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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.

May 1982

1

• Gene Sheldon, 74, American actor, mime artist, and musician, primarily remembered for playing the mute servant Bernardo in Walt Disney's Western series Zorro (1957–1959), ^{[1] [2]} he reprised the role in four further Zorro adventures that appeared on the Walt Disney anthology television series from 1960 until 1961, ^[3] heart attack ^[4]

2

• Helmut Dantine, 63, Austrian-American actor and film producer, typecast in portraying Nazis, ^[5] vice-president of Schenck Enterprises, the production company of his uncle-in-law Joseph Schenck, ^[6] heart attack ^{[5] [6]}
• Hugh Marlowe, 71, American actor, he played the eponymous character Ellery Queen in the first radio version of The Adventures of Ellery Queen , ^[7] heart attack ^[8]
• Wini Shaw, 75, American actress, dancer, and singer, ^{[9] [10]} she introduced the song "Lullaby of Broadway" in the musical film Gold Diggers of 1935 , ^{[10] [11]} she also sang "The Lady in Red" in the musical film In Caliente , with her song later popularized by a parody version performed by Bugs Bunny (voiced by Mel Blanc), ^{[10] [12]} Shaw toured service camps and Red Cross clubs for the USO during World War II ^[13]

4

• Lillian Gilmore, 72, America actress, ^[14] her theatrical career started at age 15, ^{[15] [16]} she was cast as the female lead Zitla in the Mayan-themed musical theater production of The Drums of Sacrifice (1935) at the Greek Theater in Griffith Park, Los Angeles ^[17]
• Edna Holland, 86, American actress, during her middle age, she often portrayed "professional women", such as teachers, nurses and secretaries in supporting roles or minor parts, ^[18] ruptured aneurysm ^[18]

5

• Cal Tjader, 56, American American Latin Jazz musician, he is often described as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician, ^[19] he is linked to the development of the then-new music genres of Latin rock and acid jazz, ^[20] heart attack while on the road with his band in Manila ^{[21] [22]}

6

• Hibiscus, 32, American actor and performance artist, he took part in the anti-war march March on the Pentagon (1967),and he appeared in Bernie Boston's Pulitzer Prize-nominated photograph, Flower Power ; Hibiscus was the turtleneck sweater-wearing protester photographed putting flowers into the gun barrels of a soldier of the 503rd Military Police Battalion (Airborne), ^[23] he was the founder of the psychedelic gay liberation theater collective known as the Cockettes, ^{[24] [25]} death from pneumonia and complications from AIDS. ^[26] At the time of his death, AIDS was known as GRID or "gay cancer", and was highly stigmatized. ^[27]

8

• Sam Baker, 75, American actor, ^[28] he played Queequeg in The Sea Beast (1926), ^[28] which was the first film adaptation of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick , ^[29] and Hugo in the science fiction film serial The Lost City (1935). ^{[28] [30]}
• Neil Bogart, 39, American record executive, he was the founder of Casablanca Records, ^{[31] [32]} and he previously headed the Michigan offices of Cameo-Parkway Records, ^[33] towards the end of his career, his last signings included then-new acts such as Joan Jett, Night Ranger, Phil Seymour, and Harry Chapin, ^{[34] [35]} lymphoma ^[36]
• Gilles Villeneuve, 32, Canadian racing driver, he competed in Formula One from 1977 to 1982, he won six Grands Prix across six seasons, ^[37] killed in an accident during the final qualifying session of the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. At the time of the crash, Villeneuve was using his final set of qualifying tyres. ^[38] He moved right to pass a slower car, but the driver of the other car also moved right at the same instant. Villeneuve's Ferrari hit the back of the other car, and was launched into the air at high speed. ^[39] After being hospitalized, Villeneuve was diagnosed with a fatal fracture of the neck. ^[40] He died shortly later. ^[41]

9

• Nelida Lobato, 47, Argentine actress, dancer, and model, she went into self-exile when her then-romantic partner was threatened by the fascist paramilitary group Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (Triple A or AAA) ^[42] during the presidencies of Juan Perón and Isabel Perón between 1973 and 1976, ^{[43] [44] [45] [46]} cancer ^[47]

