From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calendar year
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
1962 .
1962 (
MCMLXII ) was a
common year starting on Monday of the
Gregorian calendar , the 1962nd year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 962nd year of the
2nd millennium , the 62nd year of the
20th century , and the 3rd year of the
1960s decade.
Calendar year
The year saw the
Cuban Missile Crisis , which is often considered the closest the world came to a
nuclear confrontation during the
Cold War .
Events
January
February
February 3 – The
United States embargo against Cuba is announced.
February 4 –
5 – During a
new moon and
solar eclipse , an extremely rare
grand conjunction of the
classical planets occurs (it includes all five of the
naked-eye planets plus the Sun and Moon), all of them within 16° of one another on the
ecliptic . A
total solar eclipse is visible in Asia, Australia and the Pacific Ocean, and is the 49th solar eclipse of
Solar Saros 130 .
February 5 –
French President
Charles de Gaulle calls for
Algeria to be granted independence.
February 7
February 10 – Captured American spy pilot
Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy
Rudolf Abel , in Berlin.
February 11 – The inaugural
24 Hours of Daytona sports car endurance race is run as a 3-hour event, at
Daytona Beach, Florida .
February 12 – Six members of the Committee of 100 of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the U.K. are found guilty of a breach of the
Official Secrets Act .
February 14 –
First Lady
Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the
White House .
February 15 –
Urho Kekkonen is re-elected president of Finland.
February 17 – Heavy storms and high tides result in the
North Sea flood of 1962 on Germany's
North Sea coast, mainly around
Hamburg ; more than 300 people die and thousands lose their homes.
February 18 –
1962 NHRA Winternationals :
Carol Cox becomes the first woman allowed to race at a
National Hot Rod Association national event; she wins in the Super Stock class.
February 20 –
Project Mercury : While aboard
Friendship 7 ,
John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
February 21 –
Margot Fonteyn and
Rudolf Nureyev first dance together in a
Royal Ballet performance of
Giselle , in London.
February 23 :
Friendship 7 inspected by
President Kennedy and Astronaut
John Glenn
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
September 1
A
referendum in Singapore supports the Malayan Federation.
Typhoon Wanda strikes Hong Kong, killing at least 130 and injuring more than 600.
September 2 – The
Soviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba.
September 8 – Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
September 12 – President
John F. Kennedy ,
at a speech at
Rice University , reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
September 19 –
Atlantic College opens its doors for the first time in
Wales , marking the birth of the pioneering United World College educational movement.
[5]
September 21 – A border conflict between China and India erupts into fighting.
September 22 –
Bob Dylan premieres his song "
A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall ", at
Carnegie Hall in New York City.
September 25 –
Sonny Liston knocks out
Floyd Patterson two minutes into the first round of his fight, for the boxing world title in
Chicago .
September 26 – The
North Yemen Civil War erupts.
September 27 – A
flash flood in
Barcelona , Spain, kills more than 440 people.
September 29 – The Canadian
Alouette 1 , the first satellite built outside the United States and the Soviet Union, is launched from
Vandenberg Air Force Base in
California .
October
October 14 : Pictures of Soviet missile silos in Cuba, taken by US spy planes
October 16 – The beginning of the
Cuban Missile Crisis : A
U-2 flight over Cuba in the
Caribbean photographs Soviet
nuclear weapons being installed. A stand-off then ensues for another 12 days, after
President Kennedy is told of the pictures, between the United States and the
Soviet Union , threatening the world with
nuclear war .
October 20 – The
Sino-Indian War , a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (India and the People's Republic of China), begins.
October 22 – Cuban Missile Crisis: In a televised address, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
October 24 – Cuban Missile Crisis: The first confrontation occurs between the U.S. Navy and a Soviet cargo vessel; the vessel changes course.
October 26 –
Spiegel scandal : German police occupy the offices of
Der Spiegel in
Hamburg .
October 27 – Cuban Missile Crisis:
Vasily Arkhipov , executive officer of
Soviet submarine B-59 , refuses to launch nuclear torpedoes against the U.S. Navy. This event is widely regarded to be crucial in averting a worldwide nuclear war.
[7]
October 28
The end of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader
Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In a secret deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev, Kennedy agrees to the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey. The fact that this deal is not made public makes it look as though the Soviets have backed down.[
dubious –
discuss ]
A referendum in France favors the election of the president by universal suffrage.
October 31 – The
United Nations General Assembly asks the United Kingdom to suspend enforcement of the new constitution in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), but it comes into effect on
November 1 .
November
November –
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's
novella
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (
Russian : Оди́н день Ива́на Дени́совича , Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha ), the author's pseudo-autobiographical account of life in the
gulag , is published in
Novy Mir , in an unprecedented acknowledgement of the
Soviet Union 's
Stalinist past.
November –
Slavery in Saudi Arabia is abolished.
November 1
The Soviet Union begins dismantling its missiles in Cuba.
The comic book antihero
Diabolik first appears in Italy.
November 3 – Earliest recorded use of the term "
personal computer ", in the report of a speech by computing pioneer
John Mauchly in
The New York Times .
[8]
November 5
West German defense minister
Franz Josef Strauß is relieved of his duties over the
Spiegel scandal , due to his alleged involvement in police action against the magazine.
Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt, following a period of unrest, partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt.
