Events during the year 1962 in Italy
Incumbents
President – Antonio Segni Prime Minister – Amintore Fanfani
Events 31 May – Voghera train crash: in Voghera a freight train coming from Milan did not respect a red light and crashed into a train full of passengers headed for Liguria, which was stopped on the third track. It was the most serious Italian rail disaster of the post-war period, with 63 victims.
Births
15 January – Margherita Buy, actress 10 February – Piero Pelù, singer and songwriter 2 March – Gabriele Tarquini, race car driver 29 March – Elena Sofia Ricci, actress 23 September – Cosimo Fusco, actor 30 September – Massimo Bottura, Chef and Restaurateur 14 November – Stefano Gabbana, Fashion Designer 30 December – Alessandra Mussolini, former politician, model and singer
Deaths
28 April – Gianna Beretta Molla, saint (born 1922) 20 May – Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, army general (born 1877)
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