Deaths in December 1992

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.

1

 * Don Allum, 55, British oarsman, first person to row across the Atlantic Ocean in both directions, heart attack.
 * Magne Bleness, 59, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
 * Chile Gómez, 83, Mexican-American Major League Baseball player.
 * Floyd Hicks, 77, American politician and attorney.
 * Anton Malatinský, 72, Slovak football player.
 * Paulo Rónai, 85, Hungarian-Brazilian translator, philologist, and critic.
 * D. G. M. Wood-Gush, 70, South African ethologist.

2

 * Jack Caffery, 58, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * 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.
 * Pete Gross, 55, American sports announcer, cancer.
 * Ralph Izzard, 82, English journalist, author, and adventurer.
 * Mikhail Karyukov, 87, Soviet film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
 * Frank D. O'Connor, 82, American lawyer and politician.

3

 * Nureddin al-Atassi, 63, Syrian politician, president (1966–1970).
 * Luis Alcoriza, 74, Mexican screenwriter and film director.
 * Prayoon Chanyavongs, 77, Thai comics artist and cartoonist.
 * James O'Hara, 65, Irish-American actor (Suddenly, Batman, Death of a Gunfighter).
 * Andrei Sepci, 81, Romanian football player.
 * Bill Ward, 71, American football player.

4

 * Henry Clausen, 87, American lawyer and investigator.
 * Yancho Dimitrov, 49, Bulgarian footballer.
 * Alfie Ferguson, 65, British unionist politician.
 * Sidney Schofield, 81, British politician.

5

 * Felipe Padilla de Leon, 80, Filipino composer.
 * Emil Haury, 88, American archaeologist.
 * Levan Maruashvili, 80, Georgian geographer and alpinist.
 * Monisha, 21, Indian actress, traffic collision.
 * Rakesh Singh, 22, Indian Army officer and war hero, killed in action.
 * Hilary Tindall, 54, English actress, bowel cancer.
 * 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.
 * Heorhii Maiboroda, 79, Ukrainian composer.
 * Yngve Sköld, 93, Swedish composer.
 * László Szabó, 84, Hungarian Olympic rower (1936).
 * Hank Worden, 91, American actor (The Searchers, The Alamo, The Lone Ranger).

7

 * Zoltán Adamik, 64, Hungarian sprinter and Olympian.
 * Alojzy Ehrlich, 77-78, Polish table tennis player.
 * Richard Joseph Hughes, 83, American politician, and judge.
 * Felix Jackson, 90, German-American screenwriter.
 * Bill Shockley, 55, American gridiron football player.
 * Chancellor Williams, 98, American sociologist, historian and writer.

8

 * Thoppil Bhasi, 68, Indian playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
 * Hugh Devore, 82, American football player.
 * 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.
 * Poola Tirupati Raju, 88, Indian writer, philosopher, and academic.
 * William Shawn, 85, American magazine editor (The New Yorker).

9

 * Carl Barger, 62, American baseball executive, aortic aneurysm.
 * Eşref Bilgiç, 84, Turkish international football player and manager.
 * Thomas Bottomore, 72, British marxist sociologist.
 * Joe Clark, 95, Australian politician.
 * Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel, 80, French diplomat.
 * Franco Franchi, 64, Italian actor, comedian and singer.
 * 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.
 * Yahya Haqqi, 87, Egyptian novelist.
 * Luisito Rey, 47, Spanish singer, pneumonia.

10

 * Celia Gámez, 87, Argentinian film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Joan Gardner, 66, American voice actress, cancer
 * Dan Maskell, 84, English tennis player and sportscaster, heart failure.
 * Josephine McKim, 82, American swimmer, Olympic champion and world record-holder.
 * John G. A. O'Neil, 55, American politician, traffic collision.
 * Jacques Perret, 91, French writer.
 * Babe Phelps, 84, American baseball player.
 * Bernard Reichel, 91, Swiss composer.

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.
 * Ronald Good, 96, British botanist.
 * Andy Kirk, 94, American jazz saxophonist, tubist, and band leader, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Suzanne Lilar, 91, Belgian novelist and playwright.
 * William A. Redmond, 84, American politician.
 * Michael Robbins, 62, English actor, prostate cancer.

