List of Famous people who died at 62
Lydia Shum
Lydia Shum Din-ha was a Hong Kong comedian, MC, and actress known for her portly figure, signature dark rimmed glasses and bouffant hairstyle. She was affectionately known to peers and fans as Fei-fei. Shum died at 8:38 a.m. on 19 February 2008 where her condition worsened due to pleural effusion, aged 62.
Maurizio Zanfanti
Maurizio "Zanza" Zanfanti was an Italian playboy who operated in Rimini and claimed to have slept with 6,000 women and to have done more for the Italian Riviera than "100 tourist agencies". He died from a myocardial infarction.
Maryam Khatoon Molkara
Maryam Khatoonpour Molkara was a campaigner for the rights of transgender people in Iran, where she is widely recognized as a matriarch of the transgender community. Designated male at birth, she was later instrumental in obtaining a letter which acted as a fatwa enabling sex reassignment surgery to exist as part of a legal framework.
Stana Tomašević
Stana Tomašević (1920–1983) was a Yugoslav Partisan officer during World War II, a model, and a Yugoslav politician and diplomat, serving as president of the Federal Chamber from 1979–82.
Igor Kio
Igor Emilievich Kio was a Russian illusionist with the Russian State Circus (Росгосцирк). Born Igor Emilievich Hirschfeld-Renard, He was the son of the legendary magician Emil Kio (1894-1965). He began to work with his father at age 5, eventually replacing him in the act in 1960. Upon the death of his father in 1965, he inherited the act, which he continued to present in the Soviet Union and all over the world well into the 21st century.
Henriette Valium
Patrick Henley, known professionally as Henriette Valium, was a Canadian comic book artist and painter based in Montreal, Quebec.
Viktor Chukarin
Viktor Ivanovich Chukarin was a Soviet gymnast. He won eleven medals including seven gold medals at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics and was the all-around world champion in 1954. He was the most successful athlete at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Omar Chabán
Emir Omar Chabán was an Argentine impresario, who was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for a fatal fire in one of his businesses. He remained free on appeal, during which time he died.
Mustapha Madih
Mustapha Madih was a Moroccan football manager.
Ramadan Shalah
Ramadan Abdullah Mohammed Shalah was the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) between 27 October 1995 and 2018. PIJ has been designated a terrorist organisation by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. On becoming secretary-general of PIJ, Shalah was designated a Specially Designated Terrorist by the United States on 27 November 1995. In 2006, he was placed on the United States FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list. In April 2018, Shalah suffered a series of strokes, and on 28 September 2018 was replaced by Ziyad al-Nakhalah as PIJ leader. During the 23 years of his leadership of PIJ, the group undertook numerous attacks on Israeli civilians, including suicide bombings; and has suffered extensive operations against its infrastructure carried out by the IDF, which resulted in severe losses to the group, and it appeared significantly weakened by 2004.