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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 1992.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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January 1992
1
- Cele Abba, 85, Italian actress.
- Konrad Bleuler, 79, Swiss quantum physicist.
- Jack Badham, 72, English football player.[1]
- James W. B. Douglas, 78, British social researcher.
- M. J. Frankovich, 82, American film producer, pneumonia.[2]
- Grace Hopper, 85, American naval admiral and computer scientist.[3]
- Oskar Munzel, 92, Germany Wehrmacht general during World War II.
- Alf Nielsen, 83, Norwegian footballer.[4]
- Buck Stanton, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[5]
2
- Julien Beke, 77, Belgian Olympic wrestler (1936).[6]
- Kenneth Emory, 94, American anthropologist.
- Virginia Field, 74, British-born American actress, cancer.[7]
- Morgan Ford, 80, American judge.[8]
- Tibor Gallai, 79, Hungarian mathematician.
- Hedwig Haß, 89, German Olympic fencer (1936).[9]
- Hans Kurath, 100, Austrian-American linguist.[10]
- Ginette Leclerc, 79, French actress, cancer.[11]
- Maurice Perrin, 80, French Olympic cyclist (1932).[12]
- Yaúca, 56, Portuguese football player.
3
- O. V. Alagesan, 80, Indian politician and freedom fighter.
- Dame Judith Anderson, 94, Australian actress, pneumonia.[13]
- Robert Gordis, 83, American conservative rabbi.[14]
- Akio Kashiwagi, 53-54, Japanese businessman and gambler, stabbed.[15]
- Larry Lauer, 64, American football player (Green Bay Packers).[16]
- Carl McVoy, 61, American pianist.
- Domenico Meldolesi, 51, Italian racing cyclist.[17]
- George Meyer, 82, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[18]
- Al Nichelini, 82, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[19]
- Matteo Poggi, 78, Italian football player and coach.
- Antonio Quirino, 85, Filipino judge, entrepreneur and politician.
- Carl Schmidt, 87, Danish Olympic rower (1928).[20]
- Gábor Szarvas, 48, Hungarian weightlifter and Olympian (1972).[21]
- Radomiro Tomic, 77, Chilean politician.[22]
- Pavel Zyryanov, 84, Soviet major general and former commander of the Soviet Border Troops.[23]
4
- Alejandro Carrión, 76, Ecuadorian poet, novelist and journalist.[24]
- Patrick Gallacher, 82, Scottish football player.[25]
- Antonio Ghiardello, 93, Italian rower and Olympic medalist (1932, 1936).[26]
- Teddy Grace, 86, American jazz singer.
- Georges Mordant, 64, Belgian footballer.[27]
- Edmund Samarakkody, 79, Ceylonese lawyer, trade unionist, and politician.
- Tim Washington, 32, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs), pneumonia.[28]
5
- Ze'ev Aleksandrowicz, 86, Israeli photographer.
- Philip J. Dolan, 68, American physicist.
- Dattatraya Ganesh Godse, 77, Indian historian, playwright, and art critic.[29]
- Reuben "Rube" Lautenschlager, 76, American basketball player.[30]
- Chester Schaeffer, 89, American film editor.
6
- Éva Balázs, 49, Hungarian Olympic cross-country skier (1964, 1968).[31]
- Carl Bridenbaugh, 88, American historian of Colonial America.[32]
- Bent Christensen, 62, Danish film director, actor, and screenwriter, cancer.[33]
- Nikolay Dutov, 53, Soviet-Russian Olympic long-distance runner (1964).[34]
- Steve Gilpin, 42, New Zealand singer, traffic collision.
- Einar Mangset, 98, Norwegian Olympic sprinter (1920).[35]
- Jean-Paul Matte, 77, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1968).[36]
- Stan Wright, 73, Australian rules footballer.[37]
7
- Richard Hunt, 40, American puppeteer (The Muppets).[38]
- Gilles Lalay, 29, French motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.[39]
- Robert Lord, 46, New Zealand playwright.
- Andrew Marton, 87, Hungarian-American film director, cancer.[40]
- Ian Wood, 90, Australian politician.[41]
8
- Proinsias Mac Airt, 69, Irish republican activist.
