Deaths in December 1992
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1992
1
- Don Allum, 55, British oarsman, first person to row across the Atlantic Ocean in both directions, heart attack.[1]
- Magne Bleness, 59, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
- Chile Gómez, 83, Mexican-American Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators).[2]
- Floyd Hicks, 77, American politician and attorney, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-1977).[3]
- Sam Lowry, 72, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[4]
- Anton Malatinský, 72, Slovak football player.
- Robert Mitchell, 81, American Olympic weightlifter (1936).[5]
- Packie Nelson, 85, American football player (Chicago Bears).[6]
- Paulo Rónai, 85, Hungarian-Brazilian translator, philologist, and critic.[7]
- Jefferson Souza, 84, Brazilian Olympic water polo player (1932).[8]
- D. G. M. Wood-Gush, 70, South African ethologist.
2
- Jack Caffery, 58, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins).[9]
- Tony Cuesta, 66, Cuban exile.[10]
- Jaime de la Rosa, 71, Filipino actor.
- Michael Gothard, 53, English actor (For Your Eyes Only, The Three Musketeers, Arthur of the Britons), suicide by hanging.[11]
- Pete Gross, 55, American sports announcer, cancer.[12]
- Ralph Izzard, 82, English journalist, author, and adventurer.[13]
- Mikhail Karyukov, 87, Soviet film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
- Frank Nash, 85, Australian rules footballer.[14]
- Frank D. O'Connor, 82, American lawyer and politician.
- Lorne Parkin, 70, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts).[15]
3
- Nureddin al-Atassi, 63, Syrian politician, president (1966–1970).[16]
- Luis Alcoriza, 74, Mexican screenwriter and film director.[17]
- Prayoon Chanyavongs, 77, Thai comics artist and cartoonist.
- Frank Follwell, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949-1957).[18]
- Charlie McInnes, 76, Australian rules footballer.[19]
- James O'Hara, 65, Irish-American actor (Suddenly, Batman, Death of a Gunfighter).
- Andrei Sepci, 81, Romanian football player.[20]
- Frank Steele, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Falcons).[21]
- Clifford Walker, 73, English cricketer.[22]
- Bill Ward, 71, American football player (Washington Redskins, Detroit Lions).[23]
4
- Jorge Brauer, 79, Argentine Olympic sailor (1948, 1952).[24]
- Henry Clausen, 87, American lawyer and investigator.
- Yancho Dimitrov, 49, Bulgarian Olympic footballer (1968).[25]
- Alfie Ferguson, 65, British unionist politician.[26]
- Bert James, 69, Australian rules footballer.[27]
- Sidney Schofield, 81, British politician.[28]
5
- Felipe Padilla de Leon, 80, Filipino composer.
- Emil Haury, 88, American archaeologist.[29]
- Levan Maruashvili, 80, Georgian geographer and alpinist.
- Monisha, 21, Indian actress, traffic collision.[30]
- Rakesh Singh, 22, Indian Army officer and war hero, killed in action.
- Hilary Tindall, 54, English actress, bowel cancer.[31]
- Frank I. Wright, 71, American thoroughbred horse racing trainer and commentator.
6
- Paula Frías Allende, 29, Chilean humanitarian, complications from a medical error.
- J. Michel Fournier, 87, Canadian politician.
- Percy Herbert, 72, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Guns of Navarone, Cimarron Strip), heart attack.[32]
- Heorhii Maiboroda, 79, Ukrainian composer.
- Yngve Sköld, 93, Swedish composer.[33]
- László Szabó, 84, Hungarian Olympic rower (1936).[34]
- Hank Worden, 91, American actor (The Searchers, The Alamo, The Lone Ranger).[35]
7
- Zoltán Adamik, 64, Hungarian Olympic sprinter (1952).[36]
- Alojzy Ehrlich, 77-78, Polish table tennis player.[37]
- Richard J. Hughes, 83, American politician, and judge.[38]
- Felix Jackson, 90, German-American screenwriter.[39]
- Thomas Pardoe, 80, English boxer and Olympian (1932).[40]
- Bill Shockley, 55, American gridiron football player (New York Titans, Buffalo Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers).[41]
- Chancellor Williams, 98, American sociologist, historian and writer.
