The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.
November 1992
1 Harry Baker, 84, Australian rules footballer. Giacomo Giuseppe Beltritti, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (1970–1987). Karl Deutsch, 80, Czech political scientist. Bob Haak, 76, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Tamara Lazakovich, 38, Soviet artistic gymnast and Olympian (1972), alcohol-related illnesses. John H. Malmberg, 65, American plasma physicist. Marianne Stewart, 70, German-American actress, cancer. Hugh Taylor, 69, American football player (Washington Redskins), and coach. Doug Turley, 73, American football player (Washington Redskins).
2 Anvar Arazov, 38, Azerbaijani colonel and war hero, killed in action. Robert Carston Arneson, 62, American sculptor, cancer. Vincenzo Balzamo, 63, Italian politician, heart attack. Umberto Bonadè, 83, Italian Olympic rower (1928). Jeremias Chitunda, 50, Angolan politician, assassinated, homicide. L. Roy Houck, 87, American rancher and politician. Amos Marsh, 53, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions). Hal Roach, 100, American film and television producer (Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy), pneumonia. Elmer Gordon West, 77, American district judge. Jack Whitney, 87, American sound engineer.
3 Allah Jilai Bai, 90, Indian folk singer. Rhéal Bélisle, 73, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1963-). Boze Berger, 82, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox). Jack Davis, 78, American child actor (Our Gang), respiratory failure. Allanah Harper, 87, English journalist. Teofil Herineanu, 82, Romanian cleric. Haydn Hill, 79, English amateur football player and Olympian (1936). Hanya Holm, 99, German-American dancer, choreographer, and dance educator. Raimond Kolk, 68, Estonian writer. Paul McRae, 68, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1972-1984). Vladas Mikėnas, 82, Lithuanian chess player and journalist. Prem Nath, 65, Indian actor and director. Chris Van Cuyk, 65, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
4 Raoul André, 76, French director and screenwriter. Claude Aveline, 91, French writer, publisher, poet and French Resistance member during World War II. Ludwik Benoit, 72, Polish film and theatre actor. Regina Carrol, 49, American actress, cancer. José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, 81, Spanish film director. Carlos Eduardo Imperial, 56, Brazilian actor, myasthenia gravis. George Klein, 88, Canadian inventor. Csaba Körmöczi, 48, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1976). Kuniko Miyake, 76, Japanese actress (Tokyo Story, Late Spring, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice). Luisa Moreno, 85, Guatemalan labor leader. Andy Varga, 61, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). Pierre Wissmer, 77, French composer.
5 Jack Davies, 81, English cricketer. Carlos Sanz de Santamaría, 87, Colombian diplomat and politician. Arpad Elo, 89, Hungarian-American chess player. Dick Hahn, 76, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Richard Hartshorne, 92, American geographer and academic. Jan Hendrik Oort, 92, Dutch astronomer. Carl Rodenburg, 98, Nazi Germany Wehrmacht general. Rod Scurry, 36, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners), cocaine-induced heart attack. Vyacheslav Skomorokhov, 52, Ukrainian track and field athlete and Olympian (1968).
6 Calvin Graham, 62, Youngest American serviceman to serve during World War II. Sebastián Gualco, 80, Argentine football player. Lev Orekhov, 78, Soviet and Russian painter. Mark Rosenberg, 44, American film producer (Presumed Innocent, The Fabulous Baker Boys, White Palace), heart failure.
7 Alexander Dubček, 70, Slovak politician, traffic accident. Fern Gauthier, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings). René Hamel, 90, French Olympic cyclist (1924). Jack Kelly, 65, American actor (Maverick, Forbidden Planet, A Fever in the Blood) and politician, stroke. Scott McPherson, 33, American playwright (Marvin's Room), complications from AIDS. Robert Nay, 35, Australian swimmer and Olympian (1972), traffic collision. Jimmy Oakes, 90, English footballer. Henri Temianka, 85, Scottish-American violinist. Richard Yates, 66, American novelist (Revolutionary Road), pulmonary emphysema.
