Deaths in December 1992

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

December 1992

1

• Don Allum, 55, British oarsman, first person to row across the Atlantic Ocean in both directions, heart attack.
• Magne Bleness, 59, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
• Chile Gómez, 83, Mexican-American Major League Baseball player.
• Floyd Hicks, 77, American politician and attorney, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Sam Lowry, 72, American baseball player.
• Anton Malatinský, 72, Slovak football player.
• Robert Mitchell, 81, American Olympic weightlifter.
• Packie Nelson, 85, American football player.
• Paulo Rónai, 85, Hungarian-Brazilian translator, philologist, and critic.
• Jefferson Souza, 84, Brazilian Olympic water polo player.
• D. G. M. Wood-Gush, 70, South African ethologist.

2

• Jack Caffery, 58, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jaime de la Rosa, 71, Filipino actor.
• Michael Gothard, 53, English actor, suicide by hanging.
• Pete Gross, 55, American sports announcer, cancer.
• Ralph Izzard, 82, English journalist, author, and adventurer.
• Mikhail Karyukov, 87, Soviet film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
• Frank Nash, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• Frank D. O'Connor, 82, American lawyer and politician.
• Lorne Parkin, 70, Canadian football player.

3

• Nureddin al-Atassi, 63, Syrian politician, president.
• Luis Alcoriza, 74, Mexican screenwriter and film director.
• Prayoon Chanyavongs, 77, Thai comics artist and cartoonist.
• Frank Follwell, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Charlie McInnes, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• James O'Hara, 65, Irish-American actor.
• Andrei Sepci, 81, Romanian football player.
• Frank Steele, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Clifford Walker, 73, English cricketer.
• Bill Ward, 71, American football player.

4

• Jorge Brauer, 79, Argentine Olympic sailor.
• Henry Clausen, 87, American lawyer and investigator.
• Yancho Dimitrov, 49, Bulgarian Olympic footballer.
• Alfie Ferguson, 65, British unionist politician.
• Bert James, 69, Australian rules footballer.
• Sidney Schofield, 81, British politician.

5

• Felipe Padilla de Leon, 80, Filipino composer.
• Emil Haury, 88, American archaeologist.
• Levan Maruashvili, 80, Georgian geographer and alpinist.
• Monisha, 21, Indian actress, traffic collision.
• Rakesh Singh, 22, Indian Army officer and war hero, killed in action.
• Hilary Tindall, 54, English actress, bowel cancer.
• Frank I. Wright, 71, American thoroughbred horse racing trainer and commentator.

6

• Paula Frías Allende, 29, Chilean humanitarian, complications from a medical error.
• J. Michel Fournier, 87, Canadian politician.
• Percy Herbert, 72, English actor, heart attack.
• Heorhii Maiboroda, 79, Ukrainian composer.
• Yngve Sköld, 93, Swedish composer.
• László Szabó, 84, Hungarian Olympic rower.
• Hank Worden, 91, American actor.

7

• Zoltán Adamik, 64, Hungarian Olympic sprinter.
• Alojzy Ehrlich, 77-78, Polish table tennis player.
• Richard J. Hughes, 83, American politician, and judge.
• Felix Jackson, 90, German-American screenwriter.
• Thomas Pardoe, 80, English boxer and Olympian.
• Bill Shockley, 55, American gridiron football player.
• Chancellor Williams, 98, American sociologist, historian and writer.

8

• Frederick Barkham, 87, English cricketer.
• Thoppil Bhasi, 68, Indian playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
• Helen Callaghan, 69, Canadian baseball player.
• Hugh Devore, 82, American football player.
• Armanda Guiducci, 69, Italian writer, literary critic, and Marxist feminist.
• Kathy Osterman, 49, American politician, cancer.
• Frithjof Prydz, 49, Norwegian ski jumper, tennis player and Olympian.
• Poola Tirupati Raju, 88, Indian writer, philosopher, and academic.
• Franz Sarnitz, 73, Austrian Olympic sports shooter.
• William Shawn, 85, American magazine editor.
• Edmund Zieliński, 83, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian.

