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

## February 1992
### 1

* Mohan Choti, 57, Indian actor.
* Maurice John Dingman, 78, American bishop of the Catholic Church.
* Jean Hamburger, 82, French physician, surgeon and essayist.
* Irving Kaufman, 81, American judge, pancreatic cancer.
* Hussein Kamel Montasser, 68, Egyptian basketball player.
* Frank Spitzer, 65, Austrian-American mathematician.

### 2

* Philip Erenberg, 82, American gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
* Theodor Gaster, 85, British-American biblical scholar.
* Paul Huston, 66, American basketball player.
* Bert Parks, 77, American television personality and Miss America and host, lung cancer.
* Vladimír Čech, 77, Czechoslovak film director and screenwriter.

### 3

* Otto Arndt, 71, East German politician.
* Junior Cook, 57, American hard bop tenor saxophone player.
* Knut Fridell, 83, Swedish freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion.
* Mário Peixoto, 83, Brazilian film director.
* Jan van Aartsen, 82, Dutch politician and jurist.

### 4

* Alan Davies, 30, British footballer, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
* John Dehner, 76, American actor (The Right Stuff, The Doris Day Show, The Boys from Brazil), emphysema.
* Lisa Fonssagrives, 80, Swedish-American fashion model.
* Vittorio Gelmetti, 65, Italian composer.
* Jay Ilagan, 37, Filipino actor, motorcycle accident.
* Gurmit Singh Kullar, 84-85, Indian Olympic field hockey player (1932).
* Ned Locke, 72, American television personality and radio announcer, liver cancer.
* Gianni Rizzo, 67, Italian film actor.

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* Sergio Méndez Arceo, 84, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop and human rights activist.
* Nicomedes Santa Cruz, 66, Peruvian singer, songwriter and musicologist.
* Paul A. Freund, 83, American jurist and law professor, cancer.
* Joseph MacManus, 21, Irish republican volunteer, shot.
* Carter Manasco, 90, American politician.
* Harry Mattos, 80, American gridiron football player.
* Ernest Thornton, 86, British politician.
* Bill Wheatley, 82, American basketball player.

### 6

* John Greenstock, 86, English cricket player.
* Wayde Preston, 62, American actor (Colt .45, Sugarfoot, Captain America), colorectal cancer.
* Felix Rexhausen, 59, German journalist, editor and author.
* Cedric Sloane, 76, Australian cross-country skier.

### 7

* Bob Allen, 75, English football player.
* Radharaman Mitra, 94, Indian revolutionary Bengali writer.
* Shinsuke Ogawa, 56, Japanese documentary film director, liver failure.
* Gunnar Randers, 77, Norwegian physicist.
* Buzz Sawyer, 32, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.

### 8

* Fabian Gaffke, 78, American baseball player.
* Baruch Lumet, 93, Polish-American actor.
* Roland Robinson, 79, Australian poet and writer.
* Bazoline Estelle Usher, 106, American educator.
* Tom Williams, 51, American ice hockey player, heart attack.
* Denny Wright, 67, English jazz guitarist, bladder cancer.

### 9

* Leon Clore, 73, English film producer.
* Willie Fagan, 74, Scottish football player.
* Andor Földes, 78, Hungarian pianist, fall.
* Jack Kinney, 82, American animator and film director (Pinocchio, Dumbo, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad).
* Boonsong Lekagul, 84, Thai medical doctor, biologist, and conservationist.

### 10

* Vladimir Brovikov, 60, Soviet and Russian politician.
* Byron Gentry, 78, American football player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Alex Haley, 70, American author (Roots: The Saga of an American Family), heart attack.
* Fred Hynes, 83, American sound engineer (West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!), five-time Oscar winner.
* Yoshiko Okada, 89, Japanese stage and film actress.
* Jim Pepper, 50, American musician, lymphoma.
* Doyt Perry, 82, American football player and coach.
* Meade Roberts, 61, American screenwriter, heart attack.

### 11

* Patrick Crehan, 71, Irish basketball player.
* Ray Danton, 60, American actor (The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, The George Raft Story, The Longest Day), kidney failure.
* Johnny Garrett, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen, 88, Austrian train designer and engineer.
* Robert W. Russell, 80, American playwright and writer for movies and documentaries.
* Carlos Rein Segura, 94, Spanish politician.

