The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1982 1
Ben Adamowski, 75, American politician and lawyer Andrée Bonhomme 76, Dutch composer Frank Gill, 65, New Zealand air force pilot and politician Eddie Kushner, 69, Canadian professional football player Liu Puren, Chinese politician T. Vincent Quinn, 78, American jurist and politician from New York Frank Sargeson, 78, New Zealand writerFrank Sargeson’s Bach Lilian Scharman, 80, American tennis player Robert S. Shankland, 74, American physicist and historian Louise L. Sloan, 83, American ophthalmologist and vision scientist Charlie Spivak, 78, American trumpeter and bandleader William Freeman Twaddell, 75, American linguist and professor of German Dutt Yanni, 58, American pioneering driver of modified stock cars
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Elek Bakonyi, 78, Hungarian chess player Robert Begg, 67, Canadian physician, cancer researcher, and President of the University of Saskatchewan Philip K. Dick, 53, American author Ian Graham, 63, Scottish international rugby union player Donald Hardman, 83, senior Royal Air Force commander Haunani Kahalewai, 53, singer and entertainer known as the "First Lady of Song in Hawai‘i" Shiu Narayan Kanhai, 49, Indo-Fijian teacher, trade unionist and politician Djane Lavoie-Herz, 93, Canadian pianist and music educator Yoel Zussman, 71, Israeli jurist and the fourth President of the Supreme Court of Israel
3
Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Majdhub, 62 or 63, Sudanese poet Paul P. Boswell, 76, American politician and medical doctor Josef Bradl, 64, Austrian ski jumper Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, 94, Duchess of Portland from 1943 – 1977 and afterwards Dowager Duchess Neveille Colson, 79, state legislator in Texas Con Cottrell, 64, Irish hurler Mian Ehsan-ul-Haq, 76 or 77, Indian and Pakistani film producer and director Sekine Evren, 59, First Lady of Turkey Raymond O. Faulkner, 87, English Egyptologist and philologist of the ancient Egyptian language Sarah Ferrati, 72, Italian actressEmanuela Del Monaco (1996). "Ferrati, Sara". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 46. Treccani. Firaq Gorakhpuri, 85, Indian writer, critic, and poetRemembering the greatest Urdu poet since Ghalib, Firaq Gorakhpuri . India Today. 3 March 2016 Cornelius Jadwin, 85, American equestrian Keshto Mukherjee, 56, Indian actor and comedian Dmitry Nalivkin, 92, Soviet geologist Georges Perec, 45, French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist William Pollock, 82, American labor union leader Alan Villiers, 78, Australian writer, adventurer, photographer and mariner Lella Warren, 82, American novelist and short story writer Chavviram Singh Yadav, 41 or 42, Indian criminal
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Neli Niklsbacher Bregar, 69, Slovenian embroiderer, ethnologist, and author Edward V. Curry, 72, American politician from New York Bill DeWitt, 79, American professional baseball executive and club owner Dorothy Eden, 69, New Zealand novelist and short story writer Tadeusz Gede, 70, Polish electrical engineer, diplomat, and politicianŻycie Warszawy, No. 44, March 8, 1982, p. 10 (obituary). Jack Murphy Gordon, 51, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Pierpont M. Hamilton, 83, military officer in the United States Air Force Ruth Edna Kelley, 88, American author and librarian Douglas Kertland, 94, Canadian architect and athlete Mabel Pye, 87, Australian artist Dmitry Sukhovarov, 77, Soviet Army colonel João Tito, 58, Portuguese sailor and Olympian Søren Kristian Toubro, 76, Danish engineer Charles Winter, 78, English cricketer
5
John Belushi, 33, American comedian, actor and singer Clifford P. Case, 77, American lawyer and politician form New Jersey Sigi Denk, 31, Austrian cyclist and Olympian Ken Farmer, 71, Australian rules footballer Grahame Hall, 62, Australian rules footballer Bob Johnson, 70, English professional footballer, he played as a centre half Marie Lorraine, 83, Australian actress Burton Miller, 56, American costume and fashion designer Salah Nasr, 61, Egyptian spy and head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate Giuseppe Porelli, 84, Italian actor Kōichi Taira, 72, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture Gertraud Winkelvoss, 65, German politician
