Events from the year 1992 in the United States.

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• January 1 – Grace Hopper, computer scientist, mathematician, and U.S, Army Navy rear admiral (b, 1906)
• January 7 – Richard Hunt, puppeteer (b. 1951)
• January 23 – Ian Wolfe, actor (b. 1896)^[14]
• January 24 – Tina Chow, fashion designer and model (b. 1950)
• January 26 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor and director (b. 1912)
• January 27 – Allan Jones, actor and singer (b. 1907)
• January 29 – Willie Dixon, blues musician (b. 1915)
• February 2 – Bert Parks, actor, singer, and announcer (b. 1914)
• February 3 – Junior Cook, musician (b. 1934)^[15]
• February 4 – John Dehner, actor (b. 1915)
• February 7 – Buzz Sawyer, wrestler and trainer (b. 1959)
• February 8 – Bazoline Estelle Usher, African American educator (b. 1885)
• February 9 – Jack Kinney, animator (b. 1909)
• February 10 – Alex Haley, writer (b. 1921)
• February 13 – Dorothy Tree, actress (b. 1906)^[16]
• February 14 – Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (b. 1943)
• February 20 – Dick York, actor (b. 1928)
• February 27 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born academic and Senator for California (b. 1906)
• February 28 – Josef Alexander, composer (b. 1907)
• March 2 – Sandy Dennis, actress (b. 1937)
• March 4 – Art Babbitt, animator (b. 1907)
• March 8 – Champ Butler, singer (b. 1926)^[17]
• March 25 – Nancy Walker, actress and director (b. 1922)
• March 26 – Barbara Frum, American-born Canadian radio and television journalist (b. 1937)
• March 29 – Paul Henreid, Austrian-American actor and filmmaker (b. 1908)
• April 4 – Arthur Russell, cellist and composer (b. 1951)
• April 5
  • Molly Picon, Yiddish-language actress (b. 1898)
  • Sam Walton, businessman, founder of Wal-Mart (b. 1918)^[18]
• April 6 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born science-fiction author (b. 1920)
• April 10 – Sam Kinison, comedian (b. 1953)
• April 14
  • David Miller, film director (b. 1909)
  • Sammy Price, pianist and bandleader (b. 1908)
• April 16 – Neville Brand, actor (b. 1920)
• May 1 – Sharon Redd, singer (b. 1945)^[19]
• May 6 – Marlene Dietrich, German-born actress and singer (b. 1901 in Germany)
• May 12
  • Lenny Montana, actor and professional wrestler (b. 1926)
  • Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
• May 13 – Dawon Kahng, Korean-born electrical engineer (b. 1931)
• May 14 – Lyle Alzado, American professional football player (b. 1949)
• May 17 – Lawrence Welk, musician and bandleader (b. 1903)
• May 27 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, Appalachian fiddler (b. 1890)
• May 30 – Antoni Zygmund, Polish-born mathematician (b. 1900)
• June 2 – Philip Dunne, screenwriter and director (b. 1908)
• June 3
  • William Gaines, publisher (b. 1922)
  • Patrick Peyton, priest (b. 1909)
• June 6 – Larry Riley, actor (b. 1953)
• June 18 – Peter Allen, Australian musician (b. 1944)
• June 22
  • M. F. K. Fisher, food writer b. 1908)
  • David Wojnarowicz, artist, writer, filmmaker, and photographer (b. 1954)
• June 26 – Buddy Rogers, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
• June 27 – Allan Jones, actor and singer (b. 1907)
• July 13 – Alex Wojciechowicz, American football player (b. 1915)
• July 26 – Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
• July 27 – Anthony Salerno, mobster (b. 1911)
• July 30 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American comic book artist (b. 1914)
• August – Chris McCandless, hiker (b. 1968)
• August 5 – Jeff Porcaro, drummer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1954)
• August 14 – John Sirica, federal judge (b. 1904)
• September 1 – Morris Carnovsky, actor (b. 1897)
• September 12
  • Anthony Perkins, actor (b. 1932)
  • Ruth Nelson, actress (b. 1905)^[20][21]
• September 21 – Bill Williams, actor (b. 1915)
• September 29 – Paul Jabara, actor and singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• October 5 – Eddie Kendricks, singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
• October 16 – Shirley Booth, actress (b. 1898)
• October 22
  • Red Barber, sports announcer and writer (b. 1908)
  • Cleavon Little, actor (b.1939)
• October 25 – Roger Miller, singer-songwriter, musician and actor (b. 1936)
• November 2 – Hal Roach, film and television producer, director and actor (b. 1892)
• November 7 – Jack Kelly, actor (b. 1927)
• November 8
  • Larry Levan, DJ (b. 1954)
  • Ian Stuart Spiro, commodities broker (b. 1946)
• November 10 – Chuck Connors, actor and athlete (b. 1921)
• November 19 – Diane Varsi, actress (b. 1938)
• November 22 – Sterling Holloway, actor (b. 1905)
• November 23 – Roy Acuff, country musician (b. 1903)
• November 29
  • Robert Shayne, actor (b. 1900)
  • Grady Stiles (Lobster Boy), performer (b. 1937)
• November 30 – Peter Blume, American painter and sculptor (b. 1906)
• December 8 – William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker (b. 1907)
• December 9 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (b. 1920)
• December 17 – Dana Andrews, actor (b. 1909)
• December 18 – Mark Goodson, television producer (b. 1915)
• December 21 – Stella Adler, actress and teacher (b. 1901)^[22]
• December 27 – Stephen Albert, composer (b. 1941)^[23]
• December 28 – Sal Maglie, baseball player (b. 1917)
• December 30 – Timothy S. Healy, Jesuit priest and academic administrator (b. 1923)

• 1992 in American television
• List of American films of 1992
• Timeline of United States history (1990–2009)