Deaths in February 1992

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * Mohan Choti, 57, Indian actor.
 * Maurice John Dingman, 78, American bishop of the Catholic Church.
 * Jean Hamburger, 82, French physician, surgeon and essayist.
 * Irving Kaufman, 81, American judge, pancreatic cancer.
 * Hussein Kamel Montasser, 68, Egyptian basketball player.
 * Frank Spitzer, 65, Austrian-American mathematician.

2

 * Philip Erenberg, 82, American gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Theodor Gaster, 85, British-American biblical scholar.
 * Paul Huston, 66, American basketball player.
 * Bert Parks, 77, American television personality and Miss America and host, lung cancer.
 * Vladimír Čech, 77, Czechoslovak film director and screenwriter.

3

 * Otto Arndt, 71, East German politician.
 * Junior Cook, 57, American hard bop tenor saxophone player.
 * Knut Fridell, 83, Swedish freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion.
 * Mário Peixoto, 83, Brazilian film director.
 * Jan van Aartsen, 82, Dutch politician and jurist.

4

 * Alan Davies, 30, British footballer, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
 * John Dehner, 76, American actor (The Right Stuff, The Doris Day Show, The Boys from Brazil), emphysema.
 * Lisa Fonssagrives, 80, Swedish-American fashion model.
 * Vittorio Gelmetti, 65, Italian composer.
 * Gurmit Singh Kullar, 84-85, Indian Olympic field hockey player (1932).
 * Ned Locke, 72, American television personality and radio announcer, liver cancer.
 * Gianni Rizzo, 67, Italian film actor.

5

 * Sergio Méndez Arceo, 84, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop and human rights activist.
 * Nicomedes Santa Cruz, 66, Peruvian singer, songwriter and musicologist.
 * Paul A. Freund, 83, American jurist and law professor, cancer.
 * Joseph MacManus, 21, Irish republican volunteer, shot.
 * Carter Manasco, 90, American politician.
 * Harry Mattos, 80, American gridiron football player.
 * Ernest Thornton, 86, British politician.
 * Bill Wheatley, 82, American basketball player.

6

 * John Greenstock, 86, English cricket player.
 * Wayde Preston, 62, American actor (Colt .45, Sugarfoot, Captain America), colorectal cancer.
 * Felix Rexhausen, 59, German journalist, editor and author.
 * Cedric Sloane, 76, Australian cross-country skier.

7

 * Bob Allen, 75, English football player.
 * Radharaman Mitra, 94, Indian revolutionary Bengali writer.
 * Shinsuke Ogawa, 56, Japanese documentary film director, liver failure.
 * Gunnar Randers, 77, Norwegian physicist.
 * Buzz Sawyer, 32, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.

8

 * Fabian Gaffke, 78, American baseball player.
 * Baruch Lumet, 93, Polish-American actor.
 * Roland Robinson, 79, Australian poet and writer.
 * Bazoline Estelle Usher, 106, American educator.
 * Tom Williams, 51, American ice hockey player, heart attack.
 * Denny Wright, 67, English jazz guitarist, bladder cancer.

9

 * Leon Clore, 73, English film producer.
 * Willie Fagan, 74, Scottish football player.
 * Andor Földes, 78, Hungarian pianist, fall.
 * Jack Kinney, 82, American animator and film director (Pinocchio, Dumbo, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad).
 * Boonsong Lekagul, 84, Thai medical doctor, biologist, and conservationist.

10

 * Vladimir Brovikov, 60, Soviet and Russian politician.
 * Byron Gentry, 78, American football player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
 * Alex Haley, 70, American author (Roots: The Saga of an American Family), heart attack.
 * Fred Hynes, 83, American sound engineer (West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!), five-time Oscar winner.
 * Yoshiko Okada, 89, Japanese stage and film actress.
 * Jim Pepper, 50, American musician,lymphoma.
 * Doyt Perry, 82, American football player and coach.
 * Meade Roberts, 61, American screenwriter, heart attack.

11

 * Patrick Crehan, 71, Irish basketball player.
 * Ray Danton, 60, American actor (The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, The George Raft Story, The Longest Day), kidney failure.
 * Johnny Garrett, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen, 88, Austrian train designer and engineer.
 * Robert W. Russell, 80, American playwright and writer for movies and documentaries.
 * Carlos Rein Segura, 94, Spanish politician.

