Deaths in October 1992

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * Gert Bastian, 69, German politician, murder-suicide.
 * Ilgar Ismailov, 33, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
 * Petra Kelly, 44, German politician, murder-suicide.
 * Ali Mammadov, 37, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Max Tera, 61, Indonesian cinematographer.
 * Salvatore Valitutti, 85, Italian teacher and politician.

2

 * Sabiha Bengütaş, 88, Turkish sculptor.
 * Honnappa Bhagavathar, 77, Indian actor, musician and singer.
 * Vincent Hallinan, 95, American lawyer.
 * Luis Serra, 56, Uruguayan cyclist and Olympian.
 * Bogdan Suchodolski, 88, Polish philosopher and politician.

3

 * Aliyar Aliyev, 34, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action.
 * John Carisi, 70, American trumpeter and composer.
 * Ted Dailey, 83, American gridiron football player.
 * John William Davis, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1975).
 * Fritz Dennerlein, 56, Italian swimmer, water polo player and Olympian, traffic collision.
 * Lili Heglund, 88, Danish film actress.
 * Peter Klein, 85, German opera singer.
 * Marek Petrusewicz, 58, Polish swimmer and Olympian.
 * Ernest H. Volwiler, 99, American chemist.
 * Ken Wilmshurst, 61, English long jumper, triple jumper and Olympian.

4

 * Zoltán Lajos Bay, 92, Hungarian physicist and engineer.
 * Mohammed Benaziza, 33, French bodybuilder.
 * Denny Hulme, 56, New Zealand racing driver, heart attack.
 * H. D. Thambiah, 65, Sri Lankan lawyer and judge.

5

 * Sadhan Basu, 70, Indian physical chemist and academic.
 * Cornelis Berkhouwer, 73, Dutch politician.
 * Gösta Carlsson, 86, Swedish Olympic cyclist (1928).
 * Eddie Kendricks, 52, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
 * Fred Otash, 70, American private investigator and Hollywood fixer.
 * Appa Sahib Pant, 80, Indian diplomat, writer and freedom fighter.

6

 * Denholm Elliott, 70, English actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, A Room with a View, Trading Places), BAFTA winner (1984, 1985, 1986), AIDS.
 * Natalie Moorhead, 91, American film and stage actress.
 * Bill O'Reilly, 86, Australian cricket player.
 * Margit Symo, 79, Hungarian-German actress.

7

 * Nikki Allan, 7, English murder victim
 * Aina Berg, 90, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1920, 1924).
 * Ed Blackwell, 62, American jazz drummer, kidney disease.
 * Allan Bloom, 62, American philosopher, AIDS-related complications.
 * Martin Eichler, 80, German number theorist.
 * Joseph Kitagawa, 77, Japanese-American scholar in religious studies.
 * Bill Robinson, 73, English football player.
 * Mikayil Useynov, 87, Azerbaijani architect.

8

 * Robert Berdella, 43, American serial killer and rapist, congenital heart defect.
 * Willy Brandt, 78, German politician, Chancellor (1969–1974), and Nobel Prize recipient (1971), colon cancer.
 * Ian Graham Gass, 66, English geologist.
 * Lindsley Parsons, 87, American film producer and screenwriter.

9

 * Doby Bartling, 79, American football player and coach.
 * Jędrzej Giertych, 89, Polish writer and politician.
 * Mike Guerra, 79, Cuban baseball player.
 * Harjinder Singh Jinda, 31, Indian Sikh separatist, execution by hanging.
 * Ben Maddow, 83, American screenwriter and documentarian.
 * Mary A. R. Marshall, 71, American politician, fall.
 * Giuliano Ravizza, 66, Italian fashion designer, cancer.
 * Per Olof Sundman, 70, Swedish writer.

10

 * Sha Menghai, 92, Chinese great master of calligraphy.
 * Woesha Cloud North, 74, Native American artist, teacher, and activist.
 * James Seay, 78, American actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Death Valley Days, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?).
 * Zofia Wojciechowska-Grabska, 87, Polish painter.

11

 * Ignatius Ghattas, 71, American Melkite Greek Catholic Church bishop.
 * William Neufeld, 91, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
 * Froelich Rainey, 85, American anthropologist and academic.
 * Zakir Yusifov, 36, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.

