* 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

Congressman Walter has been all-powerful in immigration matters, but he has announced plans to retire in 1962.

* 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become " the most trusted man in America ".

Subsequent remakes include Sorrowful Jones ( 1949 ; Bob Hope, Lucille Ball ), 40 Pounds of Trouble ( 1962 ; Tony Curtis ), and Little Miss Marker ( 1980 ; Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Bob Newhart, Tony Curtis ).

* 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.

* Walter Marty " Wally " Schirra, Jr., USN ( 1923 – 2007 ), flew 3 October 1962

* 1885 – Walter Anderson, German folklorist ( d. 1962 )

* 1876 – Bruno Walter, German conductor ( d. 1962 )

* September 15 – Bruno Walter, German conductor ( d. 1962 )

Sir Walter Winterbottom CBE ( 31 January 1913 – 16 February 2002 ) was the first manager of the England football team, serving from 1946 until 1962.

* Walter Karl Koch ( 1880 – 1962 ), German surgeon

Phillip Walter Katz ( November 3, 1962 – April 14, 2000 ) was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the ZIP file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files which ran under DOS.

The Paul V. Galvin Library, designed by architect Walter Netsch in 1962.

Moving images of Walter Cronkite reading the news in his studio every night for six years are gone with the exception of his coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the JFK assassination in 1963.

* Zotz !, a 1947 novel by Walter Karig and a 1962 movie

* A small park in the center of town was created in the 1960s to honor Walter M. Schirra, Jr., astronaut, marked by a plaque that reads " Home of Commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., USN, the first Jerseyman to orbit the Earth, Oct 3, 1962 ".

Bruno Walter ( September 15, 1876February 17, 1962 ) was a German-born conductor.

Bruno Walter died of a heart attack in his Beverly Hills home in 1962.

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. ( November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009 ) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years ( 1962 – 81 ).

On April 16, 1962, Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of the CBS Evening News ( initially Walter Cronkite with the News ), a job in which he became an American icon.

Crenna played " Walter Denton " in the CBS radio and CBS-TV network series Our Miss Brooks, and " Luke McCoy " in ABC's TV comedy series, The Real McCoys, ( 1957 – 63 ), which moved to CBS-TV in September 1962.

* 1962: Walter Lippmann, New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, " for his 1961 interview with Soviet Premier Khrushchev, as illustrative of Lippmann's long and distinguished contribution to American journalism.

Eyewitness to History was a CBS Friday night public affairs program which was initially hosted by veteran broadcaster Charles Kuralt ( 1960 -' 61 ), followed by Walter Cronkite ( 1961 -' 62 ), and Charles Collingwood ( 1962 -' 63 ).

* September 15-Bruno Walter, conductor ( died 1962 )

" By that time, the program had surpassed CBS's evening news program, Douglas Edwards with the News, in ratings and maintained higher viewership levels for much of the 1960s, even after Walter Cronkite took over CBS's competing program ( initially named Walter Cronkite with the News in 1962 and renamed the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite in 1963 ).