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.
January 1992
1 Cele Abba, 85, Italian actress. Konrad Bleuler, 79, Swiss quantum physicist. Jack Badham, 72, English football player. James W. B. Douglas, 78, British social researcher. M. J. Frankovich, 82, American film producer, pneumonia. Grace Hopper, 85, American naval admiral and computer scientist. Oskar Munzel, 92, Germany Wehrmacht general during World War II. Alf Nielsen, 83, Norwegian footballer. Buck Stanton, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).
2 Julien Beke, 77, Belgian Olympic wrestler (1936). Kenneth Emory, 94, American anthropologist. Virginia Field, 74, British-born American actress, cancer. Morgan Ford, 80, American judge. Tibor Gallai, 79, Hungarian mathematician. Hedwig Haß, 89, German Olympic fencer (1936). Hans Kurath, 100, Austrian-American linguist. Ginette Leclerc, 79, French actress, cancer. Maurice Perrin, 80, French Olympic cyclist (1932). Yaúca, 56, Portuguese football player.
3 O. V. Alagesan, 80, Indian politician and freedom fighter. Dame Judith Anderson, 94, Australian actress, pneumonia. Robert Gordis, 83, American conservative rabbi. Akio Kashiwagi, 53-54, Japanese businessman and gambler, stabbed.Global High-Roller’s Trail Ends in a Mystery Larry Lauer, 64, American football player (Green Bay Packers). Carl McVoy, 61, American pianist. Domenico Meldolesi, 51, Italian racing cyclist. George Meyer, 82, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Al Nichelini, 82, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Matteo Poggi, 78, Italian football player and coach. Antonio Quirino, 85, Filipino judge, entrepreneur and politician. Carl Schmidt, 87, Danish Olympic rower (1928). Gábor Szarvas, 48, Hungarian weightlifter and Olympian (1972). Radomiro Tomic, 77, Chilean politician. Pavel Zyryanov, 84, Soviet major general and former commander of the Soviet Border Troops.
4 Alejandro Carrión, 76, Ecuadorian poet, novelist and journalist. Patrick Gallacher, 82, Scottish football player. Antonio Ghiardello, 93, Italian rower and Olympic medalist (1932, 1936). Teddy Grace, 86, American jazz singer. Georges Mordant, 64, Belgian footballer. Edmund Samarakkody, 79, Ceylonese lawyer, trade unionist, and politician. Tim Washington, 32, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs), pneumonia.
5 Ze'ev Aleksandrowicz, 86, Israeli photographer. Philip J. Dolan, 68, American physicist. Dattatraya Ganesh Godse, 77, Indian historian, playwright, and art critic. Reuben "Rube" Lautenschlager, 76, American basketball player. Chester Schaeffer, 89, American film editor.
6 Éva Balázs, 49, Hungarian Olympic cross-country skier (1964, 1968). Carl Bridenbaugh, 88, American historian of Colonial America. Bent Christensen, 62, Danish film director, actor, and screenwriter, cancer. Nikolay Dutov, 53, Soviet-Russian Olympic long-distance runner (1964). Steve Gilpin, 42, New Zealand singer, traffic collision. Einar Mangset, 98, Norwegian Olympic sprinter (1920). Jean-Paul Matte, 77, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1968). Stan Wright, 73, Australian rules footballer.
7 Richard Hunt, 40, American puppeteer (The Muppets). Gilles Lalay, 29, French motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident. Robert Lord, 46, New Zealand playwright. Andrew Marton, 87, Hungarian-American film director, cancer. Ian Wood, 90, Australian politician.
8 Proinsias Mac Airt, 69, Irish republican activist. Abderrahim Bouabid, 69, Moroccan politician. Anthony Dawson, 75, Scottish actor (Dr. No, Dial M for Murder, Valley of Eagles), cancer. Giuseppe Farfanelli, 76, Italian Olympic boxer (1936). John Harrington, 70, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns). 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. Zoya Voskresenskaya, 84, Soviet diplomat, NKVD secret agent, and children's author. Joe Zeno, 72, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).
9 Steve Brodie, 72, American actor, cancer. Claude Coats, 78, American animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo, Peter Pan). Ty Coon, 76, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Al Coppage, 75, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Cleveland Browns). Hans Jenny, 92, Swiss-American soil scientist. Walt Kichefski, 75, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Card-Pitt), and coach. Bill Naughton, 81, British playwright. Luigi Stipa, 91, Italian aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer. Louis Terrenoire, 83, French politician. Jochen van Aerssen, 50, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
10 Roberto Bonomi, 72, Argentine racing driver. Barbara Couper, 89, British actress. Geoff Dalley, 75, Australian rules footballer. Johnny Hawke, 67, Australian rugby league football player, parkinson's disease. James I. Loeb, 82, American politician and diplomat, pneumonia. Estevão Molnar, 76, Brazilian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952). Daniel Norton, 86, Australian politician. Joe Paterson, 68, Scottish cricketer.
