Deaths in October 1992
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1992
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- Gert Bastian, 69, German politician, murder-suicide.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-08-wr-60090-story.html|title=Postscript – Lover's Secret Past Seen as Key to Peace Activist's Violent End – A new biography of Greens founder Petra Kelly rules out the 'double suicide' theory.|last=Miller|first=Marjories|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|date=8 November 1994|access-date=26 July 2022}}
- Ilgar Ismailov, 33, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.{{cite web |title=İSMAYILOV İlqar Sədi oğlu|publisher=ASSOCIATION FOR CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT IN AZERBAIJAN|url=http://avciya.az/ismayilov-ilqar-s%C9%99di-oglu/|access-date=2 April 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402065953/http://avciya.az/ismayilov-ilqar-s%C9%99di-oglu/|archive-date=2 April 2019 }}
- Petra Kelly, 44, German politician, murder-suicide.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frauendatenbank fembio.org |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/frauendatenbank?fem_id=15416 |website=fembio.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=de |date=}}
- Ali Mammadov, 37, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
- Max Tera, 71, Indonesian cinematographer.{{cite web|title=Max Tera |language=Indonesian |url=http://filmindonesia.or.id/movie/name/nmp4b9bad50c31ee_max-tera |work=filmindonesia.or.id |publisher=Konfidan Foundation |location=Jakarta |accessdate=13 January 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202203514/http://filmindonesia.or.id/movie/title/lf-t006-49-102168_tjitra |archivedate=2 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}
- Salvatore Valitutti, 85, Italian teacher and politician.
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- Sabiha Bengütaş, 88, Turkish sculptor.
- Honnappa Bhagavathar, 77, Indian actor, musician and singer.
- Vincent Hallinan, 95, American lawyer.{{cite news |author1=Bruce Lambert |title=Vincent Hallinan Is Dead at 95; An Innovative Lawyer With Flair |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/04/us/vincent-hallinan-is-dead-at-95-an-innovative-lawyer-with-flair.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=4 October 1992 |page=1 48}}
- Luis Serra, 56, Uruguayan cyclist and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Luis Serra |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/16545 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Bogdan Suchodolski, 88, Polish philosopher and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bogdan Suchodolski |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120279768 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
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- Aliyar Aliyev, 34, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action.
- John Carisi, 70, American trumpeter and composer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=John Carisi - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w62z4cbn |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Ted Dailey, 83, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ted Dailey Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Ted+Dailey |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- John William Davis, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1975).
- Fritz Dennerlein, 56, Italian swimmer, water polo player and Olympian, traffic collision.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Fritz Dennerlein |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/48508 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Lili Heglund, 88, Danish film actress.
- Peter Klein, 85, German opera singer.
- Marek Petrusewicz, 58, Polish swimmer and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Marek Petrusewicz |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/49800 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Ernest H. Volwiler, 99, American chemist.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Ernest Volwiler, 99, Medicinal Chemistry Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/07/obituaries/ernest-volwiler-99-medicinal-chemistry-leader.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=7 October 1992 |page=D 20}}
- Ken Wilmshurst, 61, English long jumper, triple jumper and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Ken Wilmshurst |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69603 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
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- Zoltán Lajos Bay, 92, Hungarian physicist and engineer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Zoltán Lajos Bay |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15518826r |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Mohammed Benaziza, 33, French bodybuilder.{{cite web |title=Mohammed Benaziza |url=https://www.evolutionofbodybuilding.net/mohammed-benaziza/ |website=evolutionofbodybuilding.net |access-date=26 July 2022}}
- Denny Hulme, 56, New Zealand racing driver, heart attack.
- H. D. Thambiah, 65, Sri Lankan lawyer and judge.
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- Sadhan Basu, 70, Indian physical chemist and academic.