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Carmelino G. Alvendia, 75, justice of Court of Appeals of the Philippines Nikolay Belov, 90, Soviet and Russian geochemistVainshtein B.K. and Simonov V.I. (1982). Obituary: Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov 14 December 1891-6 March 1982, Acta Cryst., A38, 561-562, James L. Connolly, Canadian politicianJames Connolly obituary, Globe and Mail, March 9, 1982. Bert Harris, Australian wrestler and Olympian Bob Konovsky, 47, American professional football guard in the National Football League Rambhau Mhalgi, 60, Indian politician Ayn Rand, 77, Russian-born American author
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Ida Barney, 95, American astronomer Walter Burdick, 88, American politician and farmer from Minnesota John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham, 71, British Conservative politician Charles Mills, 68, American composer Chuck Thompson, 55, American jazz drummer Otto von Bolschwing, German SS-Hauptsturmführer, 72, intelligence officer, and international businessman Tomás Wade, Argentine field hockey player Arthur Warwick, 73, British speedway rider Konrad Wolf, 56, East German film director Johann Wotapek, 73, Austrian athlete and Olympian
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Mauritz Amundsen, 77, Norwegian Olympic sport shooter Margaret Barrington, 85, Irish writer and journalist Rab Butler, 79, British Conservative Party politician Mitchell Dahood, 60, American Jesuit priest, Hebraist, and Bible scholar. Ruby Diamond, 95, American businessperson and philanthropist Talmadge Hill, 79, American basketball and football coach Tom Hussey, 71, Major League Baseball announcer for the Boston Red Sox and Boston Braves Hatem Ali Jamadar, 109 or 110, Bengali politician Dot Laughton, 68, Australian cricketer Walter Plunkett, 79, American costume designer Anca Seidlova, 86, Czech-American pianist
9
Isabel Dawson, 64, Canadian politician Brian Finlay, 54, New Zealand rugby union player Marguerite Grépon, 90, French journalist and writer Zvi Yehuda Kook, 90, Israeli Orthodox rabbi G. S. Melkote, 80, Indian freedom fighter, politician and parliamentarian Hedley Penny, 76, Welsh international table tennis player
10
Harry Carter, 80, English typographer Edward J. Garrett, 64, American business executive Joseph Ingolph Hetland, 85, American-born Canadian politician and farmer Austin Hogan, 80, Australian rules footballer Erik Larsson, 69, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist Lubomír Nácovský, 46, Czech sport shooter and Olympic bronze medalist Tadj ol-Molouk, 85, Queen of Iran Minoru Shirota, 82, Japanese microbiologist Milo Urban, 77, Slovak writer, translator, and journalist Leonid Utesov, 86, Soviet estrada singer, and comic actor
11
June Arnold, 55, American novelist and publisher Alan Byron, 45, Australian rules footballer S. A. Dissanayake, 68, Sri Lankan Inspector-General of Police Robert Franklin Gates, 75, American muralist, painter, printmaker, and art professor Horace Gregory, 83, American poet, translator of classic poetry, literary critic and college professor Fritz Heisler, 66, American football coach Nikolai Kamanin, 73, Soviet Air Force general Lewis Litster, 78, Australian cricketer Kiyo Murashima, 89, Japanese politician Rose Repetto, 74, Italian-born French business owner and shoe designer Torgil Thorén, 89, Swedish Navy officer
12
Bill Andrus, 74, American Major League Baseball player Henry Arkell, 83, English first-class cricketer Louis Auriacombe, 65, French conductor Tanio Boccia, 70, Italian film director and screenwriter Levon Khachikyan, 63, Soviet Armenian historian and philologist Aleksander Kulisiewicz, 63, Polish singer, journalist and a political prisoner during the World War II occupation of Poland P.G. O'Dea, 83, Irish playwright Johan Wilhelm Rangell, 87, Prime Minister of Finland João da Silva, 36, Brazilian boxer Frederick Tees, 59, Royal Air Force airmen Dave "Fat Man" Williams, 61, American jazz, blues, and rhythm & blues pianist, bandleader, singer, and songwriter