12

 * Ali Amini, 87, Iranian politician, prime minister (1961–1962).
 * Malachy Carey, 36, Northern Irish IRA volunteer, assassinated.
 * Bernard Lievegoed, 87, Dutch psychiatrist.
 * Jasu Patel, 68, Indian cricket player.
 * Robert Rex, 83, Niuean politician, premier (since 1974).
 * Rube Walker, 66, American baseball player, lung cancer.

13

 * Ellis Arnall, 85, American politician.
 * Jens Bolling, 77, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
 * Oscar Britt, 73, American gridiron football player.
 * Mono Mohan Das, 82, Indian politician.
 * K. C. Irving, 93, Canadian businessman.
 * Luther Jeralds, 54, American football player.
 * Miskow Makwarth, 87, Danish actor.
 * Aleksandar Tirnanić, 82, Yugoslav football player and manager.
 * Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 93, American businessman, film producer, and philanthropist.

14

 * Watazumi Doso, 81, Japanese bamboo flutist.
 * Kingo Machimura, 92, Japanese politician.
 * William H. Oldendorf, 67, American neurologist, physician, and researcher.
 * Severino Rigoni, 78, Italian cyclist and Olympic silver medalist.

15

 * Sven Delblanc, 61, Swedish author and academic, cancer.
 * Marcel Lachmann, 84, French Olympic field hockey player (1928, 1936).
 * Yolande Laffon, 97, French actress.
 * Otto Lington, 89, Danish composer, bandleader and violinist.
 * Ennio Morlotti, 82, Italian painter.
 * Jim Musick, 82, American gridiron football player.
 * Hermann Stövesand, 86, German actor.
 * 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.
 * Anton Koolhaas, 80, Dutch journalist and writer.
 * Gonzalo Rodríguez Martín-Granizo, 64, Spanish Navy admiral general.

17

 * Serafima Amosova, 78, Soviet bomber commander during World War II.
 * Günther Anders, 90, German philosopher.
 * Dana Andrews, 83, American actor, congestive heart failure.
 * George N. Craig, 83, American politician, Governor of Indiana (1953–1957).
 * Andrew Jacobs, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).
 * William Knecht, 62, American competition rower and Olympic champion.
 * Rinus Terlouw, 70, Dutch footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * 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.
 * Per Brandtmar, 74, Danish football player.
 * Howard Cann, 97, American basketball player and coach.
 * Mark Goodson, 77, American game show producer (The Price Is Right, I've Got a Secret, What's My Line?), pancreatic cancer.
 * Clara Hale, 87, American humanitarian, complications from a stroke.
 * Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov, 81, Soviet diplomat, pneumonia.

19

 * Gianni Brera, 73, Italian journalist and novelist, traffic collision.
 * Abraham Charnes, 75, American mathematician and economist.
 * Louis Ducreux, 81, French actor, screenwriter and composer.
 * Vladimir Grebennikov, 60, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
 * H. L. A. Hart, 85, English legal philosopher.
 * Rosel H. Hyde, 92, American lawyer.
 * 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.
 * Bernard Dubourg, 47, French poet.
 * Luciano Dal Falco, 67, Italian politician.
 * Harald Huffmann, 84, German field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
 * Steve Ross, 65, American media executive, prostate cancer.
 * Walter Zadek, 92, German-Israeli photographer.

21

 * Stella Adler, 91, American actress and acting teacher, heart failure.
 * Sybil Andrews, 94, English-Canadian artist.
 * Philip Farkas, 78, American classical musician.
 * David Hare, 75, American surrealist artist, aortic aneurysm.
 * Albert King, 69, American blues guitarist and singer, heart attack.
 * Nathan Milstein, 88, Ukrainian-American violinist, heart attack.
 * Alex Quaison-Sackey, 68, Ghanaian diplomat.

22

 * Bolaji Badejo, 39, Nigerian visual artist and actor (Alien), sickle-cell disease.
 * Charles B. Black, 71, American basketball player.
 * Harry Bluestone, 85, American violinist, tuberculosis.
 * Rajendran Christie, 54, Indian field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
 * Brian Doyle, 62, English football player.
 * Frederick William Franz, 99, American Jehovah's Witness leader.
 * William Janney, 84, American actor.
 * Erik Lindén, 81, Swedish freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist.
 * Milo Sperber, 81, British actor, director and writer.
 * Cornelio Villareal, 88, Filipino politician.
 * Ted Willis, Baron Willis, 78, English screenwriter and playwright.

