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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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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October 1992
1
- Gert Bastian, 69, German politician, murder-suicide.[1]
- Ilgar Ismailov, 33, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.[2]
- Petra Kelly, 44, German politician, murder-suicide.[3]
- Ali Mammadov, 37, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
- Max Tera, 71, Indonesian cinematographer.[4]
- Salvatore Valitutti, 85, Italian teacher and politician.
2
- Sabiha Bengütaş, 88, Turkish sculptor.
- Jug Bennett, 72, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
- Honnappa Bhagavathar, 77, Indian actor, musician and singer.
- Vincent Hallinan, 95, American lawyer.[5]
- William Kennedy, 92, Canadian Olympic high jumper (1920).
- Luis Serra, 56, Uruguayan cyclist and Olympian.[6]
- Bogdan Suchodolski, 88, Polish philosopher and politician.[7]
3
- Aliyar Aliyev, 34, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action.
- John Carisi, 70, American trumpeter and composer.[8]
- Ted Dailey, 83, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[9]
- John William Davis, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1975).
- Fritz Dennerlein, 56, Italian swimmer, water polo player and Olympian (1956, 1960, 1964), traffic collision.[10]
- Lili Heglund, 88, Danish film actress.
- Peter Klein, 85, German opera singer.
- Marek Petrusewicz, 58, Polish swimmer and Olympian.[11]
- Ernest H. Volwiler, 99, American chemist.[12]
- Ken Wilmshurst, 61, English long jumper, triple jumper and Olympian.[13]
4
- Zoltán Lajos Bay, 92, Hungarian physicist and engineer.[14]
- Mohammed Benaziza, 33, French bodybuilder.[15]
- Jack Hampstead, 72, Australian rugby league footballer.
- Denny Hulme, 56, New Zealand racing driver, heart attack.
- H. D. Thambiah, 65, Sri Lankan lawyer and judge.
5
- Sadhan Basu, 70, Indian physical chemist and academic.
- Cornelis Berkhouwer, 73, Dutch politician.[16]
- Gösta Carlsson, 86, Swedish Olympic cyclist (1928).[17]
- Eddie Kendricks, 52, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
- Fred Otash, 70, American private investigator and Hollywood fixer.[18]
- Appa Sahib Pant, 80, Indian diplomat, writer and freedom fighter.
6
- Denholm Elliott, 70, English actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, A Room with a View, Trading Places), BAFTA winner (1984, 1985, 1986), AIDS.[19]
- Natalie Moorhead, 91, American film and stage actress.[20]
- Bill O'Reilly, 86, Australian cricket player.[21]
- Margit Symo, 79, Hungarian-German actress.[22]
7
- Nikki Allan, 7, English murder victim[23]
- Aina Berg, 90, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1920, 1924).[24]
- Ed Blackwell, 62, American jazz drummer, kidney disease.[25]
- Allan Bloom, 62, American philosopher, AIDS-related complications.[26]
- Martin Eichler, 80, German number theorist.
- Joseph Kitagawa, 77, Japanese-American scholar in religious studies.
- Ted Kucharski, 85, American football player (Providence Steam Roller).
- Bill Robinson, 73, English football player.[27]
- Mikayil Useynov, 87, Azerbaijani architect.
8
- Robert Berdella, 43, American serial killer and rapist, congenital heart defect.
- Willy Brandt, 78, German politician, Chancellor (1969–1974), and Nobel Prize recipient (1971), colon cancer.[28]
- Ian Graham Gass, 66, English geologist.[29]
- Heinz Jenni, 41, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1972).
- Graziano Mancinelli, 55, Italian Olympic equestrian (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, !984).
- Lindsley Parsons, 87, American film producer and screenwriter.[30]
9
- Doby Bartling, 79, American football player and coach.
- Darrel Chapman, 55, Australian rugby league footballer.
- Saad El-Din El-Shorbagui, 72, Egyptian Olympic sports shooter (1952).
- Jędrzej Giertych, 89, Polish writer and politician.[31]
- Johnny Gregory, 87, Australian rules footballer.
- Mike Guerra, 79, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox).[32]
- Harjinder Singh Jinda, 31, Indian Sikh separatist, execution by hanging.
- Ben Maddow, 83, American screenwriter and documentarian.[33]
- Mary A. R. Marshall, 71, American politician, fall.
- Giuliano Ravizza, 66, Italian fashion designer, cancer.[34]
- Sukhdev Singh Sukha, 30, Indian Sikh militant, execution by hanging.
- Per Olof Sundman, 70, Swedish writer.[35]
10
- Sha Menghai, 92, Chinese great master of calligraphy.[36]
- Woesha Cloud North, 74, Native American artist, teacher, and activist.
- James Seay, 78, American actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Death Valley Days, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?).[37]
- Zofia Wojciechowska-Grabska, 87, Polish painter.
11
- Ignatius Ghattas, 71, American Melkite Greek Catholic Church bishop.
