February 1982
1
- Eilert Bøhm, 81, Norwegian gymnast and Olympian [1]
- Joseph C. Burger, 79, United States Marine Corps officer and college athlete
- Ed Edelen, 69, American professional baseball player and physician [2]
- Rennos Frangoudis, 72, Greek sprinter [3]
- Amzie Moore, 70, American civil rights leader and entrepreneur [4]
- Ernests Mālers, 78, Latvian cyclist
- Raghunath Murmu, 76, Indian Santali writer and educator [5]
- John T. Power, 98, Irish hurler
- Erwin Vierow, 91, general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II
2
- Gemma Bosini, 91, Italian operatic soprano [6]
- Paul Desruisseaux, 76, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician [7]
- William F. Devin, 84, four-time mayor of Seattle [8]
- Paulino Frydman, 87, Polish chess master
- Karl Hanft, 77, Austrian actor
- Jaisukhlal Hathi, 73, Indian politician
- Otto Ites, 63, German naval officer
- Bruce Kekwick, 71, Australian politician [9]
- Roy Kemp, 86, Australian rules footballer [10]
- Tommy Mather, 73, British diver and Olympian [11]
- Jacque Mercer, 51, winner of the 1949 Miss America pageant [12]
- Harrold Sincock, 74, Australian cricketer [13]
- Belle S. Spafford, 86, ninth Relief Society General President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [14]
- Mohan Lal Sukhadia, 65, Indian politician
3
- Stringfellow Barr, 85, American historian, author, and former president of St. John's College [15]
- František Fišera, 81, Czech cross-country skier [16]
- Anton Hartman, 63, South African conductor [17]
- John A. Hilger, 73, American air force general and participant of the Doolittle Raid [18]
- Efraín Huerta, 67, Mexican poet and journalist [19]
- Adolfo Moreno Lajaña, 74, Chilean physician and politician
- Gábor Kornél Tolnai, 79, Hungarian-Swedish engineer and inventor
4
- Sue Carol, 75, American actress [20]
- Douglas Dodson, 60, American jockey who won the Eclipse Award [21]
- Alex Harvey, 46, Scottish musician [22]
- Moshe Menuhin, 88, Russian-born American Jewish writer and teacher of Hebrew [23]
- Konrad Morgen, 72, German SS Investigating Judge and Reich Police Official [24]
- Kathleen Scrymgour, 86, Australian hospital matron [25]
- Anne Gillespie Shaw, 77, Scottish engineer and businesswoman [26]
- Donald R. Smith, 55, American politician [27]
- M. Srikantha, 68, Ceylon Tamil civil servant [28]
- Marion Sims Wyeth, 92, American architect [29]
- Kenichi Yamamoto, 56, a Japanese yakuza boss who founded the Yamaken-gumi
5
- Neil Aggett, 28, South African labor leader (suicide) [30]
- Lindsay Beck, 81, Australian rules footballer [31]
- Tadeusz Bielecki, 81, Polish politician and writer [32]
- Riley Brett, 86, American racing driver
- George Crothers, 73, Irish cricketer [33]
- Carl Oscar Hovind, 80, Norwegian chess player and writer
- Connie Lloyd, 86, New Zealand artist who specialised in etching [34]
- Louis Marx, 85, American toy maker who founded Louis Marx and Company [35]
- Wies Moens, 84, Belgian literary historian and poet
- Dolores Moran, 56, American actress and model [36]
- Lea Piltti, 78, Finnish soprano [37]
- Klaus von Rautenfeld, 72, German cinematographer
- Niilo Tammisalo, 87, Finnish athlete [38]
6
- Kamruddin Ahmed, 69, Bangladeshi diplomat, lawyer and politician [39]
- Ioan Beldiceanu, 89, Romanian brigadier general during World War II [40]
- Gaspard Cyimana, 51, Rwandan statesman, industrialist, economist, and leader of independence who served as the 1st Minister of Finance of Rwanda
- Władysław Dziewulski, 83, Polish astronomer and mathematician [41]
- Ben Nicholson, 87, English painter [42]
- Frank Wilde, 70, British tennis and table tennis player
7
- Irena Białówna, 81, Polish politician, pediatrician, public health professional, and concentration camp survivor
- Thomas S. Boyland, 39, American politician from New York [43]
- John D. Caemmerer, 54, American politician from New York [44]
- Roy W. Chappell, 85, British World War I flying ace
- Al Culver, 73, American football player [45]
- Nicholas Fernicola, 78, American politician from New Jersey [46]
- John J. Gallagher, 77, American football and basketball player and coach [47]
- Swami Karpatri, 74, Indian Hindu religious leader