8 Kees Broekman, 65, Dutch Olympic speed skater (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960). He Cheng, 90-91, Chinese lieutenant general. Ian Griffith, 67, Australian politician. Larry Levan, 38, American DJ, stroke. Red Mitchell, 65, American jazz musician. Felix Schnyder, 82, Swiss lawyer and diplomat.
9 Fritz Gunst, 84, German Olympic water polo player (1928, 1932, 1936). William Hillcourt, 92, Danish scouting pioneer. Ivan Holovchenko, 74, Soviet and Ukrainian militsiya general. Natalie Joyce, 90, American actress. Sven Selånger, 85, Swedish Nordic skier and Olympic medalist (1928, 1932, 1936). T. Sivasithamparam, 66, Sri Lankan politician.
10 Chuck Connors, 71, American actor (The Rifleman, Soylent Green, Old Yeller) and athlete (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Boston Celtics), lung cancer. Doc Guidry, 74, American fiddler. Hilda Hölzl, 65, Slovenian dramatic soprano. Anatoly Kamnev, 43, Soviet-Russian Olympic boxer (1972). Eskil Lundahl, 87, Swedish swimmer and Olympian (1928, 1932). Dan Murray, 79, Australian rules footballer. Gustaf Nordahl, 89, Swedish sculptor. John Summerson, 87, English architectural historian.
11 Giles Bullard, 66, British diplomat. John Samuel Forrest, 85, Scottish physicist. Peter Gretton, 80, English naval admiral. Bao Jiaping, 84, Chinese Olympic footballer (1936). Earle Meadows, 79, American Olympic pole vaulter (1936).
12 Giulio Carlo Argan, 83, Italian politician and art historian, mayor of Rome (1976–1979). Rafael Asadov, 40, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action. Charles Coles, 81, American actor (Dirty Dancing, The Cotton Club) and tap dancer, cancer. Reg Drew, 82, Australian rules footballer. Dante Gianello, 80, Italian-French bicycle racer. Stanisław Karpiel, 83, Polish cross-country skier and Olympian (1936). Muhammad Masihullah Khan, 81, Indian Islamic scholar. Gregory Markopoulos, 64, American filmmaker. Eddie Mayehoff, 83, American actor. David Oliver, 30, American actor, AIDS. Yeter Sevimli, 44, Turkish Olympic boxer (1968).
13 Ronnie Bond, 52, English drummer (The Troggs). Harold Bower, 80, American basketball player. Franco Calabrese, 69, Italian bass singer. Waldemar Malak, 22, Polish weightlifter and Olympic medalist (1992), traffic collision. Maurice Ohana, 79, French composer. Johnny Ostrowski, 75, American baseball player. St John Pike, 82, Irish anglican bishop. Wally Shaner, 92, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds). Claude Wilborn, 80, American baseball player (Boston Bees). Jim Zyntell, 82, American football player (New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles).
14 George Adams, 52, American jazz musician. Byron Beams, 57, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Oilers). Clem Beauchamp, 94, American film producer. Greg Curnoe, 55, Canadian painter, bicycle accident. Ernst Happel, 66, Austrian football player, manager, and Olympian (1948), lung cancer. Alan Jarman, 69, Australian politician. Ken McLean, 69, Australian rules footballer. Gregorio Prieto, 95, Spanish painter. Joop van Nellen, 82, Dutch football player. Keith Waller, 78, Australian diplomat.
15 Billy Hassett, 71, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, Baltimore Bullets). Carl Hinkle, 75, American football player. N. H. Keerthiratne, 90, Sri Lankan politician and philanthropist. Toots Mondello, 81, American jazz musician. Andrii Shtoharenko, 90, Soviet and Ukrainian composer and teacher.
