This page is for year 1960 of the Gregorian calendar .

Events

• Three billion people on the planet.
• World Refugee Year.

• March 2 : The Pope John XXIII appointed the first cardinal non-white: an African, a Japanese and a Filipino.
• May 5 : Khrushchev announces that a U.S. plane was shot down over Soviet territory.
• May 6 : Washington says this is an aircraft weather misplaced.
• May 7 : Moscow announces that it has the pilot, Gary Powers , and he admitted he was on a mission to spy on a specially designed apparatus, the U-2.
• May 11 : After denying that the president was aware, the U.S. administration says the opposite, Eisenhower said that he himself had authorized the flights in 1956 and he refuses to stop them. Before the international response, Eisenhower arrived in Paris, officially announces that the overflight of Russian territory by U-2 is suspended.
• May 14 : Summit Conference of the four major powers in Paris, with Eisenhower , Macmillan , Khrushchev and de Gaulle.
• May 16 : Faced with the refusal of Eisenhower to make a public apology to the USSR and punish those responsible, Khrushchev boycotted the conference in Paris.
• September 20 : The fifteenth version of the UN General Assembly opens with the accession of thirteen new states that gained independence during the year ( Cyprus , Togo , Cameroon , Madagascar , Somalia , Congo-Leopoldville , Congo Brazzaville , Dahomey , Upper Volta , Ivory Coast , Chad , Gabon , Central African Republic. The Senegal and Mali will be admitted on Sept. 28 and Nigeria on October 8.
• October 20 : fierce debate in the General Assembly of the UN. To protest against the intervention of the Chief Philippine assimilates countries in Eastern Europe to colonies of the USSR, Khrushchev lends a shoe on the table.
• December 14 : The OEEC became the OECD.

Africa

Decolonization of Africa : 17 states gained independence in 1960

• January ¹ : Independence of Cameroon.
• January 20 - February 20 : Roundtable Belgo-Congolese representatives where Congolese and Belgian determine the next steps for the independence of Belgian Congo. Refusal of nationalists to accept the parliamentary system proposed by the Belgians. They seek the independence, which the city accepts the June 30.
• January : Modibo Keita , who came on an official visit to Dahomey as chairman of the federal government, is greeted with stones by a hostile population.
• February : Two members of the Mauritanian National Union were arrested for advocating the unity of their country with the Federation of Mali
• March 21 : Riots and the Sharpeville massacre , near Johannesburg in South Africa. The police opened fire on a group of unarmed black demonstrators: 69 dead and 180 wounded.
• April 19 , New York : Creation of SWAPO (Organization of African people in South-West).
• April 27 : Independence of Togo granted by France. Former German colony, the country was under UN administration delegated.
• April : The Guinean president Sekou Toure accused the leaders of the Federation of Mali to engage, in agreement with France in subversive activities against his country.
• May 5 : Ahmadou Ahidjo , President of Cameroon.
  • The rebels of the UPC harass government troops.
• November 3 , death of Flix-Roland Moumie Cameroonian nationalist fighter Cantonal Hospital of Geneva