- Cornelis Berkhouwer, 73, Dutch politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Cornelis Berkhouwer |url=http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/07896853 |website=biografischportaal.nl |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=nl |date=}}
- Gösta Carlsson, 86, Swedish Olympic cyclist (1928).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Gösta Carlsson |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/13831 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Eddie Kendricks, 52, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
- Fred Otash, 70, American private investigator and Hollywood fixer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Fred Otash - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w62n7rs2 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Appa Sahib Pant, 80, Indian diplomat, writer and freedom fighter.
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- Denholm Elliott, 70, English actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, A Room with a View, Trading Places), BAFTA winner (1984, 1985, 1986), AIDS.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Denholm Elliott |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Denholm-Elliott |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Natalie Moorhead, 91, American film and stage actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Natalie Moorhead |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16997759p |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Bill O'Reilly, 86, Australian cricket player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bill O'Reilly |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Joseph-OReilly |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Margit Symo, 79, Hungarian-German actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Margit Symo - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/d1c460b7721b4a9eaca9bd89e2cbe111 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=de |date=}}
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- Nikki Allan, 7, English murder victim{{Cite news |date=20 April 2023 |title=Nikki Allan: David Boyd lured girl to her death in 1992, jury told |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-65334882 |access-date=11 May 2023}}
- Aina Berg, 90, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1920, 1924).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Aina Berg |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/50223 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Ed Blackwell, 62, American jazz drummer, kidney disease.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ed Blackwell |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Joseph-Blackwell |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Allan Bloom, 62, American philosopher, AIDS-related complications.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Allan Bloom |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Allan-Bloom |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Martin Eichler, 80, German number theorist.
- Joseph Kitagawa, 77, Japanese-American scholar in religious studies.
- Bill Robinson, 73, English football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bill Robinson |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/bill-robinson/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Mikayil Useynov, 87, Azerbaijani architect.
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- Robert Berdella, 43, American serial killer and rapist, congenital heart defect.
- Willy Brandt, 78, German politician, Chancellor (1969–1974), and Nobel Prize recipient (1971), colon cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Willy Brandt - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/2ab5b4da4d50426ca45a399d4e06b7ae |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=de |date=}}
- Ian Graham Gass, 66, English geologist.{{Cite journal | last1 = Cox | first1 = K. G. | author-link = Keith Cox| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1995.0011 | title = Ian Graham Gass. 20 March 1926-8 October 1992 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 41 | pages = 170–182| year = 1995 | doi-access = free }}
- Lindsley Parsons, 87, American film producer and screenwriter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Lindsley Parsons |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb141267193 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
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- Doby Bartling, 79, American football player and coach.
- Jędrzej Giertych, 89, Polish writer and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jędrzej Giertych |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12608863h |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Mike Guerra, 79, Cuban baseball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mike Guerra Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Mike+Guerra |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Harjinder Singh Jinda, 31, Indian Sikh separatist, execution by hanging.
- Ben Maddow, 83, American screenwriter and documentarian.{{cite news |author1=William H. Honan |author-link1=William H. Honan |title=Ben Maddow, 83, Prolific Writer in Many Genres |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/14/arts/ben-maddow-83-prolific-writer-in-many-genres.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=14 October 1992 |page=B 10}}
- Mary A. R. Marshall, 71, American politician, fall.
- Giuliano Ravizza, 66, Italian fashion designer, cancer.{{cite news |title=Morto Giuliano Ravizza re delle pellicce Annabella |url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1992/10/10/morto-giuliano-ravizza-re-delle-pellicce-annabella.html |access-date=8 June 2023 |work=La Repubblica|date=10 October 1992 |language=it}}
- Sukhdev Singh Sukha, 30, Indian Sikh militant, execution by hanging.
- Per Olof Sundman, 70, Swedish writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Per Olof Sundman |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11925757c |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
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- Sha Menghai, 92, Chinese great master of calligraphy.{{cite web |title=October 10.1992-Death of calligrapher Sha Menghai |url=http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/9821.html |website=04007.cn |access-date=26 July 2022}}
- Woesha Cloud North, 74, Native American artist, teacher, and activist.
