* 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 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.

He continued making films, playing Admiral Harriman Nelson in 1961's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, James Haggin in Walt Disney's Big Red ( 1962 ), and as the Senate Majority Leader in Otto Preminger's Advise & Consent.

From 1957 to 1962, Nelson had 30 Top-40 hits, more than any other artist except Presley ( who had 53 ) and Pat Boone ( 38 ).

The new town of Milton added parts of the former township of Esquesing ( most of this township comprises Halton Hills ), all of Nassagaweya Township including the village of Campbellville, and the northern sections of Trafalgar and Nelson from ( a 1962 annexation of the former townships ) Oakville and Burlington respectively.

The group's biggest song, "( We Ain't Got ) Nothin ' Yet ", whose Vox Continental organ riff bears an uncanny resemblance to the 1962 hit by Ricky Nelson, " Summertime " ( Deep Purple also used this riff in their hit " Black Night "), was released as a single in 1967 ( albeit from their 1966 album ), with " Gotta Get Away " as the b-side.

* Shorter atlas of the classical world ( Thomas Nelson and Sons, Edinburgh, 1962 )

* Jeff Nelson ( musician ) ( born 1962 ), rock musician and record label owner

* George Nelson, 1st Baron Nelson of Stafford ( 1887 – 1962 ), British engineer

David's work with other composers includes Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias's " To All the Girls I've Loved Before ", with Albert Hammond ; Sarah Vaughan's " Broken Hearted Melody ", with Sherman Edwards ; the 1962 Joanie Sommers hit " Johnny Get Angry ".

In 1962, Riddle orchestrated two albums for Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson, and Ella Swings Gently with Nelson, their first work together since 1959's Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook.

* 1962 Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson

* 1962 Ella Swings Gently With Nelson

* 1962 The Best of Nelson Riddle

* George Horatio Nelson, 1st Baron Nelson of Stafford ( 1887 – 1962 )

From the Mets ' first game in 1962 through the post-Tom Seaver days of 1978, on radio and television, the Mets games were announced by the trio of Murphy, along with Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Kiner.

Although the bigger Dodges were beginning to appear at drag strips around the country, the Golden Lancer of Dode Martin and Jim Nelson was just about the fastest compact on the strips in 1962.

In 1962, Wiley lost his bid for a fifth term to Governor Gaylord Nelson.

From 1900 to 1950, Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), William Faulkner ( 1897 – 1962 ), Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961 ), John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), Richard Wright ( 1908 – 1960 ), William Saroyan ( 1908 – 1981 ), Nelson Algren ( 1909 – 1981 ), Paul Bowles ( 1910 – 1999 ), Jerome Salinger ( 1919 – 2009 ), Norman Mailer ( 1923 – 2007 ), and Gore Vidal ( 1925 – 2012 ).

In " Yuppy Love ", Del states that the Trotter family have been living at Nelson Mandela House since 1962, and that Rodney was born in the flat.

Percy's daughter Mary was married to Nelson Rockefeller from 1930 to 1962, before he served as Vice President of the United States.

Jeff Nelson ( born 1962 in Washington, D. C .) is an American hardcore punk drummer.