Explore 2767 historical events from 1960–1969.
Jason Statham is an English actor. He is known for being typecast as tough, gritty, or violent characters in action thriller films, and has been credited for leading the resurgence…
Jason Statham, English actor
Timothy John Schafer is an American video game designer. He founded Double Fine Productions in July 2000, after having spent over a decade at LucasArts. Schafer is best known as th…
Tim Schafer, American video game designer, founded Double Fine Productions
Rahul Bose is an Indian actor, sports administrator and former rugby player who works in Hindi films. Bose serves as the president of Rugby India since 2021.
Rahul Bose, Indian journalist, actor, director, and screenwriter
Juliana Hatfield is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area. She was formerly a member of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls, and the Lemonheads.…
Juliana Hatfield, American singer-songwriter and musician
Hans Mathisen is a Norwegian Jazz guitarist, educated on the Jazzprogram at Trondheim musikkonservatorium (1988–90), well known for his Pat Metheny and Wes Montgomery inspired perf…
Hans Mathisen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
Neil Michael Knight Smith is a former English cricketer who played in seven One Day Internationals from 1986 to 1996. He then went on to work at Warwick School, Myton Road, Warwick…
Neil Smith, English cricketer
Craig William Wolanin is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League from 1985 until 1998.
Craig Wolanin, American ice hockey player
Takashi Hirose is a Japanese musician who is the current bass guitarist for the rock band Feeder.
Taka Hirose, Japanese bass player
Henry James "Red" Allen Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist whose playing has been described by Joachim-Ernst Berendt and others as the first to fully incorporate the i…
Red Allen, American singer and trumpet player (born 1908)
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman and politician who served as the first chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963. From 1946 to 1966, he was the first leade…
Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (born 1876)
Léo-Paul Desrosiers was a Quebec writer and journalist well known for his historical novels. He was influenced by the nationalism of Henri Bourassa and Lionel-Adolphe Groulx.
Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (born 1896)
William Douglas Cook was the founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, now the national arboretum of New Zealand, and one of the founders of Pukeiti, a rhododendron garden, close to New …
William Douglas Cook, New Zealand farmer, founded the Eastwoodhill Arboretum (born 1884)
J. B. Lenoir was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the Chicago blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Zhou Zuoren was a Chinese writer, primarily known as an essayist and a translator. He was a major figure in the genre of prose essays. Zhou was a younger brother of Lu Xun, the sec…
Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (born 1885)
Margaret Larkin was an American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, journalist and union activist.
Margaret Larkin, American writer and poet (born 1899)
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew…
Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and cosmonaut (born 1927)
Robert Stanley Richards was an Australian politician. He served as premier of South Australia for two months in 1933, leading the Parliamentary Labor faction of the Australian Labo…
Robert Richards, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia (born 1885)
James Edward Brewton was an American painter and printmaker who synthesized expressionism, graffiti and Pataphysics. At the time of his death, Brewton was beginning to distinguish …
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John Edward Masefield, OM was an English poet and writer. He was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967, during which time he lived at Burcot, Oxfordshire, near Abingdon-o…
John Masefield, English poet and author (born 1878)
Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in depicting modern American life and landscapes.
Edward Hopper, American painter (born 1882)
Italo Mus was an Italian painter.
Italo Mus, Italian painter (born 1892)
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best kno…
Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (born 1902)
Charlotte Serber was an American journalist, statistician and librarian. She was the librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, and the laborat…
Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (born 1911)
William Otto Miessner was an American composer and music educator. Most of his life was spent in the midwest, particularly Indiana and Wisconsin.
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