A coal mining disaster in
Ny-Ålesund kills 21 people; the Norwegian government is forced to resign in the aftermath of this accident, in
August
1963 .
November 6 –
Apartheid : The
United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's
racist
apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
November 17 –
Dulles International Airport , in Washington, D.C., is dedicated by President
John F. Kennedy .
November 20 –
Cuban Missile Crisis : In response to the
Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, President John F. Kennedy ends the blockade of the island.
November 21 – The
Sino-Indian War ends with a Chinese ceasefire.
November 23 –
United Airlines Flight 297 crashes in
Columbia, Maryland , killing all 17 on board.
November 24 – The first episode of
That Was the Week That Was , the groundbreaking satirical comedy program hosted by
David Frost , is broadcast on
BBC Television in the United Kingdom.
November 26
November 27 – French President Charles De Gaulle orders
Georges Pompidou to form a government.
November 29 – An agreement is signed between Britain and France, to develop the
Concorde supersonic airliner.
November 30 – The
United Nations General Assembly elects
U Thant of
Burma , as the new
Secretary-General of the United Nations .
December
December 2 –
Vietnam War : After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President
John F. Kennedy , U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a pessimistic public comment on the war's progress.
December 7 –
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco revises the
principality 's
constitution , devolving some of his formerly autocratic power to several advisory and legislative councils.
December 8
December 9 – Tanganyika (modern-day
Tanzania ) becomes a republic within the
Commonwealth of Nations , with
Julius Nyerere as president.
December 10 –
David Lean 's epic film
Lawrence of Arabia , featuring
Peter O'Toole ,
Omar Sharif ,
Alec Guinness ,
Jack Hawkins and
Anthony Quinn , premieres in London; 6 days later, it opens in the U.S.
December 11
In West Germany, a coalition government of Christian Democrats, Christian Socialists and Free Democrats is formed.
The last execution by hanging is carried out in Canada.
December 14
U.S. spacecraft
Mariner 2 passes by
Venus , becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet.
Leonardo da Vinci 's early 16th-century painting the
Mona Lisa is assessed for insurance purposes at US$100 million before touring the United States for several months, the highest insurance value for a painting in history. However, the
Louvre , its owner, chooses to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.
December 15 – Storm over the
North Sea : Belgian
pirate radio station Radio Uylenspiegel is knocked off the airwaves, never to operate again.
December 19 – Britain acknowledges the right of Nyasaland (modern-day
Malawi ) to secede from the
Central African Federation .
December 24 –
Cuba releases the last 1,113 participants in the
Bay of Pigs Invasion to the U.S., in exchange for food worth $53 million.
December 30
Date unknown
Births
January
Suzy Amis Cameron
Jim Carrey
Abdullah II of Jordan
February
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Axl Rose
Garth Brooks
Eddie Izzard
Sheryl Crow
Lou Diamond Phillips
Steve Irwin
Adam Baldwin
February 1 –
Takashi Murakami , Japanese pop artist
[15]
February 2 –
Kátia Abreu , Brazilian politician
February 5
February 6 –
Axl Rose , American musician, singer/songwriter of
Guns N' Roses
February 7
February 8
February 9
Lolo Ferrari , French actress (d.
2000 )
Zoë Lund , American musician, model, actress, author, producer, political activist, and screenwriter (d.
1999 )
Dennis Padilla , Filipino comedian, TV host, radio broadcaster, and actor
Dany Roland , Argentine-born Brazilian drummer, sound designer, actor, film director, and record producer
February 10
February 11 –
Sheryl Crow , American singer-songwriter
February 12
February 13
February 14 –
Ken Oosterbroek , South African photojournalist (d.
1994 )
February 17
February 19 –
Nabila Khashoggi , American businesswoman, actress, and philanthropist
February 20 –
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro , Brazilian philologist and lexicographer
February 21
February 22
Steve Irwin , Australian zookeeper, television personality, wildlife expert, environmentalist, and conservationist (d.
2006 )
Ethan Wayne , American actor
February 25 –
Birgit Fischer , German kayaker
February 26 –
Domingos Montagner , Brazilian actor, playwright, and entrepreneur (d.
2016 )
February 27
February 28 –
Angela Bailey , Canadian track and field athlete (d.
2021 )
March
Jon Bon Jovi
Matthew Broderick
Rosie O'Donnell
Marcia Cross
MC Hammer
March 2
March 3 –
Jackie Joyner-Kersee , American athlete
[20]
March 6
March 7 –
Taylor Dayne , American singer, songwriter and actress
[23]
March 10
March 11 –
Achmad Yurianto , Indonesian military doctor and bureaucrat (d. 2022).
[26]
March 12 –
Julia Campbell , American actress
March 14 –
Tsvetanka Khristova , Bulgarian athlete (d.
2008 )
[27]
March 16 –
Branco Mello , Brazilian singer, actor and writer
March 17 –
Kalpana Chawla , American astronaut (d.
2003 )
March 19 –
Iván Calderón , Puerto Rican
Major League Baseball player (d.
2003 )
March 20 –
Stephen Sommers , American film director
March 21
March 23
March 25
March 26 –
John Stockton , American basketball player
March 27 –
Jann Arden , Canadian singer
[32]
March 29 –
Ted Failon , Filipino broadcast journalist and radio commentator
March 30
April
Clark Gregg
Hillel Slovak
Jeff Dunham
April 2 –
Clark Gregg , American actor, director, and screenwriter
[33]
April 3 –
Jaya Prada , Indian actress and politician
[34]
April 5 –
Sara Danius , Swedish writer and academic (d.