- James Seay, 78, American actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Death Valley Days, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=James Seay - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6fp6m48 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Zofia Wojciechowska-Grabska, 87, Polish painter.
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- Ignatius Ghattas, 71, American Melkite Greek Catholic Church bishop.
- William Neufeld, 91, American track and field athlete and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – William Neufeld |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78839 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Froelich Rainey, 85, American anthropologist and academic.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Froelich Rainey - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6pv75dr |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Zakir Yusifov, 36, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
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- David Dragunsky, 82, Soviet army officer and politician.
- Severo Gomes, 68, Brazilian politcian, helicopter crash.{{Cite web |date=2012-02-04 |title=A história de Mora, capítulo 17: ‘Severo Gomes é irmão!’ |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/a-historia-de-mora-capitulo-17-severo-gomes-irmao-3883614 |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=O Globo |language=pt-BR}}
- Ulysses Guimarães, 76, Brazilian politician, helicopter crash.{{Cite web |last=Previdelli |first=Fabio |date=2020-12-15 |title=Mistério de décadas: Corpo de Ulysses Guimarães nunca foi encontrado |url=https://aventurasnahistoria.com.br/noticias/reportagem/misterio-de-28-anos-corpo-de-ulysses-guimaraes-nunca-foi-encontrado.phtml |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Aventuras na História |language=pt-br}}
- John Hancock, 51, American actor (The Bonfire of the Vanities, City Heat, 10), heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=John Hancock |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb140495979 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Eddy Kuijpers, 77, Dutch fencer and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Eddy Kuijpers |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/22966 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Jim Percy, 43, Australian socialist politician, cancer.
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- Tula Belle, 86, American child film actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Tula Belle |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb17796748k |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Jacques Delepaut, 66, French football player.
- James Marshall, 50, American author (George and Martha, The Stupids), AIDS.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=James Marshall - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6571h3q |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Les Pawson, 87, American marathon runner.
- Hughes Rudd, 71, American newscaster, aneurysm.{{cite news |author1=Lee A. Daniels |title=Hughes Rudd, 71, TV Correspondent For Two Networks |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/14/nyregion/hughes-rudd-71-tv-correspondent-for-two-networks.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=14 October 1992 |page=B 10}}
- Kiwako Taichi, 48, Japanese film actress, traffic collision.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kiwako Taichi |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15014661w |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
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- Qin Mu, 73, Chinese educator and writer.
- Poul Erik Petersen, 65, Danish football player and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Poul Erik Petersen |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/24684 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Anna Maria van Geene, 64, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1948).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Anna Maria van Geene |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/28881 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- William Waddell, 71, Scottish footballer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-willie-waddell-1557709.html |title=Obituary: Willie Waddell |first=Phil |last=Shaw |work=The Independent |date=16 October 1992 |access-date=26 July 2022}}
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- Gino Cavalieri, 97, Italian actor.
- Oliver Franks, Baron Franks, 87, English philosopher and diplomat.{{cite news |author1=Keith Middlemas |author-link1= |title=Obituary: Lord Franks |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-franks-1557796.html |url-access= |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The Independent |language= |date=16 October 1992}}
- Talwinder Singh Parmar, 48, Indian militant and Canadian-Sikh terrorist, shot by police.
