1992

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Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
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1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

Grace Hopper

Judith Anderson

José Ferrer

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 9 – Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
January 18 – Aleksandr Almetov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1940)
January 26 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)
January 29 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)

February

Jânio Quadros

February 10 – Alex Haley, American writer (b. 1921)
February 16 – Jânio Quadros, former President of Brazil (b. 1917)
February 29 – La Lupe, Cuban singer (b. 1936)

March

Menachem Begin

Friedrich Hayek

March 9 – Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1913)
March 21 – John Ireland, Canadian movie actor (b. 1914)
March 23 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist (b. 1899)
March 31 – Alfredo De Angelis, Argentine musician (b. 1912)

April

April 5 – Sam Walton, American businessman (b. 1918)
April 6 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born writer (b. 1920)
April 7 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1903)
April 8 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist (b. 1907)
April 19 – Benny Hill, British comedian (b. 1924)
April 21 – Vladimir Cyrillovich, Russian aristocrat (b. 1917)
April 23 – Satyajit Ray, Indian movie maker (b. 1921)
April 23 – Tanka Prasad Acharya, former Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1912)
April 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish-born painter (b. 1909)

May

Marlene Dietrich

Karl Carstens

May 6 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
May 14 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese military leader (b. 1899)
May 17 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)
May 23 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b. 1939)
May 30 – Karl Carstens, former President of Germany (b. 1914)

June

Li Xiannian

James Stirling

Mikhail Tal

June 2 – Philip Dunne, American screenwriter and director (b. 1908)
June 13 - Pumpuang Duangjan, Thai female singer (b. 1961)
June 18 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
June 21 – Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1909)
June 25 – James Stirling, British architect (b. 1926)
June 28 – Mikhail Tal, former World chess champion (b. 1936)
June 29 – Mohamed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)

July

Ástor Piazzolla

July 4 - Ástor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer (b. 1921)
July 13 – Albert Pierrepoint, British executioner (b. 1905)
July 15 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
July 22 – John Meyendorff, Russian-born Orthodox scholar (b. 1926)
July 23 - Suleiman Frangieh, former President of Lebanon (b. 1910)
July 24 – Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)
July 29 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
July 30 – Joe Shuster, Canadian comic artist (b. 1914)
July 30 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)

August

John Cage

August 2 – Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
August 5 – Robert Muldoon, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921)
August 5 – Jeff Porcaro, American musician (b. 1954)
August 12 – John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
August 29 – Teddy Turner, British comedian (b. 1917)

September

Barbara McClintock

Anthony Perkins

September 1 - Piotr Jaroszewicz, former Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
September 2 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (b. 1902)
September 12 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
September 25 – Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Ghanaian politician (b. 1947)

October

Willy Brandt

Shirley Booth

October 1 – Gert Bastian, German politician (b. 1923)
October 1 – Petra Kelly, German politician (b. 1947)
October 6 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
October 7 – Tevfik Esenc, last-known speaker of the Ubykh language (b. 1904)
October 8 – Willy Brandt, former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1913)
October 16 - Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)
October 25 – Roger Miller, American singer (b. 1936)

November

Alexander Dubček

Kaysone Phomvihane

November 2 – Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
November 7 – Alexander Dubček, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (b. 1921)
November 10 – Chuck Connors, American actor (b. 1921)
November 19 – Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
November 21 – Kaysone Phomvihane, President of Laos (b. 1920)
November 22 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
November 23 – Roy Acuff, American country musician (b. 1903)
November 23 – Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)

December

Dana Andrews

Peyo

December 3 – Nureddin al-Atassi, President of Syria (b. 1929)
December 12 – Ali Amini, former Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1905)
December 17 – Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
December 21 – Stella Adler, American acting teacher (b. 1901)
December 21 – Albert King, American musician (b. 1923)
December 24 – Peyo, Belgian comic artist (b. 1928)
December 26 – Eve Poole, New Zealand politician (b. 1924)
December 28 – Elfie Mayerhofer, Austrian actress and singer (b. 1917)
December 29 – Vivienne Segal, American actress (b. 1897)

Culture

Johnny Carson retires from his job as host of the "Tonight Show", Jay Leno takes his place.
The first in R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series published.

