The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1992
1
- Mohan Choti, 57, Indian actor.
- Maurice John Dingman, 78, American bishop of the Catholic Church.
- Jean Hamburger, 82, French physician, surgeon and essayist.[1]
- Irving Kaufman, 81, American judge, pancreatic cancer.[2]
- Hussein Kamel Montasser, 68, Egyptian basketball player.
- Frank Spitzer, 65, Austrian-American mathematician.[3]
2
- Philip Erenberg, 82, American gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.[4]
- Theodor Gaster, 85, British-American biblical scholar.[5]
- Paul Huston, 66, American basketball player.[6]
- Bert Parks, 77, American television personality and Miss America and host, lung cancer.[7]
- Vladimír Čech, 77, Czechoslovak film director and screenwriter.
3
- Otto Arndt, 71, East German politician.
- Junior Cook, 57, American hard bop tenor saxophone player.[8]
- Knut Fridell, 83, Swedish freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion.[9]
- Mário Peixoto, 83, Brazilian film director.
- Jan van Aartsen, 82, Dutch politician and jurist.
4
- Alan Davies, 30, British footballer, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.[10]
- John Dehner, 76, American actor (The Right Stuff, The Doris Day Show, The Boys from Brazil), emphysema.[11]
- Lisa Fonssagrives, 80, Swedish-American fashion model.[12]
- Vittorio Gelmetti, 65, Italian composer.[13]
- Gurmit Singh Kullar, 84-85, Indian Olympic field hockey player (1932).
- Ned Locke, 72, American television personality and radio announcer, liver cancer.
- Gianni Rizzo, 67, Italian film actor.
5
- Sergio Méndez Arceo, 84, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop and human rights activist.
- Nicomedes Santa Cruz, 66, Peruvian singer, songwriter and musicologist.
- Paul A. Freund, 83, American jurist and law professor, cancer.[14]
- Joseph MacManus, 21, Irish republican volunteer, shot.
- Carter Manasco, 90, American politician.
- Harry Mattos, 80, American gridiron football player.[15]
- Ernest Thornton, 86, British politician.
- Bill Wheatley, 82, American basketball player.[16]
6
- John Greenstock, 86, English cricket player.[17]
- Wayde Preston, 62, American actor (Colt .45, Sugarfoot, Captain America), colorectal cancer.
- Felix Rexhausen, 59, German journalist, editor and author.
- Cedric Sloane, 76, Australian cross-country skier.[18]
7
- Bob Allen, 75, English football player.[19]
- Radharaman Mitra, 94, Indian revolutionary Bengali writer.
- Shinsuke Ogawa, 56, Japanese documentary film director, liver failure.[20]
- Gunnar Randers, 77, Norwegian physicist.
- Buzz Sawyer, 32, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.[21]
8
- Fabian Gaffke, 78, American baseball player.[22]
- Baruch Lumet, 93, Polish-American actor.[23]
- Roland Robinson, 79, Australian poet and writer.[24]
- Bazoline Estelle Usher, 106, American educator.
- Tom Williams, 51, American ice hockey player, heart attack.[25]
- Denny Wright, 67, English jazz guitarist, bladder cancer.[26]
9
- Leon Clore, 73, English film producer.[27]
- Willie Fagan, 74, Scottish football player.
- Andor Földes, 78, Hungarian pianist, fall.[28]
- Jack Kinney, 82, American animator and film director (Pinocchio, Dumbo, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad).[29]
- Boonsong Lekagul, 84, Thai medical doctor, biologist, and conservationist.
10
- Vladimir Brovikov, 60, Soviet and Russian politician.
- Byron Gentry, 78, American football player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[30]
- Alex Haley, 70, American author (Roots: The Saga of an American Family), heart attack.[31]
- Fred Hynes, 83, American sound engineer (West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!), five-time Oscar winner.
- Yoshiko Okada, 89, Japanese stage and film actress.
- Jim Pepper, 50, American musician,lymphoma.[32]
- Doyt Perry, 82, American football player and coach.
- Meade Roberts, 61, American screenwriter, heart attack.[33]
11
- Patrick Crehan, 71, Irish basketball player.[34]
- Ray Danton, 60, American actor (The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, The George Raft Story, The Longest Day), kidney failure.[35]
- Johnny Garrett, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen, 88, Austrian train designer and engineer.
- Robert W. Russell, 80, American playwright and writer for movies and documentaries.[36]
- Carlos Rein Segura, 94, Spanish politician.[37]
12
- Sandy Douglass, 87, American sailboat racer and designer.
