Explore 4408 historical events from 1960–1969.
Jeff Chandler was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Act…
Jeff Chandler, American actor (born 1918)
James Woodall Rodgers was an American attorney, businessman, and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
Woodall Rodgers, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Dallas (born 1890)
Mazo de la Roche was a Canadian writer who wrote the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.
Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author and playwright (born 1879)
Lee de Forest was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and early pioneer in electronics of fundamental importance. He invented the first practical electronic amplifier, the t…
Lee de Forest, American inventor, invented the audion tube (born 1873)
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the…
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (born 1894)
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has …
Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Rocco Scott LaFaro was an American jazz double bassist known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. LaFaro broke new ground on the instrument, developing a countermelodic style of …
Scott LaFaro, American bassist (born 1936)
Whittaker Chambers was an American author, journalist, and spy. After dropping out of Columbia University, Chambers joined the open Communist Party in 1925. He wrote and edited for…
Whittaker Chambers, American spy and witness in Hiss case(born 1901)
Nina Karlovna Bari was a Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series. She is also well-known for two textbooks, Higher Algebra and The Theory of Series.
Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (born 1901)
Emin Halid Onat was a Turkish architect and former rector of Istanbul Technical University.
Emin Halid Onat, Turkish architect and academic (born 1908)
Hilda Rix Nicholas was an Australian artist. Born in the Victorian city of Ballarat, she studied under a leading Australian Impressionist, Frederick McCubbin, at the National Galle…
Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (born 1884)
Julia Peterkin was an American author from South Carolina, who advocated for African Americans and wrote about the portrayals of the southern life. In 1929 she won a Pulitzer Prize…
Julia Peterkin, American author (born 1880)
John Edward Brownlee was the fifth premier of Alberta, serving from 1925 until 1934. Born in Port Ryerse, Ontario, he studied history and political science at the University of Tor…
John Edward Brownlee, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Alberta (born 1884)
Tyrus Raymond Cobb, nicknamed "the Georgia Peach", was an American professional baseball center fielder. A native of rural Narrows, Georgia, Cobb played 24 seasons in Major League …
Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (born 1886)
Margarito Bautista was a Mexican evangelist and religious founder who wrote and preached for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After converting in 1901, Bautista pre…
Margarito Bautista, Nahua-Mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (born 1878)
Antanas Škėma was a Lithuanian writer, playwright, stage actor and director. His best known work is the novel Balta drobulė.
Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian-American author, playwright, actor, and director (born 1910)
Abdul Haq was a Pakistani Urdu linguist and scholar. Often known as Baba-e-Urdu, he is credited for the development and promotion of Urdu language in 20th century. He is known for …
Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (born 1870)
Billings Learned Hand was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher. He served as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York …
Learned Hand, American lawyer, jurist, and philosopher (born 1872)
Percy Williams Bridgman was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the sc…
Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
Cristóbal de Losada y Puga was a Peruvian mathematician and mining engineer. He was Minister of Education of Peru in the government of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero and Director of…
Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician (born 1894)
Charles Douville Coburn was an American actor and theatrical producer. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award three times – for The Devil and Miss Jones (1941),…
Charles Coburn, American actor (born 1877)
Robert Ellsworth Gross was an American businessman involved in the field of aviation. His first venture, the Viking Flying Boat Company, failed with the loss of the aircraft market…
Robert E. Gross, American businessman (born 1897)
Lewis Ellsworth Akeley was an American academic. He served in various roles at the University of South Dakota (USD) between 1887 and his retirement in 1933, including as lecturer o…
Lewis Akeley, American academic (born 1861)
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy was a Dutch politician and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 3 September 1940 until 25 June 1945. He oversaw the government-in-ex…
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer, jurist, and politician, 34th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1885)