But are not immortalized on the front page of al.cum even though they made AT A MINIMUM the same contribution to the world as a damn football coach.
David Niven
Slim Pickens
Gloria Swanson
Karen Carpenter
Tennessee Williams
Junior Samples
Jack Dempsey
Ira Gershwin
Jessica Savitch
Muddy Waters
George Ballenchine
Jake Teague (Google this one...)
Barney Clark
Pete Farndon
Buster Crabbe
Joel H. Hildebrand
R Buckminster Fuller
Felix Bloch
Earl Tupper
Joan Miro
Dennis Wilson
And if you want to deify football related people, George Halas also died in 1983.
Oh, and add Meyer Lansky. Mob boss, but that's not too different of a comparison...