* 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

* 1910 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish military officer ( d. 1962 )

* September 30 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major ( d. 1962 )

Kekkonen had planned to prevent the parties from forming an anti-Kekkonen alliance to promote Olavi Honka in the 1962 presidential elections by dissolving parliament.

As a result, Honka dropped his candidacy, leaving Kekkonen with a clear majority ( 199 / 300 electors ) in the 1962 elections.

* 1962 – Outi Mäenpää, Finnish actress

Banned movies included The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970 by Finnish director Caspar Wrede and Born American by Finnish director Renny Harlin in 1986.

* 1962 – Michael Monroe, Finnish singer-songwriter and musician ( Hanoi Rocks and Demolition 23 )

* 1962 – Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach

* 1962 – Andy McCoy, Finnish musician Hanoi Rocks

He started his career in 1962 as a radio actor at the Finnish state-owned broadcasting company YLE.

Antti Hulkko ( born 11 October 1962 in Pelkosenniemi, Finland ), better known as Andy McCoy, is a Finnish musician.

From 1962 to 1982 it was the home of the Finnish motorcycle Grand Prix.

Gettier, for many years a professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst later also was interested in the epistemic logic of Hintikka, a Finnish philosopher at Boston University, who published Knowledge and Belief in 1962.

In 1962 the United Lutheran Church in America, the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, and the Danish American Evangelical Lutheran Church formed the Lutheran Church in America.

Michael Fortescue in 1998 proposed a group of Uralo-Siberian languages, in which Uralic languages like Finnish were related to Eskimo-Aleut languages supported by lexical correspondences and grammatical similarities, expanding upon a proposal of Morris Swadesh in 1962 that itself reiterates similarities that have been noted since at least 1746.

* M62 ( camouflage ), a Finnish military camougflage pattern of the year 1962 uniform.

In 1955, he was appointed Associate Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and served as chief conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1962 to 1972.

* Under the North Star, novel trilogy by Finnish author Väinö Linna, published 1959 – 1962

Landmarks of Katajanokka include the Russian Orthodox Cathedral, also known as Uspenski Cathedral ( architect Alexey Gornostaev, 1868 ), the Merikasarmi complex of the Foreign Ministry ( architect Carl Ludvig Engel, 1825 ) and the Finnish headquarters of Stora Enso ( architect Alvar Aalto, 1962 ; the most controversial of Aalto's works ).

From his position as head of the United Lutheran Church in America, Fry engineered a similar move in 1962, organizing the merger of his own church with three other independent bodies –- the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the American Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church –- to form the Lutheran Church in America ( LCA ).

* Finnish championship ( 9 ): 1960, 1962, 1965, 1977, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004

Olli Ilmari Rehn (; born 31 March 1962 in Mikkeli, Finland ) is a Finnish politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro and vice-president of the EC.

Aki Sirkesalo ( July 25, 1962 – December 26, 2004 ) was a Finnish musician and broadcaster.

From 1960 to 1962, Slioor was married to Kalevi Nietosvaara, a Finnish jurist and longtime friend.