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. Chick Harbert, 77, American golfer, stroke. Piotr Jaroszewicz, 82, Polish politician, prime minister (1970–1980), murdered. Montgomery Oliver Koelsch, 80, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit). Sergey Senyukov, 37, Soviet high jumper and Olympian (1976). Ivan Tregubov, 62, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympian (1956).
2 Tahir Hasanov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action. Nam Jeong-im, 47, South Korean actress, breast cancer. Sadeq Mallallah, 21-22, Saudi Arabian apostate, execution by beheading. Barbara McClintock, 90, American geneticist, Nobel Prize recipient (1983). Johnnie Mortimer, 61, English scriptwriter. Baltasar Sangchili, 80, Spanish boxer. Bert Zagers, 59, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).
3 César Bengzon, 96, Filipino judge, Chief Justice of the Philippines (1961–1966). Bruno Bjelinski, 82, Croatian composer. Sherm Chavoor, 72-73, American swimming coach. Mahmoud Hessaby, 89, Iranian nuclear physicist and politician. Eli Mandel, 69, Canadian poet. 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. Bob Walton, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).
4 Luis Cardoza y Aragón, 88, Guatemalan writer and diplomat. Dan Deșliu, 65, Romanian poet, drowned. Greg J. Holbrock, 86, American politician attorney and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1941-1943). Fakhraddin Najafov, 25, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action. M. B. Ramachandra Rao, 86, Indian geophysicist. John Lewis Smith Jr., 79, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Columbia). Eric Thompson, 53, Scottish cricketer. John van Dreelen, 70, Dutch actor.
5 Harold Burry, 80, American football coach (Westminster College). Ng Liang Chiang, 71, Singaporean hurdler. Ron Davis, 50, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s/Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates). Billy Herman, 83, American Hall of Fame baseball player, cancer. Irving Allen Lee, 43, American actor (The Edge of Night), AIDS. Fritz Leiber, 81, American author (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser), stroke. Yasuji Mori, 67, Japanese animator. Poul Moll Nielsen, 62, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1960). László Rajcsányi, 85, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion (1936, 1948, 1952). Albert Rees, 71, American economist. Hal Russell, 66, American free jazz composer, band leader and multi-instrumentalist. Jens Arup Seip, 86, Norwegian historian. Christopher Trace, 59, English actor and television presenter (Blue Peter), cancer. Zhou Wennan, 82, Chinese revolutionary and judge. Hans-Peter Zimmer, 55, German artist.
6 Ronnie Cahill, 77, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals). John Ryan Davey, 78, Australian cricketer. Henry Ephron, 81, American screenwriter (Captain Newman, M.D., Carousel, Desk Set). Pat Harder, 70, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions). Mervyn Johns, 93, Welsh actor. 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. Arturo Dominici, 76, Italian actor. Gerald Hanley, 76, Irish novelist. Edward Kobyliński, 84, Polish rower and Olympic medalist (1932, 1936). Emilio Villalba Welsh, 86, Argentine screenwriter. Johannes Zoet, 83, Dutch Olympic fencer (1948).
8 William Barrett, 79, American academic. Quentin N. Burdick, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1960), heart failure. René Emanuelli, 86, French Olympic equestrian (1948). Guy Grantham, 92, British naval officer. Donald Guthrie, 76, British theologian and New Testament scholar. Hans-Otto Meissner, 83, German lawyer and nazi diplomat. Drew Thompson, 70, Canadian actor
9 Maurice Burton, 94, British zoologist and science author. Julian Creus, 75, British weightlifter and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952, 1956). William E. DePuy, 72, American Army general. Carmelo Di Bella, 71, Italian football player. Ivo Fabris, 82, Yugoslavian Olympic rower (1936). Willie Fennell, 72, Australian actor, comedian and scriptwriter. Imre König, 91, Hungarian-British chess master. Orlando Santamaría, 72, Cuban Olympic sports shooter (1948).
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 (1948). Evelyn Wellings, 83, Egyptian-English cricket player and journalist.
11 Else Germeten, 74, Norwegian film censor and politician. Abubakar Gumi, 67, Nigerian Islamic scholar, leukemia. Eiji Gō, 55, Japanese actor. Frank McKinney, 53, American Olympic swimmer (1956, 1960), plane crash. John Sanchez, 71, American football player (Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins, New York Giants). Frank Singuineau, 79, Trinidadian actor.
12 Mary Wells Ashworth, 89, American historian, aortic rupture. Rowley Fischer, 82, Australian rules footballer. Hans F. Koenekamp, 100, American special effects artist and cinematographer. Mallikarjun Mansur, 81, Indian classical singer. Ruth Nelson, 87, American actress (3 Women, The Late Show, Awakenings), cancer. Ed Peck, 75, American actor (Happy Days, Bullitt, Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers), heart attack. Anthony Perkins, 60, American actor (Psycho, Friendly Persuasion, The Black Hole), AIDS. Emilio Recoba, 87, Uruguayan footballer. Ron Woodroof, 42, American entrepreneur and creator of the Dallas Buyer's Club, AIDS-related pneumonia.
