1992

This article is about the year 1992. For other uses, see 1992 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995

1992 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1992 MCMXCII
Ab urbe condita	2745
Armenian calendar	1441 ԹՎ ՌՆԽԱ
Assyrian calendar	6742
Baháʼí calendar	148–149
Balinese saka calendar	1913–1914
Bengali calendar	1399
Berber calendar	2942
British Regnal year	40 Eliz. 2 – 41 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2536
Burmese calendar	1354
Byzantine calendar	7500–7501
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4689 or 4482     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4690 or 4483
Coptic calendar	1708–1709
Discordian calendar	3158
Ethiopian calendar	1984–1985
Hebrew calendar	5752–5753
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2048–2049
- Shaka Samvat	1913–1914
- Kali Yuga	5092–5093
Holocene calendar	11992
Igbo calendar	992–993
Iranian calendar	1370–1371
Islamic calendar	1412–1413
Japanese calendar	Heisei 4 (平成４年)
Javanese calendar	1924–1925
Juche calendar	81
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4325
Minguo calendar	ROC 81 民國81年
Nanakshahi calendar	524
Thai solar calendar	2535
Tibetan calendar	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 2118 or 1737 or 965     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 2119 or 1738 or 966
Unix time	694224000 – 725846399

1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year that started on a Wednesday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 1992nd year of Anno Domini, or of the Common Era; the 992nd year of the 2nd millennium; the 92nd year of the 20th century; and the 3rd of the 1990s. The year 1992 was designated as the "International Space Year" by the United Nations.

Events

January

• January 1
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.
  • George H. W. Bush becomes the first U.S. President to address the Australian Parliament.
• January 2 – President of Russia Boris Yeltsin ends price controls, resulting in prices of some goods and services becoming 3 to 5 times more expensive.
• January 6 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is proclaimed by the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.
• January 7 – The Yugoslav Air Force downs a helicopter, killing five military observers from the European Community.
• January 8 – George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting.
• January 9 – Bosnian Serbs declare their own republic within Bosnia and Herzegovina, in protest of the decision by Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats to seek EC recognition.
• January 11
  • Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
  • Shanda Sharer is tortured and burned to death in Madison, Indiana by four teenage girls.
• January 12 – The second round of Algeria's general elections is cancelled when the first round is favorable to the Islamic Salvation Front.
• January 13 – Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
• January 15 – The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia begins to break up. Slovenia and Croatia gain independence and international recognition in some Western countries.
• January 16 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign a pact in Mexico City ending a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
• January 18 – In Nairobi, Kenya, more than 100,000 attend protests demanding an end to one-party rule by the Kenya African National Union.
• January 19 – The Bulgarian presidential election is won by Zhelyu Zhelev, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces.
• January 20 – Cuba executes Eduardo Diaz Betancourt, who was found guilty of sabotage and terrorism.
• January 21 – Faced with decreased military spending, United Technologies Corporation announces it will eliminate 13,900 jobs by 1993.
• January 22
  • Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
  • STS-42: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
• January 24
  • In El Salvador, an army colonel and a lieutenant of the Atlacatl Battalion are each sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and their housekeepers.
  • China and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
• January 26
  • Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting cities of the United States and her allies with Nuclear Weapons. In return George H. W. Bush announces that the United States and her allies will stop targeting Russia and the remaining communist states with Nuclear Weapons.
  • In Mauritania, security forces open fire on opponents of President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, killing at least five people.
• January 27
  • Macy's files for bankruptcy.
  • Nagorno-Karabakh War: in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, fighting between Armenians and Azeris leaves at least 60 people dead.
• January 30 – North Korea signs an accord with the International Atomic Energy Agency allowing for international inspections of North Korea's nuclear power plants.
• January 31 – The heads of state of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and of most of the temporary members, meet in New York City to discuss the new world order in the post-Cold War world.

February

• February 1
  • President of the United States George H. W. Bush meets with President of Russia Boris Yeltsin at Camp David, where they formally declare that the Cold War is over.
  • The United States Coast Guard begins deporting the first of some 14,000 refugees from Haiti.
• February 2 - Internet celebrity Jesse Cox pledges to be a virgin forever.
• February 4 – In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez leads an unsuccessful coup attempt against President of Venezuela Carlos Andrés Pérez.
• February 6 – The United States Senate approves a measure calling for the faster phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons under the revised Montreal Protocol; the phase-out is scheduled to be completed by 2000.
• February 7 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union.
• February 8 – The opening ceremony for the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville, France.
• February 9 – Algerian Civil War: The government of Algeria declares a state of emergency and begins a crackdown on the Islamic Salvation Front.
• February 10 – Boxer Mike Tyson, the former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, is found guilty of raping 18-year-old Desiree Washington, Miss Black Rhode Island, by a jury in Indianapolis. On March 26, he was sentenced to six years in prison.
• February 11 – An F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of Hengelo, the Netherlands; no casualties are reported.
• February 14 – Ukraine and four other nations in the Commonwealth of Independent States reject Russia's proposal to maintain unified armed forces. Ukraine, Moldova, and Azerbaijan announce they will go ahead with plans to created their own armed forces.
• February 16 – In Lebanon, Israeli helicopter gun ships assassinate Abbas al-Musawi, the leader of Hezbollah, and his son, in retaliation for a February 14 raid that killed three Israeli soldiers.
• February 17 – A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.
• February 18
  • Iraq disarmament crisis: The Executive Chairman of UNSCOM details Iraq's refusal to abide by UN Security Council disarmament resolutions.
  • The New Hampshire primary is won by Paul Tsongas on the Democratic side; for the Republicans, Pat Buchanan has a surprisingly strong showing (37%) against incumbent president George H. W. Bush.
• February 21 – The United Nations Security Council approves Resolution 743 to send a UNPROFOR peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia.
• February 23 – The closing ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville.
• February 25 – February 26 – 613 Azerbaijani civilians are massacred in Khojaly.
• February 26 – The Supreme Court of Ireland rules that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to England to have an abortion.

