* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

** Atlas Major, a Standard Motor Company van 1962 – 1963

* Atlas ( 1927 – 1962 ), a LMS Royal Scot Class steam locomotive

* 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms ' First Piano Concerto.

* 1903 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Iris Häussler, German artist

* 1901 – Lowell Stockman, American politician ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Art Alexakis, American singer, composer, and guitarist ( Everclear, Colorfinger, and The Easy Hoes )

* 1962 – Nobuhiko Takada, Japanese mixed martial arts fighter and wrestler

* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

* 1962 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor, singer, and director

* 1962 – Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

* 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor

* 1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress

* 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Louis Lipps, American football player

* 1962 – Kevin Mack, American football player

* 1962 – John " Hot Rod " Williams, American basketball player

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1890 – Ellen Osiier, Danish fencer ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Thanos Kalliris, Greek singer-songwriter ( Bang )

* 1962 – John Slattery, American actor

In 1962, Day appeared with Cary Grant in That Touch of Mink.

Moore married Grant Tinker, a CBS executive ( later chairman of NBC ), in 1962, and in 1970 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises, which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Dolenz went to Ulysses S. Grant High School in Valley Glen, Los Angeles, California, and graduated in 1962.

* P. Elmo Futrell, Jr., mayor of Pineville, 1962 – 1966, was originally from Grant Parish.

* Joe D. Smith, Jr., the publisher of the Alexandria Daily Town Talk from 1962 until his retirement in 1996, was a native of Grant Parish.

Curtis, a James Bond fan, based the appearance of Captain Grey on Sean Connery and Destiny Angel on Ursula Andress, Connery's co-star in the 1962 Bond film Dr No. Meanwhile, the character of Lieutenant Green was sculpted on its voice actor, Cy Grant ; Rhapsody Angel on model and actress Jean Shrimpton ; Melody Angel on singer and actress Eartha Kitt ; and Harmony Angel on actress Tsai Chin.

Ricky, in his violent courtship of Marina follows, in an exaggerated manner, the path of the romantic film genre like those made popular in the late 1950s by Doris Day with various male film stars: Pillow Talk ( 1959 ) with Rock Hudson ; Move Over, Darling ( 1963 ), with James Garner ; and That Touch of Mink ( 1962 ), with Cary Grant.

J. Lee Thompson's Cape Fear ( 1962 ) with Robert Mitchum had a menacing ex-con seeking revenge at an attorney ( Gregory Peck ) and his family, director Stanley Donen's stylish, romantic thriller Charade ( 1963 ), which had numerous plot twists, Identity changes, and a search for hidden loot that stars the pair of Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn on location in Paris.

Selleck graduated from Grant High School, in 1962.

* Oleo ( album ), a 1962 album by jazz guitarist Grant Green

Grant Scott Fuhr ( born September 28, 1962 ) is a Canadian former ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League and former goaltending coach for the Phoenix Coyotes.

In 1962, she played the lead in " The Mavis Grant Story " on the Western series Wagon Train.

* Cary Grant ( September 1962, March 1964, January 1986 )

* William Grant: 1960 – 1962

Grant Alan Show ( born February 27, 1962 ) is an American actor best known for his role on Melrose Place as Jake Hanson, which he played from 1992 to 1997.

Set in 1962 and 1963, the show chronicled the trials and tribulations of the 11-to-12-year-old Oliver Beene ( played by Grant Rosenmeyer ), in first person perspective.

It is often mistakenly believed that photographer Allan Grant was the last to photograph Monroe but Grant took his last picture on July 7, 1962 for a Life Magazine article.

* Ann Sheridan guest-starred in " The Mavis Grant Story " ( 1962 ).

* 1962: William Grant, Lord Grant

Donald Grant Nutter ( November 28, 1915January 25, 1962 ) was an American politician.

Born in Newark, Ohio and a graduate of Oberlin College ( 1962 ), Ward's father was F. Champion Ward, educator and a devisor of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.

Buchanan appeared in more than 100 movies, including Penny Serenade ( 1941 ) with Cary Grant, Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die ( 1942 ), The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ) with Ronald Colman and Jean Arthur, The Man from Colorado ( 1948 ), Cheaper by the Dozen ( 1950 ), She Couldn't Say No ( 1954 ), Ride the High Country ( 1962 ) with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, McLintock!