Births

January – March

Taylor Lautner *1992

January 1 – Oren Williams, American actor
January 1 – Jack Wilshere, English footballer
January 8 – Rachell "Valkyrae" Hofstetter, American gaming content creator
January 19 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
January 24 – Becky Downie, British artistic gymnast
February 6 – Cara McCollum, American journalist (d. 2016)
February 11 – Taylor Lautner, American actor
February 11 – Georgia Groome, British actress
February 21 – Phil Jones, British footballer
February 29 – Jawed El Yamiq, Moroccon footballer
March 4 – Jazmine Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
March 7 - Bel Powley, British actress
March 10 – Emily Osment, American actress and singer

April – June

April 4 – Alexa Nikolas, American actress
April 7 – Alexis Jordan, American singer
April 7 – Jessica Sara, American actress

Amy Diamond *1992

April 15 – Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
May 3 – Melissa Wu, Australian diver
May 12 – Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
May 18 – Spencer Breslin, American actor
May 22 – Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer
May 23 – Nick Julian III, American Science
June 14 – Dary Sabara and Evan Sabara, American actors
June 26 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress
June 30 – Lynx and Lamb Gaede, American neo-nazi musicians

July – September

July 7 – Nathalia Ramos, Spanish actress
July 8 – Benjamin Grosvenor, pianist
July 12 – Eoghan Quigg, Irish singer
July 21 – Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
July 22 – Selena Gomez, American actress and singer
August 4 – Cole and Dylan Sprouse, American actors
August 4 – Tiffany Evans, American singer and actress
August 20 – Demi Lovato, American actress and singer
August 21 – Brad Kavanagh, British actor and singer
September 16 – Nick Jonas, American actor and singer
September 28 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress

October – December

Miley Cyrus

October 1 – Gauri Shankar, Indian chess player
October 22 – Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
November 18 – Nathan Kress, American actor
November 23 – Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer
November 28 – Adam Hicks, American actor, rapper, singer, and songwriter
December 18 – Bridgit Mendler, American actress and singer
November 27 – Tola Slagowska, Polish singer
December 23 – Spencer Daniels, American actor
December 24 – Melissa Suffield, British actress

Deaths

Nobel Prizes

Movies released

TV Shows

November 28 – Gumby is aired "Dolly for Minga", "The Lost Arrow" and "Clay Trix".

Video Games

April 27 – Kirby first appears in Kirby's Dreamland.

Hit songs

"Alive" – Pearl Jam
"All 4 Love" – Color Me Badd
"All I Want" – Toad the Wet Sprocket
"Baby Got Back" – Sir Mix-A-Lot
"Come As You Are" – Nirvana
"End of the Road" – Boyz II Men
"Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?" – Def Leppard
"How Do You Talk To An Angel" – Whitney Houston
"I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston
"Jimmy Olsen's Blues" – Spin Doctors
"Jump" – Kris Kross
"Killing in the Name" – Rage Against the Machine
"Layla" – Eric Clapton
"Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" – Spin Doctors
"Missing You Now" – Michael Bolton
"Mrs. Robinson" – Lemonheads
"Mysterious Ways" – U2
"One" – U2
"Tears in Heaven" – Eric Clapton
"To Be With You" – Mr. Big
"Two Princes" – Spin Doctors
"Under The Bridge" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
"We Shall Be Free" – Garth Brooks
"No One Else On Earth" - Wynonna Judd

New books

All Around the Town – Mary Higgins Clark
Anvil of Stars – Greg Bear
The Bridges of Madison County – Robert James Waller
The Children of Men – P.D. James
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural – Patricia McKissack
Dolores Claiborne – Stephen King
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Flour Babies – Anne Fine
Frog in Winter – Max Velthujis
Gerald's Game – Stephen King
Hjärtans fröjd (Heart's Delight) – Per Nilsson
Jazz – Toni Morrison
Jewels – Danielle Steel
Les derniers Géants (The Last Giants) – François Place
Leviathan (Auster novel) – Paul Auster
Looking for Alibrandi – Melina Marchetta
Lords and Ladies – Terry Pratchett
Maisy Goes to Playschool – Lucy Cousins
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus – John Gray
Missing May – Cynthia Rylant
Mixed Blessings – Danielle Steel
Monster Blood – R.L. Stine
Only You Can Save Mankind – Terry Pratchett
Owl Babies – Martin Waddell, illustrated by Patrick Benson
Paddy Clarke – Roddy Doyle
Pagan's Crusade – Catherine Jinks
The Pelican Brief – John Grisham
The Queen and I – Sue Townsend
Secrets of Love Magick – Gerina Dunwich
See Ya, Simon – David Hill
Shampoo Planet – Douglas Coupland
Silent Passage – Gail Sheehy
Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
Somewhere in the Darkness – Walter Dean Myers
The Stars Shine Down – Sidney Sheldon
Stay Out of the Basement – R.L. Stine
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales – Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith
The Tale of the Body Thief – Anne Rice
Tales from Firozsha Baag – Rohinton Mistry
T'choupi – Thierry Courtin
There Will Be Wolves – Karleen Bradford
The Thief of Always – Clive Barker
Transit – Ben Aaronovitch
The Trial of Madame Caillaux – Edward Berenson
The Valkyries – Paulo Coelho
Waiting to Exhale – Terry McMillan
Welcome to Dead House – R.L. Stine
What Hearts – Bruce Brooks
Where's My Teddy? – Jez Alborough

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