* 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

* 1890 – Jacques Ibert, French composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.

* 1878 – Léon Binoche, French rugby player ( d. 1962 )

* 1900 – Gontran de Poncins, French writer and adventurer ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Pierre Carles, French documentarist

Bézier curves were widely publicized in 1962 by the French engineer Pierre Bézier, who used them to design automobile bodies.

In 1962, the independence of Algeria threatened French nuclear testing sites within that nation.

* 1875 – Émile Wegelin, French rower ( d. 1962 )

Renaud Garcia-Fons ( born 1962 ) is a French double-bass player and composer, notable for drawing on jazz, folk, and Asian music for recordings of his pieces like Oriental Bass ( 1997 ).

* Leymarie, Jean, French Painting, the 19th century, Cleveland ( 1962 )

* --------, 1962 ( French ), 1976 ( English ).

Since 1962, when France stationed military personnel in the region, French Polynesia has changed from a subsistence economy to one in which a high proportion of the work force is either employed by the military or supports the tourist industry.

* 1962 – Philippe Sella, French rugby player

* 1962 – French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.

* 1962 – Philippe Claudel, French writer and film director

The French Revolution ( 1962 )

* 1962 – The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.

* 1885 – André Lhote, French painter ( d. 1962 )

* 1872 – Albert Sarraut, French politician ( d. 1962 )

These films, influenced by one of Anderson ' heroes, the French filmmaker Jean Vigo, and made in the tradition of the British documentaries of Humphrey Jennings, foreshadowed much of the social realism of British cinema that emerged in the next decade, with Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ), Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) and Anderson's own This Sporting Life ( 1963 ), produced by Reisz.

The revised Constitution of Monaco, proclaimed in 1962, abolished capital punishment, provided for female suffrage, established a Supreme Court to guarantee fundamental liberties and made it difficult for a French national to transfer his or her residence there.

* 1962 – Nicolas Vanier, French adventurist, writer, and director

* 1916 – Justin Catayée, French politician ( d. 1962 )