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

## October 1992
### 1

* Gert Bastian, 69, German politician, murder-suicide.
* Ilgar Ismailov, 33, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Petra Kelly, 44, German politician, murder-suicide.
* Ali Mammadov, 37, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* Max Tera, 71, Indonesian cinematographer.
* Salvatore Valitutti, 85, Italian teacher and politician.

### 2

* Sabiha Bengütaş, 88, Turkish sculptor.
* Honnappa Bhagavathar, 77, Indian actor, musician and singer.
* Vincent Hallinan, 95, American lawyer.
* Luis Serra, 56, Uruguayan cyclist and Olympian.
* Bogdan Suchodolski, 88, Polish philosopher and politician.

### 3

* Aliyar Aliyev, 34, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action.
* John Carisi, 70, American trumpeter and composer.
* Ted Dailey, 83, American gridiron football player.
* John William Davis, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1975).
* Fritz Dennerlein, 56, Italian swimmer, water polo player and Olympian, traffic collision.
* Lili Heglund, 88, Danish film actress.
* Peter Klein, 85, German opera singer.
* Marek Petrusewicz, 58, Polish swimmer and Olympian.
* Ernest H. Volwiler, 99, American chemist.
* Ken Wilmshurst, 61, English long jumper, triple jumper and Olympian.

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* Zoltán Lajos Bay, 92, Hungarian physicist and engineer.
* Mohammed Benaziza, 33, French bodybuilder.
* Denny Hulme, 56, New Zealand racing driver, heart attack.
* H. D. Thambiah, 65, Sri Lankan lawyer and judge.

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* Sadhan Basu, 70, Indian physical chemist and academic.
* Cornelis Berkhouwer, 73, Dutch politician.
* Gösta Carlsson, 86, Swedish Olympic cyclist (1928).
* Eddie Kendricks, 52, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
* Fred Otash, 70, American private investigator and Hollywood fixer.
* Appa Sahib Pant, 80, Indian diplomat, writer and freedom fighter.

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* Denholm Elliott, 70, English actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, A Room with a View, Trading Places), BAFTA winner (1984, 1985, 1986), AIDS.
* Natalie Moorhead, 91, American film and stage actress.
* Bill O'Reilly, 86, Australian cricket player.
* Margit Symo, 79, Hungarian-German actress.

### 7

* Nikki Allan, 7, English murder victim
* Aina Berg, 90, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1920, 1924).
* Ed Blackwell, 62, American jazz drummer, kidney disease.
* Allan Bloom, 62, American philosopher, AIDS-related complications.
* Martin Eichler, 80, German number theorist.
* Joseph Kitagawa, 77, Japanese-American scholar in religious studies.
* Bill Robinson, 73, English football player.
* Mikayil Useynov, 87, Azerbaijani architect.

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* Robert Berdella, 43, American serial killer and rapist, congenital heart defect.
* Willy Brandt, 78, German politician, Chancellor (1969–1974), and Nobel Prize recipient (1971), colon cancer.
* Ian Graham Gass, 66, English geologist.
* Lindsley Parsons, 87, American film producer and screenwriter.

### 9

* Doby Bartling, 79, American football player and coach.
* Jędrzej Giertych, 89, Polish writer and politician.
* Mike Guerra, 79, Cuban baseball player.
* Harjinder Singh Jinda, 31, Indian Sikh separatist, execution by hanging.
* Ben Maddow, 83, American screenwriter and documentarian.
* Mary A. R. Marshall, 71, American politician, fall.
* Giuliano Ravizza, 66, Italian fashion designer, cancer.
* Sukhdev Singh Sukha, 30, Indian Sikh militant, execution by hanging.
* Per Olof Sundman, 70, Swedish writer.

### 10

* Sha Menghai, 92, Chinese great master of calligraphy.
* Woesha Cloud North, 74, Native American artist, teacher, and activist.
* James Seay, 78, American actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Death Valley Days, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?).
* Zofia Wojciechowska-Grabska, 87, Polish painter.

