List of Famous people who died in 1982

Nikita Vladimirovich Podgorny was a Soviet film and theater actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1971).

Cathleen Nesbitt was an English actress of stage, film and television.

General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa was an Italian general, notable for campaigning against terrorism during the 1970s in Italy. He was assassinated by the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo.

Prince Adalberto of Savoy, Duke of Bergamo was an Italian General and a member of the Genoa branch of the House of Savoy.

Elizabeth Virginia Truman was the wife of President Harry S. Truman and the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953. She also served as the Second Lady of the United States in 1945.

Sue Carol was an American actress and talent agent. Carol's film career lasted from the late 1920s into the 1930s; when it ended, she became a talent agent. The last of her three marriages was to one of her clients, Alan Ladd, from 1942 until his death in 1964.

Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev, also spelled as Qara Qarayev or Kara Karayev, was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. Garayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, solos for piano, cantatas, songs, and marches, and rose to prominence not only in Azerbaijan SSR, but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and worldwide.

General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet, was a senior British Army officer. He had an important influence on the conduct of the British Army during the Second World War as a result of his long tenure as Adjutant-General, responsible for the army's organisation and personnel, from June 1941 until the end of the war, and as a close confidant of Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army.