Curated playlist
1982 deaths
- Ivy PinchbeckHistorian Ivy Pinchbeck argued the Industrial Revolution improved women's lives.
- Jean BeaufretJean Beaufret's 1946 challenge to Heidegger produced the Letter on Humanism.
- Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick died four months before Blade Runner opened. He never saw the film that made his name famous.
- Adolf HeusingerAdolf Heusinger stood beside Hitler when the 1944 bomb went off and later chaired NATO's Military Committee.
- Mikhail SuslovA box of index cards with Lenin quotes launched Mikhail Suslov's Soviet career. Stalin promoted him in 1937.
- Leonid BrezhnevIn a 2013 Levada Center poll, Russians named Leonid Brezhnev their favorite 20th-century leader.
- Jack SwigertJack Swigert won a seat in Congress but died seven days before he could take it. The Apollo 13 astronaut was 51.
- Ayn RandWhen Ayn Rand died in New York City on the 6th of March 1982, her funeral included a six-foot floral arrangement shaped like a dollar sign. The tribute suited a woman who had turned self-interest into a moral code. She was born Alisa…
- Grace KellyGrace Kelly appeared on the cover of Time on the 31st of January 1955, and the magazine already had a name for her. It called her the Girl in White Gloves. The label came from the prim, noticeable gloves she wore in public, and reporters…
- Joan KellyIn 1976, historian Joan Kelly asked: Did women have a Renaissance? Her answer was no.
- MirabehnMirabehn warned of Himalayan forest loss decades before the Chipko Movement. The Forest Department ignored her.