Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
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)
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)
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)
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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Ernst Niekisch was a German writer and political theorist. Initially a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and of the Old Social Democratic Party of Germany (ASPD), he late…
Ernst Niekisch, German academic and politician (born 1889)
William Claude Rains was a British and American character actor whose career spanned almost seven decades. He was the recipient of numerous accolades, including four Academy Award …
Claude Rains, English-American actor (born 1889)
William Thomas Strayhorn was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades. His c…
Billy Strayhorn, American pianist and composer (born 1915)
Benno Ohnesorg was a West German university student who was fatally shot in the back of the head by policeman Karl-Heinz Kurras during a demonstration in West Berlin. His death spu…
Benno Ohnesorg, German student and activist (born 1940)
Linda Marie Eenpalu was an Estonian politician. She was a member of the National Constituent Assembly (1937) and a Member of the Second Chamber of the National Council (1938) and t…
Linda Eenpalu, Estonian lawyer and politician (born 1890)
Arthur Yitzhak Biram was a German-born Israeli philosopher, philologist, and educator. He was the founder of the Reali School in Haifa.
Arthur Biram, Israeli philologist, philosopher, and academic (born 1878)
Sir Harry Percy Brown was a senior Australia public servant. He was Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department from 1923 until 1939.
Harry Brown, Australian public servant (born 1878)
Anatoly Ivanovich Maltsev was born in Misheronsky, near Moscow, and died in Novosibirsk, USSR. He was a mathematician noted for his work on the decidability of various algebraic gr…
Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1909)
Dorothy Parker was an American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction. Based in New York, she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (born 1893)
Tatu Kolehmainen was a Finnish long-distance runner who competed at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1912, he reached the finals of 10,000 m and marathon races, but failed to …
Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (born 1885)
Reginald Leigh Dugmore, known professionally as Reginald Denny, was an English actor, aviator, and UAV pioneer.
Reginald Denny, English actor (born 1891)