Explore 3652 historical events from 1960–1969.
Sir Walter Henry Lee KCMG was an Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He was Premier of Tasmania on three occasions: from 15 April 1916 to 12 August…
Walter Lee, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Tasmania (born 1874)
Edmond Decottignies was a French weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Comines.
Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (born 1893)
Pope John XXIII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963.
Pope John XXIII (born 1881)
Mehmed Nâzım Ran, commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet, was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his sta…
Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (born 1902)
Samuel Matthew Rocke was an Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1917 to 1921, representing the seat of S…
Samuel Rocke, Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia
William Baziotes was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism.
William Baziotes, American painter and academic (born 1912)
Jacques Villon, also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker.
Jacques Villon, French painter (born 1875)
Timothy Birdsall was an English cartoonist.
Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (born 1936)
Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who died by self-immolation at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting the persecution of …
Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (born 1897)
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. A United States Army veteran who served in World War II, he was e…
Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (born 1925)
Aleksander Eduard Kesküla was an Estonian politician and revolutionary.
Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician (born 1882)
Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings was a Mexican actor. With the actresses Dolores del Río and María Félix, he was one of the best-known Latin American movie stars of the 1940s and…
Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (born 1912)
Raphaël Salem was a Greek mathematician after whom the Salem numbers and Salem–Spencer sets are named, and whose widow founded the Salem Prize.
Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (born 1898)
Alicia Patterson was an American journalist, and cofounder and editor of New York daily newspaper Newsday. She created the Deathless Deer comic strip with Neysa McMein in 1943.
Alicia Patterson, American publisher, co-founded Newsday (born 1906)
Lieutenant-General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, was a British-born New Zealand soldier and Victoria Cross recipient, who served as the 7th governor-general of New Ze…
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, New Zealand general and politician, 7th Governor-General of New Zealand (born…
Pingali Venkayya was an Indian freedom fighter, known for designing the initial version of the Indian National Flag. Apart from his role in the independence movement, Venkayya was …
Pingali Venkayya, Indian activist, designed the Flag of India (born 1876)
George, Duke of Mecklenburg was the head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1934 until his death. Through his father, he was a descendant of Emperor Paul I of Russia.
George, duke of Mecklenburg (born 1899)
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Blythe Thornhill Wakelam, known as Teddy Wakelam, was an English sports broadcaster and rugby union player who captained Harlequin F.C.
Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (born 1893)
William Shaw Andrew MC was an Anglican priest in the mid 20th Century.
William Andrew, English priest (born 1884)
Ugo Cerletti was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) used in psychiatry. Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy in which electric cu…
Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and academic (born 1877)
Clyde Kennard was an American Korean War veteran and civil rights leader from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In the 1950s, he attempted several times to enroll at the all-white Mississi…
Clyde Kennard, American activist and martyr (born 1927)
George August "Hooks" Dauss was an American professional baseball player from 1909 to 1926. He played 15 seasons of Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for the Detroit …
Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (born 1889)
Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a protective "smoke hood" that he notably used in a 1916 t…
Garrett Morgan, American inventor (born 1877)
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward was a German engineer and designer and the creator of the Borgward group, based in Bremen.
Carl Borgward, German engineer, founder of Borgward Group