March

• March 1 – The first victims of the Bosnian War are a Serb groom's father and an Orthodox Priest in a Sarajevo shooting. A majority of the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat communities vote for Bosnian independence.
• March 3 – Turkey's worst coal mine disaster leaves 263 dead near Zonguldak.
• March 4 – the Supreme Court of Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front, which was poised to win control of the Parliament of Algeria in runoff elections.
• March 9 – The People's Republic of China ratifies the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
• March 10 – Following Super Tuesday voting, Bill Clinton is declared the likely winner of the Democratic Party presidential primaries.
• March 11 – Manuel de Dios Unanue, former editor of El Diario La Prensa, is slain in a restaurant in Queens after having received death threats from the Colombian drug cartels.
• March 12 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
• March 13 – In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering a surface wave magnitude of 6.8, kills over 500.
• March 16 – President Russia announces the creation of a separate Russian army, leading to questions about the viability of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
• March 18 – White South Africans vote in favour of political reforms which will end the apartheid regime and create a power-sharing multi-racial government.
• March 19
  • Paul Tsongas withdraws from the Democratic Party presidential primaries, virtually assuring a victory for Bill Clinton.
  • Dow Corning announces that it will stop manufacturing silicone breast implants.
• March 22
  • In French regional elections, the conservative Rally for the Republic and the centre-right Union for French Democracy win in a landslide, capturing 20 of 22 metropolitan regional presidencies.
  • STS-45: Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off from Cape Canaveral carrying instruments designed to study global warming.
• March 24 - The Open Skies Treaty is signed in Helsinki, Finland to establish a program of unarmed survelliance flights over the 34 member states. It will go into effect on January 1, 2002.
• March 25
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency orders Iraq to destroy an industrial complex at Al Atheer that was being used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
  • Pakistan won Cricket World Cup for very first time beating England and became Cricket Champion.
• March 29 – In France, police arrest three men believed to be planning a Basque separatist terrotist attack at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
• March 31 – The Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act of Singapore comes into force.

April

• April 5
  • The Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (without the presence of Serb political delegates) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  • Bosnian War: Serb troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo.
  • Approximately 500,000 people march on Washington, D. C. in support of abortion rights in advance of oral arguments in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
  • President of Peru Alberto Fujimori issues Decree Law 25418, dissolving the Congress of the Republic of Peru, imposing censorship and having opposition politicians arrested, setting off the 1992 Peruvian constitutional crisis.
• April 7 – The United States recognizes the independence of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Slovenia. The European Community also recognizes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• April 9
  • A Miami, Florida jury convicts former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega of assisting Colombia's cocaine cartel.
  • The United Kingdom general election is narrowly won by the Conservative Party led by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major.
• April 10 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the Baltic Exchange in the City of London; 3 are killed, 91 injured.
• April 12 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park's name were subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
• April 13 – Roermond, the Netherlands, is rocked by an earthquake along the Peel Fault.
• April 15 – The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
• April 16 – President of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is ousted and detained by Muslim rebels moving towards Kabul, setting the stage for the civil war in Afghanistan (1992–1996).
• April 20
  • Seville, Spain's 6-month Universal Exhibition, called Seville Expo '92, opens.
  • The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium, is televised live to over 1 billion people and raises millions of dollars for AIDS research.
• April 21 – The death of Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich of Russia results in a succession dispute between Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia and Vladimir's daughter Maria for the leadership of the Imperial Family of Russia.
• April 22 – Fuel that leaked into a sewer explodes in Guadalajara, Mexico; 215 are killed, 1,500 injured.
• April 27 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman elected Speaker of the British House of Commons.
• April 28 – The two remaining constituent republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Serbia and Montenegro – form a new state, named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (after 2003, Serbia and Montenegro), bringing to an end the official union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from 1918 (with the exception of the period during World War II).
• April 29 – Los Angeles riots: Acquittal of four police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers massive rioting in Los Angeles. The riots will last for six days resulting in 53 deaths and over a $1 billion in damages before order is restored.

May

• May 5 – Russian leaders in Crimea declare their separation from Ukraine as a new republic. They withdraw the secession on May 10.
• May 7
  • Space Shuttle Endeavor makes its maiden flight, as a replacement for a lost Space Shuttle.(STS-49)
  • Michigan Legislature approves the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution. With that approval, the amendment had been adopted by 38 states and was thereby approved.
• May 9 – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted in New York
• May 10 – Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague.
• May 12 – The United States recalls United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmermann to protest military aggression against Bosnia and Hercegovina.
• May 13 – Falun Gong is introduced by Li Hongzhi in China.
• May 15
  • Commonwealth of Independent States Collective Security Treaty (CST) signed (effective 20 April 1994).
  • The Genoa Expo '92 World's Fair opens in Genoa, Italy.
• May 16 – STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
• May 16-May 17 – Bosnian War: U.N. peacekeepers withdraw from Sarajevo.
• May 17 – Protests begin in Bangkok, Thailand, against the government of General Suchinda Kraprayoon, sparking a bloody crackdown.
• May 21 – China detonates the largest nuclear bomb it has ever tested, sparking a protest from U.S. President Bush.
• May 23 – A Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.
• May 24
  • In Thailand, Suchinda Kraprayoon agrees to resign.
  • Serbian irregulars kill at least 16 people on a bread line in Sarajevo.
• May 25 – In Australia, Lindy Chamberlain receives compensation for wrongful conviction on murder charges.
• May 26 – Charles Geschke, President of Adobe Systems, is kidnapped from his company parking lot. The kidnappers demand $650,000 ransom; they are later apprehended.
• May 30 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 imposes economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an effort to end its attacks on Bosnia and Hercegovina.

