Deaths In May 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.

1

• Agustin Cueva, 54, Ecuadorian writer, cancer.
• Hella Hammid, 70, German-American photographer.
• Sharon Redd, 46, American singer, pneumonia caused by AIDS.
• Justin Stein, 80, American baseball player.
• Celerino Sánchez, 48, Mexican baseball player.

2

• Stefano D'Arrigo, 72, Italian writer.
• Trevor Hatherton, 67, New Zealand geophysicist, scientific administrator and Antarctic scientist.
• Mike Karakas, 80, American ice hockey player.
• Stefan Kieniewicz, 84, Polish historian.
• Wilbur Daigh Mills, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1977).
• Kel Tremain, 54, New Zealand rugby player.
• Margarete Wallmann, 87-90, Austrian opera director and ballerina.

3

• Alummoodan, 59, Indian actor.
• Vilma Degischer, 80, Austrian theatre and film actress.
• Godman Irvine, 82, Canadian-British politician.
• George Murphy, 89, American politician and actor, member of the U.S. Senate (1965–1971), leukemia.

4

• Shane Curry, 24, American football player, shot.
• August Hellemans, 84, Belgian football player.
• Michael Howlett, 77, American politician, kidney failure.
• Ronnie Knox, 57, Canadian football player.
• Gregor Mackenzie, 64, British politician.
• Lyn Marshall, 47, British yoga teacher, ballerina, and actress, brain cancer.
• Thomas O. Paine, 70, American engineer and scientist, cancer.

5

• Yunis Aliyev, 33, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Edmondo Amati, 72, Italian film producer.
• Del M. Clawson, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–1978).
• Fikret Hajiyev, 27, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Kerim Kerimov, 20, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Sarkhan Ojaqverdiyev, 24, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Jean-Claude Pascal, 64, French actor, stomach cancer.
• Jean Vauthier, 81, French playwright.
• Dick Yarmy, 59, American actor (Get Smart, Mork & Mindy, Emergency!), lung cancer.

6

• Marlene Dietrich, 90, German-American actress (Morocco, Touch of Evil, Judgment at Nuremberg), kidney failure.
• Malcolm A. MacIntyre, 84, American lawyer and hall of fame lacrosse player.
• Gaston Reiff, 71, Belgian Olympic runner (1948).
• Jilly Rizzo, 75, American restaurateur and actor, traffic collision.
• Tatyana Yesenina, 73, Soviet writer.

7

• Nachhatar Chhatta, 32, Indian singer, alcohol intoxication.
• Kiril Hristov, 42, Bulgarian football player.
• Soerip, 70, Indonesian singer and film actress.
• Tiny Timbrell, 75, Canadian musician.

8

• Albert Agarunov, 23, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Addeke Hendrik Boerma, 80, Dutch civil servant.
• Richard Derr, 74, American actor (When Worlds Collide, American Gigolo, Firefox), pancreatic cancer.
• Gul Mohammad, 70, Pakistani cricketer, liver cancer.
• Sergey Obraztsov, 90, Russian puppeteer.
• Otto Šimánek, 67, Czechoslovak actor.

9

• Hernán Bolaños, 80, Nicaraguan-Costa Rican football player.
• Keith Bissell, 80, Canadian composer.
• Tom Chessell, 78, Australian rower and Olympic medalist.
• Carmine Lombardozzi, 79, American mobster and member of the Gambino crime family.
• Mehman Sayadov, 19, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.

10

• Egil Endresen, 72, Norwegian judge and politician.
• John Lund, 81, American actor (A Foreign Affair, To Each His Own, The Perils of Pauline).
• Werner Nilsen, 88, Norwegian-American soccer player.
• K. G. Ramanathan, 71, Indian mathematician.
• Sylvia Syms, 74, American singer, heart attack.
• Willard Long Thorp, 92, American economist.

