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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.
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.[12]
- Rakesh Singh, 22, Indian Army officer and war hero, killed in action.
- Hilary Tindall, 54, English actress, bowel cancer.[13]
- 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.[14]
- Heorhii Maiboroda, 79, Ukrainian composer.
- Yngve Sköld, 93, Swedish composer.[15]
- László Szabó, 84, Hungarian Olympic rower (1936).[16]
- Hank Worden, 91, American actor (The Searchers, The Alamo, The Lone Ranger).[17]
7
- Zoltán Adamik, 64, Hungarian sprinter and Olympian.[18]
- Alojzy Ehrlich, 77-78, Polish table tennis player.[19]
- Richard Joseph Hughes, 83, American politician, and judge.[20]
- Felix Jackson, 90, German-American screenwriter.[21]
- Bill Shockley, 55, American gridiron football player.[22]
- Chancellor Williams, 98, American sociologist, historian and writer.
8
- Thoppil Bhasi, 68, Indian playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
- Hugh Devore, 82, American football player.[23]
- 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.[24]
- Poola Tirupati Raju, 88, Indian writer, philosopher, and academic.
- William Shawn, 85, American magazine editor (The New Yorker).[25]
9
- Carl Barger, 62, American baseball executive, aortic aneurysm.[26]
- Eşref Bilgiç, 84, Turkish international football player and manager.
- Thomas Bottomore, 72, British marxist sociologist.
- Joe Clark, 95, Australian politician.[27]
- Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel, 80, French diplomat.[28]
- Franco Franchi, 64, Italian actor, comedian and singer.[29]
- 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.[30]
- Yahya Haqqi, 87, Egyptian novelist.[31]
- Luisito Rey, 47, Spanish singer, pneumonia.
10
- Celia Gámez, 87, Argentinian film actress, Alzheimer's disease.[32]
- 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.[33]
- John G. A. O'Neil, 55, American politician, traffic collision.
- Jacques Perret, 91, French writer.[34]
- Babe Phelps, 84, American baseball player.[35]
- Bernard Reichel, 91, Swiss composer.[36]
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.[37]
- Ronald Good, 96, British botanist.
- Andy Kirk, 94, American jazz saxophonist, tubist, and band leader, Alzheimer's disease.[38]
- Suzanne Lilar, 91, Belgian novelist and playwright.[39]
- William A. Redmond, 84, American politician.
- Michael Robbins, 62, English actor, prostate cancer.[40]
12
- Ali Amini, 87, Iranian politician, prime minister (1961–1962).[41]
- 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.[42]
13
- Ellis Arnall, 85, American politician.[43]
- Jens Bolling, 77, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
- Oscar Britt, 73, American gridiron football player.[44]
- Mono Mohan Das, 82, Indian politician.
- K. C. Irving, 93, Canadian businessman.[45]
- Luther Jeralds, 54, American football player.[46]
- Miskow Makwarth, 87, Danish actor.
- Aleksandar Tirnanić, 82, Yugoslav football player and manager.
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 93, American businessman, film producer, and philanthropist.[47]
14
- Watazumi Doso, 81, Japanese bamboo flutist.
- Kingo Machimura, 92, Japanese politician.
- William H. Oldendorf, 67, American neurologist, physician, and researcher.[48]
- Severino Rigoni, 78, Italian cyclist and Olympic silver medalist.[49]
15
- Sven Delblanc, 61, Swedish author and academic, cancer.
- Marcel Lachmann, 84, French Olympic field hockey player (1928, 1936).[50]
- Yolande Laffon, 97, French actress.[51]
- Otto Lington, 89, Danish composer, bandleader and violinist.
- Ennio Morlotti, 82, Italian painter.[52]
- Jim Musick, 82, American gridiron football player.[53]
- Hermann Stövesand, 86, German actor.[54]
- 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.[55]
- Anton Koolhaas, 80, Dutch journalist and writer.[56]
- Gonzalo Rodríguez Martín-Granizo, 64, Spanish Navy admiral general.[57]
17
- Serafima Amosova, 78, Soviet bomber commander during World War II.
- Günther Anders, 90, German philosopher.[58]
- Dana Andrews, 83, American actor, congestive heart failure.[59]
- George N. Craig, 83, American politician, Governor of Indiana (1953–1957).[60]
- Andrew Jacobs, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).
- William Knecht, 62, American competition rower and Olympic champion.[61]
- Rinus Terlouw, 70, Dutch footballer, Alzheimer's disease.[62]
- 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.[63]
- Per Brandtmar, 74, Danish football player.[64]
- Howard Cann, 97, American basketball player and coach.[65]
- Mark Goodson, 77, American game show producer (The Price Is Right, I've Got a Secret, What's My Line?), pancreatic cancer.[66]
- Clara Hale, 87, American humanitarian, complications from a stroke.[67]
- Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov, 81, Soviet diplomat, pneumonia.
19
- Gianni Brera, 73, Italian journalist and novelist, traffic collision.[68]
- Abraham Charnes, 75, American mathematician and economist.
- Louis Ducreux, 81, French actor, screenwriter and composer.[69]
- Vladimir Grebennikov, 60, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.[70]
- H. L. A. Hart, 85, English legal philosopher.[71]
- Rosel H. Hyde, 92, American lawyer.[72]
- 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.[73]
- Luciano Dal Falco, 67, Italian politician.