- Frank McGurk, 66, racing driver [48]
- John Metcalfe, 80, Australian librarian, educator and author [49]
- Joseph Reinhardt, 69, French jazz guitarist [50]
8
- Saïd Boualam, 75, Algerian-French politician and military officer
- Albert Bourcier, 80, Canadian politician [51]
- Kurt Edelhagen, 61, German big band leader [52]
- Edwin Fullinwider, 81, American sabre fencer [53]
- Werner Fürbringer, 93, German U-boat commander during World War I
- Johnny Jacobs, 65, American television announcer [54]
- Jack Jennings, 63, American basketball player [55]
- Mousa Khiabani, 34 or 35, Iranian dissident political leader [56]
- Henry Sturgis Morgan, 81, American banker [57]
- Cedric Morris, 92, British artist, art teacher and plantsman [58]
- Ashraf Rabiei, 29 or 30, Iranian guerrilla and member of the People's Mojahedin of Iran [59]
- Hermann Rauschning, 94, German politician and author [60]
- Willy Rumpf, 78, German communist politician and Finance Minister in the German Democratic Republic
- Eddie Turchin, 64, American professional baseball infielder [61]
- Jovan Veselinov, 76, Serbian communist politician [62]
- Lauri Virtanen, 77, Finnish long-distance runner [63]
- John Hay Whitney, 77, American venture capitalist, sportsman, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, film producer and diplomat [64]
- Henry Drummond Wolff, 82, Basingstoke MP
9
- Ivan Banov, 65, Soviet military intelligence officer and partisan movement leader in World War II [65]
- Mary Eily de Putron, 67, Irish and Guernsey stained glass artist and archaeologist [66]
- Gustav Joseph Mattli, 77, Swiss-born and London-based fashion designer [67]
- Marko Mesić, 80, Croatian soldier
- Marthe Richard, 92, French prostitute, spy and politician [68]
10
- Martin Crosbie, 70, Irish tenor
- Helen Dukas, 85, biographer of Albert Einstein who was also his secretary and archivist [69]
- Françoise Henry, 79, French scholar of early Irish art, archaeologist, and art historian [70]
- Katherine F. Lenroot, 90, American feminist and child welfare advocate, was the third Chief of the United States Children's Bureau [71]
- Khershed Meherhomji, 70, Indian cricketer [72]
- Michel Penha, 93, Dutch-born American cellist [73]
- Margrit Rainer, 68, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actress
- Edwin Reyno, 64, Royal Canadian Air Force air marshal [74]
- Willy Riedel, 72, German Army officer of World War II [75]
- Paul Samson, 76, thoracic and cardiac surgeon, medical school educator, and swimmer who competed in the Olympics [76]
- Everett W. Stewart, 66, American flying ace of World War II [77]
11
- Allan Crabb, 58, Australian rules footballer
- Albert Facey, 87, Australian writer [78]
- Annan Knudsen, 94, Norwegian sailor and rower [79]
- Joel Laikka, 75, Finnish writer [80]
- Erich Maschke, 81, German historian, history professor, and Nazi ideologue [81]
- Eleanor Powell, 69, American dancer and actress [82]
- Bennet Puryear Jr., 98, officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of major general [83]
- Takashi Shimura, 76, Japanese actor [84]
- Alfred Spinks, 64, British chemist and biologist [85]
12
- Dale Alderson, 63, baseball player [86]
- V. T. Bhattathiripad, 85, Indian social reformer, dramatist and an Indian independence activist
- Geoffrey Bullough, 81, English literary scholar [87]
- Elliot Carpenter, 87, American pianist, composer, arranger and writer [88]
- Buck Grant, 87, Canadian ice hockey player
- Hal Hooker, 83, Australian first class cricketer [89]
- Denis Jordan, 67, Anglo-Australian chemist and researcher [90]
- Victor Jory, 79, Canadian-American actor [91]
- Philip Livingston, 88, British physician and RAF officer [92]
- Margaret Una Poché, 69 or 70, American educator and academic administrator [93]
- Nikolai Trufanov, 81, Soviet Colonel General who fought in World War II
- Walter Wardle, 81, Archdeacon of Gloucester [94]
13
- Marguerite Duparc, 48, Canadian film producer and editor [95]
- Chiemi Eri, 45, Japanese singer and actress
- Zeng Jinlian, 17, Chinese girl who was at one time the tallest female on earth. [96]
- Aleksandr Kasyanov, 90, composer and conductor [97]
- Miriam Mandel, 51, Canadian poet [98]
- James Miller, 37, American Roman Catholic missionary and martyr [99]
