January 1982
1
- Paul Belmondo, 83, French sculptor [1]
- Estella Blain, 51, French actress [2]
- Victor Buono, 43, American actor [3]
- John Fanning, 78, Irish politician
- Albert Earl Godfrey, 91, Canadian flying ace
- Margot Grahame, 70, English actress [4]
- Eli Ilan, 54, Israeli sculptor [5]
- Frano Kršinić, 84, Croatian sculptor [6]
- Jack Macdonald, 74, New Zealand sportsman [7]
- Charles Malpas, 82, Australian inventor and businessman [8]
- Kálmán Marvalits, 80, Hungarian athlete and Olympian [9]
- Gillis le Fèvre de Montigny, 80, Dutch military officer
- Gustav Niemann, 82, German mechanical engineer [10]
- Ruth Vollmer, 80, German conceptual artist [11]
2
- Johan Barendregt, 57, Dutch psychologist and chess International Master
- David Abraham Cheulkar, 73, Indian actor [12]
- Victor Fontan, 89, French cyclist [13]
- Tam Galbraith, 64, Scottish Unionist politician [14]
- Monte Hale, 42, American sportscaster [15]
- Fred Harman, 79, American cartoonist [16]
- Antoni Knot, Polish scholar, historian, librarian and teacher [17]
- Ivana Lang, 69, Croatian composer, pianist and piano teacher
- Jill McDonald, 54, New-Zealand-born children's writer and illustrator [18]
- Leo Stern, 80, Austrian-German left-wing political activist [19]
- David Záizar, 53, Mexican mariachi singer and actor
3
- Heidi Blomstedt, 70, Finnish designer
- Arthur Graham Brown, 62, Australian medical doctor and amateur ornithologist [20]
- Pat Cameron, 86, Canadian politician
- Erwin Canham, 77, American journalist [21]
- Hermann Czirniok, 78, German politician
- Finis Farr, 77, American writer and biographer [22]
- Grigory Sarkisovich Grigoryants, 62, Soviet surgeon
- Inger Haldorsen, 86, Norwegian physician, midwife and politician [23]
- Elmer George Homrighausen, 81, American theologian [24]
- Mohamed Jamoussi, 71, Tunisian singer, composer, and poet [25]
- Hugo Klaerner, 73, American baseball pitcher [26]
- Étienne Onimus, 75, French basketball player
- Derek Sealy, 69, West Indian cricketer [27]
- Kenny Starke, 81, South African international rugby union player
- Wilfred Wood, 84, British soldier awarded the Victoria Cross
4
- Margaret Culkin Banning, 90, American writer [28]
- Wykeham Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis, 89, British peer, cavalry officer and amateur cricketer [29]
- Eunice Renshaw Geiger, 90, American First Lady of Guam [30]
- Ray Hanson, 86, American military officer and college sports coach and administrator [31]
- Trygve Hoff, 86, Norwegian businessman, writer and editor
- Gorilla Jones, 75, American boxer [32]
- Gordon F. Marsh, 73, American politician [33]
- Kathryn Scola, 90, American screenwriter [34]
- Elmer Sopha, 57, Canadian politician [35]
- Francisco Valdés Subercaseaux, 73, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate
5
- Elizabeth Bagshaw, 100, Canadian physician [36]
- Neal Baker, 77, American baseball player [37]
- Gilbert Betts, 65, English cricketer
- Hans Conried, 64, American actor [38]
- Lilian Constantini, 79, French actress [39]
- Edmund Herring, 89, senior Australian Army officer during the WWII [40]
- Harvey Lembeck, 58, American actor [41]
- Gustave Roy, 74, Canadian politician
- Thomas Stang, 84, Norwegian forester and businessperson [42]
6
- Katherine Bacon, 85, English classical pianist [43]
- John Bradley, 93, Royal Air Force officer
- Kurt Ettinger, 80, Austrian fencer
- Harry Mews, 84, Canadian politician
- Wally Post, 52, American baseball player [44]
- Shang Yue, 80, Chinese Marxist economic historian, author and professor [45]
7
- Chet Falk, 76, American baseball player [46]
- Almond E. Fisher, 68, United States Army officer [47]
- Kay Hammond, 80, American actress [48]
- Jan Gałązka, 36, Polish boxer
- Vilhelm Lund, 81, Norwegian actor
- Al Murray, 75, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Max Opitz, 91, German politician
- Lady Pamela Smith, 67, English socialite [49]
- Frank Van der Veer, 60, Academy Award winning American optical and visual special effects artist [50]
8
- Grégoire Aslan, 73, Armenian actor [51]
- Feliza Bursztyn, 48, Colombian sculptor [52]
- Daan de Groot, 48, Dutch track cyclist and Olympian
- Tony Méndez, 79, Puerto Rican politician [53]
- Hugh Porter, 70, English cricketer
- Reta Shaw, 69, American actress [54]
- Lucille Lee Stewart, 92, American actress [55]
- Irwin St. John Tucker, 95, American priest of the Episcopal Church and socialist activist [56]
9
- Nurullah Berk, 75, Turkish painter, writer and academic [57]
- Howard L. Chace, 84, American linguist [58]
- Douglas Cox, 62, Australian cricketer
- Francis W. Kelly, 71, American Catholic priest [59]
- Les Laver, 81, Australian rules footballer
- Vido Musso, 68, American jazz saxophonist [60]
- Sid Robinson, 79, American middle-distance runner, Olympian, and researcher [61]
- Clarence Smith, 79, South African cricketer [62]
10
- Romeo Roy Blanchette, 69, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church [63]
- Raymond Broshears, 46, gay Pentecostal Evangelist preacher and activist [64]
- Edward Colville, 76, British Army officer [65]
- Mohammed Helmy, 80, Egyptian-German physician
- Ignacia Jasso, Mexican drug dealer (b. 1901)
- Paul Lynde, 55, American comedian, actor and game show panelist [66]
- Stan Long, 52, Canadian ice hockey player
- Charles Melis, 88, Belgian long-distance runner [67]
- Ben Starret, 64, American football player
- Lazar Weiner, 84, Imperial Russian-born, American-naturalized composer [68]
11
- Bruno Diekmann, 84, German politician
- Peroslav Ferković, 78, Croatian athlete [69]
- Matsumoto Hakuō I, 71, Japanese kabuki actor
- A. W. Haydon, 75, American inventor
- Jiro Horikoshi, 78, Japanese aircraft designer [70]
- Ronald Lewis, 53, Welsh actor [71]
- Madeline Montalban, 72, English astrologer and ceremonial magician [72]
- Kenneth Strong, 81, senior officer of the British Army [73]
- Manya Surve, 37, Indian gangster
- Ivor Owen Thomas, 83, British trade unionist and Labour Party politician [74]
- Carl M. Voyles, 83, American gridiron football coach, college athletics administrator, and sports executive [75]
- Larry Walbridge, 84, American professional football center [76]
- Leslie Arthur Wilcox, 77, English artist
- Ben T. Williams, 70, Oklahoma Supreme Court justice [77]
12
- Jyotirmoy Basu, 61, Indian politician
- Joseph Charles Bequaert, 95, Belgian-born American naturalist [78]
- Harold W. Chase, 59, American professor of political science and major general in the United States Marine Corps Reserve [79]
- Emil Hass Christensen, 78, Danish actor [80]
- Curtis Henderson, 70, American baseball player [81]
- William Hendriksen, 81, Dutch-born American theologian and minister [82]
- Rainer Hinteregger, 37, Austrian rower [83]
- Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa, 73, Sotho composer
- Frank Crowther Roberts, 90, British Army officer [84]
13
- Jules Bender, 67, American collegiate and professional basketball player [85]
- Pete Bostwick, 72, American court tennis player, a steeplechase jockey and horse trainer [86]
- Jack Bray, 66, Australian rules footballer [87]
- Cliff Butler, 58, American musician [88]
- Marcel Camus, 69, French film director [89]
- Harvey Clifford, 55, Canadian alpine skier [90]
- Franklin Hansen, 84, American sound engineer and Academy Award winner
- Sigurd F. Olson, 82, American writer and environmentalist [91]
- Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya, 93, Telugu writer
14
- Ernst Dubach, 100, Swiss racing cyclist [92]
- Juan José Espinosa San Martín, 63, Spain's Minister of Finance [93] [94]
- Jesse Hubbard, 86, American baseball player [95]
- John Pennycuick, 82, English barrister and judge [96]
- Hsu Shu-hsi, 89, Chinese diplomat [97]
- Verners Vitands, 78, Latvian architect [98]
