* 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

He retired from filmmaking in 1959, soon after receiving his sixth Academy Award nomination for The Last Angry Man ; however, he made a final television appearance in the series Saints and Sinners in 1962.

Alcatraz Island appears often in popular culture, including the films The Book of Eli ( 2010 ), X-Men: The Last Stand ( 2006 ), Catch Me If You Can ( 2002 ), The Rock ( 1996 ), Murder in the First ( 1995 ), Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 ), Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ), and J. J. Abrams ' 2012 television series Alcatraz.

In 1962, Sonny Gianotta recorded a novelty song " The Last Blast Of The Blasted Bugler " based on Gunga Din.

** The Last Plantagenets ( 1962 )

Lucas ( RHD Ltd ) 1950 ; All in Due Time by Humphry House ( RHD Ltd ) 1955 ; George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 ( RHD Ltd ) 1957 ; The Letters of Oscar Wilde ( RHD Ltd ) 1962 ; Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner ( RHD Ltd ) 1964 ; More Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1969 ; Last Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1970 ; A Peep into the Past by Max Beerbohm ( Heinemann ) 1972 ; A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm ( Macmillan ) 1972 ; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ( Cape ) 1976 ; Electric Delights by William Plomer ( Cape ) 1978 ; Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Oxford ) 1979 ; Two Men of Letters ( Michael Joseph ) 1979 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries 1920-1922 3 vols.

They recorded two unsuccessful singles, " You Are My Love At Last " b / w " What Will I Do " and " I'm Afraid " b / w " Till You've Tried Love ", both released in 1962.

The Boy in the Basement, a one-act play written in the early 1950s, but not published until 1962, is his only play that addresses homosexuality overtly, while Archie in The Last Pad and Pinky in Where's Daddy?

* The Avenger ( 1962 ) ( La leggenda di Enea / The Legend Of Aeneas ) a. k. a. The Last Glory of Troy, a. k. a. War of the Trojans ( This was a sequel to " The Trojan Horse " ( 1961 ))

McMurtry has won the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters on three occasions ; in 1962, for Horseman, Pass By ; in 1967, for The Last Picture Show, which he shared with Tom Pendleton's The Iron Orchard ; and in 1986, for Lonesome Dove.

Jennifer Jason Leigh ( born February 5, 1962 ) is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts.

* An authoritative more recent account is David Knowles, ' John Feckenham, Last Abbot of Westminster ', in his Saints and Scholars, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1962, pp. 192 – 202

* Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier ( autobiography ) ( 1962 )

* Marcia o Crepa ( The Legion's Last Patrol / Commando ( 1964 film )) ( 1962 )

* Last letters to a friend 1952-1958 ( 1962 )

From 1960 to 1962, Davis had top ten hits with the songs "( I Can't Help You ) I'm Falling Too ", " My Last Date ( With You )", " Where I Ought to Be " and " Optimistic ".

* The Avenger ( 1962 ) ( La leggenda di Enea / The Legend Of Aeneas ) this was a sequel to " The Trojan Horse " ( a. k. a. The Last Glory of Troy or War of the Trojans )

* Commando ( 1964 film ) the American International Pictures title of a 1962 film Marcia o Crepa known as The Legion's Last Patrol in the UK

As a filmmaker he is known for his Venice ' 58 Grand Prix winner The Last Day of Summer ( Ostatni dzień lata, 1958 ), All Souls ' Day ( Zaduszki, 1961 ), as well as for his masterpieces Salto ( 1962 ) and How Far Away, How Near ( Jak daleko stąd, jak blisko ( 1973 )), as well as film adaptations: of Nobel Prize Winner Czeslaw Milosz book Dolina Issy ( 1982 ), and of Adam Mickiewicz's epic poem Dziady-Lawa ( 1990 ).

The bassist on " Last Night " was Donald " Duck " Dunn, but he left the Mar-Keys in 1962 to join Ben Branch's big band.

He worked as a lyricist for Donald Swann's revues and musicals in the 1950s and in 1962, produced an album " Putting out the Dustbin " with Sheila Hancock, with the song " Last Cigarette " on failing to give up smoking that became a minor hit.

In 1961-62 he featured as the regular character Miguel Garetta in all 26 episodes of the British spy series Top Secret, and in 1962 he played Herr Straffen in The Last Man Out ( tv series 1962 ), a TV series by Shaun Sutton, followed two years later by a major part of an episode of The Avengers TV series.

Alonzo Bodden (; born June 13, 1962 ) is an American comedian and actor known for winning the grand prize in the third season of the reality-television series Last Comic Standing.

* TV series Twilight Zone ( 1962 ) – In episode The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank