Deaths in February 1982

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 1982 1

Eilert Bøhm, 81, Norwegian gymnast and Olympian Joseph C. Burger, 79, United States Marine Corps officer and college athlete Ed Edelen, 69, American professional baseball player and physician Rennos Frangoudis, 72, Greek sprinter Amzie Moore, 70, American civil rights leader and entrepreneur Ernests Mālers, 78, Latvian cyclist Raghunath Murmu, 76, Indian Santali writer and educator John T. Power, 98, Irish hurler Sally Stanford 78, American madam and mayor of Sausalito, California Erwin Vierow, 91, general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II

2

Stringfellow Barr, 85, American historian, author, and former president of St. John's College Gemma Bosini, 91, Italian operatic soprano Paul Desruisseaux, 76, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician William F. Devin, 84, four-time mayor of Seattle Paulino Frydman, 87, Polish chess master Karl Hanft, 77, Austrian actor Jaisukhlal Hathi, 73, Indian politician Otto Ites, 63, German naval officer Bruce Kekwick, 71, Australian politician Roy Kemp, 86, Australian rules footballer Tommy Mather, 73, British diver and Olympian Jacque Mercer, 51, winner of the 1949 Miss America pageant Antenor Patiño, 86, Bolivian tycoon Harrold Sincock, 74, Australian cricketer Belle S. Spafford, 86, ninth Relief Society General President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mohan Lal Sukhadia, 65, Indian politician

3

František Fišera, 81, Czech cross-country skier Anton Hartman, 63, South African conductor John A. Hilger, 73, American air force general and participant of the Doolittle Raid Efraín Huerta, 67, Mexican poet and journalist Adolfo Moreno Lajaña, 74, Chilean physician and politician Gábor Kornél Tolnai, 79, Hungarian-Swedish engineer and inventor

4

Sue Carol, 75, American actress Don DeMicheal, 53, American jazz percussionist, music journalist, and magazine editor Douglas Dodson, 60, American jockey who won the Eclipse Award Alex Harvey, 46, Scottish musician Moshe Menuhin, 88, Russian-born American Jewish writer and teacher of Hebrew Konrad Morgen, 72, German SS Investigating Judge and Reich Police Official Kathleen Scrymgour, 86, Australian hospital matron Anne Gillespie Shaw, 77, Scottish engineer and businesswoman Donald R. Smith, 55, American politician M. Srikantha, 68, Ceylon Tamil civil servant Marion Sims Wyeth, 92, American architect Kenichi Yamamoto, 56, a Japanese yakuza boss who founded the Yamaken-gumi

5

Neil Aggett, 28, South African labor leader (suicide) Lindsay Beck, 81, Australian rules footballer Tadeusz Bielecki, 81, Polish politician and writer Riley Brett, 86, American racing driver George Crothers, 73, Irish cricketerCricket Archive profile Carl Oscar Hovind, 80, Norwegian chess player and writer Connie Lloyd, 86, New Zealand artist who specialised in etching Louis Marx, 85, American toy maker who founded Louis Marx and Company Wies Moens, 84, Belgian literary historian and poet Dolores Moran, 56, American actress and model Peter Opie, 63, English folklorist Lea Piltti, 78, Finnish soprano Klaus von Rautenfeld, 72, German cinematographer Grigory Mikhaylovich Shneyerov, 80, Russian musicologist, pianist, and conductor Niilo Tammisalo, 87, Finnish athlete

6

Kamruddin Ahmed, 69, Bangladeshi diplomat, lawyer and politician Ioan Beldiceanu, 89, Romanian brigadier general during World War II Gaspard Cyimana, 51, Rwandan statesman, industrialist, economist, and leader of independence who served as the 1st Minister of Finance of Rwanda Władysław Dziewulski, 83, Polish astronomer and mathematician Ben Nicholson, 87, English painter Frank Wilde, 70, British tennis and table tennis player

