Famous People Who Died in 1962

• Beach, Sylvia

  The Paris bookstore owner who published 'Ulysses'

• Bohr, Niels

  Danish atomic physicist who won 1922's Nobel Prize

• Cummings, E. E.

  The experimental poet who spelled his name without capitals

• Faulkner, William

  American author of As I Lay Dying

• Kovacs, Ernie

  Zany 1950s TV comedian

• Luciano, Charles "Lucky"

  1930s Italian-American gangster with businesslike approach

• Monroe, Marilyn

  Hollywood's most famous blonde sex symbol

• O'Brien, Willis

  The animator of the original King Kong

• Roosevelt, Eleanor

  First Lady of the United States, 1933-45

• Sutcliffe, Stuart

  The bassist who left The Beatles just before the band became famous

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