Look up template in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Template may mean:

• a stencil, pattern or overlay used in graphic arts (drawing, painting, etc.) and sewing to replicate letters, shapes or designs
• a pre-developed page layout in electronic or paper media used to make new pages with a similar design, pattern, or style
• Form letter, a predefined letter which retains its primary intent when individually customised with variable data or text.

Computer science and information technology[link]

• Template (file format), a standardized non-executable file type used by computer software as a pre-formatted example on which to base other files, especially documents
• Template (C++), a tool for generic programming especially in the C++ language
• Template metaprogramming, a programming technique used by a compiler to generate temporary source code
• Template method, an object-oriented design pattern
• Template processor, a system that combines a template with data to produce an output.
• Template (word processing), a standard document containing layout and styles used to configure word processing software
• Style sheet (web development) or master page on which you can globally edit and format graphic elements and text common to each page of a document
• Web template or web template system, a master page used to produce web pages
• A main document from which mail merge documents are created

Manufacturing[link]

• Mechanical template, used to cut and shape a product, such as:
  • a die (manufacturing)
  • a mold

Molecular genetics[link]

• a strand of DNA which sets the genetic sequence of new strands
• a strand of RNA which translates genes into proteins

Miscellaneous[link]

• Template (racing), a device used in car racing to ensure that the body of the race vehicle adheres to specifications

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Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events[link]

January 9: United Nations headquarters opens.

January[link]

• January 1 – First week as No. 1 single on Billboard and Cashbox charts of Patti Page hit song "Tennessee Waltz".
• January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory with the writing off of £36.5M debt.^[1]
• January 15 – Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
• January 18 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time.
• January 20 – Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time in Switzerland, Austria and Italy.
• January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of her novel Journey Through the Night (Reis door de nacht) set during World War II.
• January 27 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a 1-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat, northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

February[link]

• February – Convention People's Party wins national elections in Gold Coast (British colony).
• February 1 – The United Nations General Assembly declares that China is an aggressor in the Korean War in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 498.
• February 4–February 8 – Surgeons remove an ovarian cyst from Gertrude Levandowski in a 96-hour long operation in Chicago. She loses almost half of her weight and emerges weighing 140 kg.^[2]
• February 6 – A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, killing 85 people and injuring over 500, in one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
• February 12 – Muhammad Reza Shah marries Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari.
• February 15 – Start of the 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute, which lasts for 151 days.
• February 19 – Jean Lee becomes the last woman hanged in Australia, when Lee and her 2 pimps are hanged for the murder and torture of a 73-year-old bookmaker.
• February 27 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.

March[link]

March 29: The Rosenbergs.

• March 2 – The first NBA All-Star game was played in the Boston Garden.
• March 6 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
• March 9 – United Artists releases sci-fi film The Man from Planet X.
• March 12 – Hank Ketcham's best-selling comic strip Dennis the Menace, appeared in newspapers across the U.S. for the first time.
• March 14
  • Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul during Operation Ripper.
  • West Germany joins UNESCO.
• March 29
  • Second Red Scare: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive the death penalty.
  • Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I opens on Broadway and runs for 3 years. It's the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical specifically written for an actress (Gertrude Lawrence). Lawrence is stricken with cancer during the run of the show and dies halfway through its run a year later. The show makes a star of Yul Brynner.
  • The 23rd Academy Awards ceremony is held; All About Eve wins Best Picture and 4 others.
• March 31 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.

March 31: UNIVAC I.

April[link]

• April 1 – Female suffrage begins in Greece.
• April 11
  • U.S. President Harry S Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands.
  • After its removal from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1950, the Stone of Scone resurfaces on the altar of Arbroath Abbey.
• April 18 – The Treaty of Paris (1951) is adopted, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.
• April 21 – The National Olympic Committee of the Soviet Union is formed. The USSR first participates in the Olympic Games at Helsinki, Finland, in 1952.
• April 24 – In Yokohama, Japan a fire on a train kills more than 100.
• April 26 – Pantelis Papantoniou was born
• April 28 – Robert Menzies' Liberal Party government in Australia is re-elected for a second term.
• April 29 – RKO releases the Howard Hawks sci-fi film, "The Thing (From Another World)".

May[link]

• May 1 – The Opera house of Geneva, Switzerland is almost destroyed in a fire.
• May 3
  • King George VI opens London's Royal Festival Hall as a patron.
  • The Festival of Britain opens.
  • The U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begins its closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S Truman.
• May 9 – Operation Greenhouse: The first thermonuclear weapon is tested on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, by the United States.
• May 14 – The first volunteer-run passenger trains run on Talyllyn Railway, Wales.
• May 15 – A military coup occurs in Bolivia.
• May 21 – The Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition, a gathering of a number of notable artists, marks the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
• May 23 – The Tibetan government signs the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China.
• May 25 – The first atomic bomb "boosted" by the inclusion of thermonuclear materials, is tested in the "Item" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands by the U.S.

June[link]

• June 14 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.^[3]
• June 15 – July 1- In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, thousands of acres of forests are destroyed in fires.

July[link]

• July 1
  • Colombo Plan operations commence.
  • Judy Garland opens the first of 14 concerts in Dublin, Ireland at the Theatre Royal.
• July 5 – William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain announce the invention of the junction transistor.
• July 10 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
• July 13
  • The Great Flood of 1951 reaches its highest point in Northeast Kansas, culminating in the greatest flood damage to date in the Midwestern United States.
  • MGM's Technicolor film version of Show Boat, starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The musical brings overnight fame to bass-baritone William Warfield (who sings Ol' Man River in the film).
• July 14 – In Joplin, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument to honor an African American.
• July 16 – King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son Baudouin.
• July 17 – King Baudouin takes the oath as king of Belgium.
• July 20 – King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
• July 26 – Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, United Kingdom.
• July 30 – David Lean's Oliver Twist is finally shown in the United States, after 10 minutes of supposedly anti-Semitic references and closeups of Alec Guinness as Fagin are cut. It will not be shown uncut in the U.S. until 1970.

August[link]

• August – Paramount Pictures releases George Pal science fiction film When Worlds Collide.
• August 11 – René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France.
• August 12 – The Catcher in the Rye is first published by J.D. Salinger.

September[link]

• September 1 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
• September 3 – The American soap opera Search for Tomorrow debuts on CBS. After over 30 years, the show switches to NBC on March 26, 1982. Search for Tomorrow airs its final episode on December 26, 1986.
• September 8
  • Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.
  • Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, which allows United States Armed Forces being stationed in Japan after the occupation of Japan, is signed by Japan and the United States.
• September 9 – Chinese communist forces move into Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
• September 10 – The United Kingdom begins an economic boycott of Iran.
• September 18 – Tennessee Williams's adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire premieres, becoming a critical and box-office smash.
• September 20 – NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as members.
• September 24 – MGM releases "Show Boat" musical movie.
• September 26–September 28 – A blue sun is seen over Europe: the effect is due to ash coming from the Canadian forest fires 4 months previously.
• September 28 – 20th Century Fox releases the Robert Wise science fiction film, "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

October[link]

• October 3 – "Shot Heard 'Round the World": One of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning off of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.
• October 4
  • MGM's Technicolor musical film, An American in Paris, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, premieres in New York. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli. It would go on to win 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
  • Shoppers World (one the first shopping malls in the U.S.) opens in Framingham, Massachusetts.
• October 6 – Malayan Emergency: Communist insurgents kill British commander Sir Henry Gurney.
• October 14 – Organization of Central American States (ODECA) (Organización de Estados Centroamericanos) formed.
• October 15
  • Norethindrone, the progestin used in the oral contraceptive is synthesized by Luis E. Miramontes.
  • I Love Lucy makes its television debut on CBS.
• October 16
  • Judy Garland begins her legendary concerts in New York's Palace Theatre.
  • Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan is assassinated.
• October 17 – CBS' Eye logo premieres on TV.
• October 20 – The Johnny Bright Incident occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
• October 21 – A storm in southern Italy kills over 100.
• October 24 – U.S. President Harry Truman declares an official end to war with Germany.
• October 26 – Winston Churchill is re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a general election which sees the defeat of Clement Attlee's Labour government after six years in power.^[4]
• October 27 – Farouk of Egypt declares himself king of Sudan, with no support.
• October 31 – Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, opens in England.