June

• June 2 – In a national referendum Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin.
• June 8 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• June 16
  • A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this is later codified in START II).
  • A federal grand jury indicts Caspar Weinberger for his role in covering up the Iran–Contra affair.
• June 17 – Two German relief workers held since 1989, Thomas Kemptner and Heinrich Struebig, are released. They were the last Western hostages in Lebanon
• June 20 – In Estonia, the kroon replaces the Soviet ruble.
• June 21 – Nelson Mandela announces that the African National Congress will halt negotiations with the government of South Africa following the Boipatong massacre of June 17.
• June 22 – Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra.
• June 23
  • The Israeli legislative election is won by the Israeli Labor Party under the leadership of Yitzhak Rabin, ousting a Likud government.
  • Gambino Crime Family Boss John Gotti is sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Paul Castellano and other crimes.
• June 25 – Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) founded.
• June 26
  • Denmark beats Germany 2–0 to win the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • United States Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Garrett III resigns in the wake of the Tailhook scandal.
• June 28
  • Estonia holds a referendum on its constitution, that will come into effect on July 3.
  • Junko Tabei scales Puncak Jaya to become the first woman to complete the Seven Summits.
• June 29
  • A bodyguard assassinates President Mohamed Boudiaf of Algeria.
  • The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 5-4 decision.

July

• July 4 – Steffi Graf wins the 1992 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles. On July 5, Andre Agassi wins the 1992 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles.
• July 6-July 8 – The 18th G7 summit is held in Munich.
• July 6 – July 29 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses a U.N. inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims that it has reliable information that the site contains archives related to illegal weapons activities. U.N. Inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in" outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers.
• July 8 – Amoco and Unocal Corporation announce restructuring plans that will eliminate 10,000 jobs in 1992 and 1993.
• July 9 – Bill Clinton announces his selection of Al Gore as his running mate in the 1992 U.S. presidential election.
• July 10
  • In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
  • The Giotto spacecraft flies past Comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup, gathering measurements about the comet.
• July 13 – Yitzhak Rabin becomes prime minister of Israel.
• July 16
  • Ross Perot announces he is ending his presidential campaign.
  • At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton accepts his party's presidential nomination on behalf of the "forgotten middle class".
• July 17 – The Slovak National Council declares Slovakia an independent country, signaling the breakup of Czechoslovakia.
• July 19
  • A car bomb placed by mafia with collaboration of Italian intelligence kills judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.
  • The Cabinet of Israel approves a freeze on new settlements in the occupied territories, a move expected to reinvigorate the Middle East Peace Process.
• July 20
  • Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
  • An airlift of food and medicine to Sarajevo is halted after 23 days due to renewed fighting.
  • A Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey crashes in the Potomac River as it approached Marine Corps Base Quantico, killing all seven people on board.
• July 22 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison, fearing extradition to the United States.
• July 23 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
• July 25 – August 9 – The 1992 Summer Olympics are held in Barcelona, Spain.
• July 26 – Iraq agrees to allow U.N. weapons inspectors to search the Iraqi Agricultural Ministry building in Baghdad. When inspectors arrive on July 28 and 29, they found nothing and voice suspicions that Iraqi records had been removed.
• July 31
  • The ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia becomes the 179th member of the United Nations.
  • Thai Airways Flight 311 operated by Airbus A310-300 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
  • China General Aviation Flight 7552 bound for Xiamen crashes soon after taking off from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport, killing 108 of the 116 people on board.

August

• August 3-August 4 – Millions of black South Africans participate in a general strike called by the African National Congress to protest the lack of progress in negotiations with the government of President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk.
• August 6 – President Bush urges the United Nations to approve a military intervention in Bosnia and Hercegovina.
• August 10 – The UK government bans the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for 20 years.
• August 12 – Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce that a deal has been reached on the North American Free Trade Agreement; the deal will be formally signed on December 17, 1992.
• August 17 – The 1992 Republican National Convention convenes in Houston.
• August 18 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major announces the creation of the Iraqi no-fly zones.
• August 20 – Kristiansund's connection to the mainland of Norway, Krifast, opens.
• August 21 – August 22 – Events at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, are sparked by a Federal Marshal surveillance team, resulting in the death of a Marshal, Sam Weaver and his dog and the next day the wounding of Randy Weaver, the death of his wife Vicki and the wounding of Kevin Harris.
• August 23 – Hurricane Andrew attains Category 5 status on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and at 2100 UTC hits Eleuthera and the Bahama Banks.
• August 24 – A special commission in Brazil concludes that there is sufficient evidence to begin impeachment proceedings against President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello, finding he had accepted millions of dollars worth of illegal payments from business interests.
• August 24 – August 28 – Hurricane Andrew hits south Florida and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system; 23 are killed.
• August 29 – In Rostock, Germany, tens of thousands rally to protest neo-Nazi attacks on refugees and immigrants begun on August 22.
• August 30 – The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.

September

• September 1 – In Beijing, police arrest Shen Tong for his role in organizing the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• September 2 – An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
• September 7
  • In Ciskei, members of the Ciskei Defence Force loyal to dictator Oupa Gqozo open into a crowd of anti-Gqozo protestors organized by the African National Congress, killing at least 28 people and wounding nearly 200.
  • President of Tajikistan Rahmon Nabiyev is forced to resign following weeks of clan and religious warfare that left nearly 2,000 people dead.
• September 11 – Hurricane Iniki hits the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai and Oahu.
• September 12
  • STS-47: Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African American woman to travel into space, aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
  • In Peru, police arrest Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the Shining Path guerilla movement, who had evaded capture for 12 years.
• September 16 – Black Wednesday: The pound sterling and the Italian lira are forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
• September 17 – Two Kurdish opposition leaders are assassinated by the Iranian Kazem Darabi and the Lebanese Abbas Rhayel.
• September 20 – French voters narrowly approve the Maastricht Treaty in the French Maastricht Treaty referendum.
• September 21 – Mexico establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City, ending a break that lasted over 130 years.
• September 23
  • A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in Belfast.
  • Operation Julin is the last nuclear test conducted by the United States at the Nevada Test Site.
• September 28 – Law enforcement officials in the United States, Colombia, and Italy announce that they have arrested more than 165 people on money laundering charges related to cocaine trafficking.
• September 29 – The Chamber of Deputies of Brazil votes to impeach President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello, the country's first democratically elected leader in 29 years. Vice President Itamar Franco becomes acting president.

