Explore 1225 historical events from 1960–1969.
Yukio Edano is a Japanese politician who served as the leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan from its formation in 2017 until 2021.
Yukio Edano, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
Darryl Matthews McDaniels, also commonly known by his stage name DMC, is an American rapper and record producer. He is a founding member of the hip hop group Run-DMC, and is consid…
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Caroline Link is a German television and film director and screenwriter.
Caroline Link, German director and screenwriter
Kerry Ray King is an American musician, best known for being the co-lead guitarist and songwriter of thrash metal band Slayer. He co-founded the band with Jeff Hanneman in 1981 and…
Kerry King, American guitarist and songwriter
James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor. He played Marcus Antonius in the HBO series Rome, Nick Jenkins in A Dance to the Music of Time, college professor turned serial killer…
James Purefoy, English actor
Sean Carl Roland Pertwee is an English actor, narrator and producer. His credits include Chancer (1990), Leon the Pig Farmer (1992), Cadfael (1994), Bodyguards (1997), Event Horizo…
Sean Pertwee, English actor
Kōji Yamamura is a Japanese independent animator who, after leaving a career as a background artist at an animation studio, directs, writes, edits, animates, creates the model she…
Kōji Yamamura, Japanese animator, producer, and screenwriter
Ben Hecht was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoy…
Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1894)
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist.
Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist (born 1895)
Edwin John Dove Pratt, who published as E. J. Pratt, was a Canadian poet. Originally from Newfoundland, Pratt lived most of his life in Toronto, Ontario. A three-time winner of the…
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John Owen Critchley, was an Australian politician who served as a Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1930 to 1933 and then the Australian Senate from 1947 …
Jack Critchley, Australian politician (born 1892)
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945. A…
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (born 1879)
Kaarel Robert Pusta was an Estonian politician and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. During the Second World War, he served as special assistant to the consulate gen…
Karl Robert Pusta, Estonian politician, 4th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1883)
Johannes Aadolfinpoika Mustonen was a Finnish politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Communist Party of Finland an…
Janne Mustonen, Finnish politician (born 1901)
Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov was a Russian avant-garde painter who worked with radical exhibitors and pioneered the first approach to abstract Russian art. He was founding member o…
Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter, illustrator, and set designer (born 1881)
Agnes Forbes Blackadder Savill was a Scottish medical expert and doctor, sometimes regarded as a polymath. Blackadder became the first female graduate of the University of St Andre…
Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor (born 1875)
Vladimir Maček was a politician in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. As a leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) following the 1928 assassination of Stjepan Radić, Maček had been a le…
Vladko Maček, Croatian lawyer and politician (born 1879)
Nandor Fodor was a British and American parapsychologist, psychoanalyst, author and journalist of Hungarian origin.
Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (born 1895)
Rudy Lewis was an American rhythm and blues singer known for his work with the Drifters. In 1988, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Rudy Lewis, American singer (born 1936)
James Franck was a German–American atomic physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electro…
James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
Ruben Oskar Auervaara was a notorious Finnish conman and thief. He became famous by cheating money from women he met through newspaper announcements, by pretending to intend to mar…
Ruben Oskar Auervaara, Finnish fraudster (born 1906)
Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. …
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (born 1889)
Terrance Gilbert Dillon was a defensive back in the National Football League (NFL). Dillon played with the Minnesota Vikings during the 1963 NFL season. He had also been drafted in…
Terry Dillon, American football player (born 1941)
Oba Sir Isaac Babalola Akinyele, KBE was the first educated Olubadan of Ibadan, and the second Christian to ascend the throne.
Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian king (born 1882)