Deaths in November 1992

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 1992

1

• Giacomo Giuseppe Beltritti, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (1970–1987).
• Karl Deutsch, 80, Czech political scientist.
• Tamara Lazakovich, 38, Soviet artistic gymnast, alcohol-related illnesses.
• John H. Malmberg, 65, American plasma physicist.
• Marianne Stewart, 70, German-American actress, cancer.
• Hugh Taylor, 69, American football player and coach.

2

• Anvar Arazov, 38, Azerbaijani colonel and war hero, killed in action.
• Robert Carston Arneson, 62, American sculptor, cancer.
• Vincenzo Balzamo, 63, Italian politician, heart attack.
• Jeremias Chitunda, 50, Angolan politician, assassinated, homicide.
• L. Roy Houck, 87, American rancher and politician.
• Hal Roach, 100, American film and television producer (Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy), pneumonia.
• Jack Whitney, 87, American sound engineer.

3

• Allah Jilai Bai, 90, Indian folk singer.
• Boze Berger, 82, American baseball player.
• Jack Davis, 78, American child actor (Our Gang), respiratory failure.
• Allanah Harper, 87, English journalist.
• Teofil Herineanu, 82, Romanian cleric.
• Haydn Hill, 79, English amateur football player and Olympian.
• Hanya Holm, 99, German-American dancer, choreographer, and dance educator.
• Raimond Kolk, 68, Estonian writer.
• Vladas Mikėnas, 82, Lithuanian chess player and journalist.
• Prem Nath, 65, Indian actor and director.
• Chris Van Cuyk, 65, American baseball player.

4

• Raoul André, 76, French director and screenwriter.
• Claude Aveline, 91, French writer, publisher, poet and French Resistance member during World War II.
• Ludwik Benoit, 72, Polish film and theatre actor.
• Regina Carrol, 49, American actress, cancer.
• José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, 81, Spanish film director.
• Carlos Eduardo Imperial, 56, Brazilian actor, myasthenia gravis.
• George Klein, 88, Canadian inventor.
• Csaba Körmöczi, 48, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1976).
• Kuniko Miyake, 76, Japanese actress (Tokyo Story, Late Spring, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice).
• Luisa Moreno, 85, Guatemalan labor leader.
• Pierre Wissmer, 77, French composer.

5

• Carlos Sanz de Santamaría, 87, Colombian diplomat and politician.
• Arpad Elo, 89, Hungarian-American chess player.
• Dick Hahn, 76, American baseball player.
• Richard Hartshorne, 92, American geographer and academic.
• Jan Hendrik Oort, 92, Dutch astronomer.
• Carl Rodenburg, 98, Nazi Germany Wehrmacht general.
• Rod Scurry, 36, American baseball player, cocaine-induced heart attack.
• Vyacheslav Skomorokhov, 52, Ukrainian track and field athlete and Olympian.

6

• Calvin Graham, 62, Youngest American serviceman to serve during World War II.
• Sebastián Gualco, 80, Argentine football player.
• Lev Orekhov, 78, Soviet and Russian painter.
• Mark Rosenberg, 44, American film producer (Presumed Innocent, The Fabulous Baker Boys, White Palace), heart failure.

7

• Alexander Dubček, 70, Slovak politician, traffic accident.
• Fern Gauthier, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
• René Hamel, 90, French cyclist.
• Jack Kelly, 65, American actor (Maverick, Forbidden Planet, A Fever in the Blood) and politician, stroke.
• Scott McPherson, 33, American playwright (Marvin's Room), complications from AIDS.
• Robert Nay, 35, Australian swimmer and Olympian, traffic collision.
• Jimmy Oakes, 90, English footballer.
• Henri Temianka, 85, Scottish-American violinist.
• Richard Yates, 66, American novelist (Revolutionary Road), pulmonary emphysema.

8

• Kees Broekman, 65, Dutch Olympic speed skater (1952).
• He Cheng, 90-91, Chinese lieutenant general.
• Ian Griffith, 67, Australian politician.
• Larry Levan, 38, American DJ, stroke.
• Red Mitchell, 65, American jazz musician.
• Felix Schnyder, 82, Swiss lawyer and diplomat.

9

• Fritz Gunst, 84, German water polo player.
• William Hillcourt, 92, Danish scouting pioneer.
• Ivan Holovchenko, 74, Soviet and Ukrainian militsiya general.
• Natalie Joyce, 90, American actress.
• Sven Selånger, 85, Swedish nordic skier and Olympic medalist.
• T. Sivasithamparam, 66, Sri Lankan politician.

