The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1992
1
- Robert Edward Bell, 73, Canadian nuclear physicist and academic.
- Carl E. Duckett, 69, American intelligence operative, lung cancer.
- Michael Havers, Baron Havers, 69, British barrister and politician.[1]
- Seymour Mamedov, 20, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
- Nigel Preston, 28, English drummer, drug overdose.
- Walter Andreas Schwarz, 78, German singer.
- Konstantin Sergeyev, 82, Russian danseur, artistic director and choreographer.[2]
- Edward Smouha, 82, British track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.[3]
2
- Nugzar Asatiani, 54, Soviet Olympic fencer (1964).[4]
- Juanito, 37, Spanish footballer, traffic collision.
- Hjalmar Karlsson, 86, Swedish sailor.[5]
- Paula Kelly, 72, American singer.[6]
- Gabriel Tiacoh, 29, Ivorian sprinter and Olympic medalist, meningitis.[7]
- Tomisaburō Wakayama, 62, Japanese actor (Lone Wolf and Cub), heart failure.
- Dib Williams, 82, American baseball player.[8]
3
- Aaron Bohrod, 84, American painter, liver cancer.[9]
- Nie Fengzhi, 79, Chinese Army Lieutenant general.
- Juan García Hortelano, 64, Spanish writer, poet and literary critic, lung cancer.[10]
- Ivan Rukavina, 80, Yugoslav Army general and politician.
- Karl Tunberg, 85, American screenwriter (Ben-Hur).
4
- Vincenzo Bertolotto, 79, Italian rugby player.
- Albrecht Fleckenstein, 74, German pharmacologist and physiologist.
- Vintilă Horia, 76, Romanian writer.[11]
- Salgueiro Maia, 47, Portuguese Army officer, cancer.[12]
- Rixi Markus, 81, Austrian-British contract bridge player.[13]
- Samuel Reshevsky, 80, Polish-American chess player.[14]
- Arthur Russell, 40, American musician, AIDS.[15]
5
- Daniel Campbell, 66, Canadian politician.
- Takeshi Inoue, 63, Japanese footballer.
- Molly Picon, 94, American actress (Fiddler on the Roof, The Cannonball Run, Car 54, Where Are You?), Alzheimer's disease.[16]
- Modjeska Monteith Simkins, 92, American social rights and civil rights activist.
- Sam Walton, 74, American businessman, founder of Walmart, multiple myeloma.[17]
6
- Isaac Asimov, 72, Russian-American science fiction author (Foundation, Galactic Empire, Robot), heart failure.[18]
- Patrick Desmond Callaghan, 65, Pakistani air officer.
- Edith Katherine Cash, 101, American mycologist and lichenologist.
- Vakhtang Chabukiani, 82, Soviet ballet dancer.[19]
- Donald Harding, 43, American murderer, execution by gas chamber.
- Peter Hayman, 77, British diplomat and intelligence operative.
- Herman Francis Mark, 96, Austrian-American chemist.[20]
- Edward S. Montgomery, 81, American journalist, pneumonia.
- Jim Pomeroy, 47, American artist.[21]
- Erling Wikborg, 97, Norwegian politician.
7
- Ace Bailey, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.[22]
- Horst Niemack, 83, German general during World War II.
- Clovis Ruffin, 46, American fashion designer, complication from AIDS.[23]
- Alix Talton, 71, American actress, lung cancer.[24]
- Antonis Tritsis, 55, Greek politician and urban planner.
- Frank Walsh, 89, American golfer.
8
- Daniel Bovet, 85, Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize recipient (1957), cancer.[25]
- John Cherberg, 81, American football coach and politician.[26]
- Ronald Eyre, 62, English theatre director.[27]
- Käte Hamburger, 95, Germanist, literary scholar and philosopher.[28]
- Nelson Olmsted, 78, American actor.[29]
- Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson, 85, Canadian mathematician.
- Sam Rosen, 70, American comic book artist and letterer (Spider-Man, Captain America, X-Men).
9
- Charles Ginsburg, 71, American engineer and inventor of the videotape recorder, pneumonia.
- John Kissell, 68, American gridiron football player.[30]
- Ivan Lund, 62, Australian fencer.[31]
- Gale W. McGee, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1959–1977).[32]
- Theodor Schieffer, 81, German historian.[33]
- Alfred Szklarski, 80, Polish author.
- Erik Werba, 73, Austrian classical pianist.[34]
10
- Charles Mitchill Bogert, 83, American herpetologist and museum curator.[35]
- Hermann Eppenhoff, 72, German football player and manager.[36]
- Şahlar Hüseynov, 23, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action .