### 12

* Sandy Douglass, 87, American sailboat racer and designer.
* Yehuda D. Nevo, 60, Middle Eastern archeologist living in Israel.
* Stella Roman, 87, Romanian operatic soprano.
* Bep van Klaveren, 84, Dutch boxer and Olympic featherweight champion.

### 13

* Nikolai Bogolyubov, 82, Russian theoretical physicist.
* Don Ettinger, 69, American gridiron football player.
* Gyula Kovács, 62, Hungarian drummer
* Antun Motika, 89, Croatian artist.
* Earl Rapp, 70, American baseball player and scout.
* Dorothy Tree, 85, American actress, heart failure.
* Bob den Uyl, 61, Dutch writer.
* Warren Westlund, 65, American Olympic rower (1948).

### 14

* Luigi Ghirri, 49, Italian artist and photographer, heart attack.
* Holger Jernsten, 81, Swedish football player.
* Roepie Kruize, 67, Dutch field hockey player and Olympian.
* Alex Lovy, 78, American animator (The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Heathcliff).
* Angelique Pettyjohn, 48, American actress, cervical cancer.
* Helen Vela, 45, Filipina actress and radio and TV personality, colorectal cancer.
* Gene Venzke, 83, American middle-distance runner and Olympian.

### 15

* Hermann Axen, 75, German political activist.
* María Elena Moyano, 33, Peruvian activist, murdered.
* Shosaku Numa, 63, Japanese neuroscientist.
* Gerhard Riege, 61, German politician, suicide by hanging.
* William Schuman, 81, American composer, complications from hip surgery.
* Edna Gardner Whyte, 89, American aviator.

### 16

* Abbas al-Musawi, 39, Lebanese militant and co-founder of Hezbollah, missile strike.
* Angela Carter, 51, English novelist, lung cancer.
* Walter Franz, 80, German theoretical physicist.
* Alberto Gomes, 76, Portuguese football player.
* George MacBeth, 60, Scottish poet.
* Oleksander Ohloblyn, 92, Ukrainian historian.
* Jânio Quadros, 75, Brazilian politician, president (1961).
* Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk, 98, British noble.
* Opal Irene Whiteley, 94, American nature writer and diarist.
* Herman Wold, 83, Norwegian-Swedish mathematician.

### 17

* John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse, 63, British Royal Navy officer, surgical complications.
* Alfred Hooke, 86, Canadian politician and writer.
* Delio Morollón, 54, Spanish football player.
* Forrest L. Vosler, 68, American Air Force radio operator, Medal of Honor recipient.

### 18

* Sylvain Arend, 89, Belgian astronomer.
* Roman Filippov, 56, Soviet actor, thromboembolism.
* Robert Gittings, 81, English writer, biographer, playwright and poet.
* Edith Hamlin, 90, American painter and muralist.
* Wang Huayun, 84, Chinese politician.
* James H. Polk, 80, American Army four-star general.

### 19

* Narayan Shridhar Bendre, 81, Indian artist.
* Mike Bucchianeri, 75, American gridiron football player.
* Joseph Lyman Fisher, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1981), bone cancer.
* Takehiko Kanagoki, 77, Japanese Olympic basketball player (1936).
* Felix Makasiar, 76, Filipino lawyer and Chief Justice.
* Buddy O'Grady, 72, American basketball player and coach.
* Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner, 87, Russian-French writer and translator.
* Tojo Yamamoto, 65, American professional wrestler, suicide.

### 20

* Muhammad Asad, 91, Austrian journalist, writer, political theorist, and diplomat.
* Eugene R. Black, Sr., 93, American banker.
* A. J. Casson, 93, Canadian artist.
* Roberto D'Aubuisson, 48, Salvadoran militant, esophageal cancer.
* Pierre Dervaux, 75, French operatic conductor, composer, and pedagogue.
* Joan Dixon, 61, American actress.
* John Kneubuhl, 71, American Samoan screenwriter, playwright and polynesian historian.
* Dick York, 63, American actor (Bewitched, Inherit the Wind, Going My Way), emphysema.

### 21

* William Arrowsmith, 67, American classicist, academic, and translator.
* Charles L. Carpenter, 89, American naval admiral and genealogist.
* Kate ter Horst, 85, Dutch housewife known as the Angel of Arnhem during the Battle of Arnhem, traffic collision.
* Eva Jessye, 97, American conductor.
* Jane Pickens Langley, 84, American singer, heart failure.
* Henri Préaux, 80, French rowing coxswain and Olympic silver medalist.
* Haruo Tanaka, 79, Japanese actor.