2019 )
[35]
April 8 –
Izzy Stradlin , American guitarist
[36]
April 9 –
Imran Sherwani , British field hockey player
[37]
April 12 –
Carlos Sainz , Spanish rally driver
[38]
April 13
April 15
April 16 –
Antony Blinken , American diplomat, 71st
United States Secretary of State
April 18 –
Jeff Dunham , American ventriloquist
April 19 –
Al Unser Jr. , American race car driver
April 20
April 21 –
Craig Robinson , American
college basketball coach
April 22
April 23
April 25 –
Flex-Deon Blake , African-American gay pornographic actor (d.
2021 )
April 26
April 29 –
Stephan Burger , German Roman Catholic archbishop
May
Sean McNamara
Emilio Estevez
Craig Ferguson
Genie Francis
Bobcat Goldthwait
May 1 –
Maia Morgenstern , Romanian actress
May 2
May 3 –
Anders Graneheim , Swedish bodybuilder
May 5
May 7 –
Ari Telch , Mexican actor
May 8 –
Natalia Molchanova , Russian free-diver
May 9
May 12 –
Emilio Estevez , American actor
May 13 –
Eduardo Palomo , Mexican actor (d.
2003 )
May 14
May 15 –
Rod Lurie , American-Israeli director
May 16 –
Michele Marziani , Italian novelist and journalist
[43]
May 17
May 18
May 19 –
Frances Ondiviela , Spanish/Mexican actress
May 20
May 21 –
Cam Brainard , American voice actor and narrator
May 22 –
Brian Pillman , American professional wrestler (d.
1997 )
May 24 –
Gene Anthony Ray , American actor (d.
2003 )
May 25 –
Anders Johansson , Swedish drummer
May 26
May 27
May 28
May 30 –
Timo Soini , Finnish politician
May 31
June
Lance Reddick
Arnold Vosloo
Paula Abdul
Viktor Tsoi
Campino
Michael Ball
Bussunda
Ollanta Humala
Jordan Peterson
June 1 –
Sherri Howard , American athlete
June 3 –
David Cole , American record producer and songwriter (d.
1995 )
June 4
June 6 –
Alex Datcher , American actress
June 7
June 8 –
Suzy Gorman , American photographer
June 10
June 11
June 12 –
Jordan Peterson , Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology
June 13
June 14 –
Emilija Erčić , Yugoslav (Serbian) handball player
June 15 –
Andrea Rost , Hungarian lyric soprano
June 16 –
Arnold Vosloo , South African actor
June 17 –
Bap Kennedy , Northern Irish singer-songwriter (d.
2016 )
June 18
June 19 –
Paula Abdul , American dancer, choreographer and singer
June 21
June 22
June 23
June 24
June 25
June 26
June 27
June 29
June 30
July
Andre Braugher
Tom Cruise
Thomas Gibson
Hunter Tylo
Tom Kenny
Aya Kitō
Carlos Alazraqui
Federico Franco
Sergey Kiriyenko
Wesley Snipes
July 1
July 2
July 3 –
Tom Cruise , American actor and film producer
[46]
July 4 –
Pam Shriver , American tennis player
[47]
July 5 –
Amrozi , Indonesian terrorist (d.
2008 )
July 6
July 7
July 8
July 9
July 10
July 11
July 13
July 14
July 15
July 16
July 17 –
Rita Rätsepp , Estonian actress and psychologist
July 18 –
Shaun Micallef , Australian actor, comedian and writer
July 19
July 20
Carlos Alazraqui , American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, singer, impressionist, producer and screenwriter
Abdulai Hamid Charm , Sierra Leonean judge
Primož Ulaga , Yugoslavian/Slovenian ski jumper
Emmanuel Niyonkuru , Burundian politician (d.
2017 )
Chee Soon Juan , Singaporean politician
July 21
July 22
July 23
July 24
July 26
July 28 –
Ray Shero , American hockey manager
July 29
July 30
July 31
August
Rob Minkoff
Steve Carell
Felipe Calderón
James Marsters
David Koechner
David Fincher
Dee Bradley Baker
August 1
August 4
August 5 –
Patrick Ewing , Jamaican-born basketball player
August 6 –
Michelle Yeoh , Malaysian-born Hong Kong actress
August 7 –
Bruno Pelletier , Canadian singer
August 8 –
Yūji Machi , Japanese voice actor
August 10 –
Suzanne Collins , American television writer and author ((
The Hunger Games ))
August 11 –
Rob Minkoff , American filmmaker
August 12 –
Ariel López Padilla , Mexican actor
August 13
August 15 –
Tom Colicchio , American chef
August 16
August 17 –
Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss , German actor and director
August 18
August 19
August 20 –
James Marsters , American actor and musician
August 21
August 23 –
Dean Karnazes , American ultramarathon runner
August 24
August 25 –
Theresa Andrews , American swimmer
[49]
August 26
August 28 –
David Fincher , American director and producer
August 29
August 30 –
Alexander Litvinenko , Russian ex-KGB colonel and ex-FSB lieutenant-colonel (d.
