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.^[1]
• Chick Harbert, 77, American golfer, stroke.^[2]
• Piotr Jaroszewicz, 82, Polish politician, prime minister (1970–1980), murdered.^[3]
• Sergey Senyukov, 37, Soviet high jumper and Olympian.^[4]
• 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.^[5]
• Sadeq Mallallah, 21-22, Saudi Arabian apostate, execution by beheading.^[6]
• Barbara McClintock, 90, American geneticist, Nobel Prize recipient (1983).^[7]
• Johnnie Mortimer, 61, English scriptwriter.^[8]
• Baltasar Sangchili, 80, Spanish boxer.^[9]
• Bert Zagers, 59, American gridiron football player.^[10]

3

• César Bengzon, 96, Filipino judge, Chief Justice of the Philippines (1961–1966).
• Bruno Bjelinski, 82, Croatian composer.^[11]
• Sherm Chavoor, 72-73, American swimming coach.
• Mahmoud Hessaby, 89, Iranian nuclear physicist and politician.
• Eli Mandel, 69, Canadian poet.^[12]
• 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.^[13]

4

• Luis Cardoza y Aragón, 88, Guatemalan writer and diplomat.^[14]
• Dan Deșliu, 65, Romanian poet, drowned.
• Greg J. Holbrock, 86, American politician attorney and politician.
• Fakhraddin Najafov, 24, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• M. B. Ramachandra Rao, 86, Indian geophysicist.
• John van Dreelen, 70, Dutch actor.^[15]

5

• Ng Liang Chiang, 71, Singaporean hurdler.
• Ron Davis, 50, American baseball player.^[16]
• Billy Herman, 83, American baseball player, cancer.^[17]
• Irving Allen Lee, 43, American actor (The Edge of Night), AIDS.^[18]
• Fritz Leiber, 81, American author (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser), stroke.^[19]
• Yasuji Mori, 67, Japanese animator.
• László Rajcsányi, 85, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.^[20]
• Albert Rees, 71, American economist.^[21]
• Hal Russell, 66, American free jazz composer, band leader and multi-instrumentalist.^[22]
• Jens Arup Seip, 86, Norwegian historian.
• Christopher Trace, 59, English actor and television presenter (Blue Peter), cancer.
• 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).^[23]
• Pat Harder, 70, American gridiron football player.^[24]
• Mervyn Johns, 93, Welsh actor.^[25]
• 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.^[26]
• Arturo Dominici, 76, Italian actor.
• Gerald Hanley, 76, Irish novelist.^[27]
• Edward Kobyliński, 84, Polish rower and Olympic medalist.^[28]
• Emilio Villalba Welsh, 86, Argentine screenwriter.

8

• William Barrett, 79, American academic.^[29]
• Quentin N. Burdick, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1960), heart failure.^[30]
• Guy Grantham, 92, British naval officer.
• Donald Guthrie, 76, British theologian and New Testament scholar.^[31]
• Hans-Otto Meissner, 83, German lawyer and nazi diplomat.

9

• Maurice Burton, 94, British zoologist and science author.^[32]
• Julian Creus, 75, British weightlifter and Olympic medalist.^[33]
• William E. DePuy, 72, American Army general.^[34]
• Carmelo Di Bella, 71, Italian football player.^[35]
• 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.^[36]
• Evelyn Wellings, 83, Egyptian-English cricket player and journalist.^[37]

11

• Else Germeten, 74, Norwegian film censor and politician.
• Abubakar Gumi, 69, Nigerian Islamic scholar, leukemia.
• Eiji Gō, 55, Japanese actor.^[38]
• Frank McKinney, 53, American Olympic swimmer (1956, 1960), plane crash.^[39]
• Frank Singuineau, 79, Trinidadian actor.^[40]

12

• Mary Wells Ashworth, 89, American historian, aortic rupture.^[41]
• Hans F. Koenekamp, 100, American special effects artist and cinematographer.
• Mallikarjun Mansur, 81, Indian classical singer.^[42]
• Ruth Nelson, 87, American actress (3 Women, The Late Show, Awakenings), cancer.^[43]
• Ed Peck, 75, American actor (Happy Days, Bullitt, Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers), heart attack.^[44]
• Anthony Perkins, 60, American actor (Psycho, Friendly Persuasion, The Black Hole), AIDS.^[45]
• Emilio Recoba, 87, Uruguayan footballer.^[46]
• Ron Woodroof, 42, American entrepreneur and creator of the Dallas Buyer's Club, AIDS-related pneumonia.

13

• Dick Huffman, 69, American gridiron football player.^[47]
• Lou Jacobs, 89, German-American clown.^[48]
• 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.^[49]
• Bruce Hutchison, 91, Canadian writer and journalist.^[50]
• August Komendant, 85, Estonian-American structural engineer.^[51]
• Paul Joseph James Martin, 89, Canadian politician.^[52]
• Theodore S. Weiss, 64, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1977), heart failure.^[53]

15

• Pedro Formental, 77, Cuban-American baseball player.^[54]
• Harvey Hardy, 69, American gridiron football player.
• Walter B. Jones, Sr., 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1966).^[55]
• Michael Luciano, 83, American film editor (The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard, The Flight of the Phoenix).^[56]
• 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.^[57]
• Mogens Koch, 94, Danish architect.
• Henri Legay, 72, French operatic tenor.
• Jim Sullivan, Northern Irish politician and republican.
• Victoria Wolf, 88, German-American writer.^[58]

17

• Homayoun Ardalan, 42, Iranian Kurd politician, assassinated.^[59]
• Feodor Chaliapin Jr., 86, Russian-Italian actor.^[60]
• Herivelto Martins, 80, Brazilian composer and singer.
• Ralph Schwarz, 25, Dutch rower and Olympian, plane crash.^[61]
• Sadegh Sharafkandi, 54, Iranian Kurd politician, assassinated.^[62]
• Judith Nisse Shklar, 63, Latvian-American political theorist.^[63]
• Roger Wagner, 78, American musician.^[64]

18

• Lona Andre, 77, American actress.
• David Bodian, 82, American medical scientist, Parkinson's disease.^[65]
• Darío Cabanelas, 75, Spanish Arabist.^[66]
• Princess Margaret of Denmark, 97, Danish royal.^[67]
• 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.^[68]

19

• Fritz Bauer, 86, German coxswain and Olympic champion.^[69]
• Frederick Combs, 56, American actor (The Boys in the Band), AIDS.^[70]
• Geraint Evans, 70, Welsh opera singer.^[71]
• Kenny Howard, 63, American motorcycle mechanic, artist, and gunsmith.
• Aida Imanguliyeva, 52, Azerbaijani scholar, cancer.
• Jacques Pic, 59, French chef, heart attack.^[72]
• Keith Stackpole, 76, Australian football player.
• Alexander Trojan, 78, Austrian film actor.^[73]

20

• Musa Anter, 72, Turkish Kurd writer, journalist and intellectual, assassinated.
• Leon O. Jacobson, 80, American physician, medical researcher and educator.^[74]
• Reuben Kadish, 79, American visual artist.^[75]
• Harry Smyth, 82, Canadian speed skater and Olympian.^[76]
• 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.^[77]
• 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.^[78]

22

• Candido Amantini, 78, Italian Roman Catholic priest, theologian and exorcist.
• Paul Bucy, 87, American neurosurgeon.^[79]
• James Demouchette, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Aurelio López, 44, Mexican baseball player, traffic collision.^[80]
• Aruna Shanthi, 66, Sri Lankan actor.

23

• Frank P. Briggs, 98, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1945–1947).^[81]
• Paul E. Garber, 93, American museum curator.^[82]
• Ivar Ivask, 64, Estonian poet.^[83]
• Mary Santpere, 79, Spanish actress.^[84]
• Kalyan Sundaram, 88, Indian civil servant.
• Glendon Swarthout, 74, American novelist, pulmonary emphysema.^[85]
• James A. Van Fleet, 100, American Army general.^[86]

24

• Christiane Barry, 74, French actress.^[87]
• Roy Heffernan, 67, Australian professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Pietro Magni, 73, Italian football player and manager.^[88]
• 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.^[89]
• Tibor Kemény, 79, Hungarian football player and coach.
• César Manrique, 73, Spanish artist, traffic collision.^[90]
• Ivan Vdović, 31, Serbian drummer, AIDS.

26

• Suimenkul Chokmorov, 52, Soviet-Kyrgyz film actor.
• Ralph Davis, 70, American football player.^[91]
• Pancrazio De Pasquale, 67, Italian politician.
• Erich Krempel, 79, German Olympic sport shooter (1936).^[92]
• Luka Lipošinović, 59, Yugoslavian football player.^[93]
• Ralph Manheim, 85, American translator, prostate cancer.^[94]
• Frank Patrick, 76, American gridiron football player.^[95]
• Oiva Virtanen, 63, Finnish basketball player.^[96]
• Aleksandr Voronin, 41, Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion, fall.^[97]

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.^[98]
• Charles Kramer, 85, American economist.
• Zhang Leping, 81, Chinese comic artist.^[99]
• Jacques-Paul Martin, 84, French Roman Catholic cardinal.^[100]
• 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.^[101]

28

• António Rodrigo Pinto da Silva, 80, Portuguese botanist and taxonomist.
• William Douglas-Home, 80, British playwright.^[102]
• John Leech, 66, British mathematician.^[103]
• Olli Lehtinen, 77, Finnish Olympic boxer (1948).^[104]
• Johanna Piesch, 94, Austrian mathematician.^[105]
• Hu Qiaomu, 80, Chinese sociologist, marxist philosopher and politician.

29

• Jean Aurenche, 89, French screenwriter.^[106]
• Paul Jabara, 44, American songwriter ("Last Dance", "It's Raining Men"), AIDS.^[107]
• 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.^[108]
• Robert Joel, 48, American actor (A Very Natural Thing), AIDS.^[109]
• Erwin Klein, 53, American table tennis player, shot.
• Maria Malicka, 94, Polish stage and film actress.