List of Famous people who died in 1982

Kenzo Okada was a Japanese-born American painter and the first Japanese-American artist to work in the abstract expressionist style and receive international acclaim.

Fatma Begum (1892–1983) was an Indian actress, director, and screenwriter. She is often considered the first female film director of Indian cinema. Within four years, she went on to write, produce and direct many films. She launched her own production house, Fatma Films, which later became Victoria-Fatma Films, and directed her first film, Bulbul-e-Paristan, in 1926. She lived from 1892-1983 and was mother to three children.

Donald Dillaway was an American stage and film actor.

David Pinhusovich Milman was a Soviet and later Israeli mathematician specializing in functional analysis. He was one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis. In the 70s he emigrated to Israel and was on the faculty of Tel Aviv University.