1983 in sports

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Deaths

• Adios Butler - harness racing horse
• January 26 - Del Rice, Major League Baseball player
• January 26 - Paul "Bear" Bryant college football coach at Alabama
• February 1 - Tullio Campagnolo, Italian bicycle manufacturer
• February 14 - Lina Radke, German athlete
• February 22 - Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist
• March 13 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist
• April 23 - Buster Crabbe, U.S. Olympic swimming gold medalist turned actor
• April 24 - Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver, killed in an IMSA race
• April 28 - Ron James, Australian cricketer
• April 17 - Dutch Leonard, Major League Baseball player (born 1909)
• May 31 - Jack Dempsey world champion boxer
• June 27 - Don Ida, balloonist, killed during a race
• June 27 - Maxie Anderson, balloonist, killed during a race
• June 29 - Joe Delaney, football player, Kansas City Chiefs, a true hero, after rescuing one boy, he drowned while attempting to rescue 2 more
• July 7 - Vic Wertz, Major League Baseball player
• July 28 - Alec Marks, Australian cricketer
• August 12 - Henry Gifford Vivian, New Zealand cricketer
• September 08 - Antonin Magne, French cylist
• October 31 - George Halas, NFL coach, Chicago Bears
• November 15 - Charlie Grimm, Major League Baseball player