Explore 1640 historical events from 1960–1969.
Andrea Rost is a Hungarian lyric soprano and politician. She has performed in leading roles with the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera House, Opéra National de Paris, t…
Andrea Rost, Hungarian soprano
Wallace Keith Joyner is an American former professional baseball player. He played for four major league teams during a 16-year career, most notably for the California Angels, for …
Wally Joyner, American baseball player and coach
Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti, popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician born in London and raised in Lagos. He is the eldest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti and a gr…
Femi Kuti, Nigerian musician
Arnold Vosloo is a South African and American actor. He began his career as a stage actor and starring in South African films like Boetie Gaan Border Toe (1984). After emigrating t…
Arnold Vosloo, South African-American actor
Anthony Wong Yiu-ming is a Hong Kong singer and actor. He rose to prominence as the vocalist for the Cantopop duo Tat Ming Pair during the 1980s before embarking on a solo career. …
Anthony Wong, Hong Kong singer
Matti Antero Kristian Fagerholm, known professionally as Michael Monroe, is a Finnish rock musician who rose to fame as the vocalist and saxophonist for the glam punk band Hanoi Ro…
Michael Monroe, Finnish singer-songwriter and saxophonist
Lisa Joy Randall is an American theoretical physicist and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. Her research includes the fundamental forces of nature and…
Lisa Randall, American physicist and academic
Paula Julie Abdul is an American singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality. She began her career as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers at the age of …
Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and presenter
Michael Jeremy Bates is a British former professional tennis player. He was ranked UK number 1 in 1987 and from 1989 to 1994. He reached a career-high ATP world ranking of 54 from …
Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
Ashish Vidyarthi is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, English, Marathi, and Odia films. He is noted for his antagonist a…
Ashish Vidyarthi, Indian actor
Milton J. Franklyn was an American musical composer and arranger who worked on the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated cartoons, working alongside and later succeeding Carl Stalling…
Milt Franklyn, American composer (born 1897)
Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq, popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla, was a Pakistani statesman, lawyer and politician who served as the first and longest-serving prime minister of Bengal durin…
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Benjamin Louwrens Osler was a rugby union footballer who played internationally for South Africa. Osler played mainly at fly-half for both South Africa, and his provincial team of …
Bennie Osler, South African rugby player (born 1901)
George Ernest Tyldesley was an English cricketer. The younger brother of Johnny Tyldesley and the leading batsman for Lancashire. He remains Lancashire's most prolific run-getter o…
Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (born 1889)
Henry Trendley Dean was the first director of the United States National Institute of Dental Research and a pioneer investigator of water fluoridation in the prevention of tooth de…
Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist (born 1893)
Franz Kline was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Kline, along with other action painters like Jackson Pollock,…
Franz Kline, American painter and academic (born 1910)
Florence Auer was an American theater and motion picture actress whose career spanned more than five decades.
Florence Auer, American actress and screenwriter (born 1880)
Gabriele Münter was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kand…
Gabriele Münter, German painter (born 1877)
Timothy, secular name Jerzy Szretter was a Polish Orthodox clergyman, the third Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland.
Timothy (Szretter), a Polish Orthodox clergyman, the third Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland (born 1901)
Louis Hervé Coatalen was an automobile engineer and racing driver born in Brittany who spent much of his adult life in Britain and took British nationality. He was a pioneer of th…
Louis Coatalen, French engineer (born 1879)
Henry Fountain Ashurst was an American Democratic politician and one of the first two senators from Arizona. Largely self-educated, he served as a district attorney and member of t…
Henry F
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organizers of the Holocau…
Adolf Eichmann, a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (born 1906)
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
Vita Sackville-West, English author and poet (born 1892)
Charles Louis "Clem" McCarthy was an American sportscaster and public address announcer. He also narrated Pathe News's RKO newsreels. He was known for his gravelly voice and dramat…
Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (born 1882)