12

 * Sandy Douglass, 87, American sailboat racer and designer.
 * Yehuda D. Nevo, 60, Middle Eastern archeologist living in Israel.
 * Stella Roman, 87, Romanian operatic soprano.
 * Bep van Klaveren, 84, Dutch boxer and Olympic featherweight champion.

13

 * Nikolai Bogolyubov, 82, Russian theoretical physicist.
 * Don Ettinger, 69, American gridiron football player.
 * Antun Motika, 89, Croatian artist.
 * Earl Rapp, 70, American baseball player and scout.
 * Dorothy Tree, 85, American actress, heart failure.
 * Bob den Uyl, 61, Dutch writer.
 * Warren Westlund, 65, American Olympic rower (1948).

14

 * Luigi Ghirri, 49, Italian artist and photographer, heart attack.
 * Holger Jernsten, 81, Swedish football player.
 * Roepie Kruize, 67, Dutch field hockey player and Olympian.
 * Alex Lovy, 78, American animator (The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Heathcliff).
 * Angelique Pettyjohn, 48, American actress, cervical cancer.
 * Helen Vela, 45, Filipina actress and radio and TV personality, colorectal cancer.
 * Gene Venzke, 83, American middle-distance runner and Olympian.

15

 * Hermann Axen, 75, German political activist.
 * María Elena Moyano, 33, Peruvian activist, murdered.
 * Shosaku Numa, 63, Japanese neuroscientist.
 * Gerhard Riege, 61, German politician, suicide by hanging.
 * William Schuman, 81, American composer, complications from hip surgery.
 * Edna Gardner Whyte, 89, American aviator.

16

 * Abbas al-Musawi, 39, Lebanese militant and co-founder of Hezbollah, missile strike.
 * Angela Carter, 51, English novelist, lung cancer.
 * Walter Franz, 80, German theoretical physicist.
 * Alberto Gomes, 76, Portuguese football player.
 * George MacBeth, 60, Scottish poet.
 * Oleksander Ohloblyn, 92, Ukrainian historian.
 * Jânio Quadros, 75, Brazilian politician, president (1961).
 * Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk, 98, British noble.
 * Opal Irene Whiteley, 94, American nature writer and diarist.
 * Herman Wold, 83, Norwegian-Swedish mathematician.

17

 * John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse, 63, British Royal Navy officer, surgical complications.
 * Alfred Hooke, 86, Canadian politician and writer.
 * Delio Morollón, 54, Spanish football player.
 * Forrest L. Vosler, 68, American Air Force radio operator, Medal of Honor recipient.

18

 * Sylvain Arend, 89, Belgian astronomer.
 * Roman Filippov, 56, Soviet actor, thromboembolism.
 * Robert Gittings, 81, English writer, biographer, playwright and poet.
 * Edith Hamlin, 90, American painter and muralist.
 * Wang Huayun, 84, Chinese politician.
 * James H. Polk, 80, American Army four-star general.

19

 * Narayan Shridhar Bendre, 81, Indian artist.
 * Mike Bucchianeri, 75, American gridiron football player.
 * Joseph Lyman Fisher, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1981), bone cancer.
 * Takehiko Kanagoki, 77, Japanese Olympic basketball player (1936).
 * Felix Makasiar, 76, Filipino lawyer and Chief Justice.
 * Buddy O'Grady, 72, American basketball player and coach.
 * Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner, 87, Russian-French writer and translator.
 * Tojo Yamamoto, 65, American professional wrestler, suicide.

20

 * Muhammad Asad, 91, Austrian journalist, writer, political theorist, and diplomat.
 * Eugene R. Black, Sr., 93, American banker.
 * A. J. Casson, 93, Canadian artist.
 * Roberto D'Aubuisson, 48, Salvadoran militant, esophageal cancer.
 * Pierre Dervaux, 75, French operatic conductor, composer, and pedagogue.
 * Joan Dixon, 61, American actress.
 * John Kneubuhl, 71, American Samoan screenwriter, playwright and polynesian historian.
 * Dick York, 63, American actor (Bewitched, Inherit the Wind, Going My Way), emphysema.

21

 * William Arrowsmith, 67, American classicist, academic, and translator.
 * Charles L. Carpenter, 89, American naval admiral and genealogist.
 * Kate ter Horst, 85, Dutch housewife known as the Angel of Arnhem during the Battle of Arnhem, traffic collision.
 * Eva Jessye, 97, American conductor.
 * Jane Pickens Langley, 84, American singer, heart failure.
 * Henri Préaux, 80, French rowing coxswain and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Haruo Tanaka, 79, Japanese actor.