8
- Frederick Barkham, 87, English cricketer.[42]
- Thoppil Bhasi, 68, Indian playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
- Helen Callaghan, 69, Canadian baseball player.[43]
- Hugh Devore, 82, American football player.[44]
- Armanda Guiducci, 69, Italian writer, literary critic, and Marxist feminist.
- Kathy Osterman, 49, American politician, cancer.
- Frithjof Prydz, 49, Norwegian ski jumper, tennis player and Olympian (1972).[45]
- Poola Tirupati Raju, 88, Indian writer, philosopher, and academic.
- Franz Sarnitz, 73, Austrian Olympic sports shooter (1960).[46]
- William Shawn, 85, American magazine editor (The New Yorker).[47]
- Edmund Zieliński, 83, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian (1936).[48]
9
- Carl Barger, 62, American baseball executive, aortic aneurysm.[49]
- Eşref Bilgiç, 84, Turkish international football player and manager.
- Thomas Bottomore, 72, British marxist sociologist.
- Joe Clark, 95, Australian politician.[50]
- Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel, 80, French diplomat.[51]
- Franco Franchi, 64, Italian actor, comedian and singer.[52]
- George Fraser, 81, Canadian football player.
- Vincent Gardenia, 72, Italian-American actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Little Shop of Horrors, Death Wish), Emmy winner (1990), heart attack.[53]
- Yahya Haqqi, 87, Egyptian novelist.[54]
- Luisito Rey, 47, Spanish singer, pneumonia.
10
- Celia Gámez, 87, Argentinian film actress, Alzheimer's disease.[55]
- Joan Gardner, 66, American voice actress, cancer[56]
- Dan Maskell, 84, English tennis player and commentator, heart failure.
- Josephine McKim, 82, American swimmer, Olympic champion (1928, 1932), and world record-holder.[57]
- John G. A. O'Neil, 55, American politician, traffic collision.
- Jacques Perret, 91, French writer.[58]
- Babe Phelps, 84, American baseball player.[59]
- Émile Poussard, 83, French Olympic diver (1932).[60]
- Bernard Reichel, 91, Swiss composer.[61]
- Jim Reid, 79, Australian rules footballer.[62]
11
- Billy Cook, 83, Northern Irish football player and manager.
- William Michael Cosgrove, 76, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Lon Evans, 80, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers).[63]
- Ronald Good, 96, British botanist.
- Andy Kirk, 94, American jazz saxophonist, tubist, and band leader, Alzheimer's disease.[64]
- Suzanne Lilar, 91, Belgian novelist and playwright.[65]
- William A. Redmond, 84, American politician.
- Michael Robbins, 62, English actor, prostate cancer.[66]
- William Stevenson, 69, Canadian Olympic canoeist (1948, 1956).[67]
12
- Ali Amini, 87, Iranian politician, prime minister (1961–1962).[68]
- Damir Anić, 48, Croatian Olympic gymnast (1968).[69]
- Nick Borelli, 87, American football player.[70]
- Malachy Carey, 36, Northern Irish IRA volunteer, assassinated.
- Ghislain Delaunois, 68, Belgian Olympic fencer (1952, 1956).[71]
- Angelos Lambrou, 80, Greek Olympic sprinter (1928, 1932).[72]
- Bernard Lievegoed, 87, Dutch psychiatrist.
- Jasu Patel, 68, Indian cricket player.[73]
- Sir Robert Rex, 83, Niuean politician, premier (since 1974).
- Rube Walker, 66, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers), lung cancer.[74]
13
- Ellis Arnall, 85, American politician.[75]
- Jens Bolling, 77, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
- Oscar Britt, 73, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).[76]
- Eddie Daniels, 70, American baseball player.[77]
- Mono Mohan Das, 82, Indian politician.
