List of Famous people who died at 82
António Arnault
António Duarte Arnaut, GOL was a Portuguese poet, fiction writer, essayist, lawyer, and politician. He was Minister of Social Affairs in the second Constitutional Portuguese Government, led by Mário Soares. He is considered the "father" of the Portuguese national health service, having created the first basic health law in Portugal and contributed to universal access to medical care for all Portuguese.
Amath Dansokho
Amath Dansokho was a Senegalese politician. He was Secretary-General of the Party of Independence and Work (PIT) for years; he also served in the government of Senegal as Minister of Urban Planning and Housing from 1991 to 1995 and again, briefly, in 2000. He was mayor of Kédougou for a time. Since 2012, he was a special adviser to the president of Senegal; he was also honorary president of the PIT.
Jun Negami
Jun Negami was a Japanese actor, and the grandson of Rudolf Dittrich, an Austrian musician.
Delio Gamboa
Delio "Maravilla" Gamboa Rentería was a Colombian football player. Gamboa's career ran from 1955 to 1974 in which time he played for Atlético Nacional, Millonarios, Independiente Santa Fe, Once Caldas, and Deportes Tolima, "Maravilla" translates directly to "wonder".
Yvonne Printemps
Yvonne Printemps was a French singer and actress who achieved stardom on stage and screen in France and internationally.
Süleyman Turan
Süleyman Turan was a Turkish film and theater actor.
Luis Arce Gómez
Luis Arce Gómez was a colonel in the Bolivian Army. In 1980 he backed the bloody coup that brought to power the General Luis García Meza. Arce served as García Meza's Minister of the Interior.
Zhang Guotao
Zhang Guotao, or Chang Kuo-tao, was a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and rival to Mao Zedong. During the 1920s he studied in the Soviet Union and became a key contact with the Comintern, organizing the CPC labor movement in the United Front with the Kuomintang. In 1931, after the Party had been driven from the cities, he established the E-Yu-Wan Soviet. When his armies were driven from the region, he joined the Long March but lost a contentious struggle for party leadership to Mao Zedong. Zhang's armies then took a different route from Mao's and were badly beaten by local forces in Gansu. When his depleted forces finally arrived to join Mao in Yan'an, Zhang continued his losing challenge to Mao, and left the party in 1938. Zhang eventually retired to Canada, in 1968. He became a Christian shortly before his death in Toronto, Ontario in 1979. His memoirs provide valuable and vivid information on his life and party history.
Frances Ames
Frances Rix Ames was a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist, best known for leading the medical ethics inquiry into the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who died from medical neglect after being tortured in police custody. When the South African Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) declined to discipline the chief district surgeon and his assistant who treated Biko, Ames and a group of five academics and physicians raised funds and fought an eight-year legal battle against the medical establishment. Ames risked her personal safety and academic career in her pursuit of justice, taking the dispute to the South African Supreme Court, where she eventually won the case in 1985.
Erling Mandelmann
Erling Mandelmann was a Danish photographer. He began his career as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1960s.