* Clinton B. Ford ( 1913 – 1992 ), who specialized in the observation of variable stars.

* 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian hockey player ( d. 1992 )

* 1992 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland.

* 1909 – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor ( d. 1992 )

* 1930 – Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist ( d. 1992 )

* 1992 – Marc-André ter Stegen, German footballer

* 1992 – Kim Petras, German singer

* 1909 – V. K. Gokak, Indian writer ( d. 1992 )

* Colonel Shahin Musayev ( January – February 1992 )

* Interior Troops Colonel Tahir Aliyev ( February – March 1992 )

The Azeri armed forces took a series of devastating defeats by Armenian forces during the 1992 – 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which resulted in the loss of control of Nagorno-Karabakh proper and seven surrounding rayons, comprising roughly 16 % of the territory of Azerbaijan.

The winters of 1991-92, 1992 – 93, and 1993-94 brought enormous hardship to a population lacking heat and electric power.

* 1920 – Neville Brand, American actor ( d. 1992 )

* 1992 – Lucas Rodrigues Moura da Silva, Brazilian footballer

In 1992 – 1993 a research team headed by Tim White discovered the first A. ramidus fossils — seventeen fragments including skull, mandible, teeth and arm bones — from the Afar Depression in the Middle Awash river valley of Ethiopia.

* 1992 – Hallie Eisenberg, American actress

* 1992 – Michael Havers, British barrister and politician ( b. 1923 )

* 1992 – Nigel Preston, English drummer ( The Cult ) ( b. 1959 )

* 1992 – Karlie Kloss, American model

* 1992 – Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner

* 1992 – Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner

* 1928 – Romeo Muller, American screenwriter ( d. 1992 )

* 1992 – The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60, 000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.

* 1992 – Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg

* 1992 – Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King.

* 1992 – Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.

* 1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.

In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.

Finally in 1992, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, then candidate to the Presidency, declared that in its plan of government the quarrel for creation of the Ministry of Defense was foreseen.

Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.

Burhanuddin Rabbani ( Burhânuddîn Rabbânî ; 20 September 1940 – 20 September 2011 ) was President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996.

He took over as President from 1992 until the Taliban's conquest of Kabul in 1996.

On November 30, 1992, by the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Red Terror as unlawful, which in turn led to suspension of the Communist Party of the RSFSR.

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

The policy was introduced as a compromise measure in 1993 by President Bill Clinton who campaigned in 1992 on the promise to allow all citizens to serve in the military regardless of sexual orientation.

* 1914 – Karl Carstens, President of Germany ( d. 1992 )

* 1992 – A coup d ' état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

As President of the Republic, Cossiga was Head ( and also Knight Grand Cross with Grand Cordon ) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( from 3 July 1985 to 28 April 1992 ), Military Order of Italy, Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, Order of Merit for Labour and Order of Vittorio Veneto and Grand Cross of Merit of the Italian Red Cross.

The Honduran land reform process under President Callejas between 1989 and 1992 was directed primarily at large agricultural landowners.

The USSR continued to support President Mohammad Najibullah ( former head of the Afghan secret service, KHAD ) until 1992.

* 1992 – Leaders of armed opposition declare the President Zviad Gamsakhurdia deposed during a military coup in Georgia.

* 1992 – A " joint understanding " agreement on arms reduction is signed by U. S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin ( this would be later codified in START II ).

John Major with then-US President George H. W. Bush at Camp David in 1992

However, although he could not get federal funding for empowerment zones passed during his tenure, by 1992 38 states had created empowerment zones, and in 1994 $ 3. 5 billion was approved for them under President Clinton.

The Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social ( PRDS ), led by President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, has dominated Mauritanian politics since the country's first multi-party elections in April 1992 following the approval by referendum of the current constitution in July 1991.

President Taya, who won elections in 1992 and 1997, first became chief of state through a December 12, 1984 bloodless coup which made him chairman of the committee of military officers that governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.

Mauritius became a republic on 12 March 1992, with the last Governor General, Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo, as interim President.