• May 17 : Opening by Queen Mother Elizabeth Dam Kariba on the Zambezi (Rhodesia). With its 270 km long, this lake is artificial so far the largest in the world.
• 15 - May 25 : ^Third Conference of Independent African States in Addis Ababa.
• June 20 : Independence of Mali and Senegal granted by France. The two countries form the Federation of Mali which burst in August.
• June 26 : Independence of Madagascar. Philibert Tsiranana , president of the Malagasy Republic (completed in 1972 ).
• June 29 : A day before the independence of Belgian Congo, CONAKAT trying to proclaim the independence of a region, the Katanga this will be prevented by the Belgian secret services.
• June 30 : Independence of the Belgian Congo granted by Belgium , President Joseph Kasavubu. At the independence ceremony Prime Minister Lumumba made a speech highly critical unexpected-a-vis the colonial past, which will be described as insolent.
• June : Failure of the merger between the MPLA and UPA (Union of People of Angola) of Holden Roberto. A peaceful demonstration of support for the MPLA leader Agostinho Neto is dispersed in the blood.
• July ¹ :
  • British Somaliland and Somalia met and proclaimed their independence. The new state's mission is to unite all people of Somalia in the Horn of Africa ( Somalia , Somaliland , Djibouti , northern Kenya and the Ogaden region of Ethiopia).
  • The Ghana , independent since 1957 , becomes a republic, the country remains a member of the Commonwealth.
• July 4 : Start the Congo Crisis (late 1965). After the independence of Belgian Congo, the national army is still run by white officers, black soldiers rebelled, killed their officers and rape their women. Prime Minister Lumumba meets the Africanization of cadres and a doubling of pay. But Belgium refused and sent airborne. Prime Minister Lumumba then calls the Soviets for help, which pushes Belgium to withdraw its troops. On July 11 , the Katanga , rich mining region of southern secession attempt led by Moise Tshombe : the state of Katanga will be recognized and financially supported by Belgium. General Mobutu sent Lumumba to Katanga where he was assassinated. Katanga secession finally broken by the forces of the United Nations on 15 January 1963.
• July 7 : The Security Council UN adopts Resolution 142 (1960) endorsing the accession of the Republic of Congo as a new member of the Organization.
• August ¹ : Independence of Dahomey ( Benin current) given by France.
• August 3 : Independence of the Niger accepted by France.
• August 5 : Independence of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso ) granted by France.
• August 7 : Independence of the Cote d'Ivoire granted by France.
• August 11 : Independence of Chad , President Francois Tombalbaye.
• August 13 : The Ubangi-Shari became independent as the Central African Republic.
• August 15 : Independence of the People's Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville) granted by France.
• August 17 : Independence of Gabon granted by France.
• August 20 : The Senegal left the Federation of Mali and declares its independence. Senegalese and Sudanese are opposed to democratic principles and policies (federalism and pluralism for Senegal, one-party State unit and the Sudan).
• September 5 : Fall of Patrice Lumumba , Prime Minister of Congo.
• September 12 : The state of siege is proclaimed throughout the Mali Federation , which already lives since August 30 under a state of emergency.
• September 14 : Coup in Congo by Colonel Joseph Mobutu.
• September 22 : The Socialist Modibo Keita proclaims the independence of the Republic of Mali after the failure of the Federation of Mali. It establishes a presidential system highly centralized.
• October ¹ : The independence of Nigeria is granted by the United Kingdom. Nnamdi Azikiwe , Governor General of Nigeria (completed in 1963 ).
• October : Conference of the Organization of Francophone countries in Abidjan.
• November 3 : Assassination of the President of the UPC Felix Moumie at Geneva by the French secret service, while preparing to open "revolutionary bases in the Congo.
• November 5 : U.S. aid to Mali (cement, vehicles, petroleum products).
• November 10 : Diori Hamani , President of Niger.
• November 15 : Independence of Mauritania granted by France.
• November 24 : Cooperation agreements between Mali and Israel .
• November 27 : Felix Houphouet-Boigny , President of Cte d'Ivoire (ending in 1993 ).
• November 28 : Mokhtar Ould Daddah , President of Mauritania (completed in 1978 ).
• November : Incidents at the border of Mali and Mauritania , who made four months eleven dead and several seriously injured.
• December ¹ : Independence of the Central African Republic granted by France.
• December 13 : Attempted coup against Haile Selassie in Ethiopia.
• December 14 : Adopted at the General Assembly of the United Nations a "Declaration on the Granting of Independence to colonial peoples." A Decolonization Committee will be established in 1961.
• December :
  • Conference Organization of Francophone countries in Brazzaville.
  • Sir Albert John Lutuli (South Africa), Nobel Peace Prize.

