Deaths in April 1992

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

April 1992

1

• Robert Edward Bell, 73, Canadian nuclear physicist and academic.
• Carl E. Duckett, 69, American intelligence operative, lung cancer.
• Frank Glennon, 73, Irish Olympic footballer.
• Michael Havers, Baron Havers, 69, British barrister and politician.
• Seymour Mamedov, 20, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Audrey Peppe, 74, American figure skater and Olympian.
• Nigel Preston, 28, English drummer, drug overdose.
• Walter Andreas Schwarz, 78, German singer.
• Konstantin Sergeyev, 82, Russian danseur, artistic director and choreographer.
• Edward Smouha, 82, British track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

2

• Nugzar Asatiani, 54, Soviet Olympic fencer.
• Juanito, 37, Spanish footballer and Olympian, traffic collision.
• Hjalmar Karlsson, 86, Swedish Olympic sailor.
• Paula Kelly, 72, American singer.
• Gabriel Tiacoh, 28, Ivorian sprinter and Olympic medalist, meningitis.
• Tomisaburō Wakayama, 62, Japanese actor, heart failure.
• Dib Williams, 82, American baseball player.

3

• Aaron Bohrod, 84, American painter, liver cancer.
• Nie Fengzhi, 79, Chinese Army Lieutenant general.
• Juan García Hortelano, 64, Spanish writer, poet and literary critic, lung cancer.
• Ivan Rukavina, 80, Yugoslav Army general and politician.
• Karl Tunberg, 85, American screenwriter.

4

• Wayne Athorne, 50, Australian rules footballer and decathlete.
• Vincenzo Bertolotto, 79, Italian rugby player.
• Albrecht Fleckenstein, 74, German pharmacologist and physiologist.
• Henry Groves, 95, English cricketer and British Army officer.
• Vintilă Horia, 76, Romanian writer.
• Salgueiro Maia, 47, Portuguese Army officer, cancer.
• Rixi Markus, 81, Austrian-British contract bridge player.
• Samuel Reshevsky, 80, Polish-American chess player.
• Arthur Russell, 40, American musician, AIDS.

5

• Daniel Campbell, 66, Canadian politician.
• Takeshi Inoue, 63, Japanese footballer.
• Molly Picon, 94, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Modjeska Monteith Simkins, 92, American social rights and civil rights activist.
• Sam Walton, 74, American businessman, founder of Walmart, multiple myeloma.

6

• Isaac Asimov, 72, Russian-American science fiction author, heart failure.
• Patrick Desmond Callaghan, 65, Pakistani air officer.
• Edith Katherine Cash, 101, American mycologist and lichenologist.
• Vakhtang Chabukiani, 82, Soviet ballet dancer.
• Donald Harding, 43, American murderer, execution by gas chamber.
• Peter Hayman, 77, British diplomat and intelligence operative.
• Geoffrey Holden, 75, British painter.
• Herman Francis Mark, 96, Austrian-American chemist.
• Edward S. Montgomery, 81, American journalist, pneumonia.
• Jim Pomeroy, 47, American artist.
• Erling Wikborg, 97, Norwegian politician.

7

• Ace Bailey, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Horst Niemack, 83, German general during World War II.
• Clovis Ruffin, 46, American fashion designer, complication from AIDS.
• Alix Talton, 71, American actress, lung cancer.
• Antonis Tritsis, 55, Greek politician and urban planner.
• Frank Walsh, 89, American golfer.

8

• Bob Allen, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Daniel Bovet, 85, Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize recipient, cancer.
• John Cherberg, 81, American football coach and politician.
• Roberto Curcio, 79, Italian Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Ronald Eyre, 62, English theatre director.
• Lewis Germaine, 57, Australian cricketer.
• Käte Hamburger, 95, German Germanist, literary scholar and philosopher.
• Frédéric du Hen, 88, Dutch Olympic middle distance runner.
• Nelson Olmsted, 78, American actor.
• Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson, 85, Canadian mathematician.
• Sam Rosen, 70, American comic book artist and letterer.

9

• Charles Ginsburg, 71, American engineer and inventor of the videotape recorder, pneumonia.
• John Kissell, 68, American gridiron football player.
• Ivan Lund, 62, Australian Olympic fencer.
• Gale W. McGee, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate.
• Theodor Schieffer, 81, German historian.
• Alfred Szklarski, 80, Polish author.
• Erik Werba, 73, Austrian classical pianist.

10

• Charles Mitchill Bogert, 83, American herpetologist and museum curator.
• Hermann Eppenhoff, 72, German football player and manager.
• Şahlar Hüseynov, 23, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• János Kajdi, 52, Hungarian boxer and Olympian, traffic collision.
• Sam Kinison, 38, American comedian and actor, traffic collision.
• Cec Linder, 71, Polish-Canadian actor, pulmonary emphysema.
• Peter D. Mitchell, 71, English biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient.
• William Paling, 99, British politician.