9

• Carl Barger, 62, American baseball executive, aortic aneurysm.
• Eşref Bilgiç, 84, Turkish international football player and manager.
• Thomas Bottomore, 72, British marxist sociologist.
• Joe Clark, 95, Australian politician.
• Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel, 80, French diplomat.
• Franco Franchi, 64, Italian actor, comedian and singer.
• George Fraser, 81, Canadian football player.
• Vincent Gardenia, 72, Italian-American actor, Emmy winner, heart attack.
• Yahya Haqqi, 87, Egyptian novelist.
• Luisito Rey, 47, Spanish singer, pneumonia.

10

• Celia Gámez, 87, Argentinian film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Joan Gardner, 66, American voice actress, cancer
• Dan Maskell, 84, English tennis player and commentator, heart failure.
• Josephine McKim, 82, American swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder.
• John G. A. O'Neil, 55, American politician, traffic collision.
• Jacques Perret, 91, French writer.
• Babe Phelps, 84, American baseball player.
• Émile Poussard, 83, French Olympic diver.
• Bernard Reichel, 91, Swiss composer.
• Jim Reid, 79, Australian rules footballer.

11

• Billy Cook, 83, Northern Irish football player and manager.
• William Michael Cosgrove, 76, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Lon Evans, 80, American gridiron football player.
• Ronald Good, 96, British botanist.
• Andy Kirk, 94, American jazz saxophonist, tubist, and band leader, Alzheimer's disease.
• Suzanne Lilar, 91, Belgian novelist and playwright.
• William A. Redmond, 84, American politician.
• Michael Robbins, 62, English actor, prostate cancer.
• William Stevenson, 69, Canadian Olympic canoeist.

12

• Ali Amini, 87, Iranian politician, prime minister.
• Damir Anić, 48, Croatian Olympic gymnast.
• Nick Borelli, 87, American football player.
• Malachy Carey, 36, Northern Irish IRA volunteer, assassinated.
• Ghislain Delaunois, 68, Belgian Olympic fencer.
• Angelos Lambrou, 80, Greek Olympic sprinter.
• Bernard Lievegoed, 87, Dutch psychiatrist.
• Jasu Patel, 68, Indian cricket player.
• Sir Robert Rex, 83, Niuean politician, premier.
• Rube Walker, 66, American baseball player, lung cancer.

13

• Ellis Arnall, 85, American politician.
• Jens Bolling, 77, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
• Oscar Britt, 73, American gridiron football player.
• Eddie Daniels, 70, American baseball player.
• Mono Mohan Das, 82, Indian politician.
• K. C. Irving, 93, Canadian businessman.
• Luther Jeralds, 54, American football player.
• Miskow Makwarth, 87, Danish actor.
• Aleksandar Tirnanić, 82, Yugoslav football player and manager.
• Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 93, American businessman, film producer, and philanthropist.

14

• Watazumi Doso, 81, Japanese bamboo flutist.
• Kingo Machimura, 92, Japanese politician.
• William H. Oldendorf, 67, American neurologist, physician, and researcher.
• Louis Pauly, 86, French Olympic sailor.
• Severino Rigoni, 78, Italian cyclist and Olympic silver medalist.

15

• Sándor Ambrózy, 89, Hungarian sculptor.
• Sven Delblanc, 61, Swedish author and academic, cancer.
• Rosaire Gauthier, 88, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Marcel Lachmann, 84, French Olympic field hockey player.
• Yolande Laffon, 97, French actress.
• Otto Lington, 89, Danish composer, bandleader and violinist.
• Ennio Morlotti, 82, Italian painter.
• Dick Mulligan, 74, American baseball player.
• Jim Musick, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Hermann Stövesand, 86, German actor.
• William Ware Theiss, 61, American costume designer, AIDS.

16

• Erica Brausen, 84, British art dealer and gallerist.
• Monk Dorsett, 83, College football and basketball player.
• Adil Guliyev, 70, Soviet-Azerbaijani fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
• Erik Johansson, 65, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
• Anton Koolhaas, 80, Dutch journalist and writer.
• Gonzalo Rodríguez Martín-Granizo, 64, Spanish Navy admiral general.

