Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Luis Alberni |
Actor |
4-Oct-1886 |
23-Dec-1962 |
Spanish-American character actor |
Richard Aldington |
Poet |
8-Jul-1892 |
27-Jul-1962 |
Death of a Hero |
Victor E. Anderson |
Politician |
30-Mar-1902 |
15-Aug-1962 |
Governor of Nebraska, 1955-59 |
Henry F. Ashurst |
Politician |
13-Sep-1874 |
31-May-1962 |
US Senator from Arizona, 1912-41 |
Roscoe Ates |
Actor |
20-Jan-1895 |
1-Mar-1962 |
The Champ |
Warren R. Austin |
Politician |
12-Nov-1877 |
25-Dec-1962 |
US Senator from Vermont, 1931-46 |
Frank A. Barrett |
Politician |
10-Nov-1892 |
20-May-1962 |
Governor and Senator from Wyoming |
Georges Bataille |
Philosopher |
10-Sep-1897 |
8-Jul-1962 |
Histoire de l'oeil |
Louise Beavers |
Actor |
8-Mar-1902 |
26-Oct-1962 |
She Done Him Wrong |
William Beebe |
Scientist |
29-Jul-1877 |
4-Jun-1962 |
Ocean explorer |
Rex Bell |
Actor |
16-Oct-1903 |
5-Jul-1962 |
Cowboy actor, Nevada politician |
Willie Best |
Actor |
27-May-1913 |
27-Feb-1962 |
Sleep 'n' Eat |
James T. Blair, Jr. |
Politician |
15-Mar-1902 |
12-Jul-1962 |
Governor of Missouri, 1957-61 |
Clara Blandick |
Actor |
4-Jun-1880 |
15-Apr-1962 |
Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz |
Karen Blixen |
Author |
17-Apr-1885 |
7-Sep-1962 |
Babette's Feast and Out of Africa |
Niels Bohr |
Physicist |
7-Oct-1885 |
18-Nov-1962 |
Father of Quantum Theory |
Frank Borzage |
Film Director |
23-Apr-1894 |
19-Jun-1962 |
A Farewell to Arms |
Tod Browning |
Film Director |
12-Jul-1882 |
6-Oct-1962 |
Freaks |
Godfrey Lowell Cabot |
Business |
26-Feb-1861 |
2-Nov-1962 |
Founder of Cabot Corporation |
Dennis Chavez |
Politician |
8-Apr-1888 |
18-Nov-1962 |
US Senator from New Mexico, 1935-62 |
William W. Coblentz |
Astronomer |
20-Nov-1873 |
15-Sep-1962 |
Infrared spectroscopy |
Mickey Cochrane |
Baseball |
6-Apr-1903 |
28-Jun-1962 |
Detroit Tigers catcher |
Arthur H. Compton |
Physicist |
10-Sep-1892 |
15-Mar-1962 |
Discovered the Compton Effect |
e. e. cummings |
Poet |
14-Oct-1894 |
3-Sep-1962 |
Majuscule-challenged American poet |
Harlow Curtice |
Business |
15-Aug-1893 |
3-Nov-1962 |
President of General Motors, 1952-58 |
Michael Curtiz |
Film Director |
24-Dec-1886 |
10-Apr-1962 |
Casablanca |
Clement Davies |
Politician |
19-Feb-1884 |
23-Mar-1962 |
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1945-56 |
Michel de Ghelderode |
Playwright |
3-Apr-1898 |
1-Apr-1962 |
Surrealistic Belgian playwright |
John L. Duvall |
Politician |
29-Nov-1874 |
25-Feb-1962 |
Indianapolis mayor, took Klan bribes |
Adolf Eichmann |
Criminal |
19-Mar-1906 |
31-May-1962 |
Nazi war criminal |
Hanns Eisler |
Composer |
6-Jul-1898 |
6-Sep-1962 |
German radical composer |
