List of Famous people who died at 62
Raffaele Baldassarre
Raffaele Baldassarre was an Italian politician and a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014 for the European People's Party. He was born in Lecce and died in a hospital there after a sudden illness had its onset at his home the night prior.
Mutaib Alsaqqar
Mutaib Al-Saqqar was Jordanian singer and died on April 24, 2021. He was famous for performing traditional and patriotic songs.
Markus Liebherr
Markus Liebherr was a German-born Swiss businessman and a member of one of Europe's top family business dynasties.
Valeri Vasiliev
Valeri Ivanovich Vasiliev was a Russian ice hockey defenceman, who competed for the USSR. An eight-time Soviet all-star, Vasiliev was captain of the national team, for which he played 13 years. Born in Gorky, Soviet Union, he played for HC Dynamo Moscow.
Donald Djatunas Pandiangan
Donald Pandiangan was an Indonesian archer. He competed at the 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics.
Michel Canac
Michel Canac was a French alpine skier who competed in the 1984 Winter Olympics.
Chen Jui-chin
Chen Jui-chin was a Taiwanese serial killer and one of the country's most infamous criminals. Because of his gambling addiction, he owed debts to loan sharks, and in order to pay them off, he turned towards violence. He murdered his spouse and three children, and fraudulently used their life insurance to amass $38 million NT, for which he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. Finally, he was sentenced to death for raping, robbing, and killing his girlfriend, Chen, from whom he stole millions worth of money. In total, he is suspected of killing eight people, including two female friends. In the media, he was nicknamed The Chiayi Demon.
Edward Abbey
Edward Paul Abbey was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. His best-known works include Desert Solitaire, a non-fiction autobiographical account of his time as a park ranger at Arches National Park considered to be iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing, the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by environmentalists and groups defending nature by various means, also called eco-warriors, his novel Hayduke Lives, and his essay collections Down the River (1982) and One Life at a Time, Please (1988).
Sheila Gish
Sheila Anne Syme Gash, known professionally as Sheila Gish, was an English stage and screen actress. For her role in the 1995 London revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Company, she won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical.
Alejandro Jadresic
Alejandro Jadresic Marinovic was a Chilean industrial engineer, economist and an academic. He served as Minister of Energy (1994–1998) under the government of Eduardo Frei.