Died in 1962

Yves Klein French Artist June 6
Ralph Hodgson English Poet November 3
Philip Gibbs British Journalist March 10
Owen D. Young American Businessman July 11
Niels Bohr Danish Physicist November 18
Michael Curtiz Hungarian Director April 10
Marilyn Monroe American Actress August 5
Ludwig Bemelmans Austrian Author October 1
Jacques Ibert French Composer February 5
Isak Dinesen Danish Writer September 7
Rene Coty French Statesman November 22
Richard Aldington English Writer July 27
William J. H. Boetcker American Clergyman
William Faulkner American Novelist July 6
William Beebe American Explorer June 4
Warren R. Austin American Politician December 25
Walter Anderson German Writer August 23
Vita Sackville-West English Novelist June 2
Vilhjalmur Stefansson Canadian Explorer August 26
Ronald Fisher English Mathematician July 29
Robinson Jeffers American Poet January 20
Hugh Dalton British Politician February 13
Hu Shih Chinese Philosopher February 24
Hoot Gibson American Actor August 23
Eleanor Roosevelt American First Lady November 7
E. Franklin Frazier American Sociologist May 17
e. e. cummings American Poet September 3
Dennis Chavez American Politician November 18
Charles Laughton English Actor December 15
C. Wright Mills American Sociologist March 20
Bruno Walter German Composer February 17
Arthur Holly Compton American Scientist March 15
Arthur H. Compton American Scientist March 15
Ernie Kovacs American Comedian January 13
Frank Howard Clark American Writer
Hermann Hesse German Novelist August 9
Herman Hesse German Author August 9
Henry F. Ashurst American Politician May 31
Hanns Eisler German Composer September 6
Georges Bataille French Writer July 9
Gaston Bachelard French Philosopher October 16
G. M. Trevelyan English Historian July 21
Fritz Kreisler Austrian Composer January 29
Franz Kline American Artist May 13
Adolf Eichmann German Criminal June 1