Year '1960' ('
MCMLX') was a
leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar. The year 1960 is known as the "
Year of Africa."
Events of 1960
January
★ January - The
state of emergency is lifted in
Kenya — the
Mau Mau Rebellion is officially over.
★
January 1 -
Cameroon gains its independence.
★
January 3 - U.S. Senator
John F. Kennedy (D-MA) announces that he is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for President.
★
January 9-
January 11 -
Aswan High Dam construction begins in
Egypt.
★
January 10 - British Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan makes the
Wind of Change speech for the first time (see
February 3).
★
January 14 -
Reserve Bank and
Commonwealth Bank are created in
Australia.
★
January 19 - The
Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan is signed in
Washington, DC.
★
January 21 - A mine collapses at Coalbrook,
South Africa, killing 437.
★
January 22 - In
France, President
Charles de Gaulle fires Jacques Massun, commander-in-chief for the French troops in
Algeria.
★
January 23 -
Jacques Piccard and
Don Walsh descend into the
Marianas Trench in the ''
bathyscaphe Trieste'', reaching the depth of 10,916 meters.
★
January 24 - A major insurrection occurs in
Algiers against French colonial policy.
★
January 25 - In
Washington, DC, the
National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the
Payola scandal by threatening fines for any
disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
February
★
February 1 - In
Greensboro, North Carolina,
four black students from
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated
Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent
protests throughout the
Southern United States, and 6 months later the original 4 protesters are served lunch at the same counter.
★
February 3 -
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the
Wind of Change speech to the
South African Parliament in
Cape Town (although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in
Accra,
Gold Coast - now
Ghana - on
January 10 the same year).
★
February 4 - Vince Deveney and Gaetan DeSimone invent the White Widow.
★
February 5 - The
CERN particle accelerator is inaugurated in
Geneva,
Switzerland.
★
February 9 -
Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
★
February 9 -
Adolph Coors III, chairman of the board of the
Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped and captors demand $500,000. Coors is later found dead and
Joseph Corbett, Jr. is indicted.
★
February 10 — In
Brussels, a conference about
Belgian Congo independence begins.
★
February 11 - The
airship ZPG-3W is destroyed in a storm in
Massachusetts.
★
February 11 - Twelve
Indian soldiers die in clashes with
Chinese troops at their common border.
★
February 13 —
Nuclear testing:
France tests its first
atomic bomb in the
Sahara.
★
February 18-
29 — The
1960 Winter Olympics open in
Squaw Valley,
California.
★
February 29-
March 1 (night) — An
earthquake totally destroys
Agadir,
Morocco.
March
★
March 3 —
Elvis Presley returns home from
Germany, after being away on
duty for 2 years.
★ March 6 - Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam.
★
March 6 - The
Canton of Geneva in
Switzerland gives women the right to vote.
★
March 17 -
Northwest Orient Airlines flight 710 crashes near Tell City, Indiana killing all 63 on board.
★
March 21 - The
Sharpeville massacre in
South Africa kills more than 69 people, wounds 300.
★
March 22 —
Arthur Leonard Schawlow &
Charles Hard Townes receive the first
patent for a
laser.
★
March 23 —
Nikita Khrushchev meets
Charles De Gaulle in
Paris.
★
March 25 - ''
Tom Pillibi'' by Jacqueline Boyer (music by André Popp, text by Pierre Cour) wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 1960 for
France.
April
★
April 1 -
Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, 1st
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by
Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah,
Sultan of
Selangor.
★
April 1 - The
United States launches the first
weather satellite,
TIROS-1.
★
April 4 — The first 3 female priests are ordained in
Sweden.
★
April 12 — Eric Peugeot, youngest son of the founder of
Peugeot, is kidnapped in
Paris. Kidnappers release him
April 15 in exchange for $300,000
ransom.
★
April 13 - The
United States launches
navigation satellite Transat I-b.
★
April 13 - The
Blue Streak missile is cancelled, ending the
United Kingdom's imperial ambitions.
★
April 16 - Gunman
David Pratt attacks
South African Prime Minister
Henrik Verwoerd in
Johannesburg, wounding him seriously.
★
April 16 - Brian Hardgroove (bassist and bandleader for legendary hip hop band Public Enemy) is born in New York City (United States).
★
April 16 -
The Times of
London abandons use of the term "Imperial and Foreign News", replacing it with "Overseas News", and changes its house style from "to-day" to "today".
