In the year 1983, the beginning of the true Internet dawns (Jan 1), the 3D printer is invented by Chuck Hall (Mar 9), Michael Jackson introduces the moonwalk at the Motown 25 television special (Mar 25), Return of the Jedi opens in theaters (May 25), Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the vicinity of the major planets of the Solar System (Jun 13), President Reagan announces that GPS will be made available for civilian use (Sep 16), a false alarm almost sets off a nuclear war (Sep 26), South Africa approves a new constitution with reforms to apartheid (Nov 2), Michael Jackson’s Thriller video is aired on MTV for the first time (Dec 2) - and all these fine people were born:
1983-0101 Ben Driebergen* marine/Survivor S35 Contestant - Boise, ID USA
1983-0102 Kate Bosworth* model/actress - Los Angeles, CA USA
1983-0102 Kristen Hager* actress - Red Lake, ON Canada
1983-0109 Kerry Condon* actress - Thurles, North Tipperary, Ireland
1983-0118 Brianna Lea Pruett* singer-songwriter/ musician/filmmaker - Sacramento, CA USA (2015/32)
1983-0119 Esther Acebo* actress (La casa de papel) - Madrid, Spain
1983-0119 Justyna Kowalczyk* cross-country skier/OG - Limanowa, Poland
1983-0119 Kaisa Mäkäräinen* biathlete/WC/color commentator - Ristijärvi, Finland
1983-0120
1983-0130 Kim Spradlin* bridal shop owner/Survivor S24 Contestant - San Antonio, TX USA
1983-0131
1983-0201
1983-0202 Carolina Klüft* athlete/hepathlon/OG - Sandhult, Sweden
1983-0202 Ilari Sahamies* poker player - Helsinki, Finland
1983-0207 Alexander Dreymon* (b Doetsch) actor/to U.S. as a child - West Germany
1983-0207 Eva Riccobono* model/ actress/television presenter - Palermo, Italy
1983-0210 Patrick Quinn* ALS activist/co-founder of the Ice Bucket Challenge - Yonkers, NY USA (2020/37)
1983-0211 Nicki Clyne* actress - Vancouver, BC Canada
1983-0212 Iko Uwais* actor/ martial artist/stuntman - Jakarta, Indonesia
1983-0215
1983-0216 Tuomo Ruutu* hockey player/coach/WC - Vantaa, Finland
1983-0218 Evan Jonigkeit* American actor - USA
1983-0220 Justin Verlander* baseball pitcher - Manakin-Sabot, VI USA
1983-0221 Mélanie Laurent* actress/ filmmaker/singer - Paris, France
1983-0223 Emily Blunt* actress - Wandsworth, London, England
1983-0224 Jan Błachowicz* mixed martial artist - Cieszyn, Poland-a
1983-0226 Pepe* (b Kepler de Lima Ferreira) Portuguese football player - Maceio, Brazil
1983-0227 Kate Mara* actress - Bedford, NY USA
1983-0227 Vítězslav Veselý* athlete (javelin)/OB - Hodonin, Czechoslovakia
1983-0301 Lupita Amondi Nyong’o* Kenyan-Mexican actress - Mexico City, Mexico
1983-0304 Safia Djelal* Paralympic athlete (shot put&javelin)/OG - Algeria
1983-0304 Julieta Zylberberg* actress - Buenos Aires, Argentina
1983-0305
1983-0307 Greta Lee* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA
1983-0307 Taylor Tankersley* baseball pitcher - Missoula, MT USA
1983-0308 Maialen Chourraut* canoeist/OS - Lasarte-Oria, Basque Country, Spain
1983-0310 Rafe Spall* actor - Camberwell, London, England
1983-0311 Lucy DeVito* actress/daughter of Danny DeVito - New York City, NY USA
1983-0312 Mikko Koivu* hockey player/WG - Turku, Finland
1983-0314 Johnny Flynn* British musician/actor - South Africa
1983-0314 Roxy Shahidi* actress (Emmerdale)/w Iranian father - Nottingham, England
1983-0315 Eva Ekvall* model/television news anchor/ breast cancer advocate - Caracas, Venezuela (2011/28)
1983-0318
1983-0320 Mikal Mahdi* convicted criminal - Virginia, USA (2025/42)
1983-0320 Jenni Vartiainen* singer - Kuopio, Finland
1983-0323 Mo Farah* Somali-British long-distance runner/OG - Mogadishu, Somalia
1983-0329 Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone* mixed martial artist - Denver, CO USA
1983-0329 Ed Skrein* rapper/ actor/ film director - Camden, London, England
1983-0331
1983-0401 Jussi Jokinen* hockey player - Kalajoki, Finland
1983-0401 Sergey Lazarev* singer/ dancer/actor - Moscow. Russia, Soviet Union
1983-0404 Evgeny Artyukhin* hockey player - Moscow. Russia, Soviet Union
1983-0407 Franck Ribéry* football player - Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
1983-0410 Jamie Chung* actress - San Francisco, CA USA
1983-0412 Luke Kibet* long-distance runner - Kaplelach village, Uasin Gishu, Kenya