- Justin Wijayawardhene, 77, Sri Lankan politician, teacher, and author
- George Wood, 83, British Army officer [99]
15
- Stewart Barrett, 80, Irish water polo player [100]
- Wally Bishop, 77, American cartoonist [101]
- Billy Collins, 72, Australian footballer [102]
- Douglas Glover, 73, British politician and military officer [103]
- Arthur Verney Hammond, 89, British Indian Army officer [104]
- Seymour Hess, 61, American meteorologist and planetary scientist [105]
- John Jarman, 66, American politician from Oklahoma [106]
- Clyde Lucas, 80, American big-band leader and golf pro [107]
- Robert Lynn, 63, British film and TV director
- John Calvin Moore, 81, American college football coach, teacher, court clerk, and television host [108]
- Harry Reeks, 61, American landscape painter and war artist for the United States Marine Corps [109]
- George W. Renchard, 74, American diplomat [110]
- Red Smith, 76, American sportswriter [111]
- Charles Stuart, 94, Scotland international rugby union player
16
- Harald Agersnap, 82, Danish composer, conductor, cellist, and pianist
- Ali Dashti, 84, Iranian writer and politician [112]
- Emil C. Danenberg, 64, American pianist [113]
- Marcel Francisci, 62, French politician [114]
- Basil Goulding, 72, Irish art collector, cricketer, squash player, industrialist, prominent businessman and amateur architect [115]
- Moshe Harif, 48, Israeli politician and kibbutz activist
- Ramón J. Sender, 80, Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist [116]
- Aleksandr Shabalin, 67, Russian Soviet Navy officer and torpedo boat commander
- Thomas Shirley, 73, British Royal Air Force officer [117]
- Len Wigraft, 84, Australian rules footballer [118]
17
- John Bessant, 89, English cricketer [119]
- Pierre De Cazenove De Pradines, French World War I flying ace
- Jusuf Gërvalla, 38, Kosovo Albanian activist, writer, and musician [120]
- Vera Mae Green, 53, American anthropologist, educator, and scholar [121]
- T. Nelson Metcalf, 91, American football and basketball player [122]
- James Michels, 63, United States Marine officer [123]
- Juan O'Gorman, 76, Mexican painter and architect [124]
- Johannes Pedersen, 89, Danish gymnast and Olympic medalist [125]
- William Price, 86, British Royal Air Force officer
- Fred Roberts, 74, American football guard [126]
- Humberto Salvador, 72, Ecuadorian writer, lawyer, and psychoanalyst [127]
- Varlam Shalamov, 74, Russian writer, journalist, poet, and Gulag survivor
- Irving Starr, 76, American film producer [128]
- Andy Wilf, 32, American painter
- Yetta Zwerling, 87, American actress [129]
18
- Nérée Arsenault, 70, Canadian politician and forest engineer
- Bob Barrett, 82, American baseball player [130]
- Frank C. Baxter, 85, American scholar and television personality [131]
- Stan Biggs, 46, Australian rules footballer [132]
- Clarence G. Burton, 95, American politician from Virgina [133]
- Jenő Ghyczy, 88, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Phil Greenwald, 63, American entertainment director [134]
- Enver Ziya Karal, Turkish historian and university administrator
- Trent Lehman, 20, American child actor [135]
- Juan O'Gorman, 76, Mexican painter and architect
- Josef Mai, 94, German World War I flying ace
- Alec Robertson, 89, British music critic [136]
- Delmar T. Spivey, 76, American military officer [137]
- Jackie Tobin, 61, American professional baseball player [138]
- Burnet Tuthill, 93, American conductor, composer and musicologist [139]
- Huang Xianfan, 82, Chinese historian, ethnologist and educator
19
- Frieda Goldman-Eisler, 74, British psychologist and pioneer in the field of psycholinguistics
- Boubou Hama, Nigerien writer, historian, and politician
- Harry Hanan, 65, British cartoonist [140]
- Börje Larsson, 71, Swedish screenwriter and film director
- Bapoo Malcolm Sr., 69, Indian cyclist [141]
- Charles Plumb, 82, American cartoonist [142]