7

Irena Białówna, 81, Polish politician, pediatrician, public health professional, and concentration camp survivor Thomas S. Boyland, 39, American politician from New York John D. Caemmerer, 54, American politician from New York Roy W. Chappell, 85, British World War I flying ace Al Culver, 73, American football player Nicholas Fernicola, 78, American politician from New Jersey John J. Gallagher, 77, American football and basketball player and coach Swami Karpatri, 74, Indian Hindu religious leader Frank McGurk, 66, racing driver John Metcalfe, 80, Australian librarian, educator and author

8

Saïd Boualam, 75, Algerian-French politician and military officer Albert Bourcier, 80, Canadian politician Kurt Edelhagen, 61, German big band leader Edwin Fullinwider, 81, American sabre fencer Werner Fürbringer, 93, German U-boat commander during World War I Johnny Jacobs, 65, American television announcer Jack Jennings, 63, American basketball player Mousa Khiabani, 34 or 35, Iranian dissident political leader Henry Sturgis Morgan, 81, American banker Cedric Morris, 92, British artist, art teacher and plantsman Ashraf Rabiei, 29 or 30, Iranian guerrilla and member of the People's Mojahedin of Iran Hermann Rauschning, 94, German politician and author Willy Rumpf, 78, German communist politician and Finance Minister in the German Democratic Republic Eddie Turchin, 64, American professional baseball infielder Jovan Veselinov, 76, Serbian communist politician Lauri Virtanen, 77, Finnish long-distance runnerLasse Virtanen. sports-reference.com John Hay Whitney, 77, American venture capitalist, sportsman, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, film producer and diplomat Henry Drummond Wolff, 82, Basingstoke MP

9

Ivan Banov, 65, Soviet military intelligence officer and partisan movement leader in World War IILurye, V. M. & V. Ya. Kochik (2002). GRU: Dela i Lyudi. Moscow: OLMA. p. 342. . Mary Eily de Putron, 67, Irish and Guernsey stained glass artist and archaeologist Gustav Joseph Mattli, 77, Swiss-born and London-based fashion designer Marko Mesić, 80, Croatian soldier Marthe Richard, 92, French prostitute, spy and politicianSex, lies and spies: the mystery of Marthe Richard

10

Martin Crosbie, 70, Irish tenor Helen Dukas, 85, biographer of Albert Einstein who was also his secretary and archivist Françoise Henry, 79, French scholar of early Irish art, archaeologist, and art historian Loraine Leeson, 76, American birth control activist Katherine F. Lenroot, 90, American feminist and child welfare advocate, was the third Chief of the United States Children's Bureau Khershed Meherhomji, 70, Indian cricketerMartin-Jenkins, Christopher, World Cricketers: A biographical dictionary (1996), Oxford University Press, p.451 Rexho Mulliqi, 58, Albanian composer Michel Penha, 93, Dutch-born American cellist Margrit Rainer, 68, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actress Edwin Reyno, 64, Royal Canadian Air Force air marshal Willy Riedel, 72, German Army officer of World War II Paul Samson, 76, thoracic and cardiac surgeon, medical school educator, and swimmer who competed in the Olympics Everett W. Stewart, 66, American flying ace of World War II

11

Allan Crabb, 58, Australian rules footballer Albert Facey, 87, Australian writer Annan Knudsen, 94, Norwegian sailor and rower Joel Laikka, 75, Finnish writer Erich Maschke, 81, German historian, history professor, and Nazi ideologue Eleanor Powell, 69, American dancer and actress Bennet Puryear Jr., 98, officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of major general Takashi Shimura, 76, Japanese actorShimura Takashi // Encyclopedia of Japan (CD-ROM). — Kodansha Ltd, 1999. — . Alfred Spinks, 64, British chemist and biologist

