The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 1982 1
Kenneth Beck, 67, American water polo player and Olympian Edwin N. Clark, 80, American lawyer and military officer Amelia Gade Corson, 85, Danish-born American long-distance swimmerMille Corson in the U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Albert Fitzgerald, 75, American trade union leader Beryl Follet, 74, American football player Grant Gilmore, 72, American law professor Samuel Juster, 86, American architect who practiced during the mid-20th century in New York City and New Jersey"Samuel Juster," American Architects Directory (3rd ed.) R. R. Bowker LLC (1970), p. 467. Alexander Kutateli, 84, Georgian and Soviet writer and translator Jay Laurence Lush, 86, American pioneering animal geneticist Everett McGowan, 82, American professional ice hockey player Hussein ibn Nasser, 79, Jordanian prince and statesman who served as the 16th Prime Minister of Jordan Brian O'Brien, 59, New Zealand boxer, journalist and politician Jake Pelkington, 66, American professional basketball player William Primrose, 77, Scottish violist and teacher, he was a member of both the London String Quartet and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, cancer Anthony Hoskyns-Abrahall, 78, Anglican priest and bishop Torajirō Saitō, 77, Japanese film director Gene Sheldon, 74, American actor, mime artist, and musician, primarily remembered for playing the mute servant Bernardo in Walt Disney's Western series Zorro (1957–1959),Meyers, David; Howard, Arnett; Loeffler, James (2008). Columbus: The Musical Crossroads. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing. p. 55. .Brode, Douglas (2005). Multiculturalism and the Mouse: Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. p. 87. . heart attack Margaret Sheridan (married name Margaret Wildman), 55, American actress Wolfgang Stammberger, 61, German jurist and politician Harcus Strachan, 97, Scottish born Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross Mikhaïl Suzumov, 88, Soviet Russian historian Mir Rasool Bux Talpur, 61, Pakistani politician and officeholder Eddie Tryon, 81, American football player Walther Wenck, 81, German military officer and industrialist
2
Salomon Bochner, 82, Galizien-born mathematician Leo Callahan, 91, American professional baseball player Helmut Dantine, 63, Austrian-American actor and film producer, typecast in portraying Nazis, vice-president of Schenck Enterprises, the production company of his uncle-in-law Joseph Schenck, heart attack Patrick Dooley, 72, Irish Fianna Fáil politician Nirmal Kumar Dutta, 68, Indian pharmacologist, medical academic and the director of Haffkine Institute, Mumbai James Fitton, 83, English painter, lithographer and theatre set designer Hugh Marlowe, 71, American actor (Ellery Queen).Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. . Pp. 8–9, 118. heart attackObituary: "Hugh Marlowe, character actor", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 5, 1982 Allan Montgomery, 61, Australian rules footballer John Ryan, 33, Australian rugby union and professional rugby league footballer Bill Sefton, 67, American pole vaulter Wini Shaw, 75, American actress, dancer, and singer, in film she introduced the song "Lullaby of Broadway" and performed the song "The Lady in Red" Virginia Vestoff, 42, American actress
3
Mohammed Seddik Benyahia, 50, Algerian politician and diplomat who was a militant nationalist during the Algerian War. He served as a member of the Algerian delegation in negotiations with the French government for the Evian Accords (1962),Jijel.info -Biographie de Mohamed Seddik BENYAHIA and was a cabinet member for fifteen years. His airplane was shot down on the Iran–Turkey border during his mediation mission in the Iran–Iraq War. Ella Florence Fondren, 101, American philanthropist Brenda Frazier, 60, American socialite Kanchi Kalyanasundaram, 72, Indian politician Margit Nordin, 84, Swedish gymnastics director Rajni Patel, 67, Indian politician and barrister Werner Schwier, 60, German actor Ibrahim Yusuf Sulayman, 73 or 74, Sudanese politician Henri Tajfel, 62, Polish social psychologist Rex Townley, 78, Australian politician and cricket player William Whitelaw, 75, Scottish first-class cricketer
4
Huang Bamei, 75 or 76, Chinese pirate leader who served as a naval commander in the Second Sino-Japanese War Georges Aleka Damas, 79, Gabonese politician who served as president of the National Assembly of Gabon from 1964 through 1975 Lillian Gilmore, 72, America actress Harry Hays, 72, Canadian politician who was the 27th Mayor of Calgary Edna Holland, 86, American actress ruptured aneurysm Barnett Janner, 89, British politician Charles O. McManiman, 82, American politician from MichiganCharles O McManiman in the Michigan, U.S., Death Index, 1971-1996 Leo W. O'Brien, 81, American journalist, radio and television commentator, and politician
5
Accamma Cherian, 73, Indian independence activist Ian Hill, 77, Scottish cardiologist Denis Hill-Wood, 75, English cricketer and the chairman of Arsenal Football Club Julio Irazusta, 82, Argentine writer and politician Irmgard Keun, 77, German novelist Phuljhuri Khan, 61 or 62, Bangladeshi musician Mauricio Cardozo Ocampo, 74, Paraguayan composer and singer Nikolai Organov, 81, Soviet politician and statesman Sue Pritzker, 49, American socialite, philanthropist, and reproductive rights activist Hossein Qajeyi, 23, Iranian military officer Cal Tjader, 56, American Latin Jazz musician, he is often described as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician, he is linked to the development of the then-new music genres of Latin rock and acid jazz, heart attack while on the road with his band in Manila Ernie Watson, 73, Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon
6
