The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 1992

1

• Don Allum, 55, British oarsman, first person to row across the Atlantic Ocean in both directions, heart attack.
• Magne Bleness, 59, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
• Chile Gómez, 83, Mexican-American Major League Baseball player.^[1]
• Floyd Hicks, 77, American politician and attorney.^[2]
• Anton Malatinský, 72, Slovak football player.
• Paulo Rónai, 85, Hungarian-Brazilian translator, philologist, and critic.^[3]
• D. G. M. Wood-Gush, 70, South African ethologist.

2

• Jack Caffery, 58, Canadian ice hockey player.^[4]
• Jaime de la Rosa, 71, Filipino actor.
• Michael Gothard, 53, English actor (For Your Eyes Only, The Three Musketeers, Arthur of the Britons), suicide by hanging.^[5]
• Pete Gross, 55, American sports announcer, cancer.
• Ralph Izzard, 82, English journalist, author, and adventurer.^[6]
• Mikhail Karyukov, 87, Soviet film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
• Frank D. O'Connor, 82, American lawyer and politician.

3

• Nureddin al-Atassi, 63, Syrian politician, president (1966–1970).
• Luis Alcoriza, 74, Mexican screenwriter and film director.^[7]
• Prayoon Chanyavongs, 77, Thai comics artist and cartoonist.
• James O'Hara, 65, Irish-American actor (Suddenly, Batman, Death of a Gunfighter).
• Andrei Sepci, 81, Romanian football player.
• Bill Ward, 71, American football player.^[8]

4

• Henry Clausen, 87, American lawyer and investigator.
• Yancho Dimitrov, 49, Bulgarian footballer.
• Alfie Ferguson, 65, British unionist politician.^[9]
• Sidney Schofield, 81, British politician.^[10]

5

• Felipe Padilla de Leon, 80, Filipino composer.
• Emil Haury, 88, American archaeologist.^[11]
• Levan Maruashvili, 80, Georgian geographer and alpinist.
• Monisha, 21, Indian actress, traffic collision.
• Rakesh Singh, 22, Indian Army officer and war hero, killed in action.
• Hilary Tindall, 54, English actress, bowel cancer.^[12]
• Frank I. Wright, 71, American thoroughbred horse racing trainer and commentator.

6

• Paula Frías Allende, 29, Chilean humanitarian, complications from a medical error.
• J. Michel Fournier, 87, Canadian politician.
• Percy Herbert, 72, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Guns of Navarone, Cimarron Strip), heart attack.^[13]
• Heorhii Maiboroda, 79, Ukrainian composer.
• Yngve Sköld, 93, Swedish composer.^[14]
• László Szabó, 84, Hungarian Olympic rower (1936).^[15]
• Hank Worden, 91, American actor (The Searchers, The Alamo, The Lone Ranger).^[16]

7

• Zoltán Adamik, 64, Hungarian sprinter and Olympian.^[17]
• Alojzy Ehrlich, 77-78, Polish table tennis player.^[18]
• Richard Joseph Hughes, 83, American politician, and judge.^[19]
• Felix Jackson, 90, German-American screenwriter.^[20]
• Bill Shockley, 55, American gridiron football player.^[21]
• Chancellor Williams, 98, American sociologist, historian and writer.

8

• Thoppil Bhasi, 68, Indian playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
• Hugh Devore, 82, American football player.^[22]
• Armanda Guiducci, 69, Italian writer, literary critic, and Marxist feminist.
• Kathy Osterman, 49, American politician, cancer.
• Frithjof Prydz, 49, Norwegian ski jumper, tennis player and Olympian.^[23]
• Poola Tirupati Raju, 88, Indian writer, philosopher, and academic.
• William Shawn, 85, American magazine editor (The New Yorker).^[24]

9

• Carl Barger, 62, American baseball executive, aortic aneurysm.^[25]
• Eşref Bilgiç, 84, Turkish international football player and manager.
• Thomas Bottomore, 72, British marxist sociologist.
• Joe Clark, 95, Australian politician.^[26]
• Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel, 80, French diplomat.^[27]
• Franco Franchi, 64, Italian actor, comedian and singer.^[28]
• George Fraser, 81, Canadian football player.
• Vincent Gardenia, 72, Italian-American actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Little Shop of Horrors, Death Wish), Emmy winner (1990), heart attack.^[29]
• Yahya Haqqi, 87, Egyptian novelist.^[30]
• Luisito Rey, 47, Spanish singer, pneumonia.