- Yehuda D. Nevo, 60, Middle Eastern archeologist living in Israel.[38]
- Stella Roman, 87, Romanian operatic soprano.[39]
- Bep van Klaveren, 84, Dutch boxer and Olympic featherweight champion.[40]
13
- Nikolai Bogolyubov, 82, Russian theoretical physicist.[41]
- Don Ettinger, 69, American gridiron football player.[42]
- Antun Motika, 89, Croatian artist.
- Earl Rapp, 70, American baseball player and scout.[43]
- Dorothy Tree, 85, American actress, heart failure.
- Bob den Uyl, 61, Dutch writer.
- Warren Westlund, 65, American Olympic rower (1948).[44]
14
- Luigi Ghirri, 49, Italian artist and photographer, heart attack.[45]
- Holger Jernsten, 81, Swedish football player.
- Roepie Kruize, 67, Dutch field hockey player and Olympian.[46]
- Alex Lovy, 78, American animator (The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Heathcliff).
- Angelique Pettyjohn, 48, American actress, cervical cancer.
- Helen Vela, 45, Filipina actress and radio and TV personality, colorectal cancer.
- Gene Venzke, 83, American middle-distance runner and Olympian.[47]
15
- Hermann Axen, 75, German political activist.[48]
- María Elena Moyano, 33, Peruvian activist, murdered.[49]
- Shosaku Numa, 63, Japanese neuroscientist.[50]
- Gerhard Riege, 61, German politician, suicide by hanging.
- William Schuman, 81, American composer, complications from hip surgery.[51]
- Edna Gardner Whyte, 89, American aviator.
16
- Abbas al-Musawi, 39, Lebanese militant and co-founder of Hezbollah, missile strike.[52]
- Angela Carter, 51, English novelist, lung cancer.[53]
- Walter Franz, 80, German theoretical physicist.
- Alberto Gomes, 76, Portuguese football player.
- George MacBeth, 60, Scottish poet.[54]
- Oleksander Ohloblyn, 92, Ukrainian historian.[55]
- Jânio Quadros, 75, Brazilian politician, president (1961).[56]
- Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk, 98, British noble.[57]
- Opal Irene Whiteley, 94, American nature writer and diarist.
- Herman Wold, 83, Norwegian-Swedish mathematician.[58]
17
- John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse, 63, British Royal Navy officer, surgical complications.[59]
- Alfred Hooke, 86, Canadian politician and writer.
- Delio Morollón, 54, Spanish football player.[60]
- Forrest L. Vosler, 68, American Air Force radio operator, Medal of Honor recipient.
18
- Sylvain Arend, 89, Belgian astronomer.
- Roman Filippov, 56, Soviet actor, thromboembolism.
- Robert Gittings, 81, English writer, biographer, playwright and poet.[61]
- Edith Hamlin, 90, American painter and muralist.[62]
- Wang Huayun, 84, Chinese politician.
- James H. Polk, 80, American Army four-star general.[63]
19
- Narayan Shridhar Bendre, 81, Indian artist.
- Mike Bucchianeri, 75, American gridiron football player.[64]
- Joseph Lyman Fisher, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1981), bone cancer.[65]
- Takehiko Kanagoki, 77, Japanese Olympic basketball player (1936).[66]
- Felix Makasiar, 76, Filipino lawyer and Chief Justice.
- Buddy O'Grady, 72, American basketball player and coach.[67]
- Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner, 87, Russian-French writer and translator.
- Tojo Yamamoto, 65, American professional wrestler, suicide.
20
- Muhammad Asad, 91, Austrian journalist, writer, political theorist, and diplomat.
- Eugene R. Black, Sr., 93, American banker.[68]
- A. J. Casson, 93, Canadian artist.[69]
- Roberto D'Aubuisson, 48, Salvadoran militant, esophageal cancer.
- Pierre Dervaux, 75, French operatic conductor, composer, and pedagogue.[70]
- Joan Dixon, 61, American actress.
- John Kneubuhl, 71, American Samoan screenwriter, playwright and polynesian historian.
- Dick York, 63, American actor (Bewitched, Inherit the Wind, Going My Way), emphysema.[71]
21
- William Arrowsmith, 67, American classicist, academic, and translator.[72]
- Charles L. Carpenter, 89, American naval admiral and genealogist.
- Kate ter Horst, 85, Dutch housewife known as the Angel of Arnhem during the Battle of Arnhem, traffic collision.
- Eva Jessye, 97, American conductor.[73]
- Jane Pickens Langley, 84, American singer, heart failure.[74]
- Henri Préaux, 80, French rowing coxswain and Olympic silver medalist.[75]
- Haruo Tanaka, 79, Japanese actor.
