Deaths in 1982
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The following is a list of notable deaths in 1982. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Deaths in 1982
January
February
March
- March 1 – Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer (b. 1903)[1]
- March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)[2]
- March 3 – Georges Perec, French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. (b. 1936)[3]
- March 5
- John Belushi, American comedian, actor and singer (b. 1949)
- Gertraud Winkelvoss, German politician (b. 1917)[4]
- March 6 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born American author (b. 1905)[5]
- March 8
- Rab Butler, British statesman (b. 1902)
- Hatem Ali Jamadar, Bengali politician (b. 1872)[6]
- March 18 – Vasily Chuikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union during WWII (b. 1900)[7]
- March 19 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (b. 1956)[8]
- March 21 – Harry H. Corbett, English actor and comedian (b. 1925)
- March 22 – Pericle Felici, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1911)
- March 24 – Ken Harris, American animator (b. 1898)
- March 25 – Goodman Ace, American actor, comedian and writer (b. 1899)[9]
- March 26
- Sultan al-Atrash, Syrian nationalist and general (b. 1891)
- Sam Kydd, Irish-born English actor (b. 1915)
- March 27 – Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi-born American architect (b. 1929)
- March 28 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
- March 29
- Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)[10]
- Walter Hallstein, German diplomat, 1st President of the European Commission (b. 1901)
- Helene Deutsch, Polish-American psychoanalyst (b. 1884)
April
- April 3 – Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)
- April 5 – Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)
- April 6 – Gabriel Auphan, French admiral and politician (b. 1894)[11]
- April 9 – Robert Havemann, chemist and East German dissident (b. 1910)
- April 12
- Lenny Baker, American actor (b. 1945)
- Vitaly Goryaev, Soviet artist (b. 1910)
- April 13 – John P. Metras, American coach of Canadian football (b. 1909)
- April 15 – Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
- April 20 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet (b. 1892)
- April 24 – Ville Ritola, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1896)
- April 25
- Boris Andreyev, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1915)
- Dame Celia Johnson, British actress (b. 1908)[12]
- April 29
- Kassim Al-Rimawi, 52nd Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1918)
- Elmer Ripley, American basketball coach (b. 1891)
May
- May 1
- Hussein ibn Nasser, 36th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1902)
- William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1904)
- May 3 – Mohammed Seddik Benyahia, Algerian politician (b. 1898)
- May 8
- Salomea Andronikova, Georgian-Russian socialite (b. 1888)
- Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (racing accident) (b. 1950)
- May 10 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)[13]
- May 12 – Humphrey Searle, English composer (b. 1915)
- May 13
- Aleksandr Borisov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1905)
- Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer (b. 1908)
- May 14 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
- May 15 – Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (racing accident) (b. 1946)
- May 20 – Merle Tuve, American physicist (b. 1901)[14]
- May 22 – Cevdet Sunay, Turkish army officer and political leader, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
- May 24 – Stanisława Perzanowska, Polish actress (b. 1898)
- May 26 – Guillermo Flores Avendaño, acting President of Guatemala (b. 1894)
- May 28 – Lt Col H. Jones, VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1940)
- May 29 – Romy Schneider, German-French actress (b. 1938)
- May 30 – Albert Norden, German politician (b. 1904)
June
- June 2
- Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician, 5th President of Pakistan (b. 1904)
- Shah Abdul Wahhab, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (b. 1894)[15]
- June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)[16]
- June 8 – Satchel Paige, American Negro league baseball player and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1906)[17]
- June 9 – Mirza Nasir Ahmad, 3rd Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam (b. 1909)
- June 10
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1945)[18]
- Gala Dalí, Russian-Spanish muse, wife of Paul Éluard and Salvador Dalí (b. 1894)
- June 11
- Santosh Kumar, Pakistani actor (b. 1925)
- H. Radclyffe Roberts, American entomologist (b. 1906)[19]
- Anatoly Solonitsyn, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1934)
- June 12
- Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
- Marie Rambert, Polish-born English dancer and pedagogue (b. 1888)
- June 13
