1962

January 1

• Diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at age 76. [1]

January 6

• Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga; Dutch painter (France, North Africa), dies at age 57. [1]

January 9

• LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at age 68. [1]

January 12

• Richard de Guide, composer, dies at age 52. [1]

January 13

• Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West Los Angeles, at age 42. [1]

January 15

• Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at age 62. [1]

January 16

• Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at age 77. [1]

January 17

• Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at age 56. [1]

January 18

• Raymond Moulaert, composer, dies at age 86. [1]

January 19

• Snub Pollard, actor (Limelight, Arizona Days), dies of cancer at age 72. [1]

January 20

• Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at age 75. [1]

January 21

• André Lhote, French painter/art historian, dies at age 76. [1]

January 24

• Tom Shirley, actor/TV announcer (They're Off), dies at age 62. [1]

January 26

• Charles "Lucky" Luciano, New York City, New York Mafia gangster, dies at age 65. [1]
• Fran Lhotka, composer, dies at age 78. [1]

January 29

• Fritz Kreisler, Austria/US violinist/composer, dies at age 86. [1]

January 30

• Two members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act are killed when their 7-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan. [1]

February 3

• Werner Bock, writer, dies. [1]

February 5

• Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at age 71. [1]

February 7

• Arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for England 22-29), dies shovelling snow. [1]

February 10

• Willem Paerels, Netherlands/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at age 83. [1]

February 15

• Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak and Dagger), dies at age 72. [1]

February 17

• Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (New York Philharmonic), dies at age 85. [1]
• Joseph Kearns, actor (George - Dennis the Menace), dies at age 55. [1]

February 19

• Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at age 77. [1]

February 25

• Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist, dies at age 81. [1]

February 26

• Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg, composer, dies at age 83. [1]

February 27

• Willie Best, actor (Charlie - My Little Margie), dies at age 45. [1]

February 28

• Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, comedian (Olsen and Johnson), dies at age 70. [1]

March 1

• Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe - Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at age 70. [1]

March 2

• Charles-Jean baron de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian engineer, dies at age 96. [1]

March 4

• Cairine R Wilson, first Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at age 77. [1]

March 5

• Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at age 82. [1]
• Otakar Jeremias, composer, dies at age 69. [1]

March 6

• Rezso Kokai, composer, dies at age 56. [1]

March 9

• Howard Engstrom of Boston, Massachussettes, USA, a designer of Univac computer, dies at age 59. [1]

March 11

• Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at age 79. [1]

March 15

• Sam Wren, actor (Wren's Nest), dies at age 64. [1]

March 16

• John Owen Jones, composer, dies at age 85. [1]

March 17

• Frank Orth, actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers), dies at age 82. [1]

March 20

• C Wright Mills, US sociologist (Power Elite), dies at age 45. [1]
• Dr Andrew E Douglass, dendrochronologer (study of tree rings) dies. [1]

March 22

• Aura Abranches Port, actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio), dies at age 65. [1]

March 23

• Josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Netherlands, dies at age 80. [1]
• Val Paul, producer (F-Man), dies at age 73. [1]

March 25

• Auguste Piccard, Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at age 78. [1]

March 26

• Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at age 64. [1]

April 3

• Benny "Kid" Paret, US welterweight boxer, dies after fight, at age 24. [1]
• Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer, dies at age 78. [1]

April 6

• J C Heldring, Dutch businessman, dies at age 74. [1]

April 9

• Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, dies at age 70. [1]

April 10

• Stuart Sutcliffe, original Beatles bassist, dies of brain hemorrhage at age 21. [1]

April 20

• Arthur Harmat, composer, dies at age 76. [1]
• Jesse G Vincent, engineer who designed first V-12 engine, dies at age 82. [1]

April 21

• Frederick Handley Page, designer of first big airplane (40 seats), dies. [1]

April 22

• Solomon Pimsleur, composer, dies at age 61. [1]
• Vera Reynolds, actress (Dragnet Patrol, Lawless Woman), dies at age 62. [1]

April 23

• Stirling Moss, auto racer, killed while racing at age 32. [1]

May 5

• Ernest Tyldesley, cricketer (990 runs in 14 Tests for England), dies. [1]

May 7

• Jimmy Conlin dies at age 77. [1]

May 12

• Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at age 67. [1]

May 13

• Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack), dies of cancer at age 60. [1]
• Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter, dies at age 51. [1]
• Death of H Trendley Dean, doctor (introduced fluoridation into water). [1]

May 31

• Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged for crimes against Jews in WWII at Ramie Prison in Israel at age 56. [1]
• Eduardo Toldra, composer, dies at age 67. [1]

June 6

• Guinn Williams, actor (Big Boy - Circus Boy), dies at age 63. [1]

June 13

• Sir Eugene Goossens, composer, dies at age 69. [1]

June 14

• Anna Sleasers is first Boston Strangler victim. [1]

June 19

• Frank Borzage, academy award winning director, dies at age 69. [1]

June 28

• Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher, dies at age 59. [1]

July 4

• Rex Bell, cowboy (Cowboys and Injuns), dies at age 56. [1]

July 6

• William Faulkner, author, inventor of Yoknapatawpha Co, dies at age 64. [1]

August 5

• Marilyn Monroe found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose. [1] [5]

August 10

• Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at age 60. [1]

August 17

• East German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector. [1]

August 19

• Kerstin Hesselgren, first woman in Swedish parliament, dies at age 90. [1]

August 23

• Hoot Gibson, silent screen cowboy actor, dies at age 70. [1]

September 3

• E. E. Cummings, poet, dies at age 67. [1]

September 9

• Pat Rooney, vaudevillian, dies at age 82. [1]

September 27

• Francisco Brochado da Rocha, Prime Minister of Brazil (1962), dies at age 52. [1]

September 29

• Patrick Corry, developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx, New York. [1]

October 2

• Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at age 48. [1]

October 9

• Lulu McConnell, comediene (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at age 80. [1]

October 27

• Fatso Marco, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at age 56. [1]

November 3

• Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-58), dies at age 69. [1]

November 7

• Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady, dies at age 78 in New York City. [1] [5]

November 11

• Rene Coty, President of France, dies at age 80. [1]

November 17

• Arthur Vining Davis, CEO (Alcoa 1910-1957), dies at age 92 in Miami, Florida. [1]

November 18

• Niels Bohr, physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1922, dies at age 77. [1]

November 20

• Jasper McLevy, socialist mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, dies. [1]

November 23

• Gloria Gordon, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at age 81. [1]

November 24

• James J Kilroy, tank inspector (Kilroy was here), dies at age 60. [1]

November 28

• Queen Mother Wilhelmina of Netherlands dies at age 82. [1]

November 29

• Rav Aaron Kotler, Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood, New Jersey. [1]

December 7

• Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies at age 67. [1]

December 12

• Sid Saylor, actor (Wally - Waterfront), dies at age 67. [1]

December 15

• Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at age 63. [1]

December 17

• Thomas Mitchell, American actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at age 70. [1]

December 20

• Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer, dies at age 68. [1]
• Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer, dies at age 75. [1]

December 23

• George Saiko, writer, dies at age 70. [1]
• Luis Alberni, actor (Topaze), dies at age 76. [1]

1963

January 2

• Dick Powell, actor/director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at age 58. [1]
• Jack Carson, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), dies at age 52. [1]

January 3

• Oscar Backing, Austria/Netherlands viola player, dies at age 83. [1]

January 5

• Rogers Hornsby, baseball player, dies of a heart ailment at age 66. [1]

January 6

• Lourens GM Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter, dies at age 68. [1]

January 8

• Stark Young, US writer (So Red the Rose), dies at age 81. [1]

January 10

• Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer, dies at age 66. [1]

January 11

• Arthur D Nock, English/American historian (Saint Paul), dies at age 60. [1]

January 13

• Leonardus G Kortenhorst, Dutch Member of Parliament (KVP), dies at age 76. [1]

January 14

• Gustav Regler, writer, dies at age 64. [1]

January 16

• Gilardo Gilardi, composer, dies at age 73. [1]

January 18

• Johnnie Moyes, journalist/cricketer (South Australian batsman), dies. [1]

January 21

• Al Saint John, actor (Law and Order, Devil Riders), dies at age 70. [1]
• Franz Jung, writer, dies at age 74. [1]

January 25

• Wilson Kettle of Newfoundland, Canada, dies at age 102, leaving 582 living descendents. [1]

January 26

• John Sigvard Olsen, comedian (Olsen and Johnson), dies at age 70. [1]

January 27

• John Farrow, actor/director (Botany Bay), dies at age 58. [1]

January 28

• Jean Felix Piccard, swiss explorer, dies on his 79th birthday. [1]

January 29

• Robert Lee Frost, American poet (New Hampshire, four Pulitzers), dies at age 88. [1] [5]

January 30

• Francis Poulenc, French composer (Litanies à la Vierge Noire), dies at age 74. [1]
• P F "Plum" Warner, cricketer (England manager during Bodyline tour), dies. [1]

February 2

• Herman Bouber [Blom], actor/playwright (Bluejackets), dies at age 77. [1]

February 6

• Mohammed ibn al-Chattabi Abd el-Krim, Morocco opposition leader, dies. [1]
• Werner Erich Josten, German composer (Jungle), dies at age 77. [1]

February 8

• Abdul Karim Kassem, Prime Minister of Iraq (1958-63), assassinated in Baghdad at age 48. [1]
• George Dolenz, Italian actor (Count of Monte Cristo), dies at age 55. [1]

February 13

• Harry Steers, bowling hall of famer, dies. [1]

February 16

• Laszlo Lajtha, composer, dies at age 70. [1]

February 18

• Monte Blue, silent film actor (Apache), dies of heart attack at age 73. [1]
• Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at age 56. [1]

February 26

• Artturi A Leinonen, Finnish journalist/politician (Prophet), dies at age 74. [1]

February 28

• Theodore Newton, actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces), dies at age 58. [1]

March 4

• William Carlos Williams, US physician/poet, dies at age 79. [1] [5]

March 5

• Cyril Smith, actor (Adventures of Sir Lancelot), dies at age 70. [1]
• Hawkshaw Hawkins, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), dies at age 41. [1]
• Patsy Cline, country singer ("Crazy", "I Fall To Pieces"), dies in a plane crash at age 30. [1]

March 6

• Kornelis ter Laan, first Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at age 91. [1]

March 8

• John Hartley, cricketer (bowl average 115 in two Tests for England 1906), dies. [1]

March 11

• Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wickets), dies. [1]

March 17

• William Henry Squire, composer, dies at age 91. [1]

March 20

• Karl Otten, writer, dies at age 73. [1]

March 23

• Davey Moore dies seconds after being knocked-out in feather-weight boxing championship. [1]

March 28

• Alec A Templeton, composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at age 52. [1]

March 29

• Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at age 64. [1]

March 30

• Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer, dies at age 69. [1]

April 4

• Endzion Barelli dies two days after winning a boxing match at age 18. [1]
• Jason Robards Sr, actor (Acapulco), dies at age 70. [1]

April 5

• Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (The Style), dies at age 73. [1]
• Julius Harrison, composer, dies at age 78. [1]

April 8

• Len Tuckett, cricketer (no runs no wickets in 1 Test for South Africa), dies. [1]

April 30

• Bryant Washburn, actor (Nabonga, Millionaire Kid), dies at age 74. [1]

May 2

• Jack Crawford, cricketer (469 runs and 39 wickets in 12 Tests), dies. [1]
• Tomas Vackar, composer, dies at age 17. [1]
• Van Wyck Brooks, US historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at age 77. [1]

