Deaths in July 1992

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Franco Cristaldi, 61, Italian film producer.
 * Stan Frazier, 54, American professional wrestler, kidney failure.
 * Jack Hood, 89, British boxing champion.
 * Scott Meredith, 69, American literary agent.
 * Brian O'Brien, 94, American optical physicist.
 * T. Prakash Rao, 67, Indian filmmaker.
 * Newton Ogilvie Thompson, 88, South African judge, Chief Justice of South Africa (1971–1974).

2

 * Lyle Boren, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1947).
 * Charles F. Brannan, 88, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture (1948–1953).
 * Camarón de la Isla, 41, Spanish flamenco singer, lung cancer.
 * Hans Jendretzky, 94, German communist politician.
 * Borislav Pekić, 62, Serbian author, lung cancer.

3

 * Arnold Belkin, 61, Canadian-Mexican painter.
 * Ed Berrang, 69, American football player.
 * Jeanine Delpech, 86, French novelist.
 * Wally Kilrea, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Luigi Marchisio, 83, Italian road racing cyclist.
 * Enzo Matteucci, 58, Italian football player, ALS.
 * Koroglu Rahimov, 38, Azerbaijani division commander and war hero, killed in action.
 * Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse, 90, English socialite.
 * George Staller, 76, American baseball player, scout and coach.
 * Clive Stoneham, 83, Australian politician.
 * Marc H. Tanenbaum, 66, American rabbi and social justice activist, heart failure.

4

 * David Abercrombie, 82, British phonetician.
 * Djatikoesoemo, 75, Indonesian Army officer and diplomat.
 * Harry Gottlieb, 96, American painter, lithographer, and educator, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Joe Newman, 69, American jazz trumpeter, complications from a stroke.
 * Francis Perrin, 90, French physicist.
 * Astor Piazzolla, 71, Argentine tango musician, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Richard Smart, 79, American musical theatre actor and singer.
 * Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, 72, Russian actress, cancer.

5

 * Georgia Brown, 58, English singer and actress, complications from surgery.
 * Peter-Erich Cremer, 81, German U-boat commander during World War II.
 * Paul Hackman, 38, Canadian guitarist, traffic collision.
 * Pauline Jewett, 69, Canadian politician, cancer.

6

 * Frank Akins, 73, American gridiron football player.
 * Amadeus August, 50, German actor and singer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Marsha P. Johnson, 46, American LGBT activist and drag queen, head injury.
 * Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, 86, British hereditary peer.
 * Vsevolod Safonov, 66, Soviet actor of theatre and cinema, cancer.
 * Mary Q. Steele, 70, American author.

7

 * Josy Barthel, 65, Luxembourgish Olympic runner (1952).
 * Grace Carlson, 85, American politician.
 * Mika Feldman de Etchebéhère, 90, Argentine militant anarchist and marxist.
 * Clint Frank, 76, American football player.
 * Juanita Jackson Mitchell, 79, American lawyer.
 * Vernon Smith, 32, American basketball player, shot.
 * Pat Taaffe, 62, Irish jockey.

8

 * Giacomo Conti, 74, Italian bobsledder and Olympic champion.
 * Zoltán Soós-Ruszka Hradetzky, 90, Hungarian sport shooter and Olympic medalist.
 * Ottfried Neubecker, 84, German vexillologist and heraldist.
 * Nikolay Smirnov, 74, Soviet admiral.

9

 * Kelvin Coe, 45, Australian ballet dancer, AIDS.
 * Arne Falk-Rønne, 71, Danish travel writer.
 * Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta, 95, Spanish Falange politician.
 * Fikret Hodžić, 39, Yugoslav/Bosnian bodybuilder, murdered.
 * Eric Sevareid, 79, American journalist, stomach cancer.

10

 * Ion Bogdan, 77, Romanian football player.
 * Walt Masters, 85, American gridiron football player.
 * Albert Pierrepoint, 87, English executioner.
 * Doris Tate, 68, American crime victims rights activist, brain cancer.

11

 * Munroe Bourne, 82, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1928).
 * Hajrudin Krvavac, 65, Bosnian film director.
 * Constantin Pîrvulescu, 96, Romanian communist politician.
 * Deng Yingchao, 88, Chinese official, widow of Zhou Enlai.