17

• Serafima Amosova, 78, Soviet bomber commander during World War II.
• Günther Anders, 90, German philosopher.
• Dana Andrews, 83, American actor, congestive heart failure.
• Luis Child, Colombian Olympic swimmer.
• George N. Craig, 83, American politician, Governor of Indiana.
• Andrew Jacobs, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• William Knecht, 62, American competition rower and Olympic champion.
• Rinus Terlouw, 70, Dutch footballer and Olympian, Alzheimer's disease.
• Keith Wiegard, 54, Australian rules footballer and Olympic water polo player.
• Suren Yeremyan, 84, Soviet and Armenian historian and cartographer.

18

• Antonio Amurri, 67, Italian author, radio and television writer and lyricist.
• Vojin Bakić, 77, Yugoslav sculptor.
• Per Brandtmar, 74, Danish football player.
• Howard Cann, 97, American basketball player and coach.
• Mark Goodson, 77, American game show producer, pancreatic cancer.
• Clara Hale, 87, American humanitarian, complications from a stroke.
• Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov, 81, Soviet diplomat, pneumonia.

19

• Gianni Brera, 73, Italian journalist and novelist, traffic collision.
• Howard Cann, 97, American Hall of Fame basketball coach, and Olympic shot putter.
• Abraham Charnes, 75, American mathematician and economist.
• Eric Cole, 86, British Army officer and cricketer.
• Louis Ducreux, 81, French actor, screenwriter and composer.
• Vladimir Grebennikov, 60, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
• H. L. A. Hart, 85, English legal philosopher.
• Rosel H. Hyde, 92, American lawyer.
• Reggie Ingle, 89, English cricketer.

20

• A. Hamid Arief, 68, Indonesian actor.
• Peter Brocco, 89, American actor, heart attack.
• Bernard Dubourg, 47, French poet.
• Luciano Dal Falco, 67, Italian politician.
• Harald Huffmann, 84, German field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
• Steve Ross, 65, American media executive, prostate cancer.
• Walter Zadek, 92, German-Israeli photographer.

21

• Stella Adler, 91, American actress and acting teacher, heart failure.
• Sybil Andrews, 94, English-Canadian artist.
• Philip Farkas, 78, American classical musician.
• David Hare, 75, American surrealist artist, aortic aneurysm.
• Albert King, 69, American blues guitarist and singer, heart attack.
• Nathan Milstein, 88, Ukrainian-American violinist, heart attack.
• Alex Quaison-Sackey, 68, Ghanaian diplomat.

22

• Bolaji Badejo, 39, Nigerian visual artist and actor, sickle-cell disease.
• Charles B. Black, 71, American basketball player.
• Harry Bluestone, 85, American violinist, tuberculosis.
• Rajendran Christie, 54, Indian field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
• Brian Doyle, 62, English football player.
• Frederick William Franz, 99, American Jehovah's Witness leader.
• Gavin Hoare, 58, Australian rules footballer.
• William Janney, 84, American actor.
• Erik Lindén, 81, Swedish freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist.
• Italo Pedroncelli, 57, Italian Olympic alpine skier.
• Ross Robinson, 86, Canadian Olympic speed skater.
• Milo Sperber, 81, British actor, director and writer.
• Cornelio Villareal, 88, Filipino politician.
• Ted Willis, Baron Willis, 78, English screenwriter and playwright.

23

• Jadwiga Chojnacka, 87, Polish film actress.
• Lona Cohen, 79, American spy for the Soviet Union.
• Vincent Fourcade, 58, French interior designer, AIDS-related complications.
• Ivanhoe Gambini, 88, Italian painter.
• Eddie Hazel, 42, American funk guitarist and singer, liver failure.
• Frank Hekma, 81, American Olympic sailor.
• Vyacheslav Kurennoy, 60, Russian Olympic water polo player.
• Robert Marshak, 76, American physicist and educator.
• Hank Mizell, 69, American rockabilly singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
• Cyril Walters, 87, Welsh cricketer.
• Jack Wedgwood, 76, Australian rugby league footballer and RAAF officer.
• Stanislaw Zalewski, 85, Polish Olympic sailor.

24

• Dursun Bozkurt, 67, Turkish Olympic alpine skier.
• Bobby LaKind, 47, American conga musician, colon cancer.
• Micheline Luccioni, 62, French actress.
• Jack Nichols, 66, American basketball player.
• Peyo, 64, Belgian comic artist and writer, heart attack.
• Adela Sequeyro, 91, Mexican actress and journalist.
• Stella Skopal, 88, Croatian sculptor.
• William Trueheart, 74, American diplomat.
• Nicholas Joseph Walinski Jr., 72, American district judge.