- Elis Regina, 36, Brazilian singer [143]
- Leopold Trepper, 77, Polish Communist and career Soviet agent of the Red Army Intelligence [144]
- Semyon Tsvigun, 64, Ukrainian Soviet officer of the KGB [145]
- Fritz Wagner, 66, German actor
- Ernest David Weiss, 79, Polish-Jew naturalised British transport economist and Soviet spy [146]
- Ken Wendt, 71, American football player, jurist, and politician [147]
- Marya Zaturenska, 79, American poet [148]
20
- Alice Blinn, 92, American educator, home efficiency expert, and magazine editor [149]
- Marc Demeyer, 31, professional road racing cyclist [150]
- Rubem Siqueira Maia, 73, Brazilian physician and politician [151]
- Birgit Ståhl-Nyberg, 53, Swedish artist [152]
- Karl Stumpp, 85, German ethnographer
- Keith Westbrook, 94, Australian cricketer [153]
21
- Hayim Halevy Donin, 53, American Orthodox rabbi and author
- Victor Kearney, 78, Australian politician [154]
- Al Lefevre, 83, American baseball player [155]
- Käthe Lettner, 75, Austrian alpine skier [156]
- Hans Tröger, 85, German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II
22
- Rachel Blodgett Adams, 87, American mathematician [157]
- Edwin Carolan, Gaelic footballer
- Penelope Dudley-Ward, 67, English actress [158]
- Hans Fidesser, 82, Austrian tenor and actor [159]
- Arne Lie, 60, Norwegian actor
- Bruce Lonsdale, 32, Canadian politician [160]
- George James Macdonald, 60, New Zealander naval officer [161]
- Eduardo Frei Montalva, 71, 27th President of Chile [162]
- Tommy Tucker, 48, American blues singer-songwriter and pianist [163]
- Lester Evans Willis, 74, American baseball player
- Pantelis Zervos, Greek actor
23
- Maria Archer, 83, Portuguese writer
- Les Chapple, 83, Australian rules footballer [164]
- Ragini Devi, 88, American dancer [165]
- Hope Hampton, 84, American silent motion picture actress and producer [166]
- Jim Hopper, 62, American baseball player [167]
- M. B. Shetty, Indian actor
- Buck White, 70, American golfer [168]
24
- Humberto Álvarez Suárez, 86, Chilean lawyer, academic and politician
- Karol Borsuk, 76, Polish mathematician [169]
- Steamer Horning, 89, American football player [170]
- Diana Kingsmill Wright, 73, Canadian athlete, journalist and activist [171]
- Henryk Kowalski, 70, Polish Jewish violinist and composer [172]
- Alfredo Ovando Candía, 63, Bolivian military officer and political leader who served as the 48th president of Bolivia [173]
- María Teresa Prieto, 85 or 86, Spanish composer and pianist [174]
- Fernando Sánchez Polack, 61, Spanish actor [175]
- Ben Shields, 78, American baseball player [176]
- Nils Sletbak, 86, Norwegian jurist and theatre director
- Julian Snow, Baron Burntwood, 71, British peer and Labour Party politician [177]
- Tania, 58, American abstract artist [178]
25
- Frank Hastings Brooke, 72, South African-born British Army officer
- Pierre Canivet, 91, French curler, tennis player, and Olympic medalist [179]
- Kenneth Judson Cochrane, 85, Canadian politician [180]
- Edwin B. Dooley, 76, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York [181]
- Mildred Douglas Chrisman, 86, American trick rider, actress, and nurse [182]
- John F. Fontron, 78, American lawyer and judge [183]
- William Russel Huber, 78, United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient [184]
- Gertrude Golda Lowy, 94, English suffragette
- Charlie Purdy, 76, New Zealand boxer [185]
- Khan A Sabur, 73, Bangladeshi politician and lawyer [186]
- Mikhail Suslov, 79, senior Soviet Communist Party official [187]
- Garry Wheeler, 25, Australian rules footballer [188]
26
- Giancarlo Boriani, 87, Italian sports shooter and Olympian [189]
- Jean Outland Chrysler, 60, American art collector [190]
- Zehnder Confair, 76, American politician [191]
- Nedda Francy, 73, Argentine stage and film actress
- Kenneth Kenafick, 77, Australian poet, writer, translator and anti-conscription campaigner [192]
