Deaths in April 1982

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 1982

1

Stephen Chase, 79, American actor Col Cottrell, 40, British speedway rider Xu Fuguan, 78, Chinese historian and philosopher Gobind Behari Lal, 92, Indian-American journalist and independence activist. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1937. Harry F. Olson, 81, American acoustical engineer Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi, 70, Sindhi historian and scholar Ann Richards, 46, American pop and jazz singer

2

Yedidya Admon, 87, Israeli composer and singer Junius Bird, 74, American archaeologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History Hannes de Boer, 81, Dutch long jumper Fritz Breidster, 81, American military officer and football player Sam Coslow, 79, American songwriter, singer, film producer, publisher, and market analyst, he won the won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his production Heavenly Music, he founded the publishing company Investor's Press, which published investing books and the newsletter "Indicator Digest."Sam Coslow papers, Collection 8537, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming Ruth Gikow, 67, American visual artist Loretta Hines Howard, 78, American artist and collector Éva Kun, 64, Hungarian fencer Murari Sharma, 81, Indian revolutionary Max de Vaucorbeil, 80, Belgian film director

3

Ryszard Bartel, 85, Polish engineer, aircraft designer and aviator Andrew Biemiller, 75, American politician and labor union officer Ray Boord, 74, politician of the New Zealand Labour Party Moustafa Hamid Mansour, 51, Egyptian wrestler and Olympian Warren Oates, 53, American actor known for collaborating with Peter Fonda and for his performances in the works of Sam Peckinpah and Monte Hellman. Cause of death was a heart attack"Actor Warren Oates Dies", Minden Press-Herald, Minden, Louisiana, April 5, 1982, p. 8 Stephanie Roper 22, Frostburg State University student who was murdered Alfred G. Ward, 73, admiral in the United States Navy

4

Eli Chism, 65, American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues George Him, 81, Polish-born British designer Vince McGowan, 68, American professional basketball player E. J. H. Nash, 83, Evangelical Anglican clergyman Mel Queen, 64, American pitcher in Major League Baseball Dzhabar Rasulov, 68, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan Tsvetan Tsvetanov, 50, Bulgarian composer and music educator Sona Valikhan, 98, Azerbaijani Soviet ophthalmologist, doctor of medical sciences, professor, Honored Scientist of Azerbaijan SSR (1942), and the first Azerbaijani woman to receive a medical degree.

5

Basil Banghart, 80, American criminal, burglar, and prison escape artist Bella Bruck, 70, American character actressBella G Bruch in the California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997 Dick Colman, 67, American football player and coach Abe Fortas, 71, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Helen Lawrenson, 74, American editor, writer and socialite Adri Pieck, 87, Dutch painter Alexander Spearman, 81, British MP Lumen Martin Winter, 73, American artist

6

Gabriel Auphan, 87, French admiral and politicianAuphan, Gabriel Adrien Joseph Paul Pat Beasley, 75, Irish-born English jockey Elsa Björkman-Goldschmidt, 93, Swedish artist and writer Jonas Brunvoll Jr., 61, Norwegian opera singer and actor David George Findlay, 69, Surinamese politician, editor, and writer Harold Stonebridge Fischer, 71, American activist, composer, and poet Horrie Garrick, 63, Australian politician Alberto Guerreiro Ramos, 66, Brazilian sociologist and politician Al Hoxie, 80, American silent film actor and later police officer Erhard Kietz, 72, German-born physicist Don Lockhart, 51, Canadian ice hockey player Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay, 64, Burmese writer and teacher of the French language John Alanson Perkins, 67, College administrator and professor of political science A. M. B. Rose, 82, Indian theatre actor, singer, theatre director, and playwright Pavel Rotmistrov, 80, Soviet military commander Frank Rule, 86, Australian rugby league footballer Harold W. Stoke, 78, American college president Göran Unger, 82, Swedish athlete who competed in the pentathlon at the Olympics Bobby E. Wright, 48, American clinical psychologist

7

Brenda Benet, 36, American actress known for her roles in the soap operas The Young Marrieds and Days of Our Lives, suicide by self-inflicted gunshot. Harald Ertl, 33, Austrian racing driver and motorsport journalist Charles "Sparky" Kawamoto, 73, American swimming coach Stig Lindberg, 65, Swedish ceramic designer, glass designer, textile designer, industrial designer, painter, teacher, and illustrator Luigi Luisoni, 74, Swiss racing cyclist Mathew Tobriner, 78, American lawyer and law professor who served as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court Koço Uçi, 59, Albanian composer and conductor María Flora Yáñez, 83, Chilean writer

8

Susan Alamo, 56, founder of the Alamo Christian Foundation Alonzo Boone, 74, American baseball pitcher and manager in the Negro leagues Bea Feitler, 44, Brazilian designer and art director Branko Grković, 62, Bosnian-Herzegovinian composer, arranger, music editor, music critic, pianist, music educator, and writer on music Tano Jōdai, 95, professor of English literature, peace activist, and the sixth president of the Japan Women's University Edmund Roman Orlik, 64, Polish architect, and World War II tank commander Katherine Rawls, 64, American swimmer and Olympic medalist Peter Ryan, 90, Australian rules footballer Burt Shevelove, 66, American expatriate playwright, lyricist, librettist, and director, primarily associated with musical theater Theodore Wertime, 62, American diplomat and historian James Whitney, 60, American filmmaker, an influential creator in abstract film and visual musicMoritz, William. "In Memoriam James Whitney." Osnabruck Media Art Festival program May 1996.

