* 1918 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president ( d. 1982 )

* 1937 – Peter Maivia, Samoan wrestler ( d. 1982 )

* 1982 – Alana Austin, American actress

* 1982 – Sofia Boutella, Algerian-French dancer and actress

* 1982 – Michael Guy Chislett, Australian-American guitarist ( The Academy Is ... and Hillsong United )

* 1982 – Herculez Gomez, American soccer player

* 1982 – Ilan Hall, American chef

* 1982 – Bret Harrison, American actor

* 1982 – Travis Moen, Canadian hockey player

* 1982 – Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Spanish actor

* 1982 – Deen, Bosnian singer

* 1982 – Bijon Setu massacre

* 1982 – Lloyd Banks, American rapper ( G-Unit )

* 1982 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress

* 1982 – Cleo Higgins, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress ( Cleopatra )

* 1982 – Drew Seeley, Canadian singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

* 1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital.

* 1982 – Damien Monier, French cyclist

* 1908 – Will Lee, American actor ( d. 1982 )

* 1982 – Adrianne Curry, American model, actress, and producer

* 1982 – Karl Davies, English actor

* 1982 – Romola Garai, English actress and model

* 1982 – Danny Lopes, American model and actor

* 1982 – Ryan Sypek, American actor

* 1982 – Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer ( b. 1905 )

* 1982 – Mait Künnap, Estonian tennis player

He was born in 1955 in Stockholm to Sune Bergström, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, and his mother, Estonian Karin Pääbo.

Two notable settings are the St. Luke Passion ( 1965 ) by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki and the Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem ( 1982 ) by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.

* June 18-Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer ( d. 1982 )

Eduard Tubin ( June 18, 1905 – November 17, 1982 ) was an Estonian composer and conductor.

* Four Monologues on the Subject of Saint George in the anthology of Estonian literature The Love That Was Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1982, translator Robert Dalglish.

* Aleksander Saharov ( born 1982 ), a former Estonian professional footballer.

* Andres Raja ( born 1982 ), Estonian decathlete

Andres Nuiamäe ( born on June 2, 1982, in Lehtse, Järvamaa, Estonia – died on February 28, 2004, in Iraq ) was a Junior Sergeant of the Estonian Ground Forces, assigned to the ESTPLA-8 unit in Baghdad, Iraq.

* 1982 – In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.

In 1982 Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda issued a general amnesty for all Communist insurgents.

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (; – 9 February 1984 ) was a Soviet politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death fifteen months later.

Communist guerrilla warfare stopped by 1982 as a result of an international concurrence of events that rendered it pointless.

The Islamic Republic's effort to spread the revolution is considered to have begun in earnest in March 1982, when 380 men from more than 25 Arab and Islamic nations met at the former Tehran Hilton Hotel for a " seminar " on the " ideal Islamic government " and, less academically, the launch of a large-scale offensive to cleanse the Islamic world of the satanic Western and Communist influences that were seen to be hindering the Islamic world's progress.

In 1982 the town saw significant demonstrations against the martial law declared by the Communist regime, which were put down by its death squads, resulting in the murder of three people .< ref >

In the Constitution of 1982, the President was conceived of as a figurehead head of state with actual state power resting in the hands of the Premier of the People's Republic of China and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, both of which were conceived of as being separate people ; the President will only hold the office of the President, and not intervene directly in matters of the State Council or the Party.

In 1982, Hu was promoted to the position of Communist Youth League Gansu Branch Secretary and was appointed as the director of the All-China Youth Federation.

*" The Tragedy of the Polish Communist Party ", Socialist Register, 1982

* Schwarz, Bill "' The People ' in History: the Communist Party Historians ' Group, 1946 – 56 " from Making Histories: Studies in History-Writing and Politics, edited by Richard Johnson, London: Hutchinson, 1982.

Since the abolition of the post Chairman of the Communist Party of China in 1982, the General Secretary is the highest-ranking official of the party and heads the Secretariat, Politburo of the Party and its Standing Committee.

The Monarchist League had become virtually dormant by the mid-1980s, although Michael Wynne-Parker continued to engage in debates on behalf of the league, such as the one in 1982 at Wymondham College, Norfolk, when the motion, proposed by a Mr. Matehall, a member of the Communist Party, was " This House would Abolish the Monarchy ".

In 1982, Barnes gave a speech which was later published as Their Trotsky and Ours: Communist continuity today in which Barnes rejected Trotsky's theory of Permanent Revolution arguing that it failed to sufficiently distinguish between the democratic and socialist tasks of a workers ' revolution.

Władysław Gomułka (; 6 February 1905, Krosno – 1 September 1982, Konstancin ) was a Polish Communist leader.

After his death in 1982 of cancer, his negative image in Communist propaganda was modified and some of his constructive contributions were recognized.

Neither the PRC Constitution — promulgated in 1982 — nor the Communist Party-directed judiciary provides the media with meaningful legal protection from the State.

After the deaths of three elderly Soviet leaders in a row since 1982, the Politburo elected Gorbachev Soviet Communist Party chief in 1985, marking the rise of a new generation of leadership.

" The Komsomol and Worker Youth: The Inculcation of ' Communist Values ' in Leningrad during NEP ," Soviet Studies 34. 4 ( 1982 ): 506-28. in JSTOR

Hence, in September 1982, the 12th Chinese Communist Party Congress declared that the PRC would pursue an “ independent foreign policy ”.

Such an allocation of USSR assets was partially influenced by the fact that Leonid Brezhnev, the effective ruler of the USSR from 1964 to 1982, was the Communist Party First Secretary in the Moldavian SSR in 1950-1952.

He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as unofficial Chief Ideologue of the Party until his death in 1982.

Suslov even threatened Tsvigun with an expulsion from the Communist Party, but Tsvigun died on 19 January 1982 before he could challenge Suslov's statement.

In 1982 Aliyev was made a member of the Communist Party's Politburo in Moscow, the highest position ever attained by a person from a Muslim nation in the former Soviet Union.

Rising out of the regional nomenklatura, Nabiyev ascended to power in 1982 as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.