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

## September 1992
### 1

* Desta Asgedom, 20, Ethiopian athlete, suicide.
* Morris Carnovsky, 94, American actor.
* Chick Harbert, 77, American golfer, stroke.
* Piotr Jaroszewicz, 82, Polish politician, prime minister (1970–1980), murdered.
* Sergey Senyukov, 37, Soviet high jumper and Olympian.
* Ivan Tregubov, 62, Soviet ice hockey player.

### 2

* Tahir Hasanov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* Nam Jeong-im, 47, South Korean actress, breast cancer.
* Sadeq Mallallah, 21-22, Saudi Arabian apostate, execution by beheading.
* Barbara McClintock, 90, American geneticist, Nobel Prize recipient (1983).
* Johnnie Mortimer, 61, English scriptwriter.
* Baltasar Sangchili, 80, Spanish boxer.
* Bert Zagers, 59, American gridiron football player.

### 3

* César Bengzon, 96, Filipino judge, Chief Justice of the Philippines (1961–1966).
* Bruno Bjelinski, 82, Croatian composer.
* Sherm Chavoor, 72-73, American swimming coach.
* Mahmoud Hessaby, 89, Iranian nuclear physicist and politician.
* Eli Mandel, 69, Canadian poet.
* P. Neelakantan, 75, Indian Tamil film director.
* Sirimathi Rasadari, 60, Sri Lankan actress.
* Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., 81, American civil rights and civil liberties lawyer.

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* Luis Cardoza y Aragón, 88, Guatemalan writer and diplomat.
* Dan Deșliu, 65, Romanian poet, drowned.
* Greg J. Holbrock, 86, American politician attorney and politician.
* Fakhraddin Najafov, 25, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* M. B. Ramachandra Rao, 86, Indian geophysicist.
* John van Dreelen, 70, Dutch actor.

### 5

* Ng Liang Chiang, 71, Singaporean hurdler.
* Ron Davis, 50, American baseball player.
* Billy Herman, 83, American baseball player, cancer.
* Irving Allen Lee, 43, American actor (The Edge of Night), AIDS.
* Fritz Leiber, 81, American author (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser), stroke.
* Yasuji Mori, 67, Japanese animator.
* László Rajcsányi, 85, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.
* Albert Rees, 71, American economist.
* Hal Russell, 66, American free jazz composer, band leader and multi-instrumentalist.
* Jens Arup Seip, 86, Norwegian historian.
* Christopher Trace, 59, English actor and television presenter (Blue Peter), cancer.
* Zhou Wennan, 82, Chinese revolutionary and judge.
* Hans-Peter Zimmer, 55, German artist.

### 6

* Ronnie Cahill, 77, American gridiron football player.
* Henry Ephron, 81, American screenwriter (Captain Newman, M.D., Carousel, Desk Set).
* Pat Harder, 70, American gridiron football player.
* Mervyn Johns, 93, Welsh actor.
* Ponjikara Raphi, 68, Indian Malayalam essayist, playwright, and novelist.
* John Sutton, 73, English geologist.

### 7

* Levan Abashidze, 29, Georgian actor and soldier, killed in battle.
* Cyril Bence, 89, Welsh toolmaker and politician.
* Arturo Dominici, 76, Italian actor.
* Gerald Hanley, 76, Irish novelist.
* Edward Kobyliński, 84, Polish rower and Olympic medalist.
* Emilio Villalba Welsh, 86, Argentine screenwriter.

### 8

* William Barrett, 79, American academic.
* Quentin N. Burdick, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1960), heart failure.
* Guy Grantham, 92, British naval officer.
* Donald Guthrie, 76, British theologian and New Testament scholar.
* Hans-Otto Meissner, 83, German lawyer and nazi diplomat.

### 9

* Maurice Burton, 94, British zoologist and science author.
* Julian Creus, 75, British weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
* William E. DePuy, 72, American Army general.
* Carmelo Di Bella, 71, Italian football player.
* Willie Fennell, 72, Australian actor, comedian and scriptwriter.
* Imre König, 91, Hungarian-British chess master.

### 10

* Louis Baes, 93, Belgian football player.
* Harold L. Humes, 66, American novelist and counterculture figure.
* Hanns Scharff, 84, German Luftwaffe interrogator.
* Ivar Sjölin, 73, Swedish freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist.
* Evelyn Wellings, 83, Egyptian-English cricket player and journalist.

