List of Famous people who died at 62

Siegfried Friedrich Heinrich Müller often called Kongo-Müller was a former German Wehrmacht officer-candidate who fought as a mercenary under Major Mike Hoare in the Congo Crisis.

Deng Jiaxian was a Chinese nuclear physicist and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was a leading organizer and key contributor to the Chinese nuclear weapon programs.

Dieter Dengler was a German-born United States Navy aviator during the Vietnam War and, following six months of imprisonment and torture, became the first captured U.S. airman to escape enemy captivity during the war. Of seven prisoners of war who escaped together from a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos, Dengler was one of two survivors. Dengler was rescued after 23 days on the run.

Julio Oscar Mechoso was an American actor.

Martin Roth was a German museum director. He was the director general of the Dresden State Art Collections from 2001 to 2011 and the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK, from 2011 to 2016.

Steven Clare LaTourette was an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 19th congressional district and then Ohio's 14th congressional district from 1995 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party. On July 30, 2012, it was reported that he would retire at the end of his term and not seek re-election. He subsequently co-founded a lobbying firm.

Devineni Nehru, represented Kankipadu Assembly Constituency in Krishna District of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Peggy Ann Lautenschlager was an American attorney and politician who was the first chair of the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. She was Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin from January 3, 2003 to January 3, 2007. She succeeded fellow Democrat Jim Doyle when Doyle was elected Governor of Wisconsin in 2002. Lautenschlager was the first woman elected Wisconsin Attorney General.

Joseph Kushner was an American real estate magnate, patriarch of the Kushner family as father of Murray Kushner and Charles Kushner, grandfather of Jared Kushner, Joshua Kushner, and Marc Kushner. At the end of his career, he owned over 4,000 apartments, houses, and properties, which he willed to his family.

Gillian Coysh Hanson FRCP FRCA was a British physician who specialised in intensive care and the treatment of diabetes mellitus. She established and led the intensive care unit at Whipps Cross Hospital from 1968 to 1993.