Deaths in January 1992

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.

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.
 * Franz Fuchsberger, 81, Austrian football player.
 * Grace Hopper, 85, American naval admiral and computer scientist.
 * Oskar Munzel, 92, Germany Wehrmacht general during World War II.

2

 * Kenneth Emory, 94, American anthropologist.
 * Virginia Field, 74, British-born American actress, cancer.
 * 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 cyclist.
 * 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.
 * Carl McVoy, 61, American pianist.
 * Domenico Meldolesi, 51, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Matteo Poggi, 78, Italian football player and coach.
 * Antonio Quirino, 85, Filipino judge, entrepreneur and politician.
 * 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.
 * Teddy Grace, 86, American jazz singer.
 * Edmund Samarakkody, 79, Ceylonese lawyer, trade unionist, and politician.
 * Tim Washington, 32, American football player, 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 cross-country skier and Olympian.
 * Carl Bridenbaugh, 88, American historian of Colonial America.
 * Bent Christensen, 62, Danish film director, actor, and screenwriter, cancer.
 * Nikolay Dutov, 53, Soviet-Russian long-distance runner.
 * Steve Gilpin, 42, New Zealand singer, traffic collision.

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.
 * John Harrington, 70, American gridiron football player.
 * 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.

9

 * Steve Brodie, 72, American actor, cancer.
 * Claude Coats, 78, American animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo, Peter Pan).
 * Al Coppage, 75, American gridiron football player.
 * Hans Jenny, 92, Swiss-born soil scientist.
 * Walt Kichefski, 75, American football player 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.
 * Johnny Hawke, 67, Australian rugby league football player, parkinson's disease.
 * James I. Loeb, 82, American politician and diplomat, pneumonia.
 * Daniel Norton, 86, Australian politician.

11

 * Heikki Aaltoila, 86, Finnish film composer.
 * Jean Claudio, 64, French actor.
 * Juan Gilberto Funes, 28, Argentine footballer, heart attack.
 * William George Hoskins, 83, English historian.
 * Edward Jancarz, 45, Polish speedway rider, knifed.
 * Morton Kaer, 89, American gridiron football player.
 * Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin, 72, German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II.

12

 * Lode Anthonis, 69, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Bilegiin Damdinsüren, 73, Mongolian musician and composer.
 * Kumar Gandharva, 67, Indian classical singer.
 * 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.
 * Josef Neckermann, 79, German equestrian and Olympic champion.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Fritz Kraatz, 85, Swiss ice hockey player.
 * 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.
 * 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.

17

 * Dorothy Alison, 66, Australian actress.
 * Luigi Durand de la Penne, 77, Italian Navy admiral.
 * 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.
 * George Hill, 90, American sprinter and Olympian.
 * Ruby R. Levitt, 84, American set decorator (The Sound of Music, The Andromeda Strain, Chinatown).
 * Cromie McCandless, 71, Northern Irish racing motorcyclist.
 * 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.
 * Trond Hegna, 93, Norwegian politician.
 * Charles Kenny, 93, American composer, author, and violinist.
 * Theodore Lukits, 94, Romanian-American painter.
 * Jean-Pierre Lecocq, 44, Belgian molecular biologist, plane crash.
 * Tom McCarthy, 57, Canadian ice hockey player.

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.
 * Eddie Mabo, 55, Australian indigenous people's activist, cancer.
 * Miguel Manzano, 84, Mexican actor, kidney failure.

22

 * A. J. Antoon, 47, American theatre director, AIDS-related lymphoma.
 * 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.
 * 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

 * Ignacio Bernal, 81, Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist.
 * 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.
 * Ricky Ray Rector, 42, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Talia Shapira, 45, Israeli actress, cancer.

25

 * Raban Adelmann, 79, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Riad Ahmadov, 35, Azerbaijan officer and war hero, killed in action.
 * Kay Beauchamp, 92, British communist activist and feminist.
 * Guido Buzzelli, 64, Italian comic book artist, writer, and painter.
 * Pedro Linares, 85, Mexican artist.
 * Mahmoud Riad, 75, Egyptian diplomat.

26

 * Sheldon Chumir, 51, Canadian lawyer and politician.
 * José Ferrer, 80, Puerto Rican actor (Cyrano de Bergerac, Lawrence of Arabia, The Caine Mutiny) and filmmaker, colorectal cancer.
 * Gilroy Roberts, 86, American sculptor and minter.
 * Hans Schulze, 80, German water polo player.

27

 * John Alcorn, 56, American artist, designer, and illustrator.
 * Boris Arapov, 86, Russian composer.
 * Bharat Bhushan, 71, Indian actor, scriptwriter and producer.
 * Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, 101, English actress.
 * Sally Mugabe, 60, Zimbabwean activist, first lady (since 1987), kidney failure.
 * Henriette von Schirach, 78, German writer and wife to nazi politician Baldur von Schirach.
 * William Walker, 95, American television and film actor, cancer.

28

 * Arvid Andersson-Holtman, 95, Swedish gymnast and Olympic champion.
 * Nahman Avigad, 86, Israeli archaeologist.
 * Hans Lang, 83, Austrian composer of light music, film music and Viennese songs.
 * Ərəstun Mahmudov, 34, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action..
 * Marifat Nasibov, 19, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Viktor Seryogin, 47, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Mehmet Ali Yalım, 62, Turkish basketball player.
 * Arvo Ylppö, 104, Finnish physician and academic.

29

 * Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn, 79, British politician.
 * Noer Alie, 77, Indonesian Islamic leader and educator.
 * Willie Dixon, 76, American blues musician, heart failure.
 * Art Somers, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.

30

 * Francis Birch, 88, American geophysicist, prostate cancer.
 * Ed Taylor, 90, American baseball player.
 * George Frederick James Temple, 90, English mathematician9.
 * Coaker Triplett, 80, American baseball player.

31

 * Ludwig Geyer, 87, German cyclist.
 * Mel Hein, 82, American football player, stomach cancer.
 * Martin Held, 83, German television and film actor.
 * István Sárközi, 44, Hungarian Olympic footballer (1968), traffic collision.