William Faulkner |
Author |
25-Sep-1897 |
6-Jul-1962 |
Novels set in the American South |
Louise Fazenda |
Actor |
17-Jun-1895 |
17-Apr-1962 |
The Old Maid |
Ronald Fisher |
Mathematician |
17-Feb-1890 |
29-Jul-1962 |
Analysis of variance and covariance |
Kirsten Flagstad |
Singer |
12-Jul-1895 |
7-Dec-1962 |
Wagnerian soprano |
E. Franklin Frazier |
Sociologist |
24-Sep-1894 |
17-May-1962 |
Black Bourgeoisie |
Assar Gabrielsson |
Business |
13-Aug-1891 |
28-May-1962 |
Co-Founder of Volvo |
Hoot Gibson |
Actor |
6-Aug-1892 |
23-Aug-1962 |
Cowboy star of the 20s and 30s |
Eugene Goossens III |
Conductor |
24-May-1893 |
13-Jun-1962 |
Cincinnati Symphony, 1931-46 |
Trygve Gulbranssen |
Novelist |
1894 |
10-Oct-1962 |
Beyond Sing the Woods |
Patrick Hamilton |
Playwright |
17-Mar-1904 |
23-Sep-1962 |
Gaslight |
Hermann Hesse |
Author |
2-Jul-1877 |
9-Aug-1962 |
Siddhartha |
Halliwell Hobbes |
Actor |
16-Nov-1877 |
20-Feb-1962 |
British-American character actor |
Ralph Hodgson |
Poet |
9-Sep-1871 |
3-Nov-1962 |
The Skylark |
E. F. Hutton |
Business |
7-Sep-1875 |
11-Jul-1962 |
Founder of E. F. Hutton brokerage |
Jacques Ibert |
Composer |
15-Aug-1890 |
5-Feb-1962 |
Escales |
John Ireland |
Composer |
13-Aug-1879 |
12-Jun-1962 |
The Holy Boy |
Irving M. Ives |
Politician |
24-Jan-1896 |
24-Feb-1962 |
US Senator from New York, 1947-59 |
Robinson Jeffers |
Poet |
10-Jan-1887 |
20-Jan-1962 |
Tamar and Other Poems |
Frank Jenks |
Actor |
4-Nov-1902 |
13-May-1962 |
Vaudvillian, character actor |
Joseph Kearns |
Actor |
12-Feb-1907 |
17-Feb-1962 |
Mr. Wilson on Dennis the Menace |
Franz Kline |
Painter |
23-May-1910 |
13-May-1962 |
Abstract expressionist painter |
Ernie Kovacs |
Comic |
23-Jan-1919 |
13-Jan-1962 |
Nairobi Trio |
Fritz Kreisler |
Violinist |
2-Feb-1875 |
29-Jan-1962 |
Austrian violin virtuoso |
Hans Heinrich Lammers |
Government |
27-May-1879 |
4-Jan-1962 |
Chief of the Reich Chancellery |
Lew Landers |
Film Director |
2-Jan-1901 |
16-Dec-1962 |
The Raven |
Charles Laughton |
Actor |
1-Jul-1899 |
15-Dec-1962 |
Island of Lost Souls |
Edward B. Lawson |
Diplomat |
26-Sep-1895 |
19-Nov-1962 |
US Ambassador to Israel, 1954-59 |
Solomon Linda |
Musician |
1909 |
8-Oct-1962 |
Wrote The Lion Sleeps Tonight |
Morris Louis |
Painter |
24-Nov-1912 |
7-Sep-1962 |
Abstract expressionist |
Arthur O. Lovejoy |
Historian |
10-Oct-1873 |
30-Dec-1962 |
The Great Chain of Being |
Frank Lovejoy |
Actor |
28-Mar-1912 |
2-Oct-1962 |
The Hitch-Hiker |
Lucky Luciano |
Criminal |
24-Nov-1897 |
26-Jan-1962 |
Founder of Murder, Inc. |
Mabel Dodge Luhan |
Author |
26-Feb-1879 |
13-Aug-1962 |
Movers and Shakers |
Hans Luther |
Head of State |
10-Mar-1885 |
11-May-1962 |
