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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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


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