1962 deaths

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million by her death in 1962.

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)

American writer (1897-1962)

American diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1884–1962)

German-Austrian SS officer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust (1906–1962)

Danish writer

American physicist (1892–1962)

Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948 (1880-1962)

French intellectual and literary figure (1897–1962)

British-American actor (1899–1962)

British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)

American author (1894–1962)

French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)

17th President of the French Republic (1882–1962)

American sociologist (1916–1962)

American film director and actor (1894-1962)

German chancellor (1879-1962)

English writer and poet (1892–1962)

Scottish painter and musician better known as the original bass guitarist of the English rock band the Beatles (1940–1962)

Hungarian-American director (1886–1962)

American actor, playwright and screenwriter (1892-1962)

20th century French visual artist (1928–1962)

Italian American mobster (1897–1962)

Russian-French artist (1881–1962)

Swiss physicist (1884–1962)

Austrian violinist and composer (1875-1962)

French author and psychoanalyst (1882-1962)

Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor

Greek pathologist (1883-1962)

Chinese scholar, writer and philosopher (1891–1962)

English writer, poet, and gardener (1892–1962)

Japanese historical novelist (1892–1962)

German painter (1877–1962)

Soviet general and son of Joseph Stalin (1921–1962)

Austrian-Armenian mathematician (1898–1962)

German-born conductor, pianist, and composer (1876-1962)

Austrian and German composer (1898–1962)

Soviet general (1896-1962)

American film actor and director (1880–1962)

Italian flautist and music educator (1875–1962)

Slovenian chess player (1885–1962)

French composer

German general (1889-1962)

Chinese soldier and communist icon (1940–1962)

German mathematician best known for the Ackermann function (1896–1962)

German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962)

Brazilian painter (1903–1962)

French sculptor and painter (1885–1962)

Norwegian opera singer (1895-1962)

French writer (1886-1962)

American painter (1910-1962)

Croatian sculptor and architect (1883–1962)

Italian saint (1922-1962)

German bricklayer (1944-1962)

Russian-German linguist (1886-1962)

American businessman, lawyer, diplomat (1874–1962)

Turkish writer (1901–1962)

British historian (1876–1962)

American poet (1887–1962)