1982
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Art and culture
Births
- January 18 - Joanna Newsom, American harpist/singer-songwriter
Deaths
- March 2 - Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)
- May 10 - Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)
- May 29 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (cardiac arrest) (b. 1938)
- June 6 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
- June 8 - Satchel Paige, baseball player (b. 1906)
- June 12 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
- June 13 - Riccardo Paletti, Italian Formula 1 driver (b. 1958)
- June 14 - Arthur Coles, Australian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1892)
- June 18 - Curt Jurgens, German actor (b. 1915)
July - December
- July 4 - Terry Higgins, early British casualty of AIDS
- July 23 - Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
- July 28 - Keith Green, American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1953)
- July 29 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor (b. 1889)
- August 12 - Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
- August 15 - Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
- August 18 - Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and main character/narrator of Maus (a graphic novel of his life during the Holocaust) (b. 1906)
- August 21 - King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, at the time the longest reigning living monarch (b. 1899)
- August 23 - Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
- September 2 - Tom Baker, American actor (b. 1940)
- September 11 - Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist (b. 1902)
- September 14 - Bashir Gemayel, President-elect of Lebanon
- September 14 - Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
- September 28 - Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
- October 4 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
- October 8 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889)
- October 10 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
- October 18 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
- October 18 - Dwain Esper, director (b. 1892)
- October 22 - Savitri Devi, French-born writer and philosopher (b. 1905)
- November 10 - Leonid Brezhnev, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
- November 15 - Vinoba Bhave, Indian educator (b. 1895)
- November 22 - Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (b. 1909)
- November 29 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
- December 7 - Will Lee, American actor who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street (b. 1908)
- December 8 - Marty Robbins, American singer (b. 1925)
- December 16 - Colin Chapman, British designer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry (b. 1928)
- December 20 - Artur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor (b. 1887)
- December 24 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)
- December 27 - John Swigert, American astronaut (b. 1931)
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