### 11

* Else Germeten, 74, Norwegian film censor and politician.
* Abubakar Gumi, 69, Nigerian Islamic scholar, leukemia.
* Eiji Gō, 55, Japanese actor.
* Frank McKinney, 53, American Olympic swimmer (1956, 1960), plane crash.
* Frank Singuineau, 79, Trinidadian actor.

### 12

* Mary Wells Ashworth, 89, American historian, aortic rupture.
* Hans F. Koenekamp, 100, American special effects artist and cinematographer.
* Mallikarjun Mansur, 81, Indian classical singer.
* Ruth Nelson, 87, American actress (3 Women, The Late Show, Awakenings), cancer.
* Ed Peck, 75, American actor (Happy Days, Bullitt, Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers), heart attack.
* Anthony Perkins, 60, American actor (Psycho, Friendly Persuasion, The Black Hole), AIDS.
* Emilio Recoba, 87, Uruguayan footballer.
* Ron Woodroof, 42, American entrepreneur and creator of the Dallas Buyer's Club, AIDS-related pneumonia.

### 13

* Dick Huffman, 69, American gridiron football player.
* Lou Jacobs, 89, German-American clown.
* Božidar Rašica, 79, Croatian architect, scenographer and painter.
* Arseny Semionov, 81, Soviet painter and art teacher.

### 14

* Somapala Dharmapriya, 51, Sri Lankan actor and cinematographer.
* Ilse Dörffeldt, 80, German sprinter and Olympian.
* Bruce Hutchison, 91, Canadian writer and journalist.
* August Komendant, 85, Estonian-American structural engineer.
* Paul Joseph James Martin, 89, Canadian politician.
* Theodore S. Weiss, 64, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1977), heart failure.

### 15

* Pedro Formental, 77, Cuban-American baseball player.
* Harvey Hardy, 69, American gridiron football player.
* Walter B. Jones, Sr., 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1966).
* Michael Luciano, 83, American film editor (The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard, The Flight of the Phoenix).
* Shubbo Shankar, 50, Indian graphic artist, musician and composer, pneumonia.

### 16

* Larbi Benbarek, 75, French-Moroccan football player.
* Millicent Fenwick, 82, American politician, heart failure.
* Mogens Koch, 94, Danish architect.
* Henri Legay, 72, French operatic tenor.
* Jim Sullivan, Northern Irish politician and republican.
* Victoria Wolf, 88, German-American writer.

### 17

* Homayoun Ardalan, 42, Iranian Kurd politician, assassinated.
* Feodor Chaliapin Jr., 86, Russian-Italian actor.
* Herivelto Martins, 80, Brazilian composer and singer.
* Ralph Schwarz, 25, Dutch rower and Olympian, plane crash.
* Sadegh Sharafkandi, 54, Iranian Kurd politician, assassinated.
* Judith Nisse Shklar, 63, Latvian-American political theorist.
* Roger Wagner, 78, American musician.

### 18

* Lona Andre, 77, American actress.
* David Bodian, 82, American medical scientist, Parkinson's disease.
* Darío Cabanelas, 75, Spanish Arabist.
* Princess Margaret of Denmark, 97, Danish royal.
* Kevin Hanrahan, 39, American mobster (Patriarca crime family), shot.
* Mohammad Hidayatullah, 86, Indian lawyer and Chief Justice.
* Gustav Lombard, 97, German SS general during World War II.
* Werner E. Reichardt, 68, German physicist and biologist.
* Herbert W. Spencer, 87, Chilean-American film and television composer and orchestrator.
* Earl Van Dyke, 62, American soul musician, prostate cancer.

### 19

* Fritz Bauer, 86, German coxswain and Olympic champion.
* Frederick Combs, 56, American actor (The Boys in the Band), AIDS.
* Geraint Evans, 70, Welsh opera singer.
* Kenny Howard, 63, American motorcycle mechanic, artist, and gunsmith.
* Aida Imanguliyeva, 52, Azerbaijani scholar, cancer.
* Jacques Pic, 59, French chef, heart attack.
* Keith Stackpole, 76, Australian football player.
* Alexander Trojan, 78, Austrian film actor.

