Deaths in January 1982

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1982

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Paul Belmondo, 83, French sculptor Estella Blain, 51, French actress Victor Buono, 43, American actor John Fanning, 78, Irish politician Albert Earl Godfrey, 91, Canadian flying ace Margot Grahame, 70, English actress Eli Ilan, 54, Israeli sculptor Frano Kršinić, 84, Croatian sculptor Jack Macdonald, 74, New Zealand sportsman Charles Malpas, 82, Australian inventor and businessman Kálmán Marvalits, 80, Hungarian athlete and Olympian Gillis le Fèvre de Montigny, 80, Dutch military officer Gustav Niemann, 82, German mechanical engineer Ruth Vollmer, 80, German conceptual artist

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Johan Barendregt, 57, Dutch psychologist and chess International Master David Abraham Cheulkar, 73, Indian actor Victor Fontan, 89, French cyclist Tam Galbraith, 64, Scottish Unionist politician Monte Hale, 42, American sportscaster Fred Harman, 79, American cartoonist Antoni Knot, Polish scholar, historian, librarian and teacher Ivana Lang, 69, Croatian composer, pianist and piano teacher Jill McDonald, 54, New-Zealand-born children's writer and illustrator, p. 10; issue 61126 Leo Stern, 80, Austrian-German left-wing political activist David Záizar, 53, Mexican mariachi singer and actor

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Heidi Blomstedt, 70, Finnish designer Arthur Graham Brown, 62, Australian medical doctor and amateur ornithologist Tommy Bryant, 51, American jazz double-bassist Pat Cameron, 86, Canadian politician Erwin Canham, 77, American journalist Hermann Czirniok, 78, German politician Finis Farr, 77, American writer and biographer Grigory Sarkisovich Grigoryants, 62, Soviet surgeon Inger Haldorsen, 86, Norwegian physician, midwife and politician Elmer George Homrighausen, 81, American theologian Mohamed Jamoussi, 71, Tunisian singer, composer, and poet Hugo Klaerner, 73, American baseball pitcher"Hugo Klaerner Statistics and History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved December 29, 2011. Étienne Onimus, 75, French basketball player Derek Sealy, 69, West Indian cricketer Kenny Starke, 81, South African international rugby union player Wilfred Wood, 84, British soldier awarded the Victoria Cross

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Margaret Culkin Banning, 90, American writer Wykeham Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis, 89, British peer, cavalry officer and amateur cricketerCornwallis, The Right Hon. Wykeham Stanley, Obituaries in 1982, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1983. Retrieved 2017-05-17. Eunice Renshaw Geiger, 90, American First Lady of Guam Ray Hanson, 86, American military officer and college sports coach and administrator Trygve Hoff, 86, Norwegian businessman, writer and editor Gorilla Jones, 75, American boxer Gordon F. Marsh, 73, American politician Kathryn Scola, 90, American screenwriter Elmer Sopha, 57, Canadian politician Francisco Valdés Subercaseaux, 73, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate

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Elizabeth Bagshaw, 100, Canadian physician Neal Baker, 77, American baseball player Gilbert Betts, 65, English cricketer Hans Conried, 64, American actor and comedian (Peter Pan, Hoppity Hooper, Mrs. Parkington), complications from a heart attack. Lilian Constantini, 79, French actress Edmund Herring, 89, senior Australian Army officer during the WWIIInnes, Prue, "A full Life of Service in Khaki and Silk", The Age (Melbourne), 6 January 1982; accessed 13 October 2008. Harvey Lembeck, 58, American actor Gustave Roy, 74, Canadian politician Thomas Stang, 84, Norwegian forester and businessperson

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Katherine Bacon, 85, English classical pianist John Bradley, 93, Royal Air Force officer Kurt Ettinger, 80, Austrian fencer Harry Mews, 84, Canadian politician Wally Post, 52, American baseball player Shang Yue, 80, Chinese Marxist economic historian, author and professor

