1982

**1982** (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar.

## Events 
* January 15 – K.C. and the Sunshine Band's Harry Wayne Casey is seriously injured in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida.
* January 17 – Tommy Tucker, writer of "Hi Heel Sneakers", dies of carbon tetrachloride poisoning sustained while he was finishing floors in his home.
* January 20 – Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off of a live bat thrown at him during a performance. Osbourne is hospitalized with rabies.
* January 21 – B.B. King donates his personal record collection, which includes nearly 7,000 rare blues records, to the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
* February 13 – A 300-pound gravestone from the grave of Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant is stolen from an Orange Park, Florida cemetery. Police found the gravestone two weeks later in a dry river bed.
* February 20 – Pat Benatar marries her guitarist, Neil Giraldo on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
* March 4 – Frank Zappa's son Dweezil and daughter Moon Unit form Fred Zeppelin.
* March 5 – Comedian and Blues Brother John Belushi is found dead of an apparent drug overdose in the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
* March 18 – Teddy Pendergrass is severely injured in a car accident in Philadelphia. Pendergrass' injuries result in him being paralyzed from the waist down.
* March 19 – Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist, Randy Rhoads is killed in a freak accident in Leesburg, Florida when the plane he's riding in buzzes Osbourne's tour bus and crashes into a house. The plane's pilot and a female passenger are also killed.
* March 28 – In Los Angeles, California, David Crosby is arrested for possession of Quaaludes and drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of cocaine and carrying a concealed weapon.
* March 29 – Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney release their single "Ebony and Ivory".
* March 31 – The Doobie Brothers announce that they are breaking up.
* April 2 – The Falklands War begins.
* April 15 – Billy Joel is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Long Island, New York. Joel spends over a month in the hospital undergoing physical therapy for his hand.
* April – Amy Grant marries Gary Chapman.
* April 26 – Rod Stewart is mugged in Los Angeles, California. Stewart loses his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was not hurt.
* June 20 – The Falklands War ends.
* July 4  The divorce of Jack Catain Jr., an American businessman, and Kathleen Richards, an American casting director, is finalized.
* August 17 – The first mass production of compact discs begins in Langenhagen near Hanover, Germany.
* September 7 – The musical *Cats* begins its 18-year run on Broadway.
* September 30 – The TV show *Cheers* premieres.
* November 5 – First broadcast of The Tube was shown on Channel 4 in the UK.
* November 13 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated.
* November 30 – Michael Jackson releases his sixth studio album, *Thriller*. Which it will later became the best-selling album of all time.

## Births 
* February 14 – Marián Gáborík, Slovak professional ice hockey player
* April 10 - Chyler Leigh, American actress, singer and model
* June 21 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
* August 6 - David Knazovicky
* November 20 - Nathan Vetterlein, American YouTube personality

## Deaths 
### January 
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* January 10 – Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926)
* January 22 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, President of Chile (b. 1911)
* January 22 - Tommy Tucker, American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
* January 30 – Stanley Holloway, British actor (b. 1890)
* January 30 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)

### February 
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* February 11 – Eleanor Powell, American dancer (b. 1912)
* February 11 – Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
* February 12 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902)
* February 17 – Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917)
* February 17 – Lee Strasberg, American actor (b. 1901)

### March 
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* March 1 – Charlie Spivak, American trumpeter (b. 1905)
* March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American writer (b. 1928)
* March 5 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
* March 6 – Ayn Rand, American writer (b. 1905)
* March 19 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (b. 1956)
* March 29 – Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)
* March 29 - Walter Hallstein, German educator (b. 1901)

### April 
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* April 15 – Riccardo Billi, Italian actor (b. 1906)
* April 24 – Ville Ritola, Finnish long-distance runner (b. 1896)

### May 
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* May 8 – Bernie Glow, American jazz musician (b. 1926)
* May 22 - Cevdet Sunay, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
* May 29 – Romy Schneider, Austrian-French actress (b. 1938)

### June 
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* June 2 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, President of Pakistan (b. 1904)
* June 8 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
* June 13 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (b. 1958)
* June 13 – King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
* June 18 – Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915)

### July 
* July 4 – Antonio Guzmán Fernández, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1911)
* July 6 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
* July 8 – Gunnar Eriksson, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1921)
* July 16 – Charles Robberts Swart, State President of South Africa (b. 1894)
* July 22 – Sonny Stitt, American saxophonist (b. 1924)

### August 
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* August 12 – Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
* August 12 – Tomás Romero Pereira, President of Paraguay (b. 1886)
* August 12 – Salvador Sanchez, Mexican professional boxer (b. 1959)
* August 21 – Sobhuza II of Swaziland, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
* August 23 – Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American heir (b. 1916)
* August 27 – Atilla Altikat, Turkish military diplomat (b. 1937)
* August 29 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
* August 29 – Nahum Goldmann, founder of the Jewish World Congress (b. 1895)