10

• Celia Gámez, 87, Argentinian film actress, Alzheimer's disease.^[31]
• Joan Gardner, 66, American voice actress, cancer
• Dan Maskell, 84, English tennis player and sportscaster, heart failure.
• Josephine McKim, 82, American swimmer, Olympic champion and world record-holder.^[32]
• John G. A. O'Neil, 55, American politician, traffic collision.
• Jacques Perret, 91, French writer.^[33]
• Babe Phelps, 84, American baseball player.^[34]
• Bernard Reichel, 91, Swiss composer.^[35]

11

• Billy Cook, 83, Northern Irish football player and manager.
• William Michael Cosgrove, 76, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Lon Evans, 80, American gridiron football player.^[36]
• Ronald Good, 96, British botanist.
• Andy Kirk, 94, American jazz saxophonist, tubist, and band leader, Alzheimer's disease.^[37]
• Suzanne Lilar, 91, Belgian novelist and playwright.^[38]
• William A. Redmond, 84, American politician.
• Michael Robbins, 62, English actor, prostate cancer.^[39]

12

• Ali Amini, 87, Iranian politician, prime minister (1961–1962).^[40]
• Malachy Carey, 36, Northern Irish IRA volunteer, assassinated.
• Bernard Lievegoed, 87, Dutch psychiatrist.
• Jasu Patel, 68, Indian cricket player.
• Robert Rex, 83, Niuean politician, premier (since 1974).
• Rube Walker, 66, American baseball player, lung cancer.^[41]

13

• Ellis Arnall, 85, American politician.^[42]
• Jens Bolling, 77, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
• Oscar Britt, 73, American gridiron football player.^[43]
• Mono Mohan Das, 82, Indian politician.
• K. C. Irving, 93, Canadian businessman.^[44]
• Luther Jeralds, 54, American football player.^[45]
• Miskow Makwarth, 87, Danish actor.
• Aleksandar Tirnanić, 82, Yugoslav football player and manager.
• Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 93, American businessman, film producer, and philanthropist.^[46]

14

• Watazumi Doso, 81, Japanese bamboo flutist.
• Kingo Machimura, 92, Japanese politician.
• William H. Oldendorf, 67, American neurologist, physician, and researcher.^[47]
• Severino Rigoni, 78, Italian cyclist and Olympic silver medalist.^[48]

15

• Sven Delblanc, 61, Swedish author and academic, cancer.
• Marcel Lachmann, 84, French Olympic field hockey player (1928, 1936).^[49]
• Yolande Laffon, 97, French actress.^[50]
• Otto Lington, 89, Danish composer, bandleader and violinist.
• Ennio Morlotti, 82, Italian painter.^[51]
• Jim Musick, 82, American gridiron football player.^[52]
• Hermann Stövesand, 86, German actor.^[53]
• William Ware Theiss, 61, American costume designer (Star Trek, Harold and Maude, Bound for Glory), AIDS.

16

• Erica Brausen, 84, British art dealer and gallerist.
• Monk Dorsett, 83, College football and basketball player.
• Adil Guliyev, 70, Soviet-Azerbaijani fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
• Erik Johansson, 65, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.^[54]
• Anton Koolhaas, 80, Dutch journalist and writer.^[55]
• Gonzalo Rodríguez Martín-Granizo, 64, Spanish Navy admiral general.^[56]

17

• Serafima Amosova, 78, Soviet bomber commander during World War II.
• Günther Anders, 90, German philosopher.^[57]
• Dana Andrews, 83, American actor, congestive heart failure.^[58]
• George N. Craig, 83, American politician, Governor of Indiana (1953–1957).^[59]
• Andrew Jacobs, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).
• William Knecht, 62, American competition rower and Olympic champion.^[60]
• Rinus Terlouw, 70, Dutch footballer, Alzheimer's disease.^[61]
• Suren Yeremyan, 84, Soviet and Armenian historian and cartographer.