October

• October 1 – Ross Perot reenters the U.S. presidential election.
• October 2 – A riot breaks out in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, resulting in the Carandiru Massacre.
• October 3 – After performing a song protesting alleged child abuse by the Catholic Church, Sinéad O'Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, causing huge controversy, leading the switchboards at NBC to ring off the hook.
• October 4
  • The Bijlmerramp disaster: An Israeli plane crashes in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 43 are killed, many more injured.
  • The government of Mozambique signs a truce with leaders of RENAMO, ending the 16-year-old Mozambican Civil War.
• October 6 – Lennart Meri becomes the first president of newly independent Estonia.
• October 7 – In Peru, Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán is convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison.
• October 9 – The Chief of Naval Operations adopts the US Navy's core values: Honor, Courage and Commitment.
• October 10 – Tens of thousands rally in Washington, D. C., calling on the government to dedicate more funding to combating HIV/AIDS and unveiling the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
• October 11
  • Catechism of the Catholic Church promulgated by Pope John Paul II with his apostolic constitution, Fidei depositum.
  • George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot participate in the first of three televised debates.
• October 12
  • In the Dominican Republic, Pope John Paul II celebrates the 500th anniversary of the meeting of 2 cultures.
  • The 1992 Cairo earthquake kills 543 people and injures more than 6,500.
• October 14 – In Japan, Shin Kanemaru of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party resigns over receiving illegal payments from Sagawa Express.
• October 17 – Yoshihiro Hattori, a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student, mistakes the address of a party and is shot dead after knocking on the wrong door in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooter, Rodney Peairs, is later acquitted, sparking outrage in Japan.
• October 19 – The Communist Party of China promotes several market-oriented reformers to the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, signaling a defeat for hard-line ideologues.
• October 21 – Tens of thousands of coal miners march in London to protest government plans to close coal mines and reduce the number of coal miners.
• October 23 – Emperor of Japan Akihito begins the first imperial visit of China, telling a Beijing audience he felt deep sorrow for the suffering of the Chinese people during World War II.
• October 24 – The Toronto Blue Jays become the first non-American team to win the World Series.
• October 25 – Lithuania holds a referendum on its first constitution after declaring independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
• October 26 – In a national referendum, voters in Canada reject the Charlottetown Accord.
• October 31 – Pope John Paul II issues an apology, and lifts the edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei.

November

• November 3 – United States presidential election, 1992: Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd President of the United States.
• November – More than 350,000 people rally in Berlin to protest right-wing violence against immigrants, but the event is marred by radical leftists thowing stones and eggs at President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker and Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl.
• November 11 – The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
• November 13
  • The government of Peru announces it has arrested a small group of army officers who were plotting the assassination of President Alberto Fujimori.
  • A report by the World Meteorological Organization reports an unprecedented level of ozone depletion in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
  • Boxer Riddick Bowe defeats Evander Holyfield to become undisputed heavyweight champion.
• November 15 – The Lithuanian parliamentary election sees the Communists of the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania, led by Algirdas Brazauskas, return to power.
• November 18 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin releases the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of KAL 007, shot down by the Soviets in 1983.
• November 20 – In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, causing over £50 million worth of damage.
• November 24
  • In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on board.
  • Elizabeth II describes this year as an annus horribilis (horrible year), due to various scandals damaging the image of the Royal Family, as well as the Windsor Castle fire.
• November 25
  • The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, starting on January 1, 1993.
  • In a national referendum related to abortion, voters in Ireland reject the proposed Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1992 (Ireland) but approve the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
• November 27 – The government of Venezuela announces that it has put down a coup attempt by a group of army officers who bombed the presidential palace.
• November 30
  • The trial of 14 South Vietnamese accused of murdering 24 North Vietnamese begins in Hong Kong (ends November 29, 1994).
  • Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali encourages the United Nations Security Council to pass United Nations Security Council Resolution 794, authorizing military intervention in the Somali Civil War to allow emergency food supplies to reach the people of Somalia. The Council passes the resolution on December 3, and United States Marines begin arriving in Somalia on December 9.

December

• December 3
  • UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.
  • The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while on approach to La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
  • The first SMS message is sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom.
• December 4 – U.S. military forces land in Somalia.
• December 6 – Extremist Hindu activists demolish Babri Masjid – a 16th century mosque in Ayodhya, India, which had been used as a temple since 1949, leading to widespread communal violence, including the Mumbai Riots, in all killing over 1500 people.
• December 7 – The United States wins the 1992 Davis Cup.
• December 8 – The last blast is fired at the Falu Copper Mine in Falun, Sweden, after a millennium of continuous operation.
• December 9 – The Prince and Princess of Wales publicly announce their separation.
• December 12 – An earthquake hits Flores, Indonesia, leaving 2,500 dead.
• December 18 – The South Korean presidential election is won by Kim Young-sam, the first non-military candidate elected since 1961.
• December 19 – State President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk dismisses or suspends 23 military officers, including six generals, who were suspected of unauthorized activities designed to disrupt negotiations with the African National Congress.
• December 20 – The Folies Bergère music hall in Paris, France, closes.
• December 21
  • A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56 people.
  • President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević defeats Milan Panić in the Serbian presidential election.
• December 22 – Archives of Terror discovered by Dr. Martín Almada detailing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans who had been secretly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. This was known as Operation Condor.
• December 24
  • President-elect Bill Clinton names the final members of his cabinet.
  • President George H. W. Bush pardons six national security officials implicated in the Iran–Contra affair, including Caspar Weinberger.
• December 27 – A U.S. F-16 Fighting Falcon shoots down an Iraqi MiG-25 Foxbat that violated the Iraqi no-fly zones.
• December 29 – Brazil's president Fernando Collor de Mello is found guilty on charges that he stole more than $32 million from the government, preventing him from holding any elected office for 8 years.
• December 31 – President Bush arrives in Somalia to spend New Year's Day with U.S. troops who were part of the Unified Task Force.

