The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1992
1 Marie Déa, 79, French actress, fire accident. Bill Heindl Jr., 45, Canadian ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars, New York Rangers). Pierre Maudru, 99, French screenwriter. Howard Payne, 60, English Olympic track and field athlete (1964, 1968, 1972). Karlo Štajner, 90, Austrian-Yugoslav communist activist and Gulag survivor.
2 Scott Appleton, 50, American football player, heart failure. Martin Camaj, 66, Albanian folklorist, linguist, and writer. Robert Clatworthy, 80, American art director (Ship of Fools, Psycho, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), Oscar winner (1966). Sandy Dennis, 54, American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Out of Towners, Any Wednesday), Oscar winner (1967), ovarian cancer. Edward Devitt, 80, American district judge and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1949). Subimal Dutt, 88, Indian diplomat. Ron Hardy, 33, American DJ and house music pioneer, AIDS-related illness. Eddie Locke, 69, American baseball player. Samuel Marx, 90, American film producer, screenwriter and book author. Stan Morcom, 56, Australian rules footballer. Jackie Mudie, 61, Scottish footballer, cancer. Adolfo Sarti, 63, Italian politician.
3 Robert Beatty, 82, Canadian-English actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Where Eagles Dare, Labyrinth). George Giles, 82, American baseball player. Laurent Henric, 86, French football player, coach, and Olympian (1928). Lella Lombardi, 50, Italian racing driver, liver cancer. Dante Maggio, 83, Italian film actor. Harley Parker, 76, Canadian artist and scholar. Henry Powell, 84, Australian rules footballer. Saara Ranin, 94, Finnish actress. Sukumar Sen, 92, Indian linguist. G. L. S. Shackle, 88, English economist. Henry White, 86, Australian rules footballer.
4 Néstor Almendros, 61, Spanish cinematographer (Days of Heaven, Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice), Oscar winner (1979), AIDS-related lymphoma. Art Babbitt, 84, American animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Dumbo), kidney failure. Joseph Buttinger, 85, American politician. Norm Fletcher, 76, Australian rules footballer. Alabbas Iskandarov, 33, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action. Peter Judge, 75, English cricketer. Pare Lorentz, 86, American filmmaker, cancer. Mary Osborne, 70, American guitarist, leukemia. Larry Rosenthal, 81, American baseball player. Sándor Veress, 85, Hungarian-Swiss composer. Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, 65, Soviet and Russian actor, heart attack.
5 Jam Sadiq Ali, 57, Pakistani politician. Santos Balmori, 92, Spanish-Mexican painter. Peter Hadland Davis, 73, British botanist. Karin Hardt, 81, German actress, cerebral hemorrhage. Jack Haskett, 80, Australian rules footballer. Giuseppe Olmo, 80, Italian road bicycle racer and Olympian (1932). Eduardo Airaldi Rivarola, 70, Peruvian basketball player, coach, and referee. Andy Samuel, 82, American child actor (Our Gang), cancer. Berthold Slupik, 63, German Olympic modern pentathlete (1952). Sunder, 83, Indian film actor. Frank Trigilio, 73, American football player. David Walker, 81, Scottish-Canadian novelist.
6 Elvia Allman, 87, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, The Nutty Professor), pneumonia. Alojz Benac, 77, Bosnian and Yugoslav archaeologist and historian. Silviu Bindea, 79, Romanian football player and coach. Léo Campion, 86, French actor and freemason. Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, 83, Portuguese painter. Ranjit Desai, 63, Indian marathi writer. Hugh Gibb, 76, English drummer, father of the Bee Gees, internal bleeding. Ian Hartland, 52, New Zealand cricketer. Otto Klineberg, 92, Canadian-American psychologist, Parkinson's disease. David Stone Martin, 78, American artist. Erik Nordgren, 79, Swedish composer, arranger and bandleader. Abdou Noshi, 52, Egyptian Olympic footballer (1960).
