* 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

* Lenda Murray ( born 1962 ), American female bodybuilder

Scott's novelty record " My Brother " ( written by Mitch Murray, released 1962 on PYE ) was based on this schoolboy character ( he dressed in the uniform to sing it on TV ) and received regular airplay on BBC Radio ( in particular Ed ' Stewpot ' Stewart's Saturday and Sunday morning programme Junior Choice which was simultaneous broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and 2 ) for many years.

A Thousand Clowns is a 1962 American play by Herb Gardner, which tells the story of a young boy who lives with his eccentric uncle Murray, who is forced to conform to society in order to keep custody of the boy.

* Fleming, John ( 1962 ) Robert Adam and his Circle John Murray ISBN 0-7195-0000-1

From 1961 to 1962, poet Les Murray resided in Brian Jenkins's Push household at Glen Street, Milsons Point, which became a mecca for associates visiting Sydney from Melbourne and other cities.

Although both have since been demolished, the house built by Horace Darwin, which was known as The Orchard, was donated to Murray Edwards College in 1962 and the site now serves as its primary campus.

The discovery was a great triumph in the study of quark processes, since it was found only after its existence, mass, and decay products had been predicted by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1962 and independently by Yuval Ne ' eman.

* Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore ( 1872 – 1962 ), Scottish soldier, politician and Victoria Cross recipient

Founded in 1962 by Toronto pharmacist Murray Koffler, the Company includes more than 1, 200 stores across Canada.

In the summer of 1962, Dr. A. Michael Noll programmed a digital computer at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey to generate visual patterns solely for artistic purposes.

Both the 1962 play and the movie starred Jason Robards, Jr. as Murray Burns, a charming, unemployed children's show writer with Peter Pan Syndrome, who is forced to choose between social conformity and the probable loss of custody of his 11-year-old nephew to the Child Welfare Bureau.

* Alexander Edward Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore ( 1871 – 1962 )

* Arthur Cecil Murray, 3rd Viscount Elibank ( 1879 – 1962 )

* 1962 — Murray White

Murray spent his youth in Philadelphia before moving to New York City where he began playing with Cecil Taylor: " We played for about a year, just practicing, studying-we went to workshops with Varèse, did a lot of creative things, just experimenting, without a job " He was featured on the influential 1962 concerts in Denmark released as Nefertiti the Beautiful One Has Come.

After Graham's death in 1962, Murray took over the lead role.

Apart from Brenman-Gibson's work, six critical biographies have appeared by the following authors: R. Baird Shuman ( 1962 ); Edward Murray ( 1968 ); Michael Mendelsohn ( 1969 ); Gerald Weales ( 1971 ); Harold Cantor ( 1978 ); and Christopher J. Herr ( 2003 ).

* Murray Gaunt, elected Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament for Huron-Bruce ( 1962 – 81 )

* William Staite Murray ( 1881 – 1962 ), British studio potter

Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles, first published in 1962, is a book on economics by Murray Rothbard, and is one of the most important books in the Austrian School of economics ( others are Ludwig von Mises ' The Theory of Money and Credit and Human Action ).

He became a research fellow in physics at Indiana University in 1960 and worked at the California Institute of Technology from 1962 to 1970, where he worked alongside Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, and William Fowler.

The Fluidic Triode was invented in 1962 by Murray O. Meetze, Jr., a high school student in Heath Springs, S. C.

* Murray Smith ( Canadian politician ), MP for Winnipeg North, 1958 – 1962

* But Still The Stream: a novel of the Murray River ( 1962 )

Alexander Edward Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore VC, DSO, MVO, DL ( 22 April 1872 – 29 January 1962 ), more commonly known by the courtesy title Viscount Fincastle, which he bore until 1907, was a British soldier and politician.