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Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. Events January March April - April 20 – New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North.
May June - June 3 – Air France Flight 007 over-shoots the runway at Orly Airport in Paris; 130 of 132 passengers are killed, 2 flight attendants survive. Most victims are cultural and civic leaders of Atlanta, Georgia.
- June 6 – President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
- June 11
- June 15 – Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement.
- June 17
- June 22 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board. It is the airline's second fatal accident in just 3 weeks, and the third fatal 707 crash of the year.
- June 25
- June 26 – A 2-day steel strike begins in Italy, in support of increased wages and a 5-day working week.
- June 28 – The United Lutheran Church in America, Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, American Evangelical Lutheran Church, and Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church merge to form the Lutheran Church in America.
- June 30 – The last soldiers of the French Foreign Legion leave Algeria.
July August September - September 1
- A referendum in Singapore supports the Malayan Federation.
- Typhoon Wanda strikes Hong Kong, killing at least 130 and wounding more than 600.
- September 2 – The Soviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba.
- September 8 – Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
- September 12 – President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
- September 19 – Atlantic College opens it doors for the first time, marking the birth of the pioneering UWC educational movement.
- September 21
- A border conflict between China and India erupts into fighting.
- New Musical Express, a British music magazine, publishes a story about two 13-year-old schoolgirls, Sue and Mary, releasing a disc on Decca and adds "A Liverpool group, The Beatles, have recorded 'Love Me Do' for Parlophone Records, set for October 5 release."
- September 25 – Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson fight for the boxing world title.
- September 26 – Civil war erupts in Yemen.
- September 27
- September 28 – Prime Minister Ahmed Ben Bella founds the first government in Algeria.
- September 29 – The Canadian Alouette 1, the first satellite built outside the United States and the Soviet Union, is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
- September 30 – CBS broadcasts the final episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, marking the end of the Golden Age of Radio.
October October 14: Pictures of Soviet missile silos in Cuba, taken by US spy planes. November - November 1
- The Soviets begin dismantling their missiles in Cuba.
- The first issue of Diabolik is published in Italy.
- November 3 – The term "personal computer" is first mentioned by the media.[3]
- November 5
- Franz Josef Strau , the West German defense minister, is relieved of his duties over the Spiegel scandal, due to his alleged involvement in police action against the magazine.
- Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt, following a period of unrest partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt.
- A coal mining disaster in Ny- lesund kills 21 people. The Norwegian government is forced to resign in the aftermath of this accident in August, 1963.
- November 6 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies, and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
- November 7 – Richard M. Nixon loses the California governor's race. In his concession speech, he states that this is his "last press conference" and that "you don't have Nixon to kick around any more".
- November 17 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport.
- November 20 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the blockade of the Caribbean nation.
- November 23 – United Airlines Flight 297 crashes in Columbia, Maryland, killing all 17 on board.
- November 26
- November 27 – French President Charles De Gaulle orders Georges Pompidou to form a government.
- November 29 – An agreement is signed between Britain and France to develop the Concorde supersonic airliner.
- November 30 – The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.
December - December 2 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a non-optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
- December 7 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his formerly autocratic power to several advisory and legislative councils.
- December 8
- December 9 – Tanganyika (now Tanzania) becomes a republic within the Commonwealth, with Julius Nyerere as president.
- MGM's The Wizard of Oz receives its last of four December telecasts on CBS. It will skip a telecast in 1963, so beginning in 1964, first on CBS, then on NBC, and finally again on CBS, it will nearly always be telecast during the early part of the year until Turner Entertainment buys the rights to the film in the 1990s.
- December 10 – David Lean's epic film Lawrence of Arabia, featuring Peter O' Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and Anthony Quinn premieres in London. Six days later, it opens in the U.S.
- December 11
- In West Germany, a coalition government of Christian Democrats, Christian Socialists, and Free Democrats is formed.
- The last execution by hanging in Canada takes place.
- December 14
- U.S. spacecraft Mariner 2 flies by Venus, becoming the first probe to successfully transmit data from another planet.
- The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa was assessed for insurance purposes at US$100 million, before the painting toured the United States for several months. It is the highest insurance value for a painting in history. However, the Louvre chose to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.
- December 15 – Storm over North Sea. Belgian pirate radio station Radio Uylenspiegel is knocked off the airwaves, never to operate again.
- December 19 – Britain acknowledges the right of Nyasaland (now Malawi) to secede from the Central African Federation.
- December 21 – Britain agrees to purchase Polaris missiles from the U.S.
- December 22 – "Big Freeze" in Britain: There are no frost-free nights until March 5, 1963.
- December 24 – Cuba releases the last 1,113 participants in the Bay of Pigs Invasion to the U.S., in exchange for food worth $53 million.
- December 30
- United Nations troops occupy the last rebel positions in Katanga; Moise Tshombe moves to South Rhodesia.
- An unexpected storm buries Maine under five feet of snow, forcing the Bangor Daily News to miss a publication date for the first and only time in history. The same day, also the Netherlands are covered with several feet of snow.
Date unknown Births January–February - January 3 – Guy Pratt, English musician and songwriter
- January 4 – Natalya Bochina, Russian athlete
- January 5 – Suzy Amis, American actress and model
- January 11 – Kim Coles, American actress and comedian
- January 13 – Kevin Mitchell, American baseball player
- January 14 – Michael McCaul, American politician
- January 17 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
- January 18 – Mike Lynch, American cartoonist
- January 20
- January 21
- January 22
- January 23 – Richard Roxburgh, Australian actor
- January 25 – Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
- January 28
- January 30 – King Abdullah II of Jordan
- February 1 – Takashi Murakami, Japanese pop artist
- February 2 – Andy Fordham, English darts player
- February 3
- February 4 – Clint Black, American country musician
- February 5 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
- February 6 – Axl Rose, American rock singer
- February 7
- February 8 – Malorie Blackman, British-born author
- February 9 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
- February 10
- February 11 – Sheryl Crow, American singer
- February 12
- February 13 – An bal Acevedo Vil , American politician
- February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
- February 18 – Julie Strain, American actress and model
- February 21
- February 22
- February 25 – Birgit Fischer, German kayaker
- February 27 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
- February 28 – Angela Bailey, Canadian athlete
March–April - March 1 – Melanie Moore, American pornographic actress
- March 2
- March 3
- March 4 - Simon Bisley, British comic book artist
- March 6
- March 7 – Taylor Dayne, American singer
- March 8 – Cecilia Yip, Hong Kong actress
- March 10 – Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer/songwriter
- March 11 – Barbara Alyn Woods, American actress
- March 12 – Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player
- March 16 – Branco Mello, Brazilian singer, actor and writer
- March 18
- March 19 – Iv n Calder n, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player (d. 2003)
- March 20 – Stephen Sommers, American film director
- March 21
- March 23
- March 24 – Star Jones, American talk show host and publisher
- March 25 – Marcia Cross, American actress
- March 26 – John Stockton, American basketball player
- March 27
- March 29 – Ted Failon, Filipino broadcast journalist and radio commentator
- March 30
- April 1
- April 2 – Mark Shulman, American children's author
- April 5 – Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of Kalmykia and FIDE
- April 7 – Hugh O'Connor, American actor (d. 1995)
- April 9 – Imran Sherwani, British field hockey player
- April 10
- April 11 – Vincent Gallo, American actor
- April 12
- April 13 – Jennifer Rubin, American actress/model
- April 15
- April 19 – Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
- April 20 – Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf (Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr.), American comedian (d. 2001)
- April 23 – John Hannah, Scottish actor
- April 24 – Steve Roach, Australian champion rugby league prop forward
- April 26
May–June - May 2
- May 3 – Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
- May 8 – Natalia Molchanova, Russian free-diver
- May 10 – David Fincher, American film director
- May 12 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
- May 13
- May 14
- May 17
- May 19 – Frances Ondiviela, Spanish/Mexican actress
- May 20 – Mike Jeffries, American soccer coach
- May 22 – Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
- May 24 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (d. 2003)
- May 26 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor and comedian
- May 27 – Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer
- May 28
- May 30 – Timo Soini, Finnish politician
- May 31
- June 1 – Sherri Howard, American athlete
- June 4
- June 5 – Jeff Garlin, American comedian
- June 7 – Thierry Hazard, French singer and songwriter
- June 8 – Suzy Gorman, American photographer
- June 10
- June 11
- June 12
- June 13
- June 14 – Emilija Er i , Yugoslav (Serbian) handball player
- June 15
- June 16 – Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
- June 17 – Lio, Belgian singer/actress