Date unknown

• First confirmed detection of extrasolar planets with the discovery of several terrestrial-mass planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail.
• Deng Xiaoping accelerates market reforms to establish a socialist market economy in the People's Republic of China.
• Queensland introduces Freedom Of Information Laws.
• The Council for National Academic Awards, UK is wound up.
• The Hospital Chaplains' Fellowship joins with the National Association of Whole Time Hospital Chaplains to form the College of Health Care Chaplains in the UK.

Births

January

• January 1 – Jack Wilshere, English footballer
• January 16 – Maja Keuc, Slovenian singer
• January 17 – Nate Hartley, American actor
• January 19
  • Logan Lerman, American Actor
  • Mac Miller, American rapper
  • Martín Hernández, Mexican actor and model
  • Shawn Johnson, American Olympic gymnast
• January 21 – Melissa Anne Smith, Canadian actress
• January 25 – Olivia Bonilla, American singer-songwriter and musician
• January 26 – Cassidy Lehrman, American actress
• January 27 – Sam Barry (tennis), Irish tennis player
• January 28 – Simone (singer), Danish singer
• January 30 – Matthew Werkmeister, Australian stage and television actor
• January 31 – Tyler Seguin, Canadian ice hockey player

February

• February 5 – Neymar da Silva, Brazilian soccer player
• February 7 – Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer
• February 8 – Karle Warren, American actress
• February 9
  • Ana Yorkira Binet, Dominican volleyball player
  • Avan Jogia, Canadian actor
  • Valentina Barron, Australian actress
• February 11 – Taylor Lautner, American actor
• February 14 – Freddie Highmore, English actor
• February 17 – Meaghan Jette Martin, American actress
• February 18
  • Logan Miller, American actor and musician
  • Melinda Shankar, Canadian actress
• February 19 – Paulina Gaitán, Mexican actress
• February 23 – Samara Weaving, Australian actress
• February 25 – Max Aaron, American figure skater
• February 26
  • Ai Shinozaki (gravure idol), Japanese gravure idol and singer
  • Sean Abbott, Australian cricketer

March

• March 4 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• March 6 – Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer
• March 8 – Charlie Ray, American actress
• March 10 – Emily Osment, American actress and singer
• March 13 – Kaya Scodelario, English actress and model
• March 14 – Jasmine Murray, American singer
• March 15
  • Mary Lou, American actress
  • Sosie Bacon, American actress
• March 17 – Eliza Bennett, British actress
• March 22 – Jessie Andrews, American pornographic actress
• March 23
  • Kyrie Irving, American-Australian Basketball player
  • Vanessa Morgan, Canadian actress and singer
• March 26 – Haley Ramm, American actress
• March 28
  • Liam Hess, British actor
  • Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer
• March 29 – Chris Massoglia, American actor
• March 30 - Joe Spisak, American wrestler

April

• April 4
  • Alexa Nikolas, American actress
  • Lucy May Barker, British stage and screen actress
• April 5 – Emmalyn Estrada, Canadian singer
• April 6 – Monika Wejnert, Australian tennis player
• April 7 – Alexis Jordan, American singer and actress
• April 8 – Shelby Young, American actress
• April 12 – Giorgio Cantarini, Italian actor
• April 14 – Oliver Bohm, Swedish ice hockey player
• April 15
  • Amy Diamond, Swedish pop singer
  • Richard Sandrak, Ukrainian bodybuilder
• April 16 – Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg
• April 18 - Alexandra Adornetto, Australian novelist of The Strangest Adventures series
• April 22 - Robin van Helsum - Dutch fraudster
• April 23 – Syd tha Kyd, American singer, producer and DJ
• April 24 – Doc Shaw, American actor and rapper
• April 27
  • Allison Iraheta, American singer
  • James Duke Mason, American actor
• April 28 – Boxxy, American internet celebrity
• April 29 – Tyler Clementi, American college student (d. 2010)

May

• May 4
  • Ashley Rickards, American actress
  • Courtney Jines, American actress
• May 6 – Byun Baek-hyun, South Korean singer
• May 7 – Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor
• May 8 – Ana Mulvoy Ten, British actress
• May 10 – Charice Pempengco, Filipino singer
• May 12 – Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
• May 14 – A.J. Saudin, Canadian film and television actor
• May 18 – Spencer Breslin, American actor
• May 19 – Heather Watson, British tennis player
• May 20 - Enes Kanter, Turkish Basketball player
• May 21
  • Hutch Dano, American actor
  • Olivia Olson, American actress and singer
• May 22 – Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer
• May 29 – Gregg Sulkin, British actor

June

• June 3 – Mario Götze, German Footballer
• June 4 – Dino Jelusić, Croatian singer
• June 6 – HyunA, South Korean dance-pop idol, singer, dancer, rapper, designer, model.
• June 9 – Lucien Laviscount, British actor and recording artist
• June 10 – Kate Upton, American model and actress
• June 14 – Daryl Sabara, American actor
• June 21 – Carly Booth, Scottish golfer
• June 23
  • Bridget Sloan, American artistic gymnast
  • Kate Melton, American actress
• June 24
  • David Alaba, Austrian football player
  • Raven Goodwin, American actress
• June 25 – Jaden Schwartz, Canadian ice hockey player
• June 26
  • Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer
  • Melanie Amaro, American singer
• June 29 – Adam G. Sevani, Armenian-American actor and dancer
• June 30
  • Holliston Coleman, American actress
  • Lynx and Lamb Gaede, twin American Neo-Nazi musicians