November[link]

• November 1 – The first military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, are held in the Nevada desert.
• November 10 – Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
• November 11
  • Juan Peron is re-elected president of Argentina.
  • Monogram Pictures releases sci-fi film Flight to Mars.
• November 12 – The National Ballet of Canada performs for the first time in Eaton Auditorium.
• November 20 – The Po River floods in northern Italy.
• November 24 – The Broadway play Gigi opens, starring little known actress Audrey Hepburn as the lead character.
• November 28 – Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, premieres in the United States under the title of Charles Dickens's original novel, A Christmas Carol.

December[link]

• December 3 – The Lebanese University is founded in Lebanon.
• December 5 – Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe.
• December 6 – A state of emergency is declared in Egypt due to increasing riots.
• December 13 – A water storage tank collapses in Tucumcari, New Mexico, resulting in 4 deaths, and 200 buildings destroyed.
• December 16 – Salar Jung Museum is opened to the public by Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.
• December 20
  • EBR-1, the world's first (experimental) nuclear power plant, opens.
  • A chartered C46 Curtis Commando crash lands in Cobourg, Ontario Canada; all on board survived.
  • WMO becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
• December 22 – The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
• December 23 – John Huston's drama film, The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, premieres in Hollywood.
• December 24
  • Libya becomes independent from Italy.
  • Gian-Carlo Menotti's 45-minute opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, premieres live on NBC, becoming the first opera written especially for television.
• December 31 – The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $13.3 billion USD in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.^[5]

Births[link]

January–February[link]

• January 1 – Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
• January 2 – Valdir Peres, Brazilian footballer
• January 5 – Steve Arnold, English footballer
• January 6 – Kim Wilson, American singer and harmonica player
• January 8
  • Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
  • John McTiernan, American director, producer, and writer
• January 12
  • Kirstie Alley, American actress
  • Rush Limbaugh, American conservative radio personality
• January 20 – Ian Hill, English rock bassist (Judas Priest)
• January 25 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
• January 30 – Phil Collins, English rock musician and producer
• January 31 – Harry Wayne Casey, American musician, songwriter, and producer
• January 13 – Phil Manzanera, British rock musician
• February 1 – Albert Salvadó, Andorran writer
• February 3
  • Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
  • Felipe Munoz, Mexican swimmer
  • Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso
• February 13 – David Naughton, American actor
• February 14 – Kevin Keegan, English footballer and football manager
• February 15
  • Melissa Manchester, American pop singer
  • Jane Seymour, English actress
• February 16
  • Mike Flanagan, baseball pitcher
  • William Katt, American actor
• February 19 – Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Pakistani Islamic Sufi scholar and leader
• February 20
  • Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006)
• February 23 – Patricia Richardson, American actress
• February 24 – Debra Jo Rupp, American actress
• February 25 – Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter
• February 27 – Steve Harley, British rock musician

March–April[link]

• March 1
  • Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent
  • Mike Read, British television presenter and radio disc jockey
• March 3 – Heizō Takenaka, Japanese economist
• March 4
  • Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
  • Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and football manager
  • Mike Quarry, American light heavyweight boxer (d. 2006)
  • Chris Rea, British singer and musician
  • Linda Yamamoto, Japanese pop star
• March 6 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
• March 8 – Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
• March 12 – Susan Musgrave Canadian poet and children's writer
• March 13
  • Charo, Spanish-American singer and actress
  • Fred Berry, American actor (d. 2003)
• March 14 – Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
• March 17 – Kurt Russell, American actor
• March 18 – Ben Cohen, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
• March 24 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
• March 26 – Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• April 5
  • Joe Bowen, Canadian hockey broadcaster
  • Dean Kamen, American inventor and entrepreneur
  • Frank Moulaert, Flemish scholar
  • Guy Vanderhaeghe, Canadian author
• April 6 – Bert Blyleven, Dutch Major League Baseball player
• April 7 – Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter
• April 8 – Geir Haarde, Prime Minister of Iceland (2006–2009)
• April 10 – David Helvarg, American journalist and activist
• April 11 – Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite and murder victim (d. 1997)
• April 12 – Tom Noonan, American actor
• April 13
  • Peabo Bryson, American singer
  • Peter Davison, British actor
  • Max Weinberg, American drummer
• April 14 – Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
• April 16
  • Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer
  • Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, French photographer
  • Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
  • Mordechai Ben David, American singer
• April 17
  • Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born actress (Romeo and Juliet)
  • Horst Hrubesch, German football player
• April 19 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
• April 20
  • Luther Vandross, American R&B/soul musician (d. 2005)
  • Louise Jameson, British actress
• April 21 – Tony Danza, American actor and comedian
• April 23 – Allison Krause, Kent State University shooting victim (d. 1970).
• April 27 – Ace Frehley, original guitarist of KISS
• April 29 – Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)

May–June[link]

• May 4 – Jackie Jackson, American singer
• May 6 – Samuel Doe, former President of Liberia (d. 1990)
• May 9
  • Christopher Dewdney, Canadian poet
  • Joy Harjo, Native American poet
• May 13
  • Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2000)
• May 14 – Robert Zemeckis, American film director
• May 15
  • Yoshifumi Hibako, Japanese general
  • Jonathan Richman, American musician
  • Frank Wilczek, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• May 19
  • Joey Ramone, American rock musician (Ramones) (d. 2001)
  • Dick Slater, American professional wrestler
  • Al Franken, United States Senator from Minnesota
• May 23 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
• May 26
  • Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician
  • Sally Ride, American astronaut
• May 30 – Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
• June 2 – Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
• June 5 – Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality
• June 8 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer
• June 12
  • Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
  • Brad Delp, American rock vocalist (Boston) (d. 2007)
• June 13
  • Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
  • Richard Thomas, American actor (The Waltons)
• June 14 – Paul Boateng, British politician
• June 15 – Álvaro Colom Caballeros, Current President of Guatemala
• June 16 – Roberto Duran, Panamanian boxer
• June 20
  • Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
  • Paul Muldoon, Irish poet
• June 21 – Nils Lofgren, American musician
• June 24 – David Rodigan, British radio DJ/actor
• June 27
  • Julia Duffy, American actress
  • Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland
• June 28
  • Lalla Ward, British actress
  • Lloyd Maines, American musician and record producer
• June 29 – Keno Don Rosa, American comic book author
• June 30 – Stanley Clarke, American bassist

July–August[link]

• July 1
  • Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer
  • Anne Feeney, American folk singer
• July 2 – Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (The Howling) (d. 1997)
• July 3 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
• July 5 – Rich "Goose" Gossage, American baseball player
• July 6 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
• July 8 – Anjelica Huston, American actress
• July 9 – Chris Cooper, American actor
• July 10 – Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
• July 12 – Cheryl Ladd, American actress and singer (Charlie's Angels)
• July 14 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
• July 16 – Jean-Luc Mongrain, Canadian news anchor and journalist
• July 18 – Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
• July 21 – Robin Williams, American actor (Mork and Mindy)
• July 23
  • Edie McClurg, American actress
  • Michael McConnohie, American actor
• July 24
  • Lynda Carter, American actress and singer (Wonder Woman)
  • Chris Smith, British politician
• July 25 – Yuriy Kovalchuk, Russian oligarch
• July 28
  • Garrett Hongo, American poet
  • Doug Collins, American basketball player, coach and analyst
• July 31
  • Vjekoslav Šutej, Croatian orchestral conductor
  • Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Australian tennis player
• August 3 – Marcel Dionne, Canadian hockey player
• August 6
  • Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
  • Catherine Hicks, American actress
• August 8
  • Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
  • Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
  • Louis van Gaal, Dutch football player and manager
• August 12 – Willie Horton, American criminal
• August 13 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (Longer) (d. 2007)
• August 14 – Carl Lumbly, American actor
• August 15 – Jim Allen, West Indian cricketer
• August 16 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (d. 1992)
• August 19 – John Deacon, English rock bassist (Queen)
• August 20 – Greg Bear, American author
• August 21 – Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
• August 22 – Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
• August 23
  • Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya
  • Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Mark Hudson, American musician
• August 24 – Orson Scott Card, American writer
• August 25 – Rob Halford, English rock singer (Judas Priest)
• August 26 – Edward Witten, American mathematician and Fields medalist
• August 27 – Mack Brown, University of Texas football coach
• August 28 – Wayne Osmond, American pop singer

