* 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

* 1962 – Hugh Dennis, English actor and comedian

* 1962 – Hugh Page, South African cricketer

The Labour Party in Opposition had been divided on the issue, with former party leader Hugh Gaitskell having come out in 1962 in opposition to Britain joining the Community.

He founded the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. As a biographer, he is remembered for his Hugh Walpole ( 1952 ), as an editor, for his Collected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( 1962 ), and, as both editor and part-author, for the Lyttelton / Hart-Davis Letters.

* Hugh O ' Connor ( 1962 – 1995 ), actor, son of Carroll O ' Connor

* Hugh Downs ( 1962 – 1971 )

In 1962, while he was in Rome, filming Cleopatra, O ' Connor and his wife adopted a six-day-old boy, naming him Hugh after O ' Connor's brother who had died a year earlier.

* Hugh M. Hefner, The Playboy Philosophy, Playboy Magazine, December 1962 through May 1965 issues.

Peter Hugh Dennis ( born 13 February 1962 ) is an English actor, comedian, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist, best known for being one half of Punt and Dennis with comedy partner Steve Punt and their long-running radio satire show The Now Show and his position as a permanent panellist on the TV satirical comedy show Mock the Week.

* Exit Muttering ( 1962 ) A 2-act comedy first performed at the Grenville Street Playhouse, directed by Hugh Webster, with set design by Vincent Vaitiekunas.

* Hugh Dalton ( 1887 – 1962, b. Gnoll ), Labour politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945-1947.

# Conway Ronald Hugh Seymour ( b. 1962 ), only son of Conway William Hugh Seymour

* Charles Oswald Hugh Clifford, 11th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh ( 1887 – 1962 )

* Evelyn Hugh John Boscawen, 8th Viscount Falmouth ( 1887 – 1962 )

# Robert Hugh Manners ( b. 1962 ), third and youngest son of Hon.

Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton PC ( 16 August 1887 – 13 February 1962 ) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947, when he was implicated in a political scandal involving budget leaks.

Sugden's first regular sitcom role was from 1962 to 1966 when she played Mrs. Crispin in the sitcom Hugh and I. Hugh and I was written by John T. Chapman and when he got involved with The Liver Birds, he suggested Sugden for the role of Sandra's mother, Mrs Hutchinson.

* Sir Hugh Fraser ( 1918 – 1984 ), Secretary of State for Air, 1962 – 1964

Hugh Keenleyside served as the chairman of the British Columbia Power Commission and co-chairman at the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority from 1962 to 1969.

Manager Lenny Bruce brought Romney to California in 1962 where Romney did a live recording of Hugh Romney, Third Stream Humor as the opening act for Thelonious Monk at Club Renaissance in Los Angeles.

* Hugh Shaw 1961 – 1962

He gave Hugh MacDiarmid a roof over his head in London in 1934 ( MacDiarmid returned the compliment in When the Rat-Race Is Over ; an essay in honour of the fiftieth birthday of John Gawsworth ( 1962 )).