Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
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…
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)
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)
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)
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
Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge II was an American writer and anthropologist. In 1925, he surveyed many early Olmec sites in Mexico, and later studied additional sites in Central Amer…
Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author (born 1901)
Sigrid Alfhild Maria "Signe" Salén was a Swedish doctor who was one of Sweden's first female physicians. She was known for specialising in treating venereal diseases as well as cam…
Signe Salén, Swedish doctor (born 1871)
Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria was a Spanish composer.
Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (born 1898)
Ramon Vila Capdevila, sometimes known by various nicknames, including Caracremada, was a Catalan anarchist, member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, and guerrilla fighter.
Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (born 1908)
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was the youngest child of United States president John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. His elder siblings were Caroline, John Jr., and Arabell…
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (born 1963)