September–October[link]

• September 2
  • Mark Harmon, American actor (NCIS)
  • Jim DeMint, American politician
• September 5 – Michael Keaton, American actor
• September 7
  • Chrissie Hynde, American rock singer (The Pretenders)
  • Bert Jones, American football player
• September 12
  • Joe Pantoliano, American actor
  • Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach of Ireland
• September 13 – Linda Wong, American porn star (d. 1987)
• September 17 – Cassandra Peterson, American actress (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark)
• September 18
  • Dee Dee Ramone, American musician (d. 2002)
  • Darryl Stingley, American football player for the NFL New England Patriots (d. 2007)
• September 21 – Aslan Maskhadov, President of Chechnya
• September 22
  • David Coverdale, English singer
  • Dean Goss, American game show announcer and disc jockey
• September 25
  • Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
  • Mark Hamill, American actor (Star Wars)
• September 26 – Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician
• September 27 – Paul Craig, English professor of law
• September 29
  • Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile
  • Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
  • Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
• September 30 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
• October 2 – Sting, British rock musician (The Police)
• October 3
  • Bernard Cooper, American writer
  • Dave Winfield, baseball player
  • Keb Mo', American musician
• October 4 – Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
• October 5 – Bob Geldof, Irish musician (The Boomtown Rats)
• October 6 – Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver
• October 7 – John Mellencamp, American musician and songwriter
• October 10 – Epeli Ganilau, Fijian soldier and statesman
• October 11
  • Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer and songwriter
  • Jon Miller, American sports announcer
• October 15 – Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess grandmaster
• October 18
  • Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and executive
  • Terry McMillan, American author
• October 22 – William David Sanders, American victim of the Columbine High School massacre
• October 23 – Charly Garcia, Argentine musician and songwriter
• October 24 – Meredith Hunter, American murder victim
• October 25 – Richard Lloyd, American rock guitarist (Television)
• October 26
  • Bootsy Collins, American musician, singer, and songwriter (P-Funk)
  • Willie P. Bennett, Canadian songwriter and singer (d. 2008)
• October 27 – Éric Morena, French singer
• October 30 – Harry Hamlin, American actor (L.A. Law)

November–December[link]

• November 2 – Thomas Mallon, American author and critic
• November 3 – Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist (New York Daily News)
• November 4 – Traian Basescu, President of Romania
• November 9 – Lou Ferrigno, American actor and bodybuilder (The Incredible Hulk)
• November 11 – Marc Summers, American television host
• November 15 – Alamgir Hashmi, English poet
• November 16
  • Paula Vogel, American playwright
  • Miguel Sandoval, American actor
• November 18 – Justin Raimondo, American author
• November 19 – Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British politician
• November 24 – Chet Edwards, American politician
• November 26 – Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician
• November 27 – Teri DeSario, American singer-songwriter
• November 29
  • Kathryn Bigelow, American film director
  • Roger Troutman, American funk musician (Roger and Zapp) (d. 1999)
• November 30 – Christian Bernard, French-born mystic
• December 1
  • Sherry Aldridge, American singer (The Aldridge Sisters)
  • Obba Babatundé, American actor
  • Jaco Pastorius, American bassist
  • Treat Williams, American actor
• December 2 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
• December 3
  • Natalis Chan, Hong Kong actor and producer
  • Riki Chōshū, Korean professional wrestler
• December 4
  • Chang Fei, Taiwanese TV personality
  • Patricia Wettig, American actress
• December 6 – Tomson Highway, Canadian writer
• December 8
  • Bill Bryson, American-born British author
  • Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer and songwriter
• December 10 – Doug Allder, English footballer
• December 11 – Peter T. Daniels, American scholar
• December 12 – Wau Holland, German hacker (d. 2001)
• December 14 – Jan Timman, Dutch chess player
• December 17 – Ken Hitchcock, Canadian hockey coach
• December 20 – Peter May, Scottish novelist and television dramatist
• December 29 – Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (d. 2007)
• December 31 – Tom Hamilton, American musician

Date unknown[link]

• John Kindness, Irish artist
• Adriana Monti, Italian film director
• Mr. Butch, American homeless person and icon (d. 2007)

Deaths[link]

January–March[link]

• January 5 – Ken Le Breton, Australian speedway rider (b. 1925)
• January 7 – René Guénon, French-born author (b. 1886)
• January 10 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• January 12 – Albert Guay, Canadian murderer (executed) (b. 1917)
• January 18
  • Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary to India (b. 1867)
  • Jack Holt, American actor (b. 1888)
• January 21 – Yuriko Miyamoto, Japanese novelist (b. 1899)
• January 28 – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, President of Finland (b. 1867)
• January 29 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
• January 30 – Ferdinand Porsche, German auto engineer (b. 1875)
• February 9 – Eddy Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1909)
• February 13 – Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
• February 18 – Lyman Gilmore, American aviation pioneer (b. 1874)
• February 19 – André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• February 12 – Choudhary Rahmat Ali, one of the founding fathers of Pakistan (b. 1895)
• February 28 – Henry W. Armstrong, American boxer and songwriter (b. 1879)
• March 6 – Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
• March 10 – Kijūrō Shidehara ("Shidehara Kijūrō"), Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
• March 11 – János Zsupánek, Slovene (Prekmurian) poet and writer (b. 1861)
• March 14 – Val Lewton, American producer and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• March 21 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
• March 25
  • Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
  • Oscar Micheaux, African-American filmmaker (b. 1884)
• March 31 – Ralph Forbes, American actor (b. 1896)

April–June[link]

• April 3 – Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and dramatist (b. 1890)
• April 4
  • Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer (b. 1881)
  • George Albert Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
• April 6 – Robert Broom, Scottish paleontologist (b. 1866)
• April 14 – Ernest Bevin, British labour leader, politician, and statesman (b. 1881)
• April 19 – Frank Hopkins, American professional horseman,soldier and he was recognized by his contemporaries as supporting the preservation of the mustang (horse).
• April 18 – Oscar Carmona, former President of Portugal (b. 1869)
• April 21 – Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus, Dutch lepidopterist. (b. 1894)
• April 22 – Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist (b. 1870)
• April 23 – Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
• April 29 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (b. 1889)
• May 3 – Homero Manzi, Argentine Tango lyricist and author (b. 1907)
• May 7 – Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
• May 17 – Empress Teimei of Japan, Empress consort of Emperor Taisho (b. 1884)
• May 27 – Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, Australian soldier (b. 1884)
• May 29 – Fanny Brice, American entertainer (b. 1891)
• May 30 – Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
• June 4 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
• June 7 – Oswald Pohl, German S.S. officer (b. 1892)
• June 9 – Mayo Methot, American actress (b. 1904)
• June 13 – Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• June 21 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (b. 1867)
• June 27 – David Warfield, stage actor (b. 1866)

July–September[link]