10

• Chuck Connors, 71, American actor (The Rifleman, Soylent Green, Old Yeller) and athlete, lung cancer.
• Doc Guidry, 74, American fiddler.
• Hilda Hölzl, 65, Slovenian dramatic soprano.
• Eskil Lundahl, 87, Swedish swimmer and Olympian.
• John Summerson, 87, English architectural historian.

11

• Giles Bullard, 66, British diplomat.
• John Samuel Forrest, 85, Scottish physicist.
• Peter Gretton, 80, English naval admiral.
• Earle Meadows, 79, American Olympic pole vaulter (1936).

12

• Giulio Carlo Argan, 83, Italian politician and art historian, mayor of Rome (1976–1979).
• Rafael Asadov, 40, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action.
• Charles Coles, 81, American actor (Dirty Dancing, The Cotton Club) and tap dancer, cancer.
• Dante Gianello, 80, Italian-French bicycle racer.
• Stanisław Karpiel, 83, Polish cross-country skier and Olympian.
• Muhammad Masihullah Khan, 81, Indian Islamic scholar.
• Gregory Markopoulos, 64, American filmmaker.
• Eddie Mayehoff, 83, American actor.
• David Oliver, 30, American actor, AIDS.

13

• Ronnie Bond, 52, English drummer (The Troggs).
• Franco Calabrese, 69, Italian bass singer.
• Waldemar Malak, 22, Polish weightlifter and Olympic medalist, traffic collision.
• Maurice Ohana, 79, French composer.
• Johnny Ostrowski, 75, American baseball player.
• St John Pike, 82, Irish anglican bishop.
• Jim Zyntell, 82, American football player.

14

• George Adams, 52, American jazz musician.
• Byron Beams, 57, American football player.
• Clem Beauchamp, 94, American film producer.
• Greg Curnoe, 55, Canadian painter, bicycle accident.
• Ernst Happel, 66, Austrian football player and manager, lung cancer.
• Alan Jarman, 69, Australian politician.
• Gregorio Prieto, 95, Spanish painter.
• Joop van Nellen, 82, Dutch football player.
• Keith Waller, 78, Australian diplomat.

15

• Billy Hassett, 71, American basketball player.
• Carl Hinkle, 75, American football player.
• N. H. Keerthiratne, 90, Sri Lankan politician and philanthropist.
• Toots Mondello, 81, American jazz musician.
• Andrii Shtoharenko, 90, Soviet and Ukrainian composer and teacher.

16

• Clancy Fernando, 54, Sri Lankan Navy admiral, murdered.
• Bob Gillson, 87, American football player.
• Harold Glasser, 86, American economist.
• Phyllis Harding, 84, English backstroke and freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• Leslie Hotson, 95, Canadian literary historian and critic.
• Max Huber, 73, Swiss graphic designer.
• Sir Raman Osman, 90, Mauritian politician, governor-general (1972–1977).
• Gene Schott, 79, American Major League Baseball player.

17

• Todd Armstrong, 55, American actor (Jason and the Argonauts, Manhunt, King Rat), suicide.
• Audre Lorde, 58, American poet and feminist, breast cancer.
• Dzintars Lācis, 52, Latvian cyclist.
• Lu Yao, 42, Chinese novelist, cancer.

18

• Ed Franco, 77, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Dorothy Kirsten, 82, American singer, complications from a stroke.
• Herman Musaph, 77, Dutch dermatologist and sexologist.
• John Skehan, 70, Irish journalist and broadcaster.
• Radu Tudoran, 82, Romanian novelist.

19

• Jeffery Lee Griffin, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Bobby Russell, 52, American singer, coronary artery disease.
• Shinichi Sekizawa, 71, Japanese screenwriter (Godzilla).
• René Tavernier, 78, Belgian geologist and academic.
• Diane Varsi, 54, American actress (Peyton Place, Wild in the Streets, Ten North Frederick), respiratory failure.

20

• William Fields, 63, American rower and Olympic champion, and later naval officer.
• John Foreman, 67, American film producer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Prizzi's Honor, The Man Who Would Be King).
• Thomas Lefebvre, 65, Canadian politician.
• Félix Marten, 73, German-French film actor, pulmonary embolism.

21

• Vicente Arraya, 70, Bolivian football goalkeeper.
• Severino Gazzelloni, 73, Italian flutist.
• Swaroop Kishen, 62, Indian cricket player, cancer.
• Shane A. Parker, 49, British-Australian museum curator and ornithologist, lymphoma.
• Kaysone Phomvihane, 71, Laotian politician, president (since 1991) and prime minister (1975–1991).
• Ricky Williams, 36, American musician.