- Harald Huffmann, 84, German field hockey player and Olympic medalist.[74]
- Steve Ross, 65, American media executive, prostate cancer.
- Walter Zadek, 92, German-Israeli photographer.[75]
21
- Stella Adler, 91, American actress and acting teacher, heart failure.[76]
- Sybil Andrews, 94, English-Canadian artist.[77]
- Philip Farkas, 78, American classical musician.[78]
- David Hare, 75, American surrealist artist, aortic aneurysm.[79]
- Albert King, 69, American blues guitarist and singer, heart attack.[80]
- Nathan Milstein, 88, Ukrainian-American violinist, heart attack.[81]
- Alex Quaison-Sackey, 68, Ghanaian diplomat.[82]
22
- Bolaji Badejo, 39, Nigerian visual artist and actor (Alien), sickle-cell disease.
- Charles B. Black, 71, American basketball player.[83]
- Harry Bluestone, 85, American violinist, tuberculosis.
- Rajendran Christie, 54, Indian field hockey player and Olympic medalist.[84]
- Brian Doyle, 62, English football player.
- Frederick William Franz, 99, American Jehovah's Witness leader.[85]
- William Janney, 84, American actor.[86]
- Erik Lindén, 81, Swedish freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist.[87]
- Milo Sperber, 81, British actor, director and writer.
- Cornelio Villareal, 88, Filipino politician.
- Ted Willis, Baron Willis, 78, English screenwriter and playwright.[88]
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.[89]
- Eddie Hazel, 42, American funk guitarist and singer, liver failure.[90]
- Frank Hekma, 81, American Olympic sailor (1928).[91]
- Vyacheslav Kurennoy, 60, Russian Olympic water polo player (1956, 1960).[92]
- Robert Marshak, 76, American physicist and educator.[93]
- Hank Mizell, 69, American rockabilly singer, guitarist, and songwriter.[94]
- Italo Pedroncelli, 57, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1956, 1960, 1964).[95]
- Cyril Walters, 87, Welsh cricketer.
24
- Bobby LaKind, 47, American conga musician, colon cancer.[96]
- Micheline Luccioni, 62, French actress.[97]
- Jack Nichols, 66, American basketball player.[98]
- Peyo, 64, Belgian comic artist and writer (The Smurfs), heart attack.[99]
- Adela Sequeyro, 91, Mexican actress and journalist.[100]
- Stella Skopal, 88, Croatian sculptor.
- William Trueheart, 74, American diplomat.[101]
25
- Giuseppe Bonomi, 80, Italian football player coach.[102]
- Ted Croker, 68, English footballer.[103]
- Garrison H. Davidson, 88, American lieutenant general.[104]
- Monica Dickens, 77, English author.[105]
- Ed Donnelly, 60, American baseball player.[106]
- Sandra Dorne, 68, British actress.
- Richard Howard Ichord, Jr., 66, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1981).[107]
- Helen Joseph, 87, South African anti-apartheid activist.[108]
26
- Constance Carpenter, 88, English actress, stroke.[109]
- Jack Crayston, 82, English football player and manager.[110]
- Dancer's Image, 27, American thoroughbred racehorse.
- Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies, 86, British judge.[111]
- Jan Flinterman, 73, Dutch racing driver.
- Tom Gorman, 67, American baseball player.[112]
- Edward Howard-Vyse, 87, British Army officer, horse rider and Olympic medalist.[113]
- Anthony Huxley, 72, British botanist.[114]
- John George Kemeny, 66, Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, heart failure.[115]
- Nikita Magaloff, 80, Georgian-Russian pianist.[116]
- Eve Poole, 67, New Zealand politician.
- María Bruguera Pérez, 79, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist.
- Hilde Wagener, 88, German-Austrian actress.[117]
27
- Stephen Albert, 51, American composer, traffic collision.[118]
- Dhananjay Bhattacharya, 70, Indian Bengali singer and composer.
- Kay Boyle, 90, American novelist.[119]
- 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.[120]
- Nils Handal, 86, Norwegian politician.
- Sal Maglie, 75, American baseball player, pneumonia.[121]
- Elfie Mayerhofer, 75, Austrian actress and singer.[122]
- William G. McLoughlin, 70, American historian.[123]
- Aimé Michel, 73, French science and spirituality writer and author.[124]
- Milutin Pajević, 72, Montenegrin football player and manager.
- Daniella Perez, 22, Brazilian actress and dancer, murdered.
- Otto Lara Resende, 70, Brazilian journalist.[125]
- 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.[126]
- Fidel Tricánico, 77, Uruguayan boxer and Olympian.[127]
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.[128]
- Timothy S. Healy, 69, American Roman Catholic priest and academic, heart attack.[129]
- Mihailo Lalić, 78, Montenegrin-Serbian writer.[130]
- Romeo Muller, 64, American screenwriter and actor, heart attack.[131]
- Chloethiel Woodard Smith, 82, American architect, cancer.[132]
- 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.[133]
- Dianne Jackson, 51, English animation director (The Snowman), cancer.[134]
- Cyril Peacock, 63, British racing cyclist and Olympian.[135]
- Bill Spears, 86, American football player.
- Kristján Vattnes, 76, Icelandic Olympic javelin thrower (1936).[136]
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