Maghreb

January 24 - February ¹ : Week of barricades in Algiers

• January 19 : The FLN has confirmed its interest for self-determination.
• 23 - January 30 : ^Second Conference of African Peoples in Tunis.
• January 24 - February ¹ : In Algeria , " Barricades Week "in Algiers after the dismissal of General Massu ( January 23. A shooting killed 20 people.
• February 13 : France explodes Gerbil Blue , its first atomic bomb Reggane in the Sahara. The Morocco protested vigorously.
• 29 fvrier : Un tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,7 fait plus de 12 000 victimes Agadir au Maroc (voir Tremblement de terre d'Agadir de 1960 ) .
• March 3 : Inspection Trip for three days in Algeria's General de Gaulle. During this "tour of messes," he said that the Algerian question can only be settled after the victory of the French armies.
• June 14 : De Gaulle was in favor of the "Algerian Algeria."
• July : Start of the withdrawal of French troops.
• September 6 : 121 people , including Jean-Paul Sartre , signed a manifesto defending the right to insubordination in the war Algeria. This statement caused a scandal.
• November 4 : De Gaulle was in favor of "the Republic of Algeria."
• December 9 - December 13 : Protests against De Gaulle during his trip to Algiers and Oran. 120 dead (including 8 Europeans) according to official figures.

• Conflict between Morocco and Algeria.
• France provides 83.9% of Algeria's imports and buys 80.8% of its exports.

America

May 22 : Earthquake in Chile

• February 18 : Treaty of Montevideo Establishing an Association Latin American Free Trade ( ALALC ) representing the Argentina , the Chile , the Brazil and Uruguay. All countries in South America and Mexico will join before 1968. Son objectif et de faciliter les changes commerciaux par la ngociation produit par produit et l'tablissement d'une zone de libre-change en 12 ans.
• February : Travel to Eisenhower in Latin America.
• April 21 : Inauguration of Brasilia as the new capital of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro succeeding .
• May 11 : Adolf Eichmann , Nazi war criminal on the run, was kidnapped in Buenos Aires by a team of Mossad to stand trial in Israel.
• May 22 : Earthquake in Chile ( magnitude 9.5), it is 2000 and 250 died on the spot because of the tsunami in Japan , the Philippines , in Alaska Islands and Hawaii.
• June 22 : Jean Lesage , the Quebec Liberal Party , became Prime Minister following the provincial election. The National Union of Antonio Barrette loses power.
• August 6 : Vctor Paz Estenssoro , President MNR of Bolivia (ending in 1964 ).
• September ¹ : Jos Mara Velasco Ibarra returned to power in Ecuador for a year. Drifting towards dictatorship, it causes a military coup ( 7 November 1961 ).
• September 14 : The Venezuela adheres to OPEC.
• 13 - November 18 : Young officers are rebelling in Guatemala against President Ydgoras. It is a failure, but a movement of guerrillas fighting the regime for over thirty years. The glaring inequalities between the Maya and the rest of the population favor the guerrillas among natives who are suppressed with extreme violence by the military and by right-wing groups supported by successive governments. Repression reached its height in the 1970s.
• December 13 : General Treaty on Central American Economic Integration. It provides a period of five years for the creation of a Common Market ( CACM ) between Costa Rica , the Salvador , the Honduras , on Nicaragua and Guatemala , is reduced to a zone of free trade. No significant action is taken.

Cuba

Fidel Castro at the UN General Assembly September 22

• February 4 : The Cuban Revolution is close to the Soviet Union and broke with the United States. Fidel Castro calls U.S. economic assistance exorbitant 30 billion, which is denied. He turned to the USSR which provides aid to 100 million dollars and promises to buy 4 million tons of sugar per year.
• May 8 : Diplomatic relations are established with the Soviet Union , then Cuba is importing Russian oil at a cheaper price than that of Venezuela. But American companies installed in Cuba refused to refine it and Castro confiscates them. In response, Eisenhower cancels the quota available to Cuba in the North American imports of sugar. Castro responded by confiscating all North American companies on the island (telephone, mining, cigarettes, etc..).
• July : A boot camp in North America is located in Guatemala for an intervention in Cuba, the Cuban secret service become aware.
• August 7 : Nationalization of U.S. companies in Cuba by Fidel Castro. During the summer Castro also nationalized all banks and some 380 Cuban companies. Eisenhower then ordered a total economic embargo.
• September 28 Castro established Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) to mobilize the population against a possible invasion, but also to monitor and supervise. An authoritarian order is being established. Justice loses its independence, unions are controlled by the government, the press is muzzled. Reforms are undertaken. The system does this through a major campaign to eradicate illiteracy. Health, housing receive priority attention.
• October 29 : Nikita Khrushchev promised during an interview, to provide Cuba missiles to prevent a U.S. attack.
• December 31 : Castro accused Eisenhower of preparing an invasion of his country and reduced the staff of the Embassy of the United States.

