Aged 92
Famous people who died at 92
148 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 92, including Chanakya, Deng Xiaoping and Knut Hamsun. Here are the 100 best known.
- ChanakyaAncient Indian teacher and strategist who authored the foundational manual on political economy · c. 375–283 BC
- Deng XiaopingChinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989 · 1904–1997
- Knut HamsunNorwegian novelist · 1859–1952
- Rosa ParksCivil rights activist · 1913–2005
- Alice MunroCanadian writer · 1931–2024
- Karl PopperAustrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society · 1902–1994
- Manmohan SinghIndian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician · 1932–2024
- Friedrich HayekAustrian and British economist · 1899–1992
- John DeweyAmerican philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer · 1859–1952
- XenophanesGreek Pre-Socratic philosopher · c. 570–478 BC
- Eugene Paul WignerHungarian-American physicist and mathematician · 1902–1995
- Harold MacmillanPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963 · 1894–1986
- Ravi ShankarIndian sitar player · 1920–2012
- James CallaghanFormer prime minister of the United Kingdom · 1912–2005
- Lata MangeshkarIndian singer · 1929–2022
- Claudette ColbertAmerican actress · 1903–1996
- Viktor FranklAustrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author · 1905–1997
- Barbara BushFirst Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993 · 1925–2018
- Ludwig von MisesAustrian-American economist · 1881–1973
- Thomas à KempisGerman canon regular · c. 1379–1471
- Celestine IIIPope of the Catholic Church from 1191 to 1198 · c. 1106–1198
- Alec Douglas-HomePrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964 · 1903–1995
- Éamon de ValeraIrish statesman · 1882–1975
- Martin NiemöllerGerman theologian · 1892–1984
- Helen HayesAmerican actress · 1900–1993
- Isamu AkasakiJapanese engineer · 1929–2021
- Mohammed Zahir ShahKing of Afghanistan · 1914–2007
- Sydney BrennerSouth African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 · 1927–2019
- Edward O. WilsonAmerican biologist, naturalist, and writer · 1929–2021
- Beji Caid EssebsiTunisian politician · 1926–2019
- Gustaf V of SwedenKing of Sweden from 1907 to 1950 · 1858–1950
- Wassily LeontiefRussian economist · 1906–1999
- François JacobFrench biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965 · 1920–2013
- Karolos Papoulias6th President of Greece · 1929–2021
- Pharnavaz I of Iberia ↗King of Iberia and Colchis · c. 326–234 BC
- Yun Po-sun ↗2nd President of South Korea · 1897–1990
- Aaron Klug ↗British chemist and biophysicist · 1926–2018
- Rainer Weiss ↗American physicist · 1932–2025
- Anouk Aimée ↗French actress · 1932–2024
- Mário Zagallo ↗Brazilian footballer · 1931–2024
- Willard Van Orman Quine ↗American philosopher and logician · 1908–2000
- Ernst Bloch ↗German philosopher · 1885–1977
- Mário Soares ↗President of Portugal · 1924–2017
- Clive Dunn ↗British actor · 1920–2012
- Jan Hendrik Oort ↗Dutch astronomer · 1900–1992
- John Gurdon ↗British developmental biologist · 1933–2025
- Walter Cronkite ↗American broadcast journalist · 1916–2009
- Bernard Katz ↗German-British biophysicist · 1911–2003
- Edward Adelbert Doisy ↗American biochemist · 1893–1986
- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker ↗British athlete, politician, Cabinet minister, life peer and Nobel Peace Prize winner · 1889–1982
- Seneca the Elder ↗Roman scholar, writer and historian · c. 54 BC–AD 39
- Herbert C. Brown ↗American chemist · 1912–2004
- James Randi ↗Canadian-American stage magician and skeptical movement adherent · 1928–2020
- Vittorio Emanuele Orlando ↗Italian diplomat · 1860–1952
- Walter Rudolf Hess ↗Swiss physiologist · 1881–1973
- Lena Horne ↗American singer, actress, dancer and activist · 1917–2010
- Paul Ricœur ↗French philosopher · 1913–2005
- Albert Uderzo ↗French comic book artist · 1927–2020
- Archer John Porter Martin ↗British chemist · 1910–2002
- Julius Axelrod ↗American biochemist · 1912–2004
- Nadia Boulanger ↗French musician, conductor, and teacher · 1887–1979
- André Lwoff ↗French microbiologist · 1902–1994
- Jean Dausset ↗French immunologist · 1916–2009
- Alonzo Church ↗American mathematician and logician · 1903–1995
- André Frédéric Cournand ↗French physiologist · 1895–1988
- Brian Aldiss ↗British science fiction writer · 1925–2017
- Matilde Camus ↗Spanish poet · 1919–2012
- Robert F. Furchgott ↗American biochemist · 1916–2009
- Willem de Kooning ↗Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist · 1904–1997
- Inder Kumar Gujral ↗Prime Minister of India · 1919–2012
- Mary Higgins Clark ↗American author of suspense novels · 1927–2020
- Robert K. Merton ↗American sociologist · 1910–2003
- E. Donnall Thomas ↗American hematologist · 1920–2012
- George H. Hitchings ↗Nobel Prize-winning American physician · 1905–1998
- Johan Gadolin ↗Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist · 1760–1852
- Lloyd Shapley ↗American economist and mathematician · 1923–2016
- Jeannette Rankin ↗American congresswoman for Montana · 1880–1973
- Alice Paul ↗American suffragist, feminist, and activist · 1885–1977
- Robert Byrd ↗American politician · 1917–2010
- Carolyn S. Shoemaker ↗American astronomer, researcher and university teacher · 1929–2021
- Frank Drake ↗American astronomer and astrophysicist · 1930–2022
- Francesco Rosi ↗Italian film director · 1922–2015
- Giampiero Boniperti ↗Italian footballer · 1928–2021
- Lee Yoo-hyung ↗Japanese and South Korean association football player · 1911–2003
- Abel Gance ↗French film director and producer, writer and actor · 1889–1981
- André Weil ↗French mathematician · 1906–1998
- Marius Petipa ↗French-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer · 1818–1910
- S. R. Nathan ↗6th President of Singapore · 1924–2016
- Sun Myung Moon ↗Korean religious leader · 1920–2012
- Adam Ferguson ↗Scottish philosopher and historian; · 1723–1816
- Eudora Welty ↗American short story writer, novelist and photographer · 1909–2001
- George Davis Snell ↗American geneticist · 1903–1996
- Thomas Szasz ↗Hungarian psychiatrist · 1920–2012
- Julie Adams ↗American actress · 1926–2019
- Miklós Jancsó ↗Hungarian film director and screenwriter · 1921–2014
- Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ↗Pakistani judge and activist · 1929–2022
- René Lacoste ↗French tennis player · 1904–1996
- Dobrica Ćosić ↗Serbian politician and writer · 1921–2014
- Ernst Gombrich ↗Austrian art historian · 1909–2001
- Hans Sloane ↗Irish botanist, doctor, and collector · 1660–1753
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