### 22

* Sudirman Arshad, 37, Malaysian singer-songwriter, pneumonia.
* Nicolas Bochatay, 27, Swiss Olympic speed skier (1992), skiing collision.
* Oscar Broneer, 97, Swedish-American archaeologist.
* Gilbert Chase, 85, American music historian, critic and author, pneumonia.
* Jun Miki, 72, Japanese photographer and photojournalism pioneer.
* Aarno Ruusuvuori, 67, Finnish architect.
* Markos Vafiadis, 86, Greek politician and resistance fighter.
* David Wilson, 84, English football player.
* Paul Winter, 86, French discus thrower and Olympic medalist.
* Kurt Wires, 72, Finnish Olympic canoer (1948, 1952).
* Tadeusz Łomnicki, 64, Polish actor.

### 23

* Joseph Armone, 74, American mobster (Gambino crime family).
* Dwight Bolinger, 84, American linguist and academic.
* Valentino Bompiani, 93, Italian publisher, writer and playwright, heart failure.
* Avraham Harman, 77, Israeli diplomat and academic administrator.
* Maurice Raes, 85, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Einar Schanke, 64, Norwegian composer, pianist, and theatrical producer.

### 24

* Ljubo Benčić, 87, Yugoslav football player.
* Clarrie Jordan, 69, English football player.
* August Lešnik, 77, Croatian football player.
* Doreen Montgomery, 78, British screenwriter.

### 25

* Zlatko Celent, 39, Yugoslav Olympic rower (1980), traffic accident.
* Guy Deghy, 79, Hungarian-British actor.
* Andrews Engelmann, 90, Russian-German actor.
* Harry D. Felt, 89, American naval aviator.
* F. Russell Miller, 78, New Zealand politician.
* Carl Monssen, 70, Norwegian rower.
* Ollie O'Toole, 79, American actor.
* Viktor Reznikov, 39, Soviet singer-songwriter, traffic collision.
* Bernard Michael Shanley, 88, American lawyer and politician.

### 26

* Larry Banks, 60, American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer.
* Marguerite Ross Barnett, 49, American academic, cancer.
* Gerrit Schulte, 76, Dutch racing cyclist.
* Stuart Nash Scott, 85, American lawyer and diplomat, stroke.
* Honey Sri-Isan, 20, Thai singer, traffic collision.
* Jean R. Yawkey, 83, American sports executive (Boston Red Sox) and philanthropist.
* Military personnel killed during the Khojaly massacre:
** Alif Hajiyev, 38, Azerbaijani officer and war hero.
** Tofig Huseynov, 37, Azerbaijani commander and war hero.
** Hikmet Nazarli, 25, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero.
** Janpolad Rzayev, 24, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero.
** Araz Selimov, 31, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero.

### 27

* Chuck Drazenovich, 64, American gridiron football player.
* Algirdas Julien Greimas, 74, Lithuanian-French literary scientist.
* Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 85, Canadian-American academic and politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1977–1983), Alzheimer's disease.
* Katharine Luomala, 84, American anthropologist.
* John Rothenstein, 90, British art historian.
* Antoine Wehenkel, 82, Luxembourgish politician and engineer.

### 28

* Antonio Bravo, 86, Spanish-Mexican film and television actor.
* Bolesław Orliński, 92, Polish aviator, military, sports and test pilot.
* Enzo Pulcrano, 48, Italian actor and writer.
* Jackie Wiid, 62, South African swimmer and Olympian.
* Bert Wilson, 42, Canadian ice hockey player, stomach cancer.

### 29

* Yavar Aliyev, 35, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Ada Colangeli, 78, Italian actress.
* Don Heinrich, 61, American football player, coach, and announcer, cancer.
* Shamshi Kaldayakov, 61, Kazakh composer ("Menıñ Qazaqstanym").
* Ferenc Karinthy, 70, Hungarian novelist, playwright, and journalist.
* La Lupe, 52, Cuban-American singer, heart attack.
* Teófilo Villavicencio Marxuach, 79, Puerto Rican radio broadcaster.
* Ruth Pitter, 94, British poet.
* Sergei Senyuskin, 34, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Eddie Wares, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Mevhibe İnönü, 97, First Lady of Turkey as wife of president İsmet İnönü.