* 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

Senator Schmitt with then-President Ronald Reagan in Roswell, New Mexico, October 1982

In 1982 NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical observatories — Kitt Peak ; the National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico ; and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

* 1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

On 2 December 1982, Marty Feldman died from a heart attack in a hotel room in Mexico City.

Many North American countries experienced a debt crisis in the 1980s, such as Mexico in 1982.

Feldman died from a heart attack in a hotel room in Mexico City on 2 December 1982, during the making of the film Yellowbeard.

In August 1982, after Mexico had announced its inability to service its debt, Argentina approached the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) for financial assistance, as it too was in serious difficulties.

After the 1982 default, crisis lenders were unwilling to loan Mexico and this resulted in currency devaluations to finance spending.

However, after the Oil Crisis of the late 1970s, Mexico defaulted on its external debt in 1982, and as a result the country suffered a severe case of capital flight, followed by several years of inflation and devaluation, until a government economic strategy called the " Stability and Economic Growth Pact " ( Pacto de estabilidad y crecimiento económico, PECE ) was adopted under President Carlos Salinas.

Telê Santana and several players of 1982 returned to play in the 1986 World Cup hosted by Mexico.

After the legal manufacture of the drug ended in the United States in 1982, underground laboratories in Mexico continued illegal manufacture of methaqualone all through the 1980s, continuing the use of the " 714 " stamp, until their popularity waned in the early 1990s.

In March – April 1982, three explosive eruptions of El Chichón Volcano in the State of Chiapas, southeastern Mexico, caused the worst volcanic disaster in that country's history.

The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest under Mexico ( 1982 )

In the late 20th century, it came to refer primarily to Third World debt, which started exploding with the Latin American debt crisis ( Mexico 1982, etc .).

McMillan served in the New Mexico House of Representatives from 1971 through 1982.

The Abbé Pierre then met in 1988 representatives of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) to discuss the difficult financial, monetary and human issues brought by the huge Third World debt ( starting in 1982, Mexico had announced it could not pay the service of its debt, triggering the 1980s Latin American debt crisis ).

The museum was created in 1982, to show the values and ways of live of the various modern cultural groups in Mexico.

Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado ( December 12, 1934 – April 1, 2012 ) was a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) who served as 52nd President of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.

The first recipient was Alexandra du Bois ( at the time a student at Indiana University, later a Juilliard School graduate ), followed by Felipe Perez Santiago ( born in Mexico in 1973 ), and Dan Visconti ( born in Illinois in 1982 ); in 2007, Israeli composer Aviya Kopelman became the fourth.

José López Portillo y Pacheco ( June 16, 1920 – February 17, 2004 ) was the 51st President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.

His grandson José López Portillo y Pacheco was president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.

* 1982: La leyenda del tambor ... aka El niño del tambor ( Mexico ) ... aka Timbaler del Bruc ( Mexico )

( 1982 ) Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part I: Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Central and Southern Parts of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico.