December 23, 1962

1962Bertrand Gachot, Belgian race car driver^[†]

Bertrand Jean Gachot is a Belgian and French former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from 1989 to 1995. In endurance racing, Gachot won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1991 with Mazda.

1962Stefan Hell, Romanian-German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Stefan Walter Hell is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, both of which are in Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy", together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.

1962Kang Je-gyu, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter^[†]

Kang Je-gyu is a South Korean film director.

1962Keiji Mutoh, Japanese wrestler and actor^[†]

Keiji Muto is a Japanese professional wrestling executive, actor and retired professional wrestler. He is known for his work under his real name and as his alter ego The Great Muta in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), as well as World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and during the 1980s and 1990s, and from his runs in other Japanese, American, Puerto Rican, and Mexican promotions. He was the president of All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) from 2002 to 2013 and representative director of Wrestle-1 (W-1) from 2013 until its closure in 2020.