- K. C. Irving, 93, Canadian businessman.[78]
- Luther Jeralds, 54, American football player (Dallas Texans, Edmonton Eskimos).[79]
- Miskow Makwarth, 87, Danish actor.
- Aleksandar Tirnanić, 82, Yugoslav football player and manager.[80]
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 93, American businessman, film producer, and philanthropist.[81]
14
- Watazumi Doso, 81, Japanese bamboo flutist.
- Kingo Machimura, 92, Japanese politician.
- William H. Oldendorf, 67, American neurologist, physician, and researcher.[82]
- Louis Pauly, 86, French Olympic sailor (1928).[83]
- Severino Rigoni, 78, Italian cyclist and Olympic silver medalist (1936).[84]
15
- Sándor Ambrózy, 89, Hungarian sculptor.[85]
- Sven Delblanc, 61, Swedish author and academic, cancer.
- Rosaire Gauthier, 88, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1957-1958).[86]
- Marcel Lachmann, 84, French Olympic field hockey player (1928, 1936).[87]
- Yolande Laffon, 97, French actress.[88]
- Otto Lington, 89, Danish composer, bandleader and violinist.
- Ennio Morlotti, 82, Italian painter.[89]
- Dick Mulligan, 74, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Braves).[90]
- Jim Musick, 82, American gridiron football player (Boston Braves/Redskins).[91]
- Hermann Stövesand, 86, German actor.[92]
- William Ware Theiss, 61, American costume designer (Star Trek, Harold and Maude, Bound for Glory), AIDS.
16
- Erica Brausen, 84, British art dealer and gallerist.
- Monk Dorsett, 83, College football and basketball player.
- Adil Guliyev, 70, Soviet-Azerbaijani fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
- Erik Johansson, 65, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist (1952).[93]
- Anton Koolhaas, 80, Dutch journalist and writer.[94]
- Gonzalo Rodríguez Martín-Granizo, 64, Spanish Navy admiral general.[95]
17
- Serafima Amosova, 78, Soviet bomber commander during World War II.
- Günther Anders, 90, German philosopher.[96]
- Dana Andrews, 83, American actor, congestive heart failure.[97]
- Luis Child, Colombian Olympic swimmer (1948).[98]
- George N. Craig, 83, American politician, Governor of Indiana (1953–1957).[99]
- Andrew Jacobs, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).
- William Knecht, 62, American competition rower and Olympic champion (1960, 1964).[100]
- Rinus Terlouw, 70, Dutch footballer and Olympian (1948, 1952), Alzheimer's disease.[101]
- Keith Wiegard, 54, Australian rules footballer and Olympic water polo player (1960).[102]
- Suren Yeremyan, 84, Soviet and Armenian historian and cartographer.
18
- Antonio Amurri, 67, Italian author, radio and television writer and lyricist.
- Vojin Bakić, 77, Yugoslav sculptor.[103]
- Per Brandtmar, 74, Danish football player.[104]
- Howard Cann, 97, American basketball player and coach.[105]
- Mark Goodson, 77, American game show producer (The Price Is Right, I've Got a Secret, What's My Line?), pancreatic cancer.[106]
- Clara Hale, 87, American humanitarian, complications from a stroke.[107]
- Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov, 81, Soviet diplomat, pneumonia.
19
- Gianni Brera, 73, Italian journalist and novelist, traffic collision.[108]
- Howard Cann, 97, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (NYU Violets), and Olympic shot putter (1920).[109]
- Abraham Charnes, 75, American mathematician and economist.
- Eric Cole, 86, British Army officer and cricketer.[110]
- Louis Ducreux, 81, French actor, screenwriter and composer.[111]
- Vladimir Grebennikov, 60, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympic medalist (1960).[112]
- H. L. A. Hart, 85, English legal philosopher.[113]
- Rosel H. Hyde, 92, American lawyer.[114]
- Reggie Ingle, 89, English cricketer.
20
- A. Hamid Arief, 68, Indonesian actor.
- Peter Brocco, 89, American actor (Spartacus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Our Man Flint), heart attack.[115]
- Bernard Dubourg, 47, French poet.[116]
- Luciano Dal Falco, 67, Italian politician.
