The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1982 1 Agnes Gehrman, 89, American politician, member of the Washington State Legislature. T. Thirunavukarasu, 48, Sri Lankan Tamil politician, member of the Tamil United Liberation Front, MP for Vaddukoddai from 1977 until 1982,heart attack

2 Cathleen Nesbitt, 93, English actress and autobiographer

5 Dieter Borsche, 72, German actor.Who Are Those Guys? - Dieter Borsche Sir John Charnley, 70, English orthopaedic surgeon, pioneer of hip replacement operation.Charnley, Sir John (1911 - 1982)

6 S. K. Pottekkatt, 69, Indian writer of Malayalam literature, traveller, and politician, primarily known for his travelogues, complications from a paralytic stroke. Pottekkatt was hospitalized since July, without recovering his mobility"സഞ്ചാരിയായ എഴുത്തുകാരന്‍!" . Mathrubhumi. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

7 Jill Banner, 35, American actress, she portrayed Virginia, the eponymous "spider baby" in the comedy horror film Spider Baby (1967),The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films|Oscars.org (title: "Spider Baby") mortally injured in a car accident, when her car was hit by a truckResting Places

9 Alexandre Alexeieff, 81. Russian expatriate filmmaker and illustrator, co-inventor of the pinscreen animation technique in the 1930s

11 Tom Drake, 64, American actor, lung cancer

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Henry Fonda, 77, American actor, heart disease Salvador Sánchez, 23, Mexican professional boxer, featherweight champion from 1980 until 1982 for both the World Boxing Council (WBC) and The Ring, killed in a single-vehicle car accident, when he crashed his sports car along the federal highway

13 Bjarne Andersen, 73, Norwegian actor, stage producer and theatre director, he served as a theatre director at Rogaland Teater from 1958 until 1960, and at Den Nationale Scene from 1961 until 1963, he served as the chairman for the Norwegian Actors' Equity Association from 1967 until 1969. Joe E. Ross, 68, American actor, comedian, and voice actor for animation, he portrayed the police officer Gunther Toody in the sitcom Car 54, Where Are You? and the police sergeant Flint in Hong Kong Phooey,"King of Slobs: The Life of Joe E. Ross," by Listener Kliph Nesteroff, WFMU, January 30, 2011.heart attack while performing in a clubhouseThe Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Klip Nesteroff, Grove Press, 2015, pages 314-315.Who's Who in Comedy: Ccomedians, Comics, and Clowns from Vaudeville to Today's Stand-Ups by Ronald L. Smith, Facts on File, 1992, page 406-407. Joe Tex, 47, American singer and musician Charles Walters, 70, American film director and choreographer, primarily known for his work in musicals and comedies for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from the 1940s until the 1960s, lung cancer.

14 Patrick Magee, 60, Irish actor, he created the role of the Marquis de Sade in the original stage and screen productions of Marat/Sade,heart attack and NYT Magee obituary

15 George Brasno, 70, American actor, singer, and vaudevillian,Kemp, Heather Wendt for Weird NJ. "Weird NJ: The Brasnos – Old Bridge’s movie heroes", Asbury Park Press, April 23, 2017. Accessed December 26, 2017. Persons short in stature historically have found work in the entertainment industry. The members of the Brasno family of Old Bridge were able to benefit from this trend. They were a family of six, four of whom were little people. As 'proportional' dwarfs, or 'midgets' as they were commonly known in the 1930s, siblings Olive and George Brasno were offered Munchkin roles in The Wizard of Oz.... Not foreseeing that the movie would become a classic, Olive and George declined MGM’s offer, choosing instead to continue with their own more lucrative vaudeville act, 'Buster Shaver, Olive and George.'" part of a professional sibling duo of little persons with his sister Ernie Bushmiller, 76, American cartoonist, creator of the comic strip character Nancy,Markstein, Don. Toonopedia: Fritzi Ritz he had previously taken over the older comic strip Fritzi RitzHarvey, R. C. "The Lawrence Welk of Cartoonists: Ernie, Nancy, and the Bushmiller Society". The Comics Journal, April 10, 2012. Maurice Gallay, 79, French footballer; he played as a defender for Olympique de Marseille and the French national team in the 1920s, he helped the OM team to win back-to-back Coupe de France titles in 1926 and 1927 Hugo Theorell, 79, Swedish scientist, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1955 for discovering oxidoreductase enzymes and their effects

17 Barney Phillips, 68, American actor, cancer

18 Carlos Botelho, 82, Portuguese painter, illustrator, comics artist, political cartoonist, satirist and caricaturist, writer of Ecos da Semana (Echoes of the Week), a series of autobiographical comics which lasted from 1928 until 1950FRANÇA, José Augusto – Ecos da Semana de Botelho, 1928-1950. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1989

20 Ulla Jacobsson, 53, Swedish actress, she became internationally famous for her nude scenes in One Summer of Happiness (1951), bone cancer George David Woods, 81, American investment banker and financier, chairman of the First Boston Corporation, he served as the President of the World Bank from 1963 until 1968, a director of The New York Times Company

21 Connie Izay, 53, American professional nurse, actress, and medical technical advisor on several television series, including M*A*S*H, Marcus Welby, M.D., and Bonanza, her job involved reading scripts for medical errors, highlighting the terminology which the actors needed to pronounce correctly, and showing the actors how to properly hold medical equipment,breast cancer Sobhuza II, 83, King of Swaziland (reigned 1899-1906, 1968-1982), Paramount Chief of the Swaziland Protectorate (1906-1968)

23 Alfred S. Bloomingdale, 86, American businessman (d. 1982)Alfred S. Bloomingdale 700newhampshire Alberto Cavalcanti, 85, Brazilian film director, producer, and set designer, director of propaganda films for the Ealing Studios during the 1940s,blacklisted as a communist Stanford Moore, 68, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.Stanford Moore

25 Hans van Tongeren, 27, Dutch actor, he portrayed the suicidal motocrosser Rien in his debut film Spetters (1980), death by suicide

26 Anna German, 46, Polish singer, she toured, performed and recorded in the Soviet Union during the 1970s,

27 Anandamayi Ma, 86, Indian saint, teacher, and mystic, she was revered as an incarnation of Hindu goddess Durga.

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Ingrid Bergman, 67, Swedish actress and autobiographer, breast cancer which had spread to her spine, collapsing her twelfth vertebra; her right lung no longer functioned, and only a small part of her left lung had not collapsed Nahum Goldmann, 87, Belarusian Zionist, founder of the World Jewish Congress, he served as the organization's president from 1951 until 1978, president of the World Zionist Organization from 1956 until 1968,pulmonary collapse

30 Eugene Loring, 71, American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and administrator, he introduced his own dance notation, known as Kineseography,For Loring's historical connection to dance notation, see Ann Hutchinson Guest, Dance Chronicle 18, 2, "Aspects of Dance: Essays in Honor of Selma Jeanne Cohen" (1995), pp. 195-206; also Dance Notation Bureau section of chairman of the Department of Dance in the University of California, Irvine from 1965 until his retirement in 1981

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External links List of August 1982 deaths at IMDb