Deaths in 1982
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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=
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- 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){{cite news | title =Jiro Horikoshi, 78, Dies in Tokyo; Designer of Zero Fighter Aircraft | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/12/obituaries/jiro-horikoshi-78-dies-in-tokyo-designer-of-zero-fighter-aircraft.html
| work =The New York Times | date =January 12, 1982}}
- 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){{cite book|author=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Morricone, Ennio - Rich Kids|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NQ0KAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=MUZE|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|page=837}}
- 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){{cite book| first1= Bob| last1= Eagle| first2= Eric S.| last2= LeBlanc| year= 2013| title= Blues: A Regional Experience| publisher= Praeger | location= Santa Barbara, California| pages=294 | isbn= 978-0313344237}}
- 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){{cite web|url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/hilger-john-allen-jack|title=Hilger, John Allen|newspaper=Texas State Historical Association |access-date= January 25, 2024}}
- 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)[https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/People/Profiles/Sex-lies-and-spies-the-mystery-of-Marthe-Richard Sex, lies and spies: the mystery of Marthe Richard]
- February 11
- Eleanor Powell, American dancer and actress (b. 1912)
- Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905)Shimura Takashi // Encyclopedia of Japan (CD-ROM). — Kodansha Ltd, 1999. — {{ISBN|978-4062099370}}.
- February 12 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902)
- February 17
- Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917){{cite book|author=Rob van der Bliek|title=The Thelonious Monk Reader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=59q5NRQLcjgC&pg=PA236|date=22 February 2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-976147-0|pages=236}}
- 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){{cite book|author=Kathryne Slate McDorman|title=Ngaio Marsh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5A5bAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-6999-9|page=xiv}}
- 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=
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- March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928){{cite book|author1=Kenneth T. Jackson|author2=Karen Markoe|author3=Arnie Markoe|title=The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: 1981-1985|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N3URAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|isbn=978-0-684-80492-7|page=233}}
- March 3 – Georges Perec, French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. (b. 1936){{cite book|author=Paul Schwartz|title=Georges Perec: Traces of His Passage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oOh7uU6TcGYC&pg=PA3|year=1988|publisher=Summa Publications, Inc.|isbn=978-0-917786-60-0|pages=3}}
- March 5
- John Belushi, American comedian, actor and singer (b. 1949)
- Gertraud Winkelvoss, German politician (b. 1917){{Cite book |last=Schumacher |first=Martin |url=https://kgparl.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/mdb-a-z.pdf |title=Die Volksvertretung 1946–1972 |publisher=Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties |year=2006 |pages=1376 |language=de |trans-title=The People's Representation 1946-1972}}
- March 6 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born American author (b. 1905){{cite book|author=Judith Freeman Clark|title=Almanac of American Women in the 20th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ryMqAAAAYAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=978-0-13-022658-7|page=218}}
- March 8
- Rab Butler, British statesman (b. 1902)
- Hatem Ali Jamadar, Bengali politician (b. 1872){{cite news|url=http://www.mathbariaprotidin.com/জননন্দিত-খান-সাহেব-হাতেম|title=জননন্দিত খান সাহেব হাতেম আলী জমাদ্দার|work=Mathbaria Protidin|date=1 November 2017|access-date=12 December 2017}}
- March 18 – Vasily Chuikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union during WWII (b. 1900)[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasily-Chuikov Vasily Chuikov Soviet general]
- March 19 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne (b. 1956){{cite book|author1=Pete Prown|author2=Harvey P. Newquist|title=Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=60Jde3l7WNwC&pg=PA168|year=1997|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-0-7935-4042-6|pages=168–}}
- 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)[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Goodman-Ace Goodman Ace American writer]
- 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){{cite news |last=Rothstein|first=Edward|author-link=Edward Rothstein|date=31 March 1982 |title=Carl Orff, teacher and composer Of Carmina Burana, dead at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/31/obituaries/carl-orff-teacher-and-composer-of-carmina-burana-dead-at-86.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=13 February 2019}}
- 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)[https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/94921/Auphan-Gabriel-Adrien-Joseph-Paul.htm Auphan, Gabriel Adrien Joseph Paul]
- 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 13 – John P. Metras, American coach of Canadian football (b. 1909)
- 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){{cite book|title=The Annual Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekoYAAAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=St. Martin's|isbn=978-0-312-03877-9|page=201}}
- April 29
- Kassim Al-Rimawi, 52nd Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1918)
- Elmer Ripley, American basketball coach (b. 1891)
=May=
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- 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){{cite book|author=Robert Cohen|title=Understanding Peter Weiss|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWakat8UNmwC&pg=PA180|year=1993|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-87249-898-3|pages=180}}
- 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)[https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/content/techdigest/pdf/V03-N02/03-02-Memoriam.pdf IN MEMORIAM
MERLE ANTONY TUVE]
- 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=
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- June 2
- Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician, 5th President of Pakistan (b. 1904)
- Shah Abd al-Wahhab, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (b. 1894){{cite book|url=https://www.boibazar.com/book/kotipoy-ujjol-nokkhotro|title=দারুল উলুম হাটহাজারীর কতিপয় উজ্জ্বল নক্ষত্র|author=Babunagari, Junaid|chapter=মাওলানা শাহ আব্দুল ওহাব রহ.|year=2003|publisher=Bukhari Academy|location=Hathazari, Chittagong District|page=20|edition=1}}
- June 8 – Satchel Paige, American Negro league baseball player and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1906){{cite web |title=Satchel Paige {{!}} Biography, Height, Teams, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Satchel-Paige |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=21 May 2021 |language=en}}
- 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){{cite web |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-14344354.html|title=O du verhaßt-geliebtes Gift|date=21 June 1982 |publisher=spiegel.de |language=de}}
