List of Famous people who died in 1982

Sol Babitz was an American violinist, teacher, writer and pioneer of historically informed performance. He married artist Mae Babitz in 1942 and had two daughters, Eve Babitz born in 1943 and Mirandi Babitz born in 1946 and lived in Hollywood across the street from the family of Jeff and Hope Corey. His family home was a musical and artistic salon with musicians Bernard Herrmann,Ingolf Dahl,Harry Lubin, Igor Stravinsky and poets Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Pagent, and Peter Yates and artists Eugene Berman and Vera Stravinsky.

Camillo Tanio Boccia, was an Italian film director and screenwriter active between the 1950s and the early 1970s. From 1960 onwards, he was regularly credited as Amerigo Anton.

Karl Hanft was an Austrian film actor.

Nurullah Berk was a Turkish painter, writer and an academician who pioneered cubism and constructivism in Turkey.

Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov, sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff, was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote about three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. In topology, the Alexandroff compactification and the Alexandrov topology are named after him.

Vincent Joseph McCauley, C.S.C. was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. A member of the Congregation of Holy Cross, he was the first Bishop of Fort Portal, having served as the ordinary of the diocese from 1961 to 1972. Later, he served as executive director of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa from 1972 to 1979. A Servant of God, his cause for canonization was introduced in the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in August 2006.

Larry J. Blake was an American actor.

Jack Tworkov was an American abstract expressionist painter.

Marie-Joseph Kampé de Fériet was a French mathematician at Université Lille Nord de France from 1919 to 1969. Besides his works on mathematics and fluid mechanics, he directed the Institut de mécanique des fluides de Lille and taught fluid dynamics and information theory at École centrale de Lille from 1930 to 1969.