United States

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Televised debate between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon

September 13 : Hurricane Donna

• February ¹ : First " sit-in "Black students in Greensboro , North Carolina.
• February 18 : Opening of the ^8th Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley in California.
• February 28 : Creation in Atlanta 's movement Knights Ku Klux Klan racist movements disparate grouping of 17 southern states.
• April 21 : The Civil Rights Bill gives the owner the right to vote to blacks.
• May ¹ : A reconnaissance aircraft type American U2 (spy plane) is shot down over the territory Soviet.
• May 9 : Legalization of the pill in the U.S.. FDA ( Food and Drug Administration ) approved the pill as a contraceptive.
• May 11 : President Eisenhower publicly acknowledged that the United States conducted aerial reconnaissance missions over Soviet territory during the past four years. On May 15 he announced that no more spy flight will be made.
• July 11 : At the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in California , Senator John F. Kennedy was appointed the first round of voting. He is the youngest candidate to be nominated for this election.
• July 15 : Inaugural Address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy as a candidate in the presidential election ( New Frontier ).
• September 13 : The Hurricane Donna, considered the most destructive by the Americans, killing 30 people and left behind thousands of homeless on the Atlantic coast, from Florida to Canada.
• Nov. 8 : Election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democratic Party) as president of the United States with 49.7% of votes (34,221,463 votes) against Richard Nixon (R) 49.5% (34,108,583 votes), and becoming the youngest President of the United States (70% of American blacks have voted for him), after the greatest campaign in the history of the country (37% abstained).

• Start of recession. Slower growth.
• The United States has 180 million inhabitants. The labor force is composed of 9% of farmers, 33% of workers, 48% in services. 36% of women over 16 years (23 million) are employed. 20 million union members.
• 500 billion dollars of GNP. The industrial production index rose 65 in 1945 to index 110. Productivity has increased from 35 to 40%. 31.8 billion dollars are invested abroad (35% manufacturing, 34% oil, 9% raw, 22% tertiary).
• 187 of the 500 largest firms (40% domestic sales) are multinational companies.
• The military budget is 45.8 billion (49.7% of total budget).

Asia

• January 19 : Ratification of a treaty of security and cooperation for a period of ten years between the U.S. and Japan , which puts an end to the occupation of Japan by the U.S. Army.
• January : Formation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North), supported by the Soviet Union and China.
• March 27 , Indonesia : Parliament Gotong Rojong is established. He served on the representatives of nine political parties and groups of 21 "functional". In August, the People's Consultative Congress is set up consisting of Gotong Rojong, representatives of regions and groups 'functional'.
• April 4 : resounding victory of the faction of U Nu in elections in Burma. His decision to promote Buddhism to the status of state religion and tolerance vis--vis the ethnic separatism precipitate a coup without bloodshed which reinstates the military domination of Ne Win in March 1962.
• April 19 : In Cambodia , Pho Proeung was appointed Prime Minister.
• May ¹ , India : The Gujarat was seconded to the State of Bombay , which becomes the state of Maharashtra.

