List of Famous people who died in 1962

William Ferrari was an American art director. He won an Oscar and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction. He died in 1962 and was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy was an American philosopher and intellectual historian, who founded the discipline known as the history of ideas with his book The Great Chain of Being (1936), on the topic of that name, which is regarded as 'probably the single most influential work in the history of ideas in the United States during the last half century'.

Roger Nimier was a French novelist.

Emil Artin was an Austrian mathematician of Armenian descent.

Dame Mary Jean Gilmore was an Australian writer and journalist known for her prolific contributions to Australian literature and the broader national discourse. She wrote both prose and poetry.

Jules Boucherit was a French violinist and renowned violin pedagogue.

Louis-Joseph Kerkhofs, was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liège from 1927 - 1961.

Dannie N. Heineman was a Belgian-American engineer and businessman. He was the managing director and controlling shareholder of the Belgian industrial multinational Sofina. He was a prolific sponsor of science especially through Heineman Foundation in medical sciences and awards in mathematical physics and astrophysics.

Marcel Aubert was a French art historian.

Florence Lee was an American actress of the silent era, who appeared in 22 films between 1921 and 1929. She was married to Canadian-American actor, director, and writer Dell Henderson and played in many films that he directed.