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
V. S. Naipaul
in 1962
5 moments here
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad-born British novelist, essayist, and travel writer.…
Walter Brattain
in 1962
1 moment here
American experimental physicist and co-inventor of the point-contact transistor. Brattain’s documented life moved from his birth in Amoy, China,…
William Faulkner
in 1962
1 moment here
American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose work was closely associated with Oxford and north Mississippi.…
Winston Churchill
in 1962
1 moment here
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…
Yang Chen-Ning
in 1962
1 moment here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…
Yasser Arafat
in 1962
1 moment here
Palestinian political leader, founding member of Fatah, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1969 to 2004, and president of the…
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
in 1962
1 moment here
Pakistani barrister and statesman who served as Pakistan’s fourth president (1971–1973) and ninth prime minister (1973–1977).…