Deaths in June 1992

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1992

1

• Karl-Heinz Freiberger, 51, German Olympic field hockey player (1964, 1968).
• Eve Gardiner, 78, English beautician and remedial make-up artist.
• Anatoli Porkhunov, 63, Soviet footballer.
• Yrjö Sotiola, 79, Finnish football player.
• Delia Villegas Vorhauer, 52, American social worker.
• Adele Wiseman, 64, Canadian author.

2

• Gerd Boder, 58, German composer.
• Philip Dunne, 84, American screenwriter (How Green Was My Valley, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Robe), cancer.
• Endre Győrfi, 72, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (1948).
• Paul Miller, 79, American gridiron football player.
• Donald Nichols, 69, United States Air Force intelligence officer.
• Alexandru Nicolschi, 76, communist activist, Soviet agent and officer, and Securitate chief, with the rank of Lieutenant General.
• Sergio Paganella, 80, Italian Olympic basketball player (1936).

3

• Ray Buker, 92, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Ettore Campogalliani, 88, Italian composer, musician and teacher.
• Wilfried Dietrich, 58, German wrestler and Olympic champion, heart attack.
• William Gaines, 70, American publisher (Mad).
• Robert Morley, 84, English actor (Marie Antoinette, The African Queen, Around the World in 80 Days), stroke.
• Patrick Peyton, 83, Irish-American Roman Catholic priest.

4

• Margherita Bontade, 91, Italian politician.
• Vladimir Chekalov, 69, Russian painter.
• Melvin Dresher, 81, Polish-born American mathematician.
• Geezil Minerve, 70, Cuban-American jazz musician.
• Siddhicharan Shrestha, 80, Nepalese poet.
• Carl Stotz, 82, American founder of Little League Baseball.

5

• Max Lerner, 89, Russian-born American journalist.
• Narciso Martínez, 80, Mexican folk musician.
• Laurence Naismith, 83, English actor (Scrooge, A Night to Remember, Jason and the Argonauts).
• Ethel Reschke, 81, German actress.
• Franz Reuß, 88, German Luftwaffe general during World War II.

6

• Richard Eurich, 89, English painter.
• Martin Goodman, 84, American publisher and founder of Marvel Comics, pneumonia.
• Roger Hägglund, 30, Swedish ice hockey player, traffic collision.
• Arnie Knepper, 61, American racecar driver, cancer.
• E. Harold Munn, 88, American politician.
• Larry Riley, 39, American actor (Knots Landing, A Soldier's Story, Stir Crazy), AIDS-related kidney failure.
• Manfred Stengl, 46, Austrian Olympic luger (1964) and cyclist, racing collision.

7

• Bill France, 82, American businessman and racing driver, founder of NASCAR, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ina Halley, 65, German actress.
• Alexander Koldunov, 68, Soviet flying ace during World War II.
• Ivan Kramberger, 56, Slovenian writer, philanthropist, and politician, homicide.
• Olav Rytter, 89, Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, and radio personality.
• Bob Sweeney, 73, American television director (The Andy Griffith Show, Hogan's Heroes) and actor (Marnie), cancer.

8

• Atef Bseiso, 43, Palestinian PLO's liaison officer, homicide.
• Farag Foda, 46, Egyptian writer and human rights activist, murdered.
• Alfred Uhl, 83, Austrian composer.
• Sakae Ōba, 78, Imperial Japanese Army officer during World War II.

9

• Per Bergsland, 74, Norwegian fighter pilot, escapist from Stalag Luft III.
• Betty Miles, 82, American actress and stuntwoman.
• Big Miller, 69, American musician, heart attack.
• Fernando de Quintanilha e Mendonça Dias, 93, Portuguese admiral and colonial administrator.

10

• Al Brightman, 68, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
• Glyn Smallwood Jones, 84, British colonial administrator, liver failure.
• Morris Kline, 84, American mathematician.
• William S. Mailliard, 75, American banker and politician.
• Hachidai Nakamura, 61, Japanese composer, diabetes.
• Nat Pierce, 66, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
• Hans Reiser, 73, German actor.
• Bert Sotlar, 71, Yugoslav film actor.