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* Ignatius Ghattas, 71, American Melkite Greek Catholic Church bishop.
* William Neufeld, 91, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Froelich Rainey, 85, American anthropologist and academic.
* Zakir Yusifov, 36, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.

### 12

* David Dragunsky, 82, Soviet army officer and politician.
* Ulysses Guimarães, 76, Brazilian politician, helicopter crash.
* John Hancock, 51, American actor (The Bonfire of the Vanities, City Heat, 10), heart attack.
* Eddy Kuijpers, 77, Dutch fencer and Olympian.
* Jim Percy, 43, Australian socialist politician, cancer.

### 13

* Tula Belle, 86, American child film actress.
* Jacques Delepaut, 66, French football player.
* James Marshall, 50, American author (George and Martha, The Stupids), AIDS.
* Les Pawson, 87, American marathon runner.
* Hughes Rudd, 71, American newscaster, aneurysm.
* Kiwako Taichi, 48, Japanese film actress, traffic collision.

### 14

* Qin Mu, 73, Chinese educator and writer.
* Poul Erik Petersen, 65, Danish football player and Olympian.
* Anna Maria van Geene, 64, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1948).
* William Waddell, 71, Scottish footballer.

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* Gino Cavalieri, 97, Italian actor.
* Oliver Franks, Baron Franks, 87, English philosopher and diplomat.
* Talwinder Singh Parmar, 48, Indian militant and Canadian-Sikh terrorist, shot by police.
* Jackie Sullivan, 74, American Major League Baseball player.

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* Shirley Booth, 94, American actress (Come Back, Little Sheba, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Hazel), Oscar winner (1953).
* Charley Burley, 75, American boxer.
* John Tracy Ellis, 87, American Catholic Church historian.
* Maurice Féaudierre, 90, French journalist and painter.
* Anna Hill Johnstone, 79, American costume designer (The Godfather, Ragtime, Dog Day Afternoon).
* Vijitha Mallika, 49, Sri Lankan actress, cancer.
* Antanas Poška, 89, Lithuanian traveler and anthropologist.
* William Edmond Robinson, 72, American politician.
* Vladek Sheybal, 69, Polish actor (From Russia with Love) and singer, aortic aneurysm.

### 17

* Edgar Chandler, 46, American gridiron football player.
* Brian Eaton, 75, Australian Air Force commander.
* Herman Johannes, 80, Indonesian politician and scientist.
* Orestis Laskos, 84, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor.
* John O'Connell, 88, American baseball player.
* Karomatullo Qurbonov, 30, Tajik singer, murdered.
* Prem Sahgal, 75, British Indian Army officer.
* Rouben Ter-Arutunian, 72, American costume and scenic designer, lymphoma.
* Tadeusz Żmudziński, 68, Polish pianist.

### 18

* Yoram Ben-Porat, 55, Israeli academic and economist, traffic collision.
* Merl Condit, 75, American gridiron football player.
* Gerald Ellison, 82, English Anglican bishop.
* Makoto Fukui, 52, Japanese freestyle swimmer and Olympian.
* Albert Schwartz, 69, American zoologist.
* Alija Šuljak, 91, Bosnian Croatian war criminal during World War II.

### 19

* Atley Donald, 82, American baseball player.
* Arturo Farías, 65, Chilean football player.
* Willie Lamothe, 72, Canadian musician.
* Maurice Le Roux, 69, French composer.
* Magnus Pyke, 83, English nutritional scientist and television presenter.
* Wulf Schmidt, 80, Danish-English double agent.
* James J. Stoker, 87, American mathematician and engineer.
* Alvin Stoller, 67, American jazz drummer.
* Arthur Wint, 72, Jamaican Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952).

### 20

* Mimì Aylmer, 96, Italian actress.
* Orton Chirwa, 73, Malawian politician and political prisoner.
* Stanley McMaster, 66, Northern Irish Unionist politician.
* Koča Popović, 84, Yugoslav politician, vice president (1966–1967).
* Jack Reddish, 65, American Olympic alpine skier (1948, 1952).
* Werner Torkanowsky, 66, German conductor, cancer.
* Sam Vanni, 84, Finnish painter.
* Rudi Weissenstein, 82, Israeli photographer.