• July 9 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player (b. 1894)
• July 13 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
• July 20
  • King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
  • Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (b. 1882)
• July 23
  • Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (b. 1884)
  • Philippe Pétain, French World War I marshal, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
• July 26 – Maximilian Ritter von Pohl, German army and air force officer (b. 1893)
• August 3 – Bee Ho Gray, Native American Wild West star, silent film actor and vaudeville performer (b. 1885)
• August 14 – William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher (b. 1863)
• August 15 – Artur Schnabel, Austrian-born Jewish classical pianist (b. 1882)
• August 16 – Louis Jouvet, French actor and director (b. 1887)
• August 21 – Constant Lambert, British composer (b. 1905)
• August 26 – Bill Barilko, Canadian hockey player (b. 1927)
• August 28 – Robert Walker, American actor (b. 1918)
• September 7
  • Maria Montez, Dominican-born actress (b. 1912)
  • John French Sloan, American artist (b. 1871)
• September 9 – Gibson Gowland, English actor (b. 1877)
• September 17 – Jimmy Yancey, American pianist and composer (b. 1898)
• September 29 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)

October–December[link]

• October 4 – Henrietta Lacks, African American originator of the HeLa cell line (b. 1920)
• October 6 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
• October 12 – Leon Errol, Australian-born actor and comedian (b. 1881)
• October 16 – Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1896)
• October 24 – Clarence Stewart Williams, American admiral (b. 1863)
• October 28 – Mady Christians, Austrian actress (b. 1892)
• November 3 – Richard Wallace, American film director (b. 1894)
• November 5 – Reggie Walker, South African athlete (b. 1889)
• November 9 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
• November 13 – Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1880)
• November 20 – Thomas Quinlan (impresario), English opera singer (b. 1881)
• December 5 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (Say It Ain't So, Joe) (b. 1889)
• December 6
  • André Gobert, French tennis player (b. 1890)
  • J. Edward Bromberg, Hungarian-born character actor (b. 1903)
  • Harold Ross, American editor (b.1892)
• December 19 – Barton Yarborough, American actor (b. 1900)
• December 23 – Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer (b. 1901)
• December 31 – Maxim Litvinov, Russian revolutionary and Soviet diplomat (b. 1876)

Unknown or Fictional Character[link]

• Henry Jones Sr. – fictional character of Indiana Jones franchise. (b. December 12, 1872)

Nobel Prizes[link]

• Physics – John Cockcroft, Ernest Walton
• Chemistry – Edwin McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg
• Physiology or Medicine – Max Theiler
• Literature – Pär Lagerkvist
• Peace – Léon Jouhaux

References[link]

• 1951 Coin Pictures

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Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the 1960s and is also known as the "Year of Africa".

Events[link]

January[link]

• January – The state of emergency is lifted in Kenya, officially ending the Mau Mau Uprising.
• January 1 – Cameroon gains its independence from French-administered U.N. trusteeship.
• January 2 – U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
• January 9–January 11 – Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt.
• January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech for the first time (see February 3).
• January 14 – The Reserve Bank and Commonwealth Bank are created in Australia.
• January 19 – The Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan is signed in Washington, D.C.
• January 21 – A mine collapses at Coalbrook, South Africa, killing 500 miners.
• January 22
  • In France, President Charles de Gaulle fires Jacques Massu, the commander-in-chief of the French troops in Algeria.
  • Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descend into the Mariana Trench in the bathyscaphe Trieste, reaching the depth of 10,911 meters (35,797 feet) and become the first human beings to reach the lowest spot on Earth.
• January 24 – A major insurrection occurs in Algiers against French colonial policy.
• January 25 – In Washington, D.C., the National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
• January 30 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.

February[link]

• February 1 – In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the Southern United States, and six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counter.

A section of lunch counter from the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's where the Greensboro sit-ins began is now preserved in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History

• February 3 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town (although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast – now Ghana – on January 10).
• February 5 – The first CERN particle accelerator becomes operational in Geneva, Switzerland.
• February 9
  • Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Southern California.
  • Adolph Coors III, the chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped, and his captors demand a ransom of $500,000. Coors was later found murdered, and Joseph Corbett, Jr., is indicted for the crime.
• February 10 – A conference about the proposed independence of the Belgian Congo begins in Brussels, Belgium.
• February 11
  • The N class blimp ZPG-3W of the U.S. Navy is destroyed during a storm over Massachusetts.
  • Twelve Indian soldiers die in clashes with Red Chinese troops along their small common border.
• February 13 – France tests its first atomic bomb - in the Sahara Desert of Algeria.
• February 18 – The 1960 Winter Olympic Games begin at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, in Placer County, California.
• February 26 – A New York bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery at Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
• February 29 – The 1960 Agadir earthquake completely destroys the town of Agadir, Morocco.

March[link]

• March 3 – Elvis Presley returns home from Germany, after being away on duty for 2 years.
• March 5 – Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Che Guevara, Guerrillero Heroico, in Havana.
• March 6
  • Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam.
  • The Canton of Geneva in Switzerland gives women the right to vote.
• March 17 – Northwest Airlines Flight 710 crashes near Tell City, Indiana, killing all 63 on board.
• March 21 – The Sharpeville massacre in South Africa results in more than 69 dead, 300 injured.
• March 22 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
• March 23 – Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev meets French president Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
• March 29 – Tom Pillibi by Jacqueline Boyer (music by André Popp, text by Pierre Cour) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 for France.

April[link]

• April 1
  • Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, Sultan of Selangor.

• • The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.
  • The 1960 United States Census begins. There are 179,323,175 U.S. residents on this day.^[1] All people from Latin America are listed as white, including blacks from the Dominican Republic, European whites from Argentina and Mexicans who resemble Native Americans.
• April 4
  • At the 32nd Academy Awards ceremony, Ben-Hur wins a record number of Oscars, including Best Picture.
  • Elvis Presley's song "Are You Lonesome Tonight" is recorded for the first time
• April 12 – Eric Peugeot, the youngest son of the founder of the Peugeot Corporation, is kidnapped in Paris. Then, he is released on April 15 in exchange for $300,000 in ransom.
• April 13
  • United States launches navigation satellite Transit I-b.
  • The proposed mass-production of the Blue Streak missile is canceled.
• April 16 – The gunman David Pratt shoots South African Prime Minister Henrik Verwoerd in Johannesburg, wounding him seriously.
• April 17 – Russwood Park, a baseball stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, burns to the ground from a fire shortly after a Chicago White Sox versus Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball game.
• April 19 – April Revolution: South Korean students hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against President Syngman Rhee. Thus eventually leads him to resign from that office.
• April 21 – In Brazil, the country's capital (Federal District) is relocated from the city of Rio de Janeiro to the new city, Brasília, in the highlands. The actual city of Rio de Janeiro becomes the State of Guanabara.
• April 27 – Togo gains independence from France, with the French-administered United Nations Trust Territory being terminated.

