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Marlene Dietrich
German and American actress and singer (1901–1992)

Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)

Willy Brandt
German politician (SPD), chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
Menachem Begin
Israeli politician and former Prime Minister (1913–1992)
Barbara McClintock
American scientist and cytogeneticist

Alexander Dubček
first Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party (1921-1992)

Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

Pumpuang Duangjan
Thai female singer
Mikhail Tal
Soviet-Latvian chess player (1936-1992)

John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)

Francis Bacon
Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)
Olivier Messiaen
French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992)
Karl Carstens
president of the Federal Republic of Germany (1914-1992)

Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins was an American actor. Born in Manhattan, he began his acting career as a teenager in summer stock theatre, and appeared in films prior to his Broadway debut. His first film role was in The Actress (1953). That same year, he debuted on Broadway in Tea and Sympathy, a performance for which he received critical acclaim.
Shirley Booth
American actress (1898–1992)
Jan Hendrik Oort
Dutch astronomer (1900–1992)

Audre Lorde
American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)

Astor Piazzolla
Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger

Peter D. Mitchell
British biochemist (1920-1992)

Benny Hill
British comedian and actor (1924–1992)

Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
Rihei Sano
Japanese association football player (1912–1992)
Lev Gumilev
Soviet academic (1912-1992)
José Ferrer
American actor and director (1912–1992)

Angela Carter
English novelist (1940–1992)

David Bohm
American theoretical physicist
Takeshi Inoue
Japanese association football player (1928–1992)

Giovanni Falcone
Italian magistrate murdered by the Mafia (1939-1992)

Ernst Happel
Austrian footballer and manager (1925–1992)

Alex Haley
American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist (1921–1992)

Denny Hulme
New Zealand racing driver (1936–1992)
Li Xiannian
3rd President of the People's Republic of China (1909-1992)
Félix Guattari
French psychoanalyst (1930–1992)

Väinö Linna
Finnish writer

Samuel Reshevsky
American chess player

Petra Kelly
German politician and activist (1947-1992)

Dana Andrews
American actor (1909–1992)
Jânio Quadros
Brazilian politician, former president of Brazil (1961)

Sandy Dennis
American actress (1937–1992)
James E. Webb
administrator of NASA in 1961–1968 (1906–1992)

Marsha P. Johnson
Black American queer liberation activist (1945–1992)

Christopher McCandless
American hiker and explorer (1968–1992)

Fritz Leiber
American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction (1910–1992)
Mohammad Hidayatullah
Vice President of India from 1979 to 1984

Paolo Borsellino
Italian magistrate killed by the Mafia (1940-1992)

Judith Anderson
Australian stage and screen actress (1897–1992)

Denholm Elliott
British actor (1922–1992)

Arpad Elo
Hungarian American physicists, developer of the Elo rating

James Stirling
English architect (1926–1992)
Wanda Rutkiewicz
Polish mountain climber (1943-1992)
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Portuguese-French artist

Mohamed Boudiaf
Algerian politician (1919–1992)

Camarón de la Isla
Spanish flamenco singer (1950–1992)

John George Kemeny
Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President of Dartmouth College

Arletty
Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat (15 May 1898 – 23 July 1992), known professionally as Arletty, was a French actress, singer, and fashion model. As an actress she is particularly known for classics directed by Marcel Carné, including Hotel du Nord (1938), Le jour se lève (1939) and Children of Paradise (1945). She was found guilty of treason for an affair with a German officer during World War II.

Richard Brooks
American screenwriter, film director and producer (1912-1992)

John Sturges
American film director (1910–1992)

Peyo
Pierre Culliford (; 25 June 1928 – 24 December 1992) was a Belgian comics writer and artist who worked under the pseudonym Peyo (). His best-known works are the comic book series The Smurfs and Johan and Peewit, in the latter of which the Smurfs made their first appearance.

Aribert Heim
Austrian SS member and physician in Mauthausen concentration camp (1914-1992)