Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
Sir Paul Boffa, OBE, was a Maltese politician and medical doctor who served as prime minister in the Colony of Malta after self-rule was reinstated by the British colonial authorit…
Paul Boffa, Maltese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1890)
Archduke Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia was a prominent member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, who was a Feldmarschall of the Austr…
Joseph August, archduke of Austria (born 1872)
Charles Lyon Chandler was an American consul and historian of Latin America–United States relations. A Harvard graduate who came to South America in the Consular Service, he became…
Charles Lyon Chandler, American historian (born 1883)
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette…
William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art. His writing, which included essays,…
Georges Bataille, French philosopher, novelist, and poet (born 1897)
Yehuda Leib Maimon was an Israeli rabbi, politician and leader of the Religious Zionist movement. He was Israel's first Minister of Religion.
Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and politician (born 1875)
Roger Wolfe Kahn was an American jazz and popular musician, composer, bandleader and an aviator.
Roger Wolfe Kahn, American composer and bandleader (born 1907)
Cuthbert Wilfrid Francis Noyce was an English mountaineer and author. He was a member of the 1953 British Expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Everest.
Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (born 1917)
Thibaudeau Rinfret was a Canadian jurist who served as the ninth Chief Justice of Canada from 1944 to 1954 and briefly as Administrator of Canada from January to February 1952. He …
Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1879)
Richard Aldington was an English writer and poet. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. His 50-year writing career produced "143 separate titles, including poetry, lit…
Richard Aldington, English poet and author (born 1892)
James Howard "Dutch" Kindelberger was an American aviation pioneer. He led North American Aviation from 1934 until 1960. An extroverted character, Kindelberger was famed for his em…
James H. Kindelberger, American pilot and businessman (born 1895)
Leonardo De Lorenzo was an Italian virtuoso flautist and music educator. He served as the principal flautist at the New York Philharmonic under Gustav Mahler. Included among his pu…
Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian-American flute player and educator (born 1875)
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "Blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s…
Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (born 1926)
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. He has been described as "a genius who almost …
Ronald Fisher, English biologist and statistician (born 1890)
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical tradition…
Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
Lei Feng, born Lei Zhengxing, was a Chinese soldier in the People's Liberation Army who was the object of several major propaganda campaigns in China. The most well-known of these …
Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (born 1940)
Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson was a Baltic German ethnologist (folklorist) and numismatist.
Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (born 1885)
Edmund Richard "Hoot" Gibson was an American rodeo champion, film actor, film director, and producer. While acting and stunt work began as a sideline to Gibson's focus on rodeo, he…
Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (born 1892)
William Richard "Billy" Wilkerson was an American businessman who founded The Hollywood Reporter. He was real estate developer in Las Vegas and owner of such nightclubs as Ciro's. …
William Wilkerson, American publisher and businessman (born 1890)
Hanns Eisler was an Austrian and German composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for…
Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (born 1898)
Seiichiro Kashio was a tennis player from Japan, and with Ichiya Kumagae was one of the first Japanese Olympic medalists. He won the 1919 Canadian Open by defeating United State…
Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (born 1892)
Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking coun…
Karen Blixen, Danish memoirist and short story writer (born 1885)
Graham William Walker was an English motorcycle racer, broadcaster and journalist. He also contributed greatly to the motorcycle section of the National Motor Museum.
Graham Walker, English motorcycle racer and journalist (born 1897)
Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambul…
E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (born 1894)