7 Charles Claxton, 88, English anglican prelate. Asaf Messerer, 88, Soviet ballet dancer and ballet teacher. Gunnar Sträng, 85, Swedish politician. Hans Zeisel, 86, Austrian-American sociologist and legal scholar.
8 Red Callender, 76, American musician, thyroid cancer. Paddy Coad, 71, Irish football player and manager. Sherman Edwards, 82, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). Pentti Papinaho, 65, Finnish sculptor.
9 Menachem Begin, 78, Israeli politician, prime minister (1977–1983), Nobel Prize recipient (1978), heart attack. James Brooks, 85, American artist. Monty Budwig, 62, American bassist. Franco Margola, 83, Italian composer. Keris Mas, 69, Malaysian writer, heart attack. Felipe Turich, 93, Mexican actor, pneumonia. Arthur Van De Vijver, 44, Belgian racing cyclist.
10 Krasimira Bogdanova, 42, Bulgarian Olympic basketball player (1976, 1980). Vladimir Ivković, 62, Yugoslav Olympic water polo player (1952, 1956). Wilhelm Rudolf Mann, 97, German factory manager for IG Farben and Bayer during World War II. Enrico Mollo, 78, Italian racing cyclist. Helmut Reichmann, 50-51, German world champion glider pilot, mid-air collision. Ronald Scott-Miller, 87, British politician, MP (1951-1959). Luis Usoz, 59, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1960, 1964). Giorgos Zampetas, 67, Greek musician, bone cancer.
11 László Benedek, 87, Hungarian-American film director (The Wild One, Death of a Salesman, Port of New York). Richard Brooks, 79, American film director and screenwriter (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Blackboard Jungle, Elmer Gantry), Oscar winner (1961), heart failure. Gianni Carrara, 63, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (1956). David Carroll, 41, American actor (Grand Hotel), pulmonary embolism. Liu Geping, 87, Chinese communist revolutionary and politician. Norm Hall, 65, American racecar driver. Anton Ingolič, 85, Slovenian novelist. Lily May Perry, 97, Canadian-American botanist. Eddie Sadowski, 77, American basketball player. Joaquín Satrústegui, 82, Spanish politician. Roszel Cathcart Thomsen, 91, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Maryland).
12 César Barros, 79, Chilean Olympic fencer (1936). Girolamo Bortignon, 86, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Max Catto, 84, English playwright and novelist. Aleksandyr Christow, 87, Bulgarian football player and Olympian (1924). Harold Hobson, 87, English theatre critic. Elgiz Karimov, 21, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action. Hans G. Kresse, 70, Dutch cartoonist (Eric de Noorman). Heinz Kühn, 80, German politician. Lucy M. Lewis, 94, Native American potter. Salvatore Lima, 64, Italian politician and mafioso, murdered. Phyllis Stanley, 77, British actress. Aino Talvi, 83, Estonian actress and singer.
13 Frieda Fronmüller, 90, German lutheran church musician and composer. Adolfo Odnoposoff, 75, Argentine cellist. Dulce de Souza Lopes Pontes, 77, Brazilian Roman Catholic nun and philanthropist. Osvaldo Reig, 62, Argentine biologist and paleontologist. Donald W. Riegle, Sr., 74, American politician.
14 Bill Allum, 75, Canadian ice hockey player and coach. Teymur Elchin, 67, Azerbaijani poet and publicist. Ralph James, 67, American voice actor (Mork & Mindy, Spider-Man, The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show). Glenn Liebhardt, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Browns). Steven Brian Pennell, 34, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection. Jean Poiret, 65, French actor and playwright, heart attack. Barry Roseborough, 59, Canadian football player. Alvin Schwartz, 64, American author and journalist, lymphoma. Dave Snowden, 94, American baseball player. Arthur Studenroth, 92, American Olympic cross country runner (1924). Francis Toomey, 88, New Zealand cricketer. Elfrida Vipont, 89, English writer of children's literature.