### September 
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* September 1 – Ludwig Bieberbach, German mathematician (b. 1886)
* September 5 – Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot (b. 1910)
* September 14 – Kristjan Eldjarn, 3rd President of Iceland (b. 1916)
* September 14 – Bachir Gemayel, elect President of Lebanon (b. 1947)
* September 14 – Grace Kelly, American actress (b. 1929)

### October 
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* October 4 – Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, President of Iraq (b. 1914)
* October 4 – Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
* October 4 – Kunwar Inderjit Singh, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1906)
* October 4 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
* October 8 – Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (b. 1916)
* October 8 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English peace activist (b. 1889)
* October 18 – Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
* October 18 – Pierre Mendès France, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
* October 18 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
* October 26 - Giovanni Benelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1921)

### November 
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* November 2 – Prakash Kaur, Indian singer (b. 1919)
* November 10 – Leonid Brezhnev, 4th President of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
* November 18 – A.K. Nazmul Karim, Bangladeshi sociologist (b. 1922)
* November 22 – Stanisław Ostrowski, President of Poland-in-exile (b. 1892)

### December 
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* December 8 – Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
* December 20 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist (b. 1887)
* December 23 – Jack Webb, American actor (b. 1920)

## Movies released 
* *48 Hrs.*
* *Annie*
* *The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas*
* *Blade Runner*
* *Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean*
* *Class of 1984*
* *Conan the Barbarian*
* *Das Boot*
* ''Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid*
* *Death Wish II*
* *E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*
* *Fanny and Alexander*
* *Fast Times at Ridgemont High*
* *First Blood*
* *Frances*
* *Friday the 13th, Part 3*
* *Gandhi*
* *Grease 2*
* *Halloween III: Season of the Witch*
* *Megaforce*
* *Missing*
* *My Favorite Year*
* *An Officer and a Gentleman*
* *Parasite*
* *Poltergeist*
* *Porky's*
* *Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip*
* *The Road Warrior*
* *Rocky III*, starring Sylvester Stallone
* *The Secret of NIMH*
* *Sophie's Choice*
* *Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan*
* *Time Stands Still*
* *Tootsie*
* *Tron*
* *The Verdict*
* *Veronika Voss*
* *Victor/Victoria*
* *The World According to Garp*
* *Yol''

## Hit songs 
* "867-5309 Jenny" – Tommy Tutone
* "Always On My Mind" – Willie Nelson
* "Believer" – Ozzy Osbourne
* "Body Language" – Queen
* "The Day Before You Came" – ABBA
* "Don't Talk To Strangers" – Rick Springfield
* "Electric Eye" – Judas Priest
* "Even the Nights are Better" – Air Supply
* "Eye In The Sky" – Alan Parsons Project
* "Flying High Again" – Ozzy Osbourne
* "Freeze Frame" – J. Geils Band
* "Gloria" – Laura Branigan
* "Gypsy" – Fleetwood Mac
* "Head Over Heels" – ABBA
* "Heart Attack" – Olivia Newton-John
* "Heat Of The Moment" – Asia
* "Hold Me" – Fleetwood Mac
* "Hungry Like The Wolf" – Duran Duran
* "Hurts So Good" – John Cougar
* "I'm Afraid of Me" – Culture Club
* "Invisible Sun" – The Police
* "Love Will Turn You Around" – Kenny Rogers
* "Make A Move On Me" – Olivia Newton-John
* "The Message" – Grandmaster Flash
* "Open Arms" – Journey
* "Our Lips Are Sealed" – The Go-Gos
* "Over The Mountain" – Ozzy Osbourne
* "Planet Rock" – Afrika Bambaataa
* "Pressure" – Billy Joel
* "Quiero Ser" – Menudo
* "Rock The Casbah" – The Clash
* "Rosanna" – Toto
* "Shake It Up" – The Cars
* "Since You're Gone" – The Cars
* "Spirits In The Material World" – The Police
* "Still They Ride" – Journey
* "Sube A Mi Motora" – Menudo
* "Time (Clock of the Heart)" – Culture Club
* "TV Party" – Black Flag
* "Twilight Zone" – Golden Earring
* "Vacation" – The Go-Gos
* "Valley Girl" – Frank Zappa
* "We Got The Beat" – The Go-Gos
* "White Boy" – Culture Club
* "You Can't Hurry Love" – Phil Collins
* "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" – Melissa Manchester
* "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" – Judas Priest

## New books 
## Nobel Prizes 
* Physics – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist
* Chemistry – Aaron Klug
* Physiology or Medicine – Sune K Bergström, Bengt I Samuelsson, John R Vane
* Literature – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist and journalist
* Peace – Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles
* Economics – George Stigler

## References