* 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

* Homage to Friends from Montparnasse by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska ( Marevna ), c. 1962, oil / canvas, top left to right: Diego Rivera, Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, his wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, galerie owner Leopold Zborowski ; bottom left to right: Marevna, her and Diego Rivera's daughter Marika, ( Amedeo Modigliani ), Moise Kisling.

His circle of close friends, which included Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani and Modigliani's wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Léopold Zborowski, and Moise Kisling, was captured for posterity by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska ( Marevna ) in her painting " Homage to Friends from Montparnasse " ( 1962 ).< ref >

* Marevna, " Homage to Friends from Montparnasse " ( 1962 ) Top left to right: Diego Rivera, Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, his wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Leopold Zborowski.

The previous directors were Olav Midttun ( 1934 – 1947, except during the Nazi occupation ), Kaare Fostervoll ( 1948 – 1962 ), Hans Jacob Ustvedt ( 1962 – 1971 ), Torolf Elster ( 1972 – 1981 ), Bjartmar Gjerde ( 1981 – 1988 ), Einar Førde ( 1989 – 2001 ) and John G. Bernander ( 2001 – 2007 ).

* Marevna, " Homage to Friends from Montparnasse " ( 1962 ) Top left to right: Diego Rivera, Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, his wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Leopold Zborowski.

The painters Maarten van Heemskerck ( as a former church koster, he is buried in the kerstkapel ), Frans Hals ( who was buried in his first wife's grandfather's grave, Nicolaes Ghyblant, but who received his own gravestone in 1962 ), Saenredam himself ( in the South choir way near the entrance ), and Jacob van Ruysdael and Salomon van Ruysdael.

Lombardo wrote the words and music with John Jacob Loeb for Guy Lombardo's stage productions of Arabian Nights ( 1954, 1955 ), Paradise Island ( 1961, 1962 ), and Mardi Gras ( 1965, 1966 ) at Jones Beach, New York.

The medal was awarded to Wesley Clair Mitchell in 1947, John Maurice Clark in 1952, Frank Knight in 1957, Jacob Viner in 1962, Alvin Hansen in 1967, Theodore Schultz in 1972, and Simon Kuznets in 1977.

Jacob Shubert's son, John, took over as head of the operations in the 1950s but died unexpectedly on November 17, 1962 and a year later, Jacob died around age 84.

The first batch of herbicides was unloaded at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam, on January 9, 1962.

In common with the rest of the South Wales coalfield, Aberdare's coal industry commenced a long decline after World War I, and the last two deep mines still in operation in the 1960s were the small Aberaman and Fforchaman collieries, which closed in 1962 and 1965 respectively.

The 1962 tour to South Africa saw the Lions still win 16 of their 25 games, but did not fare well against the Springboks, losing three of the four tests.

For example, they played Rhodesia ( the future Zimbabwe ) in 1910, 1924, 1938, 1955, 1962, 1968 & 1974 during their tours to South Africa.

In addition, they toured pre-independence Namibia ( then South West Africa ), in 1955, 1962, 1968, and 1974.

In 1962 he was selected as Labour candidate for Aberdeen South.

* 1962 – Hugh Page, South African cricketer

* 1962 – Arnold Vosloo, South African actor

* 1962 – Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor

* 1962 – Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter and musician ( The Housemartins and Beautiful South )

In July 1962, the United States tested a thermonuclear weapon high over the South Pacific at around 400 km in the upper atmosphere, in this region, creating an artificial belt of high-energy electrons, and some of them were still around 4 – 5 years later ( such tests are now banned by treaty ).

Regular roll-on roll-off ferry services link the North and South Islands between Wellington and Picton, since 1962.

* 1962 – Sumi Jo, South Korean operatic soprano

* 1962 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.

South Korea's real gross domestic product expanded by an average of more than 8 percent per year, from US $ 2. 7 billion in 1962 to US $ 230 billion in 1989, breaking the trillion dollar mark in 2007.

The EU has been the single largest foreign investor in South Korea since 1962, and accounted for almost 45 % of all FDI inflows into Korea in 2006.

The first official White House guide, published in 1962, suggested a link between Hoban's design for the South Portico, and Château de Rastignac, a neoclassical country house located in La Bachellerie in the Dordogne region of France and designed by Mathurin Salat.

*** 1962 – By mid-1962, the number of U. S. military advisers in South Vietnam had risen from 700 to 12, 000.

In March 1962, SEALs were deployed to South Vietnam as advisors for the purpose of training Army of the Republic of Vietnam commandos in the same methods they were trained themselves.

In, 1962, during Hollings ' term as Governor, the Confederate flag went up above the South Carolina Statehouse where it was flown underneath the US and state flags.

The LGM-30A Minuteman-I was first test-fired on 1 February 1961, and entered into the Strategic Air Command ’ s arsenal in 1962, at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana ; the “ improved ” LGM-30B became operational at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, F. E.

For its first four decades in the National Museum of Natural History, the Hope Diamond lay in its necklace inside a glass-fronted safe as part of the gems and jewelry gallery, except for a few brief excursions: a 1962 exhibition to the Louvre ; the 1965 Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg, South Africa ; and two visits back to Harry Winston's premises in New York City, once in 1984, and once for a 50th anniversary celebration in 1996.

In South America the first forestry school was established in Brazil, in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, in 1962, and moved the next year to become a faculty at the Federal University of Paraná, in Curitiba.

Subsequent Arts Council tours included Rigoletto ( 1960 ; Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales ), Così fan tutte ( 1961 ; New South Wales, Queensland ) and La traviata ( 1962 ; New South Wales, Queensland ), all conducted by Tintner.