22

 * Sudirman Arshad, 37, Malaysian singer-songwriter, pneumonia.
 * Nicolas Bochatay, 27, Swiss Olympic speed skier (1992), skiing collision.
 * Oscar Broneer, 97, Swedish-American archaeologist.
 * Gilbert Chase, 85, American music historian, critic and author, pneumonia.
 * Jun Miki, 72, Japanese photographer and photojournalism pioneer.
 * Aarno Ruusuvuori, 67, Finnish architect.
 * Markos Vafiadis, 86, Greek politician and resistance fighter.
 * David Wilson, 84, English football player.
 * Paul Winter, 86, French discus thrower and Olympic medalist.
 * Kurt Wires, 72, Finnish Olympic canoer (1948, 1952).
 * Tadeusz Łomnicki, 64, Polish actor.

23

 * Joseph Armone, 74, American mobster (Gambino crime family).
 * Dwight Bolinger, 84, American linguist and academic.
 * Valentino Bompiani, 93, Italian publisher, writer and playwright, heart failure.
 * Avraham Harman, 77, Israeli diplomat and academic administrator.
 * Maurice Raes, 85, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Einar Schanke, 64, Norwegian composer, pianist, and theatrical producer.

24

 * Ljubo Benčić, 87, Yugoslav football player.
 * Clarrie Jordan, 69, English football player.
 * August Lešnik, 77, Croatian football player.
 * Doreen Montgomery, 78, British screenwriter.

25

 * Zlatko Celent, 39, Yugoslav Olympic rower (1980), traffic accident.
 * Guy Deghy, 79, Hungarian-British actor.
 * Andrews Engelmann, 90, Russian-German actor.
 * Harry D. Felt, 89, American naval aviator.
 * F. Russell Miller, 78, New Zealand politician.
 * Carl Monssen, 70, Norwegian rower.
 * Ollie O'Toole, 79, American actor.
 * Viktor Reznikov, 39, Soviet singer-songwriter, traffic collision.
 * Bernard Michael Shanley, 88, American lawyer and politician.

26

 * Larry Banks, 60, American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer.
 * Marguerite Ross Barnett, 49, American academic, cancer.
 * Gerrit Schulte, 76, Dutch racing cyclist.
 * Stuart Nash Scott, 85, American lawyer and diplomat, stroke.
 * Honey Sri-Isan, 20, Thai singer, traffic collision.
 * Jean R. Yawkey, 83, American sports executive (Boston Red Sox) and philanthropist.
 * Military personnel killed during the Khojaly massacre:
 * Alif Hajiyev, 38, Azerbaijani officer and war hero.
 * Tofig Huseynov, 37, Azerbaijani commander and war hero.
 * Hikmet Nazarli, 25, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero.
 * Janpolad Rzayev, 24, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero.
 * Araz Selimov, 31, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero.

27

 * Chuck Drazenovich, 64, American gridiron football player.
 * Algirdas Julien Greimas, 74, Lithuanian-French literary scientist.
 * Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 85, Canadian-American academic and politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1977–1983), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Katharine Luomala, 84, American anthropologist.
 * John Rothenstein, 90, British art historian.
 * Antoine Wehenkel, 82, Luxembourgian politician and engineer.

28

 * Antonio Bravo, 86, Spanish-Mexican film and television actor.
 * Bolesław Orliński, 92, Polish aviator, military, sports and test pilot.
 * Enzo Pulcrano, 48, Italian actor and writer.
 * Jackie Wiid, 62, South African swimmer and Olympian.
 * Bert Wilson, 42, Canadian ice hockey player, stomach cancer.

29

 * Yavar Aliyev, 35, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
 * Ada Colangeli, 78, Italian actress.
 * Don Heinrich, 61, American football player, coach, and announcer, cancer.
 * Shamshi Kaldayakov, 61, Kazakh composer ("Menıñ Qazaqstanym").
 * Ferenc Karinthy, 70, Hungarian novelist, playwright, and journalist.
 * La Lupe, 55, Cuban-American singer, heart attack.
 * Teófilo Villavicencio Marxuach, 79, Puerto Rican radio broadcaster.
 * Ruth Pitter, 94, British poet.
 * Sergei Senyuskin, 34, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
 * Eddie Wares, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Mevhibe İnönü, 97, First Lady of Turkey as wife of president İsmet İnönü.