1982: Year

• January 15 – K.C. and the Sunshine Band's Harry Wayne Casey is seriously injured in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida.
• January 17 – Tommy Tucker, writer of "Hi Heel Sneakers", dies of carbon tetrachloride poisoning sustained while he was finishing floors in his home.
• January 20 – Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off of a live bat thrown at him during a performance. Osbourne is hospitalized with rabies.
• January 21 – B.B. King donates his personal record collection, which includes nearly 7,000 rare blues records, to the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
• February 13 – A 300-pound gravestone from the grave of Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant is stolen from an Orange Park, Florida cemetery. Police found the gravestone two weeks later in a dry river bed.
• February 20 – Pat Benatar marries her guitarist, Neil Giraldo on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
• March 4 – Frank Zappa's son Dweezil and daughter Moon Unit form Fred Zeppelin.
• March 5 – Comedian and Blues Brother John Belushi is found dead of an apparent drug overdose in the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
• March 18 – Teddy Pendergrass is severely injured in a car accident in Philadelphia. Pendergrass' injuries result in him being paralyzed from the waist down.
• March 19 – Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist, Randy Rhoads is killed in a freak accident in Leesburg, Florida when the plane he's riding in buzzes Osbourne's tour bus and crashes into a house. The plane's pilot and a female passenger are also killed.
• March 28 – In Los Angeles, California, David Crosby is arrested for possession of Quaaludes and drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of cocaine and carrying a concealed weapon.
• March 29 – Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney release their single "Ebony and Ivory".
• March 31 – The Doobie Brothers announce that they are breaking up.
• April 2 – The Falklands War begins.
• April 15 – Billy Joel is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Long Island, New York. Joel spends over a month in the hospital undergoing physical therapy for his hand.
• April – Amy Grant marries Gary Chapman.
• April 26 – Rod Stewart is mugged in Los Angeles, California. Stewart loses his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was not hurt.
• June 20 – The Falklands War ends.
• July 4 – The divorce of Jack Catain Jr., an American businessman, and Kathleen Richards, an American casting director, is finalized.
• August 17 – The first mass production of compact discs begins in Langenhagen near Hanover, Germany.
• September 7 – The musical Cats begins its 18-year run on Broadway.
• September 30 – The TV show Cheers premieres.
• November 5 – First broadcast of The Tube was shown on Channel 4 in the UK.
• November 13 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated.
• November 30 – Michael Jackson releases his best selling studio album, Thriller.

• February 14 – Marián Gáborík, Slovak professional ice hockey player
• April 10 - Chyler Leigh, American actress, singer and model
• June 21 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
• August 6 - David Knazovicky
• November 20 - Nathan Vetterlein, American YouTube personality

January

 

• January 10 – Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926)
• January 22 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, President of Chile (b. 1911)
• January 22 - Tommy Tucker, American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
• January 30 – Stanley Holloway, British actor (b. 1890)
• January 30 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)

February

 

 

• February 11 – Eleanor Powell, American dancer (b. 1912)
• February 11 – Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
• February 12 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902)
• February 17 – Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917)
• February 17 – Lee Strasberg, American actor (b. 1901)

March

 

 

 

 

• March 1 – Charlie Spivak, American trumpeter (b. 1905)
• March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American writer (b. 1928)
• March 5 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
• March 6 – Ayn Rand, American writer (b. 1905)
• March 19 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (b. 1956)
• March 29 – Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)
• March 29 - Walter Hallstein, German educator (b. 1901)

April

 

• April 15 – Riccardo Billi, Italian actor (b. 1906)
• April 24 – Ville Ritola, Finnish long-distance runner (b. 1896)

May

 

 

• May 8 – Bernie Glow, American jazz musician (b. 1926)
• May 22 - Cevdet Sunay, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• May 29 – Romy Schneider, Austrian-French actress (b. 1938)

June

 

 

• June 2 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, President of Pakistan (b. 1904)
• June 8 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
• June 13 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (b. 1958)
• June 13 – King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
• June 18 – Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915)

July

• July 4 – Antonio Guzmán Fernández, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1911)
• July 6 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
• July 8 – Gunnar Eriksson, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1921)
• July 16 – Charles Robberts Swart, State President of South Africa (b. 1894)
• July 22 – Sonny Stitt, American saxophonist (b. 1924)

August

 

 

 

