List of Famous people who died in 1982

Penelope Ann Rachel, Lady Reed, known as Penelope Dudley-Ward, was an English actress.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edmund Castell Bacon, 13th and 14th Baronet, was a British landowner and businessman.

Roderick McEwen, known as Rory McEwen, was a Scottish artist and musician.

Walter Ernest Christopher James, 4th Baron Northbourne, was an English agriculturalist, author and rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

William Southcombe Lloyd Webber was an English organist and composer, who achieved some fame as a part of the modern classical music movement whilst commercially facing mixed opportunities. Besides his long and prestigious career, composing works ranging from choral pieces to instrumental items and more, he is known for being the father of both fellow composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and virtuoso cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. He also notably served as a teacher, instructing pupils on music theory at the Royal College of Music for many years until his death in 1982.

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Ian Frank Bowater served as Lord Mayor of London from 1969 to 1970.

John Hay "Jock" Whitney was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, and president of the Museum of Modern Art. He was a member of the Whitney family.

Henry Sturgis Morgan Sr. was an American banker, known for being the co-founder of Morgan Stanley and the President & Chairman of the Morgan Library & Museum.

Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, better known as B. P. Koirala, was a Nepali revolutionary, political leader and writer. He was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1959 to 1960. He led the Nepali Congress, a social democratic political party.

Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden,, generally known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative politician. The Times obituary called him "the creator of the modern educational system, the key-figure in the revival of post-war Conservatism, arguably the most successful chancellor since the war and unquestionably a Home Secretary of reforming zeal." He was one of his party's leaders in promoting the post-war consensus through which the major parties largely agreed on the main points of domestic policy until the 1970s, sometimes known as "Butskellism" from a fusion of his name with that of his Labour counterpart Hugh Gaitskell.