15 Pietro Bucalossi, 86, Italian physician and politician. Helen Deutsch, 85, American screenwriter. Allan Dick, 76, New Zealand politician. Sergio Guerri, 86, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Deane Montgomery, 82, American mathematician specializing in topology. Rahi Masoom Raza, 64, Indian poet and writer and Bollywood lyricist. Wee Willie Smith, 80, American basketball player. Jaap van der Vecht, 85, Dutch entomologist and academic.
16 Jean Denis, 89, Belgian politician and writer. Ron Howell, 56, Canadian football player. Roger Lemelin, 72, Canadian writer, lung cancer. Wang Renzhong, 75, Chinese political leader. Yves Rocard, 88, French nuclear physicist. Pyotr Shcherbakov, 62, Soviet film and theater actor. Joschi Walter, 66, Austrian football player and Olympian (1952).
17 Jack Arnold, 75, American film director (Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man, It Came from Outer Space), arteriosclerosis. Frank Carideo, 83, American college football player and coach. Aat de Roos, 72, Dutch Olympic field hockey player (1936). Manuel Ferreira, 74, Portuguese writer. Harald Halvorsen, 93, Norwegian footballer. Gøril Havrevold, 77, Norwegian stage and film actress. Franklin R. Levy, 43, American film producer (Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Nighthawks), pulmonary embolism. Monika Mann, 81, German author. László Orczán, 80, Hungarian Olympic cyclist (1936). Grace Stafford, 88, American actress (voice of Woody Woodpecker), spinal cancer Erna E. Wetzel, 92, American painter. Ron White, 71, Australian rules footballer.
18 Arnold Diamond, 76, English actor, traffic collision. Harry Hubbick, 81, English football player. Jack Kelsey, 62, Welsh football goalkeeper. Mario Landi, 71, Italian director. Antonio Molina, 64, Spanish flamenco dancer, singer and actor.
19 Cesare Danova, 66, Italian actor (Mean Streets, Cleopatra, Animal House), heart attack. Franziska Donner, 91, First Lady of South Korea as wife of president Syngman Rhee. Wayne Dumont, 77, American politician. Michael Aloysius Feighan, 87, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1943-1971). Oscar Gugen, 82, British diver. Fred Land, 66, American football player (San Francisco 49ers). Marilyn Moore, 61, American jazz singer. Cyril O'Brien, 79, Australian rules footballer. Ed Prentiss, 83, American radio actor. Fergus Yeates, 79, Australian cricketer.
20 George Whelan Anderson, Jr., 85, American admiral and diplomat. Lina Bo Bardi, 77, Italian-Brazilian architect. Charles-Édouard Campeau, 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962). Georges Delerue, 67, French film composer (A Little Romance, Platoon, Julia), Oscar winner (1980), heart attack. Ioannis Kakridis, 90, Greek classical scholar. Pierre Mange, 86, Swiss Olympic equestrian (1936). Armando Testa, 74, Italian graphic designer, cartoonist, animator and painter.
21 Safiyar Behbudov, 24, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action. John Ireland, 78, Canadian actor (All the King's Men, Spartacus, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), leukemia. René König, 85, German sociologist. John C. Sheehan, 76, American organic chemist. Natalie Sleeth, 61, American composer, cancer.
22 William Aucamp, 60, South African Olympic water polo player (1952, 1960). Allen Bryant, 73, American baseball player. Joe Cantada, 50, Filipino sportscaster, lung cancer. Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, 64, British solicitor and politician. Arthur Cronquist, 73, American biologist and botanist. Androkli Kostallari, 69, Albanian linguist and scholar. Melissa Stribling, 65, Scottish actress (Dracula, The League of Gentlemen, Compact).
23 Jane Bernigau, 83, German SS Oberaufseherin before and during World War II Gurdial Singh Dhillon, 76, Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party. Friedrich Hayek, 92, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize recipient (1974).