applause Concert opening Teresa Teng