July

• July 3
  • Maasa Sudo, Japanese singer
  • Nathalia Ramos, Spanish actress and singer
• July 7 – Toni Garrn, German model
• July 8
  • Kelsey-Beth Crossley, English actress
  • Sky Ferreira, American singer, songwriter, model, and actress
• July 9
  • Douglas Booth, English actor
  • Gizem Karaca, Turkish model
• July 10 – Kristin Allen, American acrobatic gymnast
• July 15 – Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer
• July 20
  • Jordan Rodrigues, Australian actor
  • Paige Hurd, American actress
• July 21
  • Jessica Barden, English actress
  • Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
• July 22 – Selena Gomez, American actress and singer
• July 28 – George Spencer-Churchill, Earl of Sunderland

August

• August 2 – Hallie Eisenberg, American actress
• August 4
  • Dylan and Cole Sprouse, American twin actors
  • Tiffany Evans, American singer
• August 7 – Bobby Lynn Bryant, American boxer
• August 11 – Allisson Lozz, Mexican actress and singer
• August 18
  • Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
  • Rebecca Brown (actress), American actress and musician
• August 20 – Demi Lovato, American actress, singer, songwriter
• August 25 – Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
• August 26 – Hayley Hasselhoff, American actress
• August 27 - Kim Petras, German singer
• August 28 - Bismack Biyombo, Congolese Basketball Player
• August 31 – Holly Earl, English actress

September

• September 4 – Amanda and Caitlin Fein, American twin actresses
• September 9 – Damian McGinty, Irish singer and actor
• September 11 – Maria Gabriela de Faría, Venezuelan actress and singer
• September 16 – Nick Jonas, American singer/songwriter and actor
• September 18 – Amber Liu, South Korean singer
• September 21 – Chen, South Korean singer
• September 22 - Philip Hindes, British cyclist
• September 24 – Jack Sock, American tennis player
• September 27 – Jake Burbage, American actor
• September 28
  • Keir Gilchrist, Canadian actor
  • Koko Tsurumi, Japanese artistic gymnast
  • Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
• September 29 – Marina Antipova, Russian ice dancer

October

• October 1 - Drew Chadwick, American musician (Emblem 3)
• October 6 – Rhyon Nicole Brown, American actress, singer, and dancer
• October 7 – Grace Bawden, Australian singer
• October 9 – Tyler James Williams, American actor
• October 10 – Gabrielle Aplin, English singer and songwriter
• October 12 – Josh Hutcherson, American actor
• October 13 – Aaron Dismuke, American voice actor
• October 14 – Savannah Outen, American singer
• October 15 – Vincent Martella, American actor and singer
• October 16 – Bryce Harper, American baseball player
• October 20 – Ksenia Semenova, Russian Olympic gymnast
• October 22 – Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
• October 24 – Thelma Fardin, Argentine actress
• October 28
  • Jermaine Crawford, American actor
  • Lexi Ainsworth, American actress
• October 29 – Jacqueline Jossa, English actress
• October 30 – Tequan Richmond, American actor, model, and rapper
• October 31 – Vanessa Marano, American actress

November

• November 6 – Megan Meier, American suicide victim (d.2006)
• November 12 – Macey Cruthird, American actress
• November 18 – Nathan Kress, American actor
• November 21 - Conor Maynard, British singer
• November 23 – Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer
• November 25 – Ana Bogdan, Romanian tennis player
• November 27
  • Park Chan-yeol, South Korean singer and rapper
  • Tola Szlagowska, Polish singer
• November 28 – Adam Hicks, American rapper, actor and dancer
• November 29 – David Lambert, American actor

December

• December 8 – Katie Stevens, American singer
• December 12 – Chen Ruolin, Chinese diver
• December 17 – Thomas Law, British actor
• December 18 – Bridgit Mendler, American actress, singer, musician and songwriter
• December 23 – Spencer Daniels, American film and television actor
• December 26 – Kätlin Aas, Estonian fashion model
• December 30 – Lacey Banghard, English model

Deaths

January

Judith Anderson

• January 1 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (b. 1906)
• January 2 – Virginia Field, British actress (b. 1917)
• January 3 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
• January 7 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (b. 1951)
• January 9 – Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
• January 11 - Shanda Sharer, American murder victim (b. 1979)
• January 17 – Frank Pullen, English business person and racehorse owner (b. 1915)
• January 18 – Aleksandr Almetov, Soviet Olympic ice hockey player (b. 1940)
• January 22 – A.J. Antoon, American theater director (b. 1944)
• January 23
  • Freddie Bartholomew, British actor (b. 1924)
  • Ian Wolfe, American actor (b. 1896)
• January 26 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)
• January 27 – Sally Hayfron, Wife of Robert Mugabe and first lady of Zimbabwe (b. 1933)
• January 29 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)

February

Jânio Quadros

• February 2 – Bert Parks, American game show host (b. 1914)
• February 3 – Junior Cook, American musician (b. 1934)
• February 4 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)
• February 8 – Stanley Armour Dunham, Grandfather of US President Barack Obama (b. 1918)
• February 10 – Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
• February 11 – Ray Danton, American actor (b. 1931)
• February 12 – Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b. 1907)
• February 13 – Dorothy Tree, American actress (b. 1906)
• February 15 – William Schuman, American composer (b. 1910)
• February 16
  • Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (b. 1940)
  • Jânio Quadros, 22nd President of Brazil (b. 1917)
  • Abbas al-Musawi, Lebanese Shia cleric and Secretary General of Hezbollah (b. 1952).
• February 20
  • Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
  • Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadorean Army officer and right-wing political leader (b. 1944)
  • Eugene R. Black, Sr., American banker, former president of the World Bank (b. 1898)
• February 23 – Markos Vafiadis, Greek Communist leader (b. 1906)
• February 29 – La Lupe, Cuban singer (b. 1936)