- János Kajdi, 52, Hungarian boxer and Olympian, traffic collision.[37]
- Sam Kinison, 38, American comedian and actor (Back to School), traffic collision.[38]
- Cec Linder, 71, Polish-Canadian actor (Goldfinger, Quatermass and the Pit, Lolita), pulmonary emphysema.[39]
- Peter D. Mitchell, 71, English biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1978).[40]
- William Paling, 99, British politician.
11
- James Brown, 72, American actor (The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), lung cancer.[41]
- Adele Dixon, 83, English actress and singer, pneumonia.[42]
- Heinrich Lausberg, 79, German linguist.[43]
- Frank Maher, 73, American gridiron football player.[44]
- Eve Merriam, 75, American poet, liver cancer.[45]
- Fakhraddin Musayev, 34, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
- Alejandro Obregón, 71, Colombian artist.[46]
- Gerard Tichy, 72, German-Spanish actor.[47]
- Josip Vidmar, 96, Slovenian literary critic, essayist, and politician.[48]
12
- Ilario Bandini, 80, Italian racing driver and racing car manufacturer.
- Makineni Basavapunnaiah, 77, Indian politician.
- Ettore Gracis, 76, Italian conductor.[49]
- Georg Haentzschel, 84, German pianist, broadcaster, composer and arranger.
- Gunter Jahn, 81, German U-boat commander during Worls War II.
- Deane Keller, 90, American artist and academic.[50]
- Jean Émile Reymond, 79, Monacan politician.
- Robert L. Wheeler, 71, American trainer of thoroughbred racehorses.
13
- John Bruno, 27, American gridiron football player, skin cancer.[51]
- Charles Patrick Fitzgerald, 90, British historian and writer.[52]
- Eddie Fontaine, 65, American actor and singer, esophageal cancer.
- Feza Gürsey, 71, Turkish physicist, prostate cancer.
- Brian Oulton, 84, English actor.
- Daniel Pollock, 23, Australian film actor (Romper Stomper), suicide.
- Ray Roberts, 79, American politician.[53]
- Maurice Sauvé, 68, Canadian politician.[54]
- Firudin Shamoyev, 30, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action
- Stuart Surridge, 74, English cricketer.
- Martin T. Williams, 67, American music critic and writer.[55]
14
- David Miller, 82, American film director, cancer.[56]
- Artur Mkrtchyan, 33, Nagorno-Karabakh politician, shot.
- Marshall D. Moran, 85, American Jesuit priest and missionary .[57]
- Valeh Muslumov, 23, Azerbaijan soldier and war hero, killed in action.
- Sammy Price, 83, American pianist, heart attack.[58]
15
- Otis Barton, 92, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor.[59]
- David Bosch, 62, South African missiologist and theologian, traffic collision.
- William Bridges-Maxwell, 62, Australian politician.
- Howard Sylvester Ellis, 93, American economist.
- Hans Maass, 80, German mathematician.[60]
- Frank Richards, 82, American actor.
- Aleksandr Sevidov, 70, Soviet football coach and player, cancer.[61]
- James Zumberge, 68, American geologist and academic.[62]
16
- Gilbert Alsop, 83, English footballer.[63]
- Neville Brand, 71, American actor, emphysema.[64]
- James Gallagher, 82, American soccer player.[65]
- Andy Russell, 72, American singer, complications from a stroke.
- Bhalindra Singh, 72, Indian cricket player.[66]
17
- Maurice Buckmaster, 90, British Special Operations Executive operative.
- Arthur Calder-Marshall, 83, English novelist, essayist, and biographer.[67]
- Arkady Chernyshev, 78, Soviet ice hockey, soccer and bandy player.
- John DeVries, 76, American lyricist, interior designer and illustrator, complications after surgery.[68]
- Skeets Herfurt, 80, American jazz musician.[69]
- Hank Penny, 73, American musician.[70]
18
- H. V. Kershaw, 73, British television scriptwriter and producer.[71]
- Russinho, 89, Brazilian football player.
- Pat Thomson, 51, English-Australian actress, aneurysm.
- John Thorp, 79, American aeronautical engineer.
- Paul Zaeske, 46, American gridiron football player.[72]
19
- Pierre Descamps, 75, Belgian politician.
- Frankie Howerd, 75, English actor and comedian, heart failure.[73]
- Batia Lishansky, 92, Russian-Israeli sculptor.
- C. C. Too, 72, Malaysian diplomat.[74]
20
- Marcel Albers, 24, Dutch racing driver, racing accident.[75]
- Marjorie Gestring, 69, American Olympic diver (1936).[76]
- Orval Grove, 72, American baseball player.[77]
- Benny Hill, 68, English comedian and actor (The Benny Hill Show), coronary thrombosis.[78]
- Jimmy Lennon, 79, American boxing and professional wrestling announcer.
