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

## January 1992
### 1

* Cele Abba, 85, Italian actress.
* Konrad Bleuler, 79, Swiss quantum physicist.
* Jack Badham, 72, English football player.
* James W. B. Douglas, 78, British social researcher.
* M. J. Frankovich, 82, American film producer, pneumonia.
* Franz Fuchsberger, 81, Austrian football player.
* Grace Hopper, 85, American naval admiral and computer scientist.
* Oskar Munzel, 92, Germany Wehrmacht general during World War II.

### 2

* Kenneth Emory, 94, American anthropologist.
* Virginia Field, 74, British-born American actress, cancer.
* Tibor Gallai, 79, Hungarian mathematician.
* Hedwig Haß, 89, German Olympic fencer (1936).
* Hans Kurath, 100, Austrian-American linguist.
* Ginette Leclerc, 79, French actress, cancer.
* Maurice Perrin, 80, French cyclist.
* Yaúca, 56, Portuguese football player.

### 3

* O. V. Alagesan, 80, Indian politician and freedom fighter.
* Dame Judith Anderson, 94, Australian actress, pneumonia.
* Robert Gordis, 83, American conservative rabbi.
* Carl McVoy, 61, American pianist.
* Domenico Meldolesi, 51, Italian racing cyclist.
* Matteo Poggi, 78, Italian football player and coach.
* Antonio Quirino, 85, Filipino judge, entrepreneur and politician.
* Radomiro Tomic, 77, Chilean politician.
* Pavel Zyryanov, 84, Soviet major general and former commander of the Soviet Border Troops.

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* Alejandro Carrión, 76, Ecuadorian poet, novelist and journalist.
* Patrick Gallacher, 82, Scottish football player.
* Antonio Ghiardello, 93, Italian rower and Olympic medalist.
* Teddy Grace, 86, American jazz singer.
* Edmund Samarakkody, 79, Ceylonese lawyer, trade unionist, and politician.
* Tim Washington, 32, American football player, pneumonia.

### 5

* Ze'ev Aleksandrowicz, 86, Israeli photographer.
* Philip J. Dolan, 68, American physicist.
* Dattatraya Ganesh Godse, 77, Indian historian, playwright, and art critic.
* Reuben "Rube" Lautenschlager, 76, American basketball player.
* Chester Schaeffer, 89, American film editor.

### 6

* Éva Balázs, 49, Hungarian cross-country skier and Olympian.
* Carl Bridenbaugh, 88, American historian of Colonial America.
* Bent Christensen, 62, Danish film director, actor, and screenwriter, cancer.
* Nikolay Dutov, 53, Soviet-Russian long-distance runner.
* Steve Gilpin, 42, New Zealand singer, traffic collision.

### 7

* Richard Hunt, 40, American puppeteer (The Muppets).
* Gilles Lalay, 29, French motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.
* Robert Lord, 46, New Zealand playwright.
* Andrew Marton, 87, Hungarian-American film director, cancer.
* Ian Wood, 90, Australian politician.

### 8

* Proinsias Mac Airt, 69, Irish republican activist.
* Abderrahim Bouabid, 69, Moroccan politician.
* Anthony Dawson, 75, Scottish actor (Dr. No, Dial M for Murder, Valley of Eagles), cancer.
* John Harrington, 70, American gridiron football player.
* Marjorie Kane, 82, American film and stage actress.
* Johnny Meijer, 79, Dutch accordionist.
* Natan Peled, 78, Israeli politician.
* Nicolas Schöffer, 79, Hungarian-French cybernetic artist.
* Zoya Voskresenskaya, 84, Soviet diplomat, NKVD secret agent, and children's author.
* Joe Zeno, 72, American gridiron football player.

### 9

* Steve Brodie, 72, American actor, cancer.
* Claude Coats, 78, American animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo, Peter Pan).
* Al Coppage, 75, American gridiron football player.
* Hans Jenny, 92, Swiss-American soil scientist.
* Walt Kichefski, 75, American football player and coach.
* Bill Naughton, 81, British playwright.
* Luigi Stipa, 91, Italian aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer.
* Louis Terrenoire, 83, French politician.
* Jochen van Aerssen, 50, German politician and member of the Bundestag.

