Who Was Alive in 1962
174 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1962
Bertrand RussellAge 90
Winston ChurchillAge 88
Albert SchweitzerAge 87
Lise MeitnerAge 84
Helen KellerAge 82
Pablo PicassoAge 81
Igor StravinskyAge 80
Coco ChanelAge 79
Eleanor RooseveltAge 78
Harry S. TrumanAge 78
Niels BohrAge 77
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 75
Chiang Kai-shekAge 75
Le CorbusierAge 75
T. S. EliotAge 74
Charlie ChaplinAge 73
Jawaharlal NehruAge 73
Ho Chi MinhAge 72
Agatha ChristieAge 72
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 72
Charles de GaulleAge 72
Haile SelassieAge 70
J.R.R. TolkienAge 70
Mao ZedongAge 69
Aldous HuxleyAge 68
Nikita KhrushchevAge 68
Buster KeatonAge 67
Golda MeirAge 64
C. S. LewisAge 64
Duke EllingtonAge 63
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 63
Alfred HitchcockAge 63
Werner HeisenbergAge 61
Louis ArmstrongAge 61
Walt DisneyAge 61
HirohitoAge 61
Marlene DietrichAge 61
Bob HopeAge 59
Robert OppenheimerAge 58
Salvador DalíAge 58
Pablo NerudaAge 58
Jean-Paul SartreAge 57
Hannah ArendtAge 56
Rachel CarsonAge 55
Simone de BeauvoirAge 54
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 54
Kwame NkrumahAge 53
Dorothy HodgkinAge 52
Mother TeresaAge 52
Akira KurosawaAge 52
Jacques CousteauAge 52
Ronald ReaganAge 51
Naguib MahfouzAge 51
Rosa ParksAge 49
Jesse OwensAge 49
Richard NixonAge 49
Gerald FordAge 49
Hedy LamarrAge 48
Orson WellesAge 47
Frank SinatraAge 47
Ingrid BergmanAge 47
Roald DahlAge 46
John F. KennedyAge 45
Ella FitzgeraldAge 45
Indira GandhiAge 45
Ingmar BergmanAge 44
Nelson MandelaAge 44
Richard FeynmanAge 44
Edmund HillaryAge 43
Jackie RobinsonAge 43
Pope John Paul IIAge 42
Toshiro MifuneAge 42
Stan LeeAge 40
Marlon BrandoAge 38
James BaldwinAge 38
Jimmy CarterAge 38
George H. W. BushAge 38
Margaret ThatcherAge 37
B.B. KingAge 37
Malcolm XAge 37
Marilyn MonroeAge 36
Fidel CastroAge 36
Elizabeth IIAge 36
Gabriel García MárquezAge 35
Pope Benedict XVIAge 35
James WatsonAge 34
Andy WarholAge 34
Stanley KubrickAge 34
Maya AngelouAge 34
Che GuevaraAge 34
Vera RubinAge 34
Noam ChomskyAge 34
Martin Luther King Jr.Age 33
Audrey HepburnAge 33
Grace KellyAge 33
Chinua AchebeAge 32
Neil ArmstrongAge 32
Ray CharlesAge 32
Tu YouyouAge 32
Desmond TutuAge 31
Toni MorrisonAge 31
Mikhail GorbachevAge 31
Johnny CashAge 30
Elizabeth TaylorAge 30
Sylvia PlathAge 30
Yoko OnoAge 29
Wole SoyinkaAge 28
Yuri GagarinAge 28
Carl SaganAge 28
Jane GoodallAge 28
Dalai LamaAge 27
Elvis PresleyAge 27
Woody AllenAge 27
Pope FrancisAge 26
Jack NicholsonAge 25
Saddam HusseinAge 25
Kofi AnnanAge 24
Francis Ford CoppolaAge 23
PeléAge 22
Bruce LeeAge 22
John LennonAge 22
Wangari MaathaiAge 22
Bob DylanAge 21
Muhammad AliAge 20
Aretha FranklinAge 20
Jimi HendrixAge 20
Stephen HawkingAge 20
Paul McCartneyAge 20
Muammar GaddafiAge 20
Joe BidenAge 20
Billie Jean KingAge 19
George HarrisonAge 19
Janis JoplinAge 19
Jim MorrisonAge 19
Lech WałęsaAge 19
George LucasAge 18
Aung San Suu KyiAge 17
Bob MarleyAge 17
Freddie MercuryAge 16
Steven SpielbergAge 16
Donald TrumpAge 16
George W. BushAge 16
Bill ClintonAge 16
David BowieAge 15
Hillary ClintonAge 15
Charles IIIAge 14
Haruki MurakamiAge 13
Benjamin NetanyahuAge 13
Narendra ModiAge 12
Robin WilliamsAge 11
Vladimir PutinAge 10
Xi JinpingAge 9
Oprah WinfreyAge 8
Angela MerkelAge 8
Hugo ChávezAge 8
Recep Tayyip ErdoğanAge 8
François HollandeAge 8
Steve JobsAge 7
Bill GatesAge 7
Nicolas SarkozyAge 7
Pope Leo XIVAge 7
Ai WeiweiAge 5
Osama bin LadenAge 5
Michael JacksonAge 4
PrinceAge 4
Keith HaringAge 4
MadonnaAge 4
Rigoberta MenchúAge 3
Jean-Michel BasquiatAge 2
Diego MaradonaAge 2
NaruhitoAge 2
Princess DianaAge 1
Wayne GretzkyAge 1
Barack ObamaAge 1
Also Born in 1962
President of Venezuela from 2013 to 2026
