List of Famous people who died in 1982

Bachir Pierre Gemayel was a Lebanese Maronite militia commander and politician who was elected President of Lebanon in 1982, a member of the Kataeb Party, also known as the Phalange Party, and the son of its founder Pierre Gemayel.

Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, also spelled Baurjan Momish-Uli was a Kazakh-Soviet military officer and author, posthumously awarded with the titles Hero of the Soviet Union and People's Hero of Kazakhstan.

Shin Kishida was a Japanese television, film, and stage actor. He was also a voice actor.

Jacques Tati was a French mime, filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. Throughout his long career, he worked as a comic actor, writer, and director. In a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly of the Greatest Movie Directors, Tati was voted the 46th greatest of all time. With only six feature-length films to his credit as director, he directed fewer films than any other director on this list of 50.

Boris Fyodorovich Andreyev was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in 51 films between 1939 and 1982. People's Artist of the USSR (1962).

Nélida Lobato, born Haydée Nélida Menta, was an Argentinian dancer, vedette, model and actress.

Arthur Lowe was a British actor. His acting career spanned nearly 40 years, including starring roles in numerous theatre and television productions. He played Captain Mainwaring in the British sitcom Dad's Army from 1968 until 1977, was nominated for seven BAFTAs and became one of the most recognised faces on television.

Eugene Hugh Beaumont was an American actor, television director, and writer. Beaumont is best known for his portrayals of Ward Cleaver on the television series Leave It to Beaver, originally broadcast from 1957 to 1963; and as private detective Michael Shayne in a series of low-budget crime films between 1946 and 1947.

Albert "Al" Andrew Schmid was a United States Marine awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism at the Battle of the Tenaru during the Guadalcanal campaign in World War II. Credited with killing over 200 Japanese attackers during a night-long assault, he was blinded in action by a grenade blast and endured multiple surgeries and extended rehabilitation upon his return to the U.S.

Kemal Pir was a Turkish marxist-leninist revolutionary and one of the ethnically Turkish founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.