Explore 3652 historical events from 1960–1969.
Moïse Kapenda Tshombe was a Congolese businessman and politician. He served as the president of the secessionist State of Katanga from 1960 to 1963 and as prime minister of the Dem…
Moise Tshombe, Congolese accountant and politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1919)
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an English musician and one of the founders of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to play electric guitar, sing backing vocals…
Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1942)
Henri Decoin was a French film director and screenwriter, who directed more than 50 films between 1933 and 1964. He was also a swimmer who won the national title in 1911 and held t…
Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter (born 1890)
Wilhelm Backhaus was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much admi…
Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist and educator (born 1884)
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He…
Walter Gropius, German architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building and Werkbund Exhibition (born 1883)
Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya was a Kenyan politician and labour leader. He was one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya. He led the negotiations for independence at the…
Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician, 1st Kenyan Minister of Justice (born 1930)
Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was involved in nearly 200 films, including the critically acclaimed Duck Soup, Make Way for Tomorr…
Leo McCarey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1898)
Henry George Lamond was an Australian farmer and writer, notable for his novels about the land, people and animals of outback Queensland. In addition to his fiction and non-ficti…
Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (born 1885)
Grace Hutchins was an American labor reformer and researcher, journalist, political activist and communist. She spent many years of her life writing about labor and economics, in a…
Grace Hutchins, American labor reformer and researcher (born 1885)
Sir James Louis Fitzroy Scott Douglas, 6th Baronet was a British racing driver and a baronet.
James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish race car driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (born 1930)
Mary Jo Kopechne was an American secretary, and one of the campaign workers for U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the "Boiler Room …
Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (born 1940)
Efstratios Stamatopoulos was a Greek writer. He is known for writing novels, novellas, and short stories under the pseudonym Stratis Myrivilis. He is associated with the "Generatio…
Stratis Myrivilis, Greek soldier and author (born 1890)
Witold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist fla…
Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (born 1904)
Ramón Grau San Martín was a Cuban physician and politician who served as President of Cuba from 1933 to 1934 and from 1944 to 1948. He led the Cuban student movement in the 1933 Cu…
Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (born 1882)
Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, among other…
Frank Loesser, American composer (born 1910)
Alexander Mair was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 5 August 1939 to 16 May 1941. Born in Melbourne, Mair worked in various businesses there b…
Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (born 1889)
Jean Bastien was a professional French footballer. He was born in Oran, French Algeria, and died, aged 54, in Marseille.
Jean Bastien, French professional footballer (born 1915)
Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian composer who immigrated to France. His most famous composition is the standard Autumn Leaves.
Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (born 1905)
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer was a German human biologist and geneticist, who was the Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Münster until he retired in 1965. A member of…
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (born 1896)
Cecil Frank Powell was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1950 for heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nucl…
C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
János Kodolányi Hungarian writer of short stories, dramas, novels and sociographies. The Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences was named after him.
János Kodolányi, Hungarian author (born 1899)
Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, cultural, and music critic. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated wit…
Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (born 1903)
Miriam Licette was an English operatic soprano whose career spanned 35 years, from the mid-1910s to after World War II. She was also a singing teacher, and created the Miriam Licet…
Miriam Licette, English soprano and educator (born 1885)
Otto Stern was a German–American experimental physicist. He is the second most nominated person for a Nobel Prize, with 82 nominations during the years 1925–1945. In 1943, he recei…
Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)