2006 )
August 31
September
Hesham Qandil
Rob Morrow
Nia Vardalos
Melissa Sue Anderson
September 1 –
Ruud Gullit , Dutch footballer
September 2 –
Keir Starmer , British politician,
Leader of the Labour Party and
Leader of the Opposition
September 4 –
Shinya Yamanaka , Japanese physician and researcher
September 8
September 11
September 12 –
Dino Merlin , Bosnian singer-songwriter, musician and producer
September 13 –
Hisao Egawa , Japanese voice actor
September 15 –
François Bloemhof , South African author
September 17
September 19
September 20 –
Vittorio De Angelis , Italian voice actor (d.
2015 )
September 21 –
Rob Morrow , American actor
September 22 –
Martin Crowe , New Zealand cricketer (d.
2016 )
September 24
September 25
September 26
September 27 – Dale, Spearhead of Biological Containment Technology (manufacturing lead)
September 28 –
Grant Fuhr , Canadian hockey player
September 30 –
Frank Rijkaard , Dutch football player and manager
October
Jeff Bennett
Joan Cusack
Branko Crvenkovski
Flea
Mike Judge
Evander Holyfield
Bob Odenkirk
Cary Elwes
October 1
October 2
October 3 –
Tommy Lee , American rock musician and drummer
October 5 –
Michael Andretti , American race car driver
October 11 –
Joan Cusack , American actress and comedian
October 12
October 13
October 14
October 16
October 17 –
Mike Judge , American actor, voice actor, animator, writer, producer, director and musician
October 18
October 19
October 20 –
Anatoly Khrapaty , Soviet Olympic weightlifter (d.
2008 )
October 21 –
Miki Itō , Japanese voice actress
October 22 –
Bob Odenkirk , American actor and comedian
[56]
October 24 –
Jay Novacek , American football player
October 25
October 26
October 27
October 28 –
Daphne Zuniga , American actress
October 29 –
Debra Sandlund , American actress
October 30
November
Demi Moore
Harland Williams
Jodie Foster
Nicolás Maduro
Jon Stewart
Andrew McCarthy
November 1
November 3
November 6
November 7 –
Bettina Hoy , German equestrienne
November 9 –
Dolores Delgado , Spanish politician and prosecutor
November 11
November 12
November 13 –
Steve Altes , American humorist
November 14
November 15
November 17 –
Jamie Moyer , American baseball player
November 18 –
Kirk Hammett , American guitarist (
Metallica )
November 19 –
Jodie Foster , American actress and director
[57]
November 21 –
Steven Curtis Chapman , American
Christian musician
November 22 –
Sumi Jo , Korean operatic soprano
November 23
November 24 –
John Kovalic , American cartoonist
November 27
November 28
November 29 –
Andrew McCarthy , American actor
November 30
December
Felicity Huffman
Ben Browder
Ralph Fiennes
December 1
December 3 –
Tammy Jackson , American basketball player
December 5 –
José Cura , Argentine tenor
[59]
December 6 –
Janine Turner , American actress
December 9
December 10
December 11
December 12
December 14 –
Yvonne Ryding , Swedish pageant winner (
Miss Universe
1984 )
December 16 –
Maruschka Detmers , Dutch actress
December 17
December 18 –
James Sie , American actor and voice actor
December 21 –
Steven Mnuchin , 77th
United States Secretary of the Treasury
December 22
December 23 –
Keiji Mutoh , Japanese professional wrestler
December 24 –
Kate Spade , American fashion designer (d.
2018 )
December 25
December 27
December 28
December 29 –
Carles Puigdemont , Spanish politician
December 30 –
Alessandra Mussolini , Italian politician
December 31 –
Pedro Cardoso , Brazilian actor, screenwriter, playwright and television director
Unknown date
Deaths
January
Ernie Kovacs
January 1 –
Diego Martínez Barrio , Spanish politician, 2-time
Prime Minister of Spain (b.
1883 )
January 4 –
Hans Lammers , German Nazi minister (b.
1879 )
January 6 –
Marziyya Davudova , Soviet actress (b.
1901 )
January 13 –
Ernie Kovacs , American TV comedian (b.
1919 )
[62]
January 16
January 17 –
Gerrit Achterberg , Dutch poet (b.
1905 )
[64]
January 19 –
Snub Pollard , American actor (b.
1889 )
January 20 –
Robinson Jeffers , American poet (b.
1887 )
[65]
January 21 –
Arturo Bragaglia , Italian actor (b.
1893 )
January 26 –
Lucky Luciano , American gangster (b.
1897 )
January 29 –
Fritz Kreisler , Austrian violinist (b.
1875 )
[66]
February
Roy Atwell
Hu Shih
February 1 –
Carey Wilson , American screenwriter (b.
1889 )
February 2 –
Shlomo Hestrin , Canadian-born Israeli biochemist (b.
1914 )
February 4 –
Daniel Halévy , French historian (b.
1872 )
February 5
February 6
February 10 –
Eduard von Steiger , Swiss politician, 51st
President of the Swiss Confederation (b.
1881 )
February 11 –
Indalecio Prieto , Spanish Socialist politician (b.
1891 )
February 13 –
Hugh Dalton , British Labour politician (b.
1887 )
February 17
February 19
February 20 –
Halliwell Hobbes , English-born film actor (b.
1877 )
February 24 –
Hu Shih , Chinese philosopher (b.
1891 )
February 25 –
Antonina De Angelis , Italian
Roman Catholic professed sister and blessed (b.
