The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 1982 2 DeFord Bailey, 82, American old-time musician and songwriter, he is considered to be the first African American country music star, he was one of the first performers to be introduced on the Nashville-based radio station WSM's Grand Ole Opry,kidney failure and heart failure John Watts, 52, American composer and conceptual artist
4 Antonio Guzmán Fernández, 71, 46th president of the Dominican Republic Terry Higgins, 37, Welsh disc jockey and barman,"Terrence Higgins' legacy, 30 years after death". Neil Prior, BBC News Wales, 5 July 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2015. he also served as a Hansard reporter in the House of Commons, death due to parasitic pneumonia, he was one of the first AIDS patients to die in the United Kingdom. He is the eponym of the Terry Higgins Trust which was established by his friends, and which is dedicated to preventing the spread of HIV
5 Geoffrey Keynes, 95, British surgeon and author
6 Bob Johnson, 76, American professional baseball player, he played as a left fielder in Major League Baseball for three American League teams from 1933 to 1945, though he is primarily associated with the Philadelphia Athletics,heart failure Alma Reville, 82, English screenwriter and film editor, she started her film career in the 1910s as a teenaged cutter for the Twickenham Film Studios Raúl Roa García, 75, politician and diplomat who served as Foreign Minister of Cuba Abrim Tilmon, member of The Detroit Emeralds Warren Tufts, 56, American writer and artist for comic books and comic strips,Chester Tufts, Social Security Number 564-20-2613, at the Social Security Death Index via GenealogyBank.com. Source gives death date only as "July 1982".Warren Tufts at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. Gives death date as July 6, 1982. Archived from the original on March 8, 2015. primarily known for creating the Western adventure strip Casey RugglesCasey Ruggles at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. from the original on March 8, 2015. and being a regular artist for Gold Key Comics, killed in an aviation accident, while piloting an airplane of his own design
8 Sylvan Byck, 77, American cartoonist and editor, he served as the comics editor and eventual vice president of the King Features Syndicate from 1945Sylvan Byck, comic strips editor, dead at 78 at United Press International, published July 8, 1982, retrieved June 3, 2019 until his retirement in 1978, Cartoonist Bill Yates Dead at 79 Distinguished 10-Year Career as King Features Comics Editor, at King Features Syndicate; published March 27, 2001; retrieved June 3, 2019 he is credited with launching or revising a number of popular comic strips, such as Beetle BaileyConnecticut Cartoonists #7: Mort Walker, Dik Browne and Jerry Dumas, by Ron Goulart, in The Comics Journal; published July 26, 2016; retrieved June 4, 2019 and Hi and Lois,Mort Walker: Conversations, edited by Jason Whiton, published 2005 by University Press of Mississippi Gunnar Eriksson, 60, Swedish cross-country skier, he won two medals at the 1948 Winter Olympics, death due to ALS (variously known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, motor neuron disease, and Lou Gehrig's disease) Virginia Hall, 76, American wartime spy, operative of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Vichy France and in Madrid, she subsequently joined the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), primarily used in a mission to arm and train the French Maquis in preparation for the Allied invasion of Normandy, she also served as one of the first female agents of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the aftermath of World War II, serving from 1947 until her mandatory retirement in 1966 Isa Miranda, 77, Italian actress, she played femme fatale roles while under contract with the film studio Paramount PicturesMonica Cardarilli (2004) MIRANDA, Isa. Enciclopedia del Cinema
9 Daphne Dale, 49, Kenyan-born British ballet dancer, ballet teacher, and horse trainer, one of the victims killed in the aviation accident of Pan Am Flight 759
10 Maria Jeritza, 94, Austrian soprano
11 Susan Littler, 34, English actress, ovarian cancerThe Daily Telegraph, p.20, 13 July 1982.
12 Kenneth More, 67, English actor, multiple system atrophy (MSA)Kenneth More Charity page at official website.Sandford, Christopher. "Quiet Hero: Happy (Belated) Birthday to British Actor Kenneth More (September 20, 1914 – July 12, 1982)." Bright Lights Film Journal, 29 September 2014.