Nancy Adam, 94, Scottish trade union official Faiz Mohammad Baloch, 81 or 82, Balochi folk musician and folk singer William P. Durkee III, 63, American diplomat, lawyer, and public official Rosamond Harding, 84, English music scholar, writer, organologist and instrument collector Hibiscus, 32, American actor and performance artist, he took part in the anti-war march March on the Pentagon (1967), and he appeared in Bernie Boston's Pulitzer Prize-nominated photograph, Flower Power; Hibiscus was the turtleneck sweater-wearing protester photographed putting flowers into the gun barrels of a soldier of the 503rd Military Police Battalion (Airborne), he was the founder of the psychedelic gay liberation theater collective known as the Cockettes,www.cockettes.com History, retrieved 22 Nov 2007 death from pneumonia and complications from AIDS. At the time of his death, AIDS was known as GRID or "gay cancer", and was highly stigmatized. Pinocchio James, 54, American singer Robert McGowan Littlejohn, 91, major general in the United States Army Art Macioszczyk, 61, American professional football fullback Beauty McGowan, 79, American baseball player Endel Press, 53, Estonian swimmer Salvatore Ruggiero, 36, American mobster Herman T. Schneebeli, 74, American politician
7
Alfred Adam, 74, French actor Claudio Barrientos, 46, Chilean boxer Lloyd Gullickson, 83, American professional golfer Vi Jordan, 68, Australian politician George Provens, 63, American baseball player for the Cleveland Buckeyes
8
Salomea Andronikova, 94, Georgian socialite and salonist Лобанов-Ростовский Н. Дм. История: Портрет Саломеи Андрониковой работы Александра Яковлева . Русская Газета. 03.31.2005, №12(83). Мнухин Л., Авриль М., Лосская В. Российское зарубежье во Франции 1919—2000. — Москва: Наука; Дом-музей Марины Цветаевой. 2008. remembered for her association with several writers of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry in pre-revolutionary Saint Petersburg, who celebrated her physical and intellectual charms in their works.Smith, G. S. & Stone, G. C. (1998), Oxford Slavonic Papers: New Series. Volume XXX, p. 90. Oxford University Press, . Sam Baker, 75, American actor,he played Queequeg in The Sea Beast (1926),which was the first film adaptation of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, and Hugo in the science fiction film serial The Lost City (1935). Neil Bogart, 39, American record executive who founded Casablanca Records Leonor Cecotto, 61 or 62, Latin American painter and engraver Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande, 80, Marathi poet Bernie Glow, 56, American trumpeter Anatoli Kacharava, 71, Soviet and Georgian sea captain Al Leader, 78, Canadian ice hockey administrator and player Anita Pittoni, 81, Italian textile craftswoman, clothing designer, writer, and publisher Gilles Villeneuve, 32, Canadian racing driver who competed in Formula One from to . He won six Grands Prix. He was seriously injured in an accident at the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix.Lang (1992) p.97 After being hospitalized, he was diagnosed with a fatal fracture of the neckWatkins (1997) pp.96–98 and died soon after.Donaldson (2003) pp.296–298
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Del W. Carroll, 62, American champion polo player, Thoroughbred racehorse owner/trainer, and soldier during World War II W. Beverly Carter Jr., 61, American diplomat and journalist René González, 63, Cuban professional baseball player Nelida Lobato, 47, Argentine actress, dancer, and model cancer Dorothy Binney Palmer, 93, American explorer, socialite, and friend to Amelia Earhart Renato Côrte Real, 57, Brazilian comedian and actor John Smith, 75, American baseball first baseman Petr Svojtka, 35, Czech actor Madeline Willemsen, 66, Puerto Rican actress, comedian, and writer
10
Villem Ernits, 90, Estonian linguist and politician Winston Jenkins, 69 or 70, South African cricketer Raymond Jonson, 90, American modernist painter Ron Lundy, 75, American radio announcer and DJ Vivian Carter Mason, 82, American civil rights activist Don L. Short, 78, American cattle rancher and politician Vilém Šindler, 78, Czech middle-distance runner and Olympian. Peter Weiss, 65, German-born Swedish writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker Alex Weyand, 90, American football player, Olympian, Army officer and sports historian[ Alex "Babe" Weyand], College Football Hall of Fame. Accessed June 27, 2013. Ma Yinchu, 99, Chinese economist
11
Bull Allen, 65, Australian soldier and a recipient of the United States' Silver Star Åke Andersson, 63, Swedish ice hockey, football and bandy player Jacob Burck, 75, Polish-born Jewish-American painter, sculptor, and award-winning editorial cartoonist. Tibor Fazekas, 89, Hungarian water polo player Al Hayse, 61,Alvin C Hayse in the Michigan, U.S., Death Index, 1971-1996 American jazz trombonist Dave Malarcher, 87, American third baseman in Negro league baseball Josiah Lewis Morgan, 88 or 89, Welsh flying ace in the Royal Air Force Nettie Ottenberg, 95, American social worker Leonardo Savioli, 65, Italian architect and painter Sejr Volmer-Sørensen, 68, Danish lyricist, actor, director and television host Elli Ylimaa, 81, Finnish actress
12
Walter Boas, 78, German-Australian metallurgist First published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (MUP), 2007. Aleksandr Borisov, 77, Soviet actor, film director, screenwriter, and singer, he was named People's Artist of the USSR (1951) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1981) Hardy Cross Dillard, 79, American jurist who served as a judge on the International Court of Justice Pjetër Gjoka, 69, Albanian film and theatre actor Fred Halsey Kraege, 83, American politician Hubert Lanz, 85, German general during the Second World War Wear Schoonover, 72, American college football player Ronald Bodley Scott, 75, English haematologist and expert on therapy for leukemia and lymphoma