Deaths in 1982


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

 January 1 – Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
 January 3 – Erwin Canham, journalist (b. 1904)
 January 5 – Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
 January 7 – Kay Hammond, American actress (b. 1901)
 January 8 
 Reta Shaw, American actress (b. 1912)
 Grégoire Aslan, Armenian actor (b. 1908)
 January 11
A. W. Haydon, American inventor (b. 1906)
Jiro Horikoshi, Japanese aircraft designer (b. 1903)
Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
 January 13 – Marcel Camus, French film director (b. 1912)
 January 18 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (b. 1905)
 January 19 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
 January 22 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, 27th President of Chile (b. 1911)
 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 – Trần Văn Hương, 3rd President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and 3rd Prime Minister of South Vietnam (b. 1902)
 January 30
 Stanley Holloway, British actor (b. 1890)
 Lightnin' Hopkins, American blues musician (b. 1912)
 Helen Lynd, American sociologist and philosopher (b. 1896)

February

 February 3, Efraín Huerta, Mexican poet and journalist (b. 1914)
 February 4
 Sue Carol, American actress (b. 1906)
 Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)
 February 5 – Neil Aggett, South African labor leader (suicide) (b. 1953)
 February 6
 Ioan Beldiceanu, Romanian general (b. 1892)
 Ben Nicholson, English painter (b. 1894)
 February 9 – Marthe Richard, French prostitute, spy and politician (b. 1889)
 February 11
 Eleanor Powell, American dancer and actress (b. 1912)
 Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
 February 12 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902)
 February 17
 Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917)
 Lee Strasberg, Polish-American actor and acting coach, co-founder of method acting (b. 1901)
 February 18 – Dame Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand crime fiction writer (b. 1895)
 February 19 – Dame Margery Perham, English Africanist (b. 1895)
 February 21 – Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian (b. 1897)
 February 24 – Virginia Bruce, American actress (b. 1910)

March

 March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)
 March 3 – Georges Perec, French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. (b. 1936)
 March 5
 John Belushi, American comedian, actor and singer (b. 1949)
 Gertraud Winkelvoss, German politician (b. 1917)
 March 6 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born author (b. 1905)
 March 8
 Rab Butler, British statesman (b. 1902)
 Hatem Ali Jamadar, Bengali politician (b. 1872)
 March 19 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne (b. 1956)
 March 21 – Harry H. Corbett, English actor and comedian (b. 1925)
 March 22 – Pericle Felici, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1911)
 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)
 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 9 – Robert Havemann, chemist and East German dissident (b. 1910)
 April 12 – Lenny Baker, American actor (b. 1945)
 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)
 Celia Johnson, British actress (b. 1908)
 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. 1903)
 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)
 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 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 Abd al-Wahhab, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (b. 1894)
 June 8 – Satchel Paige, American Negro league baseball player and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1906)
 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)
 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) 
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-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 17 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
 June 18
 Djuna Barnes, American novelist (b. 1892)
 John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1912)
 Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915)
 June 25 – Edward Hamm, American Olympic athlete (b. 1906)
 June 29
 Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
 Michael Brennan, British actor (b. 1912)
 Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)

July

 July 4 
 Terry Higgins, early British casualty of AIDS (b. 1945) 
 Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Dominican businessman and politician, 46th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1911)
 July 6 – Alma Reville, English screenwriter (b. 1899)
 July 7 – Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (b. 1901)
 July 8
 Gunnar Eriksson, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1921)
 Isa Miranda, Italian actress (b. 1905)
 Albert White, American Olympic diver (b. 1895)
 Virginia Hall, American spy (b. 1906)
 July 10 – Maria Jeritza, Czechoslovak soprano (b. 1887)
 July 12 – Kenneth More, English actor (b. 1914)
 July 16
 Charles Robberts Swart, last Governor-General and 4th President of South Africa (b. 1894)
 Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)
 July 18
 Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and literary theorist (b. 1896)
 Quirico Pignalberi, Italian Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1891)
 July 19 – Hugh Everett III, American physicist (b. 1930)
 July 23 – Vic Morrow, American actor and director (b. 1929)
 July 26 – Teresa Iżewska, Polish actress (b. 1933)
 July 28 – Vladimir Smirnov, Soviet fencer (b. 1954)
 July 29 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor (b. 1889)

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)
 August 12
 Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905) 
 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 – 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
 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)
 Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
 August 25 – Anna German, Polish singer (b. 1936)
 August 27 – Anandamayi Ma, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1896)
 August 29 – Ingrid Bergman, 67, Swedish actress (b. 1915)

September

 September 1
 Władysław Gomułka, Polish Communist politician, former First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (b. 1905)
 Ludwig Bieberbach, German mathematician (b. 1886)
 Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos, Brazilian student victim of femicide; honored in Catholicism as blessed (b. 1962)
 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 inspirational leader during the Battle of Britain (b. 1910)
 September 7 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) (b. 1931)
 September 11
 Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (b. 1902)
 Jovan Miladinović, Serbian footballer (b. 1939)
 September 12 – Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1891)
 September 14
 Bachir Gemayel, President-elect of Lebanon (b. 1947)
 Grace Kelly, American actress; Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
 September 16 – Rolfe Sedan, American actor (b. 1896)
 September 17 – Kristján Eldjárn, 3rd President of Iceland (b. 1916)
 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 24 – Sarah Churchill, British actress, daughter of Winston Churchill (b. 1914)
 September 28 – Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)

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)
 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 18
 Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
 Dwain Esper, American director (b. 1892)
 Pierre Mendès France, French politician, 93rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
 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)
 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

 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)
 November 11 – S. A. Ashokan, 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)
 November 16 – Peter Forster, British actor (b. 1920)
 November 17
 Ruth Donnelly, American actress (b. 1896)
 Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer (b. 1955)
 Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
 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 who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street (b. 1908)
 December 8
 Encarnación Fuyola, Spanish teacher and activist (b. 1907)
 Marty Robbins, American singer, songwriter and racing driver (b. 1925)
 December 10 – Freeman Fisher Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
 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 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)
 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
 John Collins, British Anglican priest and venerable (b. 1905)
 Kurt Otto Friedrichs, German-born American mathematician (b. 1901)

References

1982 deaths
Lists of deaths in 1982
Deaths in 1982