• August 12 – Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
• August 12 – Tomás Romero Pereira, President of Paraguay (b. 1886)
• August 12 – Salvador Sanchez, Mexican professional boxer (b. 1959)
• August 21 – Sobhuza II of Swaziland, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
• August 23 – Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American heir (b. 1916)
• August 27 – Atilla Altikat, Turkish military diplomat (b. 1937)
• August 29 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
• August 29 – Nahum Goldmann, founder of the Jewish World Congress (b. 1895)

September

 

 

• September 1 – Ludwig Bieberbach, German mathematician (b. 1886)
• September 5 – Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot (b. 1910)
• September 14 – Kristjan Eldjarn, 3rd President of Iceland (b. 1916)
• September 14 – Bachir Gemayel, elect President of Lebanon (b. 1947)
• September 14 – Grace Kelly, American actress (b. 1929)

October

 

 

 

 

• October 4 – Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, President of Iraq (b. 1914)
• October 4 – Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
• October 4 – Kunwar Inderjit Singh, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1906)
• October 4 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
• October 8 – Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (b. 1916)
• October 8 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English peace activist (b. 1889)
• October 18 – Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
• October 18 – Pierre Mendès France, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
• October 18 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
• October 26 - Giovanni Benelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1921)

November

 

• November 2 – Prakash Kaur, Indian singer (b. 1919)
• November 10 – Leonid Brezhnev, 4th President of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
• November 18 – A.K. Nazmul Karim, Bangladeshi sociologist (b. 1922)
• November 22 – Stanisław Ostrowski, President of Poland-in-exile (b. 1892)

December

 

• December 8 – Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
• December 20 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist (b. 1887)
• December 23 – Jack Webb, American actor (b. 1920)

• 48 Hrs.
• Annie
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Blade Runner
• Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
• Class of 1984
• Conan the Barbarian
• Das Boot
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
• Death Wish II
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Fanny and Alexander
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• First Blood
• Frances
• Friday the 13th, Part 3
• Gandhi
• Grease 2
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• Megaforce
• Missing
• My Favorite Year
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• Parasite
• Poltergeist
• Porky's
• Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip
• The Road Warrior
• Rocky III, starring Sylvester Stallone
• The Secret of NIMH
• Sophie's Choice
• Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
• Time Stands Still
• Tootsie
• Tron
• The Verdict
• Veronika Voss
• Victor/Victoria
• The World According to Garp
• Yol

• "867-5309 Jenny" – Tommy Tutone
• "Always On My Mind" – Willie Nelson
• "Believer" – Ozzy Osbourne
• "Body Language" – Queen
• "The Day Before You Came" – ABBA
• "Don't Talk To Strangers" – Rick Springfield
• "Electric Eye" – Judas Priest
• "Even the Nights are Better" – Air Supply
• "Eye In The Sky" – Alan Parsons Project
• "Flying High Again" – Ozzy Osbourne
• "Freeze Frame" – J. Geils Band
• "Gloria" – Laura Branigan
• "Gypsy" – Fleetwood Mac
• "Head Over Heels" – ABBA
• "Heart Attack" – Olivia Newton-John
• "Heat Of The Moment" – Asia
• "Hold Me" – Fleetwood Mac
• "Hungry Like The Wolf" – Duran Duran
• "Hurts So Good" – John Cougar
• "I'm Afraid of Me" – Culture Club
• "Invisible Sun" – The Police
• "Love Will Turn You Around" – Kenny Rogers
• "Make A Move On Me" – Olivia Newton-John
• "The Message" – Grandmaster Flash
• "Open Arms" – Journey
• "Our Lips Are Sealed" – The Go-Gos
• "Over The Mountain" – Ozzy Osbourne
• "Planet Rock" – Afrika Bambaataa
• "Pressure" – Billy Joel
• "Quiero Ser" – Menudo
• "Rock The Casbah" – The Clash
• "Rosanna" – Toto
• "Shake It Up" – The Cars
• "Since You're Gone" – The Cars
• "Spirits In The Material World" – The Police
• "Still They Ride" – Journey
• "Sube A Mi Motora" – Menudo
• "Time (Clock of the Heart)" – Culture Club
• "TV Party" – Black Flag
• "Twilight Zone" – Golden Earring
• "Vacation" – The Go-Gos
• "Valley Girl" – Frank Zappa
• "We Got The Beat" – The Go-Gos
• "White Boy" – Culture Club
• "You Can't Hurry Love" – Phil Collins
• "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" – Melissa Manchester
• "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" – Judas Priest

• Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

• Physics – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist
• Chemistry – Aaron Klug
• Physiology or Medicine – Sune K Bergström, Bengt I Samuelsson, John R Vane
• Literature – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist and journalist
• Peace – Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles
• Economics – George Stigler