May[link]

• May 1

Francis Gary Powers wearing special pressure suit for stratospheric flying

• • Several Soviet surface-to-air missiles shoot down an American Lockheed U-2 spy plane. Its pilot, Francis Gary Powers, of the Central Intelligence Agency is captured.
  • In India, May 1 is declared as 'Maharashtra Divas', i.e., Maharashtra Day (also celebrated as 'Kaamgaar Divas', i.e., Workers Day).
• May 3
  • European Free Trade Association (EFTA) established.
  • The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, opens at New York City's Sullivan Street Playhouse where it will play for 42 years.
• May 4
  • West German refugee minister Theodor Oberländer is fired because of his past with Nazi Germany.
  • A.J. Liebling promulgates Liebling's Law in The New Yorker magazine: "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
• May 6 – President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law.
• May 9 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces that it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making it the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
• May 10 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton, under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach, Jr., completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the Earth codenamed Operation Sandblast.
• May 11 – In Buenos Aires, four Mossad agents abduct the fugitive Nazi criminal against humanity, Adolf Eichmann, in order that he could be taken to Israel and put on trial. Eichmann was later convicted and executed.
• May 13 – A joint Swiss & Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of the Asian mountain, Dhaulagiri, the world's 7th highest mountain.
• May 14 – The Kenyan African National Congress Party is founded in Kenya, when 3 political parties join forces.
• May 15 – The satellite Sputnik 4 is launched into orbit by the Soviet Union.
• May 16
  • Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the U-2 reconnaissance plane flights over the Soviet Union, thus aborting the summit meeting scheduled for Paris in 1960.
  • Theodore Maiman operates the first laser.
• May 20 – In Japan, police carry away socialist members of the Diet of Japan. The Diet next approves a mutual security treaty with the United States.
• May 22 – The Great Chilean Earthquake: Chile's subduction fault ruptures from Talcahuano to Taitao Peninsula, causing the most powerful earthquake on record (with a magnitude of 9.5) and a tsunami. Because of its power, the seismographs in the city of Valdivia are overloaded and malfunction through the entire earthquake.
• May 23 – Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured.
• May 27 – In Turkey, a bloodless military coup d'état removes President Celal Bayar and installs General Cemal Gürsel the as head of state.
• May 30 – Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (its 24th government, composed mostly of so-called "technocrats")

June[link]

• June 1 – New Zealand's first television station begins broadcasting in the city of Auckland.
• June 7 – U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy wins the California Democratic primary.
• June 9 – Typhoon Mary kills 1,600 people in China.
• June 15
  • Violent demonstrations at Tokyo University result in 182 arrests, 589 injuries.
  • The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in th world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

• June 19 – The Associated Broadcasting Company (now TV5) is founded in the Philippines.
• June 20 – The short-lived Mali Federation, consisting of the Sudanese Republic (now the Republic of Mali) and Senegal, gains independence from France.
• June 23 – The Japanese prime minister, Nobusuke Kishi, announces his resignation.
• June 24 – Joseph Kasavubu is elected as the first President of the independent Congo.
• June 26
  • British Somaliland receives its independence from the United Kingdom. Five days later, it unites with Somalia (the former Italian Somaliland) to create the Somalia.
  • The Malagasy Republic, now Madagascar, becomes independent from France
• June 30
  • The Belgian Congo receives its independence from Belgium as the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). A civil war followed closely on the heels of this.
  • Public demonstrations by democratic and left forces, against Italian government support of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement, are heavily suppressed by police.

July[link]

• July 1
  • Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President.
  • Cold War: A Soviet Air Force MiG-19 fighter plane flying north of Murmansk, Russia, over the Barents Sea shoots down a six-man RB-47 Stratojet reconnaissance plane of the U.S. Air Force. Four of the U.S. Air Force officers are killed, and the two survivors are held prisoner in the Soviet Union
  • Italian Somaliland gains its independence from Italy, 5 days after British Somaliland, with which it unites to form the Somali Republic.
• July 4 – Following the admission of the State of Hawaii as the 50th state in August 1959, the new 50-star Flag of the United States is first officially flown over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• July 10 – The Soviet Union national football team defeats the Yugoslavian national football team 2–1 in Paris to win the first European Soccer Championship.
• July 11
  • Moise Tshombe declares the Congolese province of Katanga independent. He requests and receives help from Belgium.
  • Harper Lee publishes her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which later wins the Pulitzer Prize for the best American novel of 1960.
• July 13 – The U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for President of the United States at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.
• July 14 – The United Nations Security Council decides to send troops to Katanga to oversee the withdrawal of Belgian troops.
• July 20 – Ceylon elects Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike as its Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government. She takes office the following day.
• July 21 – Francis Chichester, English navigator and yachtsman, arrives at New York City aboard his yacht, Gypsy Moth II, crossing the Atlantic Ocean solo in a new record of just forty days.
• July 25 – The Woolworth Company's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, the location of a sit-in that had sparked demonstrations by Negroes across the Southern United States, serves a meal to its first black customer.
• July 25–July 28 – In Chicago, the Republican National Convention nominates Vice-President Richard Nixon as its candidate for President of the United States, and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., as its candidate to become the new Vice-President.

August[link]

• August 1 – Dahomey, now known as Benin, becomes independent from France.
• August 3 – Niger becomes independent from France.
• August 5 – Upper Volta, now known as Burkina Faso, becomes independent from France.
• August 6
  • Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo against Cuba, Fidel Castro nationalizes all American and foreign-owned property in Cuba.
  • In the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville), now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Albert Kalonji declares the independence of the "Autonomous State of South Kasai".
• August 7 – The Côte d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) becomes independent from France.
• August 11 – Chad becomes independent from France.
• August 13 – Ubangi-Shari becomes independent from France, as the "Central African Republic". It later becomes the "Central African Empire" for some years.
• August 15 – Middle Congo becomes independent from France, as Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville).
• August 16
  • Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at an aititude of about 102,800 feet (31,333 meters). Kittinger set unbeaten (as of 2012^[update]) world records for: high-altitude jump; free-fall by falling 16.0 miles (25.7 kilometers) before opening his parachute; and the fastest speed attained by a human being without mechanical or chemical assistance, about 982 k.p.h (614 m.p.h.). Kittinger survived more or less uninjured, and he is still alive in Florida as of 2012.
  • The Mediterranean island of Cyprus receives its independence from the United Kingdom.
• August 17
  • The newly-named band, the Beatles begin a 48-night series of performances at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany.
  • Gabon becomes independent from France.
  • The trial of the American U - 2 pilot Francis Gary Powers begins in Moscow.
• August 19
  • Cold War: In Moscow, the American U - 2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage.
  • Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches the satellite Sputnik 5, with the dogs Belka and Strelka (the Russian for "Squirrel" and "Little Arrow"), 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants. This satellite returns to earth the next day and all animals are recovered safely.
• August 20 – Senegal breaks away from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
• August 25
  • The 1960 Summer Olympic Games begin in Rome.
  • The American nuclear submarine USS Seadragon (SSN-584) surfaced through the arctic ice cap at the North Pole, the first submarine ever to do so.
• August 29 – Hurricane Donna kills 50 people in Florida and New England.

September[link]

• September 1
  • Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, Sultan of Selangor and 2nd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by Tuanku Syed Putra, Raja of Perlis.
  • Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the company's history (the event lasts two days).
• September 2 – The first elections of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration are held. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.
• September 5
  • 1960 Summer Olympic Games: Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in light-heavyweight boxing.
  • The Congolese president, Joseph Kasavubu, fires Patrice Lumumba's entire government, and also places Lumumba under house arrest.
• September 6 – William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, two American cryptologists, announce their defection to the Soviet Union at a press conference in Moscow.
• September 8 – In Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (which had been activated by NASA on July 1).
• September 14
  • Colonel Joseph Mobutu takes power in Republic of the Congo via a military coup.
  • The countries of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela form OPEC.
• September 22 – Mali, the sole remaining member of the "Mali Federation" following the withdrawal of Senegal one month earlier, declares its full independence as the Republic of Mali.
• September 26 – The leading candidates for President of the United States, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, made the first televised debate.

