1960
1960 (
MCMLX) was a
leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar).
1960 is known as the "
year of Africa."
January
* January â€" The
state of emergency is lifted in
Kenya â€" the
Mau Mau Rebellion is officially over.
*
January 1 â€" Independence of
Cameroon.
*
January 9-
11 â€"
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 â€"
Reserve Bank and
Commonwealth Bank are created.
*
January 19 - The
Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan is signed in Washington.
*
January 21 â€" A mine collapses at
Coalbrook,
South Africa â€" 437 dead.
*
January 22 â€" In
France, President
Charles de Gaulle fires
Jacques Massun, commander-in-chief for the French troops in
Algeria.
*
January 22-
23 â€"
Jacques Piccard and
Don Walsh descend into the
Marianas Trench in the
bathyscape Trieste, reaching the depth of 10,916 meters.
*
January 23 â€"
Jacques Piccard and
Don Walsh, in the
bathyscaphe USS Trieste, break a depth record when they descend to the bottom of
Challenger Deep 35,820
feet (10,750
meters) below
sea level in the
Pacific Ocean.
*
January 24 â€" A major insurrection occurs in
Algiers against French colonial policy.
*
January 25 â€" The
National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the
Payola scandal by threatening fines for any
disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
February
*
February 1 â€" In
Greensboro, N.C.,
four black students from
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College 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
South, and six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counter.
*
February 3 -
British Prime Minister 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 the same year).
*
February 5 â€"
Particle accelerator of
CERN inaugurated in
Geneva,
Switzerland.
*
February 9 â€"
Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
*
February 9 â€"
Adolph Coors III, chairman of the board of the
Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped and captors demand $500,000. Coors is later found dead and
Joseph Corbett, Jr. is indicted.
*
February 10 â€" In
Brussels, a conference about
Congo independence begins.
*
February 11 â€" Twelve
Indian soldiers die in clashes with
Chinese troops at the border.
*
February 11 â€" The
airship ZPG-3W is destroyed in a storm in
Massachusetts.
*
February 13 â€"
Nuclear testing:
France tests its first
atomic bomb in the
Sahara.
*
February 18 â€" The
1960 Winter Olympics open in
Squaw Valley,
California.
*
February 29-
March 1 (night) â€" An
earthquake totally destroys
Agadir,
Morocco.
March
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South African police officers standing over people killed in the Sharpeville massacre. |
*
March 3 â€"
Elvis Presley returns home from
Germany, after being away on
duty for 2 years.
*
March 6 â€"
Vietnam War: The
United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers are going to be sent to
Vietnam.
*
March 6 â€" The
Canton of
Geneva in
Switzerland gives women the right to vote.
*
March 21 â€"
Apartheid:
Massacre in Sharpeville,
South Africa:
Afrikaner police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
*
March 22 â€"
Arthur Leonard Schawlow &
Charles Hard Townes receive the first
patent for a
laser.
*
March 23 â€"
Nikita Khrushchev meets
Charles De Gaulle in
Paris.
April
*
April 1 â€"
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.
*
April 1 â€" The
United States launches the first
weather satellite,
TIROS-1.
*
April 4 â€" The first three female priests are ordained in
Sweden.
*
April 12 â€"
Eric Peugeot, youngest son of the founder of
Peugeot, is kidnapped in
Paris. Kidnappers release him
April 15 in exchange for $300,000
ransom.
*
April 13 â€" The
USA launches
navigation satellite Transat I-b.
*
April 13 - The
Blue Streak missile is cancelled, heralding an end to the
United Kingdom's imperial ambitions.
*
April 16 â€" Gunman
David Pratt attacks
South African Prime Minister
Henrik Verwoerd in
Johannesburg, wounding him seriously.
*
April 16 -
The Times of
London abandons use of the term "Imperial and Foreign News", replacing it with "Overseas News", and changes its house style from "to-day" to "today".
*
April 18 - On the campaign trail in
West Virginia, Senator
John F. Kennedy says, in reply to a question about his
Roman Catholic faith, "I don't think that my religion is anyone's business."
