1982
1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
- June 6
- June 8
- June 12 – A rally against nuclear weapons draws 750,000 to New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt attend. An international convocation at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine features prominent peace activists from around the world and afterward participants march on Fifth Avenue to Central Park for the rally.
- June 13
- June 14 – The Falklands War ends: Formal surrender of Argentine forces, and liberation of the Falkland Islanders.
- June 18 – Argentine military dictator Leopoldo Galtieri resigns, in the wake of his country's defeat in the Falklands War.
- June 19 – The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
- June 21 – Prince William is born at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, West London.
- June 24 – British Airways Flight 9 suffers a temporary 4-engine flameout and damage to the exterior of the plane, after flying through the otherwise undetected ash plume from Indonesia's Mount Galunggung.
- June 25 – The Institute for Puerto Rican Policy is founded in New York City to research and advocate for Puerto Rican and Latino community issues. In 2006, it changes it name to the National Institute for Latino Policy.
- June 30 – The Equal Rights Amendment falls short of the 38 states needed to pass; Phyllis Schlafly and other leaders of the Christian right take credit for its defeat.
July
- July 1 – Mauritius recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
- July 2
- July 3 – ASLEF train drivers in the United Kingdom go on strike over hours of work; they return to work on July 18.
- July 4 – Four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped upon Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
- July 6 – A lunar eclipse (umbral duration 236 min and total duration 106 min, the longest of the 20th century) occurs.
- July 9
- July 11 – Italy beats West Germany 3–1 to win the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.
- July 12 – Checker Motors Corporation ceases production of automobiles.
- July 15 – Geoffrey Prime, a GCHQ civil servant, is remanded in custody on charges under the Official Secrets Act 1911.
- July 16 – In New York City, The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $25,000 for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
- July 19 – William Whitelaw, Home Secretary, announces that Michael Trestrail (the Queen's bodyguard) has resigned from the Metropolitan Police Service over a relationship with a male prostitute.
- July 20 – The Provisional IRA detonates 2 bombs in central London, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47 people, and leading to the deaths of 7 horses.
- July 21 – HMS Hermes, the Royal Navy flagship during the Falklands War, returns home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome.
- July 23
- July 31 – In Beaune, France, 53 persons, 46 of them children, die in a highway accident (France's worst).
August
September
October
November
- November 3
- A gasoline or petrol tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 176 people.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years. It last hit a record on January 11, 1973 when the average closed at 1,051.70. The points gain is the biggest ever up to this point.
- November 6 – Camerun president Ahmadou Ahidjo resigns, replaced by Paul Biya.
- November 7 – The Thames Barrier is first publicly demonstrated.
- November 8 – Kenan Evren becomes the seventh president of Turkey as a result of constitution referandum. His former title was head of state.
- November 12 – In the Soviet Union, former KGB head Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev.
- 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 – The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Wałęsa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border.
- November 20 – University of California, Berkeley executes "The Play" in a college football game against Stanford. Completing a wacky 57-yard kickoff return that includes 5 laterals, Kevin Moen runs through Stanford band members who had prematurely come onto the field. His touchdown stands and California wins 25–20.
- November 27 – Yasuhiro Nakasone becomes Prime minister of Japan.
- November 28 – Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.
- November 30 – Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the biggest selling album of all time.
December
Date unknown
Births
January
- January 1
- January 3 – Chisu, Finnish singer-songwriter
- January 4
- January 5
- January 6
- January 7
- January 9 – Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, British Princess and wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
- January 12 – Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
- January 13
- January 14
- January 15 – Benjamin Agosto, American skater
- January 17 – Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
- January 18 – Quinn Allman, American guitarist (The Used)
- January 19 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress
- January 21 – Go Shiozaki, Japanese professional wrestler
- January 22
- January 25
- January 26 – Brahim Takioullah, Moroccan Guiness World Records-holder
- January 28 – Ainett Stephens, Venezuelan television personality/model in Italy
- January 29
- January 31 – Elena Paparizou, Greek-Swedish singer
February
- February 1
- February 2
- February 3 – Vera Brezhneva, Ukrainian and Russian pop-singer and television presenter
- February 4
- February 5 – Kevin Everett, American football player
- February 8 – Zersenay Tadese, Eritrean long distance track/road running athlete
- February 9 – Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
- February 10
- February 11
- February 13 – Lanisha Cole, American model
- February 14 – Marián Gáborík, Czechosovakian (now Slovakia) hockey player (Minnesota Wild)
- February 16 –Lupe Fiasco, American rapper.
