Deaths in August 1992

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

August 1992

1

• Margarita Aliger, 76, Russian writer.
• Alfred "Chico" Alvarez, 72, Canadian trumpeter.
• Bob Peak, 65, American illustrator.
• Eivind Rekustad, 43, Norwegian weightlifter and Olympian.
• Aleksey Konstantinovich Ryazanov, 72, Soviet flying ace and war hero during World War II.

2

• Michel Berger, 44, French singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Tom W. Blackburn, 79, American author, screenwriter and lyricist.
• Alf Cleverley, 84, New Zealand boxer and Olympian.
• Oscar Hagberg, 83, American football player and coach.
• Ephraim Katz, 60, Israeli-American filmmaker and writer, emphysema.
• Igor Vladimirovich Makeyev, 20, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Thomas Brennan Nolan, 91, American geologist.
• John Simerson, 57, American gridiron football player.
• Jim Weatherall, 62, American football player.

3

• Ebbe Carlsson, 44, Swedish journalist and publisher, AIDS-related complications.
• Fereydoun Farrokhzad, 53, Iranian entertainer, humanitarian, and dissident, murdered.
• Bror Hellström, 77, Swedish Olympic runner.
• Wang Hongwen, 56, Chinese politician, liver cancer.
• Don Lang, 67, English trombonist and singer, cancer.
• E. Hansford McCourt, 83, American politician.
• Nicanor Costa Méndez, 69, Argentine diplomat.
• Tetsu Nakamura, 83, Japanese film actor and opera singer.
• Eddie Riska, 72, American basketball player.

4

• Ralph Cooper, 84, American actor and screenwriter, cancer.
• Norm King, 73, Australian politician.
• Sam Loucks, 77, American basketball player.
• Seichō Matsumoto, 82, Japanese author.
• František Tomášek, 93, Czech Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Buzz Trebotich, 71, American football player.

5

• Juan David García Bacca, 91, Spanish-Venezuelan philosopher.
• Tante Leen, 80, Dutch levenslied singer.
• Jim Marquis, 91, American baseball player.
• Robert Muldoon, 70, New Zealand politician, prime minister.
• Achyut Patwardhan, 87, Indian independence activist and politician.
• Jeff Porcaro, 38, American drummer, heart attack.
• Bhagat Puran Singh, 88, Indian writer, environmentalist, and philanthropist.
• Lefty Wilkie, 77, Canadian-American baseball player.

6

• Beyler Agayev, 23, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Leszek Błażyński, 43, Polish Olympic boxer, suicide.
• Heinrich Eckstein, 85, German politician.
• Frank Jerwa, 83, Polish-Canadian ice hockey left winger.
• Zakir Majidov, 36, Azerbaijani soldier, helicopter crash.
• Ruslan Polovinko, 22, Ukrainian-Azerbaijani helicopter pilot, helicopter crash.
• Javanshir Rahimov, 19, Azerbaijani soldier, helicopter crash.
• Mazahir Rustamov, 32, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Massimo Salvadori, 84, British-Italian historian and anti-fascist.

7

• Alakbar Aliyev, 36, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• John Anderson, 69, American actor, heart attack.
• Aslan Qabil oğlu Atakişiyev, 38, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action.
• Pablo Cumo, 94, Argentine actor.
• Mariusz Dmochowski, 61, Polish actor.
• Chris Lamborn, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Moma Marković, 79, Serbian communist politician.
• Francisco Fernández Ordóñez, 62, Spanish politician, cancer.
• Bill Ripper, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Sándor Szabó, 51, Hungarian fencer and Olympian.
• Berthold Teusner, 85, Australian politician.

8

• Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, 92, Iranian Marja'.
• Ivan Anikeyev, 59, Soviet cosmonaut, cancer.
• Alison Gertz, 26, American AIDS activist, AIDS.
• Mohan Jayamaha, 43, Sri Lankan naval admiral, landmine explosion.
• Denzil Kobbekaduwa, 52, Sri Lankan lieutenant general, landmine explosion.
• John Kordic, 27, Canadian ice hockey player, drug overdose.
• Egisto Macchi, 64, Italian composer.
• Thomas J. McIntyre, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate.
• Bertalan Papp, 78, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
• Vijaya Wimalaratne, 51, Sri Lankan general, landmine explosion.

9

• Sukhdev Singh Babbar, 37, Indian Sikh militant, shot.
• Francisco Carrere, 79, Argentine Olympic equestrian.
• Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin, 86, British judge.
• Manuel Ulloa Elias, 69, Peruvian politician and economist.
• Blaž Kraljević, 44, Bosnian soldier, shot.
• David Llewellyn, 76, British politician and junior minister.
• Bill Russell, 87, American composer.
• Frederick Shick, 78, American Olympic sailor.
• H. W. Whillock, 88, American politician.

