Historical figures in 1962
The atlas holds 103 people and 159 moments here, in 1962. The most recorded lives are Nelson Mandela, John F. Kennedy and V. S. Naipaul. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Musicians and Composers.
Notable people
Kwame Nkrumah
in 1962
1 moment here
Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…
Léopold Sédar Senghor
in 1962
1 moment here
Senegalese poet, theorist of Négritude, and statesman who became Senegal’s first president in 1960.…
Lev Landau
in 1962
1 moment here
Soviet theoretical physicist Lev Davidovich Landau was born in Baku, educated in Baku and Leningrad, and undertook formative research travel in…
Macfarlane Burnet
in 1962
2 moments here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Manmohan Singh
in 1962
1 moment here
Indian economist, academic, civil servant, finance minister and prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014.…
Marilyn Monroe
in 1962
3 moments here
American actress and model born Norma Jeane Mortenson. This chronology maps verified places where Monroe lived, worked, traveled, performed, filmed,…
Marlene Dietrich
in 1962
1 moment here
German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (Marie Magdalene Dietrich) was born in Berlin and achieved international fame through stage,…
Martin Luther King Jr.
in 1962
2 moments here
American Baptist minister and civil-rights leader who advanced racial equality through nonviolent protest.…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1962
1 moment here
New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Maya Angelou
in 1962
2 moments here
American memoirist, poet, performer, educator, and civil-rights activist. Her documented life moved from Missouri and Arkansas to California and New…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1962
1 moment here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Miriam Makeba
in 1962
3 moments here
South African singer, songwriter, actor, and anti-apartheid activist known as “Mama Africa.” Makeba’s career took her from Johannesburg and Pretoria…
Nelson Mandela
in 1962
10 moments here
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
in 1962
1 moment here
Kenyan novelist, playwright, essayist, language advocate, and academic. Ngũgĩ’s life moved from colonial Kenya through education in Uganda and…
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
in 1962
1 moment here
South Vietnamese army officer and politician who led South Vietnam as chairman of the National Leadership Committee from 1965 and as president from…
Niels Bohr
in 1962
1 moment here
Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Nikita Khrushchev
in 1962
1 moment here
Soviet Communist Party leader and chairman of the Council of Ministers. Khrushchev rose from industrial work in the Donbas through party posts in…
Octavio Paz
in 1962
1 moment here
Mexican poet, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose international postings and teaching appointments connected Mexico City, the United States, Europe,…
Olav V
in 1962
2 moments here
Olav V of Norway (born Prince Alexander of Denmark) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991.…
Olivia de Havilland
in 1962
3 moments here
Olivia de Havilland was a British-American-French actress whose career ranged from California community theatre and Warner Bros.…
Oscar Niemeyer
in 1962
1 moment here
Brazilian modernist architect whose career ranged from early work in Rio de Janeiro and New York to Brasília, Paris exile, and later international…
Pearl S. Buck
in 1962
1 moment here
American writer, humanitarian, and activist whose life was divided between the United States and China before she became an internationally prominent…
Pelé
in 1962
2 moments here
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé, was a Brazilian footballer who starred for Santos, Brazil and the New York Cosmos.…
Pol Pot
in 1962
1 moment here
Cambodian communist revolutionary and dictator, born Saloth Sâr. As leader of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and Democratic Kampuchea, he oversaw a…
Moments
- 1962 Makerere African Writers Conference Chinua Achebe
- 1962 1962 World Cup quarter-final Garrincha
- 1962 1962 World Cup semi-final Garrincha
- 1962 Made Mexico City state visit John F. Kennedy
- 1962 Negotiations in Mogadishu Jomo Kenyatta
- 1962 Conducts ANC business in London Nelson Mandela
- 1962 Flies onward to Khartoum Nelson Mandela
- 1962 African Writers Conference Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- 1962 Falls at Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo Winston Churchill
- 1962 Arrival at MPLA exile headquarters Agostinho Neto
- 1962 Receives Durham honorary degree Charlie Chaplin
- 1962 Receives Oxford honorary degree Charlie Chaplin
- 1962 Spoke at Independence Hall John F. Kennedy
- 1962 Jailed after Albany prayer vigil Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1962 Returns to South Africa Nelson Mandela
- 1962 Physics meeting at Jabłonna Richard Feynman
- 1962 Death at Wright's Sanatorium William Faulkner
- 1962 Survived the Petit-Clamart ambush Charles de Gaulle
- 1962 Death in Montagnola Hermann Hesse
- 1962 Ninth Pugwash Conference at Cambridge Hideki Yukawa
- 1962 Marriage to Cynthia Powell John Lennon
- 1962 Died at her Brentwood home Marilyn Monroe
- 1962 Arrested near Howick Nelson Mandela
- 1962 Advanced headquarters on Peleng Island Suharto
- 1962 High and Low location shoot Akira Kurosawa
- 1962 State visit to West Germany Charles de Gaulle
- 1962 Eiffel Tower television performance Édith Piaf
- 1962 Olympia performances with Théo Sarapo Édith Piaf
- 1962 Tenth Pugwash Conference in London Hideki Yukawa
- 1962 Return visit to Leningrad Igor Stravinsky
- 1962 Return visit to Moscow Igor Stravinsky
- 1962 Visit to Nigeria Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1962 Committed the nation at Rice University John F. Kennedy
- 1962 Assaulted at SCLC conference Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1962 State visit to France Olav V
- 1962 Conference at UN Headquarters on West New Guinea U Thant
- 1962 Arrival at Washington National Airport Ahmed Sékou Touré
- 1962 Tchin-Tchin on Broadway Anthony Quinn
- 1962 Hospitalization at Veterans Memorial Medical Center Emilio Aguinaldo
- 1962 Birth in Honolulu Kelly Preston
- 1962 State arrival at Ciampino Airport Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 1962 Bolshoi Theatre appearance during missile crisis Nikita Khrushchev
- 1962 State visit to Scotland Olav V
- 1962 Second Vatican Council participation Pope John Paul II
- 1962 Joins Trinity College Rajiv Gandhi
- 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis visit U Thant
- 1962 Death at East 74th Street home Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1962 Imprisoned in Pretoria Nelson Mandela
- 1962 Death at Carlsberg home Niels Bohr
- 1962 Sino-Indian mediation conferences Sirimavo Bandaranaike