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

## 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.
* Anton Malatinský, 72, Slovak football player.
* Paulo Rónai, 85, Hungarian-Brazilian translator, philologist, and critic.
* 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 (For Your Eyes Only, The Three Musketeers, Arthur of the Britons), 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 D. O'Connor, 82, American lawyer and politician.

### 3

* Nureddin al-Atassi, 63, Syrian politician, president (1966–1970).
* Luis Alcoriza, 74, Mexican screenwriter and film director.
* Prayoon Chanyavongs, 77, Thai comics artist and cartoonist.
* James O'Hara, 65, Irish-American actor (Suddenly, Batman, Death of a Gunfighter).
* Andrei Sepci, 81, Romanian football player.
* Bill Ward, 71, American football player.

### 4

* Henry Clausen, 87, American lawyer and investigator.
* Yancho Dimitrov, 49, Bulgarian footballer.
* Alfie Ferguson, 65, British unionist politician.
* 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 (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Guns of Navarone, Cimarron Strip), heart attack.
* Heorhii Maiboroda, 79, Ukrainian composer.
* Yngve Sköld, 93, Swedish composer.
* László Szabó, 84, Hungarian Olympic rower (1936).
* Hank Worden, 91, American actor (The Searchers, The Alamo, The Lone Ranger).

### 7

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

### 8

* Thoppil Bhasi, 68, Indian playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
* 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.
* William Shawn, 85, American magazine editor (The New Yorker).

### 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 (Bang the Drum Slowly, Little Shop of Horrors, Death Wish), Emmy winner (1990), 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 sportscaster, 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.
* Bernard Reichel, 91, Swiss composer.

### 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.

### 12

* Ali Amini, 87, Iranian politician, prime minister (1961–1962).
* Malachy Carey, 36, Northern Irish IRA volunteer, assassinated.
* Bernard Lievegoed, 87, Dutch psychiatrist.
* Jasu Patel, 68, Indian cricket player.
* Robert Rex, 83, Niuean politician, premier (since 1974).
* 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.
* 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.
* Severino Rigoni, 78, Italian cyclist and Olympic silver medalist.

### 15

* Sven Delblanc, 61, Swedish author and academic, cancer.
* Marcel Lachmann, 84, French Olympic field hockey player (1928, 1936).
* Yolande Laffon, 97, French actress.
* Otto Lington, 89, Danish composer, bandleader and violinist.
* Ennio Morlotti, 82, Italian painter.
* Jim Musick, 82, American gridiron football player.
* Hermann Stövesand, 86, German actor.
* William Ware Theiss, 61, American costume designer (Star Trek, Harold and Maude, Bound for Glory), 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.
* George N. Craig, 83, American politician, Governor of Indiana (1953–1957).
* Andrew Jacobs, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).
* William Knecht, 62, American competition rower and Olympic champion.
* Rinus Terlouw, 70, Dutch footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
* 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 (The Price Is Right, I've Got a Secret, What's My Line?), 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.
* Abraham Charnes, 75, American mathematician and economist.
* 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 (Spartacus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Our Man Flint), 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 (Alien), 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.
* William Janney, 84, American actor.
* Erik Lindén, 81, Swedish freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist.
* 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.
* Eddie Hazel, 42, American funk guitarist and singer, liver failure.
* Frank Hekma, 81, American Olympic sailor (1928).
* Vyacheslav Kurennoy, 60, Russian Olympic water polo player (1956, 1960).
* Robert Marshak, 76, American physicist and educator.
* Hank Mizell, 69, American rockabilly singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
* Italo Pedroncelli, 57, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1956, 1960, 1964).
* Cyril Walters, 87, Welsh cricketer.

### 24

* 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 (The Smurfs), heart attack.
* Adela Sequeyro, 91, Mexican actress and journalist.
* Stella Skopal, 88, Croatian sculptor.
* William Trueheart, 74, American diplomat.

### 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 (1961–1981).
* 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.

### 28

* Jack Delinger, 66, American bodybuilder, heart attack.
* 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.
* 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 boxer and Olympian.

### 30

* 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 (The Snowman), cancer.
* Cyril Peacock, 63, British racing cyclist and Olympian.
* Bill Spears, 86, American football player.
* Kristján Vattnes, 76, Icelandic Olympic javelin thrower (1936).