1992 Calendar
Deaths 1 - 200 of 793
- Jan 1 Constantin Poustochkine, Dutch jazz musician and critic, dies at 81
- Jan 1 Ginette Leclerc, French actress (Baker's Wife), dies at 79
Jan 1 American computer scientist and US Navy admiral who invented the first compiler for a universal computer programming language and is credited with coining the phrase 'debugging’, dies at 85
- Jan 1 M. J. Frankovich, American football player and film producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 82
- Jan 2 Virginia Field, British-born actress (Dream Girl), dies of cancer at 74
- Jan 3 Anthony Del Casino, bandleader (Charlie Barnet Band), dies at 79
- Jan 3 Judith Anderson, actress (Star Trek 3), dies of pneumonia at 93
- Jan 3 Ken Grieves, Australian cricketer (NSW & Lancashire leg-spin all-rounder), dies at 66
- Jan 3 Lewis Michael Friedman, American pianist, dies at 47 of AIDS
- Jan 3 Radomiro Tomic, Chilean president (1970), dies
- Jan 4 Earl Colbert, American character actor, dies at 74
- Jan 4 Teddy Grace [Stella Crowson], American jazz and blues singer, dies at 86 [1]
- Jan 4 William Walker, American film stuntman and actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74
- Jan 6 Avon Jaeger Hill, entertainer, dies of cancer at 44
- Jan 6 Elaine McKenna, Australian actress (Peg Martin-Cell Block H), dies
- Jan 7 Jhean Burton, American entertainer, dies at 63
- Jan 7 Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and actor known for "Sesame Street, The Muppet Show", dies of AIDS at 40
- Jan 8 Abderrahim Bouabid, Moroccan politician (Socialist Union of Popular Forces) and an opponent of French Imperialism and King Hassan II, dies at 69
- Jan 8 Johnny Meijer, Dutch accordionist known as the King of Accordions (Body & Soul), dies at 79
- Jan 9 Bill Naughton [William John Francis Naughton], English playwright (Alfie), dies at 81
- Jan 9 Steve Brodie [John Stevenson], American actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies from illness at 72
- Jan 10 Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89
- Jan 10 Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (b. 1919)
- Jan 12 Walt Morey, US children's book writer (Gentle Ben), dies at 84
- Jan 13 Josef Neckermann, German equestrian rider (Olympic gold dressage 1964, 68), dies at 79
- Jan 13 Yvonne Bryceland, South African stage actress (Road to Mecca), dies of cancer at 66
- Jan 15 (David) Dee Murray [Oates], British bassist (Elton John backing band), dies after a stroke at 45
- Jan 15 Hari Rhodes, American actor (Earth II, Detroit 9000), dies at 59
- Jan 16 Ajahn Chah, Thai Buddhist meditation master, dies at 73
- Jan 16 Roselle Novelle, silent film actress, dies at 95
- Jan 17 Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95
- Jan 17 Charlie Ventura [Venturo], American jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader (Bop for the People), dies of lung cancer at 75
- Jan 17 Dorothy Alison, actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm), dies
- Jan 17 Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner, dies at 76
- Jan 18 John Remme, American stage and screen actor and singer, dies of AIDS at 56
- Jan 19 Manabendra Mukhopadhyay, Bengali singer and composer (Ei Ganga ei Padda), dies at 60
- Jan 20 Fitzhugh Lee, American vice-admiral (WW II - Navy Cross x2), dies at 86
- Jan 20 Muhammad Abd al-Khaliq Hassuna, Secretary-General of Arab League (1952-72), dies
- Jan 21 (William Thomas) "Champion Jack" Dupree, American boxer, blues and boogie-woogie pianist, singer-songwriter (Walkin' The Blues), and WWII P.O.W., dies of cancer at 81
- Jan 22 A J Antoon, director (That Championship Season), dies at 47
- Jan 22 Ali Amini, Iranian politician and government official (Prime Minister, 1961-62; Ambassador to US, 1956-58; Member of Parliament, 1947-49), dies at 87
- Jan 23 Frederick "Freddie" Bartholomew, British child actor (Anna Karenina, David Copperfield, Captains Courageous), dies of emphysema at 67
- Jan 23 Ian Wolfe, American actor (Diary of a Madman, Wizards & Warriors, Houdini, THX-1138, Homebodies), dies at 95
- Jan 23 Simon Brand, South African banker and adviser to President F. W. de Klerk, dies
- Jan 24 Charles Moulin, French actor (French Tarzan), dies
- Jan 24 John Bleifer, American actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 90
- Jan 24 Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer, executed in prison at 42
- Jan 24 Tina Chow, American model and jewellery designer, dies of AIDS at 41
- Jan 25 John Touchstone, American actor (Across Five Aprils), dies of cirrhosis at 59
- Jan 25 Mahmoud Riad, Egyptian diplomat, Secretary-General of Arab League (1972-79), dies at 74
- Jan 25 Nico Schuyt, Dutch composer, dies at 70
- Jan 26 Gilroy Roberts, American sculptor (Chief Engraver of the US Mint, 1948-64), dies at 96
Jan 26 Puerto Rican actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 80
- Jan 26 Okke Jager, Dutch theologist, writer and poet, dies at 63
- Jan 27 Francesca Primus, American columnist and theater critic (Back Stage), dies at 45
- Jan 27 Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, British actress (Eliza Dolittle), dies at 101
- Jan 28 Clark Tippet, American dancer and choreographer (American Ballet Theatre), dies at 37
- Jan 28 Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist (Discovering Jerusalem), dies at 86
- Jan 29 Willie Dixon, American blues musician ("Backdoor Man"), dies at 76
- Jan 30 Sid Vincent, British trade union leader, dies at 70
- Feb 1 George Berkeley, American actor (Life Stinks, Capts & Kings), dies at 70
- Feb 1 Irving Kaufman, American federal judge (Rosenberg Case), dies at 81
- Feb 2 Bert Parks [Jacobson], American TV host (Miss America), dies of lung cancer at 77
- Feb 2 Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist, dies at 78
- Feb 2 Maurice J. Hill, American writer (Track of Thunder), dies of pneumonia at 89
- Feb 2 Maurice Kusell, American film choreographer (Puttin' On the Ritz), dies of pneumonia at 89
- Feb 4 Andries Antonie Rieu, Dutch conductor (Maastricht Symphony Orchestra, 1949-80), dies at 75
- Feb 4 Fred Slyter, American actor and dialogue coach, dies after long illness at 56
- Feb 4 John Dehner [Forkum], American actor (The Right Stuff, Big Hawaii, Bare Essence), dies of emphysema and diabetes at 76
- Feb 4 Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish supermodel, dies at 80
- Feb 5 Laura Liddell, English actress (Shakespeare Wallah), dies at 83
- Feb 5 Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
- Feb 6 Wayde Preston [William Erksine Strange], American actor (Man Called Sledge; Colt .45), dies at 62
- Feb 7 Buzz Sawyer, wrestler (b. 1959)
- Feb 7 Jeanne Gerson, Russian-born actress, dies of cancer & pneumonia at 87
- Feb 8 Baruch Lumet, American actor (Killer Shrews), dies at 93
- Feb 8 Denny Wright, British jazz guitarist, dies at 67
- Feb 8 Thomas Williams, American ice hockey player (Olympic gold 1960), dies of a heart attack at 51
Feb 10 American writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70
- Feb 10 Florence Tarlow, American actress (Arthur), dies of cancer at 70
- Feb 10 Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies
- Feb 10 Meade Roberts, American screenwriter who worked with Tennessee Williams, dies of congestive heart failure at 61
- Feb 10 Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr Faustus), dies at 42
- Feb 10 Wim Ramaker, Dutch director and writer (On Death Track), dies
- Feb 11 Raymond "Ray" Danton, American actor and director (Longest Day, Psychic Killer), dies at 60
- Feb 12 Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, Dutch boxing champ (Olympic gold 1928), dies
- Feb 13 Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist and writer (Restless Travel), dies at 61
- Feb 13 Dorothy Tree [Triebitz], American actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Confessions Of A Nazi Spy; The Asphalt Jungle), dies of heart failure at 85
- Feb 13 Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician, dies at 82
- Feb 14 Angelique Pettyjohn [Dorothy Lee Perrins], American actress (Clambake; Repo Man), and burlesque queen, dies of from cervical cancer at 48
- Feb 14 Roepie Kruize, Dutch field hockey player (Olympic bronze, 1948 & silver, 1952), dies at 67
- Feb 15 María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
- Feb 15 William Schuman, American composer (Pulitzer Prize, 1943), and administrator (Juilliard, 1945-61; Lincoln Center, 1961-68), dies at 81
- Feb 16 Abbas al-Musawi, influential Lebanese Shia cleric, and founder and leader of Hezbollah, assassinated by Israel Defense Forces at 39
- Feb 16 Angela Carter, English novelist (Magic Toyshop) and journalist, dies of cancer at 51
- Feb 16 George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies
- Feb 16 Janio Quadros, president of Brazil (1961), dies
- Feb 19 Chet Leaming, American stage and screen actor, dies after brief illness at 66
- Feb 20 A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (member of Group of Seven), dies at 93
- Feb 20 Andrew Schenck, American conductor, dies of melanoma at 51
- Feb 20 Dick York, American actor (Darrin-Bewitched, Inherit the Wind), dies of emphysema at 63
- Feb 20 Eugene R. Black, American President of World Bank (1953-62), dies at 93
- Feb 20 Joan Dixon, actress (Hot Lead, Bunco Squad, Gunplay), dies at 66
- Feb 20 Roberto D'Aubuisson, El Salvadorian founder (ARENA), dies
- Feb 21 Eva Jessye, American singer and choral director (Eva Jessye Choir - "Four Saints in Three Acts";"Porgy and Bess"), dies at 97
- Feb 21 Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies
- Feb 21 Jane Pickens, American stage (Regina) and pop-harmony, singer, dies of heart failure at 83
- Feb 21 William Magginetti, American producer and set designer, dies at 98
- Feb 23 Jacquelyn Hyde, American actress (Dark, House of Terror), dies at 61
- Feb 23 Markos Vafeiadis, Greek Communist leader (ELAS, 1943-49), dies at 86
- Feb 24 Kay Loring, dies after long illness
- Feb 25 Guy Deghy, actor (Matter of Who, 1 Eyed Soldiers), dies at 79
- Feb 25 John E Allen Jr, actor (1 2 3), dies
- Feb 25 Ollie O'Toole, American comedian, impressionist, and actor, dies after long illness at 79
- Feb 26 Gerrit Schulte, Dutch road and track cyclist (World Champion Track Pursuit 1948), dies at 76
- Feb 26 Jean R Yawkey, American baseball executive (owner Boston Red Sox 1976-92), dies of a stroke at 83
- Feb 27 S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American academic, politician (U.S. Senator from California, 1977–83) and writer (Language in Action), dies of a stroke at 85
- Feb 28 Emilia Sherman, American choreographer and dancer in the Rockettes, dies at an undisclosed age
- Feb 28 La Lupe [Guadalupe Yolí Raymond], Cuban salsa, boleros, and guarachas singer, dies of a heart attack at 53
- Feb 29 Earl Scheib, CEO (Earl Scheib Auto Paint), dies at 85
- Feb 29 Johnny Mack, British actor (Time Lord-Dr Who), dies at 70
- Feb 29 Ruth Pitter, British poet and 1st woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955, dies at 94
- Mar 2 Sandy Dennis, American Tony and Academy Award-winning stage and screen actress (Any Wednesday; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?; The Out-of-Towners), dies of ovarian cancer at 54
- Mar 3 Robert Beatty, Canadian actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Where Eagles Dare), dies from pneumonia at 82
- Mar 3 Ted Liss, actor (Child's Play), dies of a heart attack at 72
- Mar 4 Arthur Babbitt, American animator (Mr Magoo; Goofy), dies of heart failure at 84
- Mar 4 C Meijer, Dutch editor in chief (Typhoon), dies
- Mar 4 Christian K. Nelson, American inventor of Eskimo Pie (now Edy's Pie)), dies at 98
- Mar 4 Mary Osborne, American jazz guitarist (Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk), dies of leukemia at 70 [1]
- Mar 4 Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 61
- Mar 5 Andrew Samuel, child actor (Our Gang), dies at 82
- Mar 5 Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Russian actor (Welcome Kosta), dies at 65
- Mar 6 Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll's), dies of pneumonia
- Mar 6 Emmy Huf, Dutch cabaret performer, and author (I Want Warm Meat), dies at 70
- Mar 6 Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Infinite Passage), dies at 83
- Mar 8 George "Red" Callender, American jazz and session string bass and tuba player, dies of thyroid cancer at 76
- Mar 9 Felipe Turich, actor (Lawless), dies
- Mar 9 Jack McEdward, asst dir (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94
- Mar 9 James Brooks, American mural painter (Flight, La Guardia NY), dies at 85
- Mar 10 Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
- Mar 11 David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41
- Mar 11 Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
- Mar 11 Richard Brooks, American film director (Blackboard Jungle; In Cold Blood; Key Largo), dies at 79
- Mar 12 Barbara Morrison, British actress (Project Moonbase; From Here To Eternity), dies of heart failure at 84
- Mar 12 Hans G. Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (known for the comic strip Eric de Noorman), dies at 70
- Mar 12 Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies
- Mar 12 Karel Poons, Jewish-Dutch ballet dancer, educator, and Holocaust survivor, dies at 79
- Mar 12 Salvatore "Salvo" Lima, Italian politician (Mayor of Palermo, 1958-63 & 65-66; Member of European Parliament, 1979-92) assassinated by the Mafia at 64
- Mar 13 Clarence Wright, English actor and singer, dies at 84
- Mar 13 Hans Redeker, Dutch art critic (Algemeen Handelsblad), dies
- Mar 14 C. V. Wood Jr., American theme park developer (Disneyland), dies of cancer at 71