1983-0415 Ilja Kovalchuk* hockey player/OG - Kalinin, Russia, Soviet Union
1983-0422 Natalie White* Survivor S19 Contestant - Van Buren, AR USA
1983-0423 Stephen Grush* actor - Chicago, IL USA - IMDb
1983-0423 Daniela Hantuchová* Slovak tennis player/commentator - Poprad, Czechoslovakia
1983-0425
1983-0429 Megan Boone* actress - Petoskey, MI USA
1983-0429 Sam Jones III* actor - Boston, MA USA
1983-0429 Hedvig Lindahl* football goalie - Katrineholm, Sweden
1983-0505 Henry Cavill* actor - Saint Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
1983-0512 Domhnall Gleeson* actor/son of Brendan Gleeson - Dublin, Ireland
1983-0514 Amber Tamblyn* actress - Santa Monica, CA USA
1983-0519 Danish Siddiqui* photo-journalist/Pulitzer Prize winner - New Delhi, India (2021/38)
1983-0520 N. T. Rama Rao Jr.* actor - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
1983-0521 Anjulie Persaud* singer/songwriter - Oakville, ON Canada
1983-0521 Olli Salo* hockey coach - Hämeenlinna, Finland
1983-0523 Curtis McElhinney* hockey goalie - London, ON Canada
1983-0528 Megalyn Echikunwoke* actress - Spokane. WA USA
1983-0528 Toby Hemingway* British-American actor/to U.S. at age 13 - Brighton, Sussex, England
1983-0528 Krista Kosonen* actress - Espoo, Finland
1983-0531 Reggie Yates* actor/television presenter/radio DJ - Islington, London, England
1983-0601 Sylvia Hoeks* model/actress - Maarheeze, Netherlands
1983-0608 Kim Clijsters* tennis player - Bilzen, Belgium
1983-0609 Justin Benson* film director/actor/producer - San Diego, CA USA
1983-0610
1983-0612 Christine Margaret Sinclair* football player - Burnaby, Canada
1983-0613 Jason Spezza* hockey player/WG - Mississauga, ON Canada
1983-0616 Anniina Mattila* singer - Karvia, Finland
1983-0617 Manish Dayal* actor - Orangeburg, SC USA
1983-0618
1983-0619 Mark Selby* snooker player - Leicester, England
1983-0620 Mika Poutala* speed skater/ politician - Helsinki, Finland
1983-0621 Edward Snowden* computer intelligence consultant/whistleblower - Elizabeth City, NC USA
1983-0622 Leo-Pekka Tähti* Paralympic athlete - Pori, Finland
1983-0625
1983-0630 Angela Sarafyan* Armenian-American actress (Westworld)/to US at age 4 - Yerevan, Armenia, Soviet Union
1983-0701 Marit Larsen* singer/songwriter - Lørenskog, Norway
1983-0706 David Price* boxer/OB - Liverpool, England
1983-0710 Kim Hee-chul* 김희철 singer/ actor/presenter - Wonju, Gangwon-do,South Korea
1983-0710 Charlie McDowell* film director/writer - Los Angeles, CA USA
1983-0711 Joel Salinas* physician - Miami Beach, FL USA
1983-0713 Diana Bacosi* sport shooter/OG - Città della Pieve, Italy
1983-0715
1983-0716 Duncan Keith* hockey player (NHL 100) - Winnipeg, MB Canada
1983-0716 Eleanor Matsuura* British actress/half Japanese - Tokyo, Japan
1983-0717
1983-0718 Yao Juan* Paralympic athlete (javelin, shotput, discus)/OG - China
1983-0719 Helen Skelton* television presenter/actress/tap dance teacher - Carlisle, Cumbria, England
1983-0720
1983-0722 Juliana Silva* beach volleyball player/OB - Santos, Brazil
1983-0728 Kate Bolduan* broadcast journalist - Goshen, IN USA
1983-0730 Rodrigo Alves* “human Ken” - Sao Paolo, Brazil
1983-0803 Tord Asle Gjerdalen* cross-country skier/WG (Vasaloppet) - Ringerike, Norway
1983-0803 Mamie Gummer* actress/ daughter of Meryl Streep - New York City, NY USA
1983-0804 Greta Gerwig* actress/ screenwriter/director - Sacramento, CA USA
1983-0806 Robin van Persie* football player - Rotterdam, Netherlands
1983-0808
1983-0809 Virginia Giuffre* (b Roberts) American-Australian accuser of child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein/ campaigner/creator of Victims Refuse Silence - Sacramento, CA USA (2025/41)
1983-0809 Dan Levy* actor/ director/producer - Toronto, ON Canada
1983-0811 Chris Hemsworth* actor - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1983-0813 Michael Brooks* talk show host/ writer/political commentator - Brooklyn, NY USA (2020/36)
1983-0813 Mila Kunis* Ukrainian-American actress/producer/to U.S. at age 7 - Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Soviet Union
1983-0814 Vanina Correa* football goalie - Villa Gobernador Gálvez, Argentina
