Deaths in September 1992

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Desta Asgedom, 20, Ethiopian athlete, suicide.
 * Morris Carnovsky, 94, American actor.
 * Chick Harbert, 77, American golfer, stroke.
 * Piotr Jaroszewicz, 82, Polish politician, prime minister (1970–1980), murdered.
 * Sergey Senyukov, 37, Soviet high jumper and Olympian.
 * Ivan Tregubov, 62, Soviet ice hockey player.

2

 * Tahir Hasanov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Nam Jeong-im, 47, South Korean actress, breast cancer.
 * Sadeq Mallallah, 21-22, Saudi Arabian apostate, execution by beheading.
 * Barbara McClintock, 90, American geneticist, Nobel Prize recipient (1983).
 * Johnnie Mortimer, 61, English scriptwriter.
 * Baltasar Sangchili, 80, Spanish boxer.
 * Bert Zagers, 59, American gridiron football player.

3

 * César Bengzon, 96, Filipino judge, Chief Justice of the Philippines (1961–1966).
 * Bruno Bjelinski, 82, Croatian composer.
 * Sherm Chavoor, 72-73, American swimming coach.
 * Mahmoud Hessaby, 89, Iranian nuclear physicist and politician.
 * Eli Mandel, 69, Canadian poet.
 * P. Neelakantan, 75, Indian Tamil film director.
 * Sirimathi Rasadari, 60, Sri Lankan actress.
 * Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., 81, American civil rights and civil liberties lawyer.

4

 * Luis Cardoza y Aragón, 88, Guatemalan writer and diplomat.
 * Dan Deșliu, 65, Romanian poet, drowned.
 * Greg J. Holbrock, 86, American politician attorney and politician.
 * Fakhraddin Najafov, 24, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * M. B. Ramachandra Rao, 86, Indian geophysicist.
 * John van Dreelen, 70, Dutch actor.

5

 * Ng Liang Chiang, 71, Singaporean hurdler.
 * Ron Davis, 50, American baseball player.
 * Billy Herman, 83, American baseball player, cancer.
 * Irving Allen Lee, 43, American actor (The Edge of Night), AIDS.
 * Fritz Leiber, 81, American author (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser), stroke.
 * Yasuji Mori, 67, Japanese animator.
 * László Rajcsányi, 85, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.
 * Albert Rees, 71, American economist.
 * Hal Russell, 66, American free jazz composer, band leader and multi-instrumentalist.
 * Jens Arup Seip, 86, Norwegian historian.
 * Christopher Trace, 59, English actor and television presenter (Blue Peter), cancer.
 * Zhou Wennan, 82, Chinese revolutionary and judge.
 * Hans-Peter Zimmer, 55, German artist.

6

 * Ronnie Cahill, 77, American gridiron football player.
 * Henry Ephron, 81, American screenwriter (Captain Newman, M.D., Carousel, Desk Set).
 * Pat Harder, 70, American gridiron football player.
 * Mervyn Johns, 93, Welsh actor.
 * Ponjikara Raphi, 68, Indian Malayalam essayist, playwright, and novelist.
 * John Sutton, 73, English geologist.

7

 * Levan Abashidze, 29, Georgian actor and soldier, killed in battle.
 * Cyril Bence, 89, Welsh toolmaker and politician.
 * Arturo Dominici, 76, Italian actor.
 * Gerald Hanley, 76, Irish novelist.
 * Edward Kobyliński, 84, Polish rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Emilio Villalba Welsh, 86, Argentine screenwriter.

8

 * William Barrett, 79, American academic.
 * Quentin N. Burdick, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1960), heart failure.
 * Guy Grantham, 92, British naval officer.
 * Donald Guthrie, 76, British theologian and New Testament scholar.
 * Hans-Otto Meissner, 83, German lawyer and nazi diplomat.

9

 * Maurice Burton, 94, British zoologist and science author.
 * Julian Creus, 75, British weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
 * William E. DePuy, 72, American Army general.
 * Carmelo Di Bella, 71, Italian football player.
 * Willie Fennell, 72, Australian actor, comedian and scriptwriter.
 * Imre König, 91, Hungarian-British chess master.

10

 * Louis Baes, 93, Belgian football player.
 * Harold L. Humes, 66, American novelist and counterculture figure.
 * Hanns Scharff, 84, German Luftwaffe interrogator.
 * Ivar Sjölin, 73, Swedish freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist.
 * Evelyn Wellings, 83, Egyptian-English cricket player and journalist.