### 21

* Ante Ciliga, 94, Croatian politician and writer.
* Joe Dwyer, 89, American baseball player.
* Jim Garrison, 70, American attorney, cancer.
* François-Didier Gregh, 86, Monegasque politician and Minister of State.
* Bob Todd, 70, English comedy actor.

### 22

* Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, 88, British botanist and educator.
* Red Barber, 84, American sportscaster.
* Carlo Bernari, 83, Italian author.
* Giorgio de Stefani, 88, Italian tennis player.
* Pavel Khristophorovich Dubinda, 78, Soviet Red Army war hero during World War II.
* Newell A. George, 88, American politician.
* Wilson Humphries, 64, Scottish football player and manager.
* Wolf Kaiser, 75, German theatre and film actor, suicide.
* Cleavon Little, 53, American actor (Blazing Saddles, Temperatures Rising, Purlie), Tony winner (1970), colon cancer.
* André Vandeweyer, 83, Belgian football player and coach.

### 23

* Banine, 86, Azerbaijani-French writer.
* Dorothy Dunbar, 90, American actress and socialite.
* Ernst Hartmann, 76, German medical doctor, author and publicist.
* William Masselos, 72, American classical pianist.
* Vernon Morgan, 88, English Olympic steeplechase athlete (1928).

### 24

* David Archer, 61, Barbadian cricket player and umpire.
* Laurie Colwin, 48, American writer, aortic aneurysm.
* Mohammad Ibraheem Khwakhuzhi, 72, Afghan politician and writer.
* Gustav Kneip, 87, German composer.
* Jimmy Orlando, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Luis Rosales, 82, Spanish poet and essayist, cerebral hemorrhage.

### 25

* Adelino da Palma Carlos, 87, Portuguese politician, prime minister (1974).
* Arnold S. Eagle, 82–83, Hungarian-American photographer.
* Giorgio Locchi, 69, Italian journalist and writer.
* Karen Lykkehus, 88, Danish actress.
* Roger Miller, 56, American musician, lung cancer.
* Richard Pousette-Dart, 76, American abstract artist.
* Peter Rice, 57, Irish structural engineer, brain cancer.
* Ivan Svitlychny, 63, Ukrainian poet, literary critic, and Soviet dissident.

### 26

* Jerome Andrews, 83–84, American-French dancer and choreographer.
* Laurel Cronin, 53, American actress (A League of Their Own, Hook, Beethoven), cancer.
* Melvin Dixon, 42, American author and poet, AIDS.
* Paul Eisler, 85, Austrian inventor.
* Ridgely Gaither, 89, United States Army lieutenant general.

### 27

* Ivan Andreadis, 68, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
* István Balogh, 80, Hungarian football player and manager.
* David Bohm, 74, American-British theoretical physicist, heart attack.
* Paul Jessup, 84, American discus thrower, shot putter and Olympian.
* Roy Marshall, 62, Barbadian-English cricket player, cancer.
* Nayyar Sultana, 55, Pakistani film actress, cancer.
* Wilson Whitley, 37, American college football player, heart problems.

### 28

* Hubert Benoit, 88, French psychotherapist.
* Greg Duhaime, 39, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympian, AIDS-related complications.
* Charles Pellat, 78, Algerian-French academic, historian, and translator.
* Lin Shen, 84, Taiwanese politician.

### 29

* George T. Clemens, 90, American cinematographer.
* Manuel Antonio de Varona, 83, Cuban lawyer and politician.
* Kenneth MacMillan, 62, British ballet dancer, heart attack.
* Louis Marin, 61, French philosopher, historian, and art critic.

### 30

* Dionizije Dvornić, 66, Croatian football player.
* Ben Lessy, 90, American comedian and actor.
* Joan Mitchell, 67, American artist, lung cancer.
* Kuladeivam Rajagopal, 61, Indian actor.

### 31

* Trevor Atkinson, 49, English football player.
* Jean Hébey, 76, French-Algerian film actor.
* Brian MacCabe, 78, English athlete.
* Sammy Ward, 28–29, Northern Irish paramilitary, killed by the IRA.