- February 17 – Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
- February 18 – Jessie Ward, American actress
- February 19 – Camelia Potec, Romanian swimmer
- February 22
- February 25
- February 28 – Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (d. 2004)
March
- March 1 – Cassandra Ponti, Filipina actress, dancer, and model
- March 2
- March 3 – Jessica Biel, American actress
- March 4 – Landon Donovan, American soccer player
- March 5 – Daniel Carter, New Zealand rugby player
- March 6 – Stephen Jordan, English footballer
- March 8
- March 9 – Paul Ballard, English television presenter
- March 10 – Kwame Brown, American basketball player
- March 11 – Thora Birch, American actress
- March 15 – Bobby Boswell, American soccer player
- March 19 – Triana Iglesias, Norwegian model/Playboy Cyber Girl
- March 20 – Nick Wheeler, American musician (The All-American Rejects)
- March 21 – Maria Elena Camerin, Italian tennis player
- March 23 – Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish football goalkeeper
- March 24 – Kenichirou Ohashi, Japanese voice actor
- March 25
- March 30
April
- April 1
- April 2 – David Ferrer, Spanish tennis player
- April 3
- April 5
- April 6 – Ilan Hall, Israeli-American chef
- April 7 – Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler
- April 9 – Olimpio Cipriano, Angolan basketball player
- April 10 – Chyler Leigh, American actress
- April 13 – Nellie McKay, American singer
- April 15 – Seth Rogen, Canadian actor/comedian
- April 18 – Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
- April 20 – Keiichiro Nagashima, Japanese speed skater
- April 22 – Kaká, Brazilian footballer
- April 24
- April 25 – Monty Panesar, English cricketer
- April 26 – Nadja Benaissa, German pop singer
- April 27 – Katrina Johnson, American actress
- April 28
- April 30 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress
May
- May 1 – Darijo Srna, Croatian soccer player
- May 4
- May 6 – Jason Witten, American football player
- May 7 – Ákos Buzsáky, Hungarian footballer
- May 10
- May 11 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor
- May 13 – Oguchi Onyewu, American soccer player
- May 14 – Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
- May 15 – Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete
- May 17
- May 19
- May 20 – Petr Čech, Czech footballer
- May 22
- May 23 – Tristan Prettyman, American singer/songwriter
- May 25 – Alexandr Ivanov, Russian javelin thrower
- May 26 – Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
- May 29
June
- June 1 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
- June 3 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian athlete
- June 7 – Amy Nuttall, British actress and opera singer
- June 8 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
- June 10
- June 11
- June 12 – Jason David, American Football player
- June 13 – Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian long-distance runner
- June 14 – Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
- June 16 – Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
- June 18 – Marco Borriello, Italian football player
- June 21 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, British Prince and son of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales
- June 22 – Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
- June 23 – Joona Puhakka, Finnish diver
- June 24 – Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
- June 25 – Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
- June 27 – Takeru Shibaki, Japanese actor
- June 30 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress
July
August
- August 2 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer (soccer player)
- August 5 – Lolo Jones, American track and field athlete
- August 6 – Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater
- August 7
- August 9 – Tyson Gay, American athlete
- August 10
- August 12 – Jon Olsson, Swedish freestyle skier
- August 13 – Shani Davis, American speed skater
- August 14 – Larissa Franca, Brazilian beach volleyball player
- August 16
- August 17
- August 19 – Willy Denzey, French singer
- August 20 – Jamil Walker Smith, American actor
- August 23 – Natalie Coughlin, American Olympic swimmer
- August 24 – Kim Källström, Swedish footballer
- August 28
- August 29 – Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian football goalkeeper
- August 30 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player
- August 31 – José Manuel Reina Páez, Spanish footballer
September
- September 1 – Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
- September 2
- September 5 – Cyndi Wang, Taiwanese singer and actress
- September 9 – Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer, songwriter, pianist and actress
- September 11 – Shriya Saran, Indian actress
- September 12 – Nana Ozaki, Japanese gravure idol
- September 13 – Nenê, Brazilian basketball player
- September 18 – Lukas Reimann (Swiss politician)
- September 19 – Nicole Voss, American model
- September 22
- September 23 – Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress
- September 25 – Hyun Bin, Korean actor
- September 26 – Betty Sun, Chinese actress
- September 27
- September 28