• May : The Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso transfer the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala in India.
• June 5 : Norodom Sihanouk becomes head of state in Cambodia. His policy of neutrality, supported by the socialist countries, and border disputes led him to break with Thailand and South Vietnam , then with the United States (1961 - 1964 ). The nationalization of the economy and government corruption annoy people.
• June : The Japanese government, overwhelmed by the anti-American protests, is forced to cancel his invitation to President Eisenhower.
• July 15 : Nobusuke Kishi , Prime Minister of Japan , resigns before the anti-American agitation and was replaced by Hayato Ikeda ( July 19 ) that promises the doubling of national income in ten years promise to be more than required.
• July 20 : For the first time ever, a woman, Sirimavo Bandaranaike , was elected leader of a government in Ceylon.

• August 9 : In Laos , the coup of neutralist Capt. Kong brought to power Souvanna Phouma ( August 11 ). The country is torn. The area Vientiane , wedged between the North dominated by neutralist and Pathet Lao and the South in the hands of the right, agrees to be supplied by a Soviet airlift, via Hanoi. Souvanna Phouma is soon to take refuge in Cambodia ( December ).

• August 17 : Out of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Indonesia on the issue of Dutch New Guinea. Clashes occur between Indonesian commandos parachuted in Irian and Dutch forces.
• August : Sukarno banned the Indonesian Socialist Party.
• September 2 : The first election of the Tibetan parliament in exile of Tibet's history took place September 2, 1960. The Tibetan community celebrates this day as the Day of Democracy.
• October 12 : Assassination of the Japanese socialist leader Asanuma Inejir.
• October 24 : Explosion of a Soviet rocket R 16 to Baikonur : 123 dead.
• November , China : Sino-Soviet rupture and failure of Great Leap. Faced with the disaster of the " Great Leap Forward "in the fall, Liu Shaoqi , supported by Deng Xiaoping , calls for reform.
• December 20 : Creation of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF), organizing resistance to the dictatorship of Diem in South Vietnam. He organized the rural population through self-management. Beginning of the Vietnam War.
• December : King of Nepal Mahendra said that the regime is corrupt and inefficient then dissolves the government and suspended parliament.

• The India is condemned by the International Court of Justice in The Hague to back the Portuguese enclaves.
• Famine in Tibet (1960-1962).
• Creation in India of the Panchayat system or "village council" from a project developed by the Americans. Each village must elect its panchayat then develops a kind of rural development plan based on the creation of a cooperative.
• Indonesia : Land Act establishing maximum land ownership vary by region (UUPA 1960). Plantations are increasingly becoming state properties. Plan providing for an increase of eight industry. It can not be implemented because of economic difficulties.

Middle East

• January 9 : Start of construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt , to irrigate over one million ha of land and crops. Its construction threatens several monuments including the temples of Abu Simbel to be moved.
• May 23 : The kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina by the Israelis is announced to the Knesset by Prime Minister David Ben Gurion.
• May 27 : Military coup in Turkey. President Celal Bayar was overthrown by Gen. Cemal Grsel.
• May : Kennedy launched a peace initiative for the Middle East. He wants to implement the recommendations of the UN on Palestinian Refugees and the resurrection of the Conciliation Commission to 1949. Arab refugees could be granted the right to emigrate to North America , in Latin America and Australia , but 25% would return to Israel. David Ben Gurion refused any return of refugees before the lasting settlement of the whole question. He surrendered to U.S. (May) and is seeking a U.S. intervention against arms shipments to the Soviet Union at the RAU.

• August 16 : Independence of Cyprus granted by the United Kingdom after 88 years of colonial occupation.
• August : The Majors decided a new 10% decline in oil prices.
• September 14 : The main oil-exporting countries (the Iraq , the Saudi Arabia , the Iran , the Kuwait and Venezuela ) decided to form the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC): End of the powers of the oligopoly formed by the Seven Sisters on the oil market.

