Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
Rocco Scott LaFaro was an American jazz double bassist known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. LaFaro broke new ground on the instrument, developing a countermelodic style of …
Scott LaFaro, American bassist (born 1936)
Whittaker Chambers was an American author, journalist, and spy. After dropping out of Columbia University, Chambers joined the open Communist Party in 1925. He wrote and edited for…
Whittaker Chambers, American spy and witness in Hiss case(born 1901)
John Edward Brownlee was the fifth premier of Alberta, serving from 1925 until 1934. Born in Port Ryerse, Ontario, he studied history and political science at the University of Tor…
John Edward Brownlee, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Alberta (born 1884)
Tyrus Raymond Cobb, nicknamed "the Georgia Peach", was an American professional baseball center fielder. A native of rural Narrows, Georgia, Cobb played 24 seasons in Major League …
Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (born 1886)
Margarito Bautista was a Mexican evangelist and religious founder who wrote and preached for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After converting in 1901, Bautista pre…
Margarito Bautista, Nahua-Mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (born 1878)
Julia Peterkin was an American author from South Carolina, who advocated for African Americans and wrote about the portrayals of the southern life. In 1929 she won a Pulitzer Prize…
Julia Peterkin, American author (born 1880)
Antanas Škėma was a Lithuanian writer, playwright, stage actor and director. His best known work is the novel Balta drobulė.
Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian-American author, playwright, actor, and director (born 1910)
Abdul Haq was a Pakistani Urdu linguist and scholar. Often known as Baba-e-Urdu, he is credited for the development and promotion of Urdu language in 20th century. He is known for …
Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (born 1870)
Billings Learned Hand was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher. He served as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York …
Learned Hand, American lawyer, jurist, and philosopher (born 1872)
Percy Williams Bridgman was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the sc…
Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
Cristóbal de Losada y Puga was a Peruvian mathematician and mining engineer. He was Minister of Education of Peru in the government of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero and Director of…
Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician (born 1894)
Charles Douville Coburn was an American actor and theatrical producer. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award three times – for The Devil and Miss Jones (1941),…
Charles Coburn, American actor (born 1877)
Robert Ellsworth Gross was an American businessman involved in the field of aviation. His first venture, the Viking Flying Boat Company, failed with the loss of the aircraft market…
Robert E. Gross, American businessman (born 1897)
Lewis Ellsworth Akeley was an American academic. He served in various roles at the University of South Dakota (USD) between 1887 and his retirement in 1933, including as lecturer o…
Lewis Akeley, American academic (born 1861)
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy was a Dutch politician and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 3 September 1940 until 25 June 1945. He oversaw the government-in-ex…
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer, jurist, and politician, 34th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1885)
Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo was an American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist. He was notable for playing Pancho in the television series The Cisco Kid (…
Leo Carrillo, American actor and singer (born 1880)
Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips, also known as Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, was a German racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1…
Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (born 1928)
Carl Heinrich Hermann, also spelled Karl Hermann, was a German physicist, crystallographer, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. He is known for his research in crystallographic…
Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic (born 1898)
Ernst Gustav Kühnert was a Baltic German architect and art historian in Estonia.
Ernst Gustav Kühnert, Estonian-German architect and historian (born 1885)
Hasan Polatkan was a Turkish politician and Minister of Labor and Finance, who was executed by hanging after the 1960 Turkish coup d'état along with two other cabinet members.
Hasan Polatkan, Turkish politician, 15th Turkish Minister of Finance (born 1915)
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu was a Turkish diplomat and politician. He was executed by hanging after the coup d'état in 1960 along with two other politicians.
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1910)
Ali Adnan Ertekin Menderes was a Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister of Turkey between 1950 and 1960, and one of the founders of the Democrat Party (DP).
Adnan Menderes, Turkish lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1899)
Charles Erwin Wilson was an American engineer and businessman who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Known as "Eng…
Charles Erwin Wilson, American politician, 5th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1890)
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane …
Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate…