* 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 – Danny Lopes, American model and actor

* 1982 – Ryan Sypek, American actor

Romola Sadie Garai (; born 6 August 1982 ) is an English actress.

* 1982 – Christopher Raeburn English fashion designer

* 1982 – Montserrat Lombard, English actress

* 1982 – Joleon Lescott, English footballer

* 1982 – Alan Halsall, English actor

* 1982 – Monty Panesar, English cricketer

* 1982 – Laura Hamilton, English television presenter

The term " black metal " was coined by the English band Venom with their second album Black Metal ( 1982 ).

As a bilingual act of parliament, the Canada Act 1982 has the distinction of being the only legislation in French that has been passed by an English or British parliament since Norman French ceased to be the language of government in England.

# Constitutional entrenchment of an otherwise statutory English, British, or Canadian document because of subject matter provisions in the amending formula of the Constitution Act, 1982, such as provisions with regard to the monarchy in the English Bill of Rights 1689 or the Act of Settlement 1701.

* 1982 – Charlie Cox, English actor

* 1982 – Lloyd Doyley, English footballer

* 1982 – Steve Sidwell, English footballer

* 1982 – Anthony Way, English singer and actor

* 1982 – John Halls, English footballer

* 1982 – Alice Eve, English actress

* 1982 – Natalie Dormer, English actress

* 1925 – Harry H Corbett, English actor ( d. 1982 )

* 1982 – Chris Weale, English footballer

In June 1982, a Village Voice report by Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Fremont-Smith accused Kosiński of plagiarism, claiming that much of his work was derivative of prewar books unfamiliar to English readers, and that Being There was a plagiarism of Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy — The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma — a 1932 Polish bestseller by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz.

* 1982 – Arthur Darvill, English actor

* 1982 – Ian McKay, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient ( b. 1953 )