- Mar 14 Jean Poiret [Jean-Gustave Poiré], French actor, director, and screenwriter (La Cage Aux Folles), dies at 65
- Mar 14 Ralph James, American actor (Orson-Mork & Mindy), dies at 67
- Mar 14 Steven Brian Pennell, 1st person to be executed in Delaware in 45 years, dies at 34
- Mar 15 Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes
- Mar 15 Jack Washburn, actor (Black Orchid), dies after long illness at 64
- Mar 15 Vanessa Lee, actress (Split), dies at 71
- Mar 16 Wang Renzhong, Chinese politician (First Secretary Hubei Province), dies at 75
- Mar 16 Yves Rocard, French physicist (helped develop the atomic bomb for France), dies at 88
- Mar 17 Charles Rea, British actor (Ipcress File), dies at 69
- Mar 17 George Lovi, American columnist (Sky & Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies
- Mar 17 Grace Stafford Lantz, American actress and cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87
- Mar 17 Jack Arnold, American actor and director (Sid Caesar Special, Emmy 1967, Creature From the Black Lagoon), dies at 75
- Mar 18 Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager, Dutch writer and poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56
- Mar 19 Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (Tentacles, Viva Las Vegas, Garrison's Gorillas), dies of a heart attack at 66
- Mar 19 Henry Leland Clarke, American composer, dies at 85
- Mar 20 Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93
- Mar 20 Frank Westbrook, American Broadway dancer and choreographer, dies at 82
- Mar 20 Georges Delerue, French film composer (Sword of Gideon, A Little Romance), dies of a heart attack at 67
- Mar 20 Lina Bo Bardi, Italian born Brazilian modernist architect (SESC Pompéia Factory), dies at 77
- Mar 21 John Ireland, Canadian actor (All the King's Men, Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of leukemia at 78
- Mar 21 Natalie Sleeth, American composer, dies at 61
- Mar 23 Friedrich August von Hayek, Austrian-British economist (Road to Serfdom, 1974 Nobel Prize for Economics), dies at 92 [1]
- Mar 25 Nancy Walker, American actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife), dies of cancer at 69
- Mar 26 Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
- Mar 27 Anita Colby [Counihan], American model, actress (Mary of Scotland; Cover Girl; Pepsi Cola Playhouse), beauty coach, and inventor (chair-bed), dies of lung disease at 77
- Mar 27 Easley Blackwood, Sr, American expert bridge player, and writer, dies at 89
- Mar 27 Gerry Duggan, Irish-Australian character actor dies at 81
- Mar 27 Harald Sæverud, Norwegian composer (Rondo Amoroso; Sinfonia Dolorosa), dies at 94
- Mar 27 James E. Webb, American government official (Administrator of NASA, 1961-68, James Webb S[ace Telescope named after him), dies of a heart attack at 85
- Mar 27 Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist, painter and graphic artist, dies at 68
- Mar 28 Josef Matej, Czech composer, dies at 70
- Mar 28 Wendell Mayes, writer, dies of cancer at 72
- Mar 29 John Spencer, Earl of Spencer, British peer and father of Diana, Princess of Wales, dies at 68
Mar 29 Austrian-American actor (Casablanca, Now, Voyager), dies at 84
- Mar 30 Art Hannes, American actor and announcer, dies of a respiratory ailment at 72
- Mar 30 Luigi De Laurentiis, Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies at 75
- Mar 30 Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist who discovered ancient royal Macedonian tombs in northern Greece, dies at 72
- Apr 1 Konstantin Sergeyev, Russian ballet dancer and director of the Kirov Ballet (Swan Lake), dies at 82 [1]
- Apr 1 Nigel Preston, British drummer (The Cult), dies of a drug overdose at 28
- Apr 2 Juanito, Spanish soccer forward (34 caps; Real Madrid 284 games, 85 goals), dies in car crash at 37
- Apr 2 Paula Kelly, American big band singer (The Modernaires), dies at 72 [1]
- Apr 2 Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
- Apr 3 (Lloyd) "Slim" Andrews, American actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), comic, and singer-songwriter, dies at 85 [1]
- Apr 3 Juan Garcia Hortelano, Spanish author (Tormenta de verano - Summer Storm), dies at 64
- Apr 3 Margaret Barker, American actress (Fathers & Son), dies of lung cancer at 83
- Apr 4 Arthur Russell, American experimental classical-pop fusion cellist, and composer, dies of AIDS at 40
- Apr 4 Karl Tunberg, US scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies
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