- September 29 – Ariana Jollee, American porn actress and director
- September 30
October
- October 1 – Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish pop singer
- October 2 – Tyson Chandler, American basketball player
- October 3 – Erik von Detten, American actor
- October 5 – Zhang Yining, Chinese table tennis player
- October 6
- October 7
- October 9 – Travis Rice, Professional Snowboarder
- October 10 – Jason Oost, Dutch footballer
- October 11
- October 13
- October 15
- October 17 – Nick Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer
- October 18 or October 19 – Shauntay Henderson, American criminal
- October 19 – Louis Oosthuizen, South African golfer
- October 21
- October 22
- October 25 – Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer
- October 27 – Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
- October 28
- October 29
November
- November 2 – Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
- November 8
- November 9 – Jana Pittman, Australian athlete,
- November 10 – Heather Matarazzo, American actress
- November 11 – Brittny Gastineau, American model and socialite
- November 12
- November 13 – Kumi Koda, Japanese singer
- November 14
- November 15 – Joe Kowalewski, American football player
- November 22 – Charlene Choi, Hong Kong singer and actress
- November 23 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
- November 26 – Karl Henry, Professional football player
- November 27 – Aleksandr Kerzhakov, Russian soccer player
- November 28 – Steve Mullings, Jamaican athlete
- November 29 – Ashley Force, American race car driver
- November 30
December
- December 3
- December 4 – Nick Vujicic, Australian-born director of Life Without Limbs
- December 6
- December 8 – Nicki Minaj, American singer
- December 13 – Anthony Callea, Australian singer
- December 14 – Anthony Way, British singer and actor
- December 16 – Stanislav Sestak, Slovakian footballer
- December 19 – Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower
- December 20
- December 24
- December 26 – Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian alpine skier
- December 27 – Terji Skibenæs, Faroese guitarist (Týr)
- December 30 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
- December 31 – Luke Schenscher, Australian basketball player
Deaths
January–March
- January 1 – Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
- January 5
- January 8 – Reta Shaw, American actress (b. 1912)
- January 10 – Paul Lynde, American actor (b. 1926)
- January 13 – Marcel Camus, French film director (b. 1912)
- January 17 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican Architect (b. 1905)
- January 19 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
- January 22 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician and former President (b. 1904)
- January 26 – Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician and Politburo member (b. 1902)
- January 30
- February 4
- February 5 – Neil Aggett, South African labor leader (suicide) (b. 1953)
- February 11
- February 12 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902)
- February 17
- February 21 – Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian (b. 1897)
- February 24 – Virginia Bruce, American actress (b. 1910)
- March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)
- March 5 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
- March 6 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born author (b. 1905)
- March 8 – Rab Butler, British statesman (b. 1902)
- March 19 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne (plane crash) (b. 1956)
- March 25 – Goodman Ace, American humorist (b. 1899)
- March 26 – Sam Kydd, Irish-born English actor (b. 1915)
- March 27 – Harriet Adams, American novelist (b. 1892)
- March 28 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
- March 29 – Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)
April–June
- April 3 – Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)
- April 5 – Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)
- April 12 – Lenny Baker, American actor (b. 1945)
- April 15 – Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
- April 20 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet (b. 1892)
- April 24 – Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete (b. 1896)
- April 25 – Celia Johnson, British actress (b. 1908)
- April 27 – Tom Tully, American actor (b. 1908)
- April 30 – Lester Bangs, American music journalist (b. 1948)
- May 1 – William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
- May 2
- May 8 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (racing accident) (b. 1950)
- May 10 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)
- May 14 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
- May 15 – Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (racing accident) (b. 1946)
- May 22 – Cevdet Sunay, ex president of Turkey (b. 1899)
- May 28 – Lt Col 'H'. Jones, VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1940)
- May 29 – Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (cardiac arrest) (b. 1938)
- June 2 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, President of Pakistan (b. 1904)
