List of Famous people who died in 1992
John Ralph Beaumont
John Ralph Beaumont DL, JP was a Rhodesian politician. He was the son of Ralph Edward Blackett Beaumont, son of Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale, and his wife Helena Mary Christine Wray, daughter of Cecil Wray.
William Harbord
William Edward Harbord played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club as an amateur player between 1929 and 1935. He also played once for Oxford University in 1930 and for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1934 and 1935. He appeared for Yorkshire's Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship competition between 1928 and 1933, and for a Minor Counties representative side in a non-first-class match in 1934.
Stella Adler
Stella Adler was an American actress and acting teacher. She founded the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City in 1949. Later in life she taught part time in Los Angeles, with the assistance of her protégée, actress Joanne Linville, who continues to teach Adler's technique. Her grandson Tom Oppenheim now runs the school in New York City, which has produced alumni such as Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Elaine Stritch, Kate Mulgrew, Kipp Hamilton, and Jenny Lumet.
Bernard Cornut-Gentille
Bernard Cornut-Gentille was a French administrator and politician.
Elfriede Hochegger
Francis Thomas Bacon
Francis Thomas Bacon O.B.E. FREng F.R.S. was an English engineer who developed the first practical hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell.
Suimenkul Chokmorov
Suimenkul Chokmorov was a Kyrgyz film actor born in Chong-Tash village, Kirghiz SSR. In 1964 he graduated from the Leningrad Academy of Arts and later taught painting and composition at the Arts School of Frunze. In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
Nigel Burgess
Nigel Allan Burgess (1942–1992) was a British single-handed yachtsman, Master Mariner and businessman. He took part in the OSTAR and the Vendée Globe. He founded Nigel Burgess Yacht Brokers, a company which has remained one of the leading yachtbrokers in the world, and was responsible for the sale of Saddam Hussein's yacht in 2008.
Francis Perrin
Francis Perrin was a French physicist, the son of Nobel prize-winning physicist Jean Perrin.