- Mollie Huston Lee, 75, American librarian [193]
- Ginger Lees, British speedway rider [194]
- Erosi Manjgaladze, 56, Soviet and Georgian stage and film actor
- Jack Owens, 69, American singer-songwriter [195]
- Bill Schoech, 77, vice admiral in the United States Navy [196]
- Isaiah Smithurst, 61, English cricketer
- Hans Jacob Ustvedt, 78, Norwegian medical doctor and broadcasting administrator [197]
27
- Alexander Abusch, 79, German journalist, non-fiction writer, and politician [198]
- Bill Carr, 80, British equestrian [199]
- Daniel Sundén-Cullberg, 74, Swedish sailor and Olympian [200]
- Alec Eist, 52, British detective for Scotland Yard [201]
- Frank John William Goldsmith, 79, Titanic survivor and author [202]
- Bill Haeffner, 87, American baseball player [203]
- Per Holmström, 80, Swedish swimmer and Olympian [204]
- Trần Văn Hương, 79, 3rd President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and 3rd Prime Minister of South Vietnam [205]
- Bruno Kaiser, 70, Marxist scholar of German studies and journalist [206]
- Francis E. Kelly, 78, American politician [207]
- Félix Labisse, 76, French Surrealist painter, illustrator, and designer [208]
- Han Langen, 72, Chinese actor
- Pleun van Leenen, 81, Dutch long-distance runner [209]
- Guido Colonna di Paliano, 73, Italian diplomat and European Commissioner [210]
28
- Kemal Arıkan, 54, Turkish diplomat [211]
- Andrea Buchanan, 26, American tennis player [212]
- Élisabeth Chaplin, 91, French/Tuscan painter
- Marion Cunningham, 86, American baseball player [213]
- Mehmet Tevfik Gerçeker, 83 or 84, Turkish scholar [214]
- Woodrow W. Keeble, 64, American military officer
- Jim Maloney, 80, Australian Labor politician and diplomat [215]
- Des McKee, 58, Irish international rugby union player [216]
- Veli Merikoski, 77, Finish politician and legal scholar
- Malcolm Moos, 65, American political scientist, speechwriter, and academic administrator [217]
- Henry Peploski, 76, Polish baseball player
- Hub Pruett, 81, American baseball player [218]
- Paul Schreiber, 79, American baseball player
29
- Gabriel Fabella, 83, Filipino historian [219]
- Murtaza Ali Khan, 55, Nawab of Rampur
- John Liney, 69, American cartoonist [220]
- John McKeague, Northern Irish loyalist [221]
- Palden Thondup Namgyal, 58, King of Sikkim. [222]
- Hironori Ōtsuka, 89, Japanese master of karate
- Rudolph Peters, 92, British biochemist [223]
- Roger Stanier, 65, Canadian microbiologist [224]
- Manoah Leide-Tedesco, 87, Italian-American composer, conductor and violinist [225]
30
- Refaat Al-Gammal, 54, Egyptian intelligence officer
- Tora Dahl, 95, Swedish teacher and novelist [226]
- Viggo Dibbern, 81, Danish gymnast [227]
- Victor Glushkov, 58, Soviet computer scientist
- Stanley Holloway, 91, British actor [228]
- Lightnin' Hopkins, 69, American blues musician [229]
- Nilakanta Krishnan, 62, Indian Navy officer [230]
- Helen Lynd, 85, American sociologist and philosopher [231]
- Virginia Marshall, 63, American child actress
- Lluís Nonell, 55, Spanish actor [232]
- Frances O'Connor, 67, American entertainer
- Hans Hermann Schaufuß, 88, German actor
- Ludwig Schmid-Wildy, 85, German actor
31
- John Maxwell Anderson, Scottish consultant surgeon and cancer specialist
- Ritchie Calder, 75, Scottish socialist writer, journalist and academic [233]
- Cyril Edward Gourley, 89, British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross [234]
- C. W. Grafton, 72, American crime novelist [235]
- Len Maxwell, 75, Australian rules footballer [236]
- Gheorghe Mihail, 94, Romanian career army officer
- Marvin Milkes, 58, American baseball executive [237]
- Florindo Sassone, 70, Argentine violinist and composer [238]
- Wilfried Sätty, 42, German graphic artist [239]
- Jiří Srnka, 74, Czech composer [240]
- Aranka Szeiler, 72, Hungarian gymnast [241]
- Agnes Sligh Turnbull, 93, American writer [242]