10

• Shimon Agranat, 85, Israeli jurist.
• Aribert Heim, 78, Austrian SS doctor and war criminal during World War II, colorectal cancer.
• Kurt A. Körber, 82, German businessman.
• Joe Krejci, 86, American football player.
• Paride Romagnoli, 83, Italian Olympic wrestler.
• Adrienne J. Smith, 58, American psychologist, cancer.
• S. P. P. Thorat, 85, Indian Army officer.

11

• James R. Allen, 66, United States Air Force general, cancer.
• Dorsey B. Hardeman, 89, American politician.
• Mario Nigro, 75, Italian painter.
• Bernard Ramm, 76, Canadian theologian.

12

• Eduardo Anguita, 77, Chilean poet.
• John Cage, 79, American composer, stroke.
• Paolo Caccia Dominioni, 96, Italian soldier and resistance fighter during World War II.
• Kenji Nakagami, 46, Japanese novelist and essayist, kidney cancer.
• James Ellsworth Noland, 72, American judge and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• James W. Payne, 62, American set decorator, Oscar winner.
• Patricia Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere, 63, English actress and socialite, heart attack.
• Henry A. Schade, 91, American Navy officer and naval architect.

13

• Clifford Allison, 27, American racing driver, racing crash.
• Bets Dekens, 85, Dutch Olympic discus thrower.
• Jan Elburg, 72, Dutch poet.
• David Kaplan, 44-45, American journalist and news producer, shot.

14

• Harry Allen, 80, English executioner.
• Deane Kincaide, 81, American jazz musician.
• Marcel Le Glay, 72, French historian and archaeologist.
• Masinde Muliro, 70, Kenyan politician.
• Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips, 82, British politician.
• Senthamarai, 57, Indian actor.
• John Sirica, 88, American judge, cardiac arrest.
• Tony Williams, 64, American singer, emphysema.

15

• Jackie Edwards, 53-54, Jamaican musician, heart attack.
• Oran Frazier, 83, American baseball player.
• Linda Laubenstein, 45, American physician, heart attack.
• Ron Malo, 56, American audio engineer.
• Michel Medinger Sr., 83, Luxembourgian Olympic long-distance runner.
• Giorgio Perlasca, 82, Italian businessman and anti-fascist, heart attack.

16

• Malcolm Atterbury, 85, American actor.
• Ida Degrande, 82, Belgian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Jean Fidon, 86, French footballer.
• Mark Heard, 40, American musician, cardiac arrest.
• Robert E. Miles, 67, American white supremacist theologist religious leader.
• Yvonne Simon, 81, French racing driver.
• Karl Storch, 78, German hammer thrower and Olympic medalist.
• Antoni Wieczorek, 68, Polish ski jumper and Olympian, traffic collision.

17

• Jéhan Le Roy, 68, French Olympic equestrian.
• Barbara Morgan, 92, American photographer.
• John Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel, 86, British politician.
• Stretch Murphy, 85, American Hall of Fame basketball player.
• Tom Nolan, 71, Irish politician.
• Tommy Nutter, 49, British fashion designer, AIDS.
• Al Parker, 40, American pornographic actor, producer, and director, AIDS-related complications.
• Tecla San Andres Ziga, 85, Filipino politician.
• Stanley Woodward, 93, American envoy and ambassador.

18

• Lachlan Cameron, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Simon Hartog, 52, British filmmaker, leukaemia.
• Aatos Hirvisalo, 76, Finnish Olympic sailor.
• Chris McCandless, 24, American adventurer, starvation, poisoning.
• Sixten Ringbom, 57, Finnish art historian.
• John Sturges, 82, American film director, heart attack, heart failure.

19

• Jean Accart, 80, French flying ace during World War II.
• Clyde D. Eddleman, 90, American general.
• Jean-Albert Grégoire, 93, French racing driver and engineer.
• Jean Hubeau, 75, French pianist, composer and pedagogue.
• Drahomír Koudelka, 46, Czech Olympic volleyball player.
• Norvel Lee, 67, American Olympic boxer, pancreatic cancer.
• George McIlraith, 84, Canadian politician.
• Carsten Winger, 85, Norwegian actor.

20

• Eliezer Berkovits, 83, Romanian-American theologian and rabbi.
• Walter Grabmann, 86, German flying ace during World War II.
• Walter Lincoln Hawkins, 81, American chemist and engineer.
• Alex McKenzie, 95, New Zealand sharebroker and politician.
• Jack Nuttall, 63, Australian rules footballer.
• Liu Zhen, 77, Chinese general.

21

• Theodor Berger, 87, Austrian composer.
• Henning Jensen, 82, Danish footballer.
• Harry Kaskey, 90, American Olympic speed skater.
• Isidro Lángara, 80, Spanish football player.
• Arturo Martínez, 74, Mexican film actor and director.
• Zühtü Müridoğlu, 86, Turkish sculptor.
• Dai Vernon, 98, Canadian magician.
• Mike Wise, 28, American gridiron football player, suicide.

