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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1982

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• Muktananda, 74, Indian yoga guru, religious writer, autobiographer, and alleged serial rapist, ^{[1] [2] [3]} he was the founder of Siddha Yoga, ^{[4] [5]}

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• Vivien Merchant, 53, English actress, alcoholism-related death ^{[6] [7]}

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• The Amazing Criswell, 75, American self-proclaimed psychic, published writer, newspaper columnist, television showman, and part-time actor, known for wildly inaccurate predictions of global catastrophe scenarios and for advocating a social cycle theory of history repeating itself ^[8]
• Glenn Gould, 50, Canadian classical pianist, television producer, writer, broadcaster, and composer, taken off life support by decision of his father. ^[9] Gould was hospitalized since late September due to a stroke which had paralyzed the left side of his body, and then suffered further brain damage. ^[9]

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• Philip Green, 71, British film and television composer, conductor, pianist, and accordion player, he rose to fame in the 1930s for his Radio Luxembourg programmes, ^[10] he co-wrote the United Kingdom's 1963 Eurovision Song Contest entry, "Say Wonderful Things" ^{[11] [12]} cerebral metastasis ^[13]

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• Fernando Lamas, 67, Argentine-American actor and director of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema, pancreatic cancer ^{[14] [15] [16]}

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• Phyllis Crane, 68, Canadian-born American actress, she frequently played supporting roles in the early films of The Three Stooges, ^[17] esophageal cancer ^[17]
• Howard Sackler, 52, American screenwriter and playwright, primarily known for the play The Great White Hope and its film adaptation, he also provided an uncredited rewrite for the script of the film Jaws (1975) ^[18] and he was a main screenwriter for the sequel Jaws 2 , ^[19] found dead in his studio in Ibiza, Spain, the cause of death was unclear ^[19]

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• Virginia Fox, c.76-83 ^{[Note 1]} , American actress of the silent film era, death due to a lung infection, complicated by emphysema. ^{[21] [22]}

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• Paolo Heusch, 58, Italian film director and screenwriter ^[23]

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• Dwain Esper, 88, American film director and producer, known primarily for exploitation films, ^[24] he is regarded as the founding father of modern exploitation ^[25]
• Anne Winton, 33, American ballerina, martial artist and film actress, she held a black belt in Taekwondo ^{[26] [27]} and she also studied Aikido, ^[28] , she was the first Caucasian female martial artist to appear in a Hong Kong martial arts film, ^[29] she was stabbed to death by her own husband in a murder-suicide ^{[30] [31] [32]}

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• Valerio Zurlini, 56, Italian stage and film director, screenwriter, and educator working for the film school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental Center of Cinematography; CSC) ^{[33] [34]}

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• Tim Davis, 58, American child actor and voice actor, he voiced the young Thumper and the adult Flower in the animated feature film Bambi (1942), ^[35] , ^[36] veteran member of the United States Navy ^[37]

Notes

1. The year of her birth is unknown as birth records in West Virginia were not mandated until 1917. ^[20] Different sources provide various estimates for her birth year

