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Famous People Who Died in 1962 (Part 2)

Deaths 201 - 238 of 238

  • Oct 27 Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate (Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi), dies at 58
  • Oct 27 Fatso Marco, American actor and comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
  • Oct 27 Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba
  • Oct 28 Pierre Froidebise, Belgian organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 48
  • Oct 29 Siegfried Salomon, Danish composer, dies at 77
  • Nov 1 Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican auto racer (youngest F1 driver ever to race for Ferrari), dies in practice accident at 20
  • Nov 1 Wintter Haynes Watts, American composer, dies at 78
  • Nov 2 Felice Lattuada, Italian composer and educator (Civica Scuola di Musica, Milan, 1935-62), dies at 80

Harlow Curtice (1893-1962)

Nov 3 President of General Motors (1953-58), dies at 69

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Nov 7 American diplomat (UN Commission on Human Rights), activist and First Lady of the United States (1933-45), dies at 78

  • Nov 11 George Hoyt, American Basketball Hall of Fame referee (author "The Theory and Practice of Basketball Officiating"), dies at 79
  • Nov 11 Joseph Allen Jr, American actor (The Night Before the Divorce, Motor Madness), dies at 44
  • Nov 12 Alexander Spitzmüller, Austrian composer, educator, radio broadcaster, and music critic, dies at 68
  • Nov 12 Sid Tomack, American actor (The Life of Riley, Adventures of Superman), dies from a heart ailment at 55
  • Nov 14 Manuel Gálvez, Argentine novelist (La maestra normal), dies at 80
  • Nov 17 Arthur Vining Davis, American industrialist and CEO (Alcoa-1910-57), dies at 95
  • Nov 18 Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63

Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

Nov 18 Danish physicist who expanded quantum physics (Nobel Prize 1922), dies at 77

  • Nov 20 Jasper McLevy, American politician (Socialist mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1933-57), dies at 84
  • Nov 22 René Coty, French politician and President of France (1954-59), dies at 80 [1]
  • Nov 23 Gloria Gordon, English actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 81
  • Nov 23 H. J. Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62
  • Nov 24 James J Kilroy, American army tank inspector (Kilroy was here), dies at 60
  • Nov 26 Albert Sarraut, French Radical politician, Prime Minister of France (1933 and 1936), dies at 90

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880-1962)

Nov 28 Queen of the Netherlands (1890-1948), dies at 82

  • Nov 29 Rav Aaron Kotler, Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood, New Jersey
  • Nov 30 Max Vasmer, German-Russian linguist (La Tertulia de Pombo), dies at 76
  • Dec 7 Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies at 67
  • Dec 13 Harry Barris, American popular singer, scat vocalist, and songwriter ("Mississippi Mud"), dies at 57

Charles Laughton (1899-1962)

Dec 15 English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63

  • Dec 17 Carl Diem, German sports executive (Sec Gen Organising Committee 1936 Berlin Olympics; creator Olympic torch relay), dies at 80
  • Dec 17 Thomas Mitchell, American Academy Award-winning actor (Gone With The Wind; High Noon), dies of bone cancer at 70
  • Dec 20 Erik William Gustav Leidzen, Swedish American composer, dies at 68
  • Dec 21 Syd Saylor [Leo Sailor], American silent and sound screen character actor (Arizona Days; The Three Mesquiteers), dies of a heart attack at 67
  • Dec 23 George Saiko, Austrian writer, dies at 70
  • Dec 23 Luis Alberni, Spanish character actor (The Lady Eve, Topaze), dies at 76
  • Dec 28 Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)
  • Dec 29 Hans Rosbaud, Austrian conductor (South West German Radio Orchestra, 1948-62), dies at 67