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1960 (MCMLX ) was aleap year starting on Friday of theGregorian calendar , the 1960th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 60th year of the20th century , and the 1st year of the1960s decade.
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It is also known as the "Year of Africa " because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings ofPan-Africanism .
Events
January
February February 1: A section of lunch counter from the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's where the Greensboro sit-ins began is now preserved in theSmithsonian Institution National Museum of American History February 8: Hollywood Walk of Fame established February 1 –Greensboro sit-ins : InGreensboro, North Carolina , four black students fromNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregatedWoolworth's lunch counter . Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar non-violent protests throughout theSouthern United States , and six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counter.February 3 –Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes theWind of Change speech to the South African Parliament inCape Town (although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, inAccra ,Gold Coast – modern-dayGhana – onJanuary 10 ).February 5 – The firstCERN particle accelerator becomes operational inGeneva , Switzerland.February 8 –Hollywood Walk of Fame is established.February 10 – A conference about the proposed independence of theBelgian Congo begins inBrussels , Belgium.February 11 –China–India relations : Twelve Indian soldiers die in clashes withRed Chinese troops along their small common border.February 13 –Gerboise Bleue Sahara Desert ofAlgeria .February 18 – The1960 Winter Olympics begin at theSquaw Valley Ski Resort inPlacer County, California .February 26 –Alitalia Flight 618 : An airlineren route to New York crashes into a cemetery atShannon, Ireland , shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.February 29 – The 5.7 Mw Agadir Earthquake shakes coastalMorocco with a maximum perceived intensity ofX (Extreme ) , destroying Agadir and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
March March 5: The iconic picture of Che Guevara[ 3]
April April 1: TIROS-I prototype on display at the SmithsonianNational Air and Space Museum April 1 April 4 – At the32nd Academy Awards Ceremony,Ben-Hur Oscars , includingBest Picture .April 9 – White gunmanDavid Pratt shootsSouth African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd inJohannesburg , wounding him seriously.April 12 – Eric Peugeot, the youngest son of the founder of thePeugeot Corporation , is kidnapped in Paris. He is released onApril 15 , in exchange for $300,000 in ransom.April 19 –April Revolution : South Korean students hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against PresidentSyngman Rhee , eventually leading him to resign from office.April 21 – In Brazil, the country's capital (Federal District ) is relocated from the city ofRio de Janeiro to the new city,Brasília , in the highlands. The actual city ofRio de Janeiro becomes theState of Guanabara .April 27 –Togo gains independence from France, with the French-administeredUnited Nations Trust Territory being terminated.
May May 1: USSR shoots down U-2 spy plane and captures USAF spy pilot Francis Gary Powers May 1 May 3 – TheEuropean Free Trade Association (EFTA) is established.May 4 – West German refugee ministerTheodor Oberländer is dismissed because of hisNazi past.May 6 – United States PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower signs theCivil Rights Act of 1960 into law.May 10 – The U.S. nuclear-powered submarineUSS Triton , under the command of CaptainEdward L. Beach Jr. , completes the first underwatercircumnavigation of the Earth (codenamedOperation Sandblast ).May 11 – InBuenos Aires , fourMossad agents abduct fugitiveNazi German war criminal Adolf Eichmann in order that he can be taken toIsrael and put on trial. This is announced on May 23 byPrime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion . Eichmann is convicted and executed in 1962.May 13 – A joint Swiss and Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of the Asian mountainDhaulagiri , the world's 7th highest.May 14 – The Kenyan African National Congress Party is founded inKenya , when 3 political parties join forces.May 15 – Thesatellite Sputnik 4 is launched into orbit by theSoviet Union .May 16 May 18 –Real Madrid beatEintracht Frankfurt 7–3 atHampden Park ,Glasgow , and win the1959–60 European Cup in Association football, their 5th successive victory in the competition.May 22 – The 9.5Mw Valdivia earthquake affectsChile with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme ). Thismegathrust earthquake ruptures fromArauco toChiloé Archipelago , causing the most powerful earthquake on record and a destructive basin-widetsunami .May 27 – In Turkey,a bloodless military coup d'état removes PresidentCelâl Bayar , and installs GeneralCemal Gürsel as thehead of state .May 30 –Cemal Gürsel forms the new government ofTurkey (its 24th government, composed mostly of so-called "technocrats").