- Giovanni Palmieri, 75, Italian tennis player
- J. Fred Scott, 89, Canadian military officer [100]
- Paul Wahl, 75, German weightlifter [101]
14
- Gabriel Arout, 73, Russian-born French writer
- Antonio Casas, 70, Spanish footballer and actor [102]
- Armand Cloutier, 80, Canadian politician [103]
- Tommy Jackson, 50, American professional boxer [104]
- Myra Smith Kearse, 82, American physician and community leader in New Jersey [105]
- Thomas P. Kelley, 77, Canadian writer [106]
- Marian Elizabeth Ridgeway, 68, American political scientist and academic [107] [108]
- Emma Toft, 91, American conservationist [109]
- W. Lee Wilder, 77, Austrian-American screenwriter, film producer and director [110]
- Rudolf Wöber, 70, Austrian long-distance runner [111]
15
- Noah Dietrich, 92, American businessman, who was the chief executive officer of the Howard Hughes business empire from 1925 to 1957 [112]
- Kurt Enoch, 86, German-born publisher who co-founded Albatross Books in Germany and Penguin Books Inc. and New American Library in the United States [113]
- Charles Grove, 69, English first-class cricketer [114]
- Kenneth Helfrich, 54, South African cricketer [115]
- Hamilton Mack Laing, 99, Canadian naturalist, writer, ornithologist, artist, photographer, taxidermist and hunter [116]
- Paul H. Ramsey, 77, American naval officer [117]
- Ralph Teetor, 91, American who invented cruise control [118]
- Waldemar Verner, 67, chief of the People's Navy (Volksmarine) of the National People's Army
- Arthur Gillespie Wilson, 81, Australian Army officer
16
- Märta Blomstedt, 82, architect who was one of the driving forces of the Finnish functionalism movement [119]
- Muhammad Enamul Haq, 79, Bangladeshi researcher, litterateur and educationist [120]
- Jack Kiley, 53, American professional basketball player [121]
- Christopher Masterman, 92, British civil servant and bureaucrat [122]
- Nicholas Roosevelt, 88, American diplomat and journalist [123]
- George Tanner, 67, Australian rules footballer [124]
- Ronald Tinker, 68, New Zealand musterer, military leader, scientific administrator and sales agent [125]
- Vivion de Valera, 71, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, businessman and lawyer [126]
- Nathan Witt, 79, American lawyer who served as the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board [127]
- Andrej Žarnov, 76, Slovak Catholic modernist writer and physician
17
- Jean Bolikango, 73, Congolese educator, writer, and politician [128]
- Peter Cazalet, 82, Royal Navy officer [129]
- Nestor Chylak, 59, American umpire in Major League Baseball [130]
- Patrick A. Gleason, 47, Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives [131]
- Thelonious Monk, 64, American jazz pianist [132]
- Lee Strasberg, 80, Polish-American actor and acting coach, co-founder of method acting [133]
- Heinrich Weidemann, 83, German art director
18
- Tina Carver, 58, American actress [134]
- John Willie Kofi Harlley, 62, Vice Chairman of the National Liberation Council and the first Inspector General of Police in Ghana
- Dame Ngaio Marsh, 86, New Zealand crime fiction writer [135]
- Anthony Mirra, 54, American mobster [136]
- J. M. Robson, Belgian born British geneticist
- Nathaniel Shilkret, 92, American musician, composer, conductor and musical director [137]
19
- Arthur Akre, 75, American politician from South Dakota [138]
- Ernest Falck, 74, English cricketer [139]
- Celesta Geyer, 80, American circus performer who worked as a fat lady known as Dolly Dimples [140]
- Alexander Gillies, 90, New Zealand orthopaedic surgeon [141]
- Alberto Ezcurra Medrano, 72, Argentine historian and activist
- Dame Margery Perham, 86, English Africanist [142]
- Jaakko Vuorinen, 58, Finnish fencer and Olympian [143]
20
- Carl Björnstjerna, 95, Swedish equestrian, Olympian, and military officer [144] [145]
- Jim Bradley, 29, American basketball player [146]
- René Dubos, 81, French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction [147]
- Frances Grant, 73, American actress and dancer [148]
- Helen Ruth Henderson, 83, American educator and politician from Virginia [149]
- Alfhild Hovdan, 77, Norwegian journalist and tourist manager for the city of Oslo [150]
