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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1982


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 1 - Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
  • January 5 - Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
  • January 5 - Harvey Lembeck, American actor (b. 1923)
  • January 8 - Grégoire Aslan, Armenian actor (b. 1908)
  • January 10 - Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926)
  • January 13 - Marcel Camus, French film director (b. 1912)
  • January 16 - Red Smith, American sports columnist (b. 1905)
  • January 19 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
  • January 22 - Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
  • January 30 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
  • February 4 - Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)
  • February 8 - John Hay Whitney, American financier (b. 1904)
  • February 11 - Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (b. 1912)
  • February 11 - Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
  • February 12 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902)
  • February 17 - Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (b. 1922)
  • February 17 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917)
  • February 17 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian-born actor (b. 1901)
  • February 18 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895)
  • February 21 - Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (b. 1922)
  • February 22 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
  • February 24 - Virginia Bruce, America actress and singer (b. 1910)
  • March 2 - Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)
  • March 3 - Georges Perec, French writer (b. 1936)
  • March 5 - John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
  • March 6 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
  • March 11 - Edmund Cooper, English author (b. 1926)
  • March 11 - Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
  • March 19 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (Quiet Riot
  • March 20 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist for Ozzy osbourne and Ex Quiet Riot guitarist (b. 1956)
  • March 29 - Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)
  • April 3 - Warren Oates, American character actor (b. 1928)
  • April 5 - Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)
  • April 7 - Brenda Benet, American actress (b. 1945)
  • April 7 - Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (b. 1948)
  • April 15 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
  • April 20 - Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892)
  • April 24 - Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete (b. 1896)
  • April 25 - John Cardinal Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)
  • May 1 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
  • May 8 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (b. 1950)
  • May 14 - Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
  • May 15 - Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
  • May 29 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938)
  • June 6 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
  • June 8 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
  • June 10 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German author (b. 1945)
  • June 10 - Addie "Micki" Harris, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1940)
  • June 13 - Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
  • June 13 - Riccardo Paletti, Formula One driver (b. 1958)
  • June 17 - Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
  • June 18 - John Cheever, American author (b. 1912)
  • June 18 - Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915)
  • June 29 - Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
  • July 4 - Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
  • July 6 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
  • July 15 - Bill Justis, American musician and producer (b. 1926)
  • July 16 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)
  • July 18 - Lionel Daunais, French-Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
  • July 19 - John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
  • July 20 - Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
  • July 21 - Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
  • July 23 - Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
  • July 28 - Keith Green, American gospel singer and pianist (b. 1953)
  • July 29 - Harold Sakata, Japanese-American actor (b. 1920)
  • July 30 - Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
  • August 8 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (b. 1920)
  • August 11 - Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)
  • August 12 - Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
  • August 12 - Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
  • August 12 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907)
  • August 13 - Joe Tex, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
  • August 19 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
  • August 20 - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
  • August 24 - Félix-Antoine Savard, French Canadian catholic priest and novelist (b. 1896)
  • August 28 - Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
  • August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
  • September 7 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
  • September 14 - John Gardner, American novelist (b. 1933)
  • September 14 - Grace Kelly, American actress
  • September 14 - Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)
  • September 17 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
  • September 24 - Sarah Churchill, British actress (b. 1914)
  • September 26 - Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
  • September 28 - Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
  • September 29 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
  • October 4 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
  • October 8 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (b. 1915)
  • October 8 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
  • October 18 - Dwain Esper, American film director (b. 1892)
  • November 1 - James Broderick, American actor (b. 1927)
  • November 2 - Lester Roloff, Man of God
  • November 4 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
  • November 5 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1908)
  • November 15 - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (b. 1901)
  • November 16 - Arthur Askey, British comedian (b. 1900)
  • November 16 - Lenny Murphy, Leader of Belfast's notorious Shankill Butchers (b. 1952)
  • November 17 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
  • November 17 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
  • November 18 - Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (b. 1959)
  • November 21 - John Hargrave, British Social Credit advocate (b. 1894)
  • November 29 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
  • December 2 - Marty Feldman, British comedian
  • December 8 - Marty Robbins, American singer (b. 1925)
  • December 9 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor (b. 1905)
  • December 10 - Freeman Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
  • December 18 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (b. 1916)
  • December 19 - Dwight Macdonald, American social critic (b. 1906)
  • December 20 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist (b. 1887)
  • December 23 - Jack Webb, American actor
  • December 24 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)
  • December 27 - John Swigert, American astronaut (b. 1931)