- Abderrahim Bouabid, 69, Moroccan politician.[42]
- Anthony Dawson, 75, Scottish actor (Dr. No, Dial M for Murder, Valley of Eagles), cancer.[43]
- Giuseppe Farfanelli, 76, Italian Olympic boxer (1936).[44]
- John Harrington, 70, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns).[45]
- Marjorie Kane, 82, American film and stage actress.
- Johnny Meijer, 79, Dutch accordionist.
- Natan Peled, 78, Israeli politician.
- Nicolas Schöffer, 79, Hungarian-French cybernetic artist.[46]
- Zoya Voskresenskaya, 84, Soviet diplomat, NKVD secret agent, and children's author.
- Joe Zeno, 72, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).[47]
9
- Steve Brodie, 72, American actor, cancer.[48]
- Claude Coats, 78, American animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo, Peter Pan).
- Ty Coon, 76, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[49]
- Al Coppage, 75, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Cleveland Browns).[50]
- Hans Jenny, 92, Swiss-American soil scientist.[51]
- Walt Kichefski, 75, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Card-Pitt), and coach.[52]
- Bill Naughton, 81, British playwright.[53]
- Luigi Stipa, 91, Italian aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer.
- Louis Terrenoire, 83, French politician.[54]
- Jochen van Aerssen, 50, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
10
- Roberto Bonomi, 72, Argentine racing driver.[55]
- Barbara Couper, 89, British actress.[56]
- Geoff Dalley, 75, Australian rules footballer.[57]
- Johnny Hawke, 67, Australian rugby league football player, parkinson's disease.[58]
- James I. Loeb, 82, American politician and diplomat, pneumonia.[59]
- Estevão Molnar, 76, Brazilian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).[60]
- Daniel Norton, 86, Australian politician.
- Joe Paterson, 68, Scottish cricketer.[61]
11
- Heikki Aaltoila, 86, Finnish film composer.[62]
- Jean Claudio, 64, French actor.[63]
- Juan Gilberto Funes, 28, Argentine footballer, heart attack.
- David Hambartsumyan, 35, Soviet-Armenian Olympic diver (1972, 1976, 1980).[64]
- Hans-Wolfgang Heidland, 79, German Olympic diver (1932).[65]
- William George Hoskins, 83, English historian.[66]
- Edward Jancarz, 45, Polish speedway rider, knifed.
- Orville Jorgens, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[67]
- Morton Kaer, 89, American gridiron football player (Frankford Yellow Jackets), and Olympic pentathlete (1924).[68]
- Lucien Tostain, 82, French Olympic long-distance runner (1936).[69]
- Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin, 72, German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II.
12
- Lode Anthonis, 69, Belgian racing cyclist.[70]
- Arthur Cairns, 74, Australian rules footballer.[71]
- Bilegiin Damdinsüren, 73, Mongolian musician and composer.
- Kumar Gandharva, 67, Indian classical singer.
- Johnny Knolla, 72, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[72]
- Walt Morey, 84, American author.[73]
- George Strohmeyer, 67, American gridiron football player.[74]
- Harry van Doorn, 76, Dutch politician.[75]
13
- Hugh Meade Alcorn, Jr., 84, American politician, stroke.
- Yvonne Bryceland, 66, South African actress, cancer.[76]
- Dagny Lind, 89, Swedish film actress.[77]
- Stu MacMillan, 83, American football player (Cleveland Indians).[78]
- Josef Neckermann, 79, German equestrian and Olympic champion (1960, 1964, 1968, 1972).[79]
- Mehdi Abbasov, 32, Azerbaijani politician and soldier, killed in battle.
- Henri Queffélec, 81, French novelist.[80]
- Gerhard Rose, 95, German scientist and war criminal during World War II.
14
- Irakli Abashidze, 82, Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician.
- Walter Herssens, 61, Belgian decathlete and Olympian (1952, 1956).[81]
- Ernst Wilhelm Kalinke, 73, German cinematographer.[82]
- Vernon E. Megee, 91, United States Marine Corps general.[83]
- Jerry Nolan, 45, American rock drummer, stroke.
- Alf Teichs, 87, German filmmaker.[84]
- Flory Van Donck, 79, Belgian golfer.[85]
15
- Zhang Dazhi, 80, Chinese lieutenant general and politician.
