# 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:

## Deaths in 1982
### January

* January 1
** Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
** Margot Grahame, English actress (b. 1911)
* January 3
** Erwin Canham, journalist (b. 1904)
** Derek Sealy, West Indian cricketer (b. 1912)
* January 5
** Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
** Edmund Herring, senior Australian Army officer during the WWII (b. 1892)
* January 7 – Kay Hammond, American actress (b. 1901)
* January 8
** Reta Shaw, American actress (b. 1912)
** Grégoire Aslan, Armenian actor (b. 1908)
* January 10
** Lazar Weiner, Imperial Russian-born, American-naturalized composer (b. 1897)
** Paul Lynde, American comedian, actor and game show panelist (b.1926)
* 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 15 – Red Smith, American sportswriter (b. 1905)
* January 16 – Harald Agersnap, Danish composer, conductor, cellist, and pianist (b. 1899)
* January 18
** Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (b. 1905)
** Burnet Corwin Tuthill, American conductor, composer and musicologist (b. 1888)
** Trent Lehman, American child actor (b. 1961)
* January 19
** Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
** Leopold Trepper, Polish Communist and career Soviet agent of the Red Army Intelligence (b. 1904)
* January 20 – Marc Demeyer, professional road racing cyclist (b. 1950)
* January 22
** Eduardo Frei Montalva, 27th President of Chile (b. 1911)
** Tommy Tucker, American blues singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1933)
* 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
** Trần Văn Hương, 3rd President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and 3rd Prime Minister of South Vietnam (b. 1902)
** Félix Labisse, French Surrealist painter, illustrator, and designer (b. 1905)
* January 30
** Stanley Holloway, British actor (b. 1890)
** Lightnin' Hopkins, American blues musician (b. 1912)
** Helen Lynd, American sociologist and philosopher (b. 1896)
* January 31 – Jiří Srnka, Czech composer (b. 1907)

### February

* February 3
** John A. Hilger, American air force general and participant of the Doolittle Raid (b. 1909)
** 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 American author (b. 1905)
* March 8
** Rab Butler, British statesman (b. 1902)
** Hatem Ali Jamadar, Bengali politician (b. 1872)
* March 18 – Vasily Chuikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union during WWII (b. 1900)
* 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 24 – Ken Harris, American animator (b. 1898)
* March 25 – Goodman Ace, American actor, comedian and writer (b. 1899)
* 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 6 – Gabriel Auphan, French admiral and politician (b. 1894)
* 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 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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 15 – Art Pepper, American musician (b. 1925)
* 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 2 – DeFord Bailey, American country musician (b. 1899)
* 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 – Bhakti Hridaya Bon, 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
** C. R. 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)
** Betty Parsons, American artist, art dealer and collector (b. 1900)
** Erik Wilén, Finnish sprinter (b. 1898)
* July 28 – Vladimir Smirnov, Soviet fencer (b. 1954)
* July 29 – Vladimir K. 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 26 – 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)

### September

* September 1
** Ludwig Bieberbach, German mathematician (b. 1886)
** Isabel Cristina, Brazilian student victim of femicide; honored in Catholicism as blessed (b. 1962)
** Władysław Gomułka, Polish Communist politician, former 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)
* 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)
* September 7 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) (b. 1931)
* september 8 - Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah was 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
** 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
** Kristján Eldjárn, 3rd President of Iceland (b. 1916)
** 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 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)

### 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. 1892)
** Pierre Mendès France, French politician, 93rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
** Nellie Mae Rowe, African-American folk artist (b. 1900)
* 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, 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)
** Allen Woodring, American runner, Olympic champion (1920) (d. 1982)
* 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 (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 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)
* 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)