List of Famous people who died in 1982

Jack Mullaney was an American actor. Mullaney acted in several television series and films throughout his career.

Gordon Dines (1911–1982) was a British cinematographer. Dines worked for many years at Ealing Studios, photographing films such as The Blue Lamp (1950).

Humphrey Searle was an English composer.

The December murders were the murders on 7, 8, and 9 December 1982, of fifteen prominent young Surinamese men who had criticized the military dictatorship then ruling Suriname. Thirteen of these men were arrested on December 7 between 2 am and 5 am while sleeping in their homes. The other two were Surendre Rambocus and Jiwansingh Sheombar who were already imprisoned for attempting a counter-coup in March 1982. Soldiers of Dési Bouterse, the then dictator of Suriname, took them to Fort Zeelandia, where they were heard as 'suspects in a trial' by Bouterse and other sergeants in a self-appointed court. After these 'hearings' they were tortured and shot dead. The circumstances have not yet become completely clear; on December 10, 1982, Bouterse claimed on national television that all of the detainees had been shot dead 'in an attempt to flee'.

George David Woods was a U.S. banker. He served as President of the World Bank from January 1963 until March 1968.

Friedrich Bachmann was a German mathematician who specialised in geometry and group theory.