Deaths in History in 1992

Deaths 1 - 200 of 370

Grace Hopper

Jan 1 Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and US Navy admiral who invented the first compiler for a universal computer programming language and is credited with coining the phrase 'debugging’, dies at 85

Alex Haley

Feb 10 Alex Haley, American writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70

Feb 10 Florence Tarlow, dies of cancer at 70
Feb 10 Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies
Feb 10 Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr Faustus), dies
Feb 12 Ton Brandsteder, CEO (Sony Netherland BV), dies at 74
Feb 13 Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist and writer (Restless Travel), dies at 61
Feb 13 Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician, dies at 82
Feb 15 María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
Feb 16 Abbas al-Musawi, influential Lebanese Shia cleric, and founder and leader of Hezbollah, assassinated by Israel Defense Forces at 39

Feb 16 Angela Carter, English novelist (Magic Toyshop) and journalist, dies of cancer at 51
Feb 16 George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies
Feb 16 Janio Quadros, president of Brazil (1961), dies
Feb 16 Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge Amster (squaters), dies at 78
Feb 19 Chet Leaming, dies after brief illness at 66
Feb 20 Andrew Schenck, conducter, dies of melanoma at 51
Feb 20 Roberto D'Aubuisson, El Salvadorian founder (ARENA), dies
Feb 20 Eugene R. Black, American President of World Bank (1953-62), dies at 93
Feb 21 Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies
Feb 21 William S Magginetti, dies at 98
Feb 23 Markos Vafiades, leader (ELAS, 1943-49), dies
Feb 24 Kay Loring, dies after long illness
Feb 25 Ollie O'Toole, dies after long illness at 79
Feb 27 S. I. Hayakawa, U.S. senator from California (1977–83) and educator (Language in Action), dies of a stroke at 85
Feb 27 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80
Feb 28 Emilla Sherman, choreographer/rockette, dies
Feb 29 Earl Scheib, CEO (Earl Scheib Auto Paint), dies at 85
Feb 29 Ruth Pitter, British poet and 1st woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955, dies at 94
Mar 4 C Meijer, Dutch editor in chief (Typhoon), dies
Mar 4 Christian K Nelson, inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98
Mar 4 Nestor Almendros, Spanish/US cameraman (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 61
Mar 6 Emmy Huf, Dutch cabaret performer/writer (I Want Warm Meat), dies
Mar 6 Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Infinite Passage), dies at 83
Mar 9 Jack McEdward, asst dir (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94
Mar 9 James Brooks, US mural painter (Flight, La Guardia NY), dies at 85

Menachem Begin

Mar 9 Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel (1977-80, 81-83) and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies of a heart attack at 85

Mar 10 Roy Holmer Wallack, dies of pneumonia at 64
Mar 11 Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
Mar 11 Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79
Mar 12 Hans G. Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (known for the comic strip Eric de Noorman), dies at 70

Mar 12 Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies
Mar 12 Karel Poons, father of Paul Deen, dies
Mar 12 Philippe Soupault, writer, dies
Mar 12 Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/MP (chr-dem), murdered
Mar 13 Hans Redeker, Dutch art critic (Algemeen Handelsblad), dies
Mar 14 Steven Brian Pennell, 1st execution in Delaware in 45 years at 34
Mar 16 Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies
Mar 16 Yves Rocard, French physicist (helped develop the atomic bomb for France), dies at 88
Mar 17 George Lovi, American columnist (Sky & Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies
Mar 18 Cornelis B Vaandrager, [C Vaan], poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56
Mar 23 Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92
Mar 26 Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
Mar 27 Easley Blackwood, expert bridge player, dies at 89
Mar 27 Gerry Duggan, dies at 82
Mar 27 James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84
Mar 27 Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist, painter and graphic artist, dies at 68
Mar 28 Wendell Mayes, writer, dies of cancer at 72
Mar 29 Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana, dies at 68
Mar 30 Art Hannes, announcer, dies of a respiratory ailment at 72
Mar 30 Luigi De Laurentiis, Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies
Mar 30 Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist who discovered ancient royal Macedonian tombs in northern Greece, dies at 72
Apr 4 Karl Tunberg, US scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies

Sam Walton

Apr 5 Sam Walton, American businessman (founder and CEO of Walmart and Sam's Club), dies of multiple myeloma at 74

Isaac Asimov

Apr 6 Isaac Asimov, Russian scientist and sci-fi writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy), dies from kidney failure at 72

Apr 7 Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72
Apr 7 Clovis Ruffin, American fashion designer (T shirt dress), dies of AIDS at 46
Apr 8 Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
Apr 9 Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77
Apr 10 Ken Ward, dies at 37
Apr 11 Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75
Apr 11 Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
Apr 11 Robert Houben, Belgian politician (Minister of Public health 1958), dies at 86
Apr 13 Brian Oulton, dies at 84
Apr 13 Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84
Apr 14 David Miller, dies of cancer at 82
Apr 16 Frank Killmond, dies at 58
Apr 19 Alice Mary Riley, entertainer, dies of cancer at 51
Apr 21 Robert Harris, American criminal and murderer, executed in a gas chamber at 39 in San Quentin State Prison, California
Apr 21 Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74
Apr 22 Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas at 34