- Charlie Gassaway, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians).[86]
- Fritz Kraatz, 85, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1928).[87]
- Dee Murray, 45, English bassist (Elton John Band), stroke.
- Suzanne Muzard, 91, French prostitute and photographer.
- Angel Penna, Sr., 68, Argentine-American racehorse trainer.[88]
- Hari Rhodes, 59, American actor, heart attack.
16
- Ross Patterson Alger, 71, Canadian politician, cancer.
- Walter Bartel, 87, German communist resistance member during World War II, and historian.[89]
- Albert R. Behnke, 88, American physician.[90]
- Ajahn Chah, 73, Thai Buddhist monk.
- Richie Emselle, 74, Australian rules footballer.[91]
- Tom Kearney, 68, Irish Olympic fencer (1952, 1960).[92]
- W. John Kenney, 87, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy.[93]
- Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, 70, Swedish comedian and actor, heart attack.
- Shelagh Roberts, 67, British politician, cancer.
- Dincă Schileru, 81-82, Romanian footballer and manager.[94]
17
- Dorothy Alison, 66, Australian actress.[95]
- Luigi Durand de la Penne, 77, Italian Navy admiral.
- Red Durrett, 70, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[96]
- Ramey Hunter, 81, American football player (Portsmouth Spartans).[97]
- Henry Stommel, 71, American oceanographer.[98]
- Charlie Ventura, 75, American saxophonist, lung cancer.[99]
18
- Hamidul Huq Choudhury, 90, Bangladeshi politician.
- Theodore L. Futch, 96, United States Army brigadier general.[100]
- Philomena Gianfrancisco, 68, American baseball player.[101]
- George Hill, 90, American Olympic sprinter (1924).[102]
- Ruby R. Levitt, 84, American set decorator (The Sound of Music, The Andromeda Strain, Chinatown).
- Cromie McCandless, 71, Northern Irish racing motorcyclist.
- Henriette von Schirach, 78, German writer and wife of Baldur von Schirach.[103]
- Shigeo Tanaka, 85, Japanese film director.
- Douglas Woolf, 69, American author of novels and book reviews.[104]
19
- Augusto Benedico, 82, Spanish-Mexican actor.
- Pietro di Donato, 80, American writer, bone cancer.[105]
- Albert Glock, 66, American archaeologist, murdered.[106]
- Bill Horton, 86, English rugby player.
- Ted W. Lawson, 74, United States Air Force officer.
- Manabendra Mukhopadhyay, 62, Indian singer-songwriter.
20
- Mario Ariosa, 71, Cuban baseball player.[107]
- Milovan Gavazzi, 96, Croatian ethnographer.[108]
- Mohamed Abdul Khalek Hassouna, 93, Egyptian diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the Arab League.[109]
- Trond Hegna, 93, Norwegian politician.
- Charles Kenny, 93, American composer, author, and violinist.[110]
- Charles Kiffer-Porte, 89, French painter.[111]
- Theodore Lukits, 94, Romanian-American painter.
- Jean-Pierre Lecocq, 44, Belgian molecular biologist, plane crash.
- Tom McCarthy, 57, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins).[112]
21
- Edmund Collein, 86, German architect.
- Bernard Cornut-Gentille, 82, French administrator and politician.[113]
- Champion Jack Dupree, 81, American blues musician, cancer.[114]
- Franz Hanreiter, 78, Austrian footballer.[115]
- Marita Katusheva, 53, Soviet volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist (1964).[116]
- Eddie Mabo, 55, Australian indigenous people's activist, cancer.[117]
- Miguel Manzano, 84, Mexican actor, kidney failure.
- Chuck Rowland, 92, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[118]
22
- A. J. Antoon, 47, American theatre director, AIDS-related lymphoma.[119]
- Desmond Fell, 79, South African cricketer.[120]
- Marcel Fitoussi, 93, French Olympic sports shooter (1936).[121]
- Mark Hopkinson, 42, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Derek Walker-Smith, Baron Broxbourne, 81, British politician.
- Fernand Buyle, 73, Belgian footballer.
- Billy Graham, 69, American boxer, cancer.