22
- Sudirman Arshad, 37, Malaysian singer-songwriter, pneumonia.
- Nicolas Bochatay, 27, Swiss Olympic speed skier (1992), skiing collision.
- Oscar Broneer, 97, Swedish-American archaeologist.[76]
- Gilbert Chase, 85, American music historian, critic and author, pneumonia.[77]
- Jun Miki, 72, Japanese photographer and photojournalism pioneer.
- Aarno Ruusuvuori, 67, Finnish architect.
- Markos Vafiadis, 86, Greek politician and resistance fighter.[78]
- David Wilson, 84, English football player.
- Paul Winter, 86, French discus thrower and Olympic medalist.[79]
- Kurt Wires, 72, Finnish Olympic canoer (1948, 1952).[80]
- Tadeusz Łomnicki, 64, Polish actor.[81]
23
- Joseph Armone, 74, American mobster (Gambino crime family).
- Dwight Bolinger, 84, American linguist and academic.[82]
- Valentino Bompiani, 93, Italian publisher, writer and playwright, heart failure.[83]
- Avraham Harman, 77, Israeli diplomat and academic administrator.[84]
- Maurice Raes, 85, Belgian racing cyclist.
- Einar Schanke, 64, Norwegian composer, pianist, and theatrical producer.
24
- Ljubo Benčić, 87, Yugoslav football player.
- Clarrie Jordan, 69, English football player.[85]
- August Lešnik, 77, Croatian football player.
- Doreen Montgomery, 78, British screenwriter.[86]
25
- Zlatko Celent, 39, Yugoslav Olympic rower (1980), traffic accident.[87]
- Guy Deghy, 79, Hungarian-British actor.[88]
- Andrews Engelmann, 90, Russian-German actor.[89]
- Harry D. Felt, 89, American naval aviator.[90]
- F. Russell Miller, 78, New Zealand politician.
- Carl Monssen, 70, Norwegian rower.[91]
- Ollie O'Toole, 79, American actor.
- Viktor Reznikov, 39, Soviet singer-songwriter, traffic collision.
- Bernard Michael Shanley, 88, American lawyer and politician.[92]
26
- Larry Banks, 60, American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer.
- Marguerite Ross Barnett, 49, American academic, cancer.[93]
- Gerrit Schulte, 76, Dutch racing cyclist.[94]
- Stuart Nash Scott, 85, American lawyer and diplomat, stroke.[95]
- Honey Sri-Isan, 20, Thai singer, traffic collision.
- Jean R. Yawkey, 83, American sports executive (Boston Red Sox) and philanthropist.[96]
- Military personnel killed during the Khojaly massacre:
- Alif Hajiyev, 38, Azerbaijani officer and war hero.
- Tofig Huseynov, 37, Azerbaijani commander and war hero.
- Hikmet Nazarli, 25, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero.
- Janpolad Rzayev, 24, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero.
- Araz Selimov, 31, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero.
27
- Chuck Drazenovich, 64, American gridiron football player.[97]
- Algirdas Julien Greimas, 74, Lithuanian-French literary scientist.[98]
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 85, Canadian-American academic and politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1977–1983), Alzheimer's disease.[99]
- Katharine Luomala, 84, American anthropologist.[100]
- John Rothenstein, 90, British art historian.[101]
- Antoine Wehenkel, 82, Luxembourgian politician and engineer.
28
- Antonio Bravo, 86, Spanish-Mexican film and television actor.[102]
- Bolesław Orliński, 92, Polish aviator, military, sports and test pilot.
- Enzo Pulcrano, 48, Italian actor and writer.
- Jackie Wiid, 62, South African swimmer and Olympian.[103]
- Bert Wilson, 42, Canadian ice hockey player, stomach cancer.
29
- Yavar Aliyev, 35, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
- Ada Colangeli, 78, Italian actress.
- Don Heinrich, 61, American football player, coach, and announcer, cancer.[104]
- Shamshi Kaldayakov, 61, Kazakh composer ("Menıñ Qazaqstanym").
- Ferenc Karinthy, 70, Hungarian novelist, playwright, and journalist.[105]
- La Lupe, 55, Cuban-American singer, heart attack.[106]
- Teófilo Villavicencio Marxuach, 79, Puerto Rican radio broadcaster.
- Ruth Pitter, 94, British poet.[107]
- Sergei Senyuskin, 34, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
- Eddie Wares, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.[108]
- Mevhibe İnönü, 97, First Lady of Turkey as wife of president İsmet İnönü.
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