- Peter Murray, 72, British art historian and academic.
- Johnny Shines, 76, American musician, stroke.[79]
- Llewellyn Thomas, 88, British physicist and mathematician.[80]
- Gian Carlo Wick, 82, Italian theoretical physicist.[81]
21
- Mel Branch, 55, American gridiron football player.[82]
- Louis Diercxsens, 93, Belgian field hockey player.[83]
- Gerald Feinberg, 58, American physicist.[84]
- Robert Alton Harris, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by gas chamber.
- Väinö Linna, 71, Finnish author, cancer.[85]
- Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, 74, Russian monarch and head of the Imperial Family.[86]
- Ioan Totu, 60, Romanian politician.
- Nigel Williams, 47, English conservator, heart attack.
- Ernest Yust, 64, Soviet-Hungarian footballer and coach.
22
- Steffi Duna, 82, Hungarian-American film actress.[87]
- Pat Hills, 74, Australian politician.[88]
- Kang Keqing, 80, Chinese politician.[89]
- Harsono Tjokroaminoto, 79, Indonesian political figure.
23
- Tanka Prasad Acharya, 80, Nepali politician, prime minister (1956–1957), kidney disease.[90]
- Ronnie Bucknum, 56, American race car driver, diabetes.
- Deron Johnson, 53, American baseball player, cancer.[91]
- Hilda Kuper, 80, Rhodesian social anthropologist and writer.
- Satyajit Ray, 70, Indian filmmaker, heart failure.[92]
- Omar Shendi, 76-77, Egyptian footballer.
- Michael Wagner, 44, American television writer and producer (Hill Street Blues, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Capitol Critters), brain cancer.[93]
- Bror Östman, 63, Swedish ski jumper and Olympian.[94]
24
- Valdemārs Baumanis, 87, Latvian basketball player.
- Elio Chacón, 55, American baseball player.[95]
- Samuel L. Greenberg, 93, American politician.
- Milton Rosenstock, 74, American conductor, composer, and arranger.[96]
25
- Ernesto Balducci, 69, Italian Catholic priest and peace activist, traffic collision.[97]
- Bob Hazle, 61, American baseball player.[98]
- Brian MacLeod, 39, Canadian musician, brain cancer.
- George Mantello, 90, Hungarian diplomat and anti-fascist.
- Alfonso Flórez Ortiz, 39, Colombian racing cyclist, murdered.
- Yutaka Ozaki, 26, Japanese musician, pulmonary edema.
- Lin Richards, 83, Australian politician.
- Danny Tuijnman, 77, Dutch politician.[99]
26
- Livio Abramo, 88, Brazilian-Paraguayan visual artist.
- Julian Amyes, 74, British film director and producer.[100]
- Jack Dunphy, 77, American novelist and playwright.[101]
- Edgar Lewis, 90, Australian politician.
- Alberta Vaughn, 87, American actress, cancer.[102]
27
- Sol K. Bright Sr., 82-83, American musician.
- Harlond Clift, 79, American baseball player[103]
- Olivier Messiaen, 83, French composer and ornithologist.[104]
- Gerard K. O'Neill, 65, American physicist and space activist, leukemia.
- Jack Pritchard, 93, British entrepreneur.[105]
- James Maude Richards, 84, British architectural writer.[106]
28
- Hasan as-Senussi, 63-64, Libyan crown prince, head of the Libyan royal family (since 1969).
- Francis Bacon, 82, Irish-British painter, heart attack.[107]
- Andria Balanchivadze, 85, Georgian composer.[108]
- Émile Carrara, 67, French road and track cyclist.[109]
- V. K. Gokak, 82, Indian Kannada writer and scholar.[110]
- Parashkev Hadjiev, 80, Bulgarian composer.[111]
- Allan Highet, 78, New Zealand politician.
- Elfed Davies, Baron Davies of Penrhys, 78, Welsh politician.
- Brian Pockar, 32, Canadian figure skater, AIDS-related complications.[112]
29
- Mae Clarke, 81, American actress (Frankenstein, The Public Enemy), cancer.[113]
- Chandrabati Devi, 82, Indian actress.
- Ghulam Faruque, 92, Pakistani industrialist and politician.
- Stephen Oliver, 42, English composer, AIDS-related complications.[114]
30
- Agha, 78, Indian film actor , cardiovascular disease.
- Preston Bassett, 100, American aerospace engineer.[115]
- Otto Bräutigam, 96, German diplomat and lawyer.
- Ramiz Ganbarov, 29, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action.
- Toivo Kärki, 76, Finnish composer, musician, and music producer.
- Katsuo Osugi, 47, Japanese baseball player.[116]
- Iceberg Slim, 73, American novelist and pimp, liver failure.
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