★
April 18 - On the campaign trail in
West Virginia, Senator
John F. Kennedy says, in reply to a question about his
Roman Catholic faith, "I don't think that my religion is anyone's business."
★
April 21 — In
Brazil, the country's capital (
Federal District) is shifted from
Rio de Janeiro to
Brasília. The
Guanabara State is founded to succeed
Rio de Janeiro as the
Brazilian Federal District.
★
April 27 —
Togo gains independence from
French-administered UN trusteeship.
May
★
May 1 - A Soviet missile shoots down an American
Lockheed U2 spy plane; the pilot
Francis Gary Powers is captured.
★
May 1 - In India, May 1st is declared as 'Maharashtra Divas', i.e.,
Maharashtra Day (the same day is also celebrated as 'Kaamgaar Divas', i.e., Workers Day).
★
May 4 —
West German refugee minister Theodor Oberländer is fired because of his
Nazi past.
★
May 6 - President
Dwight Eisenhower signs the
Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law.
★
May 9 — The U.S.
FDA announces that it will approve
birth control as an additional
indication for
Searle's Enovid, making it the world's first approved
oral contraceptive pill.
★
May 10 — The nuclear submarine
USS ''Nautilus'' completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the
Earth.
★
May 11 — In
Buenos Aires, 4
Mossad agents abduct fugitive
Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was using the alias "Ricardo Klement".
★
May 13 — A Swiss/Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of
Dhaulagiri, the world's 7th highest mountain.
★
May 14 — The Kenyan African National Congress Party is founded in
Kenya, when 3 political parties join forces.
★
May 15 —
Sputnik 4 is launched into
Earth orbit.
★
May 16 -
Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower for
U-2 spy plane flights over the
Soviet Union, thus ending a
Big Four summit in
Paris.
★
May 16 -
Theodore Maiman operates the first
laser.
★
May 20 — In
Japan, police carry away
Socialist members of the
Diet; Parliament then approves a security treaty with the
United States.
★
May 22 —
Great Chilean Earthquake:
Chile's subduction fault ruptures from
Talcahuano to
Taitao Peninsula, causing a
tsunami and one of the greatest
earthquakes on record.
Seismographs in
Valdivia crash.
★
May 23 —
Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that
Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured.
★
May 27 — In
Turkey, a bloodless military
coup d'état removes President
Celal Bayar and installs General
Cemal Gürsel as head of state.
June
★
June 4 - The
Lake Bodom murders occur in
Finland.
★
June 6 - U.S. Senator
John F. Kennedy wins the
California Democratic primary.
★
June 9 -
Typhoon Mary kills 1,600 in the
Fukien province of
China.
★
June 15 - Violent
demonstrations at
Tokyo University result in 182 arrests, 589 injuries.
★
June 15 -
BC Ferries, the second largest ferry operator in the world, starts service between
Tsawwassen and
Swartz Bay.
★
June 19 — The
Associated Broadcasting Company is founded in the
Philippines.
★
June 20 — The
Mali Federation between
Senegal and
Sudanese Republic (now
Mali) gains
independence from
France.
★
June 23 —
Japanese prime minister
Nobusuke Kishi announces his resignation.
★
June 24 -
Joseph Kasavubu is elected the first president of independent
Congo.
★
June 24 -
Avro 748 makes its first flight at
Woodford,
UK.
★
June 26 —
British Somaliland gains
independence from the
United Kingdom; 5 days later it unites with the former
Italian Somaliland to create the modern
Somali Republic.
★
June 28 - The
University of Novi Sad is founded.
★
June 29 — The Kanlaon Broadcasting System (KBS), the fourth TV station in the
Philippines, is launched.
★
June 30 -
Belgian Congo gains
independence from
Belgium; civil war follows.
★
June 30 - Public demonstrations by democratic and left forces, against Italian government support of the post-fascist
Italian Social Movement, are heavily suppressed by police.
July
★
July 1 -
Ghana becomes a
Republic and
Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first
President as
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be the
Head of state.
★
July 1 — A
Soviet MiG fighter north of
Murmansk in the
Barents Sea shoots down a 6-man
RB-47. Two
United States Air Force officers survive and are imprisoned in
Moscow's dreaded
Lubyanka prison.
★
July 1 —
Italian Somailand Gains it's Independence from
Italy, 5 days after the
British Somailand
★
July 4 — Following the admission of
Hawaii as the 50th
U.S. state the previous year, the 50-star
flag of the United States debuts in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
★
July 10 — The
Soviet Union beats
Yugoslavia 2-1 to win the first
European Football Championship.
★
July 11 -
Moise Tshombe declares the Congolese province of
Katanga independent; he receives Belgian help.
★
July 11 - U.S. Senator
John F. Kennedy is nominated for President at the
Democratic National Convention in
Los Angeles, California.
★
July 12 —
Orlyonok, the main
Young Pioneer camp of the
Russian SFSR, is founded.
★
July 14 — The
United Nations decides to send troops to Katanga to oversee Belgian troops withdrawal.
★
July 20 —
Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) elects
Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
★
July 21 —
Francis Chichester, English navigator and yachtsman, arrives in New York aboard ''Gypsy Moth II'' — he has made a record solo Atlantic crossing in 40 days.
★
July 25 -- The Woolworth's counter in
Greensboro, North Carolina, the subject of a sit-in which sparked sit-ins and pickets across the southern United States in February 1960, serves its first black customer.
★
July 25 -
July 28 - In
Chicago, the
Republican National Convention nominates U.S. Vice President
Richard M. Nixon for President and
Henry Cabot Lodge for Vice President.
★
July 27 — The
OECD is founded in
Paris.
August
★ August —
Stanley Clifford Weyman, U.S. impostor, is killed trying to prevent a robbery.
★
August 5 —
Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) declares
independence from
France.
★
August 6 -
Cuban Revolution: In response to a
United States embargo,
Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
★
August 6 - In the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Albert Kalonji declares the independence of the Autonomous State of
South Kasai.
★
August 7 —
Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
★
August 11 —
Chad becomes independent.
★
August 13 -
Central African Republic becomes independent.
★
August 15 -
Congo-Brazzaville becomes independent.
★
August 16 -
Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over
New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,333 m). He sets unbeaten (
as of 2005) world records for: high-altitude jump;
free-fall by falling 16 miles (25.7 km) before opening his
parachute; and fastest speed by a
human without motorized assistance, 982 km/h (614 mi/h).
★
August 16 -
Cyprus gains its independence from the
United Kingdom.
★
August 17 - The newly named
Beatles begin a forty-eight night residency at the
Indra Club in
Hamburg,
West Germany.
★
August 17 -
Gabon gains independence from
France.
★
August 17 - The trial of
U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers begins in
Moscow.
★
August 19 -
Cold War: In
Moscow, downed American
U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the
Soviet Union for
espionage.
★
August 19 -
Sputnik program: The
Soviet Union launches
Sputnik 5, with the
dogs Belka and Strelka (
Russian for "Squirrel" and "Little Arrow"), 40
mice, 2
rats and a variety of
plants. The spacecraft returns to earth the next day and all animals are recovered safely.
★
August 20 —
Senegal breaks from the
Mali Federation, declaring independence.
★
August 25-
September 11 - The
1960 Summer Olympics are held in
Rome.
★
August 25 - The ''
USS Seadragon (SSN-584)'' surfaces at the
North Pole, where the crew plays softball.
★
August 29—
September 13 —
Hurricane Donna kills 50 in
Florida and
New England.
September
★
September 1 -
Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah,
Sultan of
Selangor and 2nd
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by
Tuanku Syed Putra,
Raja of
Perlis.
★
September 1 - Disgruntled
railroad workers effectively halt operations of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the company's history (the event lasts 2 days).
★
September 5 -
1960 Summer Olympics:
Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing.
★
September 5 -
Congo president
Joseph Kasavubu fires
Patrice Lumumba's government and places him under
house arrest.
★
September 8 — In
Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the
Marshall Space Flight Center (which
NASA had already activated on
July 1).
★
September 14 - Colonel
Joseph Mobutu takes power in
Congo in a
military coup.
★
September 14 -
Iran,
Iraq,
Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia and
Venezuela form
OPEC.
★
September 22 -
Mali, sole remaining member of the Mali Federation following the withdrawal of Senegal a month earlier, declares full independence as the ''Republic of Mali''.
★
September 26 — The 2 leading U.S. presidential candidates,
Richard M. Nixon and
John F. Kennedy, participate in the first televised presidential debate.