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.
 * Eddie Hazel, 42, American funk guitarist and singer, liver failure.
 * Frank Hekma, 81, American Olympic sailor (1928).
 * Vyacheslav Kurennoy, 60, Russian Olympic water polo player (1956, 1960).
 * Robert Marshak, 76, American physicist and educator.
 * Hank Mizell, 69, American rockabilly singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
 * Italo Pedroncelli, 57, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1956, 1960, 1964).
 * Cyril Walters, 87, Welsh cricketer.

24

 * Bobby LaKind, 47, American conga musician, colon cancer.
 * Micheline Luccioni, 62, French actress.
 * Jack Nichols, 66, American basketball player.
 * Peyo, 64, Belgian comic artist and writer (The Smurfs), heart attack.
 * Adela Sequeyro, 91, Mexican actress and journalist.
 * Stella Skopal, 88, Croatian sculptor.
 * William Trueheart, 74, American diplomat.

25

 * Giuseppe Bonomi, 80, Italian football player coach.
 * Ted Croker, 68, English footballer.
 * Garrison H. Davidson, 88, American lieutenant general.
 * Monica Dickens, 77, English author.
 * Ed Donnelly, 60, American baseball player.
 * Sandra Dorne, 68, British actress.
 * Richard Howard Ichord, Jr., 66, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1981).
 * Helen Joseph, 87, South African anti-apartheid activist.

26

 * Constance Carpenter, 88, English actress, stroke.
 * Jack Crayston, 82, English football player and manager.
 * Dancer's Image, 27, American thoroughbred racehorse.
 * Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies, 86, British judge.
 * Jan Flinterman, 73, Dutch racing driver.
 * Tom Gorman, 67, American baseball player.
 * Edward Howard-Vyse, 87, British Army officer, horse rider and Olympic medalist.
 * Anthony Huxley, 72, British botanist.
 * John George Kemeny, 66, Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, heart failure.
 * Nikita Magaloff, 80, Georgian-Russian pianist.
 * Eve Poole, 67, New Zealand politician.
 * María Bruguera Pérez, 79, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist.
 * Hilde Wagener, 88, German-Austrian actress.

27

 * Stephen Albert, 51, American composer, traffic collision.
 * Dhananjay Bhattacharya, 70, Indian Bengali singer and composer.
 * Kay Boyle, 90, American novelist.
 * Alfred H. Clifford, 84, American mathematician.
 * James Patterson Lyke, 53, American Roman Catholic prelate, cancer.

28

 * Jack Delinger, 66, American bodybuilder, heart attack.
 * Vicente Gerbasi, 79, Venezuelan poet and writer.
 * Nils Handal, 86, Norwegian politician.
 * Sal Maglie, 75, American baseball player, pneumonia.
 * Elfie Mayerhofer, 75, Austrian actress and singer.
 * William G. McLoughlin, 70, American historian.
 * Aimé Michel, 73, French science and spirituality writer and author.
 * Milutin Pajević, 72, Montenegrin football player and manager.
 * Daniella Perez, 22, Brazilian actress and dancer, murdered.
 * Otto Lara Resende, 70, Brazilian journalist.
 * Cardew Robinson, 75, English comedian, ischemic colitis.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Fidel Tricánico, 77, Uruguayan boxer and Olympian.

30

 * Phil H. Bucklew, 78, American gridiron football player.
 * Dorothy Chacko, 88, American social worker, humanitarian and medical doctor.
 * César Domela, 92, Dutch sculptor, painter, photographer, and typographer.
 * Timothy S. Healy, 69, American Roman Catholic priest and academic, heart attack.
 * Mihailo Lalić, 78, Montenegrin-Serbian writer.
 * Romeo Muller, 64, American screenwriter and actor, heart attack.
 * Chloethiel Woodard Smith, 82, American architect, cancer.
 * 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.
 * Dianne Jackson, 51, English animation director (The Snowman), cancer.
 * Cyril Peacock, 63, British racing cyclist and Olympian.
 * Bill Spears, 86, American football player.
 * Kristján Vattnes, 76, Icelandic Olympic javelin thrower (1936).