List of Famous people who died in 1982
Nigel Arthur Tunnicliffe
Flemming Muus
Major Flemming Bruun Muus, DSO was a Danish author and resistance fighter during the German occupation of Denmark in the Second World War.
Sir William Wynne Honywood, 10th Bt.
Le Gendre George William Horton-Fawkes
Junzaburō Nishiwaki
Junzaburō Nishiwaki was a contemporary Japanese poet and literary critic, active in Shōwa period Japan, specializing in modernism, Dadaism and surrealism. He was also a noted painter of watercolors.
Yvonne Marling
Gerhard Leibholz
Rolls Gracie
Rolls Gracie was a Brazilian martial artist. He was a prominent member of the Gracie family known for their founding of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and considered by some the family's best ever fighter. He was teacher of Rickson Gracie, Carlos Gracie Jr., Royler Gracie, Maurício "Maurição" Motta Gomes, Márcio "Macarrão" Stambowsky, Rigan Machado and Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti. He died in a hang-gliding accident in 1982. His eldest son is Rolles Gracie Jr.