1982

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

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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.^[1]
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 it will later became the best-selling album of all time.

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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

Thumb — 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

Thumb — Takashi Shimura

Thumb — 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

Thumb — John Belushi

Thumb — Ayn Rand

Thumb — Randy Rhoads

Thumb — 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

Thumb — Ville Ritola

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

May

Thumb — Cevdet Sunay

Thumb — 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

Thumb — Khalid of Saudi Arabia

Thumb — 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

Thumb — Henry Fonda

Thumb — Sobhuza II of Swaziland

Thumb — 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

Thumb — Kristjan Eldjarn

Thumb — 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

Thumb — Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

Thumb — Glenn Gould

Thumb — Bess Truman

Thumb — 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

Thumb — 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

Thumb — 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)

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Movies released

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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

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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

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