12

Dale Alderson, 63, baseball player V. T. Bhattathiripad, 85, Indian social reformer, dramatist and an Indian independence activist Geoffrey Bullough, 81, English literary scholar Elliot Carpenter, 87, American pianist, composer, arranger and writerElliot James Carpenter in the California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997 Buck Grant, 87, Canadian ice hockey player Hal Hooker, 83, Australian first class cricketer Denis Jordan, 67, Anglo-Australian chemist and researcher First published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (MUP), 2007. Victor Jory, 79, Canadian-American actor Philip Livingston, 88, British physician and RAF officer Margaret Una Poché, 69 or 70, American educator and academic administrator Nikolai Trufanov, 81, Soviet Colonel General who fought in World War II Walter Wardle, 81, Archdeacon of Gloucester

13

Marguerite Duparc, 48, Canadian film producer and editor Chiemi Eri, 45, Japanese singer and actress Zeng Jinlian, 17, Chinese girl who was at one time the tallest female on earth. Aleksandr Kasyanov, 90, composer and conductor Miriam Mandel, 51, Canadian poetMarlene Alt, "," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1290. James Miller, 37, American Roman Catholic missionary and martyr Giovanni Palmieri, 75, Italian tennis player J. Fred Scott, 89, Canadian military officer , 82, Spanish politician Paul Wahl, 75, German weightlifter

14

Gabriel Arout, 73, Russian-born French writer Antonio Casas, 70, Spanish footballer and actor Armand Cloutier, 80, Canadian politician Tommy Jackson, 50, American professional boxer Myra Smith Kearse, 82, American physician and community leader in New Jersey Thomas P. Kelley, 77, Canadian writer Marian Elizabeth Ridgeway, 68, American political scientist and academic Emma Toft, 91, American conservationist W. Lee Wilder, 77, Austrian-American screenwriter, film producer and director Rudolf Wöber, 70, Austrian long-distance runner

15

Noah Dietrich, 92, American businessman, who was the chief executive officer of the Howard Hughes business empire from 1925 to 1957 Kurt Enoch, 86, German-born publisher who co-founded Albatross Books in Germany and Penguin Books Inc. and New American Library in the United States Charles Grove, 69, English first-class cricketer Kenneth Helfrich, 54, South African cricketer Richard B. Kershner, 68, American physicist and developer of satellite navigation systems Hamilton Mack Laing, 99, Canadian naturalist, writer, ornithologist, artist, photographer, taxidermist and hunter Paul H. Ramsey, 77, American naval officer Ralph Teetor, 91, American who invented cruise control Waldemar Verner, 67, chief of the People's Navy (Volksmarine) of the National People's Army Arthur Gillespie Wilson, 81, Australian Army officer

16

Märta Blomstedt, 82, architect who was one of the driving forces of the Finnish functionalism movement Luis Pacheco de Céspedes, 86, Peruvian composer, violinist, and conductor Muhammad Enamul Haq, 79, Bangladeshi researcher, litterateur and educationist Jack Kiley, 53, American professional basketball player Christopher Masterman, 92, British civil servant and bureaucrat Nicholas Roosevelt, 88, American diplomat and journalist George Tanner, 67, Australian rules footballer Ronald Tinker, 68, New Zealand musterer, military leader, scientific administrator and sales agent Vivion de Valera, 71, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, businessman and lawyer Nathan Witt, 79, American lawyer who served as the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board Andrej Žarnov, 76, Slovak Catholic modernist writer and physician

17

Jean Bolikango, 73, Congolese educator, writer, and politician* Peter Cazalet, 82, Royal Navy officer Nestor Chylak, 59, American umpire in Major League Baseball Patrick A. Gleason, 47, Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Thelonious Monk, 64, American jazz pianist Lee Strasberg, 80, Polish-American actor and acting coach, co-founder of method acting Heinrich Weidemann, 83, German art director Raymond M. Wheeler, 62, American physician and investigator of malnutrition

18

Sol Babitz, 70, American musicologist and violinist Tina Carver, 58, American actress