Deaths Date 1962 | History by KabAstro

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Jan 20 Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at 75
Jan 21 André Lhote, French painter and art historian (Traité du paysage), dies at 76
Jan 24 Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish poet, novelist, recognized as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature (A Mind at Peace, The Time Regulation Institute), dies of a heart attack at 60
Jan 24 Stanley Lord, Captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster, dies at 84
Jan 24 Tom Shirley, American actor and TV announcer (They're Off), dies at 62

Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1896-1962)

Jan 26 Italian-American gangster of the New York mafia, dies of a heart attack at 65

Jan 26 Fran Lhotka, Czech composer, dies at 78
Jan 27 Percy LeSueur, Canadian hockey goaltender (inventor large goalie glove & LeSueur net), dies at 80
Jan 29 Friedrich-Max "Fritz" Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen), dies at 86
Jan 30 Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
Feb 3 Werner Bock, German writer, dies at 68
Feb 5 Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71
Feb 7 Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (b. 1886)
Feb 9 Harriet Ware (Krumbhaar), American concert pianist, composer (Women's Triumphal March; The Rose Is Red; The Varying Shore), and music educator, dies at 84
Feb 10 Willem Paerels, Dutch-Belgian painter and graphic artist, dies at 83
Feb 15 Vladimir Sokoloff, Russian actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72
Feb 17 Bruno Walter, German-French opera and symphony conductor (Vienna Philharmonic; NY Philharmonic), dies at 85
Feb 17 Joseph Kearns, American actor (George-Dennis the Menace), des at 55
Feb 19 Albert Elkus, American composer, dies at 77

Georgios Papanicolaou (1883-1962)

Feb 19 Greek-American doctor, cytopathologist, and inventor of the Pap smear, dies at 78

Feb 19 James Barton, American actor (Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh), dies at 71
Feb 20 Halliwell Hobbes, British actor (Gaslight, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 84
Feb 25 Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist and historian, dies at 81
Feb 26 Carl Ehrenberg, German composer, kapellmeister, and pedagogue, dies at 83
Feb 27 Willie Best, actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45
Feb 28 Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, American comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
Mar 1 Roscoe Ates, American actor (Freaks, Cimarron, Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies of lung cancer at 67
Mar 2 Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (Prime number theorem), dies at 95
Mar 2 Walt Kiesling, American Pro Football Hall of Fame guard (NFL 1920s All-Decade Team; First-team All-Pro 1929, 30, 32; Chicago Cardinals) and coach (Pittsburgh Pirates/Steelers), dies from bacteremia at 58
Mar 3 Cairine Ray Wilson, Canadian politician and diplomat (1st woman appointed to Canadian senate 1930), dies at 77 [1]
Mar 4 Cairine R. Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77
Mar 4 George Mogridge, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1924 Washington Senators; no-hitter 1917 NY Yankees), dies at 73
Mar 5 Anne Cornelis Veth, Dutch cartoonist and art critic, dies at 82
Mar 5 Otakar Jeremias, composer, dies at 69
Mar 6 Rezső Kókai, Hungarian pianist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue, dies at 56
Mar 8 Howard Engstrom, American computer designer (co-creator Univac computer), dies at 59
Mar 9 Howard Engstrom, Boston, a designer of Univac computer, dies at 59
Mar 11 Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79
Mar 15 Sam Wren, American actor (Marked Woman, The Old Grey Mayor), dies at 65
Mar 16 John Owen Jones, Welsh organist, violist, and composer, dies at 85
Mar 17 Frank Orth, American actor (Boston Blackie, Brothers), dies at 82
Mar 17 Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian integral geometer, dies at 76
Mar 18 Walter W. Bacon, Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
Mar 19 Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist, dies at 89

A. E. Douglass (1867-1962)

Mar 20 American astronomer and inventor of dendrochronology (tree-ring dating), dies at 94

