List of Famous people who died at 62

Roderick Mayne Thorp, Jr. was an American novelist specializing mainly in police procedural/crime novels. His 1966 novel The Detective was adapted into a film of the same name in 1968. He is, however, better known for its sequel, the bestselling 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever, which is the basis for the film Die Hard in 1988. Two other Thorp novels, Rainbow Drive and Devlin, were also adapted into TV movies.

Richard Tyler was an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on more than 60 films between 1971 and 1989.

Elma Karlowa (1932–1994) was a Yugoslav film and television actress.

István Fáry was a Hungarian-born mathematician known for his work in geometry and algebraic topology. He proved Fáry's theorem that every planar graph has a straight line embedding in 1948, and the Fary–Milnor theorem lower-bounding the curvature of a nontrivial knot in 1949.

Silvio Bagolini was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 137 films between 1936 and 1973.