The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1982 2 David Blue, 41, American folk music singer-songwriter and actor, heart attack while jogging"David Blue, Singer-Actor, 41, Was Part of 60's Folk Revival" The New York Times December 7, 1982. Marty Feldman, 48, British actor, comedian and writer, heart attack
7 Will Lee, 74, American actor, played the character Mr. Hooper on the educational children's television series Sesame Street,Gikow, p. 68 heart attack Sam Theard, 78, American singer, songwriter, actor and comedian, writer of the song You Rascal You (1929),Abrams, Steve and Settlemier, Tyrone. "Brunswick Records – 7000 'Race' series 78rpm numerical discography." The Online Discographical Project, accessed December 26, 2015. complications from a strokeBiography allmusic. Retrieved 7 May 2013. Dave Torbert, 34, American musician
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Encarnación Fuyola, 75, Spanish teacher, Communist activist and propagandist Marty Robbins, 57, American country and western singer and songwriter,Multiple sources: pioneer of the subgenre outlaw country, complications from his third heart attack and a subsequent quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery
9 Joey Forman, 53, American comedian and actor, pulmonary fibrosis. Silvia Pinto, 45, Chilean journalist and politician, deputy (1973), plane crash.Reseña Biográfica Silvia Emiliana Pinto Torres
10 Freeman Gosden, 83, American comedian and actor, pioneer in the development of the sitcom genre, co-creator of the radio sitcom Amos 'n' Andy,congestive heart failure
11 Worthington Miner, 82, American film producer, director, screenwriter, and actor
16 Colin Chapman, 54, English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, founder of the sports car company Lotus Cars,Gérard ('Jabby') Crombac, Colin Chapman: The Man and His Cars (Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough, 1986) Page 15 heart attack
17 Homer S. Ferguson, 93, American politician, ambassador, and judge, he served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1943 until 1955The Election Case of Frank E. Hook v. Homer Ferguson of Michigan (1949). United States Senate. Retrieved September 13, 2021. Big Joe Williams, 79, American Delta blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
18 Hans-Ulrich Rudel, 66, German ground-attack pilot during World War II, neo-Nazi political activist and arms dealer in the post-war period, leading member of the Neo-Nazi party German Reich Party (Deutsche Reichspartei or DRP), stroke
19 Andy Anderson, 77,Andrew Anderson in the U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2020 African-American jazz trumpeter Frederick Terman, 82, American professor and academic administrator, he spearheaded the creation of the Stanford Research Park in 1951,Sandelin, John, The Story of the Stanford Industrial/Research Park, 2004 and he is credited as the founding father of the Silicon ValleyPalo Alto History Project
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Arthur Rubinstein, 95, Polish pianist,"Artur Rubinstein", Encyclopædia Britannica died in his sleep
21 Charles Hapgood, 78, American college professor and writer, promoted the cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis Alt URLOlsen, Brad. 'Modern Esoteric: Beyond Our Senses', San Francisco, CCC Publishing, 2014. . Tomaž Hostnik, member of the band Laibach
23 Gino Corrado, 89, Italian character actor and restaurateur,"Obituaries." Variety (Archive: 1905–2000); Los Angeles. Vol. 309, Iss. 10, (5 January 1983): 78–79. he played Aramis in The Iron Mask (1929)
Jack Webb, 62, American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, creator of the media franchise Dragnet and founder of the production company Mark VII Limited, heart attack.
24 Louis Aragon, 85, French poet, novelist, and editor, among the leading figures of the surrealist movement in France
25 Helen Foster, 76, American actress, named a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1929
27 Jack Swigert, 51, American NASA astronaut, test pilot, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and politician, command module pilot of Apollo 13, one of the 24 astronauts who flew to the Moon, respiratory failure
28 Louise Stanley, 67, American actress, cancer
29 Sol C. Siegel, 79, American film producer, head of studio operations and vice president in charge of production in the film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1958"Sol C. Siegel Chosen to Head MGM Studio" Los Angeles Times 23 Apr 1958: 5."Siegel Made Loew's V-P" Los Angeles Times 22 May 1958: C9. until 1962,MGM Undergoes Change of Guard: Weitmain Replaces Sol Siegel; Sullivan, Crawford to Spain Hopper, Hedda. Los Angeles Times 06 Jan 1962: A6. heart attack
30 Giuseppe Aquari, 66, Italian cinematographer, died shortly before undergoing a major surgery intended to deal with his health problemsMario Bernardo. Aic, 40° Anniversario. Associazione Italiana Autori della Fotografia Cinematografica, 1990. pp. 86–89.
31 John Collins, 77, English Anglican priest and political activist, founder of the inter-church movement Christian Action, anti-apartheid activist
References
Sources
Gérard ('Jabby') Crombac, Colin Chapman: The Man and His Cars (Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough, 1986) Gikow, Louise A. (2009). Sesame Street: A Celebration— Forty Years of Life on the Street. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. .
External links List of December 1982 deaths at IMDb