18

• Antonio Amurri, 67, Italian author, radio and television writer and lyricist.
• Vojin Bakić, 77, Yugoslav sculptor.^[62]
• Per Brandtmar, 74, Danish football player.^[63]
• Howard Cann, 97, American basketball player and coach.^[64]
• Mark Goodson, 77, American game show producer (The Price Is Right, I've Got a Secret, What's My Line?), pancreatic cancer.^[65]
• Clara Hale, 87, American humanitarian, complications from a stroke.^[66]
• Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov, 81, Soviet diplomat, pneumonia.

19

• Gianni Brera, 73, Italian journalist and novelist, traffic collision.^[67]
• Abraham Charnes, 75, American mathematician and economist.
• Louis Ducreux, 81, French actor, screenwriter and composer.^[68]
• Vladimir Grebennikov, 60, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.^[69]
• H. L. A. Hart, 85, English legal philosopher.^[70]
• Rosel H. Hyde, 92, American lawyer.^[71]
• Reggie Ingle, 89, English cricketer.

20

• A. Hamid Arief, 68, Indonesian actor.
• Peter Brocco, 89, American actor (Spartacus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Our Man Flint), heart attack.
• Bernard Dubourg, 47, French poet.^[72]
• Luciano Dal Falco, 67, Italian politician.
• Harald Huffmann, 84, German field hockey player and Olympic medalist.^[73]
• Steve Ross, 65, American media executive, prostate cancer.
• Walter Zadek, 92, German-Israeli photographer.^[74]

21

• Stella Adler, 91, American actress and acting teacher, heart failure.^[75]
• Sybil Andrews, 94, English-Canadian artist.^[76]
• Philip Farkas, 78, American classical musician.^[77]
• David Hare, 75, American surrealist artist, aortic aneurysm.^[78]
• Albert King, 69, American blues guitarist and singer, heart attack.^[79]
• Nathan Milstein, 88, Ukrainian-American violinist, heart attack.^[80]
• Alex Quaison-Sackey, 68, Ghanaian diplomat.^[81]

22

• Bolaji Badejo, 39, Nigerian visual artist and actor (Alien), sickle-cell disease.
• Charles B. Black, 71, American basketball player.^[82]
• Harry Bluestone, 85, American violinist, tuberculosis.
• Rajendran Christie, 54, Indian field hockey player and Olympic medalist.^[83]
• Brian Doyle, 62, English football player.
• Frederick William Franz, 99, American Jehovah's Witness leader.^[84]
• William Janney, 84, American actor.^[85]
• Erik Lindén, 81, Swedish freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist.^[86]
• Milo Sperber, 81, British actor, director and writer.
• Cornelio Villareal, 88, Filipino politician.
• Ted Willis, Baron Willis, 78, English screenwriter and playwright.^[87]

23

• Jadwiga Chojnacka, 87, Polish film actress.
• Lona Cohen, 79, American spy for the Soviet Union.
• Vincent Fourcade, 58, French interior designer, AIDS-related complications.^[88]
• Eddie Hazel, 42, American funk guitarist and singer, liver failure.^[89]
• Frank Hekma, 81, American Olympic sailor (1928).^[90]
• Vyacheslav Kurennoy, 60, Russian Olympic water polo player (1956, 1960).^[91]
• Robert Marshak, 76, American physicist and educator.^[92]
• Hank Mizell, 69, American rockabilly singer, guitarist, and songwriter.^[93]
• Italo Pedroncelli, 57, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1956, 1960, 1964).^[94]
• Cyril Walters, 87, Welsh cricketer.