- Jackie Sullivan, 74, American Major League Baseball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jackie Sullivan Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Jackie+Sullivan |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
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- Shirley Booth, 94, American actress (Come Back, Little Sheba, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Hazel), Oscar winner (1953).{{cite news |author1=Peter B. Flint |title=Shirley Booth, Star of TV, Radio, Stage and Screen, Is Dead at 94 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/21/obituaries/shirley-booth-star-of-tv-radio-stage-and-screen-is-dead-at-94.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=21 October 1992 |page=D 22}}
- Charley Burley, 75, American boxer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Charley Burley - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6h492ht |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- John Tracy Ellis, 87, American Catholic Church historian.{{cite news |author1=Bruce Lambert |title=Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, 87, Dies; Dean of U.S. Catholic Historians |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/17/us/msgr-john-tracy-ellis-87-dies-dean-of-us-catholic-historians.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=17 October 1992 |page=1 15}}
- Maurice Féaudierre, 90, French journalist and painter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Maurice Féaudierre |url=https://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12323931v |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Anna Hill Johnstone, 79, American costume designer (The Godfather, Ragtime, Dog Day Afternoon).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Anna Hill Johnstone - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/24999 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Vijitha Mallika, 49, Sri Lankan actress, cancer.
- Antanas Poška, 89, Lithuanian traveler and anthropologist.
- William Edmond Robinson, 72, American politician.
- Vladek Sheybal, 69, Polish actor (From Russia with Love) and singer, aortic aneurysm.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Vladek Sheybal - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/ba901911f36548fda3b1ef49f3e2767e |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=de |date=}}
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- Edgar Chandler, 46, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Edgar Chandler Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Edgar+Chandler |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Brian Eaton, 75, Australian Air Force commander.
- Herman Johannes, 80, Indonesian politician and scientist.
- Orestis Laskos, 84, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Orestis Laskos |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb150919740 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- John O'Connell, 88, American baseball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=John O'Connell Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/o'conjo03.shtml |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Karomatullo Qurbonov, 30, Tajik singer, murdered.
- Prem Sahgal, 75, British Indian Army officer.
- Rouben Ter-Arutunian, 72, American costume and scenic designer, lymphoma.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Rouben Ter-Arutunian - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/25362 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Tadeusz Żmudziński, 68, Polish pianist.
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- Yoram Ben-Porat, 55, Israeli academic and economist, traffic collision.
- Merl Condit, 75, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Merl Condit Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Merl+Condit |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Gerald Ellison, 82, English Anglican bishop.{{Cite ODNB|id=51024|title=Ellison, Gerald Alexander}}
- Makoto Fukui, 52, Japanese freestyle swimmer and Olympian.
- Albert Schwartz, 69, American zoologist.{{cite journal| last1 = Duellman| first1 = William E.| last2 = Thomas| first2 = Richard| last3 = Henderson| first3 = Robert W.| year = 1993| title = Albert Schwartz, 13 Sept. 1923-18 Oct. 1992| journal = Copeia| volume = 1993| issue = 3| pages = 927–932| jstor = 1447281}}
- Alija Šuljak, 91, Bosnian Croatian war criminal during World War II.
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- Atley Donald, 82, American baseball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Atley Donald Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Atley+Donald |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Arturo Farías, 65, Chilean football player.
- Willie Lamothe, 72, Canadian musician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Willie Lamothe |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14050163x |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Maurice Le Roux, 69, French composer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Maurice Le Roux - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6zk6371 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Magnus Pyke, 83, English nutritional scientist and television presenter.{{cite news |author1=Simon Welfare |author-link1= |title=Obituary: Magnus Pyke |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-magnus-pyke-1558840.html |url-access= |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The Independent |language= |date=21 October 1992}}
- Wulf Schmidt, 80, Danish-English double agent.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Wulf Schmidt - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6cr746t |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- James J. Stoker, 87, American mathematician and engineer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=James J. Stoker - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6j260th |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Alvin Stoller, 67, American jazz drummer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alvin Stoller - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6nq6gzk |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Arthur Wint, 72, Jamaican Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Arthur Wint |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72341 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
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- Mimì Aylmer, 96, Italian actress.{{cite web |title=SIUSA - Aylmer Mimì |url=https://siusa-archivi.cultura.gov.it/cgi-bin/siusa/pagina.pl?TipoPag=prodpersona&Chiave=55888&RicLin=en |website=siusa-archivi.cultura.gov.it |access-date=5 November 2024 |language=it}}
- Orton Chirwa, 73, Malawian politician and political prisoner.