• Iraq : Qasim reauthorize the political parties to minimize the importance of the Communists. Without political role, they end up disappearing in 1962.
• Saudi Arabia : The United States supports the policy of preaching Wahhabi they see as a way to fight the revolutionary pan-Arabism and Marxism.
• Nationalization RAU driving the development of the bureaucratic apparatus. Positions of responsibility in Syria are spending more and more in the hands of the Egyptians. Syrian industrial bourgeoisie is first supported the union, think you it, it opens the Egyptian market through the Syrian-Lebanese community in Egypt. But they are robbed by the new regime and the country does not open its domestic market to Syria. Nationalist sentiment is developing in Syria.
• The United States benefit from the quarrel between Nasser and the Soviet Union to establish relations with the UAR. The USSR continues to provide economic assistance, including funding the work of the Aswan Dam and the creation of heavy industry.

Europe

Eastern Europe

• February 5 : Incident U-2.
• February 16 : Failed summit conference in Paris.
• May 7 : Nikita Khrushchev became president of the USSR.
• October 12 : The chairman Soviet Nikita Khrushchev struck his desk with his shoe to the General Assembly of the UN to protest the policy discussion of the Soviet Union towards the Eastern Europe.
• November : Sino-Soviet split. Relations between the two countries deteriorate because of ideological disagreement on the interpretation of Marxism , particularly as regards the revolution in developing countries.

• The Soviet Union announces a reduction of about one third of its military power, but Western nations do not want to follow such a proposal without the Soviet Union agrees to submit to inspection.
• The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina achieve a distinct ethnic status to put them on a footing of equality with the Serbs and Croats.
• Industrial production in Romania has increased fivefold between 1938 and 1960. In 1960 , the average growth rate of the Romanian industry is one of the highest in Eastern Europe.
• USSR: Economic reforms launched under the leadership of Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin to remedy the malfunctions of the system and establish market mechanisms that could give it more effectively. Experience cut short because it challenges the authority of the party carries on business and the germ weakening of the central organs.

Western Europe

• January 3 : Escape from the Portuguese communist leader Alvaro Cunhal Peniche prison.
• January 4 : The Convention of Stockholm created the European Free Trade ( EFTA ) which includes Britain , the Austria , the Danish , the Norwegian , the Swedish , the Switzerland and Portugal.
• June 4 : Triple Murder of Lake Bodom in Finland.
• July 3 : Santiago Carrillo becomes general secretary of Communist Party of Spain.
• August 25 : Opening of the ^17th Olympic Games in Rome until 11 September.
• September 11 : End of ^17th Olympic Games in Rome since August 25.
• December 6 : National Question in Belgium opposing Walloon minority in the Flemish majority. General strike in winter 1960-1961.

France

Switzerland

Italy

• 6 - February 11 : Official Travel president Giovanni Gronchi in the Soviet Union.
• March 23 : Deprived of support from the Liberal Party who wanted to force the DC to a clear choice centrist Council President Antonio Segni resigned and was replaced by Fernando Tambroni a government which is homogeneous DC ( March 25 ).
• April : Political crisis when the objective alliance between DC and neo-fascist is too openly.
  • Aldo Moro , Secretary General of the CD, considering the influence of Fanfani open government left. Experiences of center-left government are held at the municipal level to Milan , Genoa , Florence. The Church and the Catholic Action Gedda Aldo Moro are lobbying to stop the process. The president Giovanni Gronchi Tambroni returns to the House that he was not appointed by the majority in Parliament. But it will fail in his attempt to give the constitution a presidential interpretation.
• June 30 - July 6 : The Italian Social Movement , the neo-fascist, who convened its national congress in Genoa in early July, Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro , socialist and communist trend, proclaimed a general strike in the city. MSI waives notice of its congresses, but this does not prevent a second demonstration in Genoa on July 2 , resulting in violent clashes with police. A series of events shook the country where the primary, in Rome on July 6 , is dispersed in a charge of carabinieri on horseback. Violence are a dozen deaths.
• July ¹ : After violent demonstrations in Reggio Emilia , Palermo and Catania , the government must resign Tambroni.
• July 26 : Amintore Fanfani forms his third government with the support of Republicans and Social Democrats. Socialists abstaining.

• Two million cars in circulation.
• School reform.