- June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
- June 8 – Satchel Paige, baseball player (b. 1906)
- June 9 – Mirza Nasir Ahmad, 3rd Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam (b. 1909)
- June 10 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1945)
- June 12
- Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
- Sgt Ian McKay, VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1953)
- June 13 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian Formula 1 driver (b. 1958)
- June 14 – Arthur Coles, Australian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1892)
- June 17 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
- June 18
- June 25 – Edward Hamm, American Olympic athlete (b. 1906)
- June 29 – Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
July–September
- July 1 – Jacobo Palm, Curaçao born composer (b. 1887)
- July 4 – Terry Higgins, early British casualty of AIDS (b. 1945)
- July 6 – Alma Reville, English screenwriter (b. 1899)
- July 8
- July 11 – Susan Littler, British actress (b. 1948)
- July 12 – Kenneth More, English actor (b. 1914)
- July 16 – Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)
- July 19 – John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
- July 21 – Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
- July 23 – Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
- July 28 – Keith Green, American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1953)
- July 29 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor (b. 1889)
- August 2 – Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (b. 1888)
- August 11 – Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)
- August 12 – Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
- August 13 – Charles Walters, American film director (b. 1911)
- August 14 – Patrick Magee, Irish actor (b. 1922)
- August 15 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
- August 18
- Beverly Bayne, American actress (b. 1894)
- Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and main character/narrator of Maus (a graphic novel of his life during the Holocaust) (b. 1906)
- August 20 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
- August 21 – King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, at the time the longest reigning living monarch (b. 1899)
- August 23
- August 29 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
- September 2
- September 5 – Douglas Bader, Inspirational leader of the Battle of Britain (b. 1910)
- September 11 – Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (b. 1902)
- September 14
- September 16 – Rolfe Sedan, American actor (b. 1896)
- September 21 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet Armenian military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1897)
- September 23 – Jimmy Wakely, American Country-Western singer and actor (b. 1914)
- September 28 – Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
October–December
- October 3 – Vivien Merchant, British actress (b. 1929)
- October 4 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
- October 8
- October 9 – Anna Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1895)
- October 10 – Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
- October 16 – Hans Selye, Canadian endocrinologist (b. 1907)
- October 18
- October 20 – James Edward McGrory, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1904)
- October 22 – Savitri Devi, French-born writer and philosopher (b. 1905)
- November 1
- November 4 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
- November 5 – Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (b. 1907)
- November 10 – Leonid Brezhnev, Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
- November 12 – Dorothy Round Little, English tennis champion (b. 1908)
- November 15 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian educator (b. 1895)
- November 17 – Ruth Donnelly, American actress (b. 1896)
- November 21 – Lee Patrick, American actress (b. 1901)
- November 22 – Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (b. 1909)
- November 23 – Grady Nutt, American humorist (b. 1934)
- November 24 –Barack Obama, Sr.,Father of US President Barack Obama (b.1936)
- November 25 – Hugh Harman, cartoon animator (b. 1903
- November 26 – Juhan Aavik, Estonian composer (b. 1884)
- November 29 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
- December 2 – Marty Feldman, British comedian and writer (b. 1934)
- December 7 – Will Lee, American actor who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street (b. 1908)
- December 8 – Marty Robbins, American singer (b. 1925)
- December 10 – Freeman Fisher Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
- December 16 – Colin Chapman, British designer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry (b. 1928)
- December 20 – Artur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor (b. 1887)
- December 23 – Jack Webb, American actor (b. 1920)
- December 24 – Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)
- December 27 – John Swigert, American astronaut (b. 1931)
Nobel Prizes
Fields Medalists
Templeton Prize
References
- ^ Clarence Tsui, South China Morning Post, 12/12/99, webpage: ITobacco330.