# Deaths in May 1992
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

## May 1992
### 1

* Agustin Cueva, 54, Ecuadorian writer, cancer.
* Hella Hammid, 70, German-American photographer.
* Sharon Redd, 46, American singer, pneumonia caused by AIDS.
* Justin Stein, 80, American baseball player.
* Celerino Sánchez, 48, Mexican baseball player.

### 2

* Stefano D'Arrigo, 72, Italian writer.
* Trevor Hatherton, 67, New Zealand geophysicist, scientific administrator and Antarctic scientist.
* Mike Karakas, 80, American ice hockey player.
* Stefan Kieniewicz, 84, Polish historian.
* Wilbur Daigh Mills, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1977).
* Kel Tremain, 54, New Zealand rugby player.
* Margarete Wallmann, 87-90, Austrian opera director and ballerina.

### 3

* Alummoodan, 59, Indian actor.
* Vilma Degischer, 80, Austrian theatre and film actress.
* Godman Irvine, 82, Canadian-British politician.
* George Murphy, 89, American politician and actor, member of the U.S. Senate (1965–1971), leukemia.

### 4

* Shane Curry, 24, American football player, shot.
* August Hellemans, 84, Belgian football player.
* Michael Howlett, 77, American politician, kidney failure.
* Ronnie Knox, 57, Canadian football player.
* Gregor Mackenzie, 64, British politician.
* Lyn Marshall, 47, British yoga teacher, ballerina, and actress, brain cancer.
* Thomas O. Paine, 70, American engineer and scientist, cancer.

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* Yunis Aliyev, 33, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* Del M. Clawson, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–1978).
* Fikret Hajiyev, 27, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* Kerim Kerimov, 20, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Sarkhan Ojaqverdiyev, 24, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* Jean-Claude Pascal, 64, French actor, stomach cancer.
* Jean Vauthier, 81, French playwright.
* Dick Yarmy, 59, American actor (Get Smart, Mork & Mindy, Emergency!), lung cancer.

### 6

* Marlene Dietrich, 90, German-American actress (Morocco, Touch of Evil, Judgment at Nuremberg), kidney failure.
* Malcolm A. MacIntyre, 84, American lawyer and hall of fame lacrosse player.
* Gaston Reiff, 71, Belgian Olympic runner (1948).
* Jilly Rizzo, 75, American restaurateur and actor, traffic collision.
* Tatyana Yesenina, 73, Soviet writer.

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* Nachhatar Chhatta, 32, Indian singer, alcohol intoxication.
* Kiril Hristov, 42, Bulgarian football player.
* Soerip, 70, Indonesian singer and film actress.
* Tiny Timbrell, 75, Canadian musician.

### 8

* Albert Agarunov, 23, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* Addeke Hendrik Boerma, 80, Dutch civil servant.
* Richard Derr, 74, American actor (When Worlds Collide, American Gigolo, Firefox), pancreatic cancer.
* Gul Mohammad, 70, Pakistani cricketer, liver cancer.
* Sergey Obraztsov, 90, Russian puppeteer.
* Otto Šimánek, 67, Czechoslovak actor.

### 9

* Hernán Bolaños, 80, Nicaraguan-Costa Rican football player.
* Keith Bissell, 80, Canadian composer.
* Tom Chessell, 78, Australian rower and Olympic medalist.
* Carmine Lombardozzi, 79, American mobster and member of the Gambino crime family.
* Mehman Sayadov, 19, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.

### 10

* Egil Endresen, 72, Norwegian judge and politician.
* John Lund, 81, American actor (A Foreign Affair, To Each His Own, The Perils of Pauline).
* Werner Nilsen, 88, Norwegian-American soccer player.
* K. G. Ramanathan, 71, Indian mathematician.
* Sylvia Syms, 74, American singer, heart attack.
* Willard Long Thorp, 92, American economist.

### 11

* Judith Brown, 60, American dancer and sculptor.
* René Guajardo, 59, Mexican professional wrestler, liver cancer.
* Loretta Cessor Manggrum, 95, American pianist and composer of sacred music.
* William A. Mueller, 91, American sound engineer.
* Curtis D. Summers, 62, American engineer and roller coaster designer.
* Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda, 83, Japanese member of the imperial family, heart attack.