11

 * Else Germeten, 74, Norwegian film censor and politician.
 * Abubakar Gumi, 69, Nigerian Islamic scholar, leukemia.
 * Eiji Gō, 55, Japanese actor.
 * Frank McKinney, 53, American Olympic swimmer (1956, 1960), plane crash.
 * Frank Singuineau, 79, Trinidadian actor.

12

 * Mary Wells Ashworth, 89, American historian, aortic rupture.
 * Hans F. Koenekamp, 100, American special effects artist and cinematographer.
 * Mallikarjun Mansur, 81, Indian classical singer.
 * Ruth Nelson, 87, American actress (3 Women, The Late Show, Awakenings), cancer.
 * Ed Peck, 75, American actor (Happy Days, Bullitt, Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers), heart attack.
 * Anthony Perkins, 60, American actor (Psycho, Friendly Persuasion, The Black Hole), AIDS.
 * Emilio Recoba, 87, Uruguayan footballer.
 * Ron Woodroof, 42, American entrepreneur and creator of the Dallas Buyer's Club, AIDS-related pneumonia.

13

 * Dick Huffman, 69, American gridiron football player.
 * Lou Jacobs, 89, German-American clown.
 * Božidar Rašica, 79, Croatian architect, scenographer and painter.
 * Arseny Semionov, 81, Soviet painter and art teacher.

14

 * Somapala Dharmapriya, 51, Sri Lankan actor and cinematographer.
 * Ilse Dörffeldt, 80, German sprinter and Olympian.
 * Bruce Hutchison, 91, Canadian writer and journalist.
 * August Komendant, 85, Estonian-American structural engineer.
 * Paul Joseph James Martin, 89, Canadian politician.
 * Theodore S. Weiss, 64, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1977), heart failure.

15

 * Pedro Formental, 77, Cuban-American baseball player.
 * Harvey Hardy, 69, American gridiron football player.
 * Walter B. Jones, Sr., 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1966).
 * Michael Luciano, 83, American film editor (The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard, The Flight of the Phoenix).
 * Shubbo Shankar, 50, Indian graphic artist, musician and composer, pneumonia.

16

 * Larbi Benbarek, 75, French-Moroccan football player.
 * Millicent Fenwick, 82, American politician, heart failure.
 * Mogens Koch, 94, Danish architect.
 * Henri Legay, 72, French operatic tenor.
 * Jim Sullivan, Northern Irish politician and republican.
 * Victoria Wolf, 88, German-American writer.

17

 * Homayoun Ardalan, 42, Iranian Kurd politician, assassinated.
 * Feodor Chaliapin Jr., 86, Russian-Italian actor.
 * Herivelto Martins, 80, Brazilian composer and singer.
 * Ralph Schwarz, 25, Dutch rower and Olympian, plane crash.
 * Sadegh Sharafkandi, 54, Iranian Kurd politician, assassinated.
 * Judith Nisse Shklar, 63, Latvian-American political theorist.
 * Roger Wagner, 78, American musician.

18

 * Lona Andre, 77, American actress.
 * David Bodian, 82, American medical scientist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Darío Cabanelas, 75, Spanish Arabist.
 * Princess Margaret of Denmark, 97, Danish royal.
 * Kevin Hanrahan, 39, American mobster (Patriarca crime family), shot.
 * Mohammad Hidayatullah, 86, Indian lawyer and Chief Justice.
 * Gustav Lombard, 97, German SS general during World War II.
 * Werner E. Reichardt, 68, German physicist and biologist.
 * Herbert W. Spencer, 87, Chilean-American film and television composer and orchestrator.
 * Earl Van Dyke, 62, American soul musician, prostate cancer.

19

 * Fritz Bauer, 86, German coxswain and Olympic champion.
 * Frederick Combs, 56, American actor (The Boys in the Band), AIDS.
 * Geraint Evans, 70, Welsh opera singer.
 * Kenny Howard, 63, American motorcycle mechanic, artist, and gunsmith.
 * Aida Imanguliyeva, 52, Azerbaijani scholar, cancer.
 * Jacques Pic, 59, French chef, heart attack.
 * Keith Stackpole, 76, Australian football player.
 * Alexander Trojan, 78, Austrian film actor.