- Stanley McMaster, 66, Northern Irish Unionist politician.
- Koča Popović, 84, Yugoslav politician, vice president (1966–1967).
- Jack Reddish, 65, American Olympic alpine skier (1948, 1952).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Jack Reddish |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/96758 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Werner Torkanowsky, 66, German conductor, cancer.{{cite news |author1= |title=Werner Torkanowksy, a Soloist On Violin and a Conductor, 66 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/21/obituaries/werner-torkanowksy-a-soloist-on-violin-and-a-conductor-66.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=21 October 1992 |page=D 22}}
- Sam Vanni, 84, Finnish painter.
- Rudi Weissenstein, 82, Israeli photographer.
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- Ante Ciliga, 94, Croatian politician and writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ante Ciliga - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w60w1spn |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Joe Dwyer, 89, American baseball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Joe Dwyer Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Joe+Dwyer |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Jim Garrison, 70, American attorney, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Bruce Lambert |title=Jim Garrison, 70, Theorist on Kennedy Death, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/22/obituaries/jim-garrison-70-theorist-on-kennedy-death-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=22 October 1992 |page=B 12}}
- François-Didier Gregh, 86, Monegasque politician and Minister of State.
- Bob Todd, 70, English comedy actor.
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- Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, 88, British botanist and educator.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6j434zh |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Red Barber, 84, American sportscaster.{{cite news |author1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |author-link1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |title=Red Barber, Baseball Voice Of Summer, Is Dead at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/23/obituaries/red-barber-baseball-voice-of-summer-is-dead-at-84.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=23 October 1992 |page=B 7}}
- Carlo Bernari, 83, Italian author.
- Giorgio de Stefani, 88, Italian tennis player.
- Pavel Khristophorovich Dubinda, 78, Soviet Red Army war hero during World War II.
- Newell A. George, 88, American politician.
- Wilson Humphries, 64, Scottish football player and manager.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Wilson Humphries |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/wilson-humphries/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Wolf Kaiser, 75, German theatre and film actor, suicide.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Wolf Kaiser - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/31f4eb0d971d4f1ebce6c72322645045 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=de |date=}}
- Cleavon Little, 53, American actor (Blazing Saddles, Temperatures Rising, Purlie), Tony winner (1970), colon cancer.{{cite news |author1=Glenn Collins |title=Cleavon Little, Award-Winning Actor, Dies at 53 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/23/obituaries/cleavon-little-award-winning-actor-dies-at-53.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=23 October 1992 |page=B 6}}
- André Vandeweyer, 83, Belgian football player and coach.
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- Banine, 86, Azerbaijani-French writer.
- Dorothy Dunbar, 90, American actress and socialite.
- Ernst Hartmann, 76, German medical doctor, author and publicist.
- William Masselos, 72, American classical pianist.{{cite news |author1= |title=William Masselos Is Dead at 72; A Pianist Who Loved Diversity |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/24/arts/william-masselos-is-dead-at-72-a-pianist-who-loved-diversity.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=24 October 1992 |page=1 11}}
- Vernon Morgan, 88, English Olympic steeplechase athlete (1928).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Vernon Morgan |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69323 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
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- David Archer, 61, Barbadian cricket player and umpire.
- Laurie Colwin, 48, American writer, aortic aneurysm.{{cite news |author1=Bruce Lambert |title=Laurie E. Colwin, 48, a Novelist And Writer of Short Stories, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/25/nyregion/laurie-e-colwin-48-a-novelist-and-writer-of-short-stories-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=25 October 1992 |page=1 44}}
- Mohammad Ibraheem Khwakhuzhi, 72, Afghan politician and writer.