Mar 20 C. Wright Mills, American sociologist and writer (The Power Elite), dies at 45
Mar 22 Aura Abranches, Portuguese actress (Lisboa; O Primo Basilio), dies at 65
Mar 23 Josef van Schaik, Dutch lawyer and politician (Vice-Premier of Netherands), dies at 80
Mar 23 Val Paul, American actor and director (Suspense, The Phantom Thief), dies at 75
Mar 24 (John) Jean Goldkette, French jazz pianist and bandleader, dies of a heart attack at 69
Mar 25 Auguste Piccard, Swiss scientist, explorer and balloonist (1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon), dies at 78
Mar 26 Augusta Savage (née Fells), African-American sculptor and equal rights advocate, dies of cancer at 72 [1]
Mar 26 Marjorie Colton, American inventor of wax paper, dies at 64
Mar 28 Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (b. 1883)
Mar 30 Jack Purvis, American jazz trumpet player and composer, dies at 55
Apr 3 Benny "Kid" Paret, American welterweight boxer, dies after a fight at 24
Apr 3 Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer, dies at 78
Apr 4 James Hanratty, executed at Bedford Prison, England, for the murder of Michael Gregsten (b. 1936)
Apr 9 Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, dies at 70
Apr 10 Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (b. 1886)
Apr 10 Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish visual artist and rock bassist (The Beatles, 1960-61), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 21
Apr 12 Antoine Pevsner, Russian-born French sculptor (Constructivist style), dies at 66
Apr 12 M. Visvesvaraya, Indian civil engineer and statesman (19th Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom), dies at 100
Apr 12 Ron Flockhart, Scottish auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1956, 57), dies in plane accident at 38
Apr 13 Culbert Olson, American lawyer and politician (Gov-D-Cal), dies at 85
Apr 15 Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician (Mayor of Manila, 1952-62), dies of a stroke at 49
Apr 15 Clara Blandick [Clara Blanchard Dickey], American stage and screen character actress (Tom Sawyer; Huckleberry Finn; Wizard of Oz), commits suicide at 85
Apr 15 Esther Minciotti, Italian actress, dies at 73
Apr 17 Louise Fazenda, American vaudeville, and silent and sound screen actress (Mack Sennett comedies), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 66
Apr 20 Artúr Harmat, Hungarian composer, dies at 76
Apr 20 Jesse G. Vincent, American engineer (designed 1st V-12 engine, Packard automobiles) dies at 82
Apr 21 Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies
Apr 22 Solomon Pimsleur, French composer, dies at 61
Apr 22 Vera Reynolds, American actress (Dragnet Patrol, Lawless Woman), dies at 62
Apr 27 A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman, dies at 88
May 5 Ernest Tyldesley, English cricket batsman (14 Tests, 3 x 100, 6 x 50, HS 138; Lancashire CCC), dies at 73
May 7 Jimmy Conlin, American actor (Sin of Harold Diddlebock), dies at 77

Hans Luther (1885-1962)

May 11 German politician and German Chancellor (1925-26), dies at 83

May 12 Dick Calkins, American comic strip artist and co-author of Buck Rogers), dies at 67
May 12 Eugene Sullivan, American chemist and inventor (PYREX® Glass), dies at 90 [1]
May 13 Frank Jenks, American stage and screen actor (Colonel Flack, Zombies on Broadway), dies of cancer at 59
May 13 Franz Kline, American abstract expressionist painter, dies of heart failure at 51
May 13 H. Trendley Dean, American dental surgeon who introduced fluoridation into water, dies from complications of asthma and emphysema at 68
May 14 Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
May 19 Gabriele Münter, German expressionist painter
May 26 Jules Van de Leene, Belgian painter, dies at 75
May 26 Wilfrid Wilson, British Georgian poet (Flannan Isle), dies at 73
May 27 Egon Petri, Dutch classical pianist, dies at 81
May 28 Jesse Crawford, American pianist, theatre organist for silent films, and recording artist, dies at 66
May 31 Eduardo Toldrà, Spanish Catalan composer and conductor, dies at 67
May 31 Henry F. Ashurst, American Democratic politician (U.S. Senator from Arizona), dies at 87

Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962)

Jun 1 German Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmbannführer, Holocaust organizer), hanged in Israel at 56

