List of Famous people who died in 1962

Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge was an American socialite and the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo. In 1903, while in Paris with her mother, she caught her first glimpse of dirigibles. She then proceeded to take only three flight lessons, before taking to the sky by herself.

Eugénie Pétain was the wife of the French military commander and political leader Philippe Pétain who ruled Vichy France between 1940 and 1944.

Armand Antoine Agénor de Gramont, 12th Duc de Gramont was a French nobleman, scientist and industrialist. He was known by the courtesy title of Duc de Guiche until 1925, when he succeeded his father as Duc de Gramont. He was the eldest son of Antoine Alfred Agénor de Gramont, 11e duc de Gramont and Marguerite de Rothschild.

Émile Poilvé was a French wrestler who won the gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. France had to wait 72 years and Steeve Guenot at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to win another gold medal in wrestling. He also competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Arturo Bragaglia was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1938 to 1961.

Margaret "Pegeen" Synge Dryer (1921–1963) was a Canadian architect.

Fred Pagnam was an English footballer and manager. Pagnam played as a forward in the Football League for clubs Huddersfield Town, Blackpool, Liverpool, Arsenal, Cardiff City and Watford, and in non-league football for Lytham, Blackpool Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers, Southport Central and Gainsborough Trinity. As manager, he took charge of Watford, Galatasaray, the Turkish national team, and several clubs in the Netherlands.

John Leroy "Roy" Atwell was an American actor, comedian and composer, known for playing characters that mis-deliver their lines or stammer, most notably Doc from Walt Disney's classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.