List of Famous people who died at 92

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

First Name Menachem
Born on April 5, 1902
Died on June 12, 1994 (aged 92)

Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to many as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply as the Rebbe, was a Russian Empire-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, and the most recent rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.

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Noah Dietrich

First Name Noah
Last Name Dietrich
Born on February 28, 1889
Died on February 15, 1982 (aged 92)

Noah Dietrich was an American businessman, who was the chief executive officer of the Howard Hughes business empire from 1925 to 1957. According to his own memoirs, he left the Hughes operation over a dispute involving putting more of his income on a capital gains basis. The manuscript of his eventual memoir, Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes, may have been a key, if inadvertent, source of novelist Clifford Irving's infamous fake autobiography of Hughes.

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June Dally-Watkins

First Name June
Last Name Dally-Watkins
Born on June 13, 1927
Died on February 22, 2020 (aged 92)

June Marie Dally-Watkins was an Australian businesswoman and fashion model, recognised as an entrepreneur. In 1950 she started a personal development school in Sydney to train young women in etiquette and deportment. A year later, she started Australia's first model agency and modelling school and later established a Business Finishing College. She was later a public proponent of etiquette and elocution, and frequently commented on those topics in the media.

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Ernestina Herrera de Noble

First Name Ernestina
Born on June 7, 1925
Died on June 14, 2017 (aged 92)
Born in Argentina

Ernestina Laura Herrera de Noble was a prominent Argentine publisher and executive. She was the largest shareholder of the Grupo Clarín media conglomerate and director of the flagship Clarín newspaper. She was the first woman to become director of a mainstream newspaper in South America.

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Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei

First Name Abu
Last Name Al-Khoei
Born on November 19, 1899
Died on August 8, 1992 (aged 92)

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja'. al-Khoei is considered one of the most influential twelver scholars.

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Noah Klieger

First Name Noah
Last Name Klieger
Born on July 31, 1926
Died on December 13, 2018 (aged 92)
Born in France, Grand Est

Noah Klieger was an Israeli journalist and sports administrator. Klieger, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora and Ravensbruck, covered trials of Nazi criminals after the end of World War II, besides working as a sports journalist in Israel. He also was the president of the basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv and chairman of the FIBA's media council. In 2010 he was awarded the FIBA Order of Merit, and in 2012 became a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. In 2015, Klieger was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame for his contributions.

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Ronald Read

First Name Ronald
Last Name Read
Born on October 23, 1921
Died on June 2, 2014 (aged 92)

Ronald James Read was an American philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant. Read grew up in Dummerston, Vermont, in an impoverished farming household. He walked or hitchhiked 4 mi (6.4 km) daily to his high school and was the first high school graduate in his family. He enlisted in the United States Army during World War II, serving in Italy as a military policeman. Upon an honorable discharge from the military in 1945, Read returned to Brattleboro, Vermont, where he worked as a gas station attendant and mechanic for about 25 years. Read retired for one year and then took a part-time janitor job at J. C. Penney where he worked for 17 years until 1997.

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Georges Prêtre

First Name Georges
Last Name Prêtre
Born on August 14, 1924
Died on January 4, 2017 (aged 92)

Georges Prêtre was a French orchestral and opera conductor.

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Lachhiman Gurung

First Name Lachhiman
Born on December 30, 1917
Died on December 12, 2010 (aged 92)

Lachhiman Gurung was a Nepalese-British Gurkha recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He is best known as the "Gurkha who took on 200 soldiers with only one hand" because of his actions in World War II.

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Pedro Casaldáliga

First Name Pedro
Last Name Casaldáliga
Born on February 16, 1928
Died on August 8, 2020 (aged 92)
Born in Spain, Catalonia

Pere Casaldàliga i Pla, known in Portuguese as Pedro Casaldáliga, was a Catalan-born Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who led the Territorial Prelature of São Félix, Brazil, from 1970 to 2005. A bishop since 1971, Casaldàliga was one of the best-known exponents of liberation theology. He received numerous awards, including the Catalonia International Prize in 2006. He was a forceful advocate in support of indigenous peoples and published several volumes of poetry.

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