1880 )
February 27 –
Willie Best , American actor (b.
1916 )
February 28 –
Chic Johnson , American actor (b.
1891 )
March
Arthur Compton
Auguste Piccard
April
Benny Paret
Louise Fazenda
April 1 –
Jussi Kekkonen , Finnish major (b.
1910 )
April 3 –
Benny Paret , Cuban welterweight boxer (died as result of
injuries in the ring ; b.
1937 )
April 4 –
James Hanratty , English murderer, one of the last people to be hanged in the UK (b.
1936 )
[69]
April 5 –
Käte Selbmann , German politician (b.
1906 )
[70]
April 8 –
Juan Belmonte , Spanish bullfighter (b.
1892 )
April 10
April 14 –
M. Visvesvaraya , Indian engineer and politician (b.
1861 )
April 15
April 17 –
Louise Fazenda , American actress (b.
1895 )
April 20 –
Grover Whalen , American politician (b.
1886 )
April 21 – Sir
Frederick Handley Page , English aircraft manufacturer (b.
1885 )
April 22 –
Vera Reynolds , American actress (b.
1899 )
April 24 –
Milt Franklyn , American film composer (b.
1897 )
April 27 –
Josefa Toledo de Aguerri , Nicaraguan pioneer educator (b.
1866 )
April 28 –
Gianna Beretta Molla , Italian
Roman Catholic pediatrician and saint (b.
1922 )
April 29 –
Hajime Tanabe , Japanese philosopher (b.
1885 )
May
Pedro Pablo Ramírez
May 3 –
Helen Dortch Longstreet , American social advocate, librarian, and newspaper woman (b.
1863 )
[71]
May 5 –
Ernest Tyldesley , English cricketer (b.
1889 )
May 10 –
Shunroku Hata , Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army (b.
1879 )
May 12 –
Pedro Pablo Ramírez , Argentine military general, 26th
President of Argentina , leader of the
World War II (b.
1884 )
May 13
May 19 –
Gabriele Münter , German painter (b.
1877 )
[72]
May 23 –
Rubén Jaramillo , peasant leader assassinated by the
Mexican Army (b. 1900)
[73]
May 26 –
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson , English poet (b.
1878 )
[74]
May 27 –
Egon Petri , German pianist (b.
1881 )
[75]
May 31 –
Henry F. Ashurst , American politician (b.
1874 )
[76]
June
Eugeniusz Baziak
June 1 –
Adolf Eichmann , German SS officer and a major organiser of the Holocaust (executed) (b.
1906 )
[77]
June 2 –
Vita Sackville-West , English writer and landscape gardener (b.
1892 )
[78]
June 4 –
Charles William Beebe , American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist and entomologist (b.
1877 )
June 6
June 7 –
Korneli Kekelidze , Georgian philologist (b.
1879 )
June 8 –
Eugène Freyssinet , French civil engineer (b.
1879 )
June 12 –
John Ireland , English composer (b.
1879 )
June 13 –
Sir Eugene Goossens , English composer (b.
1893 )
[79]
June 15
June 16 –
Aleksei Antonov , General of the Soviet Army (b.
1896 )
June 19
June 24 –
Lucile Watson , Canadian actress (b.
1879 )
June 25 –
Sir Raymond Leane , Australian army general (b.
1878 )
June 27 –
Paul Viiding , Estonian poet, author and literary critic (b.
1904 )
June 28 –
Mickey Cochrane , American baseball player (
Philadelphia Athletics ) and a member of the
MLB Hall of Fame (b.
1903 )
June 29 –
Charles Lyon Chandler , American historian (b. 1883)
[80]
July
William Faulkner
Denjirō Ōkōchi
July 1 –
Bidhan Chandra Roy , Indian physician and politician,
Chief Minister of West Bengal (b.
1882 )
July 2
July 4 –
Rex Bell , American actor and politician (b.
1903 )
July 6
July 8 –
Georges Bataille , French writer and philosopher (b.
1897 )
July 10 –
Yehuda Leib Maimon , Bassarabian-born Israeli rabbi and government minister (b.
1875 )
July 11 –
Owen D. Young , American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat (b.
1874 )
July 12 –
Roger Wolfe Kahn , American band leader (b.
1907 )
July 13 –
Jerry Wald , American screenwriter and producer (b.
1911 )
July 18 –
Denjirō Ōkōchi , Japanese actor (b.
1898 )
July 21 –
G. M. Trevelyan , English historian (b.
1876 )
July 23 –
Victor Moore , American actor (b.
1876 )
July 26
July 27 –
Richard Aldington , English poet (b.
1892 )
July 29
July 30 –
Myron McCormick , American actor (b.
1908 )
August
Marilyn Monroe
Hermann Hesse
August 4 –
Marilyn Monroe , American actress (b.
1926 )
August 5 –
Ramón Pérez de Ayala , Spanish writer and diplomat (b.
1880 )
August 6
August 9 –
Hermann Hesse , German-born writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1877 )
[82]
August 15 –
Lei Feng , Chinese soldier (b.
1940 )
August 18 –
Cleo Ridgely , American actress (b.
1893 )
August 19 –
Jean Lucienbonnet , French racing driver (b.
1923 )
August 21 –
Ahmad Ibrahim , Malaysian-born Singaporean politician (b.