Jun 2 Fran Saleški Finžgar, Slovene folk writer (Our Blood, Service Girls), dies at 91
Jun 2 Vita Sackville-West, English novelist, poet (The Land) and gardener (Sissinghurst), dies at 70
Jun 4 Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (NBC Radio; RKO newsreels), dies at 79
Jun 4 William Beebe, American biologist and explorer, dies at 84
Jun 6 Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, American actor (Hoedown, Country Fair, Blackmail), dies of poisoning at 63
Jun 6 Yves Klein, French sculptor and painter, dies at 34
Jun 9 Henry Kendall, British director and actor (Amazing Quest, Shadow, Rich & Strange), dies from a heart attack at 65
Jun 12 John Ireland, English composer and pianist (Epic March), dies at 82
Jun 13 Eugene Goossens, British conductor and composer (Perseus), dies at 69
Jun 14 Anna Sleasers, American murder victim (first Boston Strangler victim) killed in her apartment at 55
Jun 14 Mykhaylo Verikivsky, Ukrainian composer, dies at 65
Jun 15 Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist and teacher, dies at 84
Jun 16 Hans Kirk, Danish writer (The Fishermen), dies at 64
Jun 18 George Sargent, English golfer (US Open 1909), dies at 79
Jun 18 Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor and composer (Bruckner), dies at 82
Jun 19 Frank Borzage, American director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69
Jun 19 Will Wright, American actor (Adam's Rib, Living Christ Story), dies of cancer at 68
Jun 24 Lucile Watson, Canadian actress (Great Lie, Model Wife, Florian), dies at 83
Jun 25 Ephraim Lisitsky, American Hebrew poet, dies (b. 1885)
Jun 27 Paul Viiding, Estonian poet, dies at 58

Jun 28 American Baseball HOF catcher (MLB All-Star 1934, 35; World Series 1929, 30, 35; AL MVP 1928, 34; Philadelphia A's, Detroit Tigers) and manager (Detroit Tigers 1934–38), dies of lymphatic cancer at 59

Jun 30 Caspar Neher, Austrian-German set designer and librettist, dies at 65
Jul 4 Rex Bell [George Francis Beldam], American cowboy actor (Cowboys & Injuns) and 21st Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, dies from a heart attack at 58
Jul 6 Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal, dies at 89
Jul 6 George, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, dies at 63

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

Jul 6 American author (As I Lay Dying, Nobel Prize for Literature 1949), dies at 64

Jul 8 Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897)

Owen D. Young (1874-1962)

Jul 11 American industrialist (RCA) and diplomat (Young Plan), dies at 87

Jul 12 Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader ("I'm Sitting On Top Of The World"), and aviator, dies of a heart attack at 54
Jul 16 Jan Romein, Dutch historian and author (Low Countries by the Sea; Erflaters - both written with his wife Annie), dies at 68
Jul 20 André Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51
Jul 20 George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86
Jul 21 G. M. Trevelyan [George Macaulay Trevelyan], British historian and academic, dies at 86
Jul 24 Victor Moore, American comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch), dies of a heart attack at 86
Jul 25 Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1879)
Jul 27 Conrad Elvehjem, American biochemist and nutrition scientist (discovered niacin), dies at 61
Jul 27 Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies
Jul 27 James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1895)
Jul 27 Richard Adlington, writer, dies at 70
Jul 30 Myron McCormick, American actor (China Girl, Jigsaw), dies of cancer at 54
Aug 1 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62

Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)

Aug 4 American actress (Some Like It Hot; The Seven Year Itch), found dead of an apparent self-inflicted drug overdose at 36

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Aug 9 German-Swiss novelist and poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize for Literature 1946), dies at 85