### 10

* Roberto Bonomi, 72, Argentine racing driver.
* Barbara Couper, 89, British actress.
* Johnny Hawke, 67, Australian rugby league football player, parkinson's disease.
* James I. Loeb, 82, American politician and diplomat, pneumonia.
* Daniel Norton, 86, Australian politician.

### 11

* Heikki Aaltoila, 86, Finnish film composer.
* Jean Claudio, 64, French actor.
* Juan Gilberto Funes, 28, Argentine footballer, heart attack.
* William George Hoskins, 83, English historian.
* Edward Jancarz, 45, Polish speedway rider, knifed.
* Morton Kaer, 89, American gridiron football player.
* Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin, 72, German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II.

### 12

* Lode Anthonis, 69, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Bilegiin Damdinsüren, 73, Mongolian musician and composer.
* Kumar Gandharva, 67, Indian classical singer.
* Walt Morey, 84, American author.
* George Strohmeyer, 67, American gridiron football player.
* Harry van Doorn, 76, Dutch politician.

### 13

* Hugh Meade Alcorn, Jr., 84, American politician, stroke.
* Yvonne Bryceland, 66, South African actress, cancer.
* Dagny Lind, 89, Swedish film actress.
* Josef Neckermann, 79, German equestrian and Olympic champion.
* Mehdi Abbasov, 32, Azerbaijani politician and soldier, killed in battle.
* Henri Queffélec, 81, French novelist.
* Gerhard Rose, 95, German scientist and war criminal during World War II.

### 14

* Irakli Abashidze, 82, Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician.
* Walter Herssens, 61, Belgian decathlete and Olympian.
* Ernst Wilhelm Kalinke, 73, German cinematographer.
* Vernon E. Megee, 91, United States Marine Corps general.
* Jerry Nolan, 45, American rock drummer, stroke.
* Alf Teichs, 87, German filmmaker.
* Flory Van Donck, 79, Belgian golfer.

### 15

* Zhang Dazhi, 80, Chinese lieutenant general and politician.
* Charlie Gassaway, 73, American baseball player.
* Fritz Kraatz, 85, Swiss ice hockey player.
* Dee Murray, 45, English bassist (Elton John Band), stroke.
* Suzanne Muzard, 91, French prostitute and photographer.
* Angel Penna, Sr., 68, Argentine-American racehorse trainer.
* Hari Rhodes, 59, American actor, heart attack.

### 16

* Ross Patterson Alger, 71, Canadian politician, cancer.
* Walter Bartel, 87, German communist resistance member during World War II, and historian.
* Albert R. Behnke, 88, American physician.
* Ajahn Chah, 73, Thai Buddhist monk.
* W. John Kenney, 87, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
* Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, 70, Swedish comedian and actor, heart attack.
* Shelagh Roberts, 67, British politician, cancer.

### 17

* Dorothy Alison, 66, Australian actress.
* Luigi Durand de la Penne, 77, Italian Navy admiral.
* Henry Stommel, 71, American oceanographer.
* Charlie Ventura, 75, American saxophonist, lung cancer.

### 18

* Hamidul Huq Choudhury, 90, Bangladeshi politician.
* Theodore L. Futch, 96, United States Army brigadier general.
* George Hill, 90, American sprinter and Olympian.
* Ruby R. Levitt, 84, American set decorator (The Sound of Music, The Andromeda Strain, Chinatown).
* Cromie McCandless, 71, Northern Irish racing motorcyclist.
* Shigeo Tanaka, 85, Japanese film director.
* Douglas Woolf, 69, American author of novels and book reviews.

### 19

* Augusto Benedico, 82, Spanish-Mexican actor.
* Pietro di Donato, 80, American writer, bone cancer.
* Albert Glock, 66, American archaeologist, murdered.
* Bill Horton, 86, English rugby player.
* Ted W. Lawson, 74, United States Air Force officer.
* Manabendra Mukhopadhyay, 62, Indian singer-songwriter.

