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
Eduardo Frei Montalva
Stanley Holloway
January 1
January 3
January 5
January 7 – Kay Hammond , American actress (b. 1901 )
January 8
January 10
January 11
January 13 – Marcel Camus , French film director (b. 1912 )
January 15 – Red Smith , American sportswriter (b. 1905 )
January 16 – Harald Agersnap , Danish composer, conductor, cellist, and pianist (b. 1899 )
January 18
January 19
January 20 – Marc Demeyer , professional road racing cyclist (b. 1950 )
January 22
January 23 – Hope Hampton , American silent motion picture actress and producer (b. 1897)
January 24 – Alfredo Ovando Candía , Bolivian military officer, 48th President of Bolivia (b. 1918 )
January 25 – Mikhail Suslov , senior Soviet Communist Party official (b. 1902 )
January 27
January 30
January 31 – Jiří Srnka , Czech composer (b. 1907)
February
Takashi Shimura
Lee Strasberg
March
John Belushi
Ayn Rand
March 2 – Philip K. Dick , American author (b. 1928 )[ 9]
March 3 – Georges Perec , French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. (b. 1936 )[ 10]
March 5
March 6 – Ayn Rand , Russian-born American author (b. 1905 )[ 12]
March 8
March 18 – Vasily Chuikov , Marshal of the Soviet Union during WWII (b. 1900 )[ 14]
March 19 – Randy Rhoads , American guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne (b. 1956 )[ 15]
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 )[ 16]
March 26
March 27 – Fazlur Rahman Khan , Bangladeshi-born American architect (b. 1929 )
March 28 – William Giauque , Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895 )
March 29
April
Ville Ritola
May
Hussein ibn Nasser
Romy Schneider
May 1
May 3 – Mohammed Seddik Benyahia , Algerian politician (b. 1898 )
May 8
May 10 – Peter Weiss , German writer and artist (b. 1916 )[ 20]
May 12 – Humphrey Searle , English composer (b. 1915 )
May 13
May 14 – Hugh Beaumont , American actor (b. 1909 )
May 15 – Gordon Smiley , American race car driver (racing accident) (b. 1946 )
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
Satchel Paige
Khalid of Saudi Arabia
Curd Jürgens
July
C. R. Swart
Vic Morrow
August
Henry Fonda
Ingrid Bergman
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 )[ 30]
August 12
August 13 – Charles Walters , American film director (b. 1911 )
August 15 – 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
August 21 – King Sobhuza II of Swaziland (b. 1899 )
August 23
August 25 – Anna German , Polish singer (b. 1936 )[ 33]
August 26 – Teresa Iżewska , Polish actress (b. 1933 )
August 27 – Anandamayi Ma , Indian spiritual leader (b. 1896 )
August 29
September
Grace Kelly
Kristján Eldjárn
September 1
September 2 – Tom Baker , American actor (b. 1940 )
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 )[ 36]
September 7 – Ken Boyer , American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals ) (b. 1931 )
september 8 - Sheikh Mohammad Abdullahwas an Indian politician who played a central role in the politics of Jammu and Kashmir.
September 9 – Tee Tee Luce , Burmese philanthropist (b. 1895 )
September 10 – Jane Ingham , English botanist and scientific translator (b. 1897 )
September 11
September 12 – Federico Moreno Torroba , Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1891 )
September 14
September 16 – Rolfe Sedan , American actor (b. 1896 )
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 )[ 39]
October
Fernando Lamas
Bess Truman
Pierre Mendès France
October 3 – Vivien Merchant , British actress (b. 1929 )
October 4
October 5 – François Simon , Swiss actor (b. 1917 )
October 8
October 9
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
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 )[ 41]
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 )
October 31 – Dick Merrill , American aviation pioneer (b. 1894 )
November
James Broderick
Leonid Brezhnev
Stanisław Ostrowski
November 1
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
November 11 – S. A. Ashokan , Indian Tamil actor (b. 1931 )
November 12
November 13 – Chesney Allen , British entertainer and comedian (b. 1894 )
November 15
November 16 – Peter Forster , British actor (b. 1920 )
November 17
November 19 – Erving Goffman , Canadian-American sociologist and psychologist (b. 1922 )
November 21 – Lee Patrick , American actress (b. 1901 )
November 22
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
December
Marty Robbins
Arthur Rubinstein
Jack Webb
December 2 – Marty Feldman , British comedian and writer (b. 1934 )
December 7 – Will Lee , American actor (b. 1908 )
December 8
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
December 23 – Jack Webb , American actor (b. 1920 )
December 24 – Louis Aragon , French poet and writer (b. 1897 )[ 45]
December 25 – Helen Foster , American actress (b. 1906 )
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
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