Deaths in April 1992

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

 * Robert Edward Bell, 73, Canadian nuclear physicist and academic.
 * Carl E. Duckett, 69, American intelligence operative, lung cancer.
 * Michael Havers, Baron Havers, 69, British barrister and politician.
 * Seymour Mamedov, 20, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
 * Nigel Preston, 28, English drummer, drug overdose.
 * Walter Andreas Schwarz, 78, German singer.
 * Konstantin Sergeyev, 82, Russian danseur, artistic director and choreographer.
 * Edward Smouha, 82, British track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

2

 * Nugzar Asatiani, 54, Soviet Olympic fencer (1964).
 * Juanito, 37, Spanish footballer, traffic collision.
 * Hjalmar Karlsson, 86, Swedish sailor.
 * Paula Kelly, 72, American singer.
 * Gabriel Tiacoh, 29, Ivorian sprinter and Olympic medalist, meningitis.
 * Tomisaburō Wakayama, 62, Japanese actor (Lone Wolf and Cub), heart failure.
 * Dib Williams, 82, American baseball player.

3

 * Aaron Bohrod, 84, American painter, liver cancer.
 * Nie Fengzhi, 79, Chinese Army Lieutenant general.
 * Juan García Hortelano, 64, Spanish writer, poet and literary critic, lung cancer.
 * Ivan Rukavina, 80, Yugoslav Army general and politician.
 * Karl Tunberg, 85, American screenwriter (Ben-Hur).

4

 * Vincenzo Bertolotto, 79, Italian rugby player.
 * Albrecht Fleckenstein, 74, German pharmacologist and physiologist.
 * Vintilă Horia, 76, Romanian writer.
 * Salgueiro Maia, 47, Portuguese Army officer, cancer.
 * Rixi Markus, 81, Austrian-British contract bridge player.
 * Samuel Reshevsky, 80, Polish-American chess player.
 * Arthur Russell, 40, American musician, AIDS.

5

 * Daniel Campbell, 66, Canadian politician.
 * Takeshi Inoue, 63, Japanese footballer.
 * Molly Picon, 94, American actress (Fiddler on the Roof, The Cannonball Run, Car 54, Where Are You?), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Modjeska Monteith Simkins, 92, American social rights and civil rights activist.
 * Sam Walton, 74, American businessman, founder of Walmart, multiple myeloma.

6

 * Isaac Asimov, 72, Russian-American science fiction author (Foundation, Galactic Empire, Robot), heart failure.
 * Patrick Desmond Callaghan, 65, Pakistani air officer.
 * Edith Katherine Cash, 101, American mycologist and lichenologist.
 * Vakhtang Chabukiani, 82, Soviet ballet dancer.
 * Donald Harding, 43, American murderer, execution by gas chamber.
 * Peter Hayman, 77, British diplomat and intelligence operative.
 * Herman Francis Mark, 96, Austrian-American chemist.
 * Edward S. Montgomery, 81, American journalist, pneumonia.
 * Jim Pomeroy, 47, American artist.
 * Erling Wikborg, 97, Norwegian politician.

7

 * Ace Bailey, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Horst Niemack, 83, German general during World War II.
 * Clovis Ruffin, 46, American fashion designer, complication from AIDS.
 * Alix Talton, 71, American actress, lung cancer.
 * Antonis Tritsis, 55, Greek politician and urban planner.
 * Frank Walsh, 89, American golfer.

8

 * Daniel Bovet, 85, Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize recipient (1957), cancer.
 * John Cherberg, 81, American football coach and politician.
 * Ronald Eyre, 62, English theatre director.
 * Käte Hamburger, 95, Germanist, literary scholar and philosopher.
 * Nelson Olmsted, 78, American actor.
 * Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson, 85, Canadian mathematician.
 * Sam Rosen, 70, American comic book artist and letterer (Spider-Man, Captain America, X-Men).

9

 * Charles Ginsburg, 71, American engineer and inventor of the videotape recorder, pneumonia.
 * John Kissell, 68, American gridiron football player.
 * Ivan Lund, 62, Australian fencer.
 * Gale W. McGee, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1959–1977).
 * Theodor Schieffer, 81, German historian.
 * Alfred Szklarski, 80, Polish author.
 * Erik Werba, 73, Austrian classical pianist.

10

 * Charles Mitchill Bogert, 83, American herpetologist and museum curator.
 * Hermann Eppenhoff, 72, German football player and manager.
 * Şahlar Hüseynov, 23, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * János Kajdi, 52, Hungarian boxer and Olympian, traffic collision.
 * Sam Kinison, 38, American comedian and actor (Back to School), traffic collision.
 * Cec Linder, 71, Polish-Canadian actor (Goldfinger, Quatermass and the Pit, Lolita), pulmonary emphysema.
 * Peter D. Mitchell, 71, English biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1978).
 * William Paling, 99, British politician.

11

 * James Brown, 72, American actor (The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), lung cancer.
 * Adele Dixon, 83, English actress and singer, pneumonia.
 * Heinrich Lausberg, 79, German linguist.
 * Frank Maher, 73, American gridiron football player.
 * Eve Merriam, 75, American poet, liver cancer.
 * Fakhraddin Musayev, 34, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
 * Alejandro Obregón, 71, Colombian artist.
 * Gerard Tichy, 72, German-Spanish actor.
 * Josip Vidmar, 96, Slovenian literary critic, essayist, and politician.

12

 * Ilario Bandini, 80, Italian racing driver and racing car manufacturer.
 * Makineni Basavapunnaiah, 77, Indian politician.
 * Ettore Gracis, 76, Italian conductor.
 * Georg Haentzschel, 84, German pianist, broadcaster, composer and arranger.
 * Gunter Jahn, 81, German U-boat commander during Worls War II.
 * Deane Keller, 90, American artist and academic.
 * Jean Émile Reymond, 79, Monacan politician.
 * Robert L. Wheeler, 71, American trainer of thoroughbred racehorses.

13

 * John Bruno, 27, American gridiron football player, skin cancer.
 * Charles Patrick Fitzgerald, 90, British historian and writer.
 * Eddie Fontaine, 65, American actor and singer, esophageal cancer.
 * Feza Gürsey, 71, Turkish physicist, prostate cancer.
 * Brian Oulton, 84, English actor.
 * Daniel Pollock, 23, Australian film actor (Romper Stomper), suicide.
 * Ray Roberts, 79, American politician.
 * Maurice Sauvé, 68, Canadian politician.
 * Firudin Shamoyev, 30, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action
 * Stuart Surridge, 74, English cricketer.
 * Martin T. Williams, 67, American music critic and writer.

14

 * David Miller, 82, American film director, cancer.
 * Artur Mkrtchyan, 33, Nagorno-Karabakh politician, shot.
 * Marshall D. Moran, 85, American Jesuit priest and missionary.
 * Valeh Muslumov, 23, Azerbaijan soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Sammy Price, 83, American pianist, heart attack.

15

 * Otis Barton, 92, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor.
 * David Bosch, 62, South African missiologist and theologian, traffic collision.
 * William Bridges-Maxwell, 62, Australian politician.
 * Howard Sylvester Ellis, 93, American economist.
 * Hans Maass, 80, German mathematician.
 * Frank Richards, 82, American actor.
 * Aleksandr Sevidov, 70, Soviet football coach and player, cancer.
 * James Zumberge, 68, American geologist and academic.

16

 * Gilbert Alsop, 83, English footballer.
 * Neville Brand, 71, American actor, emphysema.
 * James Gallagher, 82, American soccer player.
 * Andy Russell, 72, American singer, complications from a stroke.
 * Bhalindra Singh, 72, Indian cricket player.

17

 * Maurice Buckmaster, 90, British Special Operations Executive operative.
 * Arthur Calder-Marshall, 83, English novelist, essayist, and biographer.
 * Arkady Chernyshev, 78, Soviet ice hockey, soccer and bandy player.
 * John DeVries, 76, American lyricist, interior designer and illustrator, complications after surgery.
 * Skeets Herfurt, 80, American jazz musician.
 * Hank Penny, 73, American musician.

18

 * H. V. Kershaw, 73, British television scriptwriter and producer.
 * Russinho, 89, Brazilian football player.
 * Pat Thomson, 51, English-Australian actress, aneurysm.
 * John Thorp, 79, American aeronautical engineer.
 * Paul Zaeske, 46, American gridiron football player.

19

 * Pierre Descamps, 75, Belgian politician.
 * Frankie Howerd, 75, English actor and comedian, heart failure.
 * Batia Lishansky, 92, Russian-Israeli sculptor.
 * C. C. Too, 72, Malaysian diplomat.

20

 * Marcel Albers, 24, Dutch racing driver, racing accident.
 * Marjorie Gestring, 69, American Olympic diver (1936).
 * Orval Grove, 72, American baseball player.
 * Benny Hill, 68, English comedian and actor (The Benny Hill Show), coronary thrombosis.
 * Jimmy Lennon, 79, American boxing and professional wrestling announcer.
 * Peter Murray, 72, British art historian and academic.
 * Johnny Shines, 76, American musician, stroke.
 * Llewellyn Thomas, 88, British physicist and mathematician.
 * Gian Carlo Wick, 82, Italian theoretical physicist.

