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Birthdays
- Paulo Rios Filho (12 April)
- Agustin Besteiro (15 December)
Dying days
- Hermann Reutter ()
- Ivo Cruz ()
- José Gomes Ferreira ()
- Gábor Darvas (18 February)
- Roger Huntington Sessions (16 March)
- Pietro Allori (31 March)
- Boris Tikhonovich Kozhevnikov (8 April)
- Karl Marx (8 May)
- Czeslaw Marek (17 June)
- Paul Creston (24 August)
- Alexander Abramsky (29 August)
- Léon Orthel (6 September)
- Franco Ferrara (7 September)
- Frederick May (8 September)
- William Alwyn (11 September)
- Dane Rudhyar (13 September)
- Robert Elmore (22 September)
Music events
- Premiere of Drammatico, cello concerto, in Stuttgart, Germany. (3 February) → Milko Kelemen
- Premiere of Dona Nobis Pacem, Dresden, Germany. (13 February) → Friedrich Schenker
- Premiere of Diario '83, in Milan, Italy. (16 February) → Franco Donatoni
- First performance of the original version of "1984", in Lund, Sweden. (17 March) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Concerto Grosso no. 3, in Moscow, Russia. (20 April) → Alfred Schnittke
- First performance of "Space", in Lund, Sweden. (28 May) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Prometeo (final version), in Milan, Italy. (25 September) → Luigi Nono
- Premiere of Tonscherben, in Geneva, Switzerland. (26 September) → Heinz Holliger
- First performances of "Elegia piccola" and the original version of "Combat", in Genarp, Sweden. (13 October) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Nacht de Nächte, in Hamburg, Germany. (20 October) → Henri Pousseur
- Premiere of Judith, in Berlin, Germany. (28 October) → Siegfried Matthus
- Premiere of violin concerto “L'Arbre des Songes”, in Paris, France. (5 November) → Henri Dutilleux
- Premiere of Lady with a Little Dog, in Moscow, Russia. (20 November) → Rodion Shchedrin
- Premiere of Babi Yar, in St. Louis, Miss, USA. (29 November) → Steve Martland
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