October
★
October 1 —
Nigeria gains independence;
Nnamdi Azikiwe is the first native
Governor General.
★
October 3 —
Jânio Quadros is elected president of
Brazil for a 5-year term.
★
October 5 — White
South Africans vote to make the country a republic.
★
October 7 — The second notable flood occurs in
Horncastle,
England.
★
October 12 -
Cold War:
Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a
United Nations General Assembly meeting, to protest discussion of
Soviet Union policy toward
Eastern Europe.
★
October 12 -
Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates
Inejiro Asanuma, chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party.
★
October 14 — U.S. presidential candidate
John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the
Peace Corps.
★
October 24 — A rocket explodes in the
Baikonur Space Center during fueling, killing 91.
★
October 26 -
Robert F. Kennedy calls
Coretta Scott King, wife of
Dr. Martin Luther King, and secures his release from jail on a traffic violation in
Atlanta,
Georgia.
★
October 29 — In
Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (later
Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
★
October 30 —
Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the
United Kingdom, at the
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
November
★
November 1 — While campaigning for
President of the United States,
John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the
Peace Corps.
★
November 2 —
Penguin Books is found not guilty of
obscenity in the ''
Lady Chatterley's Lover'' case.
★
November 8 —
United States presidential election, 1960: In a close race,
John F. Kennedy is elected over
Richard M. Nixon, becoming the youngest man elected to that office.
★
November 13 —
Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress
May Britt.
Interracial marriage is still illegal in 31 U.S. states out of 50.
★
November 14 -
Belgium threatens to leave the
United Nations, due to criticism of its
Congo policy.
★
November 14 - A collision between two trains in
Pardubice,
Czechoslovakia kills 117.
★
November 15 — The
Polaris missile is test-launched.
★
November 22 — The
United Nations supports the government of
Joseph Kasavubu and
Joseph Mobutu in
Congo.
★
November 28 —
Mauritania becomes independent of
France.
★
November 30 — Production of the
DeSoto automobile brand ceases.
December
★
December 1 -
Patrice Lumumba, the deposed premier of the
Congo, is arrested by troops of Colonel
Joseph Mobutu.
★
December 1 - A 5-ton
Soviet spacecraft containing animals, insects and plants is launched into orbit; it burns up upon re-entry.
★
December 2 - The
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, talks with
Pope John XXIII for about an hour in the
Vatican. It is the first time in more than 500 years that a head of the
Anglican Church had visited the Pope.
★
December 2 - U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the use of $1M for the relief and resettlement of
Cuban
refugees, who have been arriving in
Florida at the rate of 1,000 a week.
★
December 4 — The admission to the
United Nations of
Mauritania is vetoed by the
USSR.
★
December 5 —
Pierre Lagaillarde, who led
1958 and 1960 insurrections in
Algeria, fails to appear in a
Paris court. He has reportedly fled with 4 fellow defendants to
Spain en route to Algeria.
★
December 7 — The
United Nations Security Council is called into session by the
Soviet Union, to consider Soviet demands that the U.N. seek the immediate release of former
Congolese Premier
Patrice Lumumba.
★
December 9 — French President
Charles de Gaulle's visit to
Algeria is marked by bloody riots by European and
Muslim mobs in Algeria's largest cities, killing 127 people.
★
December 9- First Episode of long-running drama
Coronation Street airs. It was originally planned to be a 16 part drama that ended in early 1961 but became such a success it is still running to the present day 5 times or more per week.
★
December 12 — The
U.S. Supreme Court upholds a Federal Court ruling that
Louisiana's segregation laws are
unconstitutional.
★
December 13 - While Emperor
Haile Selassie I of
Ethiopia visits
Brazil, his
Imperial Bodyguard revolts unsuccessfully against his rule. The rebels proclaim the emperor's son, Crown Prince
Asfa Wossen, as Emperor.
★
December 13 -
Guatemala,
El Salvador,
Nicaragua and
Honduras found the
Central American Common Market.
★
December 13 - Navy Commander Leroy Heath (Pilot) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe (Bombardier/Navigator) establish a world altitude record of 91,450.8 feet (27,874.2 metres) in an
A3J Vigilante carrying a 1,000 kilogram payload, besting the previous record by over 4 miles.
★
December 14 -
Antoine Gizenga proclaims in
Stanleyville,
Congo, that he has assumed the premiership.
★
December 14 - The
OECD is formed in
Paris.