12

 * David Dragunsky, 82, Soviet army officer and politician.
 * Ulysses Guimarães, 76, Brazilian politician, helicopter crash.
 * John Hancock, 51, American actor (The Bonfire of the Vanities, City Heat, 10), heart attack.
 * Eddy Kuijpers, 77, Dutch fencer and Olympian.
 * Jim Percy, 43, Australian socialist politician, cancer.

13

 * Tula Belle, 86, American child film actress.
 * Jacques Delepaut, 66, French football player.
 * James Marshall, 50, American author (George and Martha, The Stupids), AIDS.
 * Les Pawson, 87, American marathon runner.
 * Hughes Rudd, 71, American newscaster, aneurysm.
 * Kiwako Taichi, 48, Japanese film actress, traffic collision.

14

 * Qin Mu, 73, Chinese educator and writer.
 * Poul Erik Petersen, 65, Danish football player and Olympian.
 * Anna Maria van Geene, 64, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1948).
 * William Waddell, 71, Scottish footballer.

15

 * Gino Cavalieri, 97, Italian actor.
 * Oliver Franks, Baron Franks, 87, English philosopher and diplomat.
 * Talwinder Singh Parmar, 48, Indian militant and Canadian-Sikh terrorist, shot by police.
 * Jackie Sullivan, 74, American Major League Baseball player.

16

 * Shirley Booth, 94, American actress (Come Back, Little Sheba, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Hazel), Oscar winner (1953).
 * Charley Burley, 75, American boxer.
 * John Tracy Ellis, 87, Catholic Church historian.
 * Maurice Féaudierre, 90, French journalist and painter.
 * Anna Hill Johnstone, 79, American costume designer (The Godfather, Ragtime, Dog Day Afternoon).
 * Vijitha Mallika, 49, Sri Lankan actress, cancer.
 * Antanas Poška, 89, Lithuanian traveler and anthropologist.
 * William Edmond Robinson, 72, American politician.
 * Vladek Sheybal, 69, Polish actor (From Russia with Love) and singer, aortic aneurysm.

17

 * Edgar Chandler, 46, American gridiron football player.
 * Brian Eaton, 75, Australian Air Force commander.
 * Herman Johannes, 80, Indonesian politician and scientist.
 * Orestis Laskos, 84, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor.
 * John O'Connell, 88, American baseball player.
 * Karomatullo Qurbonov, 30, Tajik singer, murdered.
 * Prem Sahgal, 75, British Indian Army officer.
 * Rouben Ter-Arutunian, 72, American costume and scenic designer, lymphoma.
 * Tadeusz Żmudziński, 68, Polish pianist.

18

 * Yoram Ben-Porath, 55, Israeli academic and economist, traffic collision.
 * Merl Condit, 75, American gridiron football player.
 * Gerald Ellison, 82, English Anglican bishop.
 * Makoto Fukui, 52, Japanese freestyle swimmer and Olympian.
 * Albert Schwartz, 69, American zoologist.
 * Alija Šuljak, 91, Bosnian Croatian war criminal during World War II.

19

 * Atley Donald, 82, American baseball player.
 * Arturo Farías, 65, Chilean football player.
 * Willie Lamothe, 72, Canadian musician.
 * Maurice Le Roux, 69, French composer.
 * Magnus Pyke, 83, English nutritional scientist and television presenter.
 * Wulf Schmidt, 80, Danish-English double agent.
 * James J. Stoker, 87, American mathematician and engineer.
 * Alvin Stoller, 67, American jazz drummer.
 * Arthur Wint, 72, Jamaican Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952).

20

 * Mimì Aylmer, 96, Italian actress.
 * Orton Chirwa, 73, Malawian politician and political prisoner.
 * Stanley McMaster, 66, Northern Irish Unionist politician.
 * Koča Popović, 84, Yugoslav politician, vice president (1966–1967).
 * Jack Reddish, 65, American Olympic alpine skier (1948, 1952).
 * Werner Torkanowsky, 66, German conductor, cancer.
 * Sam Vanni, 84, Finnish painter.
 * Rudi Weissenstein, 82, Israeli photographer.

