List of Famous people who died at 62

Gert Frank was a cyclist and Olympic medalist from Denmark.

Chung Doo-un was a South Korean politician who was Vice-Mayor of Seoul from 2000 to 2003.

Andrey Vladislavovich Smirnov was a Soviet swimmer who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Sir Thomas Hare, 5th Baronet was an English first-class cricketer. Hare played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and the Free Foresters in 1953–54. He succeeded his father as the 5th Baronet of the Stow Hall Baronetcy in 1976, before being succeeded by his cousin upon his death in 1993.

Pierre-Félix Guattari was a French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, activist and screenwriter. He founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy, and is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 12 spaceflight as well as the abortive Soyuz 18a launch in 5 April 1975.

Gareth Wyn Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn,, was a Welsh barrister and Labour politician who was Leader of the House of Lords, Lord President of the Council and a member of the Cabinet from 2001 until his sudden death in 2003.

Walter Philip Reuther was an American leader of organized labor and civil rights activist who built the United Automobile Workers (UAW) into one of the most progressive labor unions in American history. He saw labor movements not as narrow special interest groups but as instruments to advance social justice and human rights in democratic societies. He leveraged the UAW's resources and influence to advocate for workers' rights, civil rights, women's rights, universal health care, public education, affordable housing, environmental stewardship and nuclear nonproliferation around the world. He believed in Swedish-style social democracy and societal change through nonviolent civil disobedience. He survived two attempted assassinations, including one at home where he was struck by a 12-gauge shotgun blast fired through his kitchen window. He was the fourth and longest serving president of the UAW, serving from 1946 until his untimely death in 1970.