### 20

* Musa Anter, 72, Turkish Kurd writer, journalist and intellectual, assassinated.
* Leon O. Jacobson, 80, American physician, medical researcher and educator.
* Reuben Kadish, 79, American visual artist.
* Harry Smyth, 82, Canadian speed skater and Olympian.
* William L. Springer, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1973).

### 21

* Aleksandr Almetov, 52, Russian ice hockey player, pneumonia.
* Tarachand Barjatya, 78, Indian film producer.
* Paul de Metternich-Winneburg, 75, German-Austrian racing driver.
* Harry J. Sonneborn, 77, American businessman and first president of McDonald's, diabetes.
* Bill Williams, 77, American actor (The Adventures of Kit Carson), brain tumor, brain cancer.

### 22

* Candido Amantini, 78, Italian Roman Catholic priest, theologian and exorcist.
* Paul Bucy, 87, American neurosurgeon.
* James Demouchette, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Aurelio López, 44, Mexican baseball player, traffic collision.
* Aruna Shanthi, 66, Sri Lankan actor.

### 23

* Frank P. Briggs, 98, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1945–1947).
* Paul E. Garber, 93, American museum curator.
* Ivar Ivask, 64, Estonian poet.
* Mary Santpere, 79, Spanish actress.
* Kalyan Sundaram, 88, Indian civil servant.
* Glendon Swarthout, 74, American novelist, pulmonary emphysema.
* James A. Van Fleet, 100, American Army general.

### 24

* Christiane Barry, 74, French actress.
* Roy Heffernan, 67, Australian professional wrestler, heart attack.
* Pietro Magni, 73, Italian football player and manager.
* Sarv Mittra Sikri, 84, Indian judge and Chief Justice.
* Brownie Wise, 79, American pioneering saleswoman (Tupperware).

### 25

* Igor Bakalov, 52, Soviet sports shooter and Olympian.
* Tibor Kemény, 79, Hungarian football player and coach.
* César Manrique, 73, Spanish artist, traffic collision.
* Ivan Vdović, 31, Serbian drummer, AIDS.

### 26

* Suimenkul Chokmorov, 52, Soviet-Kyrgyz film actor.
* Ralph Davis, 70, American football player.
* Pancrazio De Pasquale, 67, Italian politician.
* Erich Krempel, 79, German Olympic sport shooter (1936).
* Luka Lipošinović, 59, Yugoslavian football player.
* Ralph Manheim, 85, American translator, prostate cancer.
* Frank Patrick, 76, American gridiron football player.
* Oiva Virtanen, 63, Finnish basketball player.
* Aleksandr Voronin, 41, Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion, fall.

### 27

* H. E. P. de Mel, 85, Sri Lankan politician, member of parliament of Ceylon.
* Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, 94, Canadian diplomat, academic, and civil servant.
* Charles Kramer, 85, American economist.
* Zhang Leping, 81, Chinese comic artist.
* Jacques-Paul Martin, 84, French Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Brian Mock, 45, American murder victim
* Hermann Neuberger, 72, German football official.
* Keith Prentice, 52, American actor (The Boys in the Band, Dark Shadows, Cruising), AIDS-related cancer.

### 28

* António Rodrigo Pinto da Silva, 80, Portuguese botanist and taxonomist.
* William Douglas-Home, 80, British playwright.
* John Leech, 66, British mathematician.
* Olli Lehtinen, 77, Finnish Olympic boxer (1948).
* Johanna Piesch, 94, Austrian mathematician.
* Hu Qiaomu, 80, Chinese sociologist, marxist philosopher and politician.

### 29

* Jean Aurenche, 89, French screenwriter.
* Paul Jabara, 44, American songwriter ("Last Dance", "It's Raining Men"), AIDS.
* Bill Rowe, 61, English sound engineer (The Last Emperor, The Killing Fields, Batman), Oscar winner (1988).
* Kálmán Szepesi, 62, Hungarian table tennis player.

### 30

* Nate Borden, 60, American gridiron football player, cancer.
* Robert Joel, 48, American actor (A Very Natural Thing), AIDS.
* Erwin Klein, 53, American table tennis player, shot.
* Maria Malicka, 94, Polish stage and film actress.