12

 * Reginald Beck, 90, British film editor.
 * Elsie Driggs, 94, American painter.
 * Ted Fenton, 77, English football player and manager, traffic collision.
 * Caroline Pafford Miller, 88, American novelist.
 * Bakhsheyis Pashayev, 56, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
 * Carlo Van Neste, 78, Belgian violinist.
 * Mariechen Wehselau, 86, American swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder.
 * Edgar Bright Wilson, 83, American chemist.

13

 * Giovanni Battista Breda, 60, Italian fencer.
 * Heinrich Eberbach, 96, German general during World War II.
 * Christopher Ironside, 79, English painter and coin designer.
 * Vince Scott, 67, Canadian football player.
 * Cicely Williams, 98, Jamaican physician.
 * Alex Wojciechowicz, 76, American football player.

14

 * Barbara Comyns, 84, English writer and artist.
 * Thomas Hicks, 74, American bobsledder and Olympic medalist.
 * Ikhtiyar Kasimov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Slavko Luštica, 69, Yugoslav football player.
 * Danny McShain, 79, American professional wrestler.
 * Yılmaz Şen, 49, Turkish football player.

15

 * Jim Buntine, 90, Australian Chief Commissioner of Girl Guides (1962–1968).
 * Hammer DeRoburt, 69, Nauruan politician, president (1968–1976, 1978–1989), diabetes.
 * Ernestine Eckstein, 51, American LGBT activist.
 * Enrico Garzelli, 82, Italian rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Johnny Martin, 60, Australian cricket player.
 * Marianne Simson, 71, German dancer and film actress.

16

 * Buck Buchanan, 51, American gridiron football player, lung cancer.
 * Tatyana Pelttser, 88, Russian actress.
 * Jack Surtees, 81, English footballer.
 * Mai-Mai Sze, 82, Chinese-American writer and painter.

17

 * Ingemar Andersson, 64, Swedish sprint canoeist and Olympian.
 * Kanan Devi, 76, Indian actress and singer.
 * Johnny Letman, 74, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Don R. Pears, 92, American politician.
 * Larry Roberts, 65, American voice actor (Lady and the Tramp) and fashion designer, AIDS-related complications.

18

 * Pierce Brodkorb, 83, American ornithologist and paleontologist.
 * Willa Brown, 86, American aviator.
 * Pang Hak-se, 80, North Korean politician.
 * Rudolf Ising, 88, American animator (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, Tom and Jerry), cancer.
 * Victor Louis, 64, Soviet journalist and disinformation operative, heart attack.
 * Giuseppe Paupini, 85, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
 * Jan Pelleboer, 68, Dutch meteorologist.
 * Laura Rodríguez, 35, Chilean political activist, brain tumor.
 * Helmut Schmid, 67, German actor.

19

 * Paolo Borsellino, 52, Italian magistrate, assassination by car bomb.
 * Heinz Galinski, 79, German activist.
 * Allen Newell, 65, American computer scientist, cancer.
 * Alan E. Nourse, 63, American science fiction writer and physician.
 * Bert Peer, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.

20

 * John Bratby, 64, English painter, heart attack.
 * Ed Goddard, 77, American football player, cancer.
 * Bruce Henderson, 78, American businessman and management expert.
 * Artem Kopot, 19, Russian ice hockey player, traffic collision.
 * John Tinsley, 73, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bristol (1975–1985).

21

 * Mario Boyé, 69, Argentine football player.
 * Ravindra Dave, 73, Indian filmmaker.
 * Aloys Fleischmann, 82, Irish composer, conductor, and musicologist.
 * Edward Dean Kennedy, 47, American murderer, execution by electrocution.
 * Ernst Schäfer, 82, German explorer, hunter and zoologist.
 * Helmut Seibt, 63, Austrian Olympic figure skater (1952).
 * Petar Tanchev, 72, Bulgarian politician.

22

 * Reginald Bretnor, 80, American science fiction author.
 * Ya'akov Hazan, 93, Israeli politician and social activist.
 * Wayne McLaren, 51, American actor and stuntman (Marlboro Man), lung cancer.
 * John Meyendorff, 66, French-American theologian, pancreatic cancer.
 * F. S. C. Northrop, 98, American philosopher.
 * K. N. Udupa, 72, Indian surgeon and academic.
 * David Wojnarowicz, 37, American photographer, filmmaker, and painter, AIDS.