October[link]

• October 1 – Nigeria becomes independent from United Kingdom, and Nnamdi Azikiwe becomes its first native-born Governor General.
  • Cameroon declared independence from United Kingdom.
• October 3 – Jânio Quadros is elected the President of Brazil for a five-year term.
• October 5 – White South Africans vote to make the country a republic.
• October 7 – Nigeria becomes the 99th member of the United Nations.
• October 12
  • Cold War: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, his way of protesting the discussion of the Soviet Union's policies toward Eastern Europe.
  • Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates Inejiro Asanuma, the chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party.
• October 13 – The Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1960 World Series of baseball in Game 7, on a home run hit by Bill Mazeroski for a 10–9 victory over the New York Yankees. It was the first time in the history of the Series that a homer had won the championship.^[2]
• October 14 – Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps of the United States.
• October 24 – A large rocket explodes on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, killing at least 90 people of the Soviet space program.
• October 26 – Robert F. Kennedy telephones Coretta Scott King, the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and he also secures King's release from jail regarding a traffic violation in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S..
• October 29 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional boxing match.
• October 30 – Dr. Michael Woodruff carries out the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom, in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

November[link]

• November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the case of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
• November 8 – United States presidential election, 1960: In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard Nixon, to become (at 43) the second youngest man to serve at the President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to this position.
• November 13 – Sammy Davis, Jr., marries the Swedish actress May Britt.
• November 14
  • Belgium threatens to leave the United Nations over criticism of its policy concerning the Republic of the Congo.
  • A collision between two trains in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia, kills 117 people.
• November 15 – A Polaris missile is test-launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida

November 15: Polaris missile test

• November 22 – The United Nations supports the government of Joseph Kasavubu and Joseph Mobutu in the Republic of the Congo.
• November 24 – The professional basketball player Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers gets 55 rebounds in an NBA game versus the Boston Celtics.
• November 28 – Mauritania becomes independent of France.

December[link]

• December – African and Malagasy Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OAMCE) (Organisation Africain et Malagache de Coopération Économique) is established.
• December 1
  • Patrice Lumumba, the deposed premier of the Republic of the Congo, is arrested by the troops of Colonel Joseph Mobutu.
  • A Soviet satellite containing live animals and plants is launched into orbit. Due to a malfunction it burns up during re-entry.
• December 2
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, talks with Pope John XXIII for about one hour in Vatican City. This is the first time that any chief of the Anglican Church had ever visited the Pope.
  • U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the use of $1.0 million for the relief and resettlement of Cuban refugees, who had been arriving in Florida at the rate of about 1,000 per week.
• December 4 – The admission of Mauritania to the United Nations vetoed by the Soviet Union for inscrutable reasons.
• December 5
  • Pierre Lagaillarde, who led the insurrections in 1958 and 1960 in Algeria, fails to appear in court in Paris, France. He had reportedly fled with his four fellow defendants to Spain en route to return to Algeria.
  • Boynton v. Virginia: The Supreme Court declares that segregation in public transportation is illegal in the United States.
• December 7 – The United Nations Security Council is called into session by the Soviet Union in order to consider Soviet demands for the Security Council to seek the immediate release of the former Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba.
• December 8 – For the first time, the Mary Martin Peter Pan is presented as a stand-alone two-hour special on NBC instead of as part of an anthology series. This version, rather than being presented live, is shown on videotape, enabling NBC to repeat it as often as they wish without having to restage it. Although nearly all of the adult actors repeat their original Broadway roles, all of the original children have, ironically, outgrown their roles and are replaced by new actors.
• December 9
  • French President Charles de Gaulle's visit to Algeria is bloodied by European and Muslim rioters in Algeria's largest cities. These riots caused 127 deaths.
  • The first episode of the classic British TV series Coronation Street is broadcast. Planned as a 13-part drama, it becomes such a success among viewers that it is still shown five times per week.
• December 11 – MGM's The Wizard of Oz is rerun on CBS only a year after its previous telecast, thus beginning the tradition of annual telecasts of the film.
• December 12 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds a lower Federal Court ruling that the State of Louisiana's laws on racial segregation laws are unconstitutional, and overturns them.
• December 13
  • While Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard leads a military coup against his rule, proclaiming that the emperor's son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, is the new emperor.
  • The countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua announce the formation of the Central American Common Market.
  • The U.S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath (the pilot) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe (the bombardier/navigator) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91,450 feet (27,874 m), with payload, in an A-5 Vigilante twinjet bomber carrying a 1,000 kilogram payload, and they better the previous world record by over four miles (6 km).
• December 14 – Antoine Gizenga proclaims in Republic of the Congo, that he has taken over as the premier.
• December 15
  • King Mahendra of Nepal deposes the democratic government there and he takes direct control himself.
  • King Baudouin of Belgium marries Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragon.
• December 16
  • Secretary of State Christian Herter announces that the United States will commit five nuclear submarines and eighty Polaris missiles to the defense of the NATO countries by the end of 1963.
  • New York air disaster: a United Airlines DC-8 collides in mid-air with a TWA Lockheed Constellation over Staten Island in New York City. All 128 passengers and crewmembers on the two airliners, and six people on the ground, are killed.
• December 17 – Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie I in Ethiopia overcome the coup that began on December 13, returning the reins to the Emperor upon his return from a trip to Brazil. The Emperor absolves his own son of any guilt.
• December 19 – Fire sweeps through the USS Constellation, to become the U.S. Navy's largest aircraft carrier, while she is under construction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 50 workers are killed and 150 are injured.
• December 27 – France sets off its third A-bomb test at its nuclear weapons testing range near Reggane, Algeria.
• December 31 – Last day on which the farthing, a coin first minted in England in the 13th century, is legal tender in the United Kingdom.

Ongoing events[link]

• Beginning in 1959, Argentina suffers economic recession.

World population[link]

• World population: 3,021,475,001
  • Africa: 277,398,000
  • Asia: 1,701,336,000
  • Europe: 604,401,000
  • Latin-America: 218,300,000
  • Northern America: 204,152,000
  • Oceania: 15,888,000

Births[link]

January–February[link]

• January 2 – Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author and artist
• January 4
  • Michael Stipe, American rock singer (R.E.M.)
  • Art Paul Schlosser, American comedian,singer and song writer
• January 6
  • Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
  • Howie Long, American football player
  • Miriam O'Callaghan, Irish television current affairs broadcaster
• January 10
  • Samira Said, Moroccan singer
  • Brian Cowen, Taoiseach of Ireland
• January 12
  • Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
  • Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player
• January 13 – Kevin Anderson, American actor
• January 20 – Will Wright, American computer game designer
• January 22 – Michael Hutchence, Australian rock musician (INXS) (d. 1997)
• January 23 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998)
• January 24
  • Rick Leventhal, American news journalist
  • Mária Bajzek Lukács Hungarian Slovene writer, adjunct of the University ELTE
• January 28 – Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer
• January 29
  • Greg Louganis, American diver
  • Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
  • Sean Kerly, British field hockey player
• January 30 – Alex Titomirov Russian-American businessman
• February 2 – Jari Porttila, Finnish sports journalist
• February 3
  • Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1993)
  • Joachim Löw, German football manager
• February 7 – James Spader, American actor
• February 13
  • Pierluigi Collina, Italian football (soccer) referee
  • Gary Patterson, American football coach
• February 14 – Jim Kelly, American football player
• February 16 – Cherie Chung, Hong Kong actress
• February 18 – Tony Anselmo, American animator
• February 19 – Prince Andrew, Duke of York, British prince and second son of Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh
• February 21
  • Henry G. Brinton, American writer and minister
  • Laurent Petitguillaume, French radio and television host
• February 23 – Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan
• February 27 – Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
• February 28 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model and actress (d. 1980)
• February 29 – Richard Ramirez, American serial killer

March–April[link]