*
April 21 â€" In
Brazil, the country's capital (
Federal District) is shifted from
Rio de Janeiro to
BrasÃlia. The
Estado da Guanabara (State of Guanabara) is founded to succeed
Rio de Janeiro as the
Brazilian Federal District.
*
April 27 â€"
Togo gains independence from
French-administered UN trusteeship.
May
*
May 1 - In India, May 1st is declared as 'Maharashtra Divas', i.e.,
Maharashtra Day. The same day is also celebrated as 'Kaamgaar Divas', i.e.,
Workers Day.
*
May 1 â€" A Soviet missile shoots down an American
U-2 spy plane; the pilot
Francis Gary Powers is captured.
*
May 4 â€"
West German refugee minister
Theodor Oberländer is fired because of his
Nazi past.
*
May 9 â€"
Reproductive rights: The
Food and Drug Administration approves the sale of the
birth control pill.
*
May 10 â€" The nuclear submarine
USS Nautilus completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the
Earth.
*
May 11 â€" In
Buenos Aires, four
Mossad agents abduct fugitive
Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was using the assumed name "Ricardo Klement".
*
May 13 â€" The first ascent of
Dhaulagiri, the world's 7th highest mountain, is made by members of a Swiss/Austrian expedition.
*
May 14 â€" The
Kenyan African National Congress Party is founded in
Kenya, when three political parties join forces.
*
May 15 â€"
Sputnik 4 is launched into
Earth orbit.
*
May 16 â€"
Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower for
U-2 spy plane flights over the
Soviet Union, thus ending a
Big Four summit in
Paris.
*
May 16 â€"
Theodore Maiman operates the first
laser.
*
May 20 â€" In
Japan, police carry away
Socialist members of the
Diet. Parliament then approves a security treaty with the
United States.
*
May 22 â€"
Great Chilean Earthquake:
Chile's subduction fault ruptures from
Talcahuano to
PenÃnsula de Taitao, loosing a
tsunami and one of the greatest
earthquakes on record.
*
May 23 â€"
Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that
Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured.
*
May 27 â€" In
Turkey, a bloodless military
coup d'état removes President
Celal Bayar and installs General
Cemal Gürsel as the head of state.
June
*
June 4 â€" The
Lake Bodom murders occur in
Finland.
*
June 9 â€"
Typhoon Mary kills 1600 in the
Fukien province of
China.
*
June 15 â€" Violent
demonstrations occur at
Tokyo University â€" police arrest 182; 589 injured.
*
June 15 â€"
BC Ferries, the second largest ferry operator in the world, starts service between
Tsawwassen and
Swartz Bay.
*
June 20 â€" The
Mali Federation between
Senegal and
Sudanese Republic (now
Mali) gains
independence from
France.
*
June 23 â€"
Japanese prime minister
Nobusuke Kishi announces his resignation.
*
June 24 â€"
Joseph Kasavubu is elected the first president of independent
Congo.
*
June 24 â€"
Avro 748makes its first flight at
Woodford,
UK.
*
June 26 â€"
British Somaliland gains
independence from
UK â€" 5 days later it unites with the former
Italian Somaliland to create the modern
Somali Republic.
*
June 30 â€"
Belgian Congo gains
independence from
Belgium â€" civil war follows.
*
June 30 - Public demonstrations of democratic and left forces, against Italian government support of the post-fascist
Italian Social Movement, are heavily suppressed by police.
July
*
July 1 â€" A
Soviet MiG fighter north of
Murmansk in the
Barents Sea shoots down a six-man
RB-47. Two
United States Air Force officers survive and are imprisoned in
Moscow's dreaded
Lubyanka prison. (see
RB-47H shot down)
*
July 4 â€" Following the admission of
Hawaii as the 50th
U.S. state the previous year, the 50-star
flag of the United States debuts in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
*
July 10 â€" The
Soviet Union beat
Yugoslavia 2-1 to win the first
European Football Championship.
*
July 11 â€"
Moise Tshombe declares the Congolese province of
Katanga independent; he receives Belgian help.
*
July 11 -
Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for
U.S. President at the
Democratic National Convention in
Los Angeles, California.
*
July 12 â€"
Orlyonok, the main
Young Pioneer camp of the
Russian SFSR, is founded.