21

 * Ante Ciliga, 94, Croatian politician and writer.
 * Joe Dwyer, 89, American baseball player.
 * Jim Garrison, 70, American attorney, cancer.
 * François-Didier Gregh, 86, Monegasque politician and Minister of State.
 * Bob Todd, 70, English comedy actor.

22

 * Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, 88, British botanist and educator.
 * Red Barber, 84, American sportscaster.
 * Carlo Bernari, 83, Italian author.
 * Giorgio de Stefani, 88, Italian tennis player.
 * Pavel Khristophorovich Dubinda, 78, Soviet Red Army war hero during World War II.
 * Newell A. George, 88, American politician.
 * Wilson Humphries, 64, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Wolf Kaiser, 75, German theatre and film actor, suicide.
 * Cleavon Little, 53, American actor (Blazing Saddles, Temperatures Rising, Purlie), Tony winner (1970), colon cancer.
 * André Vandeweyer, 83, Belgian football player and coach.

23

 * Banine, 86, Azerbaijani-French writer.
 * Dorothy Dunbar, 90, American actress and socialite.
 * Ernst Hartmann, 76, German medical doctor, author and publicist.
 * William Masselos, 72, American classical pianist.
 * Vernon Morgan, 88, English Olympic steeplechase athlete (1928).

24

 * David Archer, 61, Barbadian cricket player and umpire.
 * Laurie Colwin, 48, American writer, aortic aneurysm.
 * Mohammad Ibraheem Khwakhuzhi, 72, Afghan politician and writer.
 * Gustav Kneip, 87, German composer.
 * Jimmy Orlando, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Luis Rosales, 82, Spanish poet and essayist, cerebral hemorrhage.

25

 * Adelino da Palma Carlos, 87, Portuguese politician, prime minister (1974).
 * Arnold S. Eagle, 82–83, Hungarian-American photographer.
 * Giorgio Locchi, 69, Italian journalist and writer.
 * Karen Lykkehus, 88, Danish actress.
 * Roger Miller, 56, American musician, lung cancer.
 * Richard Pousette-Dart, 76, American abstract artist.
 * Peter Rice, 57, Irish structural engineer, brain cancer.
 * Ivan Svitlychny, 63, Ukrainian poet, literary critic, and Soviet dissident.

26

 * Jerome Andrews, 83–84, American-French dancer and choreographer.
 * Laurel Cronin, 53, American actress (A League of Their Own, Hook, Beethoven), cancer.
 * Melvin Dixon, 42, American author and poet, AIDS.
 * Paul Eisler, 85, Austrian inventor.
 * Ridgely Gaither, 89, United States Army lieutenant general.

27

 * Ivan Andreadis, 68, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
 * István Balogh, 80, Hungarian football player and manager.
 * David Bohm, 74, American-British theoretical physicist, heart attack.
 * Paul Jessup, 84, American discus thrower, shot putter and Olympian.
 * Roy Marshall, 62, Barbadian-English cricket player, cancer.
 * Nayyar Sultana, 55, Pakistani film actress, cancer.
 * Wilson Whitley, 37, American college football player, heart problems.

28

 * Hubert Benoit, 88, French psychotherapist.
 * Greg Duhaime, 39, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympian, AIDS-related complications.
 * Charles Pellat, 78, Algerian-French academic, historian, and translator.
 * Lin Shen, 84, Taiwanese politician.

29

 * George T. Clemens, 90, American cinematographer.
 * Manuel Antonio de Varona, 83, Cuban lawyer and politician.
 * Kenneth MacMillan, 62, British ballet dancer, heart attack.
 * Louis Marin, 61, French philosopher, historian, and art critic.

30

 * Dionizije Dvornić, 66, Croatian football player.
 * Ben Lessy, 90, American comedian and actor.
 * Joan Mitchell, 67, American artist, lung cancer.
 * Kuladeivam Rajagopal, 61, Indian actor.

31

 * Trevor Atkinson, 49, English football player.
 * Jean Hébey, 76, French-Algerian film actor.
 * Brian MacCabe, 78, English athlete.
 * Sammy Ward, 28–29, Northern Irish paramilitary, killed by the IRA.