German Chancellor 1925-26 |
Reginald Mason |
Actor |
27-Jun-1875 |
10-Jul-1962 |
Stage actor |
James P. McGranery |
Government |
8-Jul-1895 |
23-Dec-1962 |
US Attorney General, 1952-53 |
George R. Merrell |
Diplomat |
13-Jul-1898 |
1962 |
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1951-52 |
Emmett Miller |
Singer |
02-Feb-1900 |
29-Mar-1962 |
Minstrel show yodeller |
C. Wright Mills |
Sociologist |
28-Aug-1916 |
20-Mar-1962 |
The Power Elite |
Thomas Mitchell |
Actor |
11-Jul-1892 |
17-Dec-1962 |
Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind |
Marilyn Monroe |
Actor |
1-Jun-1926 |
5-Aug-1962 |
Some Like It Hot |
Victor Moore |
Actor |
24-Feb-1876 |
24-Jul-1962 |
Swing Time |
Donald G. Nutter |
Politician |
28-Nov-1915 |
25-Jan-1962 |
Governor of Montana, 1961-62 |
Joseph C. O'Mahoney |
Politician |
5-Nov-1884 |
1-Dec-1962 |
US Senator from Wyoming, 1934-61 |
Culbert L. Olson |
Politician |
7-Nov-1876 |
13-Apr-1962 |
Governor of California, 1939-43 |
Frank Orth |
Actor |
21-Feb-1880 |
17-Mar-1962 |
Insp. Faraday on Boston Blackie |
George Papanicolaou |
Scientist |
13-May-1883 |
19-Feb-1962 |
Pap smear |
Auguste Piccard |
Physicist |
28-Jan-1884 |
24-Mar-1962 |
First man in the stratosphere |
C. J. Rogers |
Politician |
20-Dec-1897 |
18-May-1962 |
Governor of Wyoming, 1953-55 |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
First Lady |
11-Oct-1884 |
7-Nov-1962 |
First Lady under FDR |
Vita Sackville-West |
Author |
9-Mar-1892 |
2-Jun-1962 |
The Land |
Merrell Q. Sharpe |
Politician |
11-Jan-1888 |
22-Jan-1962 |
Governor of South Dakota, 1943-47 |
Louis Skidmore |
Architect |
8-Apr-1897 |
27-Sep-1962 |
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill |
Forrest Smith |
Politician |
14-Feb-1886 |
8-Mar-1962 |
Governor of Missouri, 1949-53 |
Vladimir Sokoloff |
Actor |
26-Dec-1889 |
15-Feb-1962 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
John H. Stelle |
Politician |
10-Aug-1891 |
5-Jul-1962 |
Governor of Illinois, 1940-41 |
Stuart Sutcliffe |
Musician |
23-Jun-1940 |
10-Apr-1962 |
Briefly a Beatle |
R. H. Tawney |
Scholar |
30-Nov-1880 |
16-Jan-1962 |
The Acquisitive Society |
G. M. Trevelyan |
Historian |
16-Feb-1876 |
21-Jul-1962 |
England under Queen Anne |
Jerry Wald |
Film/TV Producer |
16-Sep-1911 |
13-Jul-1962 |
Peyton Place |
Bruno Walter |
Conductor |
15-Sep-1876 |
17-Feb-1962 |
Conductor, Leipzig Gewandhaus, 1929-33 |
Lucile Watson |
Actor |
27-May-1879 |
24-Jun-1962 |
Watch on the Rhine |
Wilhelmina |
Royalty |
31-Aug-1880 |
28-Nov-1962 |
Queen of the Netherlands, 1890-1948 |
Guinn Williams |
Actor |
26-Apr-1899 |
6-Jun-1962 |
Santa Fe Trail |
Will Wright |
Actor |
26-Mar-1894 |
19-Jun-1962 |
Character actor |