Apr 22 Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st Chamber member (CPN), dies
Apr 23 Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader, dies of cancer at 53
Apr 23 Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder, Agantuk), dies at 70
Apr 25 Dany Tuijnman, Dutch politician (Minister of Transport and Water Management), dies at 77
Apr 25 Panos Christi, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 54
Apr 26 Clyde Hartley, entertainer, dies at 68
Apr 28 Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82
Apr 28 Iceberg Slim (a.k.a. Robert Beck), African-American writer, dies at 73
Apr 30 Daan van Driel, Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies
May 2 Lee Salk, Russian-American child psychologist and author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65
May 2 Wilbur Mills, American politician who involved with Fanne Foxe, dies at 82
May 3 Peter Bruni, dies of heart failure at 60
May 4 Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89
May 4 Ismael Galeano, "Commandant Franklyn" (Contra), dies
May 4 Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50
May 4 Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)
May 5 Stefano d'Arrigo, Siciilian writer, dies at 72
May 6 Jilly Rizzo, restauranteur/friend of Frank Sinatra, dies in a car crash at 75
May 8 Addeke H Boerma, Dutch economist and general manager (FAO), dies at 80
May 8 Brian Moore, writer (Catholics), dies of heart failure at 59
May 8 Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author (Fear on Java), dies at 71
May 8 Sergey Vladimirovich Obraztsov, Soviet puppet master, dies at 90
May 9 Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident
May 10 Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor, dies at 76
May 11 Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90
May 11 Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic & Span), dies at 98
May 13 Gisela Elsner, German writer (Die Riesenzwerge, Rowohlt), commits suicide at 55
May 13 F. E. McWilliam [Frederick Edward], Northern-Irish surrealist sculptor (Four Seasons Group), dies at 83
May 15 Robert Morris Page, US physicist (radar), dies at 88
May 20 Roger Keith Coleman, American murder who protested his innocence, is executed at 33
May 21 Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59
May 21 Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
May 21 Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
May 22 Zellig S. Harris, Russian-American linguist, dies at 82
May 23 Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered
May 25 Philip C Habib, US diplomat (Middle-East/Asia), dies at 72
May 25 Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies
May 27 Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55
May 27 Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, mobster (St Valentines Day), dies at 86
May 27 Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)

May 29 Ruby Middleton Forsythe, African-American teacher (50 years in 1 room school in SC), dies at 86
May 30 Karl Carstens, German politician (President of the Federal Republic of Germany 1979-84), dies at 77
May 31 Lutz Stavenhagen, top aid to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, dies at 52
Jun 1 Louise Hoff, entertainer, dies at 69
Jun 3 Patrick Peyton, Rosary Priest, dies of kidney failure at 83
Jun 3 William E Gaines, publisher (Mad Magazine), dies at 70
Jun 5 Max Lerner, American writer/columnist (NY Post), dies at 88
Jun 8 Beverly Carter, entertainer, dies at 51
Jun 8 Farag Foeda, Egyptian writer/publicist, murdered
Jun 8 William McGowan, entrepreneur (MCI), dies at 64
Jun 9 Cathy Bennett, jury selection expert, dies of breast cancer at 41
Jun 10 Otto Frans Antoine Hubert van Nispen, Dutch mayor (Pannerden), dies at 85
Jun 10 Zak Hernández, American soldier (b. 1973)
Jun 11 Marjorie Newell Robb, oldest living survivor of Titanic, dies at 103
Jun 11 Marlene Hazlett, entertainer, dies of cancer
Jun 12 Edward Fleming, Danish director (Lille Spejl), dies
Jun 12 Renie Irene Brouillet Conley, American costume designer (Cleopatra), dies at 90
Jun 17 Frederick Exley, novelist (Fan's Note), dies at 63
Jun 18 Peter Allen, entertainer (Legs Diamond), dies of aids at 48
Jun 18 Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)
Jun 18 Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, British brewer (Guinness) and large landowner, dies of cancer at 55
Jun 21 Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China (1983-88), dies at 82
Jun 22 Frederic I Rinaldo, writer (Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein), dies
Jun 22 M. F. K. Fisher, American cook book author, dies of Parkinson disease at 83
Jun 23 Lou Ramos, entertainer, dies
Jun 25 James Stirling, Scottish architect, dies at 66
Jun 25 William E Harris, entertainer, dies
Jun 27 Sandy Amoros, Bkln Dodger, dies at 62 of pneumonia
Jun 28 John Piper, British writer (US Churches in WWI) and official war painter, dies at 88
Jun 29 Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73
Jun 29 Pierre Billotte, French military man (IIGM), dies
Jun 30 Doug Delauder, entertainer, dies
Jun 30 Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies
Jul 1 Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933)
Jul 2 Borisav Pekic, Serbian writer/politician, dies
Jul 3 Arline Bletcher, entertainer, dies of natural causes at 99
Jul 3 Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66
Jul 6 Edgardo Pallero, Argentina producer (Los hijos de fierro), dies
Jul 6 Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne and Guinness brewing heir, dies at 86

Marsha P. Johnson

Jul 6 Marsha P. Johnson [born Malcolm Michaels Jr.], African-American gay liberation and AIDS activist, drag queen, and transgender pioneer (Gay Liberation Front, S.T.A.R.), dies under suspicious circumstances at 46

Jul 7 Ruurd Faber, Dutch politician and Mayor of Aalten (1971-75), dies at 79
Jul 10 Albert Pierrepoint, last and longest serving British executioner (est. 433-608 executed), dies at 87
Jul 11 Annette Fischer, Danish chairman Amnesty International, dies in a car crash at 46
Jul 11 Antoon Hubben, Dutch Mayor of Maasbree and trade union leader, dies at 73
Jul 15 Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijan's most noted journalist (b. 1960)
Jul 15 Hammer DeRoburt, First President of Nauru, dies at 69
Jul 18 Jan Pelleboer, Dutch meteorologist, dies
Jul 18 Mollie Parnis, American fashion designer (Mamie Eisenhower), dies in her 90s (she had long refused to disclose her exact age)
Jul 18 Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies), dies at 88

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