Aged 82
Famous people who died at 82
245 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 82, including Leo Tolstoy, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Mao Zedong. Here are the 100 best known.
- Leo TolstoyRussian author · 1828–1910
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGerman writer, artist, natural scientist and politician · 1749–1832
- Mao Zedong1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China · 1893–1976
- Neil ArmstrongAmerican astronaut and lunar explorer · 1930–2012
- Francisco GoyaSpanish painter and printmaker · 1746–1828
- PeléBrazilian footballer · 1940–2022
- Huang XianfanChinese historian, ethnologist and educator · 1899–1982
- Kim Il-sungSupreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994 · 1912–1994
- Frank SinatraAmerican singer and actor · 1915–1998
- Francisco FrancoSpanish general and dictator · 1892–1975
- Leonard CohenCanadian singer, songwriter and poet · 1934–2016
- Wilhelm IIAs King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 · 1859–1941
- Paul DiracBritish theoretical physicist · 1902–1984
- Pius XIIPope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958 · 1876–1958
- Ivo AndrićYugoslav novelist · 1892–1975
- SaadiPersian poet · c. 1210–1292
- Alessandro VoltaItalian chemist and physicist · 1745–1827
- Chandrasekhara Venkata RamanIndian physicist · 1888–1970
- EratosthenesGreek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist · c. 276–194 BC
- David Lloyd GeorgePrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 · 1863–1945
- Henry DunantSwiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross · 1828–1910
- Chinua AchebeNigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic · 1930–2013
- Cary GrantBritish-American actor · 1904–1986
- James ChadwickEnglish physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932 · 1891–1974
- William Thomson, 1st Baron KelvinBritish physicist and engineer · 1825–1907
- Muhammadu BuhariFormer President of Nigeria from 1983 to 1985 and 2015 to 2025 · 1942–2025
- Shmuel Yosef AgnonUkrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature · 1887–1970
- John BardeenAmerican physicist and engineer · 1908–1991
- Laurence OlivierEnglish actor and director · 1907–1989
- Santiago Ramón y CajalSpanish scientist · 1852–1934
- Alberto MoraviaItalian writer and journalist · 1907–1990
- Mary CassattAmerican painter and printmaker · 1844–1926
- Daniel BernoulliSwiss mathematician and physicist · 1700–1782
- Peter UstinovBritish actor, writer and director · 1921–2004
- Francesco Cossiga8th President of Italy · 1928–2010
- Barbara StanwyckAmerican actress · 1907–1990
- Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniIranian politician · 1934–2017
- Camillo GolgiItalian physician, pathologist, scientist, and Nobel laureate · 1843–1926
- Peter DebyeDutch-American physicist and physical chemist · 1884–1966
- Arnold SommerfeldGerman physicist · 1868–1951
- Wilhelmina of the NetherlandsQueen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948 · 1880–1962
- André MauroisFrench author · 1885–1967
- Burt ReynoldsAmerican actor · 1936–2018
- Gregory XIIPope of the Catholic Church from 1406 to 1415 · 1335–1417
- Karl BarthSwiss Protestant theologian · 1886–1968
- Rudolf Ludwig MössbauerGerman nuclear physicist and Noble Prize in Physics · 1929–2011
- Constantine II of GreeceKing of Greece from 1964 to 1973 · 1940–2023
- Gerardus MercatorFlemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer · 1512–1594
- Ivan AivazovskyRussian marine painter · 1817–1900
- James CaanAmerican actor · 1940–2022
- Raquel WelchAmerican actress · 1940–2023
- Roman HerzogFormer President of the Federal Republic of Germany · 1934–2017
- RudakiPersian poet, the father of Persian poetry · c. AD 859–941
- Eduard BernsteinGerman politician and theorist · 1850–1932
- Polykarp KuschGerman-American physicist · 1911–1993
- Ansel AdamsAmerican photographer and environmentalist · 1902–1984
- Daniel DennettAmerican philosopher · 1942–2024
- Francis BaconIrish-born British figurative painter · 1909–1992
- Friedrich WöhlerGerman chemist · 1800–1882
- Anastas MikoyanSoviet revolutionary and statesman · 1895–1978
- Ferdinand I of AustriaAustrian emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia · 1793–1875
- KhafraAncient Egyptian pharaoh of 4th dynasty · c. 2612–2530 BC
- Paul Karrer ↗Swiss chemist · 1889–1971
- Pridi Banomyong ↗Thai prime minister · 1900–1983
- Diana Rigg ↗English actress · 1938–2020
- Vincent Price ↗American actor · 1911–1993
- Adolf Windaus ↗German chemist · 1876–1959
- Alberto Sordi ↗Italian actor · 1920–2003
- Christa Wolf ↗German novelist and essayist · 1929–2011
- Raúl Alfonsín ↗Argentine politician · 1927–2009
- Albert Finney ↗British actor · 1936–2019
- Brian Wilson ↗American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer · 1942–2025
- Numa Pompilius ↗Legendary second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus · c. 753–671 BC
- Anna Seghers ↗German writer · 1900–1983
- Mathieu Kérékou ↗Politician · 1933–2015
- Sidney Altman ↗Canadian American molecular biologist · 1939–2022
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky ↗Marshal of the Soviet Union · 1895–1977
- Eugene Cernan ↗NASA astronaut, Naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, electrical engineer, fighter pilot, eleventh human to walk on the Moon (Apollo 10 and Apollo 17) · 1934–2017
- Marshall Warren Nirenberg ↗American biochemist and geneticist · 1927–2010
- Ryan O'Neal ↗American actor · 1941–2023
- Vasily Chuikov ↗Soviet marshal · 1900–1982
- Isao Takahata ↗Japanese filmmaker · 1935–2018
- Rex Harrison ↗British actor · 1908–1990
- Yehudi Menuhin ↗American violinist and conductor · 1916–1999
- Adam Weishaupt ↗German philosopher and founder of the Illuminati · 1748–1830
- Bernard Madoff ↗American fraudster and financier · 1938–2021
- Mamie Eisenhower ↗First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961 · 1896–1979
- Niels Kaj Jerne ↗Danish immunologist · 1911–1994
- Oliver Sacks ↗British neurologist and writer · 1933–2015
- Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi ↗Persian astronomer · AD 903–986
- Adrienne Rich ↗American poet, essayist and feminist · 1929–2012
- Bohumil Hrabal ↗Czech writer · 1914–1997
- Joshua Lederberg ↗American molecular biologist · 1925–2008
- Oscar Peterson ↗Canadian jazz pianist · 1925–2007
- Santiago Bernabéu Yeste ↗Spanish footballer · 1895–1978
- William Vickrey ↗Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate · 1914–1996
- Fraser Stoddart ↗Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines · 1942–2024
- John Backus ↗American computer scientist · 1924–2007
- Alfred Tarski ↗Polish-American logician · 1901–1983
- Hage Geingob ↗President of Namibia from 2015 to 2024 · 1941–2024
"c." means only the years are known, so the age could be a year out. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.
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