Explore 1225 historical events from 1960–1969.
Nigel David Short is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach and commentator who has been the FIDE Director for Chess Development since September 2022. Short earned the titl…
Nigel Short, English chess grandmaster
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour was a British military officer and colonial administrator.
Francis Balfour, English soldier and colonial administrator (born 1884)
Sydney John Chaplin was an English actor. Chaplin was the elder half-brother of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and in later life, served as his business manager.
Sydney Chaplin, English actor, comedian, brother of Charlie Chaplin (born 1885)
Guillermo González Camarena was a Mexican electrical engineer who invented an early field-sequential version of color television.
Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican engineer (born 1917)
Sir Edward Victor Appleton was a British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his contributions to the knowledge of the ionosphere, which led to the develo…
Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
George Adamski was a Polish-American author who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he displayed numerous photographs in the 1940s …
George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (born 1891)
Louise Dresser was an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the many films in which she played the wife of Will Rogers, including State Fair and David Harum.
Louise Dresser, American actress (born 1878)
Edward Roscoe Murrow was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.
Edward R
Nikos Gounaris was a Greek tenor who was enormously popular as a light music singer in the 1950s.
Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (born 1915)
Harold Thomas William Hardinge, known as Wally Hardinge, was an English professional sportsman who played both cricket and association football for England. His professional cricke…
Wally Hardinge, English cricketer and footballer (born 1886)
Leopold Figl was an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the first Chancellor after World War II. As foreign minister, he subsequently took part in the nego…
Leopold Figl, Austrian engineer and politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria (born 1902)
Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones was an American musician, bandleader and conductor specializing in spoof arrangements and satire of popular songs and classical music. Ballads recei…
Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (born 1911)
John Waters was an American film director, second unit director and, initially, an assistant director. His career began in the early days of silent film and culminated in two conse…
John Waters, American director and screenwriter (born 1893)
Hubertus Johannes "Huib" van Mook was a Dutch administrator in the East Indies. During the Indonesian National Revolution, he served as the lieutenant governor-general of the Dutch…
Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (born 1894)
Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position. A member …
Frances Perkins, American workers-rights advocate, U
Pio Pion was an Italian entrepreneur, known for founding the first Italian company producing movie projectors, the Fumagalli, Pion & C.
Pio Pion, Italian businessman (born 1887)
Marguerite Valentine Bise was a French chef and restaurateur at her restaurant Auberge du Père Bise in Talloires, Haute-Savoie, France. In 1951, she became the third woman to win t…
Marguerite Bise, French chef (born 1898)
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, was an English aviation pioneer and aerospace engineer who founded the aircraft company de Havilland. The company produced the Mosquito, which has been c…
Geoffrey de Havilland, English pilot and engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito (born 1882)
Christopher Reynolds Stone was a British radio broadcaster who in 1927 became the first disc jockey in the United Kingdom. He was co-founder of the music magazine The Gramophone. I…
Christopher Stone, English radio host (born 1882)
Roland David Smith was an American abstract expressionist sculptor and painter known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.
David Smith, American sculptor (born 1906)
John Rinehart Blue was an American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Blue was a Democratic member of the West Virginia …
John Rinehart Blue, American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician (born 1905)
Eliyahu Ben-Shaul Cohen was an Egyptian-born Israeli spy. He is best known for his espionage work in Syria between 1961 and 1965, where he developed close relationships with the Sy…
Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence used by Israel during the Six-Day War, was publ
Alex or Aleck Miller, known later in his career as Sonny Boy Williamson, was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. He was an early and influential blues harp s…
Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (born 1908)
Louis Trolle Hjelmslev was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics. Born into an academic family, Hjelmslev studied comparative lingu…
Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist and academic (born 1899)