1927 )
August 22 –
Charles Rigoulot , French Olympic weightlifter (b.
1903 )
August 23
August 24 –
Mykolas Biržiška , Lithuanian politician (b.
1882 )
August 26 –
Dušan Simović , Yugoslav general, 18th
Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b.
1882 )
August 27 –
Leopoldo Panero , Spanish poet (b.
1909 )
August 28 –
John Collum , American actor (b.
1926 )
August 29 –
Georgina de Albuquerque , Brazilian painter (b.
1885 )
August 31 –
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski , Prime Minister of Poland (b.
1885 )
September
Ahmad bin Yahya
Ouyang Yuqian
September 1 –
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim , German general (b.
1889 )
[83]
September 3 –
E. E. Cummings , American poet (b.
1894 )
September 4
September 5 –
Roy MacNairy , English cricketer (b.
1904 )
September 6 –
Hanns Eisler , Austrian composer (b.
1898 )
September 7
September 11 –
Kenkichi Ueda , Japanese general (b.
1875 )
September 12 –
Wiktor Thommée , Polish general (b.
1881 )
September 19
September 20 –
Conrad Helfrich , Dutch admiral (b.
1886 )
September 21 –
Ouyang Yuqian , Chinese playwright, director and Peking opera performer (b.
1889 )
September 23
September 26 –
Francisco de Paula Brochado da Rocha ,
Prime Minister of Brazil (b.
1910 )
October
Henri Oreiller
Gaston Bachelard
October 1 –
Ludwig Bemelmans , Austro-Hungarian born American writer (b.
1898 )
October 2
October 6 –
Tod Browning , American film director (b.
1880 )
October 7 –
Henri Oreiller , French Olympic alpine skier (b.
1925 )
October 8 –
Solomon Linda , South African singer-songwriter (b.
1909 )
October 9 –
Milan Vidmar , Slovenian chess player (b.
1885 )
October 10 –
Stancho Belkovski , Bulgarian architect and lecturer (b.
1891 )
October 11 –
Erich von Tschermak , Austrian agronomist (b.
1871 )
October 12 –
Alberto Teisaire , Argentine Navy officer and
Vice President of the Republic (assassinated) (b.
1891 )
October 14 –
Irma Gramatica , Italian actress (b.
1870 )
October 16
October 17 –
Natalia Goncharova , Russian artist (b.
1881 )
October 20 –
Jesús Herrera , Spanish international footballer (b.
1938 )
October 26 –
Louise Beavers , American actress (b.
1902 )
October 27
October 31 –
Louis Massignon , French Catholic scholar of Islam (b.
1883 )
November
Eleanor Roosevelt
Niels Bohr
November 7 –
Eleanor Roosevelt , American politician, diplomat and activist,
First Lady of the United States (b.
1884 )
November 8 –
Willis H. O'Brien , American
stop motion animator (b.
1886 )
[85]
November 14
November 15 –
Irene (costume designer) , American costume designer (b.
1901 )
November 18
November 19 –
Francisco Tudela y Varela , 68th Prime Minister of Peru (b.
1876 )
November 21 –
Frank Amyot , Canadian canoeist (b. 1904)
November 22 –
René Coty , 17th
President of France (b.
1882 )
November 23 –
Grace Butler , New Zealand artist (b.
1886 )
November 25 –
Forrest Smithson , American Olympic athlete (b.
1884 )
November 26
November 28
November 29 –
Erik Scavenius , 12th
Prime Minister of Denmark (b.
1877 )
November 30 –
Joseph Lade Pawsey , Australian radio astronomer (b.
1908 )
December
Ahmad Nami
Kazimierz Świtalski
December 6 –
Harry Bauler , American politician (b.
1910 )
December 7 –
Kirsten Flagstad , Norwegian soprano (b.
1895 )
[86]
December 13
December 14 –
Alfredo Kindelán , Spanish general and politician (b.
1879 )
December 15 –
Charles Laughton , English actor and director (b.
1899 )
December 16 –
Lew Landers , American TV and film director (b.
1901 )
December 17 –
Thomas Mitchell , American actor (b.
1892 )
December 18 –
Garrett Mattingly , American historian (b.
1900 )
December 20 –
Emil Artin , Austrian mathematician (b.
1898 )
December 21 –
Gary Hocking , Rhodesian motorcycle racer (b.
1937 )
December 23 –
José Giral , Spanish politician, former
Prime Minister (b.
1879 )
December 24
December 26 –
Calcedonio Di Pisa , Italian criminal (b.
1931 )
December 28 –
Kazimierz Świtalski , Polish diplomat, politician, soldier and military officer, 18th
Prime Minister of Poland (b.
1886 )
December 30 –
Arthur Lovejoy , American philosopher and historian (b.
1873 )
Date unknown
Nobel Prizes
References
^ Mao, Sheng (2018).
"More Than a Famine: Mass Exodus of 1962 in Northwest Xinjiang" . China Review . 18 (2): 155–184.
ISSN
1680-2012 .
JSTOR
26435651 .
^
Election Archives and International Politics . Shiv Lal. 1992. p. 113.
^ Scutts, Colin (1976). Helicopter Gunships . Marshall Cavendish Ltd. p. 2.
^ Romsenter, Norsk.
"Norge som romnasjon" . Norsk Romsenter (in Norwegian). Retrieved March 12, 2020 .