### 12

* Joe Burke, 68, American baseball executive, lymphatic cancer.
* Nikos Gatsos, 80, Greek poet, translator and lyricist.
* Jacqueline Maillan, 69, French actress, heart attack.
* Hector McIvor, 91, Australian politician.
* Bob Mizer, 70, American photographer and filmmaker.
* Lenny Montana, 66, American actor (The Godfather, Fingers), professional wrestler (GCW) and mobster, heart attack.
* Robert Reed, 59, American actor (The Brady Bunch, The Defenders, Roots), colon cancer.

### 13

* Patrick Angus, 38, American painter, AIDS.
* Gisela Elsner, 55, German novelist, suicide by jumping.
* Stan Hugill, 85, British folk music performer.
* Dawon Kahng, 61, Korean-American electrical engineer and inventor.
* Leon Klatzkin, 77, American music arranger, composer, and conductor.
* F. E. McWilliam, 83, Northern Irish sculptor, cancer.
* Wanda Rutkiewicz, 49, Polish mountain climber, climbing accident.
* Bart Zoet, 49, Dutch cyclist, heart attack.

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* Lyle Alzado, 43, American football player, brain cancer.
* Robert Howie, 93, Scottish rugby player.
* Frank M. Karsten, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1969).
* Nie Rongzhen, 92, Chinese general.

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* Tommy Colella, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Ladislav Demšar, 63, Yugoslav basketball player and coach.
* Jovy Marcelo, 27, Filipino racing driver, racing accident.
* Bartlett Mullins, 87, British actor.
* Robert Morris Page, 88, American physicist, heart failure.
* Valentino Pellarini, 72, Italian basketball player.
* Gino Rossetti, 87, Italian football manager and football player.
* Jalil Safarov, 30, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Parviz Samedov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.

### 16

* Joe Healey, 81, American hurdler and Olympian.
* Marisa Mell, 53, Austrian actress, throat cancer.
* Eric James, Baron James of Rusholme, 83, British educator.
* Chalino Sánchez, 31, Mexican singer-songwriter, murdered.
* Robert Grainger Ker Thompson, 76, British military officer and counter-insurgency expert.

### 17

* Robert Blanc, 47, French footballer.
* George Hurrell, 87, American photographer, bladder cancer.
* William Ivey, 72, American painter, cancer.
* Želimir Vidović, 38, Bosnian football player, murdered.
* Lawrence Welk, 89, American musician and television personality (The Lawrence Welk Show), pneumonia.

### 18

* Jake Leicht, 72, American gridiron football player.
* Giuliani G. De Negri, 71, Italian film producer and screenwriter.
* Jasper K. Smith, 86, American attorney and politician.
* Skip Stephenson, 52, American comedian, heart attack.
* Marshall Thompson, 66, American actor, heart failure.

### 19

* Esther Averill, 89, American author.
* Alfred McClung Lee, 85, American sociologist.
* Jock Turner, 48, Scottish rugby player.
* Hans Vogt, 81, German composer.

### 20

* Roger Keith Coleman, 33, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
* Giovanni Colombo, 89, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Leela Sumant Moolgaokar, 75, Indian social worker.
* James Tully, 76, Irish politician.
* Alicia Vergel, 64, Filipina actress.

### 21

* Ulric Cole, 86, American pianist, editor, music educator and composer.
* T. B. Ilangaratne, 79, Sri Lankan politician, author, dramatist, and theater actor.
* Åke Lindblom, 73, Swedish sports shooter.
* Mugs Stump, 42, American mountaineer, mountaineering accident.

### 22

* Tony Accardo, 86, American mobster and Chicago Outfit boss, cardiopulmonary failure.
* Roy Childs, 43, American political essayist, fall.
* Elizabeth David, 78, British cookery writer, stroke.
* Dan Enright, 74, American television producer, cancer.
* Zellig S. Harris, 82, American linguist.
* Abraham Moles, 71, French information scientist.
* György Ránki, 84, Hungarian composer.
* Iosif Varga, 50, Romanian football player.
* Lee Yang-ji, 37, Japanese novelist, myocarditis.

### 23

* James Blair, 82, American rower and Olympic champion.
* Kostas Davourlis, 44, Greek football player, heart attack.
* Giovanni Falcone, 53, Italian magistrate, assassinated, car bomb.
* John Gates, 78, American communist politician.
* Charley Malone, 81, American gridiron football player.
* Francesca Morvillo, 46, Italian magistrate, assassinated, car bomb.
* Paul Moukila, 41, Congolese football player, malaria.
* Henry George Pearce, 74, Australian politician.
* Ernst Plischke, 88, Austrian-New Zealand architect, town planner and furniture designer.
* Atahualpa Yupanqui, 84, Argentine musician.

### 24

* Jean Aberbach, 81, Austrian-American music publisher.
* Francis Thomas Bacon, 87, English engineer.
* Luiz Eça, 56, Brazilian samba and bossa nova pianist.
* Joan Sanderson, 79, British actress.

### 25

* Danny Biasone, 83, Italian-American sports executive.
* Tulio Demicheli, 77, Argentine filmmaker, cancer.
* Sari Dienes, 93, Hungarian-American artist.
* Viktor Grishin, 77, Soviet politician, heart attack.
* Philip Habib, 72, American diplomat, cardiac arrhythmia.
* Gitta Mallasz, 84, Hungarian artist.
* Ruben Zakharian, 90, Russian painter.

### 26

* Edmund Beloin, 82, American writer of radio, film, and television.
* Terence Clarke, 88, British Army officer and politician.
* Dorota Horzonkówna, 58, Polish Olympic gymnast (1952, 1956).
* George Morrow, 66, American jazz bassist.
* Geneva Sayre, 80, American bryologist and bibliographer.

### 27

* Machiko Hasegawa, 72, Japanese manga artist.
* Peter Jenkins, 58, British journalist, respiratory failure.
* Karl Leyser, 71, German-British historian.
* John Myhers, 70, American actor (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, 1776, History of the World, Part I), pneumonia.
* Delilah Pierce, 88, American artist, curator and educator.
* Donald K. Ross, 81, American naval officer, heart attack.
* Franz Rupp, 91, German-American pianist.
* Jone Salinas, 74, Italian actress.
* Michael Talbot, 38, American quantum mystic, lymphoid leukemia.

### 28

* Ricardo Caminos, 75-76, Argentine egyptologist.
* Fumio Fujimura, 75, Japanese baseball player.
* Bai Hong, 72, Chinese singer.
* Godefroid Munongo, 66, Congolese politician.
* Lorenzo Tañada, 93, Filipino lawyer, civil rights advocate and politician.

### 29

* Ollie Halsall, 43, English guitarist, drug-induced heart attack.
* Yoshitoshi Mori, 93, Japanese artist.
* Albert Ndongmo, 65, Cameroonian prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Nils-Åke Sandell, 65, Swedish football player and manager.
* Ken Suesens, 75, American basketball coach.
* Petro Udovychenko, 78, Ukrainian politician and diplomat.

### 30

* Karl Carstens, 77, German politician, president (1979–1984).
* Larry Craig, 75, American football player.
* Craig Ellwood, 70, Los Angeles-based modernist architect.
* Mitsuharu Inoue, 66, Japanese writer, colorectal cancer.
* James Lamy, 64, American bobsledder and Olympic medalist.
* Elly Yunara, 68, Indonesian film actress and producer.
* Antoni Zygmund, 91, Polish mathematician.

### 31

* Eugene A. Chappie, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1987).
* Henri Moreau de Melen, 89, Belgian politician.
* Walter Neugebauer, 71, Croatian comic book artist and animator.
* Lillian Powell, 96, Canadian-American dancer.
* Dieter Puschel, 52, German cyclist.
* Lutz Stavenhagen, 52, German politician, pneumonia.