Explore 1640 historical events from 1960–1969.
Simon Robert Fuller is a British entrepreneur, artist manager, and film and television producer. He is the creator of the Idols TV format, including the British series Pop Idol and…
Simon Fuller, English talent manager and producer, created the Idols series
Brent Kenneth Ashton is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who spent 14 seasons in the National Hockey League between 1979 and 1993. Despite being a fine goalscoring …
Brent Ashton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Landon Deireragea is a Nauruan politician.
Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician, Nauruan Speaker of Parliament
Bruce Norris is an American character actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. His play Clybourne Park won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama…
Bruce Norris, playwright
Rimas Kurtinaitis is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for Lithuania men's national team and Sabah of the Azerbaijan Basketball Lea…
Rimas Kurtinaitis, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
Jari Pekka Kurri is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. Beginning in 1980, he played right wing for five National Hockey League (NHL) teams: the Edmonton Oilers, the L…
Jari Kurri, Finnish ice hockey player, coach, and manager
Yannick Noah is a French former professional tennis player and singer, who was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2005. Noah won the French Open in 1983, and is…
Yannick Noah, French tennis player
Sarawanabavanandan Shanmuganathan was a Sri Lankan Tamil militant, politician and Member of Parliament.
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Anthony Howard Goldwyn is an American actor and director. He made his debut appearing as Darren in the slasher film Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) and had his breakthr…
Tony Goldwyn, American actor and director
Bruce Norris is an American character actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. His play Clybourne Park won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama…
Bruce Norris, American actor and playwright
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and bo…
Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (died 1994)
Mark William Ridgway is an Australian former cricketer, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers from 1993 until 2000.
Mark Ridgway, Australian cricketer
Vladimir Valeryevich Salnikov is a Russian former freestyle swimmer who set 12 world records in the 400, 800 and 1,500 metre events. Nicknamed the "Tsar of the Pool", "Monster of t…
Vladimir Salnikov, Russian swimmer
Hideaki Anno is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, actor, producer, and voice actor. His most celebrated creation, the Evangelion franchise, has had a significant influence on the an…
Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
Clarence Linden Garnett Ashby III is an American actor. On television, he portrayed Brett Cooper on the final two seasons of the Fox soap opera Melrose Place (1997–1999) and Sherif…
Linden Ashby, American actor
Guy Edward Fletcher is an English musician, best known for his position as one of the two keyboard players in the rock band Dire Straits from 1984 until the group's dissolution, a…
Guy Fletcher, English keyboard player, guitarist, and producer
Kent Alan Hrbek, nicknamed "Herbie", is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman. He played his entire 14-year baseball career with the Minnesota Twins (1981–1994). H…
Kent Hrbek, American baseball player and sportscaster
Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair is an Indian actor, filmmaker, and playback singer who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema and has also occasionally worked in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, a…
Mohanlal, Indian actor
Bill Harrigan is an Australian former rugby league football referee, and former head of refereeing for the National Rugby League. Unusually for a sports official, in his long caree…
Bill Harrigan, Australian rugby league referee and sportscaster
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddin…
Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
Amy Jean Klobuchar is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota, a seat she has held since 2007. A member of the Minnesota Democr…
Amy Klobuchar, American lawyer and politician
Anthea Turner is an English television presenter. She was a host of Blue Peter from 1992 until 1994, and of GMTV from 1994 until 1996.
Anthea Turner, English journalist and television host
Dinko "Dean" Lukin, OAM is an Australian retired weightlifter. Lukin won the gold medal in the Super Heavyweight category at the 1984 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles. He carri…
Dean Lukin, Australian weightlifter
Romas Ubartas is a retired male discus thrower from Lithuania who won a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the USSR and a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics for Lithu…
Romas Ubartas, Lithuanian discus thrower