1982

1982 (MCMLXXXII) was .
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.
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.
Births
February 14 - Marian Gaborik, 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
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
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
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
April 15 - Riccardo Billi, Italian actor (b. 1906)
April 24 - Ville Ritola, Finnish long-distance runner (b. 1896)
May
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
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 Jurgens, German actor (b. 1915)
July
July 4 - Antonio Guzman Fernandez, 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
August 12 - Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
August 12 - Tomas 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
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
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 Mendes 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
November 10 - Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretaries of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
November 18 - A.K. Nazmul Karim, Bangladeshi sociologist (b. 1922)
November 22 - Stanislaw Ostrowski, President of Poland-in-exile (b. 1892)
December
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
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Nobel Prizes
Physics - Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist
Chemistry - Aaron Klug
Physiology or Medicine - Sune K Bergstrom, Bengt I Samuelsson, John R Vane
Literature - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian novelist and journalist
Peace - Alva Myrdal and Alfonso Garcia Robles
Economics - George Stigler
References