11

• James Brown, 72, American actor, lung cancer.
• Adele Dixon, 83, English actress and singer, pneumonia.
• Heinrich Lausberg, 79, German linguist.
• Frank Maher, 73, American gridiron football player.
• Eve Merriam, 75, American poet, liver cancer.
• Fakhraddin Musayev, 34, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Alejandro Obregón, 71, Colombian artist.
• Gerard Tichy, 72, German-Spanish actor.
• Josip Vidmar, 96, Slovenian literary critic, essayist, and politician.
• Doc Williams, 93, American football player.

12

• Ilario Bandini, 80, Italian racing driver and racing car manufacturer.
• Makineni Basavapunnaiah, 77, Indian politician.
• Betty Bays, 61, American baseball player.
• Rie Beisenherz, 90, Dutch Olympic swimmer.
• Ettore Gracis, 76, Italian conductor.
• Georg Haentzschel, 84, German pianist, broadcaster, composer and arranger.
• Gunter Jahn, 81, German U-boat commander during World War II.
• Deane Keller, 90, American artist and academic.
• Jean Émile Reymond, 79, Monegasque politician.
• Robert L. Wheeler, 71, American trainer of thoroughbred racehorses.

13

• John Bruno, 27, American gridiron football player, skin cancer.
• Pierre Deniger, 44, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Lance Dobson, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Charles Patrick Fitzgerald, 90, British historian and writer.
• Eddie Fontaine, 65, American actor and singer, esophageal cancer.
• Feza Gürsey, 71, Turkish physicist, prostate cancer.
• Brian Oulton, 84, English actor.
• Daniel Pollock, 23, Australian film actor, suicide.
• Ray Roberts, 79, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Maurice Sauvé, 68, Canadian politician.
• Firudin Shamoyev, 30, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action
• Steve Shemo, 77, American baseball player.
• Stuart Surridge, 74, English cricketer.
• Pierre Toulgouat, 90, French sculptor.
• Martin T. Williams, 67, American music critic and writer.

14

• Horacio Martínez, 79, Dominican baseball player.
• David Miller, 82, American film director, cancer.
• Artur Mkrtchyan, 33, Nagorno-Karabakh politician, shot.
• Marshall D. Moran, 85, American Jesuit priest and missionary.
• Valeh Muslumov, 23, Azerbaijan soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Sammy Price, 83, American pianist, heart attack.

15

• Otis Barton, 92, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor.
• David Bosch, 62, South African missiologist and theologian, traffic collision.
• William Bridges-Maxwell, 62, Australian politician.
• Howard Sylvester Ellis, 93, American economist.
• Hans Maass, 80, German mathematician.
• Frank Richards, 82, American actor.
• Aleksandr Sevidov, 70, Soviet football coach and player, cancer.
• Héctor Trejo, 72, Chilean footballer.
• Ralph Weigel, 70, American baseball player.
• James Zumberge, 68, American geologist and academic.

16

• Gilbert Alsop, 83, English footballer.
• Neville Brand, 71, American actor, emphysema.
• James Gallagher, 82, American soccer player and Olympian.
• Wojciech Kubik, 39, Polish Olympic luger.
• Ivan McAlpine, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Andy Russell, 72, American singer, complications from a stroke.
• Sisto Scilligo, 80, Italian Alpini soldier and skier.
• Fred Shook, 73, American football player.
• Bhalindra Singh, 72, Indian cricket player.

17

• Maurice Buckmaster, 90, British Special Operations Executive operative.
• Arthur Calder-Marshall, 83, English novelist, essayist, and biographer.
• Arkady Chernyshev, 78, Soviet ice hockey, soccer and bandy player.
• John DeVries, 76, American lyricist, interior designer and illustrator, complications after surgery.
• Skeets Herfurt, 80, American jazz musician.
• Hank Penny, 73, American musician.

18

• H. V. Kershaw, 73, British television scriptwriter and producer.
• Pat Thomson, 51, English-Australian actress, aneurysm.
• John Thorp, 79, American aeronautical engineer.
• Paul Zaeske, 46, American gridiron football player.

19

• Pierre Descamps, 75, Belgian politician.
• Frankie Howerd, 75, English actor and comedian, heart failure.
• Batia Lishansky, 92, Russian-Israeli sculptor.
• C. C. Too, 72, Malaysian diplomat.

20

• Marcel Albers, 24, Dutch racing driver, racing accident.
• Pat Creeden, 85, American baseball player.
• Marjorie Gestring, 69, American Olympic diver.
• Orval Grove, 72, American baseball player.
• Benny Hill, 68, English comedian and actor, coronary thrombosis.
• Jimmy Lennon, 79, American boxing and professional wrestling announcer.
• Peter Murray, 72, British art historian and academic.
• Johnny Shines, 76, American musician, stroke.
• Larry St. Thomas, 73, American baseball player.
• Llewellyn Thomas, 88, British physicist and mathematician.
• Gian Carlo Wick, 82, Italian theoretical physicist.

21

• Mel Branch, 55, American gridiron football player.
• Louis Diercxsens, 93, Belgian Olympic field hockey player.
• Gerald Feinberg, 58, American physicist.
• Robert Alton Harris, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by gas chamber.
• Väinö Linna, 71, Finnish author, cancer.
• Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, 74, Russian monarch and head of the Imperial Family.
• Ioan Totu, 60, Romanian politician.
• Nigel Williams, 47, English conservator, heart attack.
• Ernest Yust, 64, Soviet-Hungarian footballer and coach.

22

• Steffi Duna, 82, Hungarian-American film actress.
• Pat Hills, 74, Australian politician.
• Kang Keqing, 80, Chinese politician.
• Harsono Tjokroaminoto, 79, Indonesian political figure.

23

• Tanka Prasad Acharya, 80, Nepali politician, prime minister, kidney disease.
• Nils Åkerlindh, 79, Swedish Olympic wrestler.
• Ronnie Bucknum, 56, American race car driver, diabetes.
• Deron Johnson, 53, American baseball player, cancer.
• Hilda Kuper, 80, Rhodesian social anthropologist and writer.
• Satyajit Ray, 70, Indian filmmaker, heart failure.
• Omar Shendi, 76-77, Egyptian footballer and Olympian.
• Eva Smits, 85, Dutch Olympic swimmer.
• Michael Wagner, 44, American television writer and producer, brain cancer.
• Bror Östman, 63, Swedish ski jumper and Olympian.

24

• Valdemārs Baumanis, 87, Latvian basketball player.
• Elio Chacón, 55, American baseball player.
• Samuel L. Greenberg, 93, American politician.
• Milton Rosenstock, 74, American conductor, composer, and arranger.

25

• Ernesto Balducci, 69, Italian Catholic priest and peace activist, traffic collision.
• Percy Ellis, 85, Australian sportsman.
• Bob Hazle, 61, American baseball player.
• Brian MacLeod, 39, Canadian musician, brain cancer.
• George Mantello, 90, Hungarian diplomat and anti-fascist.
• Alfonso Flórez Ortiz, 39, Colombian racing cyclist, murdered.
• Yutaka Ozaki, 26, Japanese musician, pulmonary edema.
• Lin Richards, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Danny Tuijnman, 77, Dutch politician.

26

• Livio Abramo, 88, Brazilian-Paraguayan visual artist.
• Julian Amyes, 74, British film director and producer.
• Jack Dunphy, 77, American novelist and playwright.
• Edgar Lewis, 90, Australian politician.
• Genowefa Minicka, 65, Polish Olympic sprinter.
• Humberto Selvetti, 60, Argentine Olympic weightlifter.
• Alberta Vaughn, 87, American actress, cancer.

27

• Sol K. Bright Sr., 82-83, American musician.
• Harlond Clift, 79, American baseball player
• Olivier Messiaen, 83, French composer and ornithologist.
• Gerard K. O'Neill, 65, American physicist and space activist, leukemia.
• Jack Pritchard, 93, British entrepreneur.
• James Maude Richards, 84, British architectural writer.

28

• Hasan as-Senussi, 63-64, Libyan crown prince, head of the Libyan royal family.
• Francis Bacon, 82, Irish-British painter, heart attack.
• Andria Balanchivadze, 85, Georgian composer.
• François Bégeot, 84, French Olympic long-distance runner.
• Émile Carrara, 67, French road and track cyclist.
• Ryszard Ćwikła, 46, Polish Olympic alpine skier.
• V. K. Gokak, 82, Indian Kannada writer and scholar.
• Parashkev Hadjiev, 80, Bulgarian composer.
• Allan Highet, 78, New Zealand politician.
• Elfed Davies, Baron Davies of Penrhys, 78, Welsh politician.
• Brian Pockar, 32, Canadian figure skater and Olympian, AIDS-related complications.
• Iceberg Slim, 73, American novelist and pimp, liver failure.

29

• Mae Clarke, 81, American actress, cancer.
• Chandrabati Devi, 82, Indian actress.
• Ghulam Faruque, 92, Pakistani industrialist and politician.
• Stephen Oliver, 42, English composer, AIDS-related complications.

30

• Agha, 78, Indian film actor, cardiovascular disease.
• Preston Bassett, 100, American aerospace engineer.
• Otto Bräutigam, 96, German diplomat and lawyer.
• Ramiz Ganbarov, 29, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action.
• Toivo Kärki, 76, Finnish composer, musician, and music producer.
• Katsuo Osugi, 47, Japanese baseball player.