9

Jay Arnold, 69, American football player Francisco Barrios, 28, Mexican starting pitcher in Major League Baseball Bruno Beater, 68, East German intelligence officer and politician Tom Dresser, 90, or 91, English soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross Kirill Florensky, 66, Russian Soviet geochemist and planetologist Turan Güneş, 60, Turkish academic and politician Robert Havemann, 72, chemist, physicist, and East German dissident Maximilian Herzberger, 83, German-American mathematician and physicist Hank Hulvey, 84, American baseball player Luis Isamat, 81, Spanish field hockey player and Olympian Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones, 76, American educator and president of Grambling State University Jussi Jurkka, 51, Finnish actor, he had roles in 32 films and one sketch comedy television series, throat cancerKajava, Jukka: Radioteatteri: Jussi Jurkka – monikasvoinen intohimo. Helsingin Sanomat, 21 August 1999. Tine Mulej, 61, Slovenian alpine skier Richard W. O'Neill, 84, American soldier in the United States Army who served during World War I. He received the Medal of Honor. Wilfrid Pelletier, 85, Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and arts administrator Horace Seely-Brown Jr., 73, American politician Jack Walker, 71, Australian rules footballer

10

James Hutchinson Davidson, 79, Australian bandleader and jazz musician Vic Hanson, 78, American football player and coach, basketball player, and baseball player LeRoy Heston, 78, Colonel of the United States Air Force Choe Hyon, 74, North Korean general and politician Vladimir Janjgava, 74, Georgian Soviet Army lieutenant general and Hero of the Soviet Union Edward Rowe Snow, 79, American writer and historian Cornelis van Staveren, 92, Dutch sailor and Olympian

11

Janet Aitken, 96, British medical doctor and the president of the Medical Women's Federation Joe Campbell, 88, Australian rules footballer John Garklāvs, 83, bishop of the Orthodox Church in America Walter Graf, 78, Austrian musicologist Albert Künzler, 71, Swiss ice hockey player who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics Louis M. Lyons, 84, American journalist and curator of the Nieman Foundation Dan Minor, 72, American jazz trombonist Barbara Strang, 56, British English language scholar Margaret Valiant, 81, American musician, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and activist John Veneman, 56, Republican politician

12

Lenny Baker, 37, American actor, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in the stage musical I Love My Wife, medullary thyroid cancer Sofya Giatsintova, 86, Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress, theater director and pedagogue Tony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood of Rossendale, 70, British Labour Party politician Vitaly Goryaev, 71, Soviet artist Thomas T. Handy, 90, United States Army four-star general Jim McCarthy, 64, Irish hurler Sigurður Sigurðsson, Icelandic athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics Maurice Ville, 81, French racing cyclist

13

Betty Blake, 51, American historic preservationist and promoter Mary de Bunsen, 71, British Air Transport Auxiliary pilot and author Daciano Colbachini, 88, Italian hurdler and Olympian John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange, 81, Scottish peer, military officer, and writer Sidney A. Fine, 78, American lawyer, politician and justice of the New York Supreme Court Sam Glankoff, 87, American Abstract Expressionist and woodcut artist,"Getting to know CRSA Forum – The Journal of the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association Fall 2006 Edition | Archived: https://www.samglankoff.com/www_samglankoff_com/54417d53.pdf he created woodcut and pen and ink illustrations for St. Nicholas Magazine, Scribners, The New Yorker, Family Circle Magazine and for his brother's CUE Magazine, and he served as the head artist for the educational comic book series True Comics in the 1940s,Official Biography, Sam Glankoff | https://www.samglankoff.com/biography/ he designed stuffed toys for the company Impulse Items, and he designed and hand-fabricated the first, three-dimensional versions of Babar the Elephant and Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat for that company. Ray Knode, 81, American Major League Baseball baseball and college football player B. P. Mandal, 63, Janata Party politician from India William J. McNevin, 69, Canadian politician John P. Metras, 73, American coach of Canadian football Willie Morris, 63, British diplomat from Yorkshire Herbert Niiler, 76, Estonian American basketball player and coach Georges Villiers, 82, French mining engineer who was mayor of Lyon

14

Valerie Boothby, 77, German actress, painter, and writer M. Chave Collisson, 95, Australian feminist and suffragist Charles Cushing, 76, American composer, band director, and professor of music Kermit Dial, 74, American Negro League infielder Carl Ludwig Kirmse, 93, German art director for films Devidutt Pant, 75, Indian independence activist Carlota Pereira de Queirós, 90, Brazilian feminist and politician Adrien Stoutenburg, 65, American poet and a prolific writer of juvenile literature Cal Thomas, 66, American football player John Turner, 79, English lyricist

15

Khalid Al-Islambuli, 27, Egyptian military officer who participated in the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat Riccardo Billi, 75, Italian film actor and comedian Mud Bruneteau, 67, Canadian professional ice hockey forward Ted Drews, 79, American football player, coach, and educator Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj, 28, Egyptian radical Islamist, convicted murderer, and theorist Louis de Guiringaud, 71, French politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs Irene Krugman, 56, American artist Dmytro Lazorko, 73, farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan