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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

April 1982

1

Gobind Behari Lal

• Stephen Chase, 79, American actor ^[1]
• Col Cottrell, 40, British speedway rider ^[2]
• Xu Fuguan, 78, Chinese historian and philosopher
• Gobind Behari Lal, 92, Indian-American journalist and independence activist. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1937. ^[3]
• Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi, 70, Sindhi historian and scholar
• Ann Richards, 46, American pop and jazz singer ^[4]

2

• Hannes de Boer
• Fritz Breidster
• Sam Coslow, 79, American songwriter, singer, film producer, publisher, and market analyst ^[5] , he won the won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his production Heavenly Music , ^[6] , he founded the publishing company Investor's Press, which published investing books and the newsletter "Indicator Digest." ^[7]
• Ruth Gikow
• Éva Kun
• Murari Sharma
• Max de Vaucorbeil

3

Ray Boord

• Ryszard Bartel
• Andrew Biemiller
• Ray Boord
• Albert Fitzgerald
• Moustafa Hamid Mansour
• Warren Oates, 53, American actor known for collaborating with Peter Fonda and for his performances in the works of Sam Peckinpah and Monte Hellman. ^{[8] [9]} Cause of death was a heart attack ^[10]
• Stephanie Roper
• Alfred G. Ward

4

Sona Valikhan

• Eli Chism
• George Him
• Vince McGowan
• E. J. H. Nash
• Mel Queen
• Jabbor Rasulov
• Sona Valikhan

5

Bella Bruck

• Basil Banghart
• Bella Bruck
• Dick Colman
• Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)
• Adri Pieck
• Alexander Spearman

6

Gabriel Auphan

Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay

• Gabriel Auphan, French admiral and politician (b. 1894) ^[11]
• Pat Beasley
• Elsa Björkman-Goldschmidt
• Jonas Brunvoll Jr.
• David George Findlay
• Harold Stonebridge Fischer
• Horrie Garrick
• Alberto Guerreiro Ramos
• Al Hoxie
• Erhard Kietz
• Don Lockhart
• Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay
• Robert Marchand
• A. M. B. Rose
• Pavel Rotmistrov
• Frank Rule
• Harold W. Stoke
• Göran Unger
• Bobby E. Wright

7

Harald Ertl

• Brenda Benet, 36, American actress known for her roles in the soap operas The Young Marrieds ^[12] and Days of Our Lives , suicide by self-inflicted gunshot. ^{[13] [14] [15]}
• Harald Ertl
• Charles "Sparky" Kawamoto
• Stig Lindberg
• Luigi Luisoni
• Mathew Tobriner
• María Flora Yáñez

8

Tano Jōdai

• Jay Arnold
• Alonzo Boone
• Bea Feitler
• Tano Jōdai
• Edmund Roman Orlik
• Katherine Rawls
• Peter Ryan
• Burt Shevelove, 66, American expatriate playwright, lyricist, librettist, and director, primarily associated with musical theater ^[16]
• Theodore Wertime
• James Whitney, 60, American filmmaker, an influential creator in abstract film and visual music ^[17]

9

Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones

• Francisco Barrios
• Bruno Beater
• Tom Dresser
• Kirill Florensky
• Turan Güneş
• Robert Havemann, chemist and East German dissident (b. 1910)
• Maximilian Herzberger
• Hank Hulvey
• Choe Hyon
• Luis Isamat
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones
• Jussi Jurkka, 51, Finnish actor, he had roles in 32 films and one sketch comedy television series, ^[18] throat cancer ^[19]
• Tine Mulej
• Richard W. O'Neill
• Horace Seely-Brown Jr.
• Jack Walker

10

Vladimir Janjgava

• James Hutchinson Davidson
• Vic Hanson
• LeRoy Heston
• Choe Hyon
• Vladimir Janjgava
• Edward Rowe Snow
• Cornelis van Staveren

11

Janet Aitken

• Janet Aitken
• Joe Campbell
• Albert Künzler
• Louis M. Lyons
• Dan Minor
• Barbara Strang
• Margaret Valiant
• John Veneman

12

Sofya Giatsintova

• Lenny Baker, 37, American actor, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in the stage musical I Love My Wife , ^{[20] [21]} medullary thyroid cancer ^{[22] [23]}
• Sofya Giatsintova
• Tony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood of Rossendale
• Vitaly Goryaev, Soviet artist (b. 1910)
• Thomas T. Handy
• Jim McCarthy
• Sigurður Sigurðsson
• Maurice Ville
• Doc Williams

13

B. P. Mandal

• Mary de Bunsen
• Daciano Colbachini
• John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange
• Sam Glankoff, 87, American Abstract Expressionist and woodcut artist, ^{[24] [25]} he created woodcut and pen and ink illustrations for St. Nicholas Magazine , Scribners , The New Yorker , Family Circle Magazine and for his brother's CUE Magazine , and he served as the head artist for the educational comic book series True Comics in the 1940s, ^[26] he designed stuffed toys for the company Impulse Items, and he designed and hand-fabricated the first, three-dimensional versions of Babar the Elephant and Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat for that company. ^[26]
• Ray Knode
• B. P. Mandal
• William J. McNevin
• John P. Metras, American coach of Canadian football (b. 1909)
• Willie Morris
• Herbert Niiler
• Georges Villiers

14

Valerie Boothby

• Valerie Boothby
• M. Chave Collisson
• Kermit Dial
• Carl Ludwig Kirmse
• Devidutt Pant
• Carlota Pereira de Queirós
• Adrien Stoutenburg
• Cal Thomas
• John Turner

15

Charlie Siragusa

• Khalid Al-Islambuli
• Riccardo Billi
• Mud Bruneteau
• Tung Chao-yung
• Ted Drews
• Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj
• Louis de Guiringaud
• Irene Krugman
• Dmytro Lazorko
• Arthur Lowe, 66, English actor, primarily known for portraying the lay preacher Leonard Swindley in the soap opera Coronation Street ^[27] and Captain Mainwaring in the military-themed British sitcom Dad's Army , ^{[28] [29]} stroke-related death ^{[30] [31]}
• Charlie Siragusa
• Marion Elizabeth Stark

16

Pierre Clémenti

• Anatoly Alexandrov
• Pierre Clémenti
• Hermann Diebäcker
• Ted Greene
• Vlado Smokvina
• Gordon Watt
• Eddie Wilson
• Adnan Yurdaer

17

Cornelio Balmaceda

• Cornelio Balmaceda
• Rachel Morton Harris
• Archibald B. Hill
• Bridget Monckton, 11th Lady Ruthven of Freeland
• Timothy Rourke

18

• Gaylord Harnwell
• Ramai Kaka
• Hiroshi Ohguri

19

Luis Rodríguez de Miguel

• Erwin Casmir
• Alfred Eisenack
• Leon Haas
• Luis Rodríguez de Miguel
• John H. H. Phipps
• Gerry Roxas
• John States Seybold
• Vera Vinogradova

20

Reed Edwin Peggram

• Álvaro dos Santos Filho
• Mary J. Hornaday
• Harry Kristensen
• Archibald MacLeish, American poet (b. 1892)
• Franco Marquicias
• Giulio Palmonella
• Reed Edwin Peggram
• Roland L. Redmond
• Andy Sandham
• Fritz Zeuner

21

María Luisa Pacheco

• Francisco Vial Freire
• Lawrence Leo Graner
• Dimitrije Konjović
• Jim Mathieson
• Alieu Badara Njie
• María Luisa Pacheco
• Joe Sawyer, 75, Canadian actor, he portrayed Sergeant Biff O'Hara in the The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin , ^[32] liver cancer ^[33]
• Ann Williams

22

Melville Bell Grosvenor

• John Gibbs
• Melville Bell Grosvenor
• Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony
• Ernest Charles Hoy
• Fred Williams
• Jay Velie

23

Michael P. Walsh

• Sallie Curb Arnold
• Art Kahler
• Don Karnes
• Samad Samadianpour
• William Cameron Townsend
• Michael P. Walsh
• Robert White

24

Ville Ritola

• Will Anderson
• José Aravena
• John M. Ashbrook
• Awalmir
• Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
• Alexey Ekimyan
• Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen
• Konstantinos Kazanas
• Alistair MacLeod
• Ville Ritola, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1896)
• Buster Ross
• Hassan Tariq
• Zeno Żebrowski

