Explore 4408 historical events from 1960–1969.
Michael Henry "Mickey" Schwerner was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three civil rights workers murdered in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku…
Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (born 1939)
Havank, pseudonym of Hendrikus Frederikus (Hans) van der Kallen, was a Dutch writer, journalist and translator. He published over 30 crime novels and is considered one of the found…
Havank, Dutch journalist and author (born 1904)
Edward Stuart Davis was an American modernist painter. He was associated with early twentieth-century American modernism, including the Ashcan School, and later developed a style c…
Stuart Davis, American painter and academic (born 1892)
Joseph Viateur "Léo" Dandurand, was an American-Canadian sportsman and businessman. He was the owner and coach of the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team in the National Hockey Leag…
Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian businessman (born 1889)
Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts Jr. was an American stock car racer.
Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (born 1929)
Gaby Morlay was a film actress from France.
Gaby Morlay, French actress and singer (born 1893)
Claude Vernon Ricketts was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy, who served as the Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1961 to 1964.
Claude V. Ricketts, American admiral (born 1906)
Hüseyin Rauf Orbay was a Turkish naval officer, statesman and diplomat of Abkhaz origin. During the Italo–Turkish and Balkan Wars he was known as the Hero of Hamidiye for his explo…
Rauf Orbay, Turkish colonel and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1881)
Winifred Lenihan was an American actress, writer, and director. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making her debut in 1918. Although she portrayed the wou…
Winifred Lenihan, American actress, writer, and director (born 1898)
Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader. Primarily an alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and flautist, Dolphy was one of several…
Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1928)
Pierre Benjamin Monteux was a French conductor. After violin and viola studies, and a decade as an orchestral player and occasional conductor, he began to receive regular conductin…
Pierre Monteux, French-American viola player and conductor (born 1875)
Lillian Copeland, née Lillian Drossin, was an American track and field Olympic champion athlete, who excelled in discus, javelin throwing, and shot put, setting multiple world reco…
Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower and shot putter (born 1904)
Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, styled Viscount Curzon from 1900 to 1929, was a British naval officer, Member of Parliament, and racing driver and promoter. In th…
Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician (born 1884)
Sylveanus Augustus "Vean" Gregg was an American professional baseball player. A pitcher, Gregg played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Naps, Boston Red Sox, Philade…
Vean Gregg, American baseball player (born 1885)
James Travis Reeves was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. One of the earliest pioneers and practitioners of the Nashville sound, he played a central role in the sonic d…
Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (born 1923)
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist (born 1925)
Juho Vihtori Nätti, known as "Nätti-Jussi" was a Finnish forest laborer. The stories told by Nätti made him a legendary figure, particularly in Lapland. Nätti was born to a six-mem…
Nätti-Jussi, Finnish lumberjack and forest laborer (born 1890)
Moa Martinson was one of Sweden's most noted authors of proletarian literature. Her ambition was to change society with her authorship and to portray the conditions of the working …
Moa Martinson, Swedish author (born 1890)
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned over 50 years. His theatre work included notable performances in productions of the plays of S…
Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director (born 1893)
Arthur Howey Ross was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive from 1905 until 1954. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his era by his peers, he was one of the…
Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1886)
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Flem…
Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (born 1908)
John Joseph Burnette was an American singer and songwriter of rockabilly and pop music. In 1952, Johnny, his brother Dorsey Burnette, and their mutual friend Paul Burlison, formed …
Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (born 1934)
Hildegard Johanna Maria Trabant was an East German woman who became the fiftieth known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Trabant was shot and killed by East German border guards du…
Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (born 1927)
Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti was an Italian politician and statesman who led the Italian Communist Party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-c…
Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (born 1893)