13 Dick Huffman, 69, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams). Lou Jacobs, 89, German-American clown. Božidar Rašica, 79, Croatian architect, scenographer and painter. Arseny Semionov, 81, Soviet painter and art teacher.
14 Montu Banerjee, 72, Indian cricketer. Libero Bertagnolli, 77, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), and coach. Somapala Dharmapriya, 51, Sri Lankan actor and cinematographer. Ilse Dörffeldt, 80, German sprinter and Olympian (1936). Johannes van der Horst, 83, Dutch Olympic modern pentathlete (1936). Bruce Hutchison, 91, Canadian writer and journalist. August Komendant, 85, Estonian-American structural engineer. Paul Martin Sr., 89, Canadian politician. George Pearcy, 73, American basketball player. Gian Luca Tocchi, 91, Italian composer. Theodore S. Weiss, 64, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1977), heart failure.
15 Martin Eberle, 61, German Olympic weightlifter (1964). Pedro Formental, 77, Cuban-American baseball player. Harvey Hardy, 69, American gridiron football player. Fredrik Hetty, 87, Norwegian footballer. Walter B. Jones, Sr., 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1966). Michael Luciano, 83, American film editor (The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard, The Flight of the Phoenix). Håkon Olsen, 65, Norwegian Olympic wrestler (1952). Shubbo Shankar, 50, Indian graphic artist, musician and composer, pneumonia.
16 Larbi Benbarek, 75, French-Moroccan football player. Millicent Fenwick, 82, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1975-1983), heart failure. Mogens Koch, 94, Danish architect. Eldred Kraemer, 62, American football player (San Francisco 49ers). Henri Legay, 72, French operatic tenor. Al Piasecky, 75, American football player (Washington Redskins). Tsuneo Sato, 66, Japanese Olympic speed skater (1952). Joe Stringfellow, 74, American football player (Detroit Lions). Jim Sullivan, 60, Northern Irish politician and republican. Victoria Wolf, 88, German-American writer.
17 Homayoun Ardalan, 42, Iranian Kurd politician, assassinated. Yngve Casslind, 60, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player (1956). Feodor Chaliapin Jr., 86, Russian-Italian actor. George Hill, 85, American figure skater and Olympian (1936). Herivelto Martins, 80, Brazilian composer and singer. Ralph Schwarz, 25, Dutch Olympic rower (1988), plane crash. Sadegh Sharafkandi, 54, Iranian Kurd politician, assassinated. Judith Nisse Shklar, 63, Latvian-American political theorist. Roger Wagner, 78, American musician.
18 Heinz Ambühl, 87, Swiss Olympic sports shooter (1948). Lona Andre, 77, American actress, golfer, and businesswoman, in 1938, Andre set a world golfing record for women by shooting 156 holes of golf in 11 hours and 56 minutes on the Lake Norconian, California course David Bodian, 82, American medical scientist, Parkinson's disease. Darío Cabanelas, 75, Spanish Arabist. Princess Margaret of Denmark, 97, Danish royal. 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.
19 Fritz Bauer, 86, German coxswain and Olympic champion (1928, 1932, 1936). Frederick Combs, 56, American actor (The Boys in the Band), AIDS. Geraint Evans, 70, Welsh opera singer. Kenny Howard, 63, American motorcycle mechanic, artist, and gunsmith. Aida Imanguliyeva, 52, Azerbaijani scholar, cancer. Jacques Pic, 59, French chef, heart attack. Keith Stackpole, 76, Australian football player. Alexander Trojan, 78, Austrian film actor.
20 Musa Anter, 72, Turkish Kurd writer, journalist and intellectual, assassinated. Joe Fillmore, 78, American baseball player. Leon O. Jacobson, 80, American physician, medical researcher and educator. Reuben Kadish, 79, American visual artist. André Peton, 89, French cyclist. Gösta Pihl, 85, Swedish Olympic sports shooter (1952). Harry Smyth, 82, Canadian speed skater and Olympian (1932). William L. Springer, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1973).
21 Aleksandr Almetov, 52, Russian ice hockey player and Olympian (1960, 1964), pneumonia. 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.
22 Candido Amantini, 78, Italian Roman Catholic priest, theologian and exorcist. Paul Bucy, 87, American neurosurgeon. James Demouchette, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Kurt Haas, 83, Swiss Olympic rower (1936). Aurelio López, 44, Mexican baseball player, traffic collision. Aruna Shanthi, 66, Sri Lankan actor.
23 Frank P. Briggs, 98, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1945–1947). Paul E. Garber, 93, American museum curator. Ivar Ivask, 64, Estonian poet. Mary Santpere, 79, Spanish actress. Kalyan Sundaram, 88, Indian civil servant. Glendon Swarthout, 74, American novelist, pulmonary emphysema. James A. Van Fleet, 100, American Army general.
24 Christiane Barry, 74, French actress. Roy Heffernan, 67, Australian professional wrestler, heart attack. Jørgen Hval, 81, Norwegian footballer. Rufus Ligon, 89, American baseball player. Pietro Magni, 73, Italian football player and manager. Sarv Mittra Sikri, 84, Indian judge and Chief Justice. Brownie Wise, 79, American pioneering saleswoman (Tupperware).
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