25

Boris Andreyev

• Boris Andreyev, 67, Soviet and Russian actor, he won two State Stalin Prizes for his roles in Ballad of Siberia (1946) and The Fall of Berlin (1950) ^[34]
• W. R. Burnett, 82, American novelist and screenwriter ^{[35] [36]} , his novel Little Caesar received a 1931 film adaptation which was influential in developing the genre of gangster films, establishing many of the genre's themes and conventions ^[37]
• John Cody
• Garrie Cooper
• Norman Cross
• Ted Cusack
• Stephen Radcliffe
• Don Wilson, 81, American announcer and actor in radio and television, known for his resonant voice, deep belly laugh, and Falstaffian persona, he served as both the announcer of The Jack Benny Program and as a comic foil for Jack Benny, ^[38] stroke ^[39]

26

Mübeccel Argun

• Mübeccel Argun
• Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
• Scotty Bierce
• Héctor Clavel
• Beryl Drummond
• Okamura Fuku
• Harry W. Frantz
• Chaim Grade
• Judson Linsley Gressitt
• Bernie Guthrie
• Ernie Hubka
• Celia Johnson, 73, English actress, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), ^[40] she suffered a stroke during a game of bridge and died a few hours later ^{[41] [42]}
• Mike Kelly
• Gordon Lyle
• Louise Overacker
• Paton Price

27

Ze'ev Katz

Ingeborg Steffens

• Goldie Collins
• Somasiri Dehipitiya
• John Gordon Doubleday
• George Dunn
• Frederick Edwards
• Harlan D. Fowler
• Truck Hannah
• Johannes Hentschel
• Ze'ev Katz
• Skënder Luarasi
• Juan Castañón de Mena
• Julian Murfett
• Camille Nickerson
• Lewis Smith Parks
• Joe Sanderson
• Frances Slater
• Ingeborg Steffens
• Tom Tully, 73, American actor and reporter for the Denver Post , ^[43] he played the role of the police inspector Matt Grebb on the police drama The Lineup from 1954 until 1960, ^[44] cancer ^{[45] [46]}

28

He Siyuan

• Nobby Clark
• J. Wilmer Cronin
• Richard Gogan
• Russell Inglis
• Murray McEachern
• Joe Moore
• Royal Freeman Nash
• Ray Reckmack
• He Siyuan
• Hilda Wiseman

29

Elmer Ripley

• Kassim Al-Rimawi, 52nd Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1918)
• Raymond Bussières
• Orby L. Cantrell
• Cavit Cav
• Jerry Daniels
• Hans Jenisch
• Elmer Ripley, American basketball coach (b. 1891)
• Kassim Rimawi
• Herman G. Steiner
• Enrique Alvear Urrutia

30

Mohsen Vezvaei

• Lester Bangs, 33, American music journalist, critic, and performing musician, ^{[47] [48]} death by accidental overdose. Bangs suffered from a severe case of influenza and attempted to self-medicate, resulting in his death by an overdose of dextropropoxyphene (an opioid analgesic), diazepam (a benzodiazepine), and NyQuil. ^{[49] [50]}
• Carlo Crespi Croci
• Taisen Deshimaru
• Leo Dickerman
• Ingemar Hedenius
• Abdul Gayoom Ibrahim
• Jack Jenkins
• Clara McMillen
• Pio La Torre
• Jack Wegner
• Vernon Willey, 2nd Baron Barnby
• Mohsen Vezvaei

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3. Associated Press (April 2, 1982). "Prize-Winning Science Writer Dies of Cancer". The Press Democrat . p. 19A.
4. Gavin, James (September 20, 2017). "Ann Richards: Dreams Have a Way of Fading". JazzTimes . Archived from the original on August 18, 2022.
5. Lawson, Carol (April 6, 1982). "Sam Coslow, 79, Songwriter". The New York Times . New York City . Retrieved December 28, 2021.
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Sources

• Lord, Graham (2002). Arthur Lowe. London: Orion. ISBN   0-75284-229-3.
• Lowe, Stephen (1997). Arthur Lowe: Dad's Memory. London: Virgin. ISBN   0753501708.

External links

• List of April 1982 deaths at IMDb