- June 18
- June 19 – Paula Abdul, American dancer, choreographer, and singer
- June 21
- June 22
- June 23 – Kari Takko, Finnish ice hockey player
- June 26
- June 27
- June 28 – Don Chambers, American newspaper comic strip artist
- June 29
- June 30
July–August - July 1 – Andre Braugher, American actor
- July 3
- July 4
- July 5 – Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (d. 2008)
- July 8 – Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter
- July 11 – Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
- July 12
- July 13
- July 14 – Jeff Olson, American percussionist (Trouble)
- July 15 – Michelle Ford, Australian swimmer
- July 18
- July 19
- July 20
- July 21 – Rob Morrow, American actor
- July 22 – Steve Albini, American musician
- July 23 – Eriq LaSalle, American actor
- July 24 – Johnny O'Connell, American race car driver
- July 26
- July 28 – Ray Shero, American hockey manager
- July 29 – Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler
- July 30 – Alton Brown, American television host and chef
- July 31
- August 1 – Robert Clift, British field hockey player
- August 2 – Cynthia Stevenson, American actress
- August 4 – Roger Clemens, American baseball player
- August 5 – Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-born basketball player
- August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-born Hong Kong actress
- August 7 – Bruno Pelletier, Canadian singer
- August 8 – Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player
- August 13 – John Slattery, American actor
- August 14 – Kevin Harris, Canadian skateboarder
- August 15 – Tom Colicchio, American chef
- August 16
- August 17 – Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, German actor and director
- August 18 – Felipe Calder n Hinojosa, President of Mexico
- August 19 – Val rie Kaprisky, French actress
- August 20
- August 21
- August 24 – Craig Kilborn, American talk show host
- August 25 – Theresa Andrews, American swimmer
- August 26
- August 27 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
- August 29
- August 30 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian ex-KGB colonel and ex-FSB lieutenant-colonel (d. 2006)
- August 31
September–October - September 1 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
- September 6 – Chris Christie, 55th governor of New Jersey
- September 7 – Kylie InGold, Australian fantasy artist
- September 8 – Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
- September 11
- September 12 – Amy Yasbeck, American actress
- September 15
- September 17 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
- September 19 – Gottfried von Bismarck, controversial German aristocrat and socialite (d. 2007)
- September 24
- September 25 – Aida Turturro, American actress
- September 26
- September 27 – Kimberly Carson, American pornographic actress
- September 28 – Grant Fuhr, Canadian hockey player
- September 30 – Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager
- October 1 – Esai Morales, American actor
- October 2 – James Hunter, English singer
- October 3 – Tommy Lee, American rock musician and drummer
- October 5 – Caron Keating, British TV presenter (d. 2004)
- October 6 – Rich Yett, American baseball player
- October 11
- October 12
- October 13
- October 16
- October 19
- October 21 – Miki Ito, Japanese seiyuu
- October 23
- October 24 – Jay Novacek, American football player
- October 25
- October 26 – Cary Elwes, British actor
- October 27
- October 28 – Daphne Zuniga, American actress
- October 30 – Courtney Walsh, West Indian cricketer
November December - November 1
- November 3
- November 4 – Jeff Probst, American television personality
- November 6 – Aznil Nawawi, Malaysian TV host
- November 7 – Bettina Hoy, German equestrienne
- November 11
- November 12 – Neal Shusterman, American author
- November 13 – Steve Altes, American humorist
- November 14
- November 15 – Judy Gold, American comedian and actress
- November 17 – Jamie Moyer, American baseball player
- November 18 – Kirk Hammett, American rock musician (Metallica)
- November 19
- November 21 – Steven Curtis Chapman, American Christian musician
- November 22 – Sumi Jo, Korean operatic soprano
- November 24
- November 27 – Marumi Shiraishi, Japanese actress
- November 28 – Jon Stewart, American actor and comedian
- November 29 – Andrew McCarthy, American actor
- November 30
- December 1
- December 3 – Tammy Jackson, American basketball player
- December 4 – Anna Walker, British television presenter
- December 5 – Jos Cura, Argentine tenor
- December 6 – Janine Turner, American actress
- December 9 – Felicity Huffman, American actress
- December 10 – Scott Capurro, American comedian
- December 11
- December 12
- December 14 – Yvonne Ryding, Swedish pageant winner (Miss Universe 1984)
- December 16 – Maruschka Detmers, Dutch actress
- December 17
- December 19 – Jill Talley, American actress
- December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor
- December 23 – Keiji Mutoh, Japanese professional wrestler
- December 27
- December 28
