Deaths in May 1992

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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

 * Agustin Cueva, 54, Ecuadorian writer, cancer.
 * Hella Hammid, 70, German-American photographer.
 * Sharon Redd, 46, American singer, pneumonia caused by AIDS.
 * Justin Stein, 80, American baseball player.
 * Celerino Sánchez, 48, Mexican baseball player.

2

 * Stefano D'Arrigo, 72, Italian writer.
 * Trevor Hatherton, 67, New Zealand geophysicist, scientific administrator and Antarctic scientist.
 * Mike Karakas, 80, American ice hockey player.
 * Stefan Kieniewicz, 84, Polish historian.
 * Wilbur Daigh Mills, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1977).
 * Kel Tremain, 54, New Zealand rugby player.
 * Margarete Wallmann, 87-90, Austrian opera director and ballerina.

3

 * Alummoodan, 59, Indian actor.
 * Vilma Degischer, 80, Austrian theatre and film actress.
 * Godman Irvine, 82, Canadian-British politician.
 * George Murphy, 89, American politician and actor, member of the U.S. Senate (1965–1971), leukemia.

4

 * Shane Curry, 24, American football player, shot.
 * August Hellemans, 84, Belgian football player.
 * Michael Howlett, 77, American politician, kidney failure.
 * Ronnie Knox, 57, Canadian football player.
 * Gregor Mackenzie, 64, British politician.
 * Lyn Marshall, 47, British yoga teacher, ballerina, and actress, brain cancer.
 * Thomas O. Paine, 70, American engineer and scientist, cancer.

5

 * Yunis Aliyev, 33, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Edmondo Amati, 72, Italian film producer.
 * Del M. Clawson, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–1978).
 * Fikret Hajiyev, 27, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Kerim Kerimov, 20, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
 * Sarkhan Ojaqverdiyev, 24, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Jean-Claude Pascal, 64, French actor, stomach cancer.
 * Jean Vauthier, 81, French playwright.
 * Dick Yarmy, 59, American actor (Get Smart, Mork & Mindy, Emergency!), lung cancer.

6

 * Marlene Dietrich, 90, German-American actress (Morocco, Touch of Evil, Judgment at Nuremberg), kidney failure.
 * Malcolm A. MacIntyre, 84, American lawyer and hall of fame lacrosse player.
 * Gaston Reiff, 71, Belgian Olympic runner (1948).
 * Jilly Rizzo, 75, American restaurateur and actor, traffic collision.
 * Tatyana Yesenina, 73, Soviet writer.

7

 * Nachhatar Chhatta, 32, Indian singer, alcohol intoxication.
 * Kiril Hristov, 42, Bulgarian football player.
 * Soerip, 70, Indonesian singer and film actress.
 * Tiny Timbrell, 75, Canadian musician.

8

 * Albert Agarunov, 23, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Addeke Hendrik Boerma, 80, Dutch civil servant.
 * Richard Derr, 74, American actor (When Worlds Collide, American Gigolo, Firefox), pancreatic cancer.
 * Gul Mohammad, 70, Pakistani cricketer, liver cancer.
 * Sergey Obraztsov, 90, Russian puppeteer.
 * Otto Šimánek, 67, Czechoslovak actor.

9

 * Hernán Bolaños, 80, Nicaraguan-Costa Rican football player.
 * Keith Bissell, 80, Canadian composer.
 * Tom Chessell, 78, Australian rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Carmine Lombardozzi, 79, American mobster and member of the Gambino crime family.
 * Mehman Sayadov, 19, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.

10

 * Egil Endresen, 72, Norwegian judge and politician.
 * John Lund, 81, American actor (A Foreign Affair, To Each His Own, The Perils of Pauline).
 * Werner Nilsen, 88, Norwegian-American soccer player.
 * K. G. Ramanathan, 71, Indian mathematician.
 * Sylvia Syms, 74, American singer, heart attack.
 * Willard Long Thorp, 92, American economist.

11

 * Judith Brown, 60, American dancer and sculptor.
 * René Guajardo, 59, Mexican professional wrestler, liver cancer.
 * Loretta Cessor Manggrum, 95, American pianist and composer of sacred music.
 * William A. Mueller, 91, American sound engineer.
 * Curtis D. Summers, 62, American engineer and roller coaster designer.
 * Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda, 83, Japanese member of the imperial family, heart attack.

