Explore 4408 historical events from 1960–1969.
Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose best known creation is the priest Don Camillo.
Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist and cartoonist (born 1908)
Sir Henry Hallett Dale was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses (neurotransmission) he s…
Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1875)
Cemal Tollu was a Turkish painter. He served in the Turkish War of Independence as a cavalry lieutenant. and witnessed the Fire of Manisa. In 1933 he founded the "D Group" with sev…
Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (born 1899)
Charles Benjamin "Babe" Adams was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1906 to 1926 who spent nearly his entire career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. …
Babe Adams, American baseball player and manager (born 1882)
Otto Hahn was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the field of radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and discoverer of nuclear fission, the science…
Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1879)
Jack Charles Allan Pizzey was a Queensland Country Party politician. He was Premier of Queensland, in a coalition with the Liberal Party, from 17 January 1968 until his death on 31…
Jack Pizzey, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Queensland (born 1911)
Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky was a Soviet and Polish general who served as a top commander in the Red Army during World War II and achieved the ranks of Marshal of the So…
Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (born 1896)
Luther Monroe Perkins Jr. was an American country music guitarist best known as a member of the Tennessee Three, the backing band for singer Johnny Cash. Perkins was an iconic figu…
Luther Perkins, American guitarist (born 1928)
Ye Gongchuo was a Chinese politician, calligrapher, poet, and art patron. Born in Panyu County, Guangdong, to the family of a Qing dynasty official, Ye passed the imperial examinat…
Ye Gongchuo, Chinese politician, poet, and calligrapher (born 1881)
Giovanni Bracco was an Italian racing car driver.
Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (born 1908)
Arthur Owen Marshall was an American composer and performer of ragtime music from Missouri. He was a protege of famed ragtime composer Scott Joplin.
Arthur Marshall, American pianist and composer (born 1881)
George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discover…
George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (born 1904)
Germaine Guèvremont, born Grignon was a Canadian writer, who was a prominent figure in Quebec literature.
Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian journalist and author (born 1893)
Stanley Joseph McCabe was an Australian cricketer who played 39 Test matches for Australia from 1930 to 1938. A short, stocky right-hander, McCabe was described by Wisden as "one o…
Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1910)
Kay Francis was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, w…
Kay Francis, American actress (born 1905)
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, later Duchess of Kent, was a Greek and Danish princess by birth and a British princess by marriage. A granddaughter of King George I of Greec…
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (born 1906)
Demetrios "Dimitris" Pikionis was a Greek architect, and also painter, of the 20th century who had a considerable influence on modern Greek architecture. He was a founding member o…
Dimitris Pikionis, Greek architect and academic (born 1887)
Ulysses Simpson Grant III was a United States Army officer and planner. He was the son of Frederick Dent Grant, and the grandson of General of the Armies and American President Uly…
Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (born 1881)
William Whitney Talman Jr. was an American television and movie actor, best known for playing Los Angeles District Attorney Hamilton Burger in the television series Perry Mason.
William Talman, American actor and screenwriter (born 1915)
John Hartle was an English professional road racer who competed in national, international and Grand Prix motorcycle events.
John Hartle, English motorcycle racer (born 1933)
Erna W. Mohr was a German zoologist who made contributions to ichthyology and mammalogy. Mohr was long associated with the Zoological Museum Hamburg, where she was successively hea…
Erna Mohr, German zoologist (born 1894)
René Cogny was a French Général de corps d'armée, World War II and French Resistance veteran and survivor of Buchenwald and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps. He was a commander…
René Cogny, French general (born 1904)
Thomas Dickson Armour was a Scottish-born golfer who played primarily in the United States. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot. He was the winner of three of golf's major championshi…
Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and journalist (born 1894)
Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. He was a leading man in the 1930s and early 1940s, and at the height of…
Franchot Tone, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1905)