Explore 1640 historical events from 1960–1969.
Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani is a businessman who was the former president and chief operating officer of Theranos, which was a privately held health technology company founded by his th…
Sunny Balwani, Pakistani-American businessman and criminal
Georgios Bartzokas is a Greek former professional basketball player, and the current head basketball coach for Olympiacos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. …
Georgios Bartzokas, Greek former professional basketball player
Infanta Cristina is the younger daughter of King Juan Carlos I and his wife, Queen Sofía. She is sixth in the line of succession to the Spanish throne, after her brother King Felip…
Infanta Cristina Federica of Spain
Vassilis Karapialis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Vassilis Karapialis, Greek footballer
Lukas Ligeti is an Austrian composer and percussionist. His work incorporates elements of jazz, contemporary classical and various world musics, especially African traditional and …
Lukas Ligeti, Austrian-American drummer and composer
Maninder Singh is a former Indian cricket player and a cricket commentator. He represented India in 35 Test matches and 59 One Day Internationals. A slow left-arm orthodox spin, Ma…
Maninder Singh, Indian cricketer
Annelies Bredael is a Belgian rower. She participated in 3 consecutive Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, Barcelona and Atlanta In 1992, she won the silver medal in rowing, single scul…
Annelies Bredael, Belgian rower
Kärım Qajymqanūly Mäsımov is a Kazakh politician who served as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2007 to 2012 and again from 2014 to 2016. He was Deputy Prime Minister from 2006 to…
Karim Massimov, Kazakhstani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
David Adam Smith is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Washington's 9th congressional district since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party,…
Adam Smith, American lawyer and politician
Michael Richard Lynch was a British technology entrepreneur who co-founded Autonomy Corporation, Invoke Capital and Darktrace. He had various other roles, including in an advisory …
Michael Richard Lynch, Irish computer scientist and entrepreneur; co-founded HP Autonomy (died 2024)
Richard Stuart Madaleno Jr., commonly known as Rich Madaleno, is an American politician from Maryland. A Democrat, he was a member of the Maryland State Senate, representing the st…
Richard Madaleno, American politician
Dermontti Farra Dawson is an American former professional football player who was a center and long snapper in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football with t…
Dermontti Dawson, American football player and coach
Daniel Erwin Jansen is a retired American speed skater. A multiple world champion in sprint and perennial favorite at the Winter Olympics, he broke a ten-year Olympic jinx when he …
Dan Jansen, American speed skater and sportscaster
Dara O'Kearney, born 17 June 1965 in Ennis, County Clare, is an Irish international ultra runner and professional poker player. He is the son of Irish language activist and write…
Dara O'Kearney, Irish runner and poker player
Sabine Braun is a German former athlete in track and field. Because she had talents in several disciplines, Sabine Braun competed in the heptathlon and had a number of successes. H…
Sabine Braun, German heptathlete
Sadie Liza Frost is an English actress, producer and fashion designer. Her credits as an actress include Empire State (1987), Diamond Skulls, also known as Dark Obsession (1989), B…
Sadie Frost, English actress and producer
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour was a British military officer and colonial administrator.
Francis Balfour, English soldier and colonial administrator (born 1884)
Sydney John Chaplin was an English actor. Chaplin was the elder half-brother of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and in later life, served as his business manager.
Sydney Chaplin, English actor, comedian, brother of Charlie Chaplin (born 1885)
Guillermo González Camarena was a Mexican electrical engineer who invented an early field-sequential version of color television.
Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican engineer (born 1917)
Sir Edward Victor Appleton was a British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his contributions to the knowledge of the ionosphere, which led to the develo…
Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
George Adamski was a Polish-American author who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he displayed numerous photographs in the 1940s …
George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (born 1891)
Louise Dresser was an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the many films in which she played the wife of Will Rogers, including State Fair and David Harum.
Louise Dresser, American actress (born 1878)
Edward Roscoe Murrow was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.
Edward R
Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones was an American musician, bandleader and conductor specializing in spoof arrangements and satire of popular songs and classical music. Ballads recei…
Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (born 1911)