Explore 1640 historical events from 1960–1969.
Kurt Browning is a Canadian figure skater, choreographer and commentator. He is the first skater to land a ratified quadruple jump in competition. He is a four-time World Champion …
Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater, choreographer, and sportscaster
Troy Kemp is a former high jumper from the Bahamas who won the gold medal at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. His personal best was 2.38m in Nice 1995.
Troy Kemp, Bahamian high jumper
John Michael Dexter Romweber II was an American rockabilly and roots rock musician from Carrboro, North Carolina. Dex was best known as one-half of the seminal two-piece Flat Duo J…
Dexter Romweber, American musician (died 2024)
Michael Edgar Hasenfratz was a Canadian ice hockey referee. He worked in the National Hockey League (NHL) from the 2000–01 season until his retirement following the 2014–15 season,…
Mike Hasenfratz, Canadian ice hockey referee
Michalis Romanidis is a retired Greek professional basketball player. At 199 cm tall, he played at the small forward and power forward positions.
Michalis Romanidis, Greek basketball player
Boaz Yakin is an Israeli-American filmmaker based in New York City. He has written screenplays to films like The Rookie, Fresh, A Price Above Rubies, Prince of Persia: The Sands of…
Boaz Yakin, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Eric Frank Lambert was an Australian author and a sometime member of the Communist Party of Australia.
Eric Lambert, Australian author (born 1918)
Väinö Alfred Tanner was a leading figure in the Social Democratic Party of Finland, and a pioneer and leader of the cooperative movement in Finland. He was Prime Minister of Finlan…
Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (born 1881)
Simon Ivanes dze Chikovani was a prominent Georgian poet. He set out to be the leader of the Georgian Futurist movement and ended up as a Soviet establishment figure.
Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet and author (born 1902)
William Henry Eccles, FRS was an English physicist who was a pioneer in the development of radio communication.
William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (born 1875)
Paula Strasberg was an American stage actress. She became actor and teacher Lee Strasberg's second wife and mother of actors John and Susan Strasberg, as well as Marilyn Monroe's a…
Paula Strasberg, American actress and acting coach (born 1909)
George Ohsawa was a Japanese author and proponent of alternative medicine who was the founder of the macrobiotic diet. When living in Europe he went by the pen names of Musagendo S…
George Ohsawa, Japanese founder of the Macrobiotic diet (born 1893)
Felix Martin Julius Steiner was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. During World War II, he served in the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the SS, and commanded several SS di…
Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer (born 1896)
Thomas William John Goddard was an English cricketer and the fifth-highest wicket taker in first-class cricket.
Tom Goddard, English cricketer (born 1900)
Elizabeth Eloise Kirkpatrick Dilling was an American writer and political activist. In 1934, she published The Red Network—A Who's Who and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, whic…
Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (born 1894)
Ignace Lepp, was a French writer of Estonian origin.
Ignace Lepp, Estonian-French priest and psychologist (born 1909)
George Vitelle "Papa Jack" Laine was an American musician and a pioneering band leader in New Orleans in the years from the Spanish–American War to World War I. He was often credit…
Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader (born 1873)
Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp, better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.
Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (born 1886)
Anton Melik was a Slovene geographer.
Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (born 1890)
Hermann Scherchen was a German conductor, who was principal conductor of the city orchestra of Winterthur from 1922 to 1950. He promoted contemporary music, beginning with Schoenbe…
Hermann Scherchen, German viola player and conductor (born 1891)
Isaiah Edwin Leopold, better known as Ed Wynn, was an American actor and comedian. He began his career in vaudeville in 1903 and was known for his Perfect Fool comedy character, hi…
Ed Wynn, American actor and comedian (born 1886)
Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician who made major contributions to cosmology and astrophysics. He was the…
Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (born 1894)
Lieutenant General Tôn Thất Đính was an officer who served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). He is best known as one of the key figures in the November 1963 coup that …
Disapproving of General Tôn Thất Đính's handling of the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
The Holy See, also called the See of Rome, the Petrine See or the Apostolic See, is the central governing body of the Catholic Church and Vatican City. It encompasses the office of…
The Vatican formally abolished its 427-year-old list of prohibited books