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.

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 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 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. 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 – 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)
 * Erik Wilén, Finnish sprinter (b. 1898)
 * 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, 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 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)
 * 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 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 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 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)