25

• Giuseppe Bonomi, 80, Italian football player coach.
• Ted Croker, 68, English footballer.
• Garrison H. Davidson, 88, American lieutenant general.
• Monica Dickens, 77, English author.
• Ed Donnelly, 60, American baseball player.
• Sandra Dorne, 68, British actress.
• Richard Howard Ichord, Jr., 66, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Helen Joseph, 87, South African anti-apartheid activist.

26

• Constance Carpenter, 88, English actress, stroke.
• Jack Crayston, 82, English football player and manager.
• Dancer's Image, 27, American thoroughbred racehorse.
• Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies, 86, British judge.
• Jan Flinterman, 73, Dutch racing driver.
• Tom Gorman, 67, American baseball player.
• Edward Howard-Vyse, 87, British Army officer, horse rider and Olympic medalist.
• Anthony Huxley, 72, British botanist.
• John George Kemeny, 66, Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, heart failure.
• Nikita Magaloff, 80, Georgian-Russian pianist.
• Eve Poole, 67, New Zealand politician.
• María Bruguera Pérez, 79, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist.
• Hilde Wagener, 88, German-Austrian actress.

27

• Stephen Albert, 51, American composer, traffic collision.
• Dhananjay Bhattacharya, 70, Indian Bengali singer and composer.
• Kay Boyle, 90, American novelist.
• Alfred H. Clifford, 84, American mathematician.
• James Patterson Lyke, 53, American Roman Catholic prelate, cancer.
• János Móré, 82, Hungarian football player and manager.
• Eduardo Schneeberger, 81, Chilean footballer.

28

• Jorge Araya, 68, Chilean footballer.
• Jack Delinger, 66, American bodybuilder, heart attack.
• Nick Feher, 66, American football player.
• Vicente Gerbasi, 79, Venezuelan poet and writer.
• Nils Handal, 86, Norwegian politician.
• Sal Maglie, 75, American baseball player, pneumonia.
• Elfie Mayerhofer, 75, Austrian actress and singer.
• William G. McLoughlin, 70, American historian.
• Aimé Michel, 73, French science and spirituality writer and author.
• Milutin Pajević, 72, Montenegrin football player and manager.
• Daniella Perez, 22, Brazilian actress and dancer, murdered.
• Otto Lara Resende, 70, Brazilian journalist.
• Cardew Robinson, 75, English comedian, ischemic colitis.
• Vicente Rondón, 54, Venezuelan boxer.
• Chang Woon-soo, 64, South Korean football player and manager.
• Doug Wright, 75, English football player.

29

• Jaroslav Borovička, 61, Czech football player.
• Leon Gemmell, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Bert Harper, 69, Australian rules footballer.
• Yahya Kanu, Sierra Leone military officer, president.
• James Napoli, 81, American mobster belonging to the Genovese crime family.
• Vivienne Segal, 95, American actress and singer, heart failure.
• Fidel Tricánico, 77, Uruguayan Olympic boxer.

30

• Hans Bauer, 89, German Olympic cross country skier.
• Phil H. Bucklew, 78, American gridiron football player.
• Dorothy Chacko, 88, American social worker, humanitarian and medical doctor.
• César Domela, 92, Dutch sculptor, painter, photographer, and typographer.
• Timothy S. Healy, 69, American Roman Catholic priest and academic, heart attack.
• Mihailo Lalić, 78, Montenegrin-Serbian writer.
• Romeo Muller, 64, American screenwriter and actor, heart attack.
• Chloethiel Woodard Smith, 82, American architect, cancer.
• Lusine Zakaryan, 55, Armenian singer, diabetes.

31

• Denis Barnett, 86, British RAF air marshal during World War II.
• Elene Gokieli, 74, Soviet-Georgian hurdler, sprinter and Olympian.
• Dianne Jackson, 51, English animation director, cancer.
• Cyril Peacock, 63, British racing cyclist and Olympian.
• Frank Ransley, 95, British WW1 flying ace.
• Bill Spears, 86, American football player.
• Kristján Vattnes, 76, Icelandic Olympic javelin thrower.
• Guy Williams, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Canada Senate.