★
December 15 - King
Mahendra of Nepal deposes the government and takes power into his own hands.
★
December 15 - King
Baudouin of Belgium marries Doña
Fabiola de Mora y Aragon.
★
December 16 - U.S. Secretary of State
Christian Herter announces that the United States will commit 5 atomic submarines and 80
Polaris missiles to
NATO by the end of
1963.
★
December 16-
1960 New York air disaster:
United Airlines DC-8 collides with a
TWA Lockheed Constellation over
Staten Island,
New York City. All 128 passengers and crew on both planes are killed, as are 6 persons on the ground.
★
December 17 — Troops loyal to
Haile Selassie I in
Ethiopia suppress the revolt that began
December 13, giving power back to their leader upon his return from
Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
★
December 19 — Fire sweeps through the
USS ''Constellation'', the largest U.S. aircraft carrier, while it is under construction at a
Brooklyn Navy Yard pier, killing 50 and injuring 150.
★
December 20 — Discoverer XIX is launched into polar orbit from
Vandenberg Air Force Base, to measure
radiation.
★
December 27 —
France sets off its third nuclear test blast at its atomic proving grounds at
Reggane,
Algeria.
Undated
★ (none)
Ongoing
★
Marshall Plan
Fictional
The following are references to year 1960 in fiction: the videogame Bioshock.
World population
★
World population: 3,021,475,000
★
★
Africa: 277,398,000
★
★
Asia: 1,701,336,000
★
★
Europe: 604,401,000
★
★
Latin-America: 218,300,000
★
★
Northern America: 204,152,000
★
★
Oceania: 15,888,000
Births
January-February
★
January 2 -
Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author and artist
★
January 3 -
Sandeep Marwah, Founder of Noida Film City
★
January 4 -
Michael Stipe, American singer (
R.E.M.)
★
January 6 -
Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
★
January 6 -
Nigella Lawson, British chef and writer
★
January 6 -
Howie Long, American football player
★
January 12 -
Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
★
January 13 -
Kevin Anderson, American actor
★
January 20 -
Will Wright, American computer game designer best known for games such as
The Sims,
Sim City, and
Spore (video game)
★
January 22 -
Michael Hutchence, Australian musician (
INXS) (d.
1997)
★
January 23 -
Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d.
1998)
★
January 28 -
Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer
★
January 29 -
Greg Louganis, American diver
★
January 29 -
Gia Carangi, American model (d.
1986)
★
January 29 -
Sean Kerly, British field hockey player
★
February 2 -
Jari Porttila, Finnish sports journalist
★
February 13 -
Pierluigi Collina, Italian football (soccer) referee
★
February 13 -
Gary Patterson, American football coach
★
February 16 -
Cherie Chung, Hong Kong actress
★
February 19 -
Prince Andrew, Duke of York
★
February 21 -
Henry G. Brinton, American writer and minister
★
February 27 -
Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
March-April
★
March 4 -
Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter
★
March 4 -
John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer and world Junior Middleweight champion
★
March 4 -
Mykelti Williamson, American actor
★
March 7 -
Joe Carter, baseball player
★
March 7 -
Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
★
March 8 -
Finn Carter, American actress
★
March 10 -
Anne MacKenzie, British broadcaster
★
March 12 -
Minoru Niihara, Japanese singer
★
March 12 -
Maki Nomiya, Japanese singer (
Pizzicato Five)
★
March 13 -
Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (
U2)
★
March 13 -
Joe Ranft, American animator (d.
2005)
★
March 14 -
Kirby Puckett, baseball player (d.
2006)
★
March 16 -
Jenny Eclair (born Jenny Clare Hargreaves, in
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia) is a
comedian,
actress and
novelist, working in the
United Kingdom
★
March 18 -
Richard Biggs, American actor (d.
2004)
★
March 20 -
Norm Magnusson, American artist
★
March 21 -
Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (d.
1994)
★
March 23 -
Nicol Stephen, Scottish politician
★
March 24 -
Nena Kerner, German singer
★
March 26 -
Marcus Allen, American football player
★
March 27 -
Hans Pflügler, German footballer
★
March 27 -
Renato Russo, Brazilian singer (
Legião Urbana) (d.
