List of Famous people who died in 1962

Ya'akov Nitzani was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai from 1952 until 1959.

Victor Bourgeois was a Belgian architect and urban planner, considered the greatest Belgian modernist architect.

Carl Otto Schutte was an American road racing cyclist who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Charles Jacob (1878-1962) was a French geologist. He served as the president of the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 1940 to 1944 under Vichy France.

Charles Reisner was an American film director and actor of the 1920s and 1930s.

Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert was a French composer of classical music. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I.

Jacques-Henri-Auguste Gréber was a French architect specializing in landscape architecture and urban design. He was a strong proponent of the Beaux-Arts style and a contributor to the City Beautiful movement, particularly in Philadelphia and Ottawa.

Edward Estlin (E. E.) Cummings, often styled as e e cummings, as he is attributed in many of his published works, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. He is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century. Cummings is associated with modernist free-form poetry. Much of his work has idiosyncratic syntax and uses lower-case spellings for poetic expression.