16 Daniel Björkgren, 53, Swedish racewalker and Olympian (1972). Clancy Fernando, 54, Sri Lankan Navy admiral, murdered. Bob Gillson, 87, American football player. Harold Glasser, 86, American economist. Phyllis Harding, 84, English backstroke and freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist (1924, 1928, 1932, 1936). Leslie Hotson, 95, Canadian literary historian and critic. Max Huber, 73, Swiss graphic designer. Sir Raman Osman, 90, Mauritian politician, governor-general (1972–1977). Gene Schott, 79, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Brooklyn Dodgers).
17 Todd Armstrong, 55, American actor (Jason and the Argonauts, Manhunt, King Rat), suicide. Raffaele Bastoni, 67, Italian Olympic canoeist (1952). Audre Lorde, 58, American poet and feminist, breast cancer. Dzintars Lācis, 52, Latvian cyclist and Olympian (1964, 1968). Lu Yao, 42, Chinese novelist, cancer. Clarence Moore, 84, American baseball player. Darren Smith, 20, Australian Olympic cyclist (1992).
18 Ed Franco, 77, American gridiron football player, heart attack. Dorothy Kirsten, 82, American singer, complications from a stroke. Herman Musaph, 77, Dutch dermatologist and sexologist. Hidekichi Nagamatsu, 78, Japanese Olympic boxer (1936). John Skehan, 70, Irish journalist and broadcaster. Radu Tudoran, 82, Romanian novelist.
19 Jeffery Lee Griffin, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Bobby Russell, 52, American singer, coronary artery disease. Shinichi Sekizawa, 71, Japanese screenwriter (Godzilla). René Tavernier, 78, Belgian geologist and academic. Diane Varsi, 54, American actress (Peyton Place, Wild in the Streets, Ten North Frederick), respiratory failure.
20 William Fields, 63, American rower and Olympic champion (1952), and later naval officer. John Foreman, 67, American film producer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Prizzi's Honor, The Man Who Would Be King). Mária Frank, 49, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1960, 1964). Leonard A. Funk Jr., 76, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. Thomas Lefebvre, 65, Canadian politician. Félix Marten, 73, German-French film actor, pulmonary embolism. Howard Mutton, 68, Australian cricketer.
21 Vicente Arraya, 70, Bolivian football goalkeeper. Steve Buchanan, 89, American football player. Severino Gazzelloni, 73, Italian flutist. Swaroop Kishen, 62, Indian cricket player, cancer. Shane A. Parker, 49, British-Australian museum curator and ornithologist, lymphoma. Kaysone Phomvihane, 71, Laotian politician, president (since 1991) and prime minister (1975–1991). Ricky Williams, 36, American musician.
22 Bryan Cosgrave, 89, Australian sportsman. Viktor Dubynin, 49, Soviet and Russian Chief of the General Staff, cancer. Sterling Holloway, 87, American voice actor (Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book), heart attack. Roberto Mouras, 44, Argentine racing driver, racing accident. Ronald Sinclair, 68, New Zealand actor and film editor, respiratory failure. Gerard Wall, 72, New Zealand politician.
23 Roy Acuff, 89, American country musician, congestive heart failure. Mohamed Benhima, 68, Moroccan politician, prime minister (1967–1969). Rita Corday, 72, American actress, complications from diabetes. Parviz Dehdari, 59, Iranian football player and coach. Colin Evans, 56, Welsh rugby player. Ward Hermans, 95, Belgian Flemish nationalist politician and writer. Doug Palmer, 62, Australian rules footballer. Alan Peel, 83, Australian rules footballer. Manuel Pelegrina, 72, Argentine football player, pneumonia. Jean Thiriart, 70, Belgian political theorist, heart attack.
24 Xavier Darasse, 58, French organist, cancer. Hans de Koster, 78, Dutch politician. Hewritt Dixon, 52, American gridiron football player (Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders), cancer. Theodore Miller Edison, 94, American environmentalist and son of Thomas Edison, Parkinson's disease. Frances A. Genter, 94, American racehorse owner and breeder.