1982

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1950s  1960s  1970s  – 1980s –  1990s  2000s  2010s
Years:	1979 1980 1981 – 1982 – 1983 1984 1985

1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• January 15 – K.C. and the Sunshine Band's Harry Wayne Casey is seriously injured in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida.
• January 17 – Tommy Tucker, writer of "Hi Heel Sneakers", dies of carbon tetrachloride poisoning sustained while he was finishing floors in his home.
• January 20 – Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off of a live bat thrown at him during a performance. Osbourne is hospitalized with rabies.
• January 21 – B.B. King donates his personal record collection, which includes nearly 7,000 rare blues records, to the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
• February 13 – A 300 pound gravestone from the grave of Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant is stolen from an Orange Park, Florida cemetery. Police found the gravestone two weeks later in a dry river bed.
• February 20 – Pat Benatar marries her guitarist, Neil Giraldo on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
• March 4 – Frank Zappa's son Dweezil and daughter Moon Unit form Fred Zeppelin.
• March 5 – Comedian and Blues Brother John Belushi is found dead of an apparent drug overdose in the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
• March 18 – Teddy Pendergrass is severely injured in a car accident in Philadelphia. Pendergrass' injuries result in him being paralyzed from the waist down.
• March 19 – Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist, Randy Rhoads is killed in a freak accident in Leesburg, Florida when the plane he's riding in buzzes Osbourne's tour bus and crashes into a house. The plane's pilot and a female passenger are also killed.
• March 28 – In Los Angeles, California, David Crosby is arrested for possession of Quaaludes and drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of cocaine and carrying a concealed weapon.
• March 29 – Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney release their single "Ebony and Ivory".
• March 31 – The Doobie Brothers announce that they are breaking up.
• April 2 – The Falklands War begins.
• April 15 – Billy Joel is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Long Island, New York. Joel spends over a month in the hospital undergoing physical therapy for his hand.
• April – Amy Grant marries Gary Chapman.
• April 26 – Rod Stewart is mugged in Los Angeles, California. Stewart loses his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was not hurt.
• June 20 – The Falklands War ends.
• August 17 – The first mass production of compact discs begins in Langenhagen near Hanover, Germany.
• September 7 – The musical Cats begins its 18 year run on Broadway.
• September 30 – The TV show Cheers premieres.
• November 5 – First broadcast of The Tube was shown on Channel 4 in the UK.
• November 13 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated.

Births

• February 14 – Marián Gáborík, Slovak professional ice hockey player
• June 21 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

Deaths

• January 10 – Paul Lynde, comedian
• February 12- Victor Jory, Canadian actor (born 1902)
• March 5 – John Belushi, actor
• March 29 – Carl Orff, German composer
• August 12 – Henry Fonda, actor
• September 5 – Douglas Bader, RAF Fighter pilot
• November 10 – Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union
• August 27 – Sri Anandamayi Ma,Hindu spiritual teacher and Guru from Bengal

Films released

• 48 Hrs.
• Annie
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Blade Runner
• Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
• Conan the Barbarian
• Das Boot
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
• Death Wish II
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Fanny and Alexander
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• First Blood
• Frances
• Friday the 13th, Part 3
• Gandhi
• Grease 2
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• Megaforce
• Missing
• My Favorite Year
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• Parasite
• Poltergeist
• Porky's
• Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip
• The Road Warrior
• Rocky III, starring Sylvester Stallone
• The Secret of NIMH
• Sophie's Choice
• Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
• Time Stands Still
• Tootsie
• Tron
• The Verdict
• Veronika Voss
• Victor/Victoria
• The World According to Garp
• Yol

Hit songs

• "867-5309 Jenny" – Tommy Tutone
• "Always On My Mind" – Willie Nelson
• "Believer" – Ozzy Osbourne
• "Body Language" – Queen
• "The Day Before You Came" – ABBA
• "Don't Talk To Strangers" – Rick Springfield
• "Electric Eye" – Judas Priest
• "Even the Nights are Better" – Air Supply
• "Eye In The Sky" – Alan Parsons Project
• "Flying High Again" – Ozzy Osbourne
• "Freeze Frame" – J. Geils Band
• "Gloria" – Laura Branigan
• "Gypsy" – Fleetwood Mac
• "Head Over Heels" – ABBA
• "Heart Attack" – Olivia Newton-John
• "Heat Of The Moment" – Asia
• "Hold Me" – Fleetwood Mac
• "Hungry Like The Wolf" – Duran Duran
• "Hurts So Good" – John Cougar
• "I'm Afraid of Me" – Culture Club
• "Invisible Sun" – The Police
• "Love Will Turn You Around" – Kenny Rogers
• "Make A Move On Me" – Olivia Newton-John
• "The Message" – Grandmaster Flash
• "Open Arms" – Journey
• "Our Lips Are Sealed" – The Go-Gos
• "Over The Mountain" – Ozzy Osbourne
• "Planet Rock" – Afrika Bambaataa
• "Pressure" – Billy Joel
• "Quiero Ser" – Menudo
• "Rock The Casbah" – The Clash
• "Rosanna" – Toto
• "Shake It Up" – The Cars
• "Since You're Gone" – The Cars
• "Spirits In The Material World" – The Police
• "Still They Ride" – Journey
• "Sube A Mi Motora" – Menudo
• "Time (Clock of the Heart)" – Culture Club
• "TV Party" – Black Flag
• "Twilight Zone" – Golden Earring
• "Vacation" – The Go-Gos
• "Valley Girl" – Frank Zappa
• "We Got The Beat" – The Go-Gos
• "White Boy" – Culture Club
• "You Can't Hurry Love" – Phil Collins
• "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" – Melissa Manchester
• "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" – Judas Priest

New books

• Jumangi by Chris Van Allsburg

Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physics – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist
• Chemistry – Aaron Klug
• Medicine – Sune K Bergström, Bengt I Samuelsson, John R Vane
• Literature – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist and journalist
• Peace – Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles
• Economics – George Stigler