People who died at the age of 82

• Mao Zedong
• Pope Pius XII
• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
• Robert Shaw (conductor)
• Cary Grant
• Aaron Lufkin Dennison
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Devan Nair
• Don Adams
• Helen Forrest
• Frank Leslie Walcott
• Yehudi Menuhin
• Frank Sinatra
• Walter Trampler
• Sviatoslav Richter
• Carlos Surinach
• Johnny Vander Meer
• Paul Rand
• Rafael Kubelik
• Robertson Davies