- William Neufeld, 91, American track and field athlete and Olympian (1924).[38]
- Froelich Rainey, 85, American anthropologist and academic.[39]
- Zakir Yusifov, 36, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
12
- David Dragunsky, 82, Soviet army officer and politician.
- Severo Gomes, 68, Brazilian politician, helicopter crash.[40]
- Ulysses Guimarães, 76, Brazilian politician, helicopter crash.[41]
- John Hancock, 51, American actor (The Bonfire of the Vanities, City Heat, 10), heart attack.[42]
- Eddy Kuijpers, 77, Dutch Olympic fencer (1948).[43]
- Jim Percy, 43, Australian socialist politician, cancer.
13
- Tula Belle, 86, American child film actress.[44]
- Jacques Delepaut, 66, French football player.
- Stan Livingstone, 79, Australian rules footballer.
- James Marshall, 50, American author (George and Martha, The Stupids), AIDS.[45]
- Bob Mitchell, 74, American screenwriter.
- Les Pawson, 87, American marathon runner.
- Hughes Rudd, 71, American newscaster, aneurysm.[46]
- Kiwako Taichi, 48, Japanese film actress, traffic collision.[47]
14
- Anna Maria van Geene, 64, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1948).
- Qin Mu, 73, Chinese educator and writer.
- Poul Erik Petersen, 65, Danish football player and Olympian.[48]
- Anna Maria van Geene, 64, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1948).[49]
- Frank Hose, 71, Australian rules footballer.
- William Waddell, 71, Scottish footballer.[50]
15
- Gino Cavalieri, 97, Italian actor.
- Oliver Franks, Baron Franks, 87, English philosopher and diplomat.[51]
- Jim Homer, 70, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals).
- Talwinder Singh Parmar, 48, Indian militant and Canadian-Sikh terrorist, shot by police.
- Jackie Sullivan, 74, American Major League Baseball player.[52]
16
- John Bass, 89, English cricketer.
- Shirley Booth, 94, American actress (Come Back, Little Sheba, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Hazel), Oscar winner (1953).[53]
- Charley Burley, 75, American boxer.[54]
- John Tracy Ellis, 87, American Catholic Church historian.[55]
- Maurice Féaudierre, 90, French journalist and painter.[56]
- Sayed Hamdi, 60, Egyptian Olympic gymnast (1952).
- Anna Hill Johnstone, 79, American costume designer (The Godfather, Ragtime, Dog Day Afternoon).[57]
- Vijitha Mallika, 49, Sri Lankan actress, cancer.
- Torbjørn Mork, 63, Norwegian politician.
- Antanas Poška, 89, Lithuanian traveler and anthropologist.
- William Edmond Robinson, 72, American politician.
- Vladek Sheybal, 69, Polish actor (From Russia with Love) and singer, aortic aneurysm.[58]
17
- Edgar Chandler, 46, American gridiron football player (Buffalo Bills, New England Patriots).[59]
- Brian Eaton, 75, Australian Air Force commander.
- Herman Johannes, 80, Indonesian politician and scientist.
- Orestis Laskos, 84, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor.[60]
- John O'Connell, 88, American baseball player.[61]
- Karomatullo Qurbonov, 30, Tajik singer, murdered.
- Prem Sahgal, 75, British Indian Army officer.
- Rouben Ter-Arutunian, 72, American costume and scenic designer, lymphoma.[62]
- Tadeusz Żmudziński, 68, Polish pianist.
18
- Yoram Ben-Porat, 55, Israeli academic and economist, traffic collision.
- Merl Condit, 75, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Redskins).[63]
- Gerald Ellison, 82, English Anglican bishop.[64]
- Makoto Fukui, 52, Japanese freestyle swimmer and Olympian (1960, 1964).
- Albert Schwartz, 69, American zoologist.[65]
- Alija Šuljak, 91, Bosnian Croatian war criminal during World War II.
19
- Atley Donald, 82, American baseball player (New York Yankees).[66]
- Arturo Farías, 65, Chilean football player.
- Roger Gray, 71, English cricketer and judge.
- Willie Lamothe, 72, Canadian musician.[67]
- Maurice Le Roux, 69, French composer.[68]
- Magnus Pyke, 83, English nutritional scientist and television presenter.[69]
- Wulf Schmidt, 80, Danish-English double agent.[70]
- James J. Stoker, 87, American mathematician and engineer.[71]
- Alvin Stoller, 67, American jazz drummer.[72]
- Arthur Wint, 72, Jamaican Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952).[73]
20
- Mimì Aylmer, 96, Italian actress.[74]
- Orton Chirwa, 73, Malawian politician and political prisoner.
- Stanley McMaster, 66, Northern Irish Unionist politician.
- Koča Popović, 84, Yugoslav politician, vice president (1966–1967).
- Jack Reddish, 65, American Olympic alpine skier (1948, 1952).[75]
- Werner Torkanowsky, 66, German conductor, cancer.[76]
- Sam Vanni, 84, Finnish painter.
