Famous people and celebrities who died in March 1962

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in March 1962. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• March 1 Roscoe Ates

  Actor (dep rosscoe-marshal for gunsight pass), died at 70

• March 2 Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin

  Belgian mathematician and academic (b. 1866)

• March 4 Cairine R Wilson

  First canadian woman senator (appointed), is killed at age 77.

• March 4 George Mogridge

  Major league baseball pitcher (born in 1889).

• March 5 Anne C Veth

  Dutch cartoonist/art critic dies at the age of 82

• March 5 Otakar Jeremias

  Composer dies at 69

• March 6 Rezso Kokai

  56 years old death of composer

• March 9 Howard Engstrom of Boston

  Massachussettes (usa), a creator of univac computer, has died at the age of 59.

• March 11 Will Vesper

  German author (tristan und isolde), dies at 79

• March 13 Anne Acheson

  Irish sculptor (b. 1882)

• March 15 Arthur Compton

  American physicist, joint winner with c.t.r. wilson, england, was awarded the nobel prize for physics 1927 for explaining the wavelength change of x-rays caused by collisions with electrons in metals. the compton effect, also known as the "transfer of energy from an electron to an aphoton", is caused by this phenomenon. it was discovered in 1922 and confirmed that electromagnetic …

• March 16 John Owen Jones

  Composer dies at 85

• March 17 Pat Clayton

  British explorer and surveyor (born 1896).

• March 17 Frank Orth

  Actor (boston blackie - the brothers) dies at 82

• March 18 Walter W. Bacon

  American accountant and politician, 60th governor of delaware (b. 1880)

• March 20 C Wright Mills

  At 45, a us sociologist (power elite) dies.

• March 20 Andrew E Douglass

  Dendrochronologer (study of tree rings).

• March 22 Aura Abranches

  At 65, port actress (lisboa o primo basilio) dies

• March 23 Val Paul

  Producer (female man) dies at 73

• March 23 Josephus RH van Schaik

  At 80, lawyer / vice-premier of the netherlands, dies

• March 24 Auguste Piccard

  Swiss inventor, scientist and physicist. he was also the creator of an airtight, aeroborne gondola, which he used to ascend to 53,000 feet in 1932. piccard was the first to use a bathyscaph, which descends some 10,330 feet into seawater in 1953.

• March 24 Jean Goldkette

  French-american pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)[301]

• March 26 Marjorie Colton

  At 64, the inventor of wax paper dies.

• March 28 Hugo Wast

  Argentine writer (born 1883)