Deaths in July 1982

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 1982.

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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.

July 1982

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• Kenneth More, 67, English actor, multiple system atrophy (MSA)^[1][2]

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• Patrick Dewaere, 35, French actor, suicide by firearm^[3]

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• Vic Morrow, 53, American actor, he portrayed a thug student in his film debut Blackboard Jungle (1955), and he was subsequently typecast in portraying tough guys and juvenile delinquents due to his "menacing" appearance, ^[4]one of the victims of the Twilight Zone accident, a falling helicopter landed on top of him, killing him instantly. Morrow was also decapitated and mutilated by the helicopter's rotor blades^[5][6]

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• Harold Sakata, 62, American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and actor, he won a silver medal at the light-heavyweight weight class of the weightlifting event at the 1948 Summer Olympics, ^[7]he portrayed the character Oddjob in the spy film Goldfinger, and the character's sharpened, steel-brimmed bowler hat became a famous and much-parodied trademark of the James Bond film series, ^[8][9]liver cancer^[10][11]