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

## June 1992
### 1

* Karl-Heinz Freiberger, 51, German Olympic field hockey player (1964, 1968).
* Eve Gardiner, 78, English beautician and remedial make-up artist.
* Anatoli Porkhunov, 63, Soviet footballer.
* Yrjö Sotiola, 79, Finnish football player.
* Delia Villegas Vorhauer, 52, American social worker.
* Adele Wiseman, 64, Canadian author.

### 2

* Gerd Boder, 58, German composer.
* Philip Dunne, 84, American screenwriter (How Green Was My Valley, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Robe), cancer.
* Endre Győrfi, 72, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (1948).
* Paul Miller, 79, American gridiron football player.
* Donald Nichols, 69, United States Air Force intelligence officer.
* Alexandru Nicolschi, 76, communist activist, Soviet agent and officer, and Securitate chief, with the rank of Lieutenant General.
* Sergio Paganella, 80, Italian Olympic basketball player (1936).

### 3

* Ray Buker, 92, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Ettore Campogalliani, 88, Italian composer, musician and teacher.
* Wilfried Dietrich, 58, German wrestler and Olympic champion, heart attack.
* William Gaines, 70, American publisher (Mad).
* Robert Morley, 84, English actor (Marie Antoinette, The African Queen, Around the World in 80 Days), stroke.
* Patrick Peyton, 83, Irish-American Roman Catholic priest.

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* Margherita Bontade, 91, Italian politician.
* Vladimir Chekalov, 69, Russian painter.
* Melvin Dresher, 81, Polish-born American mathematician.
* Geezil Minerve, 70, Cuban-American jazz musician.
* Siddhicharan Shrestha, 80, Nepalese poet.
* Carl Stotz, 82, American founder of Little League Baseball.

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* Max Lerner, 89, Russian-born American journalist.
* Narciso Martínez, 80, Mexican folk musician.
* Laurence Naismith, 83, English actor (Scrooge, A Night to Remember, Jason and the Argonauts).
* Ethel Reschke, 81, German actress.
* Franz Reuß, 88, German Luftwaffe general during World War II.

### 6

* Richard Eurich, 89, English painter.
* Martin Goodman, 84, American publisher and founder of Marvel Comics, pneumonia.
* Roger Hägglund, 30, Swedish ice hockey player, traffic collision.
* Arnie Knepper, 61, American racecar driver, cancer.
* E. Harold Munn, 88, American politician.
* Larry Riley, 39, American actor (Knots Landing, A Soldier's Story, Stir Crazy), AIDS-related kidney failure.
* Manfred Stengl, 46, Austrian Olympic luger (1964) and cyclist, racing collision.

### 7

* Bill France, 82, American businessman and racing driver, founder of NASCAR, Alzheimer's disease.
* Ina Halley, 65, German actress.
* Alexander Koldunov, 68, Soviet flying ace during World War II.
* Ivan Kramberger, 56, Slovenian writer, philanthropist, and politician, homicide.
* Olav Rytter, 89, Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, and radio personality.
* Bob Sweeney, 73, American television director (The Andy Griffith Show, Hogan's Heroes) and actor (Marnie), cancer.

### 8

* Atef Bseiso, 43, Palestinian PLO's liaison officer, homicide.
* Farag Foda, 46, Egyptian writer and human rights activist, murdered.
* Alfred Uhl, 83, Austrian composer.
* Sakae Ōba, 78, Imperial Japanese Army officer during World War II.

### 9

* Per Bergsland, 74, Norwegian fighter pilot, escapist from Stalag Luft III.
* Betty Miles, 82, American actress and stuntwoman.
* Big Miller, 69, American musician, heart attack.
* Fernando de Quintanilha e Mendonça Dias, 93, Portuguese admiral and colonial administrator.

### 10

* Al Brightman, 68, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
* Glyn Smallwood Jones, 84, British colonial administrator, liver failure.
* Morris Kline, 84, American mathematician.
* William S. Mailliard, 75, American banker and politician.
* Hachidai Nakamura, 61, Japanese composer, diabetes.
* Nat Pierce, 66, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
* Hans Reiser, 73, German actor.
* Bert Sotlar, 71, Yugoslav film actor.

### 11

* John Freeman Loutit, 82, Australian radiobiologist.
* Rafael Orozco Maestre, 38, Colombian singer of vallenato music, shot.
* Alexander Spoehr, 78, American anthropologist.
* Jack Sullivan, 78, Canadian sports journalist.

### 12

* Allahverdi Baghirov, 46, Azerbaijani officer, politician and war hero, land mine.
* Serge Daney, 48, French movie critic, AIDS-related complications.
* Randy Moore, 85, American baseball player.
* Gerda Nicolson, 54, Australian actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Renié, 90, American costume designer (Cleopatra, The President's Lady, The Big Fisherman), Oscar winner (1964).
* Klemens Rudnicki, 95, Polish Army general.

### 13

* Anatoly Nikolayevich Davidovich, 27, Azerbaijani sergeant and war hero, killed in action.
* Pumpuang Duangjan, 30, Thai pop singer, lupus.
* Edward Leslie Gray, 97, Canadian politician.
* Remziye Hisar, 89-90, Turkish chemist.
* Edwin C. Horrell, 89, American football player and coach.
* Carl Nordenfalk, 84, Swedish art historian and academic.
* Erik Paaske, 58, Danish actor and singer.
* Shikar Shikarov, 38, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Qu Wu, 93, Chinese military officer and politician.

### 14

* Carlos d'Alessio, 56, Argentine-French composer, AIDS-related complications.
* Martin B. McKneally, 77, American politician.
* Thomas Nipperdey, 64, German historian.
* Mirasgar Seyidov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.

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* Jean Aerts, 84, Belgian road bicycle racer.
* Amitabha Bhattacharyya, 60, Indian engineer.
* Lev Gumilyov, 79, Soviet historian, ethnologist, and anthropologist.
* Leo Halle, 86, Dutch football player.
* Kinji Imanishi, 90, Japanese ecologist and anthropologist.
* Eddie Lopat, 73, American baseball player, pancreatic cancer.
* Jay MacDowell, 72, American gridiron football player.
* Chuck Menville, 52, American television writer (The Real Ghostbusters, The Smurfs, Sabrina the Teenage Witch), cancer.
* Chingiz Mustafayev, 31, Azerbaijani journalist, killed in action.
* Roque Olsen, 66, Argentine football player and manager.
* Brett Whiteley, 53, Australian artist, drug overdose.

### 16

* Jacob Beser, 71, United States Army Air Forces officer.
* Siro Bianchi, 67, Italian-French cyclist.
* W. L. Mooty, 86, American lawyer and politician.
* Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton, 77, British politician.

### 17

* Dewey Balfa, 65, American cajun musician.
* Frederick Exley, 63, American author (A Fan's Notes), stroke.
* Grace Towns Hamilton, 85, American politician.
* Jacob Levin, 88, American chess player.
* Jim Nance, 49, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* John R. Platt, 74, American physicist and biophysicist.
* Ishrat Hussain Usmani, 75, Pakistani atomic physicist.

### 18

* Peter Allen, 48, Australian singer-songwriter, AIDS.
* Mordecai Ardon, 95, Hungarian-Israeli painter.
* Johnny Friedlaender, 79, German/French 20th-century artist.
* Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, 55, Irish businessman and politician, cancer.
* Janusz Kruk, 45, Polish singer, guitarist and composer, heart failure.
* Ken McAuley, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Carlos Humberto Perette, 76, Argentine Radical Civic Union politician and lawyer.
* R. G. Samaranayake, 68, Sri Lankan politician.

### 19

* Jas H. Duke, 53, Australian poet and cult figure.
* Kathleen McKane Godfree, 96, English tennis player, Olympic champion (1920).
* Margherita Guidacci, 71, Italian poet, stroke.
* Stephan Waser, 72, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic medalist.

### 20

* Georges Gratiant, 85, Martiniquais communist politician.
* Charles Groves, 77, English conductor.
* Nikolai Sidelnikov, 62, Russian composer.
* Thomas Whitfield, 38, American musician, heart attack.

### 21

* Leonid Azgaldyan, 49, Armenian physicist and military leader, killed in action.
* Harry Eagle, 87, American physician and pathologist.
* Joan Fuster Ortells, 69, Spanish writer.
* Lajos Sántha, 76, Hungarian gymnast.
* Yoshiko Uchida, 70, Japanese-American writer.
* Li Xiannian, 82, Chinese politician, president (1983–1988).
* Franz Wasner, 86, Austrian Roman Catholic priest and missionary, director of the Trapp Family.