11

• Judith Brown, 60, American dancer and sculptor.
• René Guajardo, 59, Mexican professional wrestler, liver cancer.
• Loretta Cessor Manggrum, 95, American pianist and composer of sacred music.
• William A. Mueller, 91, American sound engineer.
• Curtis D. Summers, 62, American engineer and roller coaster designer.
• Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda, 83, Japanese member of the imperial family, heart attack.

12

• Joe Burke, 68, American baseball executive, lymphatic cancer.
• Nikos Gatsos, 80, Greek poet, translator and lyricist.
• Jacqueline Maillan, 69, French actress, heart attack.
• Hector McIvor, 91, Australian politician.
• Bob Mizer, 70, American photographer and filmmaker.
• Lenny Montana, 66, American actor (The Godfather, Fingers), professional wrestler (GCW) and mobster, heart attack.
• Robert Reed, 59, American actor (The Brady Bunch, The Defenders, Roots), colon cancer.

13

• Patrick Angus, 38, American painter, AIDS.
• Gisela Elsner, 55, German novelist, suicide by jumping.
• Stan Hugill, 85, British folk music performer.
• Dawon Kahng, 61, Korean-American electrical engineer and inventor.
• Leon Klatzkin, 77, American music arranger, composer, and conductor.
• F. E. McWilliam, 83, Northern Irish sculptor, cancer.
• Wanda Rutkiewicz, 49, Polish mountain climber, climbing accident.
• Bart Zoet, 49, Dutch cyclist, heart attack.

14

• Lyle Alzado, 43, American football player, brain cancer.
• Robert Howie, 93, Scottish rugby player.
• Frank M. Karsten, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1969).
• Nie Rongzhen, 92, Chinese general.

15

• Tommy Colella, 73, American gridiron football player.
• Ladislav Demšar, 63, Yugoslav basketball player and coach.
• Jovy Marcelo, 27, Filipino racing driver, racing accident.
• Bartlett Mullins, 87, British actor.
• Robert Morris Page, 88, American physicist, heart failure.
• Valentino Pellarini, 72, Italian basketball player.
• Gino Rossetti, 87, Italian football manager and football player.
• Jalil Safarov, 30, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Parviz Samedov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.

16

• Joe Healey, 81, American hurdler and Olympian.
• Marisa Mell, 53, Austrian actress, throat cancer.
• Eric James, Baron James of Rusholme, 83, British educator.
• Chalino Sánchez, 31, Mexican singer-songwriter, murdered.
• Robert Grainger Ker Thompson, 76, British military officer and counter-insurgency expert.

17

• Robert Blanc, 47, French footballer.
• George Hurrell, 87, American photographer, bladder cancer.
• William Ivey, 72, American painter, cancer.
• Želimir Vidović, 38, Bosnian football player, murdered.
• Lawrence Welk, 89, American musician and television personality (The Lawrence Welk Show), pneumonia.

18

• Jake Leicht, 72, American gridiron football player.
• Giuliani G. De Negri, 71, Italian film producer and screenwriter.
• Jasper K. Smith, 86, American attorney and politician.
• Skip Stephenson, 52, American comedian, heart attack.
• Marshall Thompson, 66, American actor, heart failure.

19

• Esther Averill, 89, American author.
• Alfred McClung Lee, 85, American sociologist.
• Jock Turner, 48, Scottish rugby player.
• Hans Vogt, 81, German composer.

20

• Roger Keith Coleman, 33, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
• Giovanni Colombo, 89, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Leela Sumant Moolgaokar, 75, Indian social worker.
• James Tully, 76, Irish politician.
• Alicia Vergel, 64, Filipina actress.

21

• Ulric Cole, 86, American pianist, editor, music educator and composer.
• T. B. Ilangaratne, 79, Sri Lankan politician, author, dramatist, and theater actor.
• Åke Lindblom, 73, Swedish sports shooter.
• Mugs Stump, 42, American mountaineer, mountaineering accident.

22

• Tony Accardo, 86, American mobster and Chicago Outfit boss, cardiopulmonary failure.
• Roy Childs, 43, American political essayist, fall.
• Elizabeth David, 78, British cookery writer, stroke.
• Dan Enright, 74, American television producer, cancer.
• Zellig S. Harris, 82, American linguist.
• Abraham Moles, 71, French information scientist.
• György Ránki, 84, Hungarian composer.
• Iosif Varga, 50, Romanian football player.
• Lee Yang-ji, 37, Japanese novelist, myocarditis.

