* 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

* 1962 – Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder

* January 14 – Kerstin Hesselgren, Swedish politician ( d. 1962 )

* Vega Gold Medal, Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography ( 1962 )

In 1962 she was elected the Swedish parliament and in 1962 she was sent as the Swedish delegate to the UN disarmament conference in Geneva, a role she kept until 1973.

In 1962 a Swedish tradition was added called " Santa Lucia ".

This was one the first projects that led to the development of the field of Nautical Archaeology, along with the excavation of the Viking Skuldelev ships at Roskilde in 1962, and the discovery and raising of the Swedish warship the Vasa ( ship ) in 1961.

He relocated to Sweden in 1962 where his recording career began, leading Swedish and Danish groups on radio sessions, and jamming as an unpaid member of Cecil Taylor's band in the winter of 1962-1963.

Between 1962 and 1978 Blix was a member of the Swedish delegation at the Disarmament Conference in Geneva.

James's continuing relevance was affirmed in 2011 when the Swedish DJ Avicii achieved substantial chart success with the song " Levels ", which samples her 1962 song, " Something's Got a Hold On Me ".

* Boethius, Gerda Anders Zorn ;: An international Swedish artist, his life and work ( Stockholm: Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1962 ) Swedish

In the 1962 election campaign the Swedish Social Democratic Party guaranteed that they would build the arena if they won the election.

The play premiered in 1962 in Stockholm, in a Swedish translation by Karl Ragnar Gierow and U. N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.

The next version, a color production by the Swedish studio Sandrews, was directed by Bjarne Henning-Jensen and released in 1962 under the title Kort är sommaren ( Summer is short ).

* The Swedish arts patron and collector Theodor Ahrenberg ( 1912 – 1989 ) settled in with his family in 1962 in the villa " Le Rocher " in Chexbres, where he continued his collecting activities.

Also starting his career working with Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman debuted in 1962 with The Swedish Mistress ( Älskarinnan ), but attracted far wider attention in Sweden when his film 491 was originally banned by the Swedish censors due to its explicit sexual content.

* Max Lorentz ( born 1962 ), Swedish musician, songwriter and producer

Gunde Svan ( born 12 January 1962 in Dala-Järna, Dalarna County ) is a former Swedish cross-country skier and auto racing driver.

Johan Olof Anders Söderberg ( born 14 November 1962 in Bollnäs ) is a Swedish film director and editor.

Gingold played Mayor Shinn's ( Paul Ford ) snooty wife Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn in The Music Man ( 1962 ) ( in which her son Roy Dean ( Leslie Joseph ) also had a small role ), starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones, and was part of the original 1973 Broadway cast of A Little Night Music in the role of the elderly Madame Armfeldt, a former courtesan, this time Swedish, which she reprised in London ( 1975 ) and in the unsuccessful film version of the musical ( 1977 ).