### 22

* Hansjörg Eichler, 76, German botanist.
* M. F. K. Fisher, 83, American cookbook author.
* Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, 75, Romanian-French novelist.
* Reg Harris, 72, British cyclist, stroke.
* Gemini Kantha, 67, Sri Lankan actress.
* Arthur C. Lundahl, 77, American aerial reconnaissance pioneer.
* Ng Ming-yam, 37, Hong Kong politician and writer, leukemia.
* Chuck Mitchell, 64, American actor (Porky's), cirrhosis.
* Charlie Ondras, 25, American noise rock drummer, drug overdose.
* Emanuel David Rudolph, 64, American botanist.
* István Szívós Sr., 71, Hungarian water polo player and coach.

### 23

* Eric Andolsek, 25, American gridiron football player, traffic accident.
* Margot Bernice Forde, 57, New Zealand botanist, curator, and taxonomist.
* Franco Leccese, 67, Italian sprinter.
* Lucile Saunders McDonald, 93, American journalist, historian, and children's author.
* Joy Nichols, 67, Australian-British comedian, actress and singer.
* Juris Podnieks, 41, Latvian filmmaker, drowned.
* John Spencer-Churchill, 83, English artist.
* Viktor Yanushevsky, 32, Soviet and Belarusian football player, heart attack.

### 24

* Jorge Salas Chávez, 77, Argentinian sailor.
* Len Darling, 82, Australian cricketer.
* Victor Lemberechts, 68, Belgian footballer.
* Maharajapuram Santhanam, 64, Indian singer, traffic collision.
* Jo Spence, 58, British photographer, writer, and photo therapist, breast cancer.
* Rudolf Svedberg, 81, Swedish welterweight Greco-Roman wrestler.

### 25

* Jerome Brown, 27, American football player, traffic collision.
* Larry Cahan, 58, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Sayavush Hasanov, 28, Azerbaijan soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* Herbert J. McGlinchey, 87, American politician.
* James Stirling, 66, British architect, complications from surgery.

### 26

* John Jacob Astor VI, 79, American shipping magnate and socialite.
* Gyula Polgár, 80, Hungarian football player.
* Buddy Rogers, 71, American professional wrestler, stroke.
* Phil Rubenstein, 51, American actor (Tango & Cash, RoboCop 2, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), heart failure.
* Harald Sverdrup, 69, Norwegian poet and children's writer.

### 27

* Sandy Amorós, 62, Cuban-American baseball player, pneumonia.
* Allan Jones, 84, American actor and singer, lung cancer.
* Martin F. Rockmore, 74, American marine general.
* Stefanie Sargent, 24, American musician (7 Year Bitch), accidental asphyxiation.
* Charles Tyler, 50, American jazz musician, heart failure.
* Elizabeth (Bessie) Watson, 91, Scottish child suffragette and piper.
* Georg Årlin, 75, Swedish actor.

### 28

* Roger Bisseron, 86, French racing cyclist.
* Peter Hirt, 82, Swiss racing driver.
* Valerian Kobakhia, 63, Soviet-Abkhaz apparatchik.
* Joan Marshall, 61, American actress (Bold Venture, Shampoo, Star Trek).
* John Piper, 88, English artist.
* Howard Roberts, 62, American jazz guitarist and session musician.
* Qian Sanqiang, 78, Chinese nuclear physicist.
* Mikhail Tal, 55, Latvian chess player, esophageal hemorrhage.

### 29

* Pierre Billotte, 86, French soldier and war hero during World War II.
* Mohamed Boudiaf, 73, Algerian politician, chairman of the High Council of State (since 1992), assassinated.
* May Farquharson, 98, Jamaican social worker, birth control advocate, philanthropist and reformer.
* Elie Kedourie, 66, British historian.
* Kamil Nəsibov, 45, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* Mario Rossi, 90, Italian conductor.
* Daniel Strickler, 95, United States Army general and politician.

### 30

* Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, 87, British aristocrat and politician.
* André Hébuterne, 97, French painter.
* Käthe Itter, 85, German actress.
* Massey Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough, 88, British peer and British Army officer.
* Jan van Heteren, 75, Dutch water polo player and Olympian.