List of Famous people who died in 1982

Robert William Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan,, known as Sir Hugh O'Neill, Bt, from 1929 to 1953, was an Ulster Unionist member of both the Parliament of the United Kingdom and the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Henry Rainald Gage, 6th Viscount Gage, KCVO, was Viscount Gage of Firle Place during much of the 20th century.

Audrey Roos (1912–1982) was an American writer who, with her husband William Roos, co-authored many mystery novels, short stories, and plays. The wife-husband team, under the pseudonym Kelley Roos, often wrote romantic suspense novels featuring a married pair of sleuths, Jeff and Haila Troy, who lived in New York City. Some of their work appeared under their own names, Audrey and William Roos, rather than under the pseudonym. In 1956 they wrote Speaking of Murder, a play produced at the Royale Theatre in New York. Their television adaptation of The Burning Court by John Dickson Carr won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.

Walter Koppel was a German film producer. He was nominated in 1956 for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film along with Gyula Trebitsch for their film The Captain of Kopenick. In 1947 he founded with Gyula Trebitsch the Hamburg-based studio Real Film.

Neil E. Bogart was an American record executive. He was the founder of Casablanca Records, which later became Casablanca Record and Filmworks.