Thematic Chronologies

Arts and Culture

Births in 1960

• January 2 : Naoki Urasawa , Japanese manga author.
• January 12 : Elie Kakou , French comedian (+ 1999).
• January 22 : Marcos Kyprianou , Cypriot politician Greek , former minister and former chairman of the committee.
• January 29 : Gia Marie Carangi , a model and the first Top Model

• February 3 : Andre Antoine , Belgian politician of French language.
• February 7 : James Spader , actor U.S..
• February 9 : Peggy Whitson , American astronaut.
• February 11 : Richard A. Mastracchio , American astronaut.
• February 19 : Prince Andrew , second son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
• February 29 : Cheb Khaled , singer Algeria.

• March 2 : Mikhail Tyurin , Russian cosmonaut.
• March 7 : Ivan Lendl , Czech tennis player.
• March 13 : Adam Clayton , bassist for the band U2 Irish original English.
• March 20 : Tcharguine Yuri , Russian cosmonaut.
• March 21 : Ayrton Senna , automobile racer Brazil (+ 1994).
• March 25 : Brenda Strong , American actress (series: Desperate Housewives ).
• March 26 : Jennifer Grey , American actress.
• March 28 :
  • Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt , French writer.
  • Jos Maria Neves politician, Prime Minister of Cape Verde.
• March 31 : Anne Auger , French painter and sculptor.

• April 15 :
  • Philippe of Belgium , Duke of Brabant , Prince of Belgium.
  • Pedro Delgado champion cyclist Spanish.
  • Mikhail Korniyenko , Russian cosmonaut
• April 16 : Tex , presenter and comedian French.

• May ¹ : Thierry Ragueneau , French actor.
• May 5 : Douglas H. Wheelock , American astronaut.
• May 9 : Daniel N. Sebban , illustrator and writer of comic French and Canadian.
• May 10 : Paul Hewson said Bono , lead singer Irish group U2.
• May 18 : Yannick Noah , tennis player and singer, French and Cameroonian.
• May 22 : Hideaki Anno , director of Japan.
• May 24 : Kristin Scott Thomas , actress Franco-British
• May 29 : Thierry Fremaux , General Delegate of the Cannes festival Francefranais.

• June 6 : Steve Vai , guitarist U.S..
• June 11 : Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker , choreographer Belgian of contemporary dance.
• June 15 : Michele Laroque , humorist and actor French.

• July 3 :
  • Vince Clarke , musician and composer British group Erasure , and former member of Depeche Mode.
  • Perrine Pelen skier, French.
• July 7 : Vincent Peillon , politician French.
• July 14 : Jane Lynch , actress American.
• July 15 : Kim Alexis , model American.
• July 26 : Catherine Vautrin , politician French , a former minister.
• July 29 : Didier Van Cauwelaert , writer French.

• August 7 : David Duchovny , actor American (series X-Files, the actual border ).
• August 10 : Antonio Banderas , actor Spanish.
• August 12 : Laurent Fignon , champion cyclist French (+ 2010).
• August 17 :
  • Stephan Eicher , author, singer, composer Switzerland.
  • Sean Penn , actor U.S..
• August 24 :
  • Steven W. Lindsey , American astronaut.
  • Franz Viehbck first Austrian astronaut.
• August 25 : Lee Archambault , U.S. astronaut.
• Aug. 28 : Leroy Chiao , U.S. astronaut.
• August 30 : Philippe Jourdan , the French Catholic bishop, apostolic administrator in Estonia.

• September 2 : Kristin Halvorsen , politician, former minister Norway.
• September 9 :
  • Hugh Grant , actor, UK.
  • Bob Hartley , coach of ice hockey.
• Sept. 10 : Colin Firth , actor, UK.
• Sept. 20 : James A. Pawelzyk , American astronaut.
• September 22 : Luca Canonici , Italian tenor.
• September 27 : Jean-Marc Barr , actor and director Franco-American.

• October 7 : Viktor Lazlo , French singer.
• October 8 : Franois Prusse , humorist Quebec.
• October 18 : Jean Claude Van Damme , actor Belgian.
• October 30 : Diego Maradona , champion Argentine football.