- Derek Jackson, 75, British physicist [151]
- Sholom Katz, 67, Jewish cantor and rabbi [152]
- Isobel Wylie Hutchison, 92, Scottish Arctic traveller, filmmaker and botanist [153]
21
- Alfred Bateson, 80, English international rugby union player [154]
- Tom Gentry, 66, American attorney and politician from Arkansas [155]
- Murray the K, 60, New York City rock and roll impresario and disc jockey [156]
- Robert Lowe Kunzig, 63, American attorney, HUAC counsel, and judge of the United States Court of Claims [157]
- W. E. Shewell-Cooper, 81, British organic gardener and pioneer of no-dig gardening [158]
- Gershom Scholem, 84, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian [159]
- Ella V. Aldrich Schwing, 79, American librarian, professor, and pioneer of library user instruction [160]
- Ray Shearer, 52, American professional baseball player [161]
22
- Bill Armstrong, 72, Australian politician
- Bill Bain, 52, Australian television and film director [162]
- Annie Barnes, 95, British-Italian socialist and suffragist [163]
- John Carter, 74, American sound engineer who won an Academy Award
- Shelby A. Laxson, 69, American politician from Alabama [164]
- Josh Malihabadi, 83, Indian born Pakistani Urdu poet [165]
- Elden Rowland, 66, American painter [166]
- Clare H. Timberlake, 74, American diplomat and career Foreign Service Officer [167]
23
- Robert Beauvais, 70, French writer and journalist
- Herb Cain, Canadian professional ice hockey left winger [168]
- Zdzisław Karos, Polish police officer [169]
- Elisabeth Kyle, 81, Scottish journalist and writer of novels, children's books and travel literature [170]
24
- Virginia Bruce, 71, American actress [171]
- Keith Henderson, 98, Scottish painter [172]
- Lai Jifa, 71, Chinese politician
- Alma Lawton, 60, Argentine-born American actress
- Reb Spikes, 93, American jazz saxophonist and entrepreneur [173]
- Oscar S. Stauffer, 95, founder of Stauffer Communications [174]
- Lucien Tronchet, 79, Swiss anarcho-syndicalist activist [175]
25
- Mukhtar Begum, 80, Pakistani classical singer, composer, ghazal singer, dancer and actress [176]
- Yuen Ren Chao, 89, Chinese-American linguist, educator, scholar, poet, and composer [177]
- Ilse Fehling, 85, German costume designer [178]
- Donald Hayworth, 84, American politician from Michigan [179]
- Jenni Irani, 58, Indian cricketer [180]
- Antoine Lox, 81, Belgian racing cyclist [181]
- Hans-Joachim von Merkatz, 76, German politician [182]
- Alan Rayson, 57, Australian rules footballer [183]
- Jerry Sadler, 74, American politician from Texas [184]
- Christian Schad, 87, German painter and photographer [185]
- Piyasena Tennakoon, 64, Ceylonese lawyer and politician
- Robert Davidson Woodward, 72, American politician [186]
26
- Syed Ali Akhtar, 67, Pakistani military officer
- Phyllis Reid Fenner, 82, American librarian, writer, anthologist, and storyteller [187]
- Anders Jahre, 90, Norwegian shipping magnate and philanthropist [188]
- Teinosuke Kinugasa, 86, Japanese actor and film maker [189]
- Francisco Martínez Soria, 79, Spanish actor [190]
- Gábor Szabó, 45, Hungarian-American guitarist [191]
- Bill Miller, 71, American right-handed pitcher [192]
- Charles Sesher, 79, American college football coach [193]
- Andrey Smirnov, 76, Soviet career diplomat
- Reina Torres de Araúz, 49, Panamanian anthropologist, ethnographer and professor [194]
27
- Ronald Bell, 67, British barrister and MP [195]
- Maria Kownacka, 87, Polish writer, translator and editor, specializing in children's literature [196]
- Malika Sobirova, 39, Soviet and Tajik ballet dancer and dance teacher [197]
- Goh Soon Tioe, 70, Singaporean violinist [198]
28
- Raghunath Singh Bahadur, 52, Maharawal of Jaisalmer [199]
- Clyde Fenton, 80, Australian emergency physician [200]
- Ellis Morningstar, 80, Canadian politician [201]
- Rollin G. Osterweis, 74, American historian [202]
- Roy Sherid, 75, American professional baseball pitcher [203]
- Alan Skinner, 68, English cricketer [204]
- Shemuel Yeivin, 85, Israeli archaeologist and the first director of the Israel Antiquities Authority [205]
- Nathan A. Zepell, 67, Latvian-born American Jewish inventor and Holocaust survivor [206]
