* 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

His fame brought him appearances on The Jack Paar Show ( 1957 – 1962 ) and he published two books of predictions.

Later, he guest starred on NBC's medical drama The Eleventh Hour in the role of Hal Kincaid in the 1962 episode " Make Me a Place ", with series co-stars Wendell Corey and Jack Ging.

* 1962: Dylan Thomas, a short, Oscar-winning, documentary film with Richard Burton as narrator, directed by Jack Howells.

On October 1, 1962, Groucho, after acting as occasional guest host of The Tonight Show during the six-month interval between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson, introduced Carson as the new host.

Cagney's daughter Cathleen married Jack W. Thomas in 1962.

Jack Turner initiated the name " kiwifruit " around 1962

In 1962 Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger showed that more than one type of neutrino exists by first detecting interactions of the muon neutrino ( already hypothesised with the name neutretto ), which earned them the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Though Ashburn and Roberts were gone, younger pitchers Art Mahaffey, Chris Short, and rookie Ray Culp ; veterans Jim Bunning and screwballer Jack Baldschun ; and fan favorites Cookie Rojas, Johnny Callison, and NL Rookie of the Year Richie Allen brought the team within a hairsbreadth of the World Series in 1964 after strong showings in 1962 and 1963.

The muon neutrino was discovered in 1962 by Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, and the tau discovered between 1974 and 1977 by Martin Lewis Perl and his colleagues from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The algorithm was developed by Jack E. Bresenham in 1962 at IBM.

In the 1961 – 1962 season, Cass and Jack Weston costarred in an ABC sitcom, The Hathaways, along with the Marquis Chimps, a chimpanzee showbiz troupe which served as her " children " on the show.

Jack Cox, an oil equipment executive from Houston and the 1962 Republican gubernatorial nominee, was born in Stephens County in 1921.

UPA produced two full-length feature films in its tenure: a 1959 feature starring Mr. Magoo entitled 1001 Arabian Nights, directed by Jack Kinney ; and Gay Purr-ee in 1962, directed by Abe Levitow.

* Jack Trudeau former University of Illinois and Indianapolis Colts quarterback was born in Forest Lake in 1962.

* Jack H. Jacobs ( born 1945 ), graduated 1962 ; Medal of Honor recipient, awarded 1969.

In December 1962, a Ring magazine poll of 40 boxing experts had Jack Dempsey rated the # 1 Heavyweight of all time, with Joe Louis 2nd, Jack Johnson 3rd and Marciano 7th.

The model was introduced by Jack Treynor ( 1961, 1962 ), William Sharpe ( 1964 ), John Lintner ( 1965a, b ) and Jan Mossin ( 1966 ) independently, building on the earlier work of Harry Markowitz on diversification and modern portfolio theory.

Rumours that Prince Albert Victor may have committed, or been responsible for, the Jack the Ripper murders were first mentioned in print in 1962.

American novelist Jack Kerouac dismissed it in Big Sur ( 1962 ) and it has had a long history of mixed critical reception and opinion at large.

* The Tonight Show ( Steve Allen, 1954 – 1957 ; Jack Paar, 1957 – 1962 ).

They married in 1962, although Jack was to live only until 1966.

While some scientists, such as Sueoka ( 1962 ), had hinted that perhaps neutral mutations were widespread, a coherent theory of neutral evolution was first formalized by Motoo Kimura in 1968, followed by a 1969 article by Jack L. King and Thomas H. Jukes, " Non-Darwinian Evolution ".

The film was adapted by Harold Pinter from the 1962 novel of the same name by Penelope Mortimer, and was directed by Jack Clayton.