Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
Ye Gongchuo was a Chinese politician, calligrapher, poet, and art patron. Born in Panyu County, Guangdong, to the family of a Qing dynasty official, Ye passed the imperial examinat…
Ye Gongchuo, Chinese politician, poet, and calligrapher (born 1881)
Giovanni Bracco was an Italian racing car driver.
Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (born 1908)
Arthur Owen Marshall was an American composer and performer of ragtime music from Missouri. He was a protege of famed ragtime composer Scott Joplin.
Arthur Marshall, American pianist and composer (born 1881)
George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discover…
George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (born 1904)
Germaine Guèvremont, born Grignon was a Canadian writer, who was a prominent figure in Quebec literature.
Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian journalist and author (born 1893)
Stanley Joseph McCabe was an Australian cricketer who played 39 Test matches for Australia from 1930 to 1938. A short, stocky right-hander, McCabe was described by Wisden as "one o…
Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1910)
Kay Francis was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, w…
Kay Francis, American actress (born 1905)
Demetrios "Dimitris" Pikionis was a Greek architect, and also painter, of the 20th century who had a considerable influence on modern Greek architecture. He was a founding member o…
Dimitris Pikionis, Greek architect and academic (born 1887)
Ulysses Simpson Grant III was a United States Army officer and planner. He was the son of Frederick Dent Grant, and the grandson of General of the Armies and American President Uly…
Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (born 1881)
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, later Duchess of Kent, was a Greek and Danish princess by birth and a British princess by marriage. A granddaughter of King George I of Greec…
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (born 1906)
William Whitney Talman Jr. was an American television and movie actor, best known for playing Los Angeles District Attorney Hamilton Burger in the television series Perry Mason.
William Talman, American actor and screenwriter (born 1915)
John Hartle was an English professional road racer who competed in national, international and Grand Prix motorcycle events.
John Hartle, English motorcycle racer (born 1933)
Erna W. Mohr was a German zoologist who made contributions to ichthyology and mammalogy. Mohr was long associated with the Zoological Museum Hamburg, where she was successively hea…
Erna Mohr, German zoologist (born 1894)
René Cogny was a French Général de corps d'armée, World War II and French Resistance veteran and survivor of Buchenwald and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps. He was a commander…
René Cogny, French general (born 1904)
Thomas Dickson Armour was a Scottish-born golfer who played primarily in the United States. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot. He was the winner of three of golf's major championshi…
Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and journalist (born 1894)
Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. He was a leading man in the 1930s and early 1940s, and at the height of…
Franchot Tone, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1905)
Chester Floyd Carlson was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington.
Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer (born 1906)
Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio was an Italian friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, priest, stigmatist and mystic. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic …
Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (born 1887)
Hans Friedrich Karl Günther, popularly known as Hans F. K. Günther, was a German writer, advocate of scientific racism and eugenicist in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. He wa…
Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (born 1891)
Cornell George Hopley Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer, also known under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr.,…
Cornell Woolrich, American author and screenwriter (born 1903)
Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin was an Israeli physician and director of the Neurology Department of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin, Polish-Israeli neurologist and physician (born 1902)
Clyde Julian "Red" Foley was an American musician who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II. For more than two decades, Foley was one of the b…
Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1910)
Francis Daniel Johnson Sr. was a Canadian politician and the 20th premier of Quebec from 1966 until his death in 1968.
Daniel Johnson Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Quebec (born 1915)
Władysław Kędra was a Polish pianist.
Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist (born 1918)