Canadian and American actor (born 1962)
American actor and film producer (born 1962)
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2024 to 2026
American actress (born 1962)
American actress (born 1962)
King of Jordan since 1999
President of Mexico since 2024
Politician and journalist from Catalonia, Spain (born 1962)
American actor (born 1962)
Australian conservationist (1962–2006)
Soviet musician and actor (1962–1990)
Died in 1962
Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood icon, cultural legend
Niels Bohr
Atomic model, quantum mechanics pioneer
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady, UN delegate, human rights champion
Also Died in 1962
German writer (1877–1962)
American diplomat and activist (1884–1962)
American writer (1897–1962)
German SS officer and war criminal (1906–1962)
Danish writer (1885–1962)
American physicist (1892–1962)
Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948
French intellectual and literary figure (1897–1962)
British actor (1899–1962)
British polymath (1890–1962)
American poet and author (1894–1962)
French philosopher (1884–1962)
Notable World Events in 1962
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
Sources
- 1962 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
- Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
- Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
- Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
- Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
- Helen Keller — Wikipedia
- Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
- Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
- Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
- Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
- Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
- Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
- Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
- Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
- T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
- Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
- Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
- Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
- Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
- Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
- Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
- J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
- Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
- Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
- Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
- Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
- Golda Meir — Wikipedia
- C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
- Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
- Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
- Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
- Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
- Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Walt Disney — Wikipedia
- Hirohito — Wikipedia
- Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
- Bob Hope — Wikipedia
- J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
- Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
- Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
- Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
- Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
- Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
- Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
- Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
- Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
- Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
- Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
- Akira Kurosawa — Wikipedia
- Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
- Ronald Reagan — Wikipedia
- Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
- Rosa Parks — Wikipedia
- Jesse Owens — Wikipedia
- Richard Nixon — Wikipedia
- Gerald Ford — Wikipedia
- Hedy Lamarr — Wikipedia
- Orson Welles — Wikipedia
- Frank Sinatra — Wikipedia
- Ingrid Bergman — Wikipedia
- Roald Dahl — Wikipedia
- John F. Kennedy — Wikipedia
- Ella Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Indira Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Ingmar Bergman — Wikipedia
- Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
- Richard Feynman — Wikipedia
- Edmund Hillary — Wikipedia
- Jackie Robinson — Wikipedia
- Pope John Paul II — Wikipedia
- Toshiro Mifune — Wikipedia
- Stan Lee — Wikipedia
- Marlon Brando — Wikipedia
- James Baldwin — Wikipedia
- Jimmy Carter — Wikipedia
- George H. W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Margaret Thatcher — Wikipedia
- B. B. King — Wikipedia
- Malcolm X — Wikipedia
- Marilyn Monroe — Wikipedia
- Fidel Castro — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth II — Wikipedia
- Gabriel García Márquez — Wikipedia
- Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
- James Watson — Wikipedia
- Andy Warhol — Wikipedia
- Stanley Kubrick — Wikipedia
- Maya Angelou — Wikipedia
- Che Guevara — Wikipedia
- Vera Rubin — Wikipedia
- Noam Chomsky — Wikipedia
- Martin Luther King Jr. — Wikipedia
- Audrey Hepburn — Wikipedia
- Grace Kelly — Wikipedia
- Chinua Achebe — Wikipedia
- Neil Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Ray Charles — Wikipedia
- Tu Youyou — Wikipedia
- Desmond Tutu — Wikipedia
- Toni Morrison — Wikipedia
- Mikhail Gorbachev — Wikipedia
- Johnny Cash — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth Taylor — Wikipedia
- Sylvia Plath — Wikipedia
- Yoko Ono — Wikipedia
- Wole Soyinka — Wikipedia
- Yuri Gagarin — Wikipedia
- Carl Sagan — Wikipedia
- Jane Goodall — Wikipedia
- 14th Dalai Lama — Wikipedia
- Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
- Woody Allen — Wikipedia
- Pope Francis — Wikipedia
- Jack Nicholson — Wikipedia
- Saddam Hussein — Wikipedia
- Kofi Annan — Wikipedia
- Francis Ford Coppola — Wikipedia
- Pelé — Wikipedia
- Bruce Lee — Wikipedia
- John Lennon — Wikipedia
- Wangarĩ Maathai — Wikipedia
- Bob Dylan — Wikipedia
- Muhammad Ali — Wikipedia
- Aretha Franklin — Wikipedia
- Jimi Hendrix — Wikipedia
- Stephen Hawking — Wikipedia
- Paul McCartney — Wikipedia
- Muammar Gaddafi — Wikipedia
- Joe Biden — Wikipedia
- Billie Jean King — Wikipedia
- George Harrison — Wikipedia
- Janis Joplin — Wikipedia
- Jim Morrison — Wikipedia
- Lech Wałęsa — Wikipedia
- George Lucas — Wikipedia
- Aung San Suu Kyi — Wikipedia
- Bob Marley — Wikipedia
- Freddie Mercury — Wikipedia
- Steven Spielberg — Wikipedia
- Donald Trump — Wikipedia
- George W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Bill Clinton — Wikipedia
- David Bowie — Wikipedia
- Hillary Clinton — Wikipedia
- Charles III — Wikipedia
- Haruki Murakami — Wikipedia
- Benjamin Netanyahu — Wikipedia
- Narendra Modi — Wikipedia
- Robin Williams — Wikipedia
- Vladimir Putin — Wikipedia
- Xi Jinping — Wikipedia
- Oprah Winfrey — Wikipedia
- Angela Merkel — Wikipedia
- Hugo Chávez — Wikipedia
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — Wikipedia
- François Hollande — Wikipedia
- Steve Jobs — Wikipedia
- Bill Gates — Wikipedia
- Nicolas Sarkozy — Wikipedia
- Pope Leo XIV — Wikipedia
- Ai Weiwei — Wikipedia
- Osama bin Laden — Wikipedia
- Michael Jackson — Wikipedia
- Prince (musician) — Wikipedia
- Keith Haring — Wikipedia
- Madonna — Wikipedia
- Rigoberta Menchú — Wikipedia
- Jean-Michel Basquiat — Wikipedia
- Diego Maradona — Wikipedia
- Naruhito — Wikipedia
- Diana, Princess of Wales — Wikipedia
- Wayne Gretzky — Wikipedia
- Barack Obama — Wikipedia