11 Heikki Aaltoila, 86, Finnish film composer. Jean Claudio, 64, French actor. Juan Gilberto Funes, 28, Argentine footballer, heart attack. David Hambartsumyan, 35, Soviet-Armenian Olympic diver (1972, 1976, 1980). Hans-Wolfgang Heidland, 79, German Olympic diver (1932). William George Hoskins, 83, English historian. Edward Jancarz, 45, Polish speedway rider, knifed. Orville Jorgens, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Morton Kaer, 89, American gridiron football player (Frankford Yellow Jackets), and Olympic pentathlete (1924). Lucien Tostain, 82, French Olympic long-distance runner (1936). Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin, 72, German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II.
12 Lode Anthonis, 69, Belgian racing cyclist. Arthur Cairns, 74, Australian rules footballer. Bilegiin Damdinsüren, 73, Mongolian musician and composer. Kumar Gandharva, 67, Indian classical singer. Johnny Knolla, 72, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Walt Morey, 84, American author. George Strohmeyer, 67, American gridiron football player. Harry van Doorn, 76, Dutch politician.
13 Hugh Meade Alcorn, Jr., 84, American politician, stroke. Yvonne Bryceland, 66, South African actress, cancer. Dagny Lind, 89, Swedish film actress. Stu MacMillan, 83, American football player (Cleveland Indians). Josef Neckermann, 79, German equestrian and Olympic champion (1960, 1964, 1968, 1972). Mehdi Abbasov, 32, Azerbaijani politician and soldier, killed in battle. Henri Queffélec, 81, French novelist. 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). Ernst Wilhelm Kalinke, 73, German cinematographer. Vernon E. Megee, 91, United States Marine Corps general. Jerry Nolan, 45, American rock drummer, stroke. Alf Teichs, 87, German filmmaker. Flory Van Donck, 79, Belgian golfer.
15 Zhang Dazhi, 80, Chinese lieutenant general and politician. Charlie Gassaway, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians). Fritz Kraatz, 85, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1928). Dee Murray, 45, English bassist (Elton John Band), stroke. Suzanne Muzard, 91, French prostitute and photographer. Angel Penna, Sr., 68, Argentine-American racehorse trainer. 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. Albert R. Behnke, 88, American physician. Ajahn Chah, 73, Thai Buddhist monk. Richie Emselle, 74, Australian rules footballer. Tom Kearney, 68, Irish Olympic fencer (1952, 1960). W. John Kenney, 87, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, 70, Swedish comedian and actor, heart attack. Shelagh Roberts, 67, British politician, cancer. Dincă Schileru, 81-82, Romanian footballer and manager.
17 Dorothy Alison, 66, Australian actress. Luigi Durand de la Penne, 77, Italian Navy admiral. Red Durrett, 70, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Ramey Hunter, 81, American football player (Portsmouth Spartans). Henry Stommel, 71, American oceanographer. Charlie Ventura, 75, American saxophonist, lung cancer.
18 Hamidul Huq Choudhury, 90, Bangladeshi politician. Theodore L. Futch, 96, United States Army brigadier general. Philomena Gianfrancisco, 68, American baseball player. George Hill, 90, American Olympic sprinter (1924). 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. Shigeo Tanaka, 85, Japanese film director. Douglas Woolf, 69, American author of novels and book reviews.
19 Augusto Benedico, 82, Spanish-Mexican actor. Pietro di Donato, 80, American writer, bone cancer. Albert Glock, 66, American archaeologist, murdered. 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. Milovan Gavazzi, 96, Croatian ethnographer. Mohamed Abdul Khalek Hassouna, 93, Egyptian diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the Arab League.Mohamed Abdel Khalek Hassouna Trond Hegna, 93, Norwegian politician. Charles Kenny, 93, American composer, author, and violinist. Charles Kiffer-Porte, 89, French painter. 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).
21 Edmund Collein, 86, German architect. Bernard Cornut-Gentille, 82, French administrator and politician. Champion Jack Dupree, 81, American blues musician, cancer. Franz Hanreiter, 78, Austrian footballer. Marita Katusheva, 53, Soviet volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist (1964). Eddie Mabo, 55, Australian indigenous people's activist, cancer. Miguel Manzano, 84, Mexican actor, kidney failure. Daniel Rossi, 71, Uruguayan Olympic fencer (1948). Chuck Rowland, 92, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
22 A. J. Antoon, 47, American theatre director, AIDS-related lymphoma. Desmond Fell, 79, South African cricketer. Marcel Fitoussi, 93, French Olympic sports shooter (1936). 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. Glen Robbins, 79, Canadian Olympic cyclist (1932). Guerrino Scher, 76, Italian Olympic rower (1932). Francisco Urroz, 71, Chilean football player.
23 Freddie Bartholomew, 67, English-American child actor, heart failure. Harry Mortimer, 89, English composer and conductor. Joseph Mugnaini, 79, Italian-American artist and illustrator. Ian Wolfe, 95, American actor.
24 Miklos Bencze, 80, Hungarian-American operatic bass and voice teacher Ignacio Bernal, 81, Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist. Donald Bick, 55, English cricketer. John Bleifer, 90, American actor. Tina Chow, 41, American model and jewelry designer, AIDS. Ken Darby, 82, American composer, lyricist, and conductor. Klaes Karppinen, 84, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion (1936). Ricky Ray Rector, 42, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Talia Shapira, 45, Israeli actress, cancer.