Aug 9 Lowell Stockman, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon, dies at 61
Aug 10 Ted Husing, American sportscaster (Monday Night Fights CBS), dies at 60
Aug 14 June Richmond, American jazz singer (Jimmy Dorsey; Cab Calloway; Andy Kirk - "Hey Lawdy Mama"), dies of a heart attack at 47 [1]
Aug 15 Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (became a propaganda icon after his death), dies in an accident at 21
Aug 17 Peter Fechter, East German bricklayer who was shot trying to cross the Berlin Wall at 18
Aug 18 Cleo Ridgely, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama), dies at 68
Aug 19 Kerstin Hesselgren, Swedish politician, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90
Aug 23 Edmund "Hoot" Gibson, American rodeo champion, western actor, director, and producer (Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw), dies from cancer at 70
Aug 23 Irving Fine, American composer (Toccata), dies of heart disease at 47
Aug 23 Walter Anderson, German folklorist, dies at 76
Aug 24 Henry George Ley, British organist, and choral composer, dies at 74
Aug 27 Carlos Lavín, Chilean composer (Lamentaciones Huiliches), and ethnomusicologist, dies at 79
Sep 1 Anton Mauve (Jr), Dutch painter, dies at 63
Sep 2 William Wilkerson, Founder of the Hollywood Reporter, The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas and nightclubs such as Ciro's (b. 1890)
Sep 3 E. E. Cummings [Edward Estlin], American poet (Tulips & Chimneys), dies at 67
Sep 4 William Clothier, American tennis player (US Nat C'ships 1906; 1st President International Hall of Fame 1954), dies at 80
Sep 5 Gertrude E. Durden Rush, American composer and playwright (Black Girls Burden). dies at 82
Sep 6 Hanns Eisler, Austrian composer (East German National Anthem), dies at 64
Sep 6 Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
Sep 7 Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese historical novelist, dies at 70
Sep 7 Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen-Finecke], Danish baroness and writer (Out of Africa), dies at 77
Sep 7 Morris Louis, American painter (post painterly abstraction), dies at 49
Sep 8 Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1953 for polymers), dies at 84
Sep 8 Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer ("Mbube" / "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"), dies of kidney failure at 52 or 53 [birth date uncertain]
Sep 9 Geoffrey Mander, English industrialist (Mander Brothers Ltd.), dies at 80
Sep 9 Pat Rooney, American vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82
Sep 10 Rollin Henry White, American inventor of steam boilers for early automobiles and Cletrac tractors, dies at 90 [1]
Sep 12 William Frederick Archdall Ellison, Irish clergyman and astronomer (director of the Armagh Observatory), dies at 53
Sep 14 Marcel Delannoy, French composer, dies at 64
Sep 16 Saif al-Islam Achmad, monarch of Yemen, dies at about 71
Sep 18 Therese Neumann, German stigma, dies at 64
Sep 19 Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright, dies at 61
Sep 20 Curley Weaver, American blues guitarist, dies of uremia at 56
Sep 27 Francisco Brochado da Rocha, Brazilian professor and politician (Prime Minister of Brazil 1962), dies at 52
Sep 29 Patrick Corry, developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx
Sep 29 Robert Burton, American actor (The Big Heat, Compulsion, A Man Called Peter), dies from cancer at 67
Oct 2 Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
Oct 2 Frank Lovejoy, American actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies from a heart attack at 50
Oct 4 E H (Patsy) Hendren, English cricket batsman (51 Tests, 7 x 100s, HS 205no; 57,611 1st-class runs, 3rd-best ever; Middlesex CCC), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 73
Oct 4 John Lowry, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall), dies at 79
Oct 6 Tod Browning, American film director (Dracula), dies at 82
Oct 7 Maurits Dekker, Dutch novelist and playwright (Merkteken; Boots In Jail), dies at 66
Oct 9 Lulu McConnell, American vaudeville, radio, and television comedienne (It Pays To Be Ignorant), dies at 80
Oct 11 Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg, Austrian botanist who was one of three scientists (also Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns) who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel's work on the laws of genetics, dies at 90
Oct 16 Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (Water & Dreams), dies at 78
Oct 17 (Henry) "Rubberlegs" Williams, American vaudeville dancer, and blues and jazz singer, dies at 55
Oct 17 Natalia Goncharova, Russian avant-garde artist and painter, dies at 81
Oct 22 Dirk Roosenburg, Dutch architect (KLM building and design) dies at 75
Oct 26 Louise Beavers, American actress (Beulah-Beulah), dies at 60