12

 * Joe Burke, 68, American baseball executive, lymphatic cancer.
 * Nikos Gatsos, 80, Greek poet, translator and lyricist.
 * Jacqueline Maillan, 69, French actress, heart attack.
 * Hector McIvor, 91, Australian politician.
 * Bob Mizer, 70, American photographer and filmmaker.
 * Lenny Montana, 66, American actor (The Godfather, Fingers), professional wrestler (GCW) and mobster, heart attack.
 * Robert Reed, 59, American actor (The Brady Bunch, The Defenders, Roots), colon cancer.

13

 * Patrick Angus, 38, American painter, AIDS.
 * Gisela Elsner, 55, German novelist, suicide by jumping.
 * Stan Hugill, 85, British folk music performer.
 * Dawon Kahng, 61, Korean-American electrical engineer and inventor.
 * Leon Klatzkin, 77, American music arranger, composer, and conductor.
 * F. E. McWilliam, 83, Northern Irish sculptor, cancer.
 * Wanda Rutkiewicz, 49, Polish mountain climber, climbing accident.
 * Bart Zoet, 49, Dutch cyclist, heart attack.

14

 * Lyle Alzado, 43, American football player, brain cancer.
 * Robert Howie, 93, Scottish rugby player.
 * Frank M. Karsten, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1969).
 * Nie Rongzhen, 92, Chinese general.

15

 * Tommy Colella, 73, American gridiron football player.
 * Ladislav Demšar, 63, Yugoslav basketball player and coach.
 * Jovy Marcelo, 27, Filipino racing driver, racing accident.
 * Bartlett Mullins, 87, British actor.
 * Robert Morris Page, 88, American physicist, heart failure.
 * Valentino Pellarini, 72, Italian basketball player.
 * Gino Rossetti, 87, Italian football manager and football player.
 * Jalil Safarov, 30, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
 * Parviz Samedov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.

16

 * Joe Healey, 81, American hurdler and Olympian.
 * Marisa Mell, 53, Austrian actress, throat cancer.
 * Eric James, Baron James of Rusholme, 83, British educator.
 * Chalino Sánchez, 31, Mexican singer-songwriter, murdered.
 * Robert Grainger Ker Thompson, 76, British military officer and counter-insurgency expert.

17

 * Robert Blanc, 47, French footballer.
 * George Hurrell, 87, American photographer, bladder cancer.
 * William Ivey, 72, American painter, cancer.
 * Želimir Vidović, 38, Bosnian football player, murdered.
 * Lawrence Welk, 89, American musician and television personality (The Lawrence Welk Show), pneumonia.

18

 * Jake Leicht, 72, American gridiron football player.
 * Giuliani G. De Negri, 71, Italian film producer and screenwriter.
 * Jasper K. Smith, 86, American attorney and politician.
 * Skip Stephenson, 52, American comedian, heart attack.
 * Marshall Thompson, 66, American actor, heart failure.

19

 * Esther Averill, 89, American author.
 * Alfred McClung Lee, 85, American sociologist.
 * Jock Turner, 48, Scottish rugby player.
 * Hans Vogt, 81, German composer.

20

 * Roger Keith Coleman, 33, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
 * Giovanni Colombo, 89, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Leela Sumant Moolgaokar, 75, Indian social worker.
 * James Tully, 76, Irish politician.
 * Alicia Vergel, 64, Filipina actress.

21

 * Ulric Cole, 86, American pianist, editor, music educator and composer.
 * T. B. Ilangaratne, 79, Sri Lankan politician, author, dramatist, and theater actor.
 * Åke Lindblom, 73, Swedish sports shooter.
 * Mugs Stump, 42, American mountaineer, mountaineering accident.

22

 * Tony Accardo, 86, American mobster and Chicago Outfit boss, cardiopulmonary failure.
 * Roy Childs, 43, American political essayist, fall.
 * Elizabeth David, 78, British cookery writer, stroke.
 * Dan Enright, 74, American television producer, cancer.
 * Zellig S. Harris, 82, American linguist.
 * Abraham Moles, 71, French information scientist.
 * György Ránki, 84, Hungarian composer.
 * Iosif Varga, 50, Romanian football player.
 * Lee Yang-ji, 37, Japanese novelist, myocarditis.