- December 30 – Alessandra Mussolini, Italian politician
Date unknown Deaths January–February - January 4 – Hans Lammers, German Nazi minister (b. 1879)
- January 6 – Marziyya Davudova, Azerbaijani actress (b. 1901)
- January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, American TV comedian (b. 1919)
- January 19 – Snub Pollard, American actor (b. 1889)
- January 20 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (b. 1887)
- January 26 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster (b. 1897)
- January 29 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)
- February 1 – Carey Wilson, American screenwriter (b. 1889)
- February 2 – Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-born Israeli biochemist (b. 1914)
- February 5 – Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890)
- February 6
- February 7 – Clara Nordstr m, German writer and translator (b. 1886)
- February 10 – Eduard von Steiger, President of Switzerland (b. 1881)
- February 17
- February 19
- February 20 – Halliwell Hobbes, English actor (b. 1877)
- February 24 – Hu Shi, Chinese liberal (b. 1891)
- February 27 – Willie Best, American actor (b. 1916)
- February 28 – Chic Johnson, American actor (b. 1891)
March–April May–June - May 5 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
- May 13
- May 27 – Egon Petri, German pianist (b. 1881)
- May 31
- June 2 – Vita Sackville-West, English writer and landscape gardener (b. 1892)
- June 4 – Charles William Beebe, American oceanic pioneer (b. 1877)
- June 6
- June 7 – Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist (b. 1879)
- June 8 – Eug ne Freyssinet, French civil engineer (b. 1879)
- June 12 – John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
- June 13 – Eug ne Aynsley Goossens, English composer (b. 1893)
- June 15 – Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (b. 1877)
- June 19
- June 24 – Lucile Watson, Canadian actress of stage & screen (b. 1879)
- June 27 – Paul Viiding, Estonian poet, author and literary critic (b. 1904)
- June 28 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (b. 1903)
July–August - July 4 – Rex Bell, American actor (b. 1903)
- July 6
- July 8 – Georges Bataille, French writer (b. 1897)
- July 10 – Yehuda Leib Maimon, Bassarabian-born Israeli rabbi and government minister (b. 1875)
- July 12 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
- July 13 – Jerry Wald, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1911)
- July 21 – G. M. Trevelyan, English historian (b. 1876)
- July 23 – Victor Moore, American actor (b. 1876)
- July 27 – Richard Aldington, English poet (b. 1892)
- July 30 – Myron McCormick, American actor (b. 1908)
- August 5 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)
- August 6 – ngel Borlenghi, Argentine labor leader and politician (b. 1904)
- August 9 – Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- August 15 – Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940)
- August 18 – Cleo Ridgely, American actress (b. 1893)
- August 23 – Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)
- August 24 – Mykolas Bir i ka, Lithuanian politician (b. 1882)
- August 28 – John Collum, American actor (b. 1926)
September–October - September 3 – E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
- September 6 – Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (b. 1898)
- September 7
- September 18 – Ahmad bin Yahya, King of Yemen (b. 1891)
- September 19 – Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright (b. 1900)
- September 20 – Conrad Helfrich, Dutch admiral (b. 1886)
- September 24
- October 2
- October 6 – Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1882)
- October 9 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player (b. 1885)
- October 10 – Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and lecturer (b. 1891)
- October 20 – Jes s Herrera, Spanish international footballer (b. 1938)
- October 26 – Louise Beavers, American actress (b. 1902)
- October 27 – Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (plane crash) (b. 1906)
November–December - November 7 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
- November 15 – Irene Lentz, American costume designer (b. 1900)
- November 18 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
- November 22 – Ren Coty, President of France (b. 1882)
- November 28 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)
- November 29 – Erik Scavenius, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1877)
- December 7 – Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (b. 1895)
- December 10 – Robert C. Giffen, American admiral (b. 1886)
- December 15 – Charles Laughton, English actor and director (b. 1899)
- December 16 – Lew Landers, American TV and film director (b. 1901)
- December 17 – Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
- December 18 – Garrett Mattingly, American historian (b. 1900)
- December 20 – Emil Artin, Austrian mathematician (b. 1898)
- December 24 – Wilhelm Ackermann, German mathematician (b. 1896)
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