List of Famous people who died at 82

Cho Namchul was a professional Go player. He died of natural causes in Seoul at the age of 83.

David Lloyd Wolper was an American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North and South, L.A. Confidential, and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 57th Academy Awards in 1985 for his work producing the opening and closing ceremonies of the XXIIIrd Olympiad, Los Angeles 1984 as well as helping to bring the games to L.A. His 1971 film about the study of insects, The Hellstrom Chronicle, won an Academy Award.

Egon Franke was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He was Federal Minister for Intra-German Relations from 1969 to 1982 and Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1982. With a tenure of 14 days he was the Vice Chancellor with the shortest time in office.

Rodrigo Abelardo Pesántez Rodas was an Ecuadorian writer and poet.

Robert Brout was a Belgian theoretical physicist who made significant contributions in elementary particle physics. He was a professor of physics at Université Libre de Bruxelles where he had created, together with François Englert, the Service de Physique Théorique.

John Keith Taylor was an English football referee, famous for officiating in the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final during which he awarded two penalties in the first 30 minutes. The first of these penalty kicks, awarded after just a minute of play, created World Cup history – it was the first penalty kick ever awarded in a World Cup final.

Paul Karl Maria Harteck was an Austrian physical chemist. In 1945 under Operation Epsilon in "the big sweep" throughout Germany, Harteck was arrested by the allied British and American Armed Forces for suspicion of aiding the Nazis in their nuclear weapons program and he was incarcerated at Farm Hall, an English house fitted with covert electronic listening devices, for six months.

Bettye Louise Ackerman was an American actress primarily known for her work on television.