*
July 14 â€" The
United Nations decides to send troops to Katanga to oversee Belgian troops withdrawal.
*
July 20 â€"
Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) elects
Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first female head of government.
*
July 21 â€"
Francis Chichester, English navigator and yachtsman, arrives in New York aboard
Gypsy Moth II â€" he has made a record solo Atlantic crossing in 40 days.
*
July 27 â€"
OECD founded.
August
* August â€"
Stanley Clifford Weyman, US impostor, is killed when he tries to prevent a robbery.
*
August 5 â€"
Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) declares
independence from
France.
*
August 6 â€"
Cuban Revolution: In response to a
United States embargo,
Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
*
August 6 â€" In
Congo,
Albert Kalonji declares the independence of the Autonomous State of
South Kasai.
*
August 7 â€"
Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
*
August 9 â€"
Singapore becomes independent.
*
August 11 â€"
Chad becomes independent.
*
August 16 â€"
Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over
New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,333 m). He sets unbeaten (
as of 2005) world records for: high-altitude jump;
free-fall by falling 16 miles (25.7 km) before opening his
parachute; and fastest speed by a
human without motorized assistance, 982 km/h (614 mi/h).
*
August 16 â€"
Cyprus gains its independence from the
United Kingdom.
*
August 17 â€"
Gabon gains independence from
France.
*
August 17 â€" The
trial of
U-2 pilot
Gary Powers begins in
Moscow.
*
August 18 â€"
Enovid, the first commercially produced oral
contraceptive, is launched in
Skokie, Illinois.
*
August 19 â€"
Cold War: In
Moscow, downed American
U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the
Soviet Union for
espionage.
*
August 19 â€"
Sputnik program: The
Soviet Union launches
Sputnik 5, with the
dogs Belka and Strelka (
Russian for "Squirrel" and "Little Arrow"), 40
mice, 2
rats and a variety of
plants. The spacecraft returns to earth the next day and all animals are recovered safely.
*
August 20 â€"
Senegal breaks from the
Mali Federation, declaring independence.
*
August 25 â€" The
1960 Summer Olympics open in
Rome.
*
August 25 - The
USS Seadragon (SSN-584) surfaces at the
North Pole, where the crew plays softball.
*
August 29 â€"
September 13 â€"
Hurricane Donna kills 50 in
Florida and
New England.
September
*
September 1 â€"
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.
*
September 1 â€" Disgruntled
railroad workers effectively halt operations of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the history of the company (the event lasts 2 days).
*
September 5 â€"
Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome
Olympic Games.
*
September 5 â€"
Congo president
Joseph Kasavubu fires
Patrice Lumumba's government and places him under
house arrest.
*
September 8 â€" In
Huntsville, Alabama, US President
Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the
Marshall Space Flight Center (
NASA had already activated the facility on
July 1).
*
September 14 â€" Colonel
Joseph Mobutu takes power in
Congo in a
military coup.
*
September 14 â€"
Iran,
Iraq,
Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia and
Venezuela form
OPEC.
*
September 26 â€" The two leading US presidential candidates,
Richard M. Nixon and
John F. Kennedy, participate in the first televised presidential debate.
October
*
October 1 â€"
Nigeria gains independence â€"
Nnamdi Azikiwe is the first native
Governor General.
*
October 3 â€"
Jânio Quadros is elected president of
Brazil, for a five-year term.
*
October 5 â€" White
South Africans vote to make the country a republic.
*
October 7 â€" Second notable flood in
Horncastle.
*
October 12 â€"
Cold War:
Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a
United Nations General Assembly meeting, to protest discussion of
Soviet Union policy toward
Eastern Europe.
*
October 12 â€"
Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates
Inejiro Asanuma, chairman of the
Japanese Socialist Party.
*
October 14 â€" U.S. presidential candidate
John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the
Peace Corps.
*
October 24 â€" A rocket explodes in the
Baikonur Space Center during fueling â€" 91 dead.
*
October 26 -
Robert F. Kennedy calls
Coretta Scott King, wife of
Dr. Martin Luther King, and secures his release from jail on a traffic violation.
*
October 29 â€" In
Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later took the name
Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
*
October 30 â€"
Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the
United Kingdom, at the
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
November
*
November 1 â€" While campaigning for
President of the United States,
John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the
Peace Corps.
*
November 2 â€"
Penguin Books is found not guilty of
obscenity in the
Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
*
November 8 â€"
U.S. presidential election, 1960: In a close race,
John F. Kennedy is elected over
Richard M. Nixon, becoming the youngest man elected to that office.
*
November 13 â€"
Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress
May Britt.
Interracial marriage is still illegal in 31 US states out of 50.
*
November 14 -
Belgium threatens to leave the
United Nations, due to criticism of its
Congo policy.
*
November 15 â€" The
Polaris missile is test-launched.
*
November 22 â€" The
United Nations supports the government of
Joseph Kasavubu and
Joseph Mobutu in
Congo.
*
November 28 â€"
Mauritania becomes independent of
France.
*
November 30 â€" Production of the
DeSoto automobile brand ceases.
December
*
December 1 â€"
Patrice Lumumba, the deposed premier of the
Congo, is arrested by troops of Colonel
Joseph Mobutu.
*
December 1 â€" A 5-ton
Soviet space ship containing animals, insects and plants is launched into orbit. The spacecraft burns up upon re-entry.
*
December 2 â€" The
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, talks with
Pope John XXIII for about an hour in the
Vatican. It is the first time in more than 500 years that a head of the
Anglican Church had visited the Pope.
*
December 2 â€"
U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the use of $1M for the relief and resettlement of
Cuban refugees in
Florida. Cuban refugees have been arriving in Florida at the rate of 1,000 a week.
*
December 2 â€"
Congolese soldiers arrest
Patrice Lumumba.
*
December 4 â€" The admission to the
United Nations of
Mauritania is vetoed by the
USSR.
*
December 5 â€"
Pierre Lagaillarde, who led
1958 and 1960 insurrections in
Algeria, fails to appear in a
Paris court. He is reported to have fled with 4 fellow defendants to
Spain en route to Algeria.
*
December 7 â€" The
United Nations Security Council is called into session by the
USSR, to consider the Soviet demands that the U.N. seek the immediate release of former
Congolese Premier
Patrice Lumumba.
*
December 9 â€"
French President
Charles de Gaulle's visit to
Algeria is marked by bloody riots by European and
Muslim mobs in Algeria's largest cities, killing 127 people.
*
December 12 â€" A Federal Court ruling that
Louisiana's anti-integration laws are
unconstitutional, is upheld by the
U.S. Supreme Court.
*
December 13 â€" While the Emperor
Haile Selassie I of
Ethiopia is on a visit to
Brazil, an unsuccessful revolt against his rule is carried out by his Imperial Guard. The rebels proclaim the emperor's son, Crown Prince
Asfa Wossen, as Emperor.
*
December 13 â€"
Guatemala,
El Salvador,
Nicaragua and
Honduras found the
Central American Common Market.
*
December 14 â€"
Antoine Gizenga proclaims in
Stanleyville, in the
Congo, that he has assumed the premiership.
*
December 14 â€"
OECD formed in
Paris.
*
December 15 â€" King
Mahendra of Nepal deposes the government and takes power into his own hands.
*
December 15 â€" Royal wedding in
Belgium: King
Baudouin of Belgium marries Doña
Fabiola de Mora y Aragon.
*
December 16 â€"
U.S. Secretary of State
Christian Herter announced that the United States would commit five atomic submarines and 80
Polaris missiles to
NATO by the end of
1963.
*
December 16 â€"
1960 New York air disaster:
United Airlines DC-8 collides with a
TWA Super-Constellation over
Staten Island,
New York City. All 128 passengers and crew on both planes were killed, as were 6 persons on the ground.
*
December 17 â€" Troops loyal to
Haile Selassie I in
Ethiopia suppress the revolt that started on
December 13, and give power back to their leader upon his return from
Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
*
December 19 â€" Fire sweeps through the
USS Constellation, the
U.S.'s largest aircraft carrier, while it is under construction at a
Brooklyn Navy Yard pier, injuring 150 and killing 50.