11

• John Freeman Loutit, 82, Australian radiobiologist.
• Rafael Orozco Maestre, 38, Colombian singer of vallenato music, shot.
• Alexander Spoehr, 78, American anthropologist.
• Jack Sullivan, 78, Canadian sports journalist.

12

• Allahverdi Baghirov, 46, Azerbaijani officer, politician and war hero, land mine.
• Serge Daney, 48, French movie critic, AIDS-related complications.
• Randy Moore, 85, American baseball player.
• Gerda Nicolson, 54, Australian actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Renié, 90, American costume designer (Cleopatra, The President's Lady, The Big Fisherman), Oscar winner (1964).
• Klemens Rudnicki, 95, Polish Army general.

13

• Anatoly Nikolayevich Davidovich, 27, Azerbaijani sergeant and war hero, killed in action.
• Pumpuang Duangjan, 30, Thai pop singer, lupus.
• Edward Leslie Gray, 97, Canadian politician.
• Remziye Hisar, 89-90, Turkish chemist.
• Edwin C. Horrell, 89, American football player and coach.
• Carl Nordenfalk, 84, Swedish art historian and academic.
• Erik Paaske, 58, Danish actor and singer.
• Shikar Shikarov, 38, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Qu Wu, 93, Chinese military officer and politician.

14

• Carlos d'Alessio, 56, Argentine-French composer, AIDS-related complications.
• Martin B. McKneally, 77, American politician.
• Thomas Nipperdey, 64, German historian.
• Mirasgar Seyidov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.

15

• Jean Aerts, 84, Belgian road bicycle racer.
• Amitabha Bhattacharyya, 60, Indian engineer.
• Lev Gumilyov, 79, Soviet historian, ethnologist, and anthropologist.
• Leo Halle, 86, Dutch football player.
• Kinji Imanishi, 90, Japanese ecologist and anthropologist.
• Eddie Lopat, 73, American baseball player, pancreatic cancer.
• Jay MacDowell, 72, American gridiron football player.
• Chuck Menville, 52, American television writer (The Real Ghostbusters, The Smurfs, Sabrina the Teenage Witch), cancer.
• Chingiz Mustafayev, 31, Azerbaijani journalist, killed in action.
• Roque Olsen, 66, Argentine football player and manager.
• Brett Whiteley, 53, Australian artist, drug overdose.

16

• Jacob Beser, 71, United States Army Air Forces officer.
• Siro Bianchi, 67, Italian-French cyclist.
• W. L. Mooty, 86, American lawyer and politician.
• Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton, 77, British politician.

17

• Dewey Balfa, 65, American cajun musician.
• Frederick Exley, 63, American author (A Fan's Notes), stroke.
• Grace Towns Hamilton, 85, American politician.
• Jacob Levin, 88, American chess player.
• Jim Nance, 49, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• John R. Platt, 74, American physicist and biophysicist.
• Ishrat Hussain Usmani, 75, Pakistani atomic physicist.

18

• Peter Allen, 48, Australian singer-songwriter, AIDS.
• Mordecai Ardon, 95, Hungarian-Israeli painter.
• Johnny Friedlaender, 79, German/French 20th-century artist.
• Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, 55, Irish businessman and politician, cancer.
• Janusz Kruk, 45, Polish singer, guitarist and composer, heart failure.
• Ken McAuley, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Carlos Humberto Perette, 76, Argentine Radical Civic Union politician and lawyer.
• R. G. Samaranayake, 68, Sri Lankan politician.

19

• Jas H. Duke, 53, Australian poet and cult figure.
• Kathleen McKane Godfree, 96, English tennis player, Olympic champion (1920).
• Margherita Guidacci, 71, Italian poet, stroke.
• Stephan Waser, 72, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic medalist.

20

• Georges Gratiant, 85, Martiniquais communist politician.
• Charles Groves, 77, English conductor.
• Nikolai Sidelnikov, 62, Russian composer.
• Thomas Whitfield, 38, American musician, heart attack.

21

• Leonid Azgaldyan, 49, Armenian physicist and military leader, killed in action.
• Harry Eagle, 87, American physician and pathologist.
• Joan Fuster Ortells, 69, Spanish writer.
• Lajos Sántha, 76, Hungarian gymnast.
• Yoshiko Uchida, 70, Japanese-American writer.
• Li Xiannian, 82, Chinese politician, president (1983–1988).
• Franz Wasner, 86, Austrian Roman Catholic priest and missionary, director of the Trapp Family.