March

Menachem Begin

• March 2 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (b. 1937)
• March 3 – Robert Beatty, Canadian actor (b. 1909)
• March 4
  • Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (b. 1930)
  • Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907)
• March 5 – Pare Lorentz, American filmmaker (b. 1905)
• March 9 – Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)
• March 11
  • László Benedek, Hungarian film director (b. 1905)
  • Richard Brooks, American film director (b. 1912)
• March 14 – Jean Poiret, French actor, screenwriter, director (b. 1926)
• March 16 – Yves Rocard, French nuclear physicist (b. 1903)
• March 17 – Jack Arnold, American TV and film director (b. 1912)
• March 18 – Antonio Molina, Spanish singer (b. 1928)
• March 19 – Cesare Danova, American actor (b. 1926)
• March 20 – Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)
• March 21
  • John Ireland, American actor (b. 1914)
  • Natalie Sleeth, American composer (b. 1930)
• March 23 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• March 25 – Nancy Walker, American actress (b. 1922)
• March 28 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (b. 1909)
• March 29 – Paul Henreid, Austrian-born actor (b. 1908)
• March 30 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1919)

April

Isaac Asimov

• April 2 – Juan Gómez González, Juanito, Spanish footballer (b. 1954)
• April 4
  • Samuel Reshevsky, seven-time U.S. Chess Champion (b. 1911)
  • Vintilă Horia, Romanian writer (b. 1915)
• April 5
  • Nawab Zulfikar Ali Khan, Indian Royal- Titular Nawab of Rampur. Also an Indian politician and army major. Car accident (b. 1933)
  • Suada Dilberović, Bosnian medical student. First casualty of the Siege of Sarajevo (b. 1968)
  • Molly Picon, American actress (b. 1898)
  • Sam Walton, American businessman, founder of Wal-Mart (b. 1918)
• April 6 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)
• April 7 – Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b. 1903)
• April 8 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
• April 10
  • Peter D. Mitchell, British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1920)
  • Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)
• April 11 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
• April 13 – Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (b. 1921)
• April 14
  • David Miller, American film director (b. 1909)
  • Sammy Price, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1908)
• April 16 – Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
• April 19
  • Frankie Howerd, British comedian and actor (b. 1917)
  • Kristen French, Canadian murder victim (b. 1976)
• April 20 – Benny Hill, British comedian and actor (b. 1924)
• April 23
  • Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (b. 1921)
  • Tanka Prasad Acharya Nepalese politician, former Prime Minister (b.1912)
• April 25 – Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese songwriter (b. 1965)
• April 27
  • Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
  • Harlond Clift, American baseman (b. 1912)
• April 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish-born painter (b. 1909)
• April 29 – Mae Clarke, American actress (b. 1910)

May

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Marlene Dietrich

• May 3 – George Murphy, American actor and politician (b. 1902)
• May 4 – Gregor Mackenzie, British Labour Party politician (b. 1927)
• May 5 – Adriana Admiraal-Meijerink, Dutch olympic fencer (b. 1893)
• May 6 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
• May 10 – John Lund, American actor (b. 1911)
• May 12 – Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
• May 13
  • Gisela Elsner, German writer (b. 1937)
  • F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
• May 14
  • Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)
  • Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
• May 17 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)
• May 18 – Marshall Thompson, American actor (b. 1925)
• May 21 – T. B. Ilangaratne, Sri Lankan author, dramatist, actor and politician (b. 1913)
• May 22
  • Abraham Moles, French sociologist and psychologist (b. 1920)
  • Tony Accardo, American gangster (b. 1906)
• May 23
  • Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1908)
  • Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b. 1939)
  • William Keene, American actor (b. 1915)
• May 25
  • Philip Habib, Lebanese-American diplomat (b. 1920)
  • Tulio Demicheli, Argentine film director (b. 1914)
• May 30 – Karl Carstens, former President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1914)

June

Robert Morley

• June 2 – Philip Dunne, American screenwriter and director (b. 1908)
• June 3 – Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
• June 4 – Carl Stotz, American founder of Little League Baseball (b. 1910)
• June 18
  • Carlos Humberto Perette, Argentinian politician, former Vice President (b. 1915)
  • Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
  • Peter Allen, Australian singer, songwriter (b. 1944)
• June 19 – Kathleen McKane Godfree, British tennis player (b. 1896)
• June 21
  • Joan Fuster, Spanish writer (b. 1922)
  • Li Xiannian, former President of the People's Republic of China and one of the Eight Elders of the Communist Party of China (b. 1909)
• June 21 – Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet (b. 1956)
• June 22 – Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
• June 25
  • Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
  • James Stirling, British architect (b. 1926)
• June 26 – Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (b. 1921)
• June 27 – Allan Jones, American actor (b. 1907)
• June 28
  • Mikhail Tal, eighth World Chess Champion (b. 1936)
  • Guy Nève, racing driver (b. 1955)
• June 29
  • Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician, president of the Republic (b. 1919)
  • Pierre Billotte, French Army officer and politician (b. 1906)