May 5

• Heinrich Gebhard, composer, dies. [1]
• Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (Stijl), dies at age 73. [1]

May 6

• Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at age 74. [1]

May 12

• Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer, dies at age 69. [1]

May 24

• Elmore James, blues guitarist, dies at age 45 of a heart attack. [1]

May 26

• Sharon Lynn, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast), dies at age 53. [1]

May 27

• Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered. [1]

May 28

• Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer, dies at age 60. [1]

May 31

• Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art of Ancient Rome), dies at age 63. [1]

June 3

• Paul Maxey, actor (Matt - Lassie, Mayor - People's Choice), dies at age 57. [1]
• Pope John XXIII dies at age 81. [1]

June 7

• Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at age 65. [1]

June 11

• Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon. [1]

June 12

• African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers (age 37) is gunned down in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. [1] [129]

June 20

• Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop - Abbott and Costello), dies at age 52. [1]
• Joseph Self, murderer, executed in Washington state. [1]
• Ralph Sanford, actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at age 64. [1]

June 28

• Frank "Home Run" Baker (hit two home runs in 1911 world series) dies at age 77. [1]

July 4

• Grant Richards, actor (Doug - Doorway to Danger), dies at age 48. [1]

August 10

• Estes Kefauver (Democrat-Senator-Tennessee), dies at age 60. [1]

August 26

• Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger - Mr Ed), dies at age 67. [1]

August 27

• W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at age 95 in Accra, Ghana. [1]

August 30

• Axel Stordahl, orchestra leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at age 50. [1]

August 31

• George F Broque, cubist painter, dies at age 81 in Paris, France. [1]

September 6

• Margarita Sierra, actress, dies at age 26 after heart surgery. [1]

September 15

• Fred Hillebrand, actor (Martin Kane), dies at age 69. [1]

October 24

• Beverly Wills, actress (Beverly - I Married Joan), dies at age 29. [1]

October 29

• Adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at age 73. [1]

October 31

• Henry Daniell, actor (Camille, Body Snatchers), dies at age 69. [1]

November 1

• Elsa Maxwell, writer (Jack Paar Show), dies at age 80. [1]
• Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese Prime Minister, assassinated in a military coup. [1]

November 15

• Fritz Reiner, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), dies at age 74. [1]

November 22

• Aldous Huxley, English novelist (Brave New World), dies. [1]
• C.S. Lewis, English novelist (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), dies. [1]
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the murders of Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit. Vice President Lyndon Johnson is sworn in as the 36th president at 2:39 p.m. [1] [129]

November 24

• Jack Ruby fatally shoots suspected Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at Dallas police headquarters. First live murder on TV. [1] [129]

November 28

• Fred Uttal, TV host (QED), dies at age 55. [1]
• Karyn Kupcinet, actress (Carol - Gertrude Berg Show), murdered at age 23. [1]

December 2

• Sabu Sabu, actor (Jungle Book, Drums), dies of heart attack at age 39. [1]

December 5

• Herbert H Lehman (Governor-Democrat-New York), dies. [1]
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer, dies at age 58. [1]

December 6

• Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philologist (Language Boundary), dies at age 81. [1]

December 9

• Philibert Schmitz, Belgian historian (Order of Saint Benoît), dies at age 75. [1]

December 13

• Hubert Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at age 79. [1]

December 14

• Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at age 39. [1]
• Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD), dies at age 62. [1]

December 18

• Winifried P I Zillig, German composer/conductor (Opfer), dies at age 58. [1]

December 20

• Paul Constantinescu, composer, dies at age 54. [1]

December 21

• Jack Hobbs, cricketer (61 Tests for England), dies. [1]

December 25

• Tristan Tzara, writer, dies at age 67. [1]

December 26

• "Gorgeous George" Wagner, wrestler, dies. [1]

December 28

• Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies. [1]
• Paul Hindemith; German composer (Composer's World), dies at age 68. [1]

December 31

• Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer, dies. [1]