1962

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1962 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1962
MCMLXII
Ab urbe condita2715
Armenian calendar1411
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԱ
Assyrian calendar6712
Baháʼí calendar118–119
Balinese saka calendar1883–1884
Bengali calendar1369
Berber calendar2912
British Regnal year10 Eliz. 2 – 11 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2506
Burmese calendar1324
Byzantine calendar7470–7471
Chinese calendar辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
4658 or 4598
    — to —
壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
4659 or 4599
Coptic calendar1678–1679
Discordian calendar3128
Ethiopian calendar1954–1955
Hebrew calendar5722–5723
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2018–2019
 - Shaka Samvat1883–1884
 - Kali Yuga5062–5063
Holocene calendar11962
Igbo calendar962–963
Iranian calendar1340–1341
Islamic calendar1381–1382
Japanese calendarShōwa 37
(昭和37年)
Javanese calendar1893–1894
Juche calendar51
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4295
Minguo calendarROC 51
民國51年
Nanakshahi calendar494
Thai solar calendar2505
Tibetan calendar阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
2088 or 1707 or 935
    — to —
阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
2089 or 1708 or 936

1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1962nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 962nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1960s decade.

The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.

Events

January

February

February 23: Friendship 7 inspected by President Kennedy and Astronaut John Glenn.

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

October 14: Pictures of Soviet missile silos in Cuba, taken by US spy planes.

November

December

Date unknown

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

Suzy Amis Cameron
Jim Carrey
Abdullah II of Jordan

February

Jennifer Jason Leigh
Axl Rose
Garth Brooks
Eddie Izzard
Sheryl Crow
Lou Diamond Phillips
Steve Irwin
Adam Baldwin

March

Jon Bon Jovi
Matthew Broderick
Rosie O'Donnell
Marcia Cross
MC Hammer

April

Clark Gregg
Hillel Slovak
Jeff Dunham

April 21Craig Robinson, American college basketball coach

May

Sean McNamara
Emilio Estevez
Craig Ferguson
Genie Francis
Bobcat Goldthwait

June

Lance Reddick
Arnold Vosloo
Paula Abdul
Viktor Tsoi
Campino
Michael Ball
Bussunda
Ollanta Humala
Jordan Peterson

July

Andre Braugher
Tom Cruise
Thomas Gibson
Hunter Tylo
Tom Kenny
Aya Kitō
Carlos Alazraqui
Federico Franco
Sergey Kiriyenko
Wesley Snipes

August

Rob Minkoff
Steve Carell
Felipe Calderón
James Marsters
David Koechner
David Fincher
Dee Bradley Baker

September

Hesham Qandil
Rob Morrow
Nia Vardalos
Melissa Sue Anderson

October

Jeff Bennett
Joan Cusack
Branko Crvenkovski
Flea
Min Ko Naing
Mike Judge
Evander Holyfield
Bob Odenkirk
Cary Elwes

November

Demi Moore
Harland Williams
Jodie Foster
Nicolás Maduro
Davey Boy Smith
Jon Stewart
Andrew McCarthy

December

Felicity Huffman
Ben Browder
Yvonne Ryding
Ralph Fiennes

Deaths

January

Ernie Kovacs

February

Roy Atwell
Hu Shih

March

Arthur Compton
Auguste Piccard

April

Benny Paret
Louise Fazenda

May

Pedro Pablo Ramírez

June

Eugeniusz Baziak

July

William Faulkner
Denjirō Ōkōchi

August

Marilyn Monroe
Hermann Hesse

September

Ahmad bin Yahya
Ouyang Yuqian

October

Henri Oreiller
Gaston Bachelard

November

Eleanor Roosevelt
Niels Bohr

December

Ahmad Nami
Kazimierz Świtalski

Date unknown

Nobel Prizes


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