- Rudi Weissenstein, 82, Israeli photographer.
21
- Ante Ciliga, 94, Croatian politician and writer.[77]
- Joe Dwyer, 89, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[78]
- Jim Garrison, 70, American attorney, cancer.[79]
- François-Didier Gregh, 86, Monegasque politician and Minister of State.
- Bob Todd, 70, English comedy actor.
22
- Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, 88, British botanist and educator.[80]
- Red Barber, 84, American sportscaster.[81]
- Carlo Bernari, 83, Italian author.
- Giorgio de Stefani, 88, Italian tennis player.
- Pavel Khristophorovich Dubinda, 78, Soviet Red Army war hero during World War II.
- Newell A. George, 88, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1959-1961).
- Wilson Humphries, 64, Scottish football player and manager.[82]
- Wolf Kaiser, 75, German theatre and film actor, suicide.[83]
- Cleavon Little, 53, American actor (Blazing Saddles, Temperatures Rising, Purlie), Tony winner (1970), colon cancer.[84]
- André Vandeweyer, 83, Belgian football player and coach.
23
- Alfred A. Arraj, 86, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Colorado).
- Banine, 86, Azerbaijani-French writer.
- Dorothy Dunbar, 90, American actress and socialite.
- Jean Guinard, 93, French painter.
- Ernst Hartmann, 76, German medical doctor, author and publicist.
- William Masselos, 72, American classical pianist.[85]
- Vernon Morgan, 88, English Olympic steeplechase athlete (1928).[86]
24
- David Archer, 61, Barbadian cricket player and umpire.
- Laurie Colwin, 48, American writer, aortic aneurysm.[87]
- Jack Indian, 66, Australian rules footballer.
- Mohammad Ibraheem Khwakhuzhi, 72, Afghan politician and writer.
- Gustav Kneip, 87, German composer.[88]
- Jimmy Orlando, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.[89]
- Luis Rosales, 82, Spanish poet and essayist, cerebral hemorrhage.[90]
25
- Adelino da Palma Carlos, 87, Portuguese politician, prime minister (1974).
- Arnold S. Eagle, 82–83, Hungarian-American photographer.[91]
- Giorgio Locchi, 69, Italian journalist and writer.
- Karen Lykkehus, 88, Danish actress.
- Roger Miller, 56, American musician, lung cancer.[92]
- Mehmet Reşat Nayır, 81, Turkish Olympic footballer (1936).
- Richard Pousette-Dart, 76, American abstract artist.[93]
- Peter Rice, 57, Irish structural engineer, brain cancer.[94]
- Ivan Svitlychny, 63, Ukrainian poet, literary critic, and Soviet dissident.
26
- Jerome Andrews, 83–84, American-French dancer and choreographer.[95]
- Laurel Cronin, 53, American actress (A League of Their Own, Hook, Beethoven), cancer.[96]
- Melvin Dixon, 42, American author and poet, AIDS.[97]
- Paul Eisler, 85, Austrian inventor.
- Ridgely Gaither, 89, United States Army lieutenant general.[98]
- Dottie Green, 71, American baseball player.
27
- Ivan Andreadis, 68, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
- István Balogh, 80, Hungarian football player and manager.
- David Bohm, 74, American-British theoretical physicist, heart attack.[99]
- Franz Fuchsberger, 82, Austrian Olympic footballer (1936).
- Paul Jessup, 84, American discus thrower, shot putter and Olympian (1932).[100]
- Roy Marshall, 62, Barbadian-English cricket player, cancer.[101]
- Josef Medřický, 84, Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player (1936).
- Nayyar Sultana, 55, Pakistani film actress, cancer.
- Wilson Whitley, 37, American college football player, heart problems.
28
- Hubert Benoit, 88, French psychotherapist.[102]
- Greg Duhaime, 39, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympian (1984), AIDS-related complications.[103]
- Charles Pellat, 78, Algerian-French academic, historian, and translator.[104]
- Lin Shen, 84, Taiwanese politician.
29
- George T. Clemens, 90, American cinematographer.
- Manuel Antonio de Varona, 83, Cuban lawyer and politician.
- Kenneth MacMillan, 62, British ballet dancer, heart attack.[105]
- Louis Marin, 61, French philosopher, historian, and art critic.[106]
30
- Dionizije Dvornić, 66, Croatian football player.
- Ben Lessy, 90, American comedian and actor.[107]
- Len Metherell, 83, Australian rules footballer.
- Joan Mitchell, 67, American artist, lung cancer.[108]
- Kuladeivam Rajagopal, 61, Indian actor.
31
- Trevor Atkinson, 49, English football player.[109]
- Jean Hébey, 76, French-Algerian film actor.
- Brian MacCabe, 78, English Olympic athlete (1936).[110]
- Sammy Ward, 28–29, Northern Irish paramilitary, killed by the IRA.
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