Deaths Date 1982 May | History by KabAstro

May 2 Hugh Marlowe [Hipple], American actor (All About Eve, Ellery Queen), dies from a heart attack at 71
May 5 Cal Tjader, American Latin jazz vibraphonist, dies of a heart attack at 56
May 6 Sam Baker, American silent film actor (The Missing Link; The Lost City; The Sea Beast), dies at 75
May 7 Alfred Adam, French character actor, dies at 72
May 8 Al Leader, Canadian-American Hockey Hall of Fame player, referee and administrator (Western Hockey League), dies at 78
May 8 Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer (World F1 runner-up 1979; Ferrari), dies in a practice accident prior to Belgian GP, at 32
May 8 Neil Bogart, American record executive (b. 1943)
May 9 Ab Visser, Dutch poet and writer (Man Without a Head), dies at 69
May 10 Jean Picart le Doux, French artist and tapestry designer, dies at 80
May 10 Peter Weiss, German author and playwright (Marat/Sade), dies at 65
May 11 Leigh Snowden [Martha Lee Estes], American actress (All That Heaven Allows), dies of cancer at 51
May 11 Piet van Egmond, Dutch organist and conductor (Netherlands Chamber Orchestra), dies at 70
May 12 Humphrey Searle, British composer and musicologist (Twentieth Century Counterpoint; The Music of Franz Liszt), dies at 66
May 13 Gara Garayev [Kara Karayev], Soviet-Azerbaijani composer (Seven Beauties), dies at 64
May 13 Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74
May 14 Hugh Beaumont, American actor (The Mole People, Leave it to Beaver), dies from a heart attack at 73
May 14 Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister who unsuccessfully attempted to establish a Belgian government in London during World War II, dies at 80
May 25 Larry J. Blake, American actor (Earth vs the Flying Saucers), dies at 68
May 26 Nanny Larsén-Todsen, Swedish opera singer, dies at 97
May 28 Lt Col 'H'. Jones VC, Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment (British Army) (Falklands War) (b. 1940)
May 29 Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43

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