Events
  • January 1 - Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary General of the United Nations.
  • January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
  • January 13 - Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. Coincidentally, a Washington DC Metro Rail train is derailed, killing 3 people.
  • January 17 - "Cold Sunday" in the United States would see temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
  • January 28 - US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity under the Red Brigades.
  • January 30 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
  • February 1 - Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
  • February 2 - Hama Massacre: Syria attacks the town of Hama.
  • February 15 - The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers.
  • March 4 - NASA launches "Intelsat V".
  • March 5 - Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.
  • March 10 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
  • March 10 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun. See also Jupiter effect.
  • March 19 - Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the U.K..
  • March 23 - Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
  • March 26 - A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, DC.
  • March 29 - The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
  • March 30 - Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
  • April 2 - Falklands War: The Falkland Islands are invaded by Argentina.
  • April 3 - The United Kingdom sends a naval task force to the south Atlantic to reclaim the disputed Falkland Islands from Argentina.
  • April 17 - Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
  • April 21 - Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
  • April 23 - Conch Republic is established.
  • April 23 - The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is released.
  • April 25 - Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
  • April 26 - 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
  • May 1 - The 1982 World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  • May 1 - Operation Black Buck begins. The RAF attack on the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
  • May 2 - Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
  • May 4 - Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield (D80) is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
  • May 12 - During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow".
  • May 24 - Liberation of Khorramshahr, Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
  • May 25 - HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
  • May 28 - Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
  • May 30 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
  • June 3 - The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
  • June 6 - 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
  • June 7 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
  • June 12 - Over 750,000 people attend a concert in New York's Central Park to support MUSE (or Musicians United for Safe Energy, aka: No Nukes), to see Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt (among others) perform.
  • June 13 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
  • June 14 - The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
  • June 19 - In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
  • June 19 - The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
  • June 21 - John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
  • June 24 - British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as the Jakarta incident, flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
  • June 25 - Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military.
  • July 4 - Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
  • July 8 - Assassination attempt against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
  • July 8 - Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized.
  • July 9 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 people on board and eight others on the ground.
  • July 18 - 268 campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala.
  • July 20 - Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
  • July 23 - The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
  • July 24 - Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
  • August 12 - Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
  • August 17 - The first Compact Discs (CDs) were released to the public in Germany.
  • August 18 - Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
  • August 20 - Lebanese Civil War: a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO's withdrawal from Lebanon.
  • August 23 - Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
  • August 27 - Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altikat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they were avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
  • August 29 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
  • September 1 - Canada adopts a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution.
  • September 1 - The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
  • September 11 - The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
  • September 14 - President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
  • September 16 - Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
  • September 18 - Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
  • September 20 - The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
  • September 29 - Tylenol Crisis of 1982 begins when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
  • September 30 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol murders.
  • October 1 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
  • October 1 - EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
  • October 1 - Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
  • October 7 - Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
  • October 8 - Poland bans Solidarity.
  • October 11 - The Mary Rose, a Tudor gunship which sank on July 18 1545, is raised from the sea bed in the Solent Channel, near Portsmouth.
  • October 14 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
  • October 20 - During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
  • October 28 - Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) wins elections, leading to first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.
  • November 1 - Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
  • November 3 - The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000+ people.
  • November 12 - In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
  • November 12 - Lech Wałęsa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.
  • November 13 - A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim. Kim's death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport.
  • November 13 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
  • November 14 - Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
  • November 18 - Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, Nevada, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
  • November 25 - The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including the Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldson's Department Store.
  • November 28 - Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.
  • December 1 - At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
  • December 3 - A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
  • December 4 - The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
  • December 7 - In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
  • December 8 - Activist Norman Mayer threatens to blow up the Washington Monument, before being killed by United States Park Police.
  • December 8 - In Suriname several opponents of the military government are killed.
  • December 12 - Women's peace protest at Greenham Common
  • December 16 - The Federal Reserve announces that the operating capacity of factories has gone down to 67.8%.
  • December 23 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
  • December 26 - Time Magazine's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.


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