21

 * Mel Branch, 55, American gridiron football player.
 * Louis Diercxsens, 93, Belgian field hockey player.
 * Gerald Feinberg, 58, American physicist.
 * Robert Alton Harris, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by gas chamber.
 * Väinö Linna, 71, Finnish author, cancer.
 * Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, 74, Russian monarch and head of the Imperial Family.
 * Ioan Totu, 60, Romanian politician.
 * Nigel Williams, 47, English conservator, heart attack.
 * Ernest Yust, 64, Soviet-Hungarian footballer and coach.

22

 * Steffi Duna, 82, Hungarian-American film actress.
 * Pat Hills, 74, Australian politician.
 * Kang Keqing, 80, Chinese politician.
 * Harsono Tjokroaminoto, 79, Indonesian political figure.

23

 * Tanka Prasad Acharya, 80, Nepali politician, prime minister (1956–1957), kidney disease.
 * Ronnie Bucknum, 56, American race car driver, diabetes.
 * Deron Johnson, 53, American baseball player, cancer.
 * Hilda Kuper, 80, Rhodesian social anthropologist and writer.
 * Satyajit Ray, 70, Indian filmmaker, heart failure.
 * Omar Shendi, 76-77, Egyptian footballer.
 * Michael Wagner, 44, American television writer and producer (Hill Street Blues, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Capitol Critters), brain cancer.
 * Bror Östman, 63, Swedish ski jumper and Olympian.

24

 * Valdemārs Baumanis, 87, Latvian basketball player.
 * Elio Chacón, 55, American baseball player.
 * Samuel L. Greenberg, 93, American politician.
 * Milton Rosenstock, 74, American conductor, composer, and arranger.

25

 * Ernesto Balducci, 69, Italian Catholic priest and peace activist, traffic collision.
 * Bob Hazle, 61, American baseball player.
 * Brian MacLeod, 39, Canadian musician, brain cancer.
 * George Mantello, 90, Hungarian diplomat and anti-fascist.
 * Alfonso Flórez Ortiz, 39, Colombian racing cyclist, murdered.
 * Yutaka Ozaki, 26, Japanese musician, pulmonary edema.
 * Lin Richards, 83, Australian politician.
 * Danny Tuijnman, 77, Dutch politician.

26

 * Livio Abramo, 88, Brazilian-Paraguayan visual artist.
 * Julian Amyes, 74, British film director and producer.
 * Jack Dunphy, 77, American novelist and playwright.
 * Edgar Lewis, 90, Australian politician.
 * Alberta Vaughn, 87, American actress, cancer.

27

 * Sol K. Bright Sr., 82-83, American musician.
 * Harlond Clift, 79, American baseball player
 * Olivier Messiaen, 83, French composer and ornithologist.
 * Gerard K. O'Neill, 65, American physicist and space activist, leukemia.
 * Jack Pritchard, 93, British entrepreneur.
 * James Maude Richards, 84, British architectural writer.

28

 * Hasan as-Senussi, 63-64, Libyan crown prince, head of the Libyan royal family (since 1969).
 * Francis Bacon, 82, Irish-British painter, heart attack.
 * Andria Balanchivadze, 85, Georgian composer.
 * Émile Carrara, 67, French road and track cyclist.
 * V. K. Gokak, 82, Indian Kannada writer and scholar.
 * Parashkev Hadjiev, 80, Bulgarian composer.
 * Allan Highet, 78, New Zealand politician.
 * Elfed Davies, Baron Davies of Penrhys, 78, Welsh politician.
 * Brian Pockar, 32, Canadian figure skater, AIDS-related complications.

29

 * Mae Clarke, 81, American actress (Frankenstein, The Public Enemy), cancer.
 * Chandrabati Devi, 82, Indian actress.
 * Ghulam Faruque, 92, Pakistani industrialist and politician.
 * Stephen Oliver, 42, English composer, AIDS-related complications.

30

 * Agha, 78, Indian film actor, cardiovascular disease.
 * Preston Bassett, 100, American aerospace engineer.
 * Otto Bräutigam, 96, German diplomat and lawyer.
 * Ramiz Ganbarov, 29, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action.
 * Toivo Kärki, 76, Finnish composer, musician, and music producer.
 * Katsuo Osugi, 47, Japanese baseball player.
 * Iceberg Slim, 73, American novelist and pimp, liver failure.