141,225 PeopleUnusual Deaths in 1983
* A diver on the byford dolphin oil exploration rig was violently dismembered and pulled through a narrowly opened hatch when the decompression chamber was accidentally opened, causing explosive decompression.
* Sergei chalibashvili, a professional diver, died after a diving accident during world university games. when he attempted a three-and-a-half reverse somersault in the tuck position, he smashed his head on the board and was knocked unconscious. he died after being in a coma for a week.
Natural disasters in 1983
* I-94 Derecho
People who died on July 14 (various years)
* 2007 - John Ferguson Sr, former professional hockey player
* 2005 - Cicely Saunders, English Nurse, physician, and writer
* 2003 - François-Albert Angers, French Canadian economist
* 2003 - Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist
* 2003 - Tex Schramm, American football general manager
* 2002 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic
* 2000 - René Ríos Boettiger, Chilean cartoonist
* 2000 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian
* 1999 - Gar Samuelson, American drummer
* 1998 - Dick McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur
* 1996 - Jeff Krosnoff, CART driver
* 1994 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
* 1993 - Léo Ferré, French singer and songwriter
* 1989 - Frank Bell, British educator
* 1984 - Philippe Wynne, American musician
* 1984 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer
* 1975 - Madan Mohan, Hindi Film's Melodious Music director
* 1974 - Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general
* 1968 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer
* 1967 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer
* 1965 - Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Presidential candidate
* 1954 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1939 - Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, decorative artist
* 1917 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist
* 1910 - Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer
* 1907 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor
* 1904 - Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader
* 1887 - Alfred Krupp, German munitions manufacturer
* 1881 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859?)
* 1876 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder
* 1850 - August Neander, German theologian
* 1834 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution
* 1827 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist
* 1817 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author
* 1790 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal
* 1789 - Bernard-René de Launay, governor of the Bastille, murdered during the Storming of the Bastille (b.1740)
* 1789 - Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated)
* 1780 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher
* 1774 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal
* 1766 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect
* 1742 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar
* 1723 - Claude Fleury, French historian
* 1671 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar
* 1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint
* 1575 - Richard Taverner, English Bible translator
* 1370 - Duke William of Austria
* 1274 - Saint Bonaventure
* 1270 - Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury
* 1223 - King Philip II of France
* 937 - Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria
* 664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury