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Oct 2, 2022

Actor Frank Lovejoy Dead at 50

Oct. 2, 1962 - Frank Lovejoy, the stage, screen, and television actor, was found dead in bed this morning at New York’s Warwick Hotel....

Sep 14, 2022

Struggling Crime Novelist Found Dead in New York Hotel

Sept. 14, 1962 - A man identified by the police as William Lindsay Gresham, the writer, was found dead today in his room at the Dixie...

Sep 7, 2022

Author Isak Dinesen Dead

Sept. 7, 1962 - Danish author Isak Dinesen (pictured center with Marilyn Monroe and Carson McCullers in 1959). She was 77 years old. The...

Sep 3, 2022

E.E. Cummings is Dead

Sept. 3, 1962 - E.E. Cummings (pictured in 1920), who made poetic art out of commas and parentheses, died in North Conway, N.H., early...

Aug 23, 2022

Cowboy Star Hoot Gibson Dead at 70

Aug. 23, 1962 - Hoot Gibson (pictured in 1936), one of Hollywood’s most famous cowboy stars, died this morning of cancer at the Motion...

Jul 6, 2022

Faulkner's Home was Oxford, Miss.

July 6, 1962 - Although William Faulkner’s stories of northeast Mississippi were never understood by many, Oxford, Mississippi, the city...

Jul 6, 2022

William Faulkner, Nobel Prize-winning Author, Dead at 64

July 6, 1962 - William Faulkner (pictured in 1938) died of a heart attack this morning at Wright’s Sanatorium in Byhali, Mississippi. The...

Jun 19, 2022

Frank Borzage, Academy Award Winning Director, Dead at 69

June 19, 1962 - Frank Borzage (pictured with Marlene Dietrich in 1936), Academy Award-winning motion-picture director, died today after a...

May 14, 2022

Franz Kline, Abstract Painter, Dead at 52

May 14, 1962 - Franz Kline, of 242 West 14th Street, a leader in the abstract expressionist school of painting in New York and of the...

May 3, 2022

Wife of Confederate General Longstreet Dead at 99

May 3, 1962 - Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet (pictured right in 1900), widow of James Longstreet (left), the controversial Confederate...

Apr 11, 2022

Michael Curtiz, Director of "Casablanca," Dead at 72

Apr. 11, 1962 - Michael Curtiz, Academy-award-winning motion picture director, died of cancer last night. He was 72 years old. Mr....

Apr 10, 2022

WWII General Manton S. Eddy Dead at 69

Apr. 10, 1962 - Lieut. Gen. Manton S. Eddy (pictured without helmet in 1944 between General Omar Bradley and General George S. Patton),...

Mar 29, 2022

Otto Miller, Former Dodgers Catcher, Dead at 72

Mar. 29, 1962 - Otto Miller, a catcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1910 to 1923, fell or jumped to his death today from a fourth-floor...

Mar 25, 2022

Explorer Auguste Piccard Dead at 78

Mar. 25, 1962 - Professor Auguste Piccard (pictured in 1931), the pioneer Swiss explorer of the stratosphere and ocean depths, died of a...

Feb 20, 2022

Funeral in Beverly Hills for Conductor Bruno Walter

Feb. 20, 1962 - A funeral service was held in Beverly Hills, Calif., today for Bruno Walter (pictured in 1935), the noted conductor who...

Jan 13, 2022

Comedian Ernie Kovacs Dead in Car Crash

Jan. 13, 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian of the theatre, screen, and television, was killed today in a traffic accident. He would have been...

Dec 18, 2021

Ping Bodie is Dead

Dec. 18, 1961 - Ping Bodie (pictured left in 1920), the slugging outfielder who was a former roommate of Babe Ruth (right), died of...

Oct 13, 2021

Negro War Hero Eugene Bullard Dead at 67

Oct. 13, 1961 - Eugene Bullard, a Negro flier who was honored by France for his service in World War I, died today in New York City. His...

Jul 6, 2021

Ernest Hemingway Buried

July 6, 1961 - Ernest Hemingway (pictured in 1939) was buried today in the soil of the Western mountains he loved near the home where he...

Jul 5, 2021

Hemingway Family Gathers for Funeral

July 5, 1961 - The family of Ernest Hemingway (pictured with his father in 1928) was reunited today for the author's funeral tomorrow. ...