1983-0818 Cameron White* cricketer - Bairnsdale, VIC Australia
1983-0819 Peter Mooney* actor - Winnipeg, MB Canada
1983-0820
1983-0829 Antti Niemi* hockey goalie - Vantaa, Finland
1983-0831 Maria Flor* (b Calaça) actress - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1983-0831 Blake Lee* actor - Miami, FL USA
1983-0901 José Antonio Reyes* football player - Utrera, Spain (2019/35)
1983-0902 Kim Jung-hwan* fencer/OB - Seoul, South Korea
1983-0903 Alexander Klaws* singer/ actor/host - Ahlen, West Germany
1983-0904 Jennifer Metcalfe* actress - Bradford, England
1983-0909 Zoe Kazan* actress/ playwright/screenwriter - Los Angeles, CA USA
1983-0910 Jutta Lehtinen* actress - Paimio, Finland
1983-0911 Vivian Cheruiyot* long-distance runner/OG - Keiyo, Rift Valley, Kenya
1983-0912 Carly Smithson* singer/ songwriter/actress - Dublin, Ireland
1983-0913 Erika Nyström* beach volleyball player - Muurame, Finland
1983-0913 Emilia Nyström* beach volleyball player - Muurame, Finland
1983-0914 Amy Winehouse* singer - London, England (2011/27)
1983-0915
1983-0916 Kirsty Coventry* swimmer/ politician/sports administrator (IOC) - Harare, Zimbabwe
1983-0919 Joni Pitkänen* hockey player - Oulu, Finland
1983-0925 Donald Glover* actor/director/ musician - Edwards Air Force Base, CA USA
1983-0926 D’Qwell Jackson* Am. football inside linebacker - Largo, FL USA
1983-0926 Ricardo Quaresma* football player - Lisbon, Portugal
1983-0927 Jay Boowmeester* hockey player/3GC - Edmonton, AB Canada
1983-0929 Lisette Oropesa* opera singer/of Cuban descent - New Orleans, LA USA
1983-0930 Frank Erichsen* farmer/television personality/writer - Bevtoft, Denmark
1983-1001
1983-1003 Tessa Thompson* actress/singer - Los Angeles, CA USA
1983-1006 Sunette Viljoen* cricket player/athlete (javelin/OS) - Rustenburg, Transvaal, South Africa
1983-1007 Flying Lotus* (b Steven Ellison) rapper/record producer/filmmaker - Los Angeles, CA USA
1983-1008
1983-1009 Faith Alupo* politician/member of the Parliament - Uganda (2020/36)
1983-1009 Trevor Daley* hockey player/SC - Toronto, ON Canada
1983-1010
1983-1014 David Oakes* actor/ environmentalist - Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
1983-1015
1983-1017 Felicity Jones* actress - Birmingham, England
1983-1019 Rebecca Ferguson* actress - Stockholm, Sweden
1983-1019 Sarah Lacina* police officer/Survivor S34 Contestant - Muscatine, IA USA
1983-1020
1983-1021 Charlotte Sullivan* actress - Toronto, ON Canada
1983-1021 Aaron Tveit* singer/ actor - Middletown, NY USA
1983-1026 Katy Tur* journalist/author - Los Angeles, CA USA
1983-1030
1983-1101 Yuko Ogura* 小倉 優子 model- Mobara, Chiba, Japan
1983-1102 Lindsay Buziak* real estate agent/homicide victim - Victoria, BC Canada (2008/24)
1983-1102 Mika Kurvinen* actor/ director - Helsinki, Finland
1983-1108 Blanka Vlašić* athlete (high jump)/OS - Split, Croatia, Yugoslavia
1983-1111 Philipp Lahm* football player - Munich, West Germany
1983-1116 Kari Lehtonen* hockey goalie - Helsinki, Finland
1983-1118 Julia Ducournau* film director/screenwriter - Paris, France
1983-1120
1983-1119 Adam Driver* actor - San Diego, CA USA
1983-1122 Andrew J. West* actor - Merrillville, IN USA
1983-1124 Gwilym Lee* Welsh actor - Bristol, England
1983-1129 Lee Kyu-hyung* actor - Seoul , South Korea
1983-1130 Anastasia Baburova* student/investigative journalist (Novaya Gazeta) - Sevastopol, Ukraine, Soviet Union (2009/25)
1983-1130 Guillaume Gouix* actor/ director/screenwriter - Aix-en-Provence, France
1983-1205 Aku Hirviniemi* actor - Riihimäki, Finland
1983-1205 Ville Nousiainen* cross-country skier - Kouvola, Finland
1983-1209 Jolene Burdy* actress/w Japanese heritage - Redondo Beach, CA USA - IMDb
1983-1210 Patrick Flueger* actor - Red Wing, MN USA
1983-1215 Camilla Luddington* actress (Lara Croft) - Ascot, Berkshire, England
1983-1217 Sébastien Ogier* rally driver/WG - Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France
1983-1220 Jonah Hill* actor/ comedian/filmmaker - Los Angeles, CA USA
1983-1221 Steven Yeun* Korean-American actor - Seoul, South Korea
1983-1222 José Fonte* football player - Penafiel, Portugal
1983-1227 Marek Oravec* actor - Austria
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