13 John Alexander, 84, American actor, he portrayed Teddy Brewster in the black comedy film Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), a lunatic character who thinks that he is Theodore Roosevelt, he also portrayed an actual version of Roosevelt in the Western comedy Fancy Pants (1950)
14 Jackie Jensen, 55, American baseball player, 1958 American League Most Valuable Player Award winner, heart attack
15 Enid Lorimer, 94, English-born Australian actress, writer of children's literature, and theosophist
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Patrick Dewaere, 35, French actor, suicide by firearm C. R. Swart, 87, South African politician,Obituary: Charles Swart, ex-South African leader, Lakeland Ledger, 17 July 1982 he served as the last Governor-General of South Africa from 1959 until 1961,Politics in the Republic of South Africa, Leonard Monteath Thompson, Little, Brown, 196, page 60 he served as the first State President of South Africa from 1961 until 1967
18 Roman Jakobson, 85, Russian linguist and literary theorist,"Roman Jakobson: A Brief Chronology" , compiled by Stephen Rudy he was a pioneer of structural linguistics and he is regarded as the founder of the modern discipline of phonologyKnight, Chris, 2018. Decoding Chomsky: Science and revolutionary politics. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, Quirico Pignalberi, 91, Italian Roman Catholic priest and member of the Conventual Franciscans,combat medic during World War I,"Quirico Pignalberi", Dicastro delle Cause dei Santi popular confessor and traveling preacher during the interwar period, award-winning artisan and repairman, specialist in the repair of clocks
19 Hugh Everett III, 51, American physicist, he is primarily known for proposing the relative state interpretation of quantum mechanics, which later became the basis of the many-worlds interpretation (MWI), he also worked on various studies of the Minuteman missile project, and he published an influential study on the effects of fallout in nuclear weapon campaigns,Hugh Everett III and George E. Pugh, "The Distribution and Effects of Fallout in Large Nuclear-Weapon Campaigns", in Biological and Environment Effects of Nuclear War, Hearings Before the Special Sub-Committee on Radiation of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, June 22–26, 1959, Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959.Cf. Dr. Linus Pauling Nobel Peace Prize 1962 lecture (and reprinted in Peace by Frederick W. Haberman, Irwin Abrams, Tore Frängsmyr, Nobelstiftelsen, Nobelstiftelsen (Stockholm), published by World Scientific, 1997 ), delivered on December 11, 1963, in which he mentioned the work by Pugh and Everett regarding the risks of nuclear profliferation and even quoted them from 1959. Pauling said: "This is a small nuclear attack made with use of about one percent of the existing weapons. A major nuclear war might well see a total of 30,000 megatons, one-tenth of the estimated stockpiles, delivered and exploded over the populated regions of the United States, the Soviet Union, and the other major European countries. The studies of Hugh Everett and George E. Pugh , of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Division, Institute of Defense Analysis, Washington, D.C., reported in the 1959 Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Radiation, permit us to make an estimate of the casualties of such a war. This estimate is that sixty days after the day on which the war was waged, 720 million of the 800 million people in these countries would be dead, sixty million would be alive but severely injured, and there would be twenty million other survivors. The fate of the living is suggested by the following statement by Everett and Pugh: 'Finally, it must be pointed out that the total casualties at sixty days may not be indicative of the ultimate casualties. Such delayed effects as the disorganization of society, disruption of communications, extinction of livestock, genetic damage, and the slow development of radiation poisoning from the ingestion of radioactive materials may significantly increase the ultimate toll.' ..."heart attack John Harvey, 70, English actor, he played Inspector Loomis in the film noir Stage Fright (1950)
20 Jean Girault, 58, French film director and screenwriter, primarily known for comedy films, tuberculosis
21 Baynes Barron, 65, American actor, infantry sergeant during World War II Dave Garroway, 69, American television host and pioneer of the talk show genre in television, he was the founding host and anchor of NBC's Today from 1952 until 1961,suicide by shotgun. Garroway had spent some weeks in and out of hospitals prior to his death, suffering long-term complications from a staph infection
22 Garry Meadows, 43, Australian television presenter, radio announcer, and actor, considered one of the first announcers to use the talkback format,McKay, Ken (15 April 2012) Tribute to Garry Meadows (1939-1982), WA TV History website. Retrieved 2 October 2018. host of the game show The Price Is Right.(1 October 2018) The 1970s Price Is Right, television.au website. Retrieved 2 October 2018.heart attack at his workplace
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Vic Morrow, 53, American actor, he portrayed a thug student in his film debut Blackboard Jungle (1955), and he was subsequently typecast in portraying tough guys and juvenile delinquents due to his "menacing" appearance, one of the victims of the Twilight Zone accident, a falling helicopter landed on top of him, killing him instantly. Morrow was also decapitated and mutilated by the helicopter's rotor blades Betty Parsons, 82, American artist, art dealer, and art collector, primarily known for her early promotion and support for Abstract Expressionism; during the late 1940s, Parsons' privately-owned art gallery in Manhattan was the only one willing to market the works of certain avant-garde American artistsCarol Strickland (June 28, 1982), "Betty Parsons's 2 Lives: She Was Artist, Too " The New York Times.
25 Hal Foster, 89, Canadian-American comic strip artist and writer,"United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JTRZ-ZPP : accessed 25 Feb 2013), Harold Foster, July 1982; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing). creator of the fantasy adventure strip Prince Valiant,Syracuse University: Hal Foster Papers.he also handled the Sunday strip of Tarzan from 1931 until 1937,. Foster is credited with introducing a number of new techniques for newspaper comics, including the use of chiaroscuro and naturalistic drawings
28 Keith Green, 28, Contemporary Christian music singer-songwriter and instrumentalist George Kleinsinger, 68, American composer, primarily known for children's compositions and music scores for Broadway theatre, film, and television, co-creator of the popular song Tubby the Tuba(1945),History of "Tubby the Tuba" at official site. Retrieved April 9, 2007. and the musical Shinbone Alley (1957), he worked on the music for both the 1948 animated adaptation of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the adaptation of the same story in a 1964 television special by Rankin-Bass,cancer