The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1982 2 Muktananda, 74, Indian yoga guru, religious writer, autobiographer, and alleged serial rapist, he was the founder of Siddha Yoga
3 Vivien Merchant, 53, English actress, alcoholism-related death"Death of Vivien Merchant Is Ascribed to Alcoholism", The New York Times 7 October 1982, accessed 13 September 2007.. According to Billington, Pinter "did everything possible to support" Merchant until her death, and regrets that he became estranged from their son, Daniel, after their separation and Pinter's marrying Antonia Fraser. A reclusive writer and musician, Daniel does not use the surname Pinter, having adopted as his surname his maternal grandmother's maiden name Brand after his parents separated (Harold Pinter pp. 276, 255) Noel Sickles, 72, American commercial illustrator and cartoonist, primarily known for his work on the comic strip Scorchy Smith, he received the Inkpot Award in 1976Inkpot Award
4 Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, 68, Iraqi military officer and politician, leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region, he served as both the prime minister of Iraq and the president of Iraq from 1968 until 1979, brought to power by the 17 July Revolution, death due to unreported causes The Amazing Criswell, 75, American self-proclaimed psychic, published writer, newspaper columnist, television showman, and part-time actor, known for wildly inaccurate predictions of global catastrophe scenarios and for advocating a social cycle theory of history repeating itself Glenn Gould, 50, Canadian classical pianist, television producer, writer, broadcaster, and composer, taken off life support by decision of his father. Gould was hospitalized since late September due to a stroke which had paralyzed the left side of his body, and then suffered further brain damage. Leroy Grumman, 87, American aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and industrialist,"Founder, First President of Aerospace Firm." Associated Press, 5 October 1982. Retrieved: 20 March 2009. he co-founded the company Grumman Aircraft Engineering Co. in 1929 Time, 11 September 1944. Retrieved: 17 March 2009. Stefanos Stefanopoulos, 84, Greek politician, he served as the prime minister of Greece from 1965 until 1966, during the political and constitutional crisis known as the Iouliana ("July events"), he had previously briefly served as the acting prime minister in October 1955, following the death in office of Alexandros Papagos, death due to heart disease and respiratory disease
6 Philip Green, 71, British film and television composer, conductor, pianist, and accordion player, he rose to fame in the 1930s for his Radio Luxembourg programmes,Musiker, R and Musiker, N. Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music (1998) he co-wrote the United Kingdom's 1963 Eurovision Song Contest entry, "Say Wonderful Things"cerebral metastasisDavid Ades, Biography at the Robert Farnon Society, retrieved 27 November 2020
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Fernando Lamas, 67, Argentine-American actor and director of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema, pancreatic cancer Philip Noel-Baker, 92, British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament, he is the only person to have won both an Olympic medal and a Nobel Prize,"Olympic Games trivia for pedants" , Canberra Times, 2 August 2012.Member of Parliament (UK) for the Labour Party from 1929 until 1931, and again from 1936 until 1970, he became a life peer in 1977
9 Anna Freud, 86, British psychoanalyst, considered the co-founder of psychoanalytic child psychology.Eric T. Pengelley, Daphne M. Pengelley. A Traveler's Guide to the History of Biology and Medicine. Davis, Calif.: Trevor Hill Press, 1986, p. 86.
10 Jean Effel, 74, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator, and journalist, he received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967Biographie
12 Phyllis Crane, 68, Canadian-born American actress, she frequently played supporting roles in the early films of The Three Stooges,esophageal cancer Howard Sackler, 52, American screenwriter and playwright, primarily known for the play The Great White Hope and its film adaptation, he also provided an uncredited rewrite for the script of the film Jaws (1975) and he was a main screenwriter for the sequel Jaws 2,Lawson, Carol. "Howard Sackler, 52, Playwright Who Won Pulitzer Prize, Dead" The New York Times via Internet Archive, October 15, 1982. found dead in his studio in Ibiza, Spain, the cause of death was unclear
14 Virginia Fox, c.76-83, American actress of the silent film era, death due to a lung infection, complicated by emphysema.