*
December 20 â€"
Discoverer XIX is launched into polar orbit from
Vandenberg Air Force Base, to measure
radiation.
*
26 December - The first ever inter-club
football match takes place between
Hallam F.C. and
Sheffield F.C. at
Sandygate in
Sheffield,
England.
*
December 27 â€"
France sets off its third nuclear test blast at its atomic proving grounds at
Reggane,
Algeria.
January-February
*
January 2 -
Christian Bartolf, German author and scientist
*
January 2 -
Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author and artist
*
January 4 -
Michael Stipe, American singer (
R.E.M.)
*
January 6 -
Nigella Lawson, British chef and writer
*
January 6 -
Howie Long, American football player
*
January 12 -
Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
*
January 13 -
Kevin Anderson, American actor
*
January 22 -
Michael Hutchence, Australian musician (
INXS) (d.
1997)
*
January 28 -
Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer
*
January 29 -
Greg Louganis, American diver
*
January 29 -
Gia Carangi, American model (d.
1986)
*
January 29 -
Sean Kerly, British field hockey player
March
*
March 4 -
Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer-songwriter, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador
* March 4 -
Mykelti Williamson, American actor
*
March 7 -
Joe Carter, baseball player
*
March 7 -
Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
*
March 8 -
Finn Carter, American actress
*
March 13 -
Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (
U2)
* March 13 -
Joe Ranft, Pixar animator (d.
2005)
*
March 14 -
Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (d.
2006)
*
March 15 -
Maki Nomiya, Japanese singer (
Pizzicato Five)
*
March 18 -
Richard Biggs, American actor (d.
2004)
*
March 21 -
Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (d.
1994)
*
March 23 -
Nicol Stephen, Scottish politician
*
March 24 -
Nena Kerner, German singer
*
March 26 -
Marcus Allen, American football player
*
March 27 -
Hans Pflügler, former German footballer
*
March 29 -
Marina Sirtis, British actress
April
*
April 2 -
Linford Christie, British athlete
*
April 3 -
Elizabeth Gracen, American beauty queen, actress, and model
*
April 4 -
Jane Eaglin, English soprano
*
April 4 -
Hugo Weaving, Australian actor
*
April 11 -
Jeremy Clarkson, English journalist and television show host
*
April 14 -
Brad Garrett, American actor
*
April 18 -
Neo Rauch, German painter
*
April 19 -
Frank Viola, baseball player
*
April 26 -
Roger Taylor, English musician (
Duran Duran)
*
April 28 -
John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (d.
2004)
*
April 29 -
Phil King, British bassist
May
*
May 6 -
Roma Downey, Northern Irish actress
*
May 6 -
John Flansburgh, American musician (
They Might Be Giants)
*
May 10 -
Bono, Irish singer (
U2)
*
May 18 -
Jari Kurri, Finnish hockey player
*
May 18 -
Yannick Noah, French tennis player
*
May 20 -
John Billingsley, American actor
*
May 21 -
Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d.
1994)
*
May 22 -
Hideaki Anno,
anime director famous for the series
Neon Genesis EvangelionJune
*
June 6 -
Gary Graham, American actor
*
June 6 -
Steve Vai, American guitarist
*
June 8 -
Mick Hucknall English singer and songwriter (
Simply Red)
*
June 16 -
Peter Sterling, Australian rugby player
*
June 17 -
Michael Monroe, Finnish singer (
Hanoi Rocks)
*
June 20 -
John Taylor, English musician (
Duran Duran)
*
June 25 -
Dario de Judicibus, Italian writer
*
June 28 -
John Elway, American football player
July
*
July 3 -
Vince Clarke, English songwriter (
Depeche Mode,
Yazoo, and
Erasure)
*
July 5 -
Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor
*
July 10 -
Owen John Byrne, Co-Founder of
Digg*
July 13 -
Ian Hislop, British broadcaster and editor of
Private Eye*
July 17 -
Jan Wouters, Dutch football player and manager
*
July 18 -
Anne-Marie Johnson, American actress
*
July 21 -
Ezequiel Viñao, Argentine-born composer
*
July 21 -
Fritz Walter, German football player
August
*
August 4 -
José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero,
Prime Minister of Spain*
August 7 -
David Duchovny, American actor
*
August 8 -
Ulrich Maly, German politician and Mayor of Nuremberg
*
August 10 -
Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
*
August 14 -
Sarah Brightman, English soprano singer and actress
*
August 17 -
Sean Penn, American actor
*
August 19 -
Morten Andersen, American football player
*
August 24 -
Cal Ripken, Jr., baseball player
*
August 26 -
Branford Marsalis, American musician
September-October
*
September 6 -
Bob Stoops, American football coach
*
September 6 -
Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian
*
September 9 -
Hugh Grant, English actor
*
September 10 -
Colin Firth, English actor
*
September 16 -
John Franco, baseball player
*
September 17 -
Damon Hill, English race car driver
*
October 5 -
Daniel Baldwin, American actor
*
October 7 -
Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
*
October 24 -
Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (d.
