List of Famous people who died in 1962

Owen D. Young was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens was an English conductor and composer.

Hugh Hamshaw "Ham" Thomas, MBE, FRS, FLS,, was a British paleobotanist.

Eugeniusz Baziak was Archbishop of Lviv and apostolic administrator of Kraków. Baziak was rector of the Clerical Seminarium in Lviv. Since 1933 he was an auxiliary bishop and, since 1944, Archbishop of Lviv. In 1951, after the death of Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha, he became the apostolic administrator of the archdiocese in Kraków.

James Francis "Frank" Hurley was an Australian photographer and adventurer. He participated in a number of expeditions to Antarctica and served as an official photographer with Australian forces during both world wars.

Fidel Dávila Arrondo was a Spanish Army officer during the Spanish Civil War.

Kurt Schröder (1888–1962) was a German composer and conductor. Schröder composed a number of film scores. During the 1930s he worked in Britain for Alexander Korda's London Film Productions, and scored the company's breakthrough hit The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933.

Emil Johann Rudolf Puhl was a Nazi economist and banking official during World War II.

Daniel Halévy was a French historian.