* 1982 – Estonian Communist Party bureau declares " fight against bourgeois TV "— meaning Finnish TV — a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR

* 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

This concept was introduced by Zoghman Mebkhout in his thesis and then further developed by Joseph Bernstein, Alexander Beilinson, Pierre Deligne, and Ofer Gabber ( 1982 ) as a formalisation of the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, which related the topology of singular spaces ( intersection homology of Mark Goresky and Robert MacPherson ) and the algebraic theory of differential equations ( microlocal calculus and holonomic D-modules of Joseph Bernstein, Masaki Kashiwara and Takahira Kawai ).

* 1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress

* 1982 – Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Japanese actor

* 1982 – Tomohiro Ito, Japanese sprinter

Morita was awarded the Albert Medal by the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Arts in 1982, the first Japanese to receive the honor.

* 1982 – Oguri Shun, Japanese actor / model

In December 1982, the CWRIC issued its findings in Personal Justice Denied, concluding that the incarceration of Japanese Americans had not been justified by military necessity.

* 1982 – Osamu Mukai, Japanese actor

* 1982 – Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer

J. Philippe Rushton has argued that the effect should be called the " Lynn-Flynn effect ", after Richard Lynn, " because it was actually the Lynn ( 1982 ) article in Nature that first identified the trend in recent times ( amongst the Japanese ).

* 1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin dies in a coma after being beaten in Highland Park, Michigan on June 19, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.

* 1982 – Junri Namigata, Japanese tennis player

* 1982 – Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese race car driver

* 1982 – Mao Kobayashi, Japanese actress

* Tadashi Kobayashi, ( translated Mark A. Harbison ), Great Japanese Art: Utamaro ( Kodansha, Tokyo, 1982 )

* 1982 – Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model

* 1982 – Yoko Kumada, Japanese model and singer

* 1982 – Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model, and singer

* 1982 – Sowelu, Japanese pop singer

* 1982 – Hideki Mutoh, Japanese racing driver

* 1982 – Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor

* 1982 – Sachiko Yamada, Japanese swimmer

Sakamoto then married popular Japanese pianist and singer Akiko Yano in 1982, having collaborated with her on some of her recordings.

An interesting phenomenon has been the continuing collaboration between French and Japanese animators, resulting in a series of French-Japanese cartoons / anime, including such titles as Ulysses 31 ( 1981 ), The Mysterious Cities of Gold ( 1982 ), and more recently, Ōban Star-Racers ( 2006 ).