List of Famous people who died in 1962

Philippe Kieffer, capitaine de frégate in the French Navy, was a French officer and political personality, and a hero of the Free French Forces.

Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava was an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament, representing Hisar, Haryana in the Lok Sabha the lower house of India's Parliament as a member of the Indian National Congress. He was also a member of the Constituent Assembly of India. He was a student of Forman Christian College, Lahore and Presidency College, Calcutta.

Hans Eberhard Kurt Freiherr von Salmuth was a German general and war criminal during World War II. Salmuth commanded several armies on the Eastern Front, and the Fifteenth Army in France during the D-Day invasion. Following the war, he was tried in the High Command Trial, as part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 20 years. He was released in 1953.

Ernst Schwarz was a German zoologist, mammalogist, and herpetologist.

Olivia Twenty Dahl was the oldest child of the author Roald Dahl and the American actress Patricia Neal. She died at the age of seven from encephalitis caused by measles, before a vaccine against the disease had been developed. Roald Dahl's books James and the Giant Peach (1961) and The BFG (1982) were dedicated to Olivia. As a result of her death, her father Roald became an advocate for vaccination, and wrote the pamphlet "Measles: A Dangerous Illness" in 1988.

Franz Heinrich Kaiser was a German astronomer.

Laurence Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford, was a British peer. He was a founder and chairman of the shipping company Court Line.

Charles Lexington Manners Sutton was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Sutton served in the British Army as a commissioned officer from 1911–1931, serving mostly with the Royal Fusiliers. During this period he served in the First World War and played first-class cricket for the British Army cricket team. He was later made an MBE.