^
"UWC Atlantic College" . Retrieved December 16, 2015 .
^
New Musical Express September 21, 1962.
^
"The Story of the Soviet Submarine Officer Who Saved the World Is Now an Opera" . www.vice.com . September 23, 2022. Retrieved September 30, 2022 .
^ "Pocket Computer May Replace Shopping List". The New York Times . November 3, 1962.
^
"MINISTRE DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE ET DE I'INNOVATION TECHNOLOGIQUE" . gouv.cf . Central African Government. Retrieved April 16, 2024 .
^ Ling, Dave (March 2008). "Peter Steele".
Metal Hammer (July 2010).
Future : 44–46.
^
"UPI Almanac for Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019" .
United Press International . January 5, 2019.
Archived from the original on January 5, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2019 . actor Suzy Amis in 1962 (age 57)
^ Friedman, Ian A. (2007).
Latino Athletes . Facts On File. p. 195.
ISBN
9781438107844 . Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^
"Olga Tokarczuk" . nobelprize.org . Retrieved May 18, 2022 .
^ Services, Staff Reports and News.
"Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher who raped and married student, dies at 58" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
^ Naka, Kimiyo (2023).
"Takashi Murakami : Japanese artist and entrepreneur" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved May 16, 2023 .
^
"Olympedia – Jackie Silva" . Olympedia.
^ Max, D. T. (2012). Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace . Granta Books. p. 301.
ISBN
978-1-84708-494-1 .
^ Rodale, Inc. (August 2008).
Best Life . Rodale, Inc. p. 78.
^
The Sporting News Hockey Register, 1985-1986 . Sporting News Publishing Company. December 1985. p. 308.
ISBN
978-0-89204-197-8 .
^
"Jackie Joyner" . IOC . Retrieved March 18, 2021 .
^
"Մահացել է Ռիտա Սարգսյանը" . Armenia Today (in Armenian). November 20, 2020. Retrieved November 20, 2020 .
^
"Erika Hess" . IOC . Retrieved March 18, 2021 .
^ Whitburn, J. (2006).
The Billboard Book of Top 40 R & B and Hip-hop Hits . Billboard.
ISBN
9780823082834 . Retrieved January 31, 2015 .
^ Leszczak, Bob (2001).
From Small Screen to Vinyl: A Guide to Television Stars Who Made Records . Rowman & Littlefield.
ISBN
9781442242746 . Retrieved September 24, 2017 .
^ M. Kelley Hunter (July 3, 2005).
Living Lilith . The Wessex Astrologer. p. 10.
ISBN
978-1-902405-89-6 .
^ Afifa, Laila (May 21, 2022).
"Former Spokesperson for Covid-19 Task Force Achmad Yurianto Passes Away" . Tempo .
^
"Tsvetanka Khristova" . IOC . Retrieved March 18, 2021 .
^ Paul T. Hellmann (February 14, 2006).
Historical Gazetteer of the United States . Routledge. p. 781.
ISBN
1-135-94859-3 .
^
"Rosie O'Donnell Biography" .
Biography.com (
FYI /
A&E Television Networks ).
Archived from the original on April 28, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2014 .
^ Pipes, Daniel (1996).
Syria Beyond the Peace Process . Daniel Pipes.
ISBN
9780944029640 .
^ Clifford Thompson (2001).
Current Biography Yearbook 2000: With Index 1991-2000 . Hw Wilson Company. p. 460.
ISBN
978-0-8242-1004-5 .
^ kleurvision (March 11, 2016).
"Past, Present and Future of Canada's Jann Arden" . Rock.It Boy Entertainment . Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
^ John Willis; Tom Lynch (2002).
Theatre World 1998-1999 . Hal Leonard. p. 230.
ISBN
978-1-55783-433-1 .
^
"Detailed Profile - Smt. P. Jaya Prada Nahata - Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha) - Who's Who" . archive.india.gov.in .
Archived from the original on June 30, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2016 .
^
"Sara Danius, 57, Dies; First Woman to Head Nobel Literature Committee" . New York Times . October 17, 2019. Retrieved March 18, 2021 .
^ Britannica Educational Publishing (December 1, 2012).
Disco, Punk, New Wave, Heavy Metal, and More: Music in the 1970s and 1980s . Britannica Educational Publishing. p. 42.
ISBN
978-1-61530-912-2 .
^
"Imran Sherwani" . IOC . Retrieved March 18, 2021 .
^
"Biography" . Carlos Sainz official website . Retrieved March 18, 2021 .
^ Nick Talevski (1999).
The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries . Omnibus. p. 392.
ISBN
978-0-7119-7548-4 .
^
"Nawal El Moutawakel" . IOC . Retrieved March 18, 2021 .
^ Boule, Pete. "
Jeff Minter, fondateur de Llamasoft – Interview
Archived 5 August 2012 at the
Wayback Machine ."
Eurogamer . 10 July 2012.
^
"Ferran Adrià" .
^
"Articoli Scritti Da Marziani Michele | Chiamamicittà | Quindicinale Di Notizie Della Provincia Di Rimini" . Chiamamicitta.net. Archived from
the original on November 11, 2011. Retrieved June 21, 2012 .
^
"PERRY, Scott" . bioguide.congress.gov . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
^
"Pam Shriver" . wtatennis.com . Women's Tennis Association.
^ Marie Cahill (May 1992).
Tom Cruise . Smithmark. p. 9.
ISBN
978-0-8317-8669-4 .
^
1962 at the
Women's Tennis Association
^
"Steve Albini" .
^ Lohn, John (2010).
Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming . Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 93.
ISBN
978-0-8108-6775-8 . Retrieved May 16, 2023 .
^ LastName, FirstName (2019). Chase's calendar of events. the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months . Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 464.
ISBN
9781641433167 .
^
"The Nobel Peace Prize 2022" . NobelPrize.org . October 7, 2022. Retrieved October 7, 2022 .
^
"IAAF - Biography, Steve Moneehhetti (Aus)" . International Amateur Athletic Federation. Archived from
the original on January 8, 2009. Retrieved August 11, 2008 .
^
"Shahar Perkiss | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis" . ATP Tour .
^
"Dmitri Hvorostovsky obituary" . The Guardian . November 22, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2022 .
^
"KIM, Young" . bioguide.congress.gov .
^
"Overview for Bob Odenkirk" .
Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved November 16, 2013 .
^
"Jodie Foster" . BFI . Archived from
the original on February 6, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2022 .
^
"Sylvie Daigle" . Team Canada . September 18, 2011. Retrieved December 21, 2021 .
^ Roger Bruns (2008).
Icons of Latino America: Latino Contributions to American Culture . Greenwood Press. p. 203.
ISBN
978-0-313-34087-1 .
^
"Famous birthdays for Dec. 9: Judi Dench, John Malkovich" . UPI .
^
"Falleció Olga Ramos, activista por la educación en Venezuela" .
Efecto Cocuyo . September 17, 2022. Retrieved September 18, 2022 .
^
"Show World Mourns Death of Kovacs" . Pittsburgh Press . January 14, 1962. Retrieved August 26, 2013 .
^
"Ivan Meštrović | American sculptor | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . January 12, 2024.
^ Roy Temple House (1963).
Books Abroad . University of Oklahoma. p. 163.
^ Robinson Jeffers; Tim Hunt (2001).
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers . Stanford University Press. p. 6.
ISBN
978-0-8047-4108-8 .
^
"Fritz Kreisler Dies Here at 86" . The New York Times . January 30, 1962. Retrieved July 3, 2013 . Fritz Kreisler, the world-famous violinist and composer, died yesterday. He would have been 87 years old on Friday. ...
^
Allison, Samuel K. (1965). "Arthur Holly Compton 1892–1962". Biographical Memoirs . 38 . National Academy of Sciences: 81–110.
ISSN
0077-2933 .
OCLC
1759017 .
^ Johnson Publishing Company (March 27, 1995).
Jet . Johnson Publishing Company. p. 20.
^ "Hanratty, James", in The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003) p681
^
Herbst, Andreas (2009). "Selbmann, Käte".
Who Was Who in the GDR? (in German). Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag. Retrieved April 12, 2024 – via
Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung .
^
"Helen Dortch Longstreet | Georgia Women of Achievement" . georgiawomen .
^
"Gabriele Münter | German artist | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . February 15, 2024.
^ Salmerón, Luis (July 3, 2018).
"¿Quién fue Rubén Jaramillo?" [Who was Ruben Jaramillo?] (in Spanish). Relatos e Historias de Mexico. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
^
Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields . Gale Research Company. 1999. p. 157.
ISBN
978-0-7876-2674-7 .
^ Judith Michelle Crispin (2007).
The Esoteric Musical Tradition of Ferruccio Busoni and Its Reinvigoration in the Music of Larry Sitsky: The Operas Doktor Faust and The Golem . Edwin Mellen Press. p. 75.
ISBN
978-0-7734-5407-1 .
^
"Our Campaigns - Candidate - Henry F. Ashurst" . www.ourcampaigns.com .
^
Hull, William L. (1963). The Struggle for a Soul . New York: Doubleday. p. 160.
OCLC
561109771 .
^ Nigel Nicolson (June 28, 2018).
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919–1962 . Orion. p. 371.
ISBN
978-1-4746-1086-5 .
^ Amanda Holden (2001).
The New Penguin Opera Guide . Penguin. p. 334.
ISBN
978-0-14-051475-9 .
^ Avenius, Sheldon H. Jr. (April 1967). "Charles Lyon Chandler: A Forgotten Man of Inter-American Cultural Relations". Journal of Inter-American Studies . 9 (2): 169–183.
doi :
10.2307/165091 .
^ Gene D. Phillips (1988).
Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art of Adaptation . Univ. of Tennessee Press. p. 184.
ISBN
978-1-57233-166-2 .
^ Ingo Cornils (2009).
A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse . Camden House. p. 6.
ISBN
978-1-57113-330-4 .
^ Josef Charita; François de Lannoy (2001). Panzertruppen: Les Troupes Blindees Allemandes German Armored Troops 1935-1945 . Heimdal. p. 21.
ISBN
9782840481515 .
^
"William Clothier, 86, Spy and Tennis Star" . The New York Times . November 3, 2002. Retrieved April 18, 2012 .
^
"SFE: O'Brien, Willis H" . sf-encyclopedia.com .
^ Alfred William Cramer (2009).
Musicians & Composers of the 20th Century . Salem Press. p. 450.
ISBN
978-1-58765-514-2 .
^
"6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism" . National Geographic . May 19, 2013. Archived from
the original on September 3, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2021 .