16 Mario Del Monaco, 67, Italian operatic tenor Paolo Heusch, 58, Italian film director and screenwriter Rory McEwen, 50, Scottish musician, minimalist painter, and sculptor,rail suicide
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Dwain Esper, 88, American film director and producer, known primarily for exploitation films, he is regarded as the founding father of modern exploitation
Pierre Mendès France, 75, French politician, 93rd Prime Minister of France Nellie Mae Rowe, 82, African-American artist, she realized fantasy-like landscapes in her drawings and paintings,Lee Kogan, The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety Nine and a Half Won't Do (New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1998), 26.multiple myelomaLee Kogan The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety Nine and a Half Won't Do (New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1998), 109. Bess Truman, 97, first lady of the United States from 1945 until 1953, she briefly served as the second lady of the United States in 1945,congestive heart failure Anne Winton, 33, American ballerina, martial artist and film actress, she held a black belt in TaekwondoWorld Film Geek - When Taekwondo Strikes (1973)The Washingtonian, Volume 18 - Page 100 and she also studied Aikido,Pop Cult Master, February 26, 2018 - Pop Cult Master: What became of Anne Winton she was the first Caucasian female martial artist to appear in a Hong Kong martial arts film,Pop Cult Master, February 26, 2018 - What became of Anne Winton she was stabbed to death by her own husband in a murder-suicideThe Washington Post, October 18, 1982 - D.C. Man Kills Wife and Son, Then Himself By Tom VeseyBluefield Daily Telegraph, October 18, 1982 - Page 6 Three Die In Alexandria
19 Paul America, 38, American actor, he was a member of Andy Warhol's Superstars and he was regarded as a gay icon, killed in a road accident, struck by a motorist while walking home
22 Savitri Devi, 77, French-born Greek Nazi and animal rights activist, spy, and author, she was a proponent of a synthesis of Hinduism and Nazism, proclaiming Adolf Hitler to have been an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, she was an influential figure in esoteric neo-Nazism, heart attack and coronary thrombosis
24 Lottice Howell, 84, American coloratura soprano and actress
26 Giovanni Benelli, 61, Italian Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Florence from 1977 until his death in 1982, Substitute for General Affairs from 1967 until 1977,Saxon, Wolfgang. "Giovanni Cardinal Benelli Dead", The New York Times, 27 October 1982 he was one of the leading moderate candidates for the Papacy in the conclaves of August and October 1978 Valerio Zurlini, 56, Italian stage and film director, screenwriter, and educator working for the film school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental Center of Cinematography; CSC)Biography of Valerio Zurlini Peter Lennon. Leave it to Diva. The Guardian, 9 May 2003.
27 Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, 87, Guatemalan military officer and politician, he served as the President of Guatemala from 1958 until 1963, when he was deposed by the 1963 Guatemalan coup d'état, Ydígoras had allowed the CIA to train the Cuban exile force that was used in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion,cerebral hemorrhage
29 William Lloyd Webber, 68, English composer, organist, and music teacher at the Royal College of Music, representative of 20th-century classical music Thomas Thompson, 49, American non-fiction writer and journalist, he wrote a number of true crime books,liver disease
30 Tim Davis, 58, American child actor and voice actor, he voiced the young Thumper and the adult Flower in the animated feature film Bambi (1942),McGill, Thomas (1985). Magill's Cinema Annual, 1985 : A Survey of 1984 Films. Jefferson, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Salem Press. p. 543. ."California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGL4-SS5M : Sun Oct 15 14:58:16 UTC 2023), Entry for Dixon Davis and Fredrick Duane Davis, 12 Sep 1926. veteran member of the United States Navy Iryna Vilde, 75, Ukrainian novelist, short story writer, and correspondentIryna Vilde in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
31 Dick Merrill, 88, American aviation pioneer, in 1936 Merrill completed a round-trip transatlantic flight, reaching his initial destination in London after 18 hours and 36 minutes, the fastest Atlantic crossing to date,"Transatlantic Tradition." Time. Retrieved September 7, 2009.Cooper. Ralph (October 13, 2009). "Henry Tyndal Merrill, 1894–1982: AKA Henry 'Dick' Merrill". Early Aviators.com. Retrieved July 16, 2010. Merrill managed the Shannon Air Museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia until his death in 1982
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References
Sources
Healy, John Paul (2010), Yearning to Belong: Discovering a New Religious Movement, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Lee Kogan and Nellie Mae Rowe, The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety Nine and a Half Won't Do (New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1998)
External links List of October 1982 deaths at IMDb