July

Brenda Marshall

• July 2 – Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1950)
• July 4
  • Ástor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer (b. 1921)
  • Francis Perrin, French nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
• July 5 - Paul Hackman, Canadian musician (b. 1953)
• July 9 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (b. 1912)
• July 10 – Doris Tate, American campaigner for the rights of crime victims (b. 1924)
• July 11 – Deng Yingchao, Chinese Communist politician, widow of Zhou Enlai (b. 1904)
• July 13 – Albert Pierrepoint, British Chief Executioner (b. 1905)
• July 15 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
• July 18 – Rudolph Ising, cartoon animator (b. 1903)
• July 19
  • Allen Newell, computer scientist (b. 1927)
  • Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge (b. 1940)
• July 22 – John Meyendorff, Russian-born Orthodox scholar (b. 1926)
• July 23
  • Rosemary Sutcliff, British author (b. 1920)
  • Suleiman Frangieh, Lebanese statesman, former President of the Republic (b. 1910)
• July 24 – Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)
• July 25 – Alfred Drake, American actor (b. 1914)
• July 26 – Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
• July 27 – Anthony Salerno, American mobster (b.1911)
• July 30
  • Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
  • Joe Shuster, Canadian-American comic book artist. (b. 1914)
• July 31 – Leonard Cheshire, English war hero and philanthropist (b. 1917)

August

Robert Muldoon

• August 3 – Wang Hongwen, Chinese Communist politician (b. 1935)
• August 4
  • František Tomášek, Czech Catholic cardinal (b. 1899)
  • Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (b. 1909)
• August 5
  • Robert Muldoon, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921)
  • Jeff Porcaro, American musician (b. 1954)
• August 7 – Francisco Fernández Ordóñez, Spanish politician, former Foreign minister (b. 1930)
• August 8
  • Abolqassem Al Khoei, Iranian-Iraqi Shia ayatollah and scholar (b. 1899)
  • Alison Gertz, American AIDS activist (b. 1966)
• August 9 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian Entertainer (b. 1936)
• August 12 – John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
• August 16 – Mark Heard, American singer (b. 1951)
• August 18
  • John Sturges, American film director (b. 1911)
  • Christopher Johnson McCandless, American itinerant and hiker, Starvation (b. 1968)
• August 29 – Teddy Turner, English actor (b. 1917)

September

• September 1
  • Morris Carnovsky, American actor (b. 1897)
  • Piotr Jaroszewicz, Polish politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1909)
• September 2 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)
• September 4 - John van Dreelen, Dutch actor (b. 1922)
• September 12
  • Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
  • Ruth Nelson, American actress (b. 1905)
• September 25 – César Manrique, Spanish artist (b. 1919)
• September 29 – Paul Jabara, American actor, singer, and songwriter (b. 1948)

October

Willy Brandt

• October 4 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)
• October 5 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer (b. 1939)
• October 6 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
• October 7 – Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
• October 8 – Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)
• October 12
  • John Hancock, American actor (b. 1941)
  • Ulysses Guimarães, Brazilian politician (b. 1916)
• October 16 – Shirley Booth, American actress best known for playing the title character in the television series Hazel (b. 1898)
• October 17
  • Yoshihiro Hattori, Japanese exchange student (b. 1975)
  • Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
• October 19
  • Arthur Wint, Jamaican Olympic runner (b. 1920)
  • Gert Bastian, German politician (b. 1913)
  • Petra Kelly, German politician (b. 1947)
• October 21 – Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921)
• October 22
  • Red Barber, American sportscaster (b. 1908)
  • Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)
• October 25
  • Roger Miller, American singer (b. 1936)
  • Adelino da Palma Carlos, Portuguese politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1905)
• October 27 – David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
• October 31 - Gary Rippingale, English ice hockey player (b. 1974)

November

Alexander Dubček

• November 2 – Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
• November 4
  • George Klein, Canadian inventor (b. 1904)
  • José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, Spanish film director (b. 1911)
• November 5 – Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer. (b. 1900)
• November 7
  • Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician, former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia(b. 1921)
  • Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
  • Richard Yates, American writer (b. 1926)
• November 10 – Chuck Connors, American actor (b. 1921)
• November 11 – Earle Meadows, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913)
• November 19 – Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
• November 21 – Kaysone Phomvihane, Laotian statesman and Communist Party leader, president of the Republic (b. 1920)
• November 22 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
• November 23 – Roy Acuff, American singer (b. 1903)
• November 25 – Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Ghanaian military office, former head of the State (b. 1903)
• November 26 – John Sharp, English actor (b. 1920)
• November 29 – Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (b. 1914)

December

Dana Andrews

• December 2 - Michael Gothard, British actor (b. 1939)
• December 3
  • Luis Alcoriza, Mexican film director (b. 1918)
  • Nureddin al-Atassi, Syrian Baathist, former President of the Republic (b. 1929)
• December 6
  • Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon (b. 1914)
  • Percy Herbert, English actor (b. 1920)
• December 9 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (b. 1922)
• December 10 – Celia Gámez, Argentinian actress,(b. 1908)
• December 12
  • Ali Amini, Iranian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1905)
  • Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)
• December 17 – Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
• December 18 – Mark Goodson, American game show producer (b. 1915)
• December 21
  • Stella Adler, American acting teacher (b. 1901)
  • Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-born violinist (b. 1903)
  • Albert King, American musician (b. 1923)
• December 22
  • Frederick William Franz, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and 4th President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (b. 1893)
  • Ted Willis, British television dramatist and author (b. 1914)
• December 23 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (b. 1950)
• December 24 – Pierre Culliford, Peyo, Belgian comics artist, creator of The Smurfs (b. 1928)
• December 25
  • Ted Croker, English former football official (b. 1924)
  • Monica Dickens, English author (b. 1915)
• December 26 – Nikita Magaloff, Georgian-Russian pianist (b. 1912)
• December 29 – Vivienne Segal, American actress (b. 1897)

Date unknown

• Luigi Stipa, Italian aeronautical, hydraulic, and civil engineer and aircraft designer (b. 1900)

Nobel Prizes

Nobel medal

• Physics – Georges Charpak
• Chemistry – Rudolph A. Marcus
• Medicine – Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs
• Literature – Derek Walcott
• Peace – Rigoberta Menchú
• Economics – Gary Becker

References

• 1992 House by Bill Frolick – article about 1992 from The New Yorker magazine.