1996)
★
April 1 -
Michael Praed, British actor
★
April 2 -
Linford Christie, British athlete
★
April 3 -
Elizabeth Gracen, American beauty queen, actress, and model
★
April 4 -
Jane Eaglin, English soprano
★
April 4 -
Hugo Weaving, Australian actor
★
April 11 -
Jeremy Clarkson, English journalist and television show host
★
April 14 -
Brad Garrett, American actor
★
April 16 -
Rafael Benitez, Spanish football manager
★
April 18 -
Neo Rauch, German painter
★
April 19 -
Frank Viola, baseball player
★
April 23 -
Steve Clark, English guitarist (
Def Leppard)
★
April 23 -
Valerie Bertinelli, American actress
★
April 24 -
Paula Yates, British television presenter (d.
2000)
★
April 26 -
Roger Taylor, English musician (
Duran Duran)
★
April 28 -
John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (d.
2004)
★
April 28 -
Joel H. Rosenthal, American political scientist
★
April 29 -
Phil King, British bassist
May-June
★
May 6 -
John Flansburgh, American musician (
They Might Be Giants)
★
May 6 -
Roma Downey, Irish-born actress
★
May 10 -
Bono, Irish singer (
U2)
★
May 18 -
Jari Kurri, Finnish hockey player
★
May 18 -
Yannick Noah, French tennis player
★
May 20 -
John Billingsley, American actor
★
May 21 -
Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d.
1994)
★
May 22 -
Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
★
May 23 -
Linden Ashby, American actor
★
May 31 -
Greg C. Adams, Canadian ice hockey player
★
June 4 -
Bradley Walsh, English comedian and actor
★
June 6 -
Steve Vai, American guitarist
★
June 8 -
Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (
Simply Red)
★
June 16 -
Peter Sterling, Australian rugby player
★
June 17 -
Michael Monroe, Finnish singer (
Hanoi Rocks)
★
June 18 -
Kevin Drinkell, English footballer
★
June 20 -
John Taylor, English musician (
Duran Duran)
★
June 25 -
Dario de Judicibus, Italian writer
★
June 28 -
John Elway, American football player
★
June 30 -
Tony Bellotto, Brazilian guitarist and writer
July-August
★
July 3 -
Vince Clarke, English songwriter (
Depeche Mode,
Yazoo, and
Erasure)
★
July 5 -
Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor
★
July 5 -
Rick Devin, American guitarist and singer/songwriter
★
July 7 -
Kevin A. Ford, American NASA astronaut
★
July 9 -
Charles Gavin, Brazilian drummer and producer
★
July 13 -
Ian Hislop, British broadcaster and editor
★
July 14 -
Kyle Gass, American music singer-song-writer-guitarist/actor
★
July 17 -
Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor
★
July 17 -
Jan Wouters, Dutch football player and manager
★
July 18 -
Anne-Marie Johnson, American actress
★
July 21 -
Ezequiel Viñao, Argentine-born composer
★
July 21 -
Fritz Walter, German footballer
★
July 22 -
Jon Oliva American vocalist and pianist (
Savatage)
★
August 4 -
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,
Prime Minister of Spain
★
August 7 -
David Duchovny, American actor
★
August 8 -
Ulrich Maly, German politician and Mayor of Nuremberg
★
August 10 -
Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
★
August 10 -
Todd David Hess, prominent USAF Colonel and Surgeon
★
August 14 -
Sarah Brightman, English soprano singer and actress
★
August 17 -
Sean Penn, American actor
★
August 19 -
Morten Andersen, American football player
★
August 24 -
Cal Ripken, Jr., baseball player
★
August 26 -
Branford Marsalis, American musician
September-October
★
September 6 -
Bob Stoops, American football coach
★
September 9 -
Hugh Grant, English actor
★
September 10 -
Colin Firth, English actor
★
September 16 -
John Franco, baseball player
★
September 22 -
Joan Jett, U.S. musician, vocalist & leader of "Joan Jett & The Blackhearts"
★
October 6 -
Richard Jobson Scottish singer-songwriter (
Skids) and film-maker, best known as a television presenter
★
October 7 -
Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
★
October 12 -
Alexei Kudrin, a
Russian statesman and the Russian Minister of Finance
★
October 17 -
Guy Henry, English actor
★
October 18 -
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
★
October 24 -
Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (d.
