List of Famous people who died at 82
Velimir Bata Živojinović
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović was a Yugoslav and later, Serbian actor and politician. He acted in more than 340 films and TV series, and is regarded as one of the best actors in former Yugoslavia.
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate for 30 years.
Jimmy Magee
Jimmy Magee was an Irish sports broadcaster, known as The Memory Man, he spent over half a century in sports broadcasting, and presented radio and television coverage of the Olympic Games since 1968 and the FIFA World Cup since 1966. He was the longest-serving sports commentator.
Nils Bohlin
Nils Ivar Bohlin was a Swedish mechanical engineer and inventor who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo.
Léon Gaultier
Léon Gaultier was a French collaborator and a founding member of the Front National.
Bud Dunn
Emerson "Bud" Dunn was a Tennessee Walking Horse trainer from Kentucky who spent most of his career in northern Alabama. He trained horses for over forty years and won his first Tennessee Walking Horse World Grand Championship at age 74 with Dark Spirit's Rebel; at the time, he was the oldest rider to win the honor. He was inducted into the Tennessee Walking Horse Hall of Fame in 1987 and named trainer of the year in 1980 and 1991. In 1999 at age 81, Dunn surpassed his own record for the oldest winning rider by winning his second World Grand Championship, riding RPM. He died of a heart attack in January 2001.
Vijaya Bapineedu
Gutta Bapineedu Chowdary, also known as Vijaya Bapineedu, was a magazine editor turned Indian film screenwriter and director, known for his works predominantly in Telugu Cinema. He directed several block buster action films such as Maga Maharaju, Gang Leader, and Magadheerudu.
Nur Hassan Hussein
Nur Hassan Hussein, popularly known as Nur Adde, was a Somali politician, who served as Prime Minister of Somalia from November 2007 to February 2009. He was from Mogadishu and part of the Abgaal sub-clan of the Hawiye.
Jaime Milans del Bosch
Jaime Milans del Bosch y Ussía was a lieutenant general in the Spanish Army who was dismissed and imprisoned in 1981 for his role in the failed coup d'état of 23 February 1981.
Nokie Edwards
Nole Floyd "Nokie" Edwards was an American musician and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was primarily a guitarist, best known for his work with The Ventures, and was known in Japan as the 'King of Guitars'. Edwards was also an actor, who appeared briefly on Deadwood, an American Western drama television series.