24

• Bobby LaKind, 47, American conga musician, colon cancer.^[95]
• Micheline Luccioni, 62, French actress.^[96]
• Jack Nichols, 66, American basketball player.^[97]
• Peyo, 64, Belgian comic artist and writer (The Smurfs), heart attack.^[98]
• Adela Sequeyro, 91, Mexican actress and journalist.^[99]
• Stella Skopal, 88, Croatian sculptor.
• William Trueheart, 74, American diplomat.^[100]

25

• Giuseppe Bonomi, 80, Italian football player coach.^[101]
• Ted Croker, 68, English footballer.^[102]
• Garrison H. Davidson, 88, American lieutenant general.^[103]
• Monica Dickens, 77, English author.^[104]
• Ed Donnelly, 60, American baseball player.^[105]
• Sandra Dorne, 68, British actress.
• Richard Howard Ichord, Jr., 66, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1981).^[106]
• Helen Joseph, 87, South African anti-apartheid activist.^[107]

26

• Constance Carpenter, 88, English actress, stroke.^[108]
• Jack Crayston, 82, English football player and manager.^[109]
• Dancer's Image, 27, American thoroughbred racehorse.
• Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies, 86, British judge.^[110]
• Jan Flinterman, 73, Dutch racing driver.
• Tom Gorman, 67, American baseball player.^[111]
• Edward Howard-Vyse, 87, British Army officer, horse rider and Olympic medalist.^[112]
• Anthony Huxley, 72, British botanist.^[113]
• John George Kemeny, 66, Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, heart failure.^[114]
• Nikita Magaloff, 80, Georgian-Russian pianist.^[115]
• Eve Poole, 67, New Zealand politician.
• María Bruguera Pérez, 79, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist.
• Hilde Wagener, 88, German-Austrian actress.^[116]

27

• Stephen Albert, 51, American composer, traffic collision.^[117]
• Dhananjay Bhattacharya, 70, Indian Bengali singer and composer.
• Kay Boyle, 90, American novelist.^[118]
• Alfred H. Clifford, 84, American mathematician.
• James Patterson Lyke, 53, American Roman Catholic prelate, cancer.

28

• Jack Delinger, 66, American bodybuilder, heart attack.
• Vicente Gerbasi, 79, Venezuelan poet and writer.^[119]
• Nils Handal, 86, Norwegian politician.
• Sal Maglie, 75, American baseball player, pneumonia.^[120]
• Elfie Mayerhofer, 75, Austrian actress and singer.^[121]
• William G. McLoughlin, 70, American historian.^[122]
• Aimé Michel, 73, French science and spirituality writer and author.^[123]
• Milutin Pajević, 72, Montenegrin football player and manager.
• Daniella Perez, 22, Brazilian actress and dancer, murdered.
• Otto Lara Resende, 70, Brazilian journalist.^[124]
• Cardew Robinson, 75, English comedian, ischemic colitis.
• Vicente Rondón, 54, Venezuelan boxer.
• Chang Woon-soo, 64, South Korean football player and manager.
• Doug Wright, 75, English football player.

29

• Jaroslav Borovička, 61, Czech football player.
• Yahya Kanu, Sierra Leone military officer, president.
• James Napoli, 81, American mobster belonging to the Genovese crime family.
• Vivienne Segal, 95, American actress and singer, heart failure.^[125]
• Fidel Tricánico, 77, Uruguayan boxer and Olympian.^[126]

30

• Phil H. Bucklew, 78, American gridiron football player.
• Dorothy Chacko, 88, American social worker, humanitarian and medical doctor.
• César Domela, 92, Dutch sculptor, painter, photographer, and typographer.^[127]
• Timothy S. Healy, 69, American Roman Catholic priest and academic, heart attack.^[128]
• Mihailo Lalić, 78, Montenegrin-Serbian writer.^[129]
• Romeo Muller, 64, American screenwriter and actor, heart attack.^[130]
• Chloethiel Woodard Smith, 82, American architect, cancer.^[131]
• Lusine Zakaryan, 55, Armenian singer, diabetes.

31

• Denis Barnett, 86, British RAF air marshal during World War II.
• Elene Gokieli, 74, Soviet-Georgian hurdler, sprinter and Olympian.^[132]
• Dianne Jackson, 51, English animation director (The Snowman), cancer.^[133]
• Cyril Peacock, 63, British racing cyclist and Olympian.^[134]
• Bill Spears, 86, American football player.
• Kristján Vattnes, 76, Icelandic Olympic javelin thrower (1936).^[135]