13 Aurél Bernáth, 86, Hungarian painter and art theorist A. Nagappa Chettiar, 66, Indian industrialist and one of the pioneers of the Indian leather industry Wilfred Hawker, 26, Surinamese military officer who was executed for treason Felix Morley, 88, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and college administrator Pete Sanstol, 76, Norwegian-American professional boxer
14
Caine 1, 24, American graffiti artist Tom Carlyon, 79, Australian rules footballer Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, 79, Austrian engineer Alfred Fairbank, 86, British calligrapher, palaeographer and author on handwriting Hansjörg Farbmacher, 41, Austrian skier Gyula Kádár, 83, Hungarian military officer Anna Leporskaya, 82, Soviet avant-garde artist Robert W. Mattson Sr., 57, American army veteran, lawyer, and politician in Minnesota John McNeill, 82, Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China Kirill Molchanov, 59, Russian and Soviet composer Claude Ernest Pert, 83, senior cavalry officer in the British Indian Army, and British India polo champion
15
Turpin Bannister, 77, American architectural historian Thomas Cossitt, 58, Canadian politician Fred McEvoy, 68, Australian rules footballer Eddie Mulligan, 87, American professional baseball player Edgell Rickword, 83, English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor Vladimír Šmeral, 78, Czech actor Elis Wiklund, 72, Swedish skier and OlympianElis Wiklund . sports-reference.com
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Veniamin Beylin, 77, Red Army major general Syed Nasir Ismail, 61, Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat Veljo Käsper, 51, Estonian film director and screenwriter Walter Rangeley, 78, English track and field athlete Henry J. Rosner, 73, American policy researcher, journalist, and fiscal administrator for public welfare programs in New York City and New York State Geoffrey Vickers, 87, English lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist Merv Wickham, 68, Australian rules footballer Henry Seiler Wise, 72, American judge
17
John Crouse, 75, American special effects artist and cameramanMerwin Seward Crouse in the California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997 Lunie Danage, 86, American baseball player Sam George, 40, lead singer and drummer of The Capitols Herb Graham, 70, Australian politician Earl Honaman, 77, American Episcopal bishop Koos Koster, 46, Dutch journalist Francis Moorehouse, 58, American labor relations specialist
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Vasily Chuikov, 82, Marshal of the Soviet Union during WWIIVasily Chuikov Soviet general Theo Fitzau, 59, German racing driver Yao Kitabatake, 78, Japanese children's writer George More O'Ferrall, 74, British film and television producer, director, and actor Charles Rampelberg, 72, French cyclist Patrick Smith, Irish Fianna Fáil party politician Rolf Steffenburg, 96, Swedish sailor and Olympian Barbara Tennant, 89, English actress Eddie Thompson, 75, English cricketer Lawrence Wackett, 86, Royal Australian Air Force official and fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
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Alan Badel, 58, English actor J. B. Kripalani, 93, Indian politician William C. Lambert, 87, American fighter pilot who flew in World War I Bertie Lorraine, 69, Scotland international rugby union player Hidemitsu Nakano, 91, general in the Imperial Japanese Army Enni Rekola, 72, Finnish actress Randy Rhoads, 25, American guitarist Ben Scharnus, 64, American professional basketball player Nakina Smith, 68, Canadian ice hockey player Christopher Joseph Weldon, 76, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
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