• March 2 – Hector Calma Filipino basketball player
• March 4
  • Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter
  • John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer and world Junior Middleweight champion
• March 7
  • Joe Carter, American baseball player
  • Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
• March 8 – Finn Carter, American actress
• March 10 – Anne MacKenzie, Scottish broadcaster
• March 12 – Minoru Niihara, Japanese singer (Loudness)
• March 13
  • Adam Clayton, Irish rock bassist (U2)
  • Joe Ranft, American animator (d. 2005)
• March 14 – Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• March 16 – Jenny Eclair, British comedian, actress and novelist
• March 18 – Richard Biggs, American actor (d. 2004)
• March 19 – Simo Aalto, Finnish magician
• March 20 – Norm Magnusson, American artist
• March 21 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1994)
• March 23 – Nicol Stephen, Scottish politician
• March 24 –
  • Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist
  • Nena, German singer
• March 26 – Marcus Allen, American football player
• March 27
  • Hans Pflügler, German footballer
  • Renato Russo, Brazilian singer (Legião Urbana) (d. 1996)
• March 29 – Hiromi Tsuru, Japanese seiyuu
• April 1 – Michael Praed, British actor
• April 2 – Linford Christie, British athlete
• April 3 – Elizabeth Gracen, American beauty queen, actress, and model
• April 4 – Hugo Weaving, Australian actor
• April 11 – Jeremy Clarkson, English journalist and television show host
• April 13 – Rudi Voller, German footballer and manager
• April 14 – Brad Garrett, American actor
• April 15 – Susanne Bier, Danish film director
• April 16
  • Pierre Littbarski, German footballer and coach
  • Rafael Benítez, Spanish football manager
  • Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (d. 2007)
• April 18 – Neo Rauch, German painter
• April 19 – Frank Viola, American baseball player
• April 22 – Tatiana Thumbtzen, American actress, model and dancer
• April 23
  • Valerie Bertinelli, American actress
  • Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (d. 1991)
  • David Gedge, English musician (The Wedding Present and Cinerama)
  • Claude Julien, Canadian ice hockey coach
• April 25 – Michael Lohan, American stockbroker and reality television star, father of Lindsay Lohan
• April 28
  • John Cerutti, American baseball player and announcer (d. 2004)
  • Ian Rankin, Scottish crime novelist

May–June[link]

• May 2 – Gjorge Ivanov, President of Macedonia
• May 3 – Amy Steel, American film actress
• May 4
  • Andrew Denton, Australian television presenter and comedian
  • Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria
• May 6 – Roma Downey, Irish-born actress, producer and wife of Mark Burnett
• May 7 – Adam Bernstein, American music video/television director
• May 8 – Eric Brittingham, American rock bassist
• May 9 – Tony Gwynn, American baseball player
• May 10 – Bono, Irish rock singer (U2)
• May 14
  • Ronan Tynan, Irish tenor
  • "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American professional wrestler (d. 2009)
• May 15 – Julian Jarrold, English film & television director & producer
• May 16 – Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician
• May 18
  • Jari Kurri, Finnish hockey player
  • Yannick Noah, French tennis player
• May 20 – John Billingsley, American actor
• May 21 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
• May 22 – Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
• May 23 – Linden Ashby, American actor
• May 24
  • Guy Fletcher, British keyboardist (Dire Straits)
  • Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
• May 25 – Amy Klobuchar, American politician
• May 26 – Rob Murphy, American baseball player
• May 29 – Neil Crone, Canadian actor
• May 31 – Greg Adams, Canadian ice hockey player
• June 4 – Bradley Walsh, English comedian and actor
• June 6 – Steve Vai, American guitarist
• June 8 – Mick Hucknall, English rock singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
• June 12 – Corynne Charby, French model, actress and singer
• June 14 – Peter Mitchell, Australian news reader
• June 16 – Peter Sterling, Australian rugby player
• June 18 – Kevin Drinkell, English footballer
• June 21 – Kevin Harlan, American sports announcer
• June 22 – Erin Brockovich, American environmental activist
• June 28 – John Elway, American football player
• June 30 – Tony Bellotto, Brazilian guitarist and writer

July–August[link]

• July 1 – Koji Ishii, Japanese seiyuu
• July 3
  • Vince Clarke, British musician and composer (Depeche Mode, Erasure)
  • Perrine Pelen, French alpine skier
• July 4 – Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler
• July 5 – Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor
• July 7 – Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
• July 8 – Thilo Martinho, German composer, singer-songwriter
• July 9 – Charles Gavin, Brazilian drummer and producer
• July 13 – Ian Hislop, British journalist and broadcaster
• July 14
  • Kyle Gass, American music singer-song-writer-guitarist/actor
  • Jane Lynch, American actress
• July 17
  • Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor
  • Jan Wouters, Dutch football player and manager
• July 19 – Atom Egoyan, Armenian-Canadian film maker
• July 21
  • Ezequiel Viñao, Argentine-born composer
  • Fritz Walter, German footballer
• July 31 – Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• August 1 – Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy)
• August 4
  • José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain
  • Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler
• August 7 – David Duchovny, American actor
• August 8 – Ulrich Maly, German politician and Mayor of Nuremberg
• August 10
  • Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
  • Kenny Perry, American golfer
• August 12 – Laurent Fignon, French road bicycle racer (d. 2010)
• August 13
  • Koji Kondo, Japanese composer
  • Phil Taylor, English darts player
• August 14 – Sarah Brightman, English soprano singer and actress
• August 16
  • Timothy Hutton, American actor
  • Martha Moxley, American Murder Victim
• August 17 – Sean Penn, American actor
• August 19 – Morten Andersen, American football player
• August 23 – Chris Potter, Canadian actor and musician
• August 24 – Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player
• August 26 – Branford Marsalis, American musician
• August 26 – Ola Ray, American actress and model
• August 30 – Chalino Sánchez, Mexican musician (d. 1992)

September–October[link]

• September 1 – Joseph Williams, American singer and film score composer
• September 2 – John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist
• September 6 – Bob Stoops, American football coach
• September 7 – Phillip Rhee, American actor, producer and writer
• September 9
  • Hugh Grant, English actor
  • Mario Batali, American chef and host
• September 10 – Colin Firth, English actor
• September 14 – Callum Keith Rennie, Canadian actor
• September 16
  • John Franco, American baseball player
  • Yianna Katsoulos, French singer
• September 17 – Kevin Clash, American actor and puppeteer
• September 19 – Yolanda Saldívar, American murderer of tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez
• September 21 – David James Elliott, Canadian actor
• September 22 – Scott Baio, American actor
• September 28 – Jennifer Rush, American singer
• September 29 – Alan McGee, British music industry mogul and musician
• September 30 – Blanche Lincoln, American politician
• October 4 – Billy Hatcher, American baseball player
• October 5 – Antonio de Oliveira Filho, Brazilian footballer
• October 6 – Richard Jobson, Scottish rock singer-songwriter, filmmaker, and television presenter (Skids)
• October 7 – Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
• October 9 – Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (d. 2008)
• October 12 – Alexei Kudrin, Russian Minister of Finance
• October 17 – Guy Henry, English actor
• October 18 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
• October 24
  • Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (d. 1999)
  • Dennis Anderson, American monster truck driver (<<link:6>>)
• October 26 – Jouke de Vries, Dutch–Frisian politician
• October 28 – Landon Curt Noll, American astronomer, cryptographer, and mathematician
• October 29 – Finola Hughes, British actress
• October 30 – Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballer
• October 31 – Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran

November–December[link]

• November 3
  • Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
  • Francis Beckwith, American Catholic philosopher
• November 4 – Frl. Menke, German pop singer
• November 5 – Tilda Swinton, British actress
• November 9 – Joëlle Ursull, Guadeloupean singer
• November 10 – Neil Gaiman, English author
• November 11 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
• November 17 – Jonathan Ross, English television presenter
• November 18 – Kim Wilde, English singer and gardener
• November 20 – Marc Labrèche, Canadian actor and television host

• November 24 – Amanda Wyss, American actress
• November 25
  • Amy Grant, American Christian and pop musician
  • John F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and journalist (d. 1999)
  • Kasey Smith, American keyboardist (Danger Danger)
• November 26 – Harold Reynolds, American baseball player and broadcaster
• November 27
  • Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine
  • Tim Pawlenty, American politician
• November 30
  • Rich Fields, American television personality
  • Gary Lineker, English footballer and sports presenter
• December 3
  • Daryl Hannah, American actress
  • Julianne Moore, American actress
• December 4 – Glynis Nunn, Australian athlete
• December 5 – Brian Bromberg, American jazz bassist and composer
• December 9 – Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, American television director, writer, producer, storyboard artist, and actor
• December 10
  • Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director
  • Michael Schoeffling, American actor and model
• December 18 – Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist
• December 22 – Mark Brydon, British musician (Moloko)
• December 24 – Carol Vorderman, British television presenter
• December 27
  • Maryam d'Abo, British actress
  • Fred Hammond, American Gospel musician
• December 28
  • John Fitzgerald, Australian tennis player
  • Ray Bourque, Canadian ice hockey player
• December 29 – Dave Pelzer, American author
• December 31
  • John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (d. 2009)
  • Steve Bruce, English footballer