- King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1913)
- Riccardo Paletti, Italian Formula 1 driver (racing accident) (b. 1958)
- June 15 – Art Pepper, American musician (b. 1925)
- June 17 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
- June 18
- Djuna Barnes, American novelist (b. 1892)[20]
- John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1912)[21]
- Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915)[22]
- June 25 – Edward Hamm, American Olympic athlete (b. 1906)
- June 26 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. 1908)
- June 29
- Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
- Michael Brennan, British actor (b. 1912)
- Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
July
August
- August 1 – T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (b. 1933)
- August 2 – Cathleen Nesbitt, British actress (b. 1888)
- August 6 – S. K. Pottekkatt, Indian writer (b. 1913)[23]
- August 12
- Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)[24]
- Tomás Romero Pereira, 41st President of Paraguay (b. 1886)
- Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
- August 13 – Charles Walters, American film director (b. 1911)
- August 15
- Maurice Gallay, French footballer (b. 1902)[25]
- Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
- August 18 – Beverly Bayne, American actress (b. 1894)
- August 20
- Walter Battiss, South African artist (b. 1906)
- Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
- Edward Ludwig, Russian-born American director (b. 1899)
- George David Woods, American banker, 4th President of the World Bank (b. 1901)
- August 21 – King Sobhuza II of Swaziland (b. 1899)
- August 23
- Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian film director (b. 1897)[26]
- Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- August 26
- Anna German, Polish singer (b. 1936)[27]
- Teresa Iżewska, Polish actress (b. 1933)
- August 27 – Anandamayi Ma, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1896)
- August 29
- Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
- Nahum Goldmann, Russian-born Zionist (b. 1895)[28]
September
- September 1
- Ludwig Bieberbach, German mathematician (b. 1886)
- Isabel Cristina, Brazilian student victim of femicide; honored in Catholicism as blessed (b. 1962)[29]
- Władysław Gomułka, Polish Communist politician, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (b. 1905)
- Charles Hartmann, American jazz trombonist (b. 1898)
- September 2
- Tom Baker, American actor (b. 1940)
- Jay Novello, American actor (b. 1904)[30]
- September 3 – Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, Italian general (assassinated) (b. 1920)
- September 4 – Jack Tworkov, American painter (b. 1900)
- September 5 – Sir Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot and leader during the Battle of Britain (b. 1910)[31]
- September 7 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) (b. 1931)
- September 8 - Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Indian politician (b. 1905)
- September 9 – Tee Tee Luce, Burmese philanthropist (b. 1895)
- September 10 – Jane Ingham, English botanist and scientific translator (b. 1897)
- September 11
- Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (b. 1902)[32]
- Jovan Miladinović, Serbian footballer (b. 1939)
- September 12 – Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1891)
- September 13 – Kristján Eldjárn, 3rd President of Iceland (b. 1916)
- September 14
- Bachir Gemayel, President-elect of Lebanon (b. 1947)
- Grace Kelly, American actress; Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)[33]
- September 15 – Rolfe Sedan, American actor (b. 1896)
- September 18 – David Louis Lidman, American writer (b. 1905)[34]
- September 19 – Ted Badcock, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1897)
- September 21 – Ivan Bagramyan, Soviet and Armenian military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1897)
- September 23 – Weeratunge Edward Perera, Malaysian educator, businessman and social entrepreneur (b. 1898)
- September 24 – Sarah Churchill, British actress, daughter of Winston Churchill (b. 1914)
- September 28 – Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
- September 29 – Letitia Chitty, English aeronautical engineer (b. 1897)[35]
October
- October 3 – Vivien Merchant, British actress (b. 1929)
- October 4
- Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, 25th Prime Minister of Iraq and 4th President of Iraq (b. 1914)
- The Amazing Criswell, American psychic, entertainer (b. 1907)
- Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
- Leroy Grumman, American aeronautical engineer, test pilot and industrialist. (b. 1895)
- Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
- October 5 – François Simon, Swiss actor (b. 1917)
- October 8
- Philip Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889)
- Fernando Lamas, Argentine-born actor (b. 1916)
- October 9
- Anna Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1895)
- Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian (b. 1893)
