1983

Events

 * April 1 - Walt Disney Pictures is opened as a studio division.

Feature films

 * March 11 - Trenchcoat
 * March 25 - The Sword in the Stone is re-issued to theaters.
 * April 29 - Something Wicked This Way Comes
 * July 15 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is re-issued to theaters for the seventh time
 * October 7 - Never Cry Wolf
 * December 16 - The Rescuers is re-issued to theaters.

Shorts

 * March 25 - Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
 * December 16 - Mickey's Christmas Carol

Television

 * April 18 - The Disney Channel begins broadcasting

Theme parks

 * March 3 - The original Journey Into Imagination ride-through attraction opens at Epcot.
 * April 15 - Tokyo Disneyland opens to the public.
 * May 23 - Pinocchio's Daring Journey opens at Disneyland.
 * May 25 - The new Fantasyland opens at Disneyland as a heavily-revamped version of the original version.
 * June 4 - 18-year-old Philip Straughan of Albuquerque, New Mexico drowned in the Rivers of America while trying to pilot a rubber emergency boat from Tom Sawyer's Island that he and a friend had stolen from a "cast members only" area of the island.
 * October 1 - Horizons opens at Epcot.

Home video releases

 * Walt Disney Cartoon Classics (Volumes 1 to 6): Chip 'n' Dale with Donald Duck, Pluto, Scary Tales, Sport Goofy, Disney's Best of 1931-1948, and More Sport Goofy
 * The Great Locomotive Chase
 * Kidnapped
 * In Search of the Castaways
 * Johnny Tremain and the Sons of Liberty
 * The Fabulous Fleischer Folio (Volumes 1 to 6)
 * The Happiest Millionaire
 * American Heroes: Featuring Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill
 * Where The Toys Come From?
 * October - Tron, Tex, and Something Wicked This Way Comes
 * November - The Boatniks

Births

 * January 17 - Rickey Collins (actor and voice actor)
 * January 19 - Hikaru Utada (singer, songwriter)
 * February 23 - Emily Blunt (actress)
 * February 27 -Kate Mara (actress)
 * March 1 - Lupita Nyong'o (Actress, film director and music video director)
 * March 10 - Khadijah Haqq (actress)
 * March 10 - Malika Haqq (actress and television personality)
 * March 10 - Carrie Underwood (singer and actress)
 * April 1 - Matt Lanter (actor)
 * April 2 - Yū Hayashi (Japanese voice actor)
 * April 10 - Jamie Chung (actress)
 * May 6 - Adrianne Palicki (actress)
 * May 12 - Domhnall Gleeson (Irish actor, director and writer)
 * June 8 - Mamoru Miyano (voice actor, singer)
 * June 10 - Leelee Sobieski (actress)
 * June 20 - Grace Potter (singer)
 * July 6 - Brady Bluhm (actor)
 * July 29 - Tania Gunadi (actress)
 * August 9 - Ashley Johnson (actress)
 * August 13 - Sebastian Stan (actor)
 * August 11 - Chris Hemsworth (actor)
 * August 14 - Mila Kunis (actress)
 * September 21- Joseph Mazzello (actor)
 * September 25 - Donald Glover (actor, writer, comedian)
 * October 24 - Adrienne Bailon (actress and singer)
 * November 7 - Adam DeVine (comedian, actor, producer, writer)
 * November 19 - Adam Driver (actor)

Deaths

 * January 17 - John W. Dunn (screenwriter and animator)
 * January 17 - Doodles Weaver (actor and comedian)
 * February 10 - Eduard Franz (actor)
 * March 27 - James Hayter (actor)
 * April 4 - Gloria Swanson (actress)
 * May 23 - George Bruns (film and attraction composer)
 * July 29 - David Niven (actor)
 * July 30 - Lynn Fontanne (British actress, major American stage star and longtime wife of Alfred Lunt)
 * September 5 - Yale Gracey (Imagineer)
 * September 30 - Freddy Martin (bandleader and tenor saxophonist)
 * December 8 - Slim Pickens (actor)
 * December 18 - Leora Dana (film, stage and television actress)
 * December 28 - William Demarest (actor)

Artists Joined

 * Rob Minkoff - Director for The Lion King and The Haunted Mansion.
 * Kelvin Yasuda - Effects Animator on Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid and Oliver & Company.
 * Philip Phillipson - Background Designer on The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid.
 * Philo Barnhart - Assistant Animator on The Little Mermaid and The Rescuers Down Under.
 * June M. Fujimoto - Lead Key Assistant Animator on Tarzan, The Little Mermaid, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Princess and the Frog.
 * Stephen Hickner - Current Storyboard Artist for Dreamworks Animation. Worked as an Assistant Animator on The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective and The Brave Little Toaster.
 * Tina Price - Computer Animator on The Little Mermaid, Tarzan and Beauty and the Beast.
 * Jane Tucker - Assistant Animator on Tarzan, The Little Mermaid and Hercules.
 * Steve Starr - Assistant Effects Animator on The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid.