List of Famous people who died in 1982

Vinayak Narahari "Vinoba" Bhave was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya, he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is considered as a National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. He was an eminent philosopher. The Gita has also been translated into Marathi language by him with the name as Geetai means mother Geeta.

José García López, better known as José Nieto, was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1925 to 1983.

Horace Seely-Brown Jr. was an American politician and a US Representative from Connecticut.

Hermann Boerner, also written "Börner" was a German mathematician who worked on variation calculus, complex analysis, and group representation theory.

Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jalandhari was a Pakistani Urdu-language poet who wrote the lyrics for the National Anthem of Pakistan. Another widely used name in Pakistan is Hafeez Jalandhari, a spelling shown in most English language Pakistani newspapers.

Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian Empire-born American linguist and literary theorist.