- October 10 – Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
- October 16 – Hans Selye, Canadian endocrinologist (b. 1907)
- October 17 – Youssef Wahbi, Egyptian actor and film director (b. 1898)
- October 18
- Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
- Dwain Esper, American director (b. 1894)
- Pierre Mendès France, French politician, 93rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
- Nellie Mae Rowe, African-American folk artist (b. 1900)[36]
- October 20 – Jimmy McGrory, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1904)
- October 21 – Sylvia Lance Harper, Australian tennis player (b. 1895)
- October 22 – Savitri Devi, French-born writer and philosopher (b. 1905)[37]
- October 25 – Arvid Wallman, Swedish diver (b. 1901)
- October 26 – Giovanni Benelli, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1921)
- October 27 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Guatemalan general, 21st President of Guatemala (b. 1895)
- October 29 – William Lloyd Webber, British organist and composer (b. 1914)
- October 30
- Wolfgang Heinz, German actor (b. 1900)
- Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian writer (b. 1907)[38]
- October 31 – Dick Merrill, American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
November
- November 1
- James Broderick, American actor (b. 1927)
- King Vidor, American film director (b. 1894)
- November 3 – E. H. Carr, English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist (b. 1892)
- November 4 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
- November 5 – Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (b. 1907)
- November 10
- Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (b. 1906)
- Elio Petri, Italian filmmaker (b. 1929)
- Helen Sharsmith, American biologist and educator (b. 1905)[39]
- November 11 – S. A. Ashokan, Indian Tamil actor (b. 1931)
- November 12
- Dorothy Round Little, English tennis champion (b. 1908)
- Patrick Cowley, American disco and Hi-NRG dance music composer and recording artist (b. 1950)
- November 13 – Chesney Allen, British entertainer and comedian (b. 1894)
- November 15
- Vinoba Bhave, Indian educator (b. 1895)
- Dick Randall, Australian public servant (b. 1906)[40]
- Allen Woodring, American runner, Olympic champion (1920) (d. 1982)[41]
- November 16 – Peter Forster, British actor (b. 1920)
- November 17
- Ruth Donnelly, American actress (b. 1896)
- Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
- November 18 – Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer (b. 1955)
- November 19 – Erving Goffman, Canadian-American sociologist and psychologist (b. 1922)
- November 21 – Lee Patrick, American actress (b. 1901)
- November 22
- Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (b. 1909)
- Stanisław Ostrowski, Polish politician, 3rd President of Poland in exile (b. 1892)
- November 24 – Barack Obama Sr., Kenyan economist (b. 1934)
- November 25 – Hugh Harman, American cartoon animator (b. 1903)
- November 26 – Juhan Aavik, Estonian composer (b. 1884)
- November 28 – Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania (b. 1896)
- November 29
- Hermann Balck, German general (b. 1893)
- Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
December
- December 2 – Marty Feldman, British comedian and writer (b. 1934)
- December 7 – Will Lee, American actor (b. 1908)
- December 8
- Encarnación Fuyola, Spanish teacher and activist (b. 1907)
- Marty Robbins, American singer, songwriter and racing driver (b. 1925)[42]
- December 10 – Freeman Fisher Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
- December 12 – Phil Karlson, American film director (b. 1908)
- December 15 – Prince Adalberto, Duke of Bergamo (b. 1898)
- December 16 – Colin Chapman, British designer, inventor and builder in the automotive industry (b. 1928)
- December 17 – Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
- December 18 – Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German World War II dive bomber pilot (b. 1916)
- December 19 – Frederick Terman, American electrical engineer and academic administrator (b. 1900)
- December 20 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor (b. 1887)
- December 21
- Charles Hapgood, American college professor (b. 1904)
- Gladys Henson, Irish actress (b. 1897)
- December 23 – Jack Webb, American actor (b. 1920)
- December 24 – Louis Aragon, French poet and writer (b. 1897)[43]
- December 25 – Helen Foster, American actress (b. 1906)
- Raphael Girard, Swiss-Guatemalan ethnographer (b. 1898)
- December 27 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut (b. 1931)
- December 28 – Arthur Hughes, American actor (b. 1894)
- December 30 – Giuseppe Aquari, Italian cinematographer (b. 1916)
- December 31
- John Collins, British Anglican priest and venerable (b. 1905)
- Kurt Otto Friedrichs, German-born American mathematician (b. 1901)
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- ^ Hellertown's Olympic Gold Medalist
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