Explore 4408 historical events from 1960–1969.
Joseph-Edmond-André Laurendeau was a journalist, politician, co-chair of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, and playwright in Quebec, Canada. He is usually ref…
André Laurendeau, Canadian playwright, journalist, and politician (born 1912)
André Mathieu was a Canadian pianist and composer.
André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (born 1929)
Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American stage and screen actress. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy also had great success …
Dorothy Gish, American actress (born 1898)
Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney g…
Robert F
Dan Duryea was an American actor in film, stage, and television. Known for portraying villains, he had a long career in a variety of leading and secondary roles.
Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (born 1907)
Ludovico Scarfiotti was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1963 to 1968. Scarfiotti won the 1966 Italian Grand Prix with Ferrari. In endurance racing, Scarf…
Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian racing driver (born 1933)
Bernard Cronin was an Australian author and journalist. With Gertrude Hart, he founded the Old Derelicts' Club in 1920 which later became the Society of Australian Authors.
Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (born 1884)
Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experienc…
Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1901)
Elizabeth Wright Enright Gillham was an American writer of children's books, an illustrator, writer of short stories for adults, literary critic and teacher of creative writing. Pe…
Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (born 1909)
Sir Herbert Edward Read, was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role o…
Herbert Read, English poet and critic (born 1893)
Samuel Earl Crawford, nicknamed "Wahoo Sam", was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB). Crawford batted and threw left-handed, stood 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) tall and wei…
Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (born 1880)
John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. He is most known for his unusual technique of plucking the strings with the side of his thumb and for his extensive use…
Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1925)
José Nasazzi Yarza was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a right-back or centre-back. He captained his country when they won the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930.
José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1901)
James Joseph Sweeney was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of Honolulu in Hawaii from 1941 until his death in 1968.
James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (born 1898)
Constance Georgina Adams, also known as Constance Georgina Tardrew, was a South African housewife and collector of botanical specimens. Known by the nicknames Connie and Daisy, Ada…
Constance Georgina Tardrew, South African botanist (born 1883)
Anthony John Hancock was an English comedian and actor.
Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (born 1924)
Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus was a German zoologist, occupant of the chair of zoology at the University of São Paulo from 1936 to 1963, and co-founder of the Oceanographic Institut…
Ernst Marcus, German zoologist (born 1893)
Fritz Bauer was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He played an instrumental role in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann, and in bringing about the F…
Fritz Bauer, German judge and politician (born 1903)
Joseph Théodule Marie Schlesser was a French Formula One and sports car racing driver. He participated in three World Championship Grands Prix, including the 1968 French Grand Prix…
Jo Schlesser, French race car driver (born 1928)
Désiré Alfred Mérchez was a male French swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Lille and died in Nice.
Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (born 1882)
Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was a Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1968.
Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian author and poet (born 1892)
Corneille Jean François Heymans was a Belgian physiologist. He studied at the Jesuit College of Saint Barbara and then at Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1…
Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
Bray Hammond was an American financial historian and assistant secretary to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1944–1950. He won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Hi…
Bray Hammond, American historian and author (born 1886)
Ruth St. Denis was an American pioneer of modern dance, introducing eastern ideas into the art and paving the way for other women in dance. She was inspired by the Delsarte advocat…
Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (born 1878)