Deaths in September 1992

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

September 1992

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, murdered.
• Montgomery Oliver Koelsch, 80, American circuit judge.
• Sergey Senyukov, 37, Soviet high jumper and Olympian.
• Ivan Tregubov, 62, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympian.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bob Walton, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.

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, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Fakhraddin Najafov, 25, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• M. B. Ramachandra Rao, 86, Indian geophysicist.
• John Lewis Smith Jr., 79, American district judge.
• Eric Thompson, 53, Scottish cricketer.
• John van Dreelen, 70, Dutch actor.

5

• Harold Burry, 80, American football coach.
• Ng Liang Chiang, 71, Singaporean hurdler.
• Ron Davis, 50, American baseball player.
• Billy Herman, 83, American Hall of Fame baseball player, cancer.
• Irving Allen Lee, 43, American actor, AIDS.
• Fritz Leiber, 81, American author, stroke.
• Yasuji Mori, 67, Japanese animator.
• Poul Moll Nielsen, 62, Danish Olympic field hockey player.
• 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, cancer.
• Zhou Wennan, 82, Chinese revolutionary and judge.
• Hans-Peter Zimmer, 55, German artist.

6

• Ronnie Cahill, 77, American gridiron football player.
• John Ryan Davey, 78, Australian cricketer.
• Henry Ephron, 81, American screenwriter.
• 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.
• Johannes Zoet, 83, Dutch Olympic fencer.

8

• William Barrett, 79, American academic.
• Quentin N. Burdick, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate, heart failure.
• René Emanuelli, 86, French Olympic equestrian.
• 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.
• Ivo Fabris, 82, Yugoslavian Olympic rower.
• Willie Fennell, 72, Australian actor, comedian and scriptwriter.
• Imre König, 91, Hungarian-British chess master.
• Orlando Santamaría, 72, Cuban Olympic sports shooter.

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, 67, Nigerian Islamic scholar, leukemia.
• Eiji Gō, 55, Japanese actor.
• Frank McKinney, 53, American Olympic swimmer, plane crash.
• John Sanchez, 71, American football player.
• Frank Singuineau, 79, Trinidadian actor.

12

• Mary Wells Ashworth, 89, American historian, aortic rupture.
• Rowley Fischer, 82, Australian rules footballer.
• Hans F. Koenekamp, 100, American special effects artist and cinematographer.
• Mallikarjun Mansur, 81, Indian classical singer.
• Ruth Nelson, 87, American actress, cancer.
• Ed Peck, 75, American actor, heart attack.
• Anthony Perkins, 60, American actor, 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

• Montu Banerjee, 72, Indian cricketer.
• Libero Bertagnolli, 77, American football player, and coach.
• Somapala Dharmapriya, 51, Sri Lankan actor and cinematographer.
• Ilse Dörffeldt, 80, German sprinter and Olympian.
• Johannes van der Horst, 83, Dutch Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Bruce Hutchison, 91, Canadian writer and journalist.
• August Komendant, 85, Estonian-American structural engineer.
• Paul Martin Sr., 89, Canadian politician.
• George Pearcy, 73, American basketball player.
• Gian Luca Tocchi, 91, Italian composer.
• Theodore S. Weiss, 64, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.

15

• Martin Eberle, 61, German Olympic weightlifter.
• Pedro Formental, 77, Cuban-American baseball player.
• Harvey Hardy, 69, American gridiron football player.
• Fredrik Hetty, 87, Norwegian footballer.
• Walter B. Jones, Sr., 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Michael Luciano, 83, American film editor.
• Håkon Olsen, 65, Norwegian Olympic wrestler.
• Shubbo Shankar, 50, Indian graphic artist, musician and composer, pneumonia.

16

• Larbi Benbarek, 75, French-Moroccan football player.
• Millicent Fenwick, 82, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, heart failure.
• Mogens Koch, 94, Danish architect.
• Eldred Kraemer, 62, American football player.
• Henri Legay, 72, French operatic tenor.
• Al Piasecky, 75, American football player.
• Tsuneo Sato, 66, Japanese Olympic speed skater.
• Joe Stringfellow, 74, American football player.
• Jim Sullivan, 60, Northern Irish politician and republican.
• Victoria Wolf, 88, German-American writer.

17

• Homayoun Ardalan, 42, Iranian Kurd politician, assassinated.
• Yngve Casslind, 60, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player.
• Feodor Chaliapin Jr., 86, Russian-Italian actor.
• Herivelto Martins, 80, Brazilian composer and singer.
• Ralph Schwarz, 25, Dutch Olympic rower, plane crash.
• Sadegh Sharafkandi, 54, Iranian Kurd politician, assassinated.
• Judith Nisse Shklar, 63, Latvian-American political theorist.
• Roger Wagner, 78, American musician.

18

• Heinz Ambühl, 87, Swiss Olympic sports shooter.
• Lona Andre, 77, American actress, golfer, and businesswoman, in 1938, Andre set a world golfing record for women by shooting 156 holes of golf in 11 hours and 56 minutes on the Lake Norconian, California course
• 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, 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, 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.
• Joe Fillmore, 78, American baseball player.
• Leon O. Jacobson, 80, American physician, medical researcher and educator.
• Reuben Kadish, 79, American visual artist.
• André Peton, 89, French cyclist.
• Gösta Pihl, 85, Swedish Olympic sports shooter.
• Harry Smyth, 82, Canadian speed skater and Olympian.
• William L. Springer, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

21

• Aleksandr Almetov, 52, Russian ice hockey player and Olympian, 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, 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.
• Kurt Haas, 83, Swiss Olympic rower.
• 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.
• 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.
• Jørgen Hval, 81, Norwegian footballer.
• Rufus Ligon, 89, American baseball player.
• Pietro Magni, 73, Italian football player and manager.
• Sarv Mittra Sikri, 84, Indian judge and Chief Justice.
• Brownie Wise, 79, American pioneering saleswoman.

25

• Igor Bakalov, 52, Soviet Olympic sports shooter.
• 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.
• David Cock, 77, English cricketer.
• Ralph Davis, 70, American football player.
• Pancrazio De Pasquale, 67, Italian politician.
• Erich Krempel, 79, German Olympic sport shooter.
• John Kokinai, 41, Papua New Guinean Olympic long distance runner.
• Luka Lipošinović, 59, Yugoslavian Olympic football player.
• Ralph Manheim, 85, American translator, prostate cancer.
• Frank Patrick, 76, American gridiron football player.
• Charlie Priestley, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Oiva Virtanen, 63, Finnish Olympic 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, 84, 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, AIDS-related cancer.
• Peter Riedl, 82, Austrian Olympic water polo player.
• Hal Smith, 90, American baseball player.

28

• Jan Bosman, 46, Dutch Olympic judoka.
• 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.
• Johanna Piesch, 94, Austrian mathematician.
• Rupak Raj Sharma, 38, Nepali footballer and FIFA referee, plane crash.
• Hu Qiaomu, 80, Chinese sociologist, marxist philosopher and politician.

29

• Jean Aurenche, 88, French screenwriter.
• Paul Jabara, 44, American songwriter, AIDS.
• Bill Rowe, 61, English sound engineer, Oscar winner.
• Kálmán Szepesi, 62, Hungarian table tennis player.

30

• Willie Adams, 80, American basketball player.
• Nate Borden, 60, American gridiron football player, cancer.
• Russ Hunt, 81, Canadian Olympic cyclist.
• Robert Joel, 48, American actor, AIDS.
• Erwin Klein, 54, American table tennis player, shot.
• Maria Malicka, 94, Polish stage and film actress.