Explore 1640 historical events from 1960–1969.
Alois Karl Hudal was an Austrian bishop of the Catholic Church based in Rome. For thirty years, he was the head of the Austrian-German congregation of Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rom…
Alois Hudal, Austrian-Italian bishop (born 1885)
John Orfeur Aglionby was Bishop of Accra during the second quarter of the 20th century.
John Aglionby, English-born Bishop of Accra and soldier (born 1884)
John Woodworth Wilce was an American college football player and coach, physician, and university professor. He served as the head football coach at Ohio State University from 1913…
John Wilce, American football player, coach, and physician (born 1888)
Ernest R. Davis was an American college football player who was a halfback for the Syracuse Orangemen and won the Heisman Trophy in 1961. He was the award's first black recipient. …
Ernie Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (born 1939)
Walter Bowman Russell was an American impressionist painter, sculptor, property developer, and author. Russell wrote extensively on topics relating to science, but his ideas did no…
Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author (born 1871)
August Jakobson was an Estonian writer and politician. He was one of the few Estonian playwright among his contemporaries whose plays were untouched by Soviet censorship and reache…
August Jakobson, Estonian author and politician (born 1904)
Elmore James was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bandleader. Noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice, James was inducted into the Rock a…
Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1918)
Grigoris Lambrakis was a Greek politician, physician, athlete, and lecturer. He participated in track and field sports and was a member of the faculty of the School of Medicine at …
Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (born 1912)
Netta Muskett was a British writer of more than 60 romance novels from 1927 to 1963, who also wrote under the pseudonym Anne Hill. Her novels have been translated to several langua…
Netta Muskett, English author (born 1887)
Sir Walter Henry Lee KCMG was an Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He was Premier of Tasmania on three occasions: from 15 April 1916 to 12 August…
Walter Lee, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Tasmania (born 1874)
Edmond Decottignies was a French weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Comines.
Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (born 1893)
Pope John XXIII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963.
Pope John XXIII (born 1881)
Mehmed Nâzım Ran, commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet, was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his sta…
Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (born 1902)
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)
"A Call for Unity" was an open letter published in The Birmingham [Alabama] News, on April 12, 1963, by eight local white clergymen in response to civil rights demonstrations takin…
In response to an open letter written by white clergymen, Martin Luther King Jr
The Bristol Omnibus Company was a dominant bus operator in Bristol, and was one of the oldest bus companies in the United Kingdom. It ran buses over a wide area of Gloucestershire,…
A refusal by the Bristol Omnibus Company and the Transport and General Workers' Union to permit the employment of black