1999)
★
October 29 -
Finola Hughes, British actress
★
October 30 -
Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballer
November-December
★
November 3 -
Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
★
November 4 -
Frl. Menke, German pop singer
★
November 10 -
Neil Gaiman, English author
★
November 11 -
Peter Parros, American actor
★
November 11 -
Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
★
November 17 -
Jonathan Ross, English television presenter
★
November 18 -
Kim Wilde, English singer and gardener
★
November 25 -
Amy Grant, American musician
★
November 25 -
John F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and journalist (d.
1999)
★
November 26 -
Harold Reynolds, baseball player and broadcaster
★
November 27 -
Yulia Tymoshenko,
Prime Minister of Ukraine
★
November 30 -
Rich Fields, American television personality
★
December 2 -
Rick Savage, English bassist (
Def Leppard)
★
December 3 -
Daryl Hannah, American actress
★
December 4 -
Glynis Nunn, Australian athlete
★
December 5 -
Brian Bromberg American Jazz bassist and composer
★
December 10 -
Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director
★
December 10 -
Michael Schoeffling, American actor and model
★
December 14 -
Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate
★
December 17 -
Criss Angel, American/Greek magician and musician
★
December 18 -
Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist
★
December 19 -
Mike Lookinland, American actor
★
December 24 -
Carol Vorderman, British television presenter
★
December 24 -
Eva Tamargo, American actress
★
December 27 -
Maryam d'Abo, British actress
★
December 28 -
John Fitzgerald, Australian tennis player
★
December 31 -
John Allen Muhammad, American serial killer
★
December 31 -
Steve Bruce, English footballer
Unknown Dates
Landon Curt Noll -
number theorist, who broke the record for the
largest known prime three times by age 29.
Deaths
January-June
★
January 1 -
Margaret Sullavan, American actress (b.
1909)
★
January 4 -
Albert Camus, French writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (automobile accident) (b.
1913)
★
January 12 -
Nevil Shute, English writer (b.
1899)
★
January 24 -
Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b.
1886)
★
February 3 -
Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b.
1921)
★
February 10 -
Aloysius Stepinac, Catholic prelate (b.
1898)
★
February 11 -
Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian conductor (b.
1877)
★
February 29 -
Walter Yust, American encyclopedia editor (b.
1894)
★
March 2 -
Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (b.
1874)
★
March 9 -
Jack Beattie, Irish politician (b.
1886)
★
April 1 -
Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, King of Malaysia (b.
1895)
★
April 17 -
Eddie Cochran, American singer (b.
1938)
★
April 24 -
Max von Laue, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1879)
★
May 3 -
Masa Niemi, Finnish actor (b.
1914)
★
May 8 -
J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b.
1904)
★
May 11 -
John D. Rockefeller Jr., American philanthropist (b.
1874)
★
May 27 -
Edward Brophy, American actor (b.
1895)
★
May 30 -
Boris Pasternak, Russian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b.
1890)
★
May 31 -
Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (b.
1890)
★
June 14 -
Ana Pauker, Romanian politician (b.
1893)
★
June 25 -
Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b.
1869)
★
June 27 -
Lottie Dod, English athlete (b.
1871)
July-December
★
July 15 -
Set Persson, Swedish politician (b.
1897)
★
July 16 -
John P. Marquand, American novelist (b.
1893)
★
August 29 -
Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (b.
1888)
★
September 1 -
Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, King of Malaysia (b.
1898)
★
September 9 -
Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b.
1911)
★
October 31 -
H. L. Davis, American author (b.
1894)
★
November 2 -
Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (b.
1896)
★
November 5 -
Mack Sennett, Canadian film producer and director (b.
1880)
★
November 5 -
Johnny Horton, American country singer (b.
1925)
★
November 7 -
A.P. Carter, American singer and songwriter (b.
1891)
★
November 14 -
Walter Catlett, American actor (b.
1889)
★
November 16 -
Clark Gable, American actor (b.
1901)
★
November 24 -
Grand Duchess Olga, sister of
Nicholas II (b.
1882)
★
December 2 -
Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot, German architect, interior designer and designer (b.
1883)
★
December 26 -
Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b.
1889)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Donald Arthur Glaser
★
Chemistry -
Willard Frank Libby
★
Physiology or Medicine - Sir
Frank Macfarlane Burnet,
Peter Brian Medawar
★
Literature -
Saint-John Perse
★
Peace -
Albert John Luthuli
Ship events
★
List of ship launches in 1960
★
List of ship commissionings in 1960
★
List of ship decommissionings in 1960
See also
★
20th century
Notes
External links
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