Explore 1225 historical events from 1960–1969.
Laurie Joseph Spina is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and rugby league commentator. In 1995, Spina was the inaugural captain of the North Queensland Cowb…
Laurie Spina, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
Claude Closky is a French artist who lives and works in Paris.
Claude Closky, French contemporary artist
Viviane Baladi is a mathematician who works as a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Originally Swiss, she has become a natur…
Viviane Baladi, Swiss mathematician
Ivan Franco Capelli is an Italian broadcaster and former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1985 to 1993.
Ivan Capelli, Italian race car driver and sportscaster
Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he studied at Carnegie Mellon University for one year before tran…
Michael Chabon, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
Valerie Elaine Taylor is an American computer scientist who is the director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Her researc…
Valerie Taylor, American computer scientist and educator
George Loening Hickenlooper III was an American narrative and documentary filmmaker.
George Hickenlooper, American director and producer (died 2010)
Michael John Myers is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, filmmaker, musician, and singer. His accolades include seven MTV Movie & TV Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen …
Mike Myers, Canadian-American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
Ludovic Orban is a Romanian engineer and politician who was the prime minister of Romania from November 2019 to December 2020. He was president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) …
Ludovic Orban, Romanian engineer and politician, 68th Prime Minister of Romania
Joe Dumars III is an American professional basketball executive and former player who is the head of basketball operations for the New Orleans Pelicans. He could play either shooti…
Joe Dumars, American basketball player
Richard Alan Rodriguez, also known as Rich Rod, is an American college football coach and former player. He is the current head football coach at West Virginia University, his seco…
Rich Rodriguez, American football player and coach
Simon Robert Armitage is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds.
Simon Armitage, English poet, playwright and novelist
Claude Legault is a Canadian actor and television writer from Quebec.
Claude Legault, Canadian actor and screenwriter
Gonzalo Rubalcaba is a Cuban jazz pianist and composer.
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist and composer
Maria Walliser is a Swiss former alpine skier.
Maria Walliser, Swiss skier
Houman Younessi was an Iranian-American educator, practitioner, consultant and investigator in informatics, large scale software development processes, computer science, decision s…
Houman Younessi, Australian-American biologist and academic (died 2016)
Blaze Bayley is an English heavy metal singer. He was the lead singer of Wolfsbane from 1984 to 1994. He was also the lead singer of Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999. Since then, he h…
Blaze Bayley, English singer-songwriter
Zhu Jianhua is a retired Chinese high jumper. His personal best of 2.39 metres is a former world record for the event, and is still the Chinese record.
Zhu Jianhua, Chinese high jumper
Ukyo Katayama is a Japanese former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1992 to 1997.
Ukyo Katayama, Japanese race car driver
Claude Loiselle is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1981 to 1994.
Claude Loiselle, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
Michel "Away" Langevin is a Canadian musician, best known as a founding member and drummer of heavy metal band Voivod. He has been a constant member of the band since its formation…
Michel Langevin, Canadian drummer and songwriter
Élise Lucet is a French journalist and television host. Known for her investigative journalism work on France Télévisions shows such as Pièces à Conviction, Cash Investigation and …
Élise Lucet, French journalist
Helen Patricia Sharman is a British chemist and cosmonaut who became the first British person, first Western European woman and first privately funded woman in space, as well as th…
Helen Sharman, English chemist and astronaut
David Alan Leigh FRS FRSE FRSC is a British chemist, Royal Society Research Professor and, since 2014, the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the …
David Leigh, holder of the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry at the University of Manchester