22

• Mark E. Andrews, 88, American oil executive, complications following a stroke.
• Hedley Blackmore, 91, Australian rules footballer.
• Hallowell Davis, 95, American physiologist and otolaryngologist.
• Paul A. Dodd, 90, American educator and economist.
• Flit Holliday, 78, American baseball player.
• Gerald Ketchum, 83, American naval officer.
• Ljubomir Kokeza, 72, Croatian football player.
• Ruslan Muradov, 19, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.

23

• David Hallifax, 64, British naval officer, ALS.
• Joe Marconi, 58, American gridiron football player, leukemia.
• Charles August Nichols, 81, American animator and film director.
• Ricardo Romero, 93, Chilean Olympic fencer.
• Cyril Rushton, 69, Australian politician.
• Virginia Sale, 93, American actress, heart failure.
• Donald Stewart, 71, Scottish politician.
• Lee Tevis, 71, American football player.
• N. Veeraswamy, 60, Indian film producer.
• Alf Watson, 85, Australian track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Jim Young, 76, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player.

24

• Bekor Ashot, 32, Armenian military leader, killed in battle.
• André Donner, 74, Dutch jurist.
• Gordon Goldsmith, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• George Jones, 95, Australian Air Force commander.
• Margie Liszt, 83, American actress, cancer.
• Larrie Londin, 48, American drummer, heart attack.
• Andrei Lupan, 80, Moldovan writer and politician.
• Yunis Najafov, 24, Azerbaijan soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Tommy Pratt, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• Lazăr Sfera, 83, Romanian football player.

25

• Neil Stanley Crawford, 61, Canadian politician and jazz musician, ALS.
• George R. Nelson, 65, American set decorator, Oscar winner.
• Frederick O'Neal, 86, American actor and television director.
• Veikko Peräsalo, 80, Finnish Olympic high jumper.
• Cyril Stanley Smith, 88, British metallurgist and historian of science, cancer.

26

• Ray Adams, 79, American basketball player.
• Arthur Leigh Allen, 58, prime suspect in the Zodiac killings.
• Sammy Benskin, 69, American pianist.
• Bob de Moor, 66, Belgian comic artist.
• Nguyen Thi Dinh, 72, Vietnamese Army general and Vice President.
• Daniel Gorenstein, 69, American mathematician.
• Don Reece, 72, American football player.
• Sammy Timberg, 89, American musician and composer.

27

• Sovqiyar Abdullayev, 23, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Rune Andersson, 73, Swedish Olympic sports shooter.
• Bengt Holbek, 59, Danish folklorist.
• Gonzalo Jiménez, 90, Spanish Olympic water polo player.
• Peter Jørgensen, 85, Danish boxer and Olympic medalist.
• George H. Kerr, 80, American diplomat.
• Daniel K. Ludwig, 95, American shipping businessman.
• Hélène Perdrière, 80, French stage and film actress.
• Max Stiepl, 78, Austrian Olympic speed skater.

28

• Otar Dadunashvili, 64, Soviet and Georgian cyclist and Olympian.
• Tom Drake-Brockman, 73, Australian politician.
• Danny Guinane, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Bedwyr Lewis Jones, 59, Welsh scholar, literary critic and linguist.
• Asri Muda, 68, Malaysian politician.
• Basil Smith, 90, Australian rules footballer.
• Tan Qixiang, 81, Chinese geographer and historian.

29

• Andy Gilbert, 78, American baseball player.
• Félix Guattari, 62, French psychoanalyst and philosopher, heart attack.
• Ian Hamilton, 85, New Zealand cricketer.
• Heini Hediger, 83, Swiss biologist.
• John Janisch, 72, American basketball player.
• Laurie King, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Lou Midler, 77, American football player.
• Mary Norton, 88, English writer.
• Erling Petersen, 86, Norwegian politician.
• Jo Ann Robinson, 80, American civil rights activist.
• Henricus Rol, 86, Dutch painter.
• Victor H. Schiro, 88, American politician.
• Iuliu Szöcs, 54, Romanian Olympic volleyball player.
• Teddy Turner, 75, English actor, emphysema.
• Weng Weng, 34, Filipino actor, heart attack.

30

• Claude Barma, 73, French director and screenwriter.
• Karl Bricker, 68, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier.
• Hideo Gosha, 63, Japanese film director.
• Ernst Ihbe, 78, German cyclist and Olympic champion.
• Margit Kövessi, 84, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
• Rubén Uriza, 73, Mexican show jumper and Olympic champion.

31

• Matlab Guliyev, 33, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Wolfgang Güllich, 31, German rock climber, traffic collision.
• Cletus F. O'Donnell, 75, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• John Salathé, 93, Swiss-American rock climber.
• George Leonard Trager, 86, American linguist.
• Charles L. Weltner, 64, American jurist and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Hans Wimmer, 85, German sculptor.