23

 * Arletty, 94, French actress.
 * Maxine Audley, 69, English actress.
 * Tord Bernheim, 78, Swedish singer, actor, and revue performer.
 * Suleiman Frangieh, 82, Lebanese politician, president (1970–1976), pneumonia.
 * Robert Liddell, 83, English literary critic, biographer, novelist, travel writer and poet.
 * Dmitry Maevsky, 75, Soviet and Russian painter.
 * Eugene Murdock, 71, American baseball historian.
 * Ian Proctor, 74, British sailboat designer.
 * Bill Striegel, 56, American gridiron football player.
 * Rosemary Sutcliff, 71, English novelist.

24

 * Sam Berger, 92, Canadian sports executive.
 * Serge de Gastyne, 61, American composer and pianist.
 * Gavriil Ilizarov, 71, Russian physician, heart failure.
 * Ernie Quinn, 66, Australian politician.

25

 * Ralph P. Boas, Jr., 79, American mathematician and journal editor.
 * Gunārs Cilinskis, 61, Latvian actor and filmmaker, heart attack.
 * Alfred Drake, 77, American actor, cancer.
 * Pola Nireńska, 81, Polish modern dancer, suicide.
 * Vittorio Sanipoli, 76, Italian actor.
 * Gary Windo, 50, English jazz tenor saxophonist, asthma.

26

 * Rita Atria, 17, Italian antimafia collaborator, suicide.
 * Tzeni Karezi, 60, Greek film and stage actress, cancer.
 * Janet Key, 47, English actress, cancer.
 * Ottorino Quaglierini, 77, Italian rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Richard D. Remington, 60, American academic.
 * Elga Olga Svendsen, 86, Danish film actress and singer.
 * Mary Wells, 49, American singer, laryngeal cancer.
 * Yasuharu Ōyama, 69, Japanese shogi player.

27

 * Max Dupain, 81, Australian photographer.
 * Amjad Khan, 51, Indian actor and film director, heart failure.
 * Salty Parker, 80, American baseball player, coach and manager.
 * Anthony Salerno, 80, American mobster and Genovese crime family boss, stroke.
 * Nat Silcock, Jr., 64, English rugby player and coach.
 * Ferdinand Wenauer, 53, German football player, heart failure.

28

 * Ron Daws, 55, American Olympic runner (1968), heart attack.
 * Seidou Njimoluh Njoya, 90, Cameroonian sultan.
 * Sulev Nõmmik, 61, Estonian actor, comedian, and theatre and movie director.
 * Jovan Rašković, 63, Croatian Serb psychiatrist, academic and politician, heart attack.
 * Lester Shorr, 85, American cinematographer.

29

 * Lucia Demetrius, 82, Romanian novelist, poet, and playwright.
 * Marcel Janssens, 60, Belgian cyclist.
 * Kemal Kayacan, 77, Turkish admiral, murdered.
 * Michel Larocque, 40, Canadian ice hockey player, brain cancer.
 * William Mathias, 57, Welsh composer.
 * Dominik Smole, 62, Slovenian playwright.
 * Dmitry Zubarev, 74, Russian theoretical physicist.

30

 * Nils Boe, 78, American attorney and politician.
 * Paul Gapp, 64, American journalist and Pulitzer prize winner, lung cancer.
 * Tonin Harapi, 64, Albanian composer and teacher.
 * Bo Lindman, 93, Swedish modern pentathlete and Olympic champion.
 * Brenda Marshall, 76, American actress, throat cancer.
 * Ken Myer, 71, American-Australian, businessman, diplomat, and philanthropist.
 * George Novack, 86, American Marxist theoretician, and activist.
 * Joe Shuster, 78, Canadian-American comic artist, co-creator of Superman, heart failure.

31

 * Anvar Alikhanov, 75, Soviet politician and apparatchik.
 * Leonard Cheshire, 74, English RAF officer and philanthropist, motor neurone disease.
 * Uzi Peres, 41, Israeli film director, plane crash.
 * Ralph Strait, 56, American actor (The Beastmaster, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Search for Tomorrow), heart attack.