1999)
*
October 30 -
Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer
November
*
November 3 -
Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
*
November 10 -
Neil Gaiman, English author
*
November 11 -
Peter Parros, American actor
*
November 11 -
Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
*
November 25 -
Amy Grant, American musician
*
November 25 -
John F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and journalist and son of
President John F. Kennedy (d.
1999)
*
November 26 -
Harold Reynolds, baseball player and broadcaster
*
November 27 -
Yulia Tymoshenko,
Prime Minister of UkraineDecember
*
December 2 -
Rick Savage, English bassist (
Def Leppard)
*
December 4 -
Glynis Nunn, Australian athlete
*
December 10 -
Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director
*
December 14 -
Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate
*
December 18 -
Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist
*
December 19 -
Mike Lookinland, American actor
*
December 24 -
Carol Vorderman, British TV presenter
*
December 27 -
Maryam d'Abo, British actress
*
December 31 -
John Allen Muhammad, American serial killer
January-June
*
January 4 â€"
Albert Camus, French writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (automobile accident) (b.
1913)
*
January 12 â€"
Nevil Shute, English writer (b.
1899)
*
January 24 â€"
Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b.
1886)
*
February 3 â€"
Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b.
1921)
*
February 10 â€"
Aloysius Stepinac, Catholic prelate (b.
1898)
*
February 11 â€"
Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian conductor (b.
1877)
*
February 29 â€"
Walter Yust, American encyclopædia editor (b.
1894)
*
March 2 â€"
Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (b.
1874)
*
March 9 â€"
Jack Beattie, Northern Irish politician (b.
1886)
*
April 1 â€"
Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, King of Malaysia (b.
1895)
*
April 17 â€"
Eddie Cochran American singer (b.
1938)
*
April 24 â€"
Max von Laue, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1879)
*
May 3 -
Masa Niemi, Finnish actor, famous as Pätkä in the
Pekka ja Pätkä films (b.
1914)
*
May 8 â€"
J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b.
1904)
*
May 11 â€"
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.*
May 30 â€"
Boris Pasternak, Russian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b.
1890)
*
May 31 â€"
Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (b.
1890)
*
June 14 â€"
Ana Pauker, Romanian communist politician (b.
1893)
*
June 25 â€"
Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b.
1869)
*
June 27 â€"
Lottie Dod, English athlete (b.
1871)
July-December
*
July 15 â€"
Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (b.
1897)
*
August 29 â€"
Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (b.
1888)
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September 1 â€"
Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, King of Malaysia (b.
1898)
*
September 9 â€"
Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b.
1911)
*
November 2 â€"
Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (b.
1896)
*
November 5 â€"
Mack Sennett, Canadian film producer and director (b.
1880)
*
November 5 â€"
Johnny Horton, American country singer (b.
1925)
*
November 7 -
A.P. Carter, American singer, songwriter (b.
1891)
*
November 16 â€"
Clark Gable, American actor (b.
1901)
*
December 26 â€"
Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b.
1889)
*
Physics â€"
Donald Arthur Glaser*
Chemistry â€"
Willard Frank Libby*
Physiology or Medicine â€" Sir
Frank Macfarlane Burnet,
Peter Brian Medawar*
Literature â€"
Saint-John Perse*
Peace â€"
Albert John Luthuli