12

• Humphrey Searle, 66, English composer and writer on the topic of music, ^[48] his music combined aspects of late Romanticism and modernist serialism, ^[49] he was an authority on the music of Franz Liszt, and he created the initial cataloguing system for Liszt's works, ^[50] he composed the music for the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Myth Makers , ^{[51] [52]} which was an adaptation of Homer's Iliad ^[53]

14

• Hugh Beaumont, 73, American actor, short story writer, and scriptwriter for both radio and television ^[54] , primarily known for his portrayal of the wise small-town father Ward Cleaver on the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver ^[55] , and the private detective Michael Shayne in a series of low-budget crime films released by the Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) from 1946 until 1947, ^{[56] [57] [58] [59]} heart attack ^[54]

16

• Leigh Snowden, 52, American actress for Universal Pictures ^[60] and nightclub singer, ^[61] cancer ^[62]

19

• Elwyn Jones, 59, Welsh television writer, producer, and true crime novelist, Head of Drama (Series) at the BBC from 1963 until 1966, he created or co-created the television series Z-Cars , Softly, Softly , Softly, Softly: Taskforce , Barlow at Large /Barlow, Jack the Ripper and Second Verdict , ^[63] sudden death at his home, no known cause of death ^[63]
• Corbet Woodall, 53, English newsreader for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), ^[64] host for the shows Look East , Any Questions? , and Any Answers? , ^[65] he frequently played roles as a television newsreader or as an announcer in both films and television series, ^[66] increasingly disabled by rheumatoid arthritis since the late 1960s ^[67]

24

• Tauno Palo, 73, Finnish actor, singer, and chemist, ^[68] he worked for the Finnish National Theatre ^[68]

25

• Larry J. Blake, 68, American actor ^[69]

26

• Guillermo Flores Avendaño, 87, Guatemalan military officer, he served as the acting president of Guatemala from 1957 until 1958, ^{[70] [71]} with the start of his term following the annulled results of the 1957 Guatemalan general election, his term ended shortly after the 1958 Guatemalan general election, he oversaw the inauguration of a new president ^[72]
• Beirne Lay Jr., 72, American aviation writer, Hollywood screenwriter, and combat veteran of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II ^[73] , cancer ^[74]
• Sally Lippman, 81, American lawyer and regular dancer at the disco of Studio 54 ^{[75] [76] [77] [78] [79]}

28

• H. Jones, 42, British military officer, he served as the commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment during the Falklands War, he was killed in the Battle of Goose Green, while leading a charge against entrenched Argentine positions. ^[80] Jones fell metres short of the trench, shot in the back and the groin, and died within minutes. ^[81]

29

• Romy Schneider, 43, German and French actress, she started her film career in her teen years by performing in the German Heimatfilm genre, she became a cult figure with her starring role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Sissi trilogy in the mid-1950s, ^[82] death by cardiac arrest, ^[83] attributed to complications from a kidney surgery which she had months before her death. ^{[84] [85]} Posthumously, the Sissi trilogy remains one of the most successful examples of the German-language cinema, the trilogy is used as a popular Christmas television special, and is shown with some regularity on channels in German-speaking countries, ^[86] in Hungary, ^[87] and in Italy. ^[88]

30

• Albert Norden, 77, German communist politician, ^[89] he was the editor of the newspaper Die Rote Fahne ('Red Flag') from 1931 until 1933, ^{[90] [91]} he served as a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), and as a member of the party's Politburo, ^[91] he published the Braunbuch ('Brown Book', 1965), in which he accused over 1,900 politicians, state officials and other prominent persons in West Germany of having worked for the Nazi regime in the past. The book became a reference in the West German New Left, which increasingly had begun to question the official historiography on the Nazi period. ^{[92] [93]} The book highlighted the past political activities of 21 Ministers and state secretaries, 100 admirals and generals, 828 judges or state lawyers and high law officers, 245 officials of the Foreign Office and of embassies and consulates in leading position, 297 high police officers and officers of the Verfassungsschutz ^{[94] [95]}

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External links

• List of May 1982 deaths at IMDb