### 20

* Mario Ariosa, 71, Cuban baseball player.
* Milovan Gavazzi, 96, Croatian ethnographer.
* Mohamed Abdul Khalek Hassouna, 93, Egyptian diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the Arab League (d. 1992)
* Trond Hegna, 93, Norwegian politician.
* Charles Kenny, 93, American composer, author, and violinist.
* Theodore Lukits, 94, Romanian-American painter.
* Jean-Pierre Lecocq, 44, Belgian molecular biologist, plane crash.
* Tom McCarthy, 57, Canadian ice hockey player.

### 21

* Edmund Collein, 86, German architect.
* Bernard Cornut-Gentille, 82, French administrator and politician.
* Champion Jack Dupree, 81, American blues musician, cancer.
* Franz Hanreiter, 78, Austrian footballer.
* Marita Katusheva, 53, Soviet volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist.
* Eddie Mabo, 55, Australian indigenous people's activist, cancer.
* Miguel Manzano, 84, Mexican actor, kidney failure.

### 22

* A. J. Antoon, 47, American theatre director, AIDS-related lymphoma.
* Mark Hopkinson, 42, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Derek Walker-Smith, Baron Broxbourne, 81, British politician.
* Fernand Buyle, 73, Belgian footballer.
* Billy Graham, 69, American boxer, cancer.
* Francisco Urroz, 71, Chilean football player.

### 23

* Freddie Bartholomew, 67, English-American child actor, heart failure.
* Harry Mortimer, 89, English composer and conductor.
* Joseph Mugnaini, 79, Italian-American artist and illustrator.
* Ian Wolfe, 95, American actor.

### 24

* Ignacio Bernal, 81, Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist.
* John Bleifer, 90, American actor.
* Tina Chow, 41, American model and jewelry designer, AIDS.
* Ken Darby, 82, American composer, lyricist, and conductor.
* Klaes Karppinen, 84, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion.
* Ricky Ray Rector, 42, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Talia Shapira, 45, Israeli actress, cancer.

### 25

* Raban Adelmann, 79, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Riad Ahmadov, 35, Azerbaijan officer and war hero, killed in action.
* Kay Beauchamp, 92, British communist activist and feminist.
* Guido Buzzelli, 64, Italian comic book artist, writer, and painter.
* Pedro Linares, 85, Mexican artist.
* Mahmoud Riad, 75, Egyptian diplomat.

### 26

* Sheldon Chumir, 51, Canadian lawyer and politician.
* José Ferrer, 80, Puerto Rican actor (Cyrano de Bergerac, Lawrence of Arabia, The Caine Mutiny) and filmmaker, colorectal cancer.
* Gilroy Roberts, 86, American sculptor and minter.
* Hans Schulze, 80, German water polo player.

### 27

* John Alcorn, 56, American artist, designer, and illustrator.
* Boris Arapov, 86, Russian composer.
* Bharat Bhushan, 71, Indian actor, scriptwriter and producer.
* Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, 101, English actress.
* Sally Mugabe, 60, Zimbabwean activist, first lady (since 1987), kidney failure.
* Henriette von Schirach, 78, German writer and wife to nazi politician Baldur von Schirach.
* William Walker, 95, American television and film actor, cancer.

### 28

* Arvid Andersson-Holtman, 95, Swedish gymnast and Olympic champion.
* Nahman Avigad, 86, Israeli archaeologist.
* Hans Lang, 83, Austrian composer of light music, film music and Viennese songs.
* Ərəstun Mahmudov, 34, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action..
* Marifat Nasibov, 19, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* Viktor Seryogin, 47, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* Mehmet Ali Yalım, 62, Turkish basketball player.
* Arvo Ylppö, 104, Finnish physician and academic.

### 29

* Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn, 79, British politician.
* Noer Alie, 77, Indonesian Islamic leader and educator.
* Willie Dixon, 76, American blues musician, heart failure.
* Art Somers, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.

### 30

* Francis Birch, 88, American geophysicist, prostate cancer.
* Ed Taylor, 90, American baseball player.
* George Frederick James Temple, 90, English mathematician9.
* Coaker Triplett, 80, American baseball player.

### 31

* Ludwig Geyer, 87, German cyclist.
* Mel Hein, 82, American football player, stomach cancer.
* Martin Held, 83, German television and film actor.
* István Sárközi, 44, Hungarian Olympic footballer (1968), traffic collision.