Deaths[link]

January–June[link]

• January 1 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress (b. 1909)
• January 3 – Victor Sjöström, Swedish actor (b. 1879)
• January 4
  • Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1913)
  • Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter (b. 1895)
• January 5 – Donald Knight, English cricketer (b. 1894)
• January 7 – Dorothea Chambers, English tennis champion (b. 1878)
• January 9 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's novelist (b. 1880)
• January 12 – Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
• January 19 - Dadasaheb Torne, Indian filmmaker (b. 1890)
• January 24
  • Matt Moore, Irish-American actor (b. 1888)
  • Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
  • John Miljan, American actor (b. 1892)
• January 25 – Diana Barrymore, American stage & film actress (b 1921)
• January 27 – Osvaldo Aranha, Brazilian politician (b. 1894)
• January 28 – Zora Neale Hurston, American folklorist and author (b. 1891)
• January 30 – J. C. Kumarappa, Indian economist (b. 1892)
• February 2 – Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, Hindu teacher (b. 1884)
• February 3 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
• February 6 – Jesse Belvin, American R&B singer (b. 1932)
• February 7 – Igor Kurchatov, Soviet physicist (b. 1903)
• February 9 – Jaroslav Joseph Polivka, Czech structural engineer (b. 1886)
• February 10 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
• February 11 – Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian conductor (b. 1877)
• February 12 - Jean-Michel Atlan, French painter (b. 1913)
• February 20 – Leonard Woolley, British archaeologist (b. 1880)
• February 29
  • Jacques Becker, French director (b. 1906)
  • Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (b. 1901), last Vicereine of India
  • Melvin Purvis, American lawman (b. 1903)
  • Walter Yust, American encyclopedia editor (b. 1894)
• March 2 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (b. 1874)
• March 4 – Leonard Warren, American opera singer (b. 1911)
• March 9 – Jack Beattie, Irish politician (b. 1886)
• March 11 – Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer, adventurer and naturalist (b. 1884)
• March 13 – Yosef Zvi HaLevy, Israeli rabbi and judge (b.1874)
• March 26 – Ian Keith, American actor (b. 1899)
• April 1 – Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, King of Malaysia (b. 1895)
• April 5
  • Cuthbert Burnup, English sportsman (b. 1875)
  • Peter Llewelyn Davies, namesake for Peter Pan (b. 1897)
  • Alma Kruger, American actress (b. 1868)
• April 17 – Eddie Cochran, American rock singer (b. 1938)
• April 19 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and tax plan author (b. 1894)
• April 24
  • Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
  • George Relph, English actor (b. 1888)
• April 25 – Hope Emerson, American actress (b. 1897)
• May 2 – Caryl Chessman, American criminal (b. 1921)
• May 3 – Masa Niemi, Finnish actor (b. 1914)
• May 8 – J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904)
• May 11 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)
• May 12 – Prince Aly Khan, Pakistani United Nations ambassador (b. 1911)
• May 14 – Lucrezia Bori, Spanish opera singer (b. 1887)
• May 23 – Georges Claude, French inventor (b. 1870)
• May 24 – Avraham Arnon, Israeli educator and a recipient of the Israel Prize (b. 1887)
• May 27
  • Edward Brophy, American actor (b. 1895)
  • James Montgomery Flagg, American artist and illustrator (b. 1877)
  • George Zucco, English actor (b. 1886)
• May 30 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890)
• May 31 – Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (b. 1890)
• June 4
  • Józef Haller de Hallenburg, Polish general (b. 1873)
  • Lucien Littlefield, American actor (b. 1895)
• June 14 – Ana Pauker, Romanian communist politician (b. 1893)
• June 17 – Arthur Rosson, English film director (b. 1886)
• June 18 – Shalva Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian politician (b. 1884)
• June 19 – Chris Bristow, English race car driver (b. 1937)
• June 20
  • William E. Fairbairn, English soldier, police officer, and hand-to-hand combat expert (b. 1885)
  • John B. Kelly, Sr., American Olympic rower, father of Grace Kelly (b. 1889)
• June 25 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
• June 27 – Lottie Dod, 88, English tennis player; Wimbledon women's champion, 1887–88, 1891-93 (b. 1871)

July–December[link]

• July 6 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician (b. 1897)
• July 14 – Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie, French physicist (b. 1875)
• July 15
  • Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Italian cinematographer (b. 1890)
  • Set Persson, Swedish politician (b. 1897)
  • Lawrence Tibbett, American opera singer and actor (b. 1896)
• July 16
  • John P. Marquand, American novelist (b. 1893)
  • Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• July 22 – Buddy Adler, American film producer (b. 1909)
• July 24 – Hans Albers, German actor and singer (b. 1891)
• July 26 – Cedric Gibbons, Irish-American art director (b. 1893)
• July 29 – Hasan Saka, ex prime minister of Turkey (b. 1885)
• August 5 – Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• August 10 – Frank Lloyd, American film director (b. 1886)
• August 22
  • Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
  • Johannes Sikkar, Estonian politician (b. 1897)
• August 23
  • Oscar Hammerstein II, writer and lyricist (b. 1895)
  • Jersey Flegg, English-Australian rugby league player and chairman (b. 1878)
• August 27 – Stanley Clifford Weyman, U.S. impostor (b. 1890)
• August 29 – Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (b. 1888)
• September 1 – Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, King of Malaysia (b. 1898)
• September 8
  • Feroze Gandhi, Indian politician (b. 1912)
  • Oscar Pettiford, American jazz musician (b. 1922)
• September 9 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
• September 11 – Edwin Justus Mayer, American screenwriter (b. 1896)
• September 20 – Ida Rubinstein, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1885)
• September 23 – Kathlyn Williams, American actress (b. 1879)
• September 24 – Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian composer (b. 1905)
• September 27 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1882)
• October 11 – Richard Cromwell, American actor (b. 1910)
• October 15
  • Henny Porten, German actress (b. 1890)
  • Clara Kimball Young, American actress (b. 1890)
• October 21 – Ma Hongbin, Chinese warlord (b. 1884)
• October 31 – H. L. Davis, American author (b. 1894)
• November 2 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (b. 1896)
• November 5
  • Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903)
  • August Gailit, Estonian writer (b. 1891)
  • Johnny Horton, American country singer (b. 1925)
  • Mack Sennett, Canadian film producer and director (b. 1880)
• November 6 – Erich Raeder, German World War II naval leader (b. 1876)
• November 7 – A.P. Carter, American singer and songwriter (b. 1891)
• November 12 – Lord Buckley, American monologist (b. 1906)
• November 14 – Walter Catlett, American actor (b. 1889)
• November 16 – Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
• November 19 – Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
• November 20 – Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli poet (b. 1881)
• November 23 – Allen Hobbs, 32nd Governor of American Samoa (b. 1889)
• November 24 – Grand Duchess Olga, sister of Nicholas II (b. 1882)
• November 25 – The Mirabal Sisters, three Dominican revolutionaries (b. 1924, 1926, 1935)
• November 28
  • Richard Wright, American novelist (b. 1908)
  • Dirk Jan de Geer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870)
• December 2 – Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot, German architect, interior designer and designer (b. 1883)
• December 13 – John Charles Thomas, American opera singer (b. 1891)
• December 14 – Gregory Ratoff, Russian actor and director (b. 1897)
• December 26
  • Giuseppe Bellanca, Italian-American aircraft designer and company founder (b. 1886)
  • Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)