20

 * Musa Anter, 72, Turkish Kurd writer, journalist and intellectual, assassinated.
 * Leon O. Jacobson, 80, American physician, medical researcher and educator.
 * Reuben Kadish, 79, American visual artist.
 * Harry Smyth, 82, Canadian speed skater and Olympian.
 * William L. Springer, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1973).

21

 * Aleksandr Almetov, 52, Russian ice hockey player, pneumonia.
 * Tarachand Barjatya, 78, Indian film producer.
 * Paul de Metternich-Winneburg, 75, German-Austrian racing driver.
 * Harry J. Sonneborn, 77, American businessman and first president of McDonald's, diabetes.
 * Bill Williams, 77, American actor (The Adventures of Kit Carson), brain tumor, brain cancer.

22

 * Candido Amantini, 78, Italian Roman Catholic priest, theologian and exorcist.
 * Paul Bucy, 87, American neurosurgeon.
 * James Demouchette, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Aurelio López, 44, Mexican baseball player, traffic collision.
 * Aruna Shanthi, 66, Sri Lankan actor.

23

 * Frank P. Briggs, 98, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1945–1947).
 * Paul E. Garber, 93, American museum curator.
 * Ivar Ivask, 64, Estonian poet.
 * Mary Santpere, 79, Spanish actress.
 * Kalyan Sundaram, 88, Indian civil servant.
 * Glendon Swarthout, 74, American novelist, pulmonary emphysema.
 * James A. Van Fleet, 100, American Army general.

24

 * Christiane Barry, 74, French actress.
 * Roy Heffernan, 67, Australian professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * Pietro Magni, 73, Italian football player and manager.
 * Sarv Mittra Sikri, 84, Indian judge and Chief Justice.
 * Brownie Wise, 79, American pioneering saleswoman (Tupperware).

25

 * Igor Bakalov, 52, Soviet sports shooter and Olympian.
 * Tibor Kemény, 79, Hungarian football player and coach.
 * César Manrique, 73, Spanish artist, traffic collision.
 * Ivan Vdović, 31, Serbian drummer, AIDS.

26

 * Suimenkul Chokmorov, 52, Soviet-Kyrgyz film actor.
 * Ralph Davis, 70, American football player.
 * Pancrazio De Pasquale, 67, Italian politician.
 * Erich Krempel, 79, German Olympic sport shooter (1936).
 * Luka Lipošinović, 59, Yugoslavian football player.
 * Ralph Manheim, 85, American translator, prostate cancer.
 * Frank Patrick, 76, American gridiron football player.
 * Oiva Virtanen, 63, Finnish basketball player.
 * Aleksandr Voronin, 41, Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion, fall.

27

 * H. E. P. de Mel, 85, Sri Lankan politician, member of parliament of Ceylon.
 * Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, 94, Canadian diplomat, academic, and civil servant.
 * Charles Kramer, 85, American economist.
 * Zhang Leping, 81, Chinese comic artist.
 * Jacques-Paul Martin, 84, French Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Brian Mock, 45, American murder victim
 * Hermann Neuberger, 72, German football official.
 * Keith Prentice, 52, American actor (The Boys in the Band, Dark Shadows, Cruising), AIDS-related cancer.

28

 * António Rodrigo Pinto da Silva, 80, Portuguese botanist and taxonomist.
 * William Douglas-Home, 80, British playwright.
 * John Leech, 66, British mathematician.
 * Olli Lehtinen, 77, Finnish Olympic boxer (1948).
 * Johanna Piesch, 94, Austrian mathematician.
 * Hu Qiaomu, 80, Chinese sociologist, marxist philosopher and politician.

29

 * Jean Aurenche, 89, French screenwriter.
 * Paul Jabara, 44, American songwriter ("Last Dance", "It's Raining Men"), AIDS.
 * Bill Rowe, 61, English sound engineer (The Last Emperor, The Killing Fields, Batman), Oscar winner (1988).
 * Kálmán Szepesi, 62, Hungarian table tennis player.

30

 * Nate Borden, 60, American gridiron football player, cancer.
 * Robert Joel, 48, American actor (A Very Natural Thing), AIDS.
 * Erwin Klein, 53, American table tennis player, shot.
 * Maria Malicka, 94, Polish stage and film actress.