- Jim Jeffers, 79, Australian rules footballer.[122]
- Glen Robbins, 79, Canadian Olympic cyclist (1932).[123]
- Guerrino Scher, 76, Italian Olympic rower (1932).[124]
- Francisco Urroz, 71, Chilean football player.[125]
23
- Freddie Bartholomew, 67, English-American child actor, heart failure.[126]
- Harry Mortimer, 89, English composer and conductor.[127]
- Joseph Mugnaini, 79, Italian-American artist and illustrator.[128]
- Ian Wolfe, 95, American actor.[129]
24
- Ignacio Bernal, 81, Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist.[130]
- Donald Bick, 55, English cricketer.[131]
- John Bleifer, 90, American actor.[132]
- Tina Chow, 41, American model and jewelry designer, AIDS.[133]
- Ken Darby, 82, American composer, lyricist, and conductor.[134]
- Klaes Karppinen, 84, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion (1936).[135]
- Ricky Ray Rector, 42, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Talia Shapira, 45, Israeli actress, cancer.
- Jenő Szilágyi, 81, Hungarian Olympic long-distance runner (1936).[136]
25
- Raban Adelmann, 79, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Riad Ahmadov, 35, Azerbaijan officer and war hero, killed in action.
- Kay Beauchamp, 92, British communist activist and feminist.
- Guido Buzzelli, 64, Italian comic book artist, writer, and painter.[137]
- Pedro Linares, 85, Mexican artist.
- Mahmoud Riad, 75, Egyptian diplomat.[138]
26
- Sheldon Chumir, 51, Canadian lawyer and politician.
- Percy Griffith Davies, 89, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1932-1935).[139]
- José Ferrer, 80, Puerto Rican actor (Cyrano de Bergerac, Lawrence of Arabia, The Caine Mutiny) and filmmaker, colorectal cancer.[140]
- Gilroy Roberts, 86, American sculptor and minter.[141]
- Hans Schulze, 80, German Olympic water polo player (1932, 1936).[142]
27
- John Alcorn, 56, American artist, designer, and illustrator.[143]
- Boris Arapov, 86, Russian composer.
- Georges Arlin, 89, French Olympic field hockey player (1928).[144]
- Bharat Bhushan, 71, Indian actor, scriptwriter and producer.
- Lonnie Blair, 62, American baseball player.[145]
- Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, 101, English actress.[146]
- Pekka Mellavuo, 78, Finnish Olympic wrestler (1948).[147]
- Sally Mugabe, 60, Zimbabwean activist, first lady (since 1987), kidney failure.
- Satan Panonski, 31, Croatian punk singer, gunshot.[148]
- William Walker, 95, American television and film actor, cancer.[149]
28
- Alfonso Ahumada, 78, Colombian Olympic fencer (1948).[150]
- Arvid Andersson-Holtman, 95, Swedish gymnast and Olympic champion (1920).[151]
- Nahman Avigad, 86, Israeli archaeologist.[152]
- Hans Lang, 83, Austrian composer of light music, film music and Viennese songs.[153]
- Ərəstun Mahmudov, 34, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action..
- Marifat Nasibov, 19, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
- Viktor Seryogin, 47, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
- Herta Wunder, 78, German Olympic swimmer (1928).[154]
- Mehmet Ali Yalım, 62, Turkish Olympic basketball player (1952).[155]
- Arvo Ylppö, 104, Finnish physician and academic.
29
- Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn, 79, British politician.
- Noer Alie, 77, Indonesian Islamic leader and educator.
- Willie Dixon, 76, American blues musician, heart failure.[156]
- Art Somers, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks, New York Rangers).[157]
30
- Ole Bakken, 69, Canadian Olympic basketball player (1948).[158]
- Francis Birch, 88, American geophysicist, prostate cancer.[159]
- Albin Novšak, 76, Yugoslavian Olympic ski jumper (1936).[160]
- Ed Taylor, 90, American baseball player (Boston Braves).[161]
- George Frederick James Temple, 90, English mathematician9.[162]
- Coaker Triplett, 80, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies).[163]
31
- Ludwig Geyer, 87, German cyclist.[164]
- Mel Hein, 82, American Hall of Fame football player (New York Giants), stomach cancer.[165]
- Martin Held, 83, German television and film actor.[166]
- Richard Nixon, 26, Australian rules footballer.[167]
- István Sárközi, 44, Hungarian Olympic footballer (1968), traffic collision.[168]
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