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Chet Falk, 76, American baseball player Almond E. Fisher, 68, United States Army officer Kay Hammond, 80, American actress Jan Gałązka, 36, Polish boxer Vilhelm Lund, 81, Norwegian actor Al Murray, 75, Canadian professional ice hockey player Max Opitz, 91, German politician Lady Pamela Smith, 67, English socialite Frank Van der Veer, 60, Academy Award winning American optical and visual special effects artist

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Grégoire Aslan, 73, Armenian actor Feliza Bursztyn, 48, Colombian sculptor Daan de Groot, 48, Dutch track cyclist and Olympian Tony Méndez, 79, Puerto Rican politician Hugh Porter, 70, English cricketer Reta Shaw, 69, American actress Lucille Lee Stewart, 92, American actress Irwin St. John Tucker, 95, American priest of the Episcopal Church and socialist activist

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Nurullah Berk, 75, Turkish painter, writer and academic Howard L. Chace, 84, American linguist Douglas Cox, 62, Australian cricketer Francis W. Kelly, 71, American Catholic priest and army chaplain Les Laver, 81, Australian rules footballer Vido Musso, 68, American jazz saxophonist Sid Robinson, 79, American middle-distance runner, Olympian, and researcher Jan Schilt, 87, Dutch-American astronomer, inventor of the Schilt photometer Clarence Smith, 79, South African cricketer Clara Steuermann, 59, American music librarian, music editor, pianist, and archivist

10

Romeo Roy Blanchette, 69, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church Raymond Broshears, 46, gay Pentecostal Evangelist preacher and activist Edward Colville, 76, British Army officer Mohammed Helmy, 80, Egyptian-German physician Ignacia Jasso, Mexican drug dealer (b. 1901) Stan Long, 52, Canadian ice hockey player Paul Lynde, 55, American comedian, actor and game show panelist Charles Melis, 88, Belgian long-distance runner Ben Starret, 64, American football player Lazar Weiner, 84, Imperial Russian-born, American-naturalized composer

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Bruno Diekmann, 84, German politician Peroslav Ferković, 78, Croatian athlete Matsumoto Hakuō I, 71, Japanese kabuki actor A. W. Haydon, 75, American inventor Jiro Horikoshi, 78, Japanese aircraft designer Ronald Lewis, 53, Welsh actor Madeline Montalban, 72, English astrologer and ceremonial magician Kenneth Strong, 81, senior officer of the British Army Manya Surve, 37, Indian gangster Ivor Owen Thomas, 83, British trade unionist and Labour Party politician Carl M. Voyles, 83, American gridiron football coach, college athletics administrator, and sports executive Larry Walbridge, 84, American professional football center Leslie Arthur Wilcox, 77, English artist Ben T. Williams, 70, Oklahoma Supreme Court justice"State Court Justice Dies At Age 70", Tulsa World (January 12, 1982), p. 2.

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Hervey Alan, 71, English operatic bass and voice teacher Jyotirmoy Basu, 61, Indian politician Joseph Charles Bequaert, 95, Belgian-born American naturalist Harold W. Chase, 59, American professor of political science and major general in the United States Marine Corps Reserve Emil Hass Christensen, 78, Danish actor Curtis Henderson, 70, American baseball player William Hendriksen, 81, Dutch-born American theologian and minister Rainer Hinteregger, 37, Austrian rower Dorothy Howell, 83, English composer and pianist Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa, 73, Sotho composer Frank Crowther Roberts, 90, British Army officer

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Jules Bender, 67, American collegiate and professional basketball player Pete Bostwick, 72, American court tennis player, a steeplechase jockey and horse trainer Jack Bray, 66, Australian rules footballerDeaths: Bray, The Age, (14 January 1982), p.18. Cliff Butler, 58, American musician Marcel Camus, 69, French film director Harvey Clifford, 55, Canadian alpine skier Franklin Hansen, 84, American sound engineer and Academy Award winner Sigurd F. Olson, 82, American writer and environmentalist Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya, 93, Telugu writer