- 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){{cite news |title=H. Radclyffe Roberts Jr., 76, biologist |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |department=Obituaries |date=June 13, 1982 |page=8-C |volume=306 |issue=164 |id={{ProQuest|1843142915}}}}
- 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){{cite book|title=Review of Contemporary Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EC-xAAAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=John O'Brien|page=7}}
- John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1912){{cite book|author=Gale, Cengage Learning|title=A Study Guide for John Cheever's "Swimmer"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=59S8DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT6|publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-4103-5981-0|pages=6}}
- Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915){{cite news |title=Curt Jurgens, War Films' Star |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/19/obituaries/curt-jurgens-war-films-star.html |access-date=February 27, 2022 |work=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=June 18, 1982 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130621213632/http://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/19/obituaries/curt-jurgens-war-films-star.html |archive-date=2013-06-21}}
- 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)Mark Oliver Everett, Things the Grandchildren Should Know, {{ISBN|978-0-316-02787-8}}
- July 23
- Vic Morrow, American actor and director (b. 1929)
- Betty Parsons, American artist, art dealer and collector (b. 1900){{Cite web|url=http://www.anb.org/articles/17/17-01999.html|title=American National Biography Online: Parsons, Betty|website=anb.org|access-date=2017-10-18|archive-date=March 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322025247/http://www.anb.org/articles/17/17-01999.html|url-status=live}}
- 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=
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- 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){{cite book|title=Malayalam Literary Survey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ocu5AAAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Kerala Sahitya Akademi|page=18}}
- August 12
- Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905){{cite book|author1=Stephen Farber|author2=Marc Green|title=Hollywood Dynasties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ekaAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Delilah|isbn=978-0-88715-000-5|page=168}}
- 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
- Maurice Gallay, French footballer (b. 1902){{Cite web |title=Fédération Française de Football: Maurice Gallay |url=https://www.fff.fr/equipe-nationale/joueur/6715-gallay-maurice/fiche.html |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=www.fff.fr}}
- 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){{cite book|title=Film Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eggIAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=W.H. Allen|isbn=978-0-491-03012-0|page=114}}
- Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- August 25 – Anna German, Polish singer (b. 1936){{Cite web|url=https://hopetv.org/news/article/go/2013-05-27/going-where-the-people-are/|title=Going Where The People Are|last=Fowler-Kline|first=Fylvia|date=2013-05-27|website=Hope Channel|access-date=2020-09-25|archive-date=2021-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419223451/https://www.hopetv.org/news/article/go/2013-05-27/going-where-the-people-are/|url-status=dead}}
- 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)[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nahum-Goldmann Nahum Goldmann Israeli Zionist leader]
=September=
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- September 1
- Ludwig Bieberbach, German mathematician (b. 1886)
- Isabel Cristina, Brazilian student victim of femicide; honored in Catholicism as blessed (b. 1962){{cite web|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2022-12/pope-praises-heroic-example-blessed-isabel-cristina-mrad-campos.html|title=Pope praises heroic example of Blessed Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos|access-date=2023-08-31}}
- 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){{cite book|title=The Annual Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekoYAAAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=St. Martin's|isbn=978-0-312-03877-9|page=430}}
- 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){{cite book|author1=Kathleen Burner|author2=Sarah Wilson|author3=Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)|title=Paris: Capital of the Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FD84AQAAIAAJ|date=March 2002|publisher=Harry N. Abrams|isbn=978-0-8109-6639-0|page=433}}
- 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){{cite book|author=J. Paxton|title=The Statesman's Year-Book 1989-90|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h03ODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA869|date=28 December 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-27118-0|pages=869}}
- 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)[https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chitty/ Letitia Chitty]
=October=
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- 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){{Cite web|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/nellie-mae-rowe-1900-1982|title=Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982)|website=New Georgia Encyclopedia|access-date=2017-10-20|archive-date=October 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012231435/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/nellie-mae-rowe-1900-1982|url-status=live}}
- 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){{cite book|author=Koenraad Elst|title=The Saffron Swastika: The Notion of "Hindu Fascism"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bG7XAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Voice of India|isbn=978-81-85990-69-9}}
- 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=
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- 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){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=randall-sir-richard-john-dick-14287|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419090752/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/randall-sir-richard-john-dick-14287 |archive-date=April 19, 2013 |url-status=live|title=Sir Richard John (Dick) Randall (1906–1982)|first=Selwyn|last=Cornish|year=2012|volume=18}}
- Allen Woodring, American runner, Olympic champion (1920) (d. 1982)[https://www.svpanthers.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=542&ModuleInstanceID=4407&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=6607&PageID=3486 Hellertown's Olympic Gold Medalist]
- 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=
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- 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){{cite news | last = Pareles | first = Jon | date = 1982-12-10 | title = Marty Robbins, Singer, 57; Won a Grammy for 'El Paso' | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/10/obituaries/marty-robbins-singer-57-won-a-grammy-for-el-paso.html | newspaper = New York Times | location = New York, NY | access-date = October 12, 2016}}
- 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){{cite book|author=Gale Cengage|title=Modern French Poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsoUAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-5252-4|page=32}}
- 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)