23

 * James Blair, 82, American rower and Olympic champion.
 * Kostas Davourlis, 44, Greek football player, heart attack.
 * Giovanni Falcone, 53, Italian magistrate, assassinated, car bomb.
 * John Gates, 78, American communist politician.
 * Charley Malone, 81, American gridiron football player.
 * Francesca Morvillo, 46, Italian magistrate, assassinated, car bomb.
 * Paul Moukila, 41, Congolese football player, malaria.
 * Henry George Pearce, 74, Australian politician.
 * Ernst Plischke, 88, Austrian-New Zealand architect, town planner and furniture designer.
 * Atahualpa Yupanqui, 84, Argentine musician.

24

 * Jean Aberbach, 81, Austrian-American music publisher.
 * Francis Thomas Bacon, 87, English engineer.
 * Luiz Eça, 56, Brazilian samba and bossa nova pianist.
 * Joan Sanderson, 79, British actress.

25

 * Danny Biasone, 83, Italian-American sports executive.
 * Tulio Demicheli, 77, Argentine filmmaker, cancer.
 * Sari Dienes, 93, Hungarian-American artist.
 * Viktor Grishin, 77, Soviet politician, heart attack.
 * Philip Habib, 72, American diplomat, cardiac arrhythmia.
 * Gitta Mallasz, 84, Hungarian artist.
 * Ruben Zakharian, 90, Russian painter.

26

 * Edmund Beloin, 82, American writer of radio, film, and television.
 * Terence Clarke, 88, British Army officer and politician.
 * Dorota Horzonkówna, 58, Polish Olympic gymnast (1952, 1956).
 * George Morrow, 66, American jazz bassist.
 * Geneva Sayre, 80, American bryologist and bibliographer.

27

 * Machiko Hasegawa, 72, Japanese manga artist.
 * Peter Jenkins, 58, British journalist, respiratory failure.
 * Karl Leyser, 71, German-British historian.
 * John Myhers, 70, American actor (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, 1776, History of the World, Part I), pneumonia.
 * Delilah Pierce, 88, American artist, curator and educator.
 * Donald K. Ross, 81, American naval officer, heart attack.
 * Franz Rupp, 91, German-American pianist.
 * Jone Salinas, 74, Italian actress.
 * Michael Talbot, 38, American quantum mystic, lymphoid leukemia.

28

 * Ricardo Caminos, 75-76, Argentine egyptologist.
 * Fumio Fujimura, 75, Japanese baseball player.
 * Bai Hong, 72, Chinese singer.
 * Godefroid Munongo, 66, Congolese politician.
 * Lorenzo Tañada, 93, Filipino lawyer, civil rights advocate and politician.

29

 * Ollie Halsall, 43, English guitarist, drug-induced heart attack.
 * Yoshitoshi Mori, 93, Japanese artist.
 * Albert Ndongmo, 65, Cameroonian prelate of the Catholic Church.
 * Nils-Åke Sandell, 65, Swedish football player and manager.
 * Ken Suesens, 75, American basketball coach.
 * Petro Udovychenko, 78, Ukrainian politician and diplomat.

30

 * Karl Carstens, 77, German politician, president (1979–1984).
 * Larry Craig, 75, American football player.
 * Craig Ellwood, 70, Los Angeles-based modernist architect.
 * Mitsuharu Inoue, 66, Japanese writer, colorectal cancer.
 * James Lamy, 64, American bobsledder and Olympic medalist.
 * Elly Yunara, 68, Indonesian film actress and producer.
 * Antoni Zygmund, 91, Polish mathematician.

31

 * Eugene A. Chappie, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1987).
 * Henri Moreau de Melen, 89, Belgian politician.
 * Walter Neugebauer, 71, Croatian comic book artist and animator.
 * Lillian Powell, 96, Canadian-American dancer.
 * Dieter Puschel, 52, German cyclist.
 * Lutz Stavenhagen, 52, German politician, pneumonia.