1982

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1950s  1960s  1970s  – 1980s –  1990s  2000s  2010s
Years:	1979 1980 1981 – 1982 – 1983 1984 1985

1982 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1982 MCMLXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2735
Armenian calendar	1431 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԱ
Assyrian calendar	6732
Bahá'í calendar	138–139
Balinese saka calendar	1903–1904
Bengali calendar	1389
Berber calendar	2932
British Regnal year	30 Eliz. 2 – 31 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2526
Burmese calendar	1344
Byzantine calendar	7490–7491
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4678 or 4618     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4679 or 4619
Coptic calendar	1698–1699
Discordian calendar	3148
Ethiopian calendar	1974–1975
Hebrew calendar	5742–5743
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2038–2039
- Shaka Samvat	1903–1904
- Kali Yuga	5082–5083
Holocene calendar	11982
Igbo calendar	982–983
Iranian calendar	1360–1361
Islamic calendar	1402–1403
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 57 (昭和５７年)
Javanese calendar	1914–1915
Juche calendar	71
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4315
Minguo calendar	ROC 71 民國71年
Nanakshahi calendar	514
Thai solar calendar	2525
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 2108 or 1727 or 955     — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 2109 or 1728 or 956
Unix time	378691200 – 410227199

1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• 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 sixth studio album, Thriller. Which became the best-selling album of all time.

Births

• 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

Deaths

January

Eduardo Frei Montalva

• 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

Takashi Shimura

Thelonious Monk

• 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

John Belushi

Ayn Rand

Randy Rhoads

Carl Orff

• 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

Ville Ritola

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

May

Cevdet Sunay

Romy Schneider

• 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

Khalid of Saudi Arabia

Curd Jürgens

• 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

Henry Fonda

Sobhuza II of Swaziland

Ingrid Bergman

• 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

Kristjan Eldjarn

Grace Kelly

• 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

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

Glenn Gould

Bess Truman

Pierre Mendès France

• 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

Leonid Brezhnev

• 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

Arthur Rubinstein

• 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)

Movies released

• 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

Hit songs

• "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

New books

• Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

Nobel Prizes

• 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