23

• James Blair, 82, American rower and Olympic champion.
• Kostas Davourlis, 44, Greek football player, heart attack.
• Giovanni Falcone, 53, Italian magistrate, assassinated, car bomb.
• John Gates, 78, American communist politician.
• Charley Malone, 81, American gridiron football player.
• Francesca Morvillo, 46, Italian magistrate, assassinated, car bomb.
• Paul Moukila, 41, Congolese football player, malaria.
• Henry George Pearce, 74, Australian politician.
• Ernst Plischke, 88, Austrian-New Zealand architect, town planner and furniture designer.
• Atahualpa Yupanqui, 84, Argentine musician.

24

• Jean Aberbach, 81, Austrian-American music publisher.
• Francis Thomas Bacon, 87, English engineer.
• Luiz Eça, 56, Brazilian samba and bossa nova pianist.
• Joan Sanderson, 79, British actress.

25

• Danny Biasone, 83, Italian-American sports executive.
• Tulio Demicheli, 77, Argentine filmmaker, cancer.
• Sari Dienes, 93, Hungarian-American artist.
• Viktor Grishin, 77, Soviet politician, heart attack.
• Philip Habib, 72, American diplomat, cardiac arrhythmia.
• Gitta Mallasz, 84, Hungarian artist.
• Ruben Zakharian, 90, Russian painter.

26

• Edmund Beloin, 82, American writer of radio, film, and television.
• Terence Clarke, 88, British Army officer and politician.
• Dorota Horzonkówna, 58, Polish Olympic gymnast (1952, 1956).
• George Morrow, 66, American jazz bassist.
• Geneva Sayre, 80, American bryologist and bibliographer.

27

• Machiko Hasegawa, 72, Japanese manga artist.
• Peter Jenkins, 58, British journalist, respiratory failure.
• Karl Leyser, 71, German-British historian.
• John Myhers, 70, American actor (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, 1776, History of the World, Part I), pneumonia.
• Delilah Pierce, 88, American artist, curator and educator.
• Donald K. Ross, 81, American naval officer, heart attack.
• Franz Rupp, 91, German-American pianist.
• Jone Salinas, 74, Italian actress.
• Michael Talbot, 38, American quantum mystic, lymphoid leukemia.

28

• Ricardo Caminos, 75-76, Argentine egyptologist.
• Fumio Fujimura, 75, Japanese baseball player.
• Bai Hong, 72, Chinese singer.
• Godefroid Munongo, 66, Congolese politician.
• Lorenzo Tañada, 93, Filipino lawyer, civil rights advocate and politician.

29

• Ollie Halsall, 43, English guitarist, drug-induced heart attack.
• Yoshitoshi Mori, 93, Japanese artist.
• Albert Ndongmo, 65, Cameroonian prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Nils-Åke Sandell, 65, Swedish football player and manager.
• Ken Suesens, 75, American basketball coach.
• Petro Udovychenko, 78, Ukrainian politician and diplomat.

30

• Karl Carstens, 77, German politician, president (1979–1984).
• Larry Craig, 75, American football player.
• Craig Ellwood, 70, Los Angeles-based modernist architect.
• Mitsuharu Inoue, 66, Japanese writer, colorectal cancer.
• James Lamy, 64, American bobsledder and Olympic medalist.
• Elly Yunara, 68, Indonesian film actress and producer.
• Antoni Zygmund, 91, Polish mathematician.

31

• Eugene A. Chappie, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1987).
• Henri Moreau de Melen, 89, Belgian politician.
• Walter Neugebauer, 71, Croatian comic book artist and animator.
• Lillian Powell, 96, Canadian-American dancer.
• Dieter Puschel, 52, German cyclist.
• Lutz Stavenhagen, 52, German politician, pneumonia.