22

• Viktor Dubynin, 49, Soviet and Russian Chief of the General Staff, cancer.
• Sterling Holloway, 87, American voice actor (Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book), heart attack.
• Roberto Mouras, 44, Argentine racing driver, racing accident.
• Ronald Sinclair, 68, New Zealand actor and film editor, respiratory failure.
• Gerard Wall, 72, New Zealand politician.

23

• Roy Acuff, 89, American country musician, congestive heart failure.
• Mohamed Benhima, 68, Moroccan politician, prime minister (1967–1969).
• Rita Corday, 72, American actress, complications from diabetes.
• Parviz Dehdari, 59, Iranian football player and coach.
• Colin Evans, 56, Welsh rugby player.
• Ward Hermans, 95, Belgian Flemish nationalist politician and writer.
• Manuel Pelegrina, 72, Argentine football player, pneumonia.
• Jean Thiriart, 70, Belgian political theorist, heart attack.

24

• Xavier Darasse, 58, French organist, cancer.
• Hans de Koster, 78, Dutch politician.
• Hewritt Dixon, 52, American gridiron football player, cancer.
• Theodore Miller Edison, 94, American environmentalist and son of Thomas Edison, Parkinson's disease.
• Frances A. Genter, 94, American racehorse owner and breeder.
• Harold Preece, 86, American writer.
• Henriette Puig-Roget, 82, French musician.
• June Tyson, 56, American singer, violinist, and dancer.

25

• Joseph Arthur Ankrah, 77, Ghanaian politician, military head of state (1966–1969).
• Carlos Borja, 79, Mexican basketball player.
• Piet Ikelaar, 96, Dutch cyclist and Olympic medalist.
• Pearse Jordan, 22, Northern Irish IRA volunteer, shot.
• Pete McCulley, 60, American football coach.
• Charles Mott-Radclyffe, 80, British politician.
• Mark Reizen, 97, Russian opera singer.
• Dmitry Ukolov, 63, Russian ice hockey player.
• Aslak Versto, 67, Norwegian politician.

26

• Jon Baker, 69, American football player.
• Ciccio Barbi, 73, Italian film actor.
• Joby Blanshard, 73, English actor (Doomwatch).
• Annie Skau Berntsen, 81, Norwegian missionary.
• Marcel Cordes, 72, German operatic baritone.
• Adrienne Dore, 85, American model and actress.
• Leopold Mitrofanov, 60, Russian chess composer.
• Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher, 42, Argentine poet, AIDS.
• Kathleen Russell, 80, South African freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• John Sharp, 72, British actor (Barry Lyndon, The Wicker Man, All Creatures Great and Small).
• John White, 90, American singer.

27

• Ivan Generalić, 77, Croatian painter.
• Billy Kearns, 69, American actor, lung cancer.
• Daniel Santos, 76, Puerto Rican singer and composer of boleros, heart attack.
• Walt Tauscher, 91, American baseball player.

28

• Frank Armi, 74, American racing driver.
• Wayne Bennett, 60, American blues guitarist.
• Randall Duell, 89, American motion picture art director, stroke.
• Ralph Hone, 96, British Army officer and colonial administrator.
• Sidney Nolan, 75, Australian artist.
• Stanley Joseph Ott, 65, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, liver cancer.
• Ville Salminen, 84, Finnish film actor, director, writer and producer.

29

• Jean Dieudonné, 86, French mathematician.
• Raoul Ploquin, 92, French film producer.
• Emilio Pucci, 78, Italian fashion designer and politician.
• Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller, 83, American philanthropist and wife of John D. Rockefeller III
• Paul Ryan, 44, English singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
• Robert Shayne, 92, American actor, lung cancer.
• Robert F. Simon, 83, American actor, heart attack.
• Tuck Stainback, 81, American baseball player.
• Grady Stiles, 55, American freak show performer and murderer, murdered.
• Wally Voss, 34, American bass player, Hodgkin's lymphoma.

30

• Peter Blume, 86, American artist.
• Jorge Donn, 45, Argentine ballet dancer, AIDS.
• Bernard Lefebvre, 86, French photographer.
• Ancher Nelsen, 88, American politician.
• Lawrence Picachy, 76, Indian Jesuit priest and archbishop of Calcutta (1969-1992).
• Kuthur Ramakrishnan Srinivasan, 82, Indian archeologist and historian.
• Graham Vearncombe, 58, Wales football player.

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