• November 2 : Rosalyn Fairbank , tennis player of South Africa.
• November 8 : Anne Dorval , Quebec actress.
• November 10 : Neil Gaiman , author of British comic and novel.
• November 14 : Yves Parlier , browser French.
• November 18 : Kim Wilde , singer UK.
• November 22 : Leos Carax , director French.
• November 25 : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. , son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy , (1999).
• November 27 : Yulia Tymoshenko politician, former Prime Minister Ukraine.

• December 3 :
  • Daryl Hannah , American actress.
  • Steven Swanson , American astronaut.
• December 10 : Kenneth Branagh , actor and director a href = "Britannique" class = "mw-redirect" title = "Columbia"> UK.
• December 14 : Catherine G. Coleman , American astronaut.
• December 22 : Jean-Michel Basquiat , American painter (+ 1988).
• December 24 : Yves Le Saux , French Catholic bishop, Bishop of Le Mans.
• 27 December : Maryam d'Abo , British actress.

• Masoumeh Ebtekar , Iranian women in scientific and political, Vice-President of the Republic of Iran.
• Maria do Carmo Silveira , politician, former Prime Minister of Sao Tome.

see also: Category: 1960 births

Deaths in 1960

• January 2 : Fausto Coppi , cyclist Italian (b. 1919 ).
• January 4 : Albert Camus , Nobel Prize for Literature , French writer (b. 1913 ).
• January 21 : Chicuelo II (Manuel Jimnez Daz), Matador Spanish (b. 16 June 1929 ).
• January 24 : Edwin Fischer , pianist Switzerland.

• February 10 : Aloysius Stepinac , Croatian Cardinal, Archbishop of Zagreb (b. 8 May 1898 ).
• February 12 : Jean-Michel Atlan , French painter.
• February 16 : Adolphe Beaufrre , French painter and engraver.
• February 21 :
  • Jacques Becker , director , actor , writer French, ( 1906 ).
  • Samuel Mitchell , astronomer (He calculated the distance of more than a thousand stars), American.
• February 22 : Paul-Emile Borduas , painter surrealist and abstract Quebec (b. 1905 ).

• April 3 : Suramarit Norodom , King of Cambodia.
• April 17: Eddie Cochrane, rock singer, American
• April 28 : Anton Pannekoek , astronomer and a Dutch communist activist (b. 1873 ).

• May 11 : John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. , American billionaire (b. 1874 ).
• May 17 : Jules Supervielle , poet and writer French ( 1884 ).
• May 25 : El Gallo (Rafael Gmez Ortega) Matador Spanish (b. 18 July 1882 ).
• May 30 : Boris Pasternak , writer, Russian Nobel Prize for literature , author of "Doctor Zhivago" (b. 1890 ).

• July 16 : John P. Marquart , American novelist.
• July 26 : George Rapin aka Mr. Bill, French criminal (guillotined)

• August 6 : Charles Schneider , a French industrialist (b. 28 June 1898 ).
• August 15 : Machame Jefferson (60), cartoon artist (The Speakers, Petting Patty and Guys and Gals).

• September 7 : Wilhelm Pieck (84 years), former president of communist East Germany.
• September 16 : J. Cheever Chowdin (71 years), former head of Universal Pictures.
• Sept. 26 : Emily Post , the grande dame of good manners.

• October 12 : INEJ Asanuma (61), Japan Socialist leader (assassinated).

• November 5 :
  • Ward Bond , actor American (b. 1903 , 57).
  • Mack Sennett , director producer Canadian-born American (b. 1884 ).
• November 16 : Clark Gable , actor American (b. 1901 )

• December 2 : Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot , architect, integrator and German designer (b. 1883 ).
• December 7 : Clara Haskil , pianist Romanian-born Swiss.

Date not known or unspecified:

• • Philippe Panneton said Ringuet (64 years), Canadian writer
  • Richard Wright , American writer who deals with social and psychological problems of black Americans.

see also: Category: 1960 deaths

References

• Portal 1960
• Portal of the contemporary world

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