- Gustav Kneip, 87, German composer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gustav Kneip - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/1c3a671247c847258870ede4fca6af97 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=de |date=}}
- Jimmy Orlando, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jimmy Orlando Stats - Hockey-Reference.com |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Jimmy+Orlando |website=hockey-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Luis Rosales, 82, Spanish poet and essayist, cerebral hemorrhage.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Luis Rosales - DB~e |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/5212/luis-salvador-rosales-camacho |website=dbe.rah.es |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=es |date=}}
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- Adelino da Palma Carlos, 87, Portuguese politician, prime minister (1974).
- Arnold S. Eagle, 82–83, Hungarian-American photographer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Arnold S. Eagle - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6jt5kkm |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Giorgio Locchi, 69, Italian journalist and writer.
- Karen Lykkehus, 88, Danish actress.
- Roger Miller, 56, American musician, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Roger Miller - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/12151 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Richard Pousette-Dart, 76, American abstract artist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Richard Pousette-Dart - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w67m10k6 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Peter Rice, 57, Irish structural engineer, brain cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Peter Rice - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6zg7kfv |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Ivan Svitlychny, 63, Ukrainian poet, literary critic, and Soviet dissident.
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- Jerome Andrews, 83–84, American-French dancer and choreographer.{{cite news |author1= |title=Jerome Andrews, 84, Choreographer, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/27/obituaries/jerome-andrews-84-choreographer-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=27 October 1992 |page=B 7}}
- Laurel Cronin, 53, American actress (A League of Their Own, Hook, Beethoven), cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Laurel Cronin - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/70849 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Melvin Dixon, 42, American author and poet, AIDS.{{cite news |author1= |title=Melvin Dixon, 42, Professor and Author |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/29/obituaries/melvin-dixon-42-professor-and-author.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=29 October 1992 |page=B 16}}
- Paul Eisler, 85, Austrian inventor.
- Ridgely Gaither, 89, United States Army lieutenant general.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ridgely Gaither - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w61t2swb |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
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- Ivan Andreadis, 68, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
- István Balogh, 80, Hungarian football player and manager.
- David Bohm, 74, American-British theoretical physicist, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=David Bohm |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Bohm |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Paul Jessup, 84, American discus thrower, shot putter and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Paul Jessup |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78606 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Roy Marshall, 62, Barbadian-English cricket player, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Roy Marshall - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6x497s6 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Nayyar Sultana, 55, Pakistani film actress, cancer.
- Wilson Whitley, 37, American college football player, heart problems.
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- Hubert Benoit, 88, French psychotherapist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Hubert Benoit |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11891258n |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Greg Duhaime, 39, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympian, AIDS-related complications.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Greg Duhaime |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66026 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Charles Pellat, 78, Algerian-French academic, historian, and translator.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Charles Pellat |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11918969f |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Lin Shen, 84, Taiwanese politician.
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- George T. Clemens, 90, American cinematographer.
- Manuel Antonio de Varona, 83, Cuban lawyer and politician.
- Kenneth MacMillan, 62, British ballet dancer, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kenneth MacMillan - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/1285 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Louis Marin, 61, French philosopher, historian, and art critic.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Louis Marin |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11914594k |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=French |date=}}
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- Dionizije Dvornić, 66, Croatian football player.
- Ben Lessy, 90, American comedian and actor.{{cite web |title=Lessy, Ben, 1902-1992 - Library of Congress |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003001549.html |website=id.loc.gov |access-date=26 July 2022}}
- Joan Mitchell, 67, American artist, lung cancer.{{cite news |author1=John Russell |title=Joan Mitchell, Abstract Artist, Is Dead at 66 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/31/arts/joan-mitchell-abstract-artist-is-dead-at-66.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=31 October 1992 |page=1 11}}
- Kuladeivam Rajagopal, 61, Indian actor.
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- Trevor Atkinson, 49, English football player.{{Hugman|645|Trevor Atkinson |access-date=26 July 2022}}
- Jean Hébey, 76, French-Algerian film actor.
- Brian MacCabe, 78, English athlete.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Brian MacCabe |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69266 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 July 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Sammy Ward, 28–29, Northern Irish paramilitary, killed by the IRA.