22

• Hansjörg Eichler, 76, German botanist.
• M. F. K. Fisher, 83, American cookbook author.
• Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, 75, Romanian-French novelist.
• Reg Harris, 72, British cyclist, stroke.
• Gemini Kantha, 67, Sri Lankan actress.
• Arthur C. Lundahl, 77, American aerial reconnaissance pioneer.
• Ng Ming-yam, 37, Hong Kong politician and writer, leukemia.
• Chuck Mitchell, 64, American actor (Porky's), cirrhosis.
• Charlie Ondras, 25, American noise rock drummer, drug overdose.
• Emanuel David Rudolph, 64, American botanist.
• István Szívós Sr., 71, Hungarian water polo player and coach.

23

• Eric Andolsek, 25, American gridiron football player, traffic accident.
• Margot Bernice Forde, 57, New Zealand botanist, curator, and taxonomist.
• Franco Leccese, 67, Italian sprinter.
• Lucile Saunders McDonald, 93, American journalist, historian, and children's author.
• Joy Nichols, 67, Australian-British comedian, actress and singer.
• Juris Podnieks, 41, Latvian filmmaker, drowned.
• John Spencer-Churchill, 83, English artist.
• Viktor Yanushevsky, 32, Soviet and Belarusian football player, heart attack.

24

• Jorge Salas Chávez, 77, Argentinian sailor.
• Len Darling, 82, Australian cricketer.
• Victor Lemberechts, 68, Belgian footballer.
• Maharajapuram Santhanam, 64, Indian singer, traffic collision.
• Jo Spence, 58, British photographer, writer, and photo therapist, breast cancer.
• Rudolf Svedberg, 81, Swedish welterweight Greco-Roman wrestler.

25

• Jerome Brown, 27, American football player, traffic collision.
• Larry Cahan, 58, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Sayavush Hasanov, 28, Azerbaijan soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Herbert J. McGlinchey, 87, American politician.
• James Stirling, 66, British architect, complications from surgery.

26

• John Jacob Astor VI, 79, American shipping magnate and socialite.
• Gyula Polgár, 80, Hungarian football player.
• Buddy Rogers, 71, American professional wrestler, stroke.
• Phil Rubenstein, 51, American actor (Tango & Cash, RoboCop 2, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), heart failure.
• Harald Sverdrup, 69, Norwegian poet and children's writer.

27

• Sandy Amorós, 62, Cuban-American baseball player, pneumonia.
• Allan Jones, 84, American actor and singer, lung cancer.
• Martin F. Rockmore, 74, American marine general.
• Stefanie Sargent, 24, American musician (7 Year Bitch), accidental asphyxiation.
• Charles Tyler, 50, American jazz musician, heart failure.
• Elizabeth (Bessie) Watson, 91, Scottish child suffragette and piper.
• Georg Årlin, 75, Swedish actor.

28

• Roger Bisseron, 86, French racing cyclist.
• Peter Hirt, 82, Swiss racing driver.
• Valerian Kobakhia, 63, Soviet-Abkhaz apparatchik.
• Joan Marshall, 61, American actress (Bold Venture, Shampoo, Star Trek).
• John Piper, 88, English artist.
• Howard Roberts, 62, American jazz guitarist and session musician.
• Qian Sanqiang, 78, Chinese nuclear physicist.
• Mikhail Tal, 55, Latvian chess player, esophageal hemorrhage.

29

• Pierre Billotte, 86, French soldier and war hero during World War II.
• Mohamed Boudiaf, 73, Algerian politician, chairman of the High Council of State (since 1992), assassinated.
• May Farquharson, 98, Jamaican social worker, birth control advocate, philanthropist and reformer.
• Elie Kedourie, 66, British historian.
• Kamil Nəsibov, 45, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Mario Rossi, 90, Italian conductor.
• Daniel Strickler, 95, United States Army general and politician.

30

• Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, 87, British aristocrat and politician.
• André Hébuterne, 97, French painter.
• Käthe Itter, 85, German actress.
• Massey Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough, 88, British peer and British Army officer.
• Jan van Heteren, 75, Dutch water polo player and Olympian.

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