- Harald Huffmann, 84, German field hockey player and Olympic medalist (1936).[117]
- Steve Ross, 65, American media executive, prostate cancer.
- Walter Zadek, 92, German-Israeli photographer.[118]
21
- Stella Adler, 91, American actress and acting teacher, heart failure.[119]
- Sybil Andrews, 94, English-Canadian artist.[120]
- Philip Farkas, 78, American classical musician.[121]
- David Hare, 75, American surrealist artist, aortic aneurysm.[122]
- Albert King, 69, American blues guitarist and singer, heart attack.[123]
- Nathan Milstein, 88, Ukrainian-American violinist, heart attack.[124]
- Alex Quaison-Sackey, 68, Ghanaian diplomat.[125]
22
- Bolaji Badejo, 39, Nigerian visual artist and actor (Alien), sickle-cell disease.
- Charles B. Black, 71, American basketball player.[126]
- Harry Bluestone, 85, American violinist, tuberculosis.
- Rajendran Christie, 54, Indian field hockey player and Olympic medalist (1964, 1968).[127]
- Brian Doyle, 62, English football player.
- Frederick William Franz, 99, American Jehovah's Witness leader.[128]
- Gavin Hoare, 58, Australian rules footballer.[129]
- William Janney, 84, American actor.[130]
- Erik Lindén, 81, Swedish freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist (1948).[131]
- Italo Pedroncelli, 57, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1956, 1960, 1964).[132]
- Ross Robinson, 86, Canadian Olympic speed skater (1928).[133]
- Milo Sperber, 81, British actor, director and writer.[134]
- Cornelio Villareal, 88, Filipino politician.
- Ted Willis, Baron Willis, 78, English screenwriter and playwright.[135]
23
- Jadwiga Chojnacka, 87, Polish film actress.
- Lona Cohen, 79, American spy for the Soviet Union.
- Vincent Fourcade, 58, French interior designer, AIDS-related complications.[136]
- Ivanhoe Gambini, 88, Italian painter.[137]
- Eddie Hazel, 42, American funk guitarist and singer, liver failure.[138]
- Frank Hekma, 81, American Olympic sailor (1928).[139]
- Vyacheslav Kurennoy, 60, Russian Olympic water polo player (1956, 1960).[140]
- Robert Marshak, 76, American physicist and educator.[141]
- Hank Mizell, 69, American rockabilly singer, guitarist, and songwriter.[142]
- Cyril Walters, 87, Welsh cricketer.[143]
- Jack Wedgwood, 76, Australian rugby league footballer and RAAF officer.[144]
- Stanislaw Zalewski, 85, Polish Olympic sailor (1936).[145]
24
- Dursun Bozkurt, 67, Turkish Olympic alpine skier (1948).[146]
- Bobby LaKind, 47, American conga musician, colon cancer.[147]
- Micheline Luccioni, 62, French actress.[148]
- Jack Nichols, 66, American basketball player (Washington Capitols, Tri-Cities Blackhawks / Milwaukee Hawks, Boston Celtics).[149]
- Peyo, 64, Belgian comic artist and writer (The Smurfs), heart attack.[150]
- Adela Sequeyro, 91, Mexican actress and journalist.[151]
- Stella Skopal, 88, Croatian sculptor.
- William Trueheart, 74, American diplomat.[152]
- Nicholas Joseph Walinski Jr., 72, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio).[153]
25
- Giuseppe Bonomi, 80, Italian football player coach.[154]
- Ted Croker, 68, English footballer.[155]
- Garrison H. Davidson, 88, American lieutenant general.[156]
- Monica Dickens, 77, English author.[157]
- Ed Donnelly, 60, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).[158]
- Sandra Dorne, 68, British actress.
- Richard Howard Ichord, Jr., 66, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1981).[159]
- Helen Joseph, 87, South African anti-apartheid activist.[160]
26
- Constance Carpenter, 88, English actress, stroke.[161]
- Jack Crayston, 82, English football player and manager.[162]
- Dancer's Image, 27, American thoroughbred racehorse.
- Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies, 86, British judge.[163]
- Jan Flinterman, 73, Dutch racing driver.
- Tom Gorman, 67, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics).[164]
- Edward Howard-Vyse, 87, British Army officer, horse rider and Olympic medalist (1936).[165]
- Anthony Huxley, 72, British botanist.[166]
- John George Kemeny, 66, Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, heart failure.[167]
- Nikita Magaloff, 80, Georgian-Russian pianist.[168]
- Eve Poole, 67, New Zealand politician.
- María Bruguera Pérez, 79, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist.
- Hilde Wagener, 88, German-Austrian actress.[169]
27
- Stephen Albert, 51, American composer, traffic collision.[170]
- Dhananjay Bhattacharya, 70, Indian Bengali singer and composer.
- Kay Boyle, 90, American novelist.[171]
- Alfred H. Clifford, 84, American mathematician.
- James Patterson Lyke, 53, American Roman Catholic prelate, cancer.
- János Móré, 82, Hungarian football player and manager.[172]
- Eduardo Schneeberger, 81, Chilean footballer.[173]
28
- Jorge Araya, 68, Chilean footballer.[174]
- Jack Delinger, 66, American bodybuilder, heart attack.
- Nick Feher, 66, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers).[175]
- Vicente Gerbasi, 79, Venezuelan poet and writer.[176]
- Nils Handal, 86, Norwegian politician.
- Sal Maglie, 75, American baseball player, pneumonia.[177]
- Elfie Mayerhofer, 75, Austrian actress and singer.[178]
- William G. McLoughlin, 70, American historian.[179]
- Aimé Michel, 73, French science and spirituality writer and author.[180]
- Milutin Pajević, 72, Montenegrin football player and manager.[181]
- Daniella Perez, 22, Brazilian actress and dancer, murdered.
- Otto Lara Resende, 70, Brazilian journalist.[182]
- Cardew Robinson, 75, English comedian, ischemic colitis.[183]
- Vicente Rondón, 54, Venezuelan boxer.
- Chang Woon-soo, 64, South Korean football player and manager.
- Doug Wright, 75, English football player.
29
- Jaroslav Borovička, 61, Czech football player.
- Leon Gemmell, 71, Australian rules footballer.[184]
- Bert Harper, 69, Australian rules footballer.[185]
- Yahya Kanu, Sierra Leone military officer, president.
- James Napoli, 81, American mobster belonging to the Genovese crime family.
- Vivienne Segal, 95, American actress and singer, heart failure.[186]
- Fidel Tricánico, 77, Uruguayan Olympic boxer (1936).[187]
30
- Hans Bauer, 89, German Olympic cross country skier (1928).[188]
- Phil H. Bucklew, 78, American gridiron football player.[189]
- Dorothy Chacko, 88, American social worker, humanitarian and medical doctor.
- César Domela, 92, Dutch sculptor, painter, photographer, and typographer.[190]
- Timothy S. Healy, 69, American Roman Catholic priest and academic, heart attack.[191]
- Mihailo Lalić, 78, Montenegrin-Serbian writer.[192]
- Romeo Muller, 64, American screenwriter and actor, heart attack.[193]
- Chloethiel Woodard Smith, 82, American architect, cancer.[194]
- Lusine Zakaryan, 55, Armenian singer, diabetes.
31
- Denis Barnett, 86, British RAF air marshal during World War II.
- Elene Gokieli, 74, Soviet-Georgian hurdler, sprinter and Olympian (1952).[195]
- Dianne Jackson, 51, English animation director (The Snowman), cancer.[196]
- Cyril Peacock, 63, British racing cyclist and Olympian (1952).[197]
- Frank Ransley, 95, British WW1 flying ace.[198]
- Bill Spears, 86, American football player.[199]
- Kristján Vattnes, 76, Icelandic Olympic javelin thrower (1936).[200]
- Guy Williams, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Canada Senate (1971-1982).[201]