References

1. Rodarmor 1983.
2. Williamson 2010, p. 114.
3. Urban 2012, p. 247.
4. Safransky, Sy (July 1976). "An Interview With Swami Muktananda". The Sun Magazine . Retrieved August 16, 2021. Muktananda was said to be a living saint, a perfectly realized human being, a sadguru — the highest of gurus.
5. Yearning to Belong: Discovering a New Religious Movement. p. 22.
6. "Death of Vivien Merchant Is Ascribed to Alcoholism", The New York Times 7 October 1982, accessed 13 September 2007.
7. Billington, Michael. "Pinter, Harold". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/100647.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.). According to Billington, Pinter "did everything possible to support" Merchant until her death, and regrets that he became estranged from their son, Daniel, after their separation and Pinter's marrying Antonia Fraser. A reclusive writer and musician, Daniel does not use the surname Pinter, having adopted as his surname his maternal grandmother's maiden name Brand after his parents separated (Harold Pinter pp. 276, 255)
8. "Who Was Criswell?". Criswell Predicts. Archived from the original on September 1, 2013. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
9. Ostwald 1997, pp. 325–328.
10. Musiker, R and Musiker, N. Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music (1998)
11. "RONNIE CARROLL | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. August 2, 1956.
12. "Eurovision 1963 Results: Voting & Points". Eurovisionworld. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
13. David Ades, Biography at the Robert Farnon Society, retrieved 27 November 2020
14. Aradillas, Elaine (July 2, 2009). "Meet the Real Most Interesting Man in the World". People . Archived from the original on July 5, 2009. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
15. Lamas, Lorenzo; Lenburg, Jeff (2014). Renegade at Heart: An Autobiography. BenBella Books, Inc. Kindle Edition. pp. 6–7. ISBN   978-1941631256.
16. The Annual Obituary. St. Martin's. 1982. p. 487. ISBN   978-0-312-03877-9.
17. Finegan, Richard (Fall 2013). "Phyllis Crane ... A Closer Look". The Three Stooges Journal (147). Gyynedd Valley, Pennsylvania: The Three Stooges Fan Club, Inc.: 8–9, 16.
18. "Spielberg Reveals the Definitive Word on the JAWS USS Indianapolis Speech - Script Magazine". Script Magazine. June 6, 2011. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
19. Lawson, Carol. "Howard Sackler, 52, Playwright Who Won Pulitzer Prize, Dead" The New York Times via Internet Archive, October 15, 1982.
20. "How to Find West Virginia Birth Records". FamilySearch . Retrieved December 24, 2023.
21. "V. Zanuck, widow of film tycoon". Chicago Tribune . October 15, 1982. p. 8. Retrieved November 7, 2020– via Newspapers.com.
22. Gussow, Mel (October 15, 1982). "Virginia F. Zanuck, Silent Movie Star". The New York Times . Retrieved October 31, 2022.
23. Curti 2015, p. 68.
24. "Dwain Esper Obituary". Variety . October 27, 1982. ISSN   0042-2738.
25. Senn, Bryan (2006). Golden Horrors: An Illustrated Critical Filmography of Terror Cinema, 1931-1939. McFarland & Company. p. 263. ISBN   978-0786427246.
26. World Film Geek - When Taekwondo Strikes (1973)
27. The Washingtonian, Volume 18 - Page 100
28. Pop Cult Master, February 26, 2018 - Pop Cult Master: What became of Anne Winton
29. Pop Cult Master, February 26, 2018 - What became of Anne Winton
30. The Washington Post , October 18, 1982 - D.C. Man Kills Wife and Son, Then Himself By Tom Vesey
31. Pop Cult Master, February 26, 2018 - What became of Anne Winton
32. Bluefield Daily Telegraph , October 18, 1982 - Page 6 Three Die In Alexandria
33. Biography of Valerio Zurlini Archived 14 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
34. Peter Lennon. Leave it to Diva. The Guardian , 9 May 2003.
35. McGill, Thomas (1985). Magill's Cinema Annual, 1985 : A Survey of 1984 Films . Jefferson, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Salem Press. p. 543. ISBN   0-89356-404-4.
36. "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGL4-SS5M  : Sun Oct 15 14:58:16 UTC 2023), Entry for Dixon Davis and Fredrick Duane Davis, 12 Sep 1926.
37. "Behind the Mike". Broadcasting. December 14, 1942. p. 35. ProQuest   1014965409. TIM DAVIS has resigned from the recording department of NBC Hollywood, to join the Navy.

Sources

• Curti, Roberto (2015). Italian Gothic Horror Films 1957-1969. McFarland & Company. ISBN   978-1476619897.
• Healy, John Paul (2010), Yearning to Belong: Discovering a New Religious Movement, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Ostwald, Peter F. (1997). Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN   978-0-393-04077-7. Archived from the original on September 4, 2023. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
• Rodarmor, William (1983). "The Secret Life of Swami Muktananda". CoEvolution Quarterly.
• Urban, Hugh B. (2012), The Cult of Ecstasy: Meldings of East and West in a New Age of Tantra, in the book Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion, University of California Press, pp. 203–263, JSTOR   10.1525/j.ctt1pp4mm.12
• Williamson, Lola (2010), Transcendent in America: Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion, New York University Press

External links

• List of October 1982 deaths at IMDb