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Ernst Dubach, 100, Swiss racing cyclist Juan José Espinosa San Martín, 63, Spain's Minister of Finance Jesse Hubbard, 86, American baseball player John Pennycuick, 82, English barrister and judge Hsu Shu-hsi, 89, Chinese diplomat Verners Vitands, 78, Latvian architectVITANDS, Verners Mr., Birth: 07/03/1903, Death: 01/14/1982, Place of Death: Kalamazoo, Burial: 01/19/1982 Riverside Cemetery Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Justin Wijayawardhene, 77, Sri Lankan politician, teacher, and author George Wood, 83, British Army officerGeneral Register Office index of deaths registered in January, February and March, 1982 – Name: Wood, George Neville, born 04 MY 1898, District: Camden Volume: 14 Page: 1964.

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Stewart Barrett, 80, Irish water polo player Wally Bishop, 77, American cartoonist Billy Collins, 72, Australian footballer Douglas Glover, 73, British politician and military officer Arthur Verney Hammond, 89, British Indian Army officer'Hammond, Arthur Verney' in Indian Army Officers 1939–1945 at unithistories.com, accessed 21 August 2015 Seymour Hess, 61, American meteorologist and planetary scientist John Jarman, 66, American politician from Oklahoma Clyde Lucas, 80, American big-band leader and golf pro Robert Lynn, 63, British film and TV director John Calvin Moore, 81, American college football coach, teacher, court clerk, and television host Harry Reeks, 61, American landscape painter and war artist for the United States Marine Corps George W. Renchard, 74, American diplomat Red Smith, 76, American sportswriter Charles Stuart, 94, Scotland international rugby union player

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Harald Agersnap, 82, Danish composer, conductor, cellist, and pianist Josip Andreis, 72, Croatian musicologist Astrid Berwald, 95, Swedish pianist and piano teacher Ali Dashti, 84, Iranian writer and politician Emil C. Danenberg, 64, American pianist Marcel Francisci, 62, French politician Basil Goulding, 72, Irish art collector, cricketer, squash player, industrialist, prominent businessman and amateur architect Moshe Harif, 48, Israeli politician and kibbutz activist Ramón J. Sender, 80, Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist Aleksandr Shabalin, 67, Russian Soviet Navy officer and torpedo boat commander Thomas Shirley, 73, British Royal Air Force officer Len Wigraft, 84, Australian rules footballer

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John Bessant, 89, English cricketer Pierre De Cazenove De Pradines, French World War I flying ace Jusuf Gërvalla, 38, Kosovo Albanian activist, writer, and musician Vera Mae Green, 53, American anthropologist, educator, and scholar T. Nelson Metcalf, 91, American football and basketball player James Michels, 63, United States Marine officer Juan O'Gorman, 76, Mexican painter and architect Johannes Pedersen, 89, Danish gymnast and Olympic medalist William Price, 86, British Royal Air Force officer Fred Roberts, 74, American football guard Humberto Salvador, 72, Ecuadorian writer, lawyer, and psychoanalyst Varlam Shalamov, 74, Russian writer, journalist, poet, and Gulag survivor Irving Starr, 76, American film producer Andy Wilf, 32, American painter Yetta Zwerling, 87, American actress

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Nérée Arsenault, 70, Canadian politician and forest engineer Bob Barrett, 82, American baseball player Frank C. Baxter, 85, American scholar and television personality Stan Biggs, 46, Australian rules footballer Clarence G. Burton, 95, American politician from Virginia Jenő Ghyczy, 88, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Phil Greenwald, 63, American entertainment director Enver Ziya Karal, Turkish historian and university administrator Trent Lehman, 20, American child actor Juan O'Gorman, 76, Mexican painter and architect Josef Mai, 94, German World War I flying ace Alec Robertson, 89, British music critic Delmar T. Spivey, 76, American military officer Jackie Tobin, 61, American professional baseball player Burnet Tuthill, 93, American conductor, composer and musicologist Huang Xianfan, 82, Chinese historian, ethnologist and educator

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