* 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 Japan, experiments in computer music date back to 1962, when Keio University professor Sekine and Toshiba engineer Hayashi experimented with the TOSBAC computer.

The site is publicly accessible. Alos known as Although one of the largest kofun monuments in Japan, archaeological investigations in 1962 – 1963 indicate that it was constructed in the early 5th century, and that portions of it were destroyed during the construction of Heijo-kyō, calling into question the designation by the Imperial Household Agency.

In Japan, a color version remake of director Kenji Mizoguchi's The 47 Ronin, entitled Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki directed by Hiroshi Inagaki was released in 1962, the legendary story was also remade as a television series in Japan.

Perhaps the two most important factors in North Korea's attempts to obtain nuclear weapons and become militarily self-reliant were the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 and the prospect of a US – Japan – ROK alliance following the 1965 establishment of diplomatic relations between the ROK and Japan.

He was granted honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1933 ; in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1955 ; the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, in 1955 ; the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, in 1962 ; was elected Corresponding Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Berlin, in 1955 ; member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists, Leopoldina ( Halle-Saale ) in 1956 ; Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen, in 1962 ; Vice-President of the International Union of Physics from 1951 to 1957 ; President and first honorary member of the Polarographic Society, London ; honorary member of the Polarographic Society of Japan ; honorary member of the Chemical Societies of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, England and India.

In 1962 he visited Japan, where Gagaku music and Noh theatre inspired the orchestral " Japanese sketches ", Sept haïkaï, which contain stylised imitations of traditional Japanese instruments.

Brazil is the only team to have won the championship in four different continents ; once in Europe ( 1958 Sweden ), once in South America ( 1962 Chile ), twice in North America ( 1970 Mexico and 1994 USA ) and once in Asia ( 2002 Korea / Japan ).

The bridge was built in 1962 and was built using the spoils of Japan and Japanese experts.

In 1962, Blassie had a feud with Japanese wrestling icon Rikidōzan that established his reputation in Japan.

In 1962, Ray traveled through Japan, India, Laos and Nepal, though he was unable to enter Tibet due to the Chinese occupation.

Founded in 1962 in Japan by Tsutomu Kato and Tadashi Osanai, Korg was originally known as and later because its fledgling offices were located near the Keio train line in Tokyo and Keio can be formed by combining the first letters of Kato and Osanai.

* Further television or film adaptations of An American Tragedy have been produced in Brazil ( Um Lugar ao Sol, TV series, 1959, director: Dionísio Azevedo ), Italy (": it: Una tragedia americana ", Rai 1, 1962, regista: Anton Giulio Majano ), Czechoslovakia ( Americká tragédia, TV series, 1976, director: Stanislav Párnicky ), Philippines ( Nakaw na pag-ibig, film, 1980, director: Lino Brocka ) and Japan ( Hi no ataru basho, TV series, 1982, director: Masami Ryuji ).

He also published articles on subjects that had been very little studied until that time, such as sound symbolism in Korean ( 1962 ) and speech styles in Japan and Korea ( 1964 ).

Further important studies were carried out by Riehm ( 1970 ) in Germany and Nakamura ( 1962, 1967, 1969, 1972 ) in Japan.

Knight set out on a trip around the world after graduation, during which he made a stop in Kobe, Japan, in November 1962.

* Nawa, Yumio ( 1962 ) Kakushi Buki Soran ( An Overview of Hidden Weapons ) Japan

The Ventures visited Japan in 1962, causing the widespread embrace of the electric guitar called the " Eleki Boom ".

Tetsuo Shinohara ( 篠原 哲雄 Shinohara Tetsuo, born 9 February 1962 in Tokyo, Japan ) is a Japanese film director.

By 1962, when Revlon debuted in Japan, there were subsidiaries in France, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, and Asia.

Since the league was split into the Central League and the Pacific League, the Tigers have won the Central League pennant five times ( 1962, 1964, 1985, 2003, 2005 ) and the Japan Series once ( 1985 ).

*, launched in 1943, was a that saw use from 1943 to 1945, before being loaned to the Soviet Navy and then in 1962 to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as Shii.