June June 5: Investigating the campers' tent after the Lake Bodom murders in Finland June 24: Explosion in Paseo Los Próceres, Caracas, during the attempted assassination of Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt
July
August August 1 –Dahomey (modern-dayBenin ) becomes independent from France.August 3 –Niger becomes independent from France.August 5 –Upper Volta (modern-dayBurkina Faso ) becomes independent from France.August 6 – In theRepublic of the Congo (Léopoldville) (later theDemocratic Republic of the Congo ),Albert Kalonji declares the independence of the Autonomous State ofSouth Kasai .August 7 August 9 – The government ofLaos is overthrown in a coup.August 11 –Chad becomes independent from France.August 13 –Ubangi-Shari becomes independent from France, as theCentral African Republic . It later becomes theCentral African Empire .August 15 –Middle Congo becomes independent from France, as theRepublic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) .August 16 The Mediterranean island ofCyprus receives its independence from the United Kingdom. Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon overNew Mexico at an altitude of about 102,800 feet (31,300 meters). Kittinger sets world records for: high-altitude jump;free-fall by falling 16.0 miles (25.7kilometers ) before opening his parachute; firstspace dive , and fastest speed attained by a human being without mechanical or chemical assistance, about 982 k.p.h (614 m.p.h.). Kittinger survives more or less uninjured. He is also the first man to make a solo crossing of theAtlantic Ocean in a gas balloon, and the first man fully to witness the spherical curvature of theEarth . (Felix Baumgartner breaks his space diving record in2012 .)August 17 August 19 – In theSoviet Union :Cold War : American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced in Moscow to 10 years in prison forespionage .Sputnik program : Thesatellite Sputnik 5 is launched, with the dogsBelka 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 theMali Federation , declaring its independence.August 25 – The1960 Summer Olympic Games begin in Rome.August 29 –Hurricane Donna kills 50 people inFlorida andNew England .
September September 1 September 2 – The first elections of theParliament of the Central Tibetan Administration (in exile in India) are held. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.September 5 September 6 –Martin and Mitchell defection : William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, two Americancryptologists , announce their defection to the Soviet Union at a press conference in Moscow.September 8 – InHuntsville, Alabama , U.S. PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates theMarshall Space Flight Center (which had been activated byNASA on July 1).September 9 – The first regular season game in theAmerican Football League (established as a rival league to the NFL) takes place at Boston'sNickerson Field . TheDenver Broncos defeat theBoston Patriots , 13–10.September 10 –1960 Summer Olympic Games :Abebe Bikila ofEthiopia wins the gold medal in themarathon , running barefoot in a world time, and becoming the first person fromSub-Saharan Africa to win Olympic gold.September 14 September 18 – Thefirst international Summer Paralympics open inRome under the title "9th International Stoke Mandeville Games", the first quadrennial paralympic event outside of England.[ 12] September 21 – Mexican PresidentAdolfo López Mateos nationalizes the country's electricity supply system.September 22 –Mali , the sole remaining member of the "Mali Federation" (following the withdrawal ofSenegal one month earlier), declares its full independence as theRepublic of Mali .September 26 –1960 United States presidential debates : The two leading candidates in the1960 United States presidential election ,John F. Kennedy andRichard Nixon , participate in the first live televised presidential debate.[ 13] September 29 – At theUnited Nations General Assembly , Soviet leaderNikita Khrushchev angrily interrupts British Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan , banging the desk and shouting in Russian. Macmillan drily says "I should like that to be translated, if I may".[ 14] [ 15]
October
November
December December – The African andMalagasy Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OAMCE – Organisation Africain et Malagache de Coopération Économique) is established.December 1 December 2 – U.S. PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the use of $1.0 million for the relief and resettlement ofCuban refugees , who have been arriving inFlorida at the rate of about 1,000 per week.December 4 – The admission ofMauritania to theUnited Nations is vetoed by theSoviet Union .December 7 – TheUnited Nations Security Council is called into session by theSoviet Union , in order to consider Soviet demands for the Security Council to seek the immediate release of formerCongolese Premier Patrice Lumumba .December 8 – For the first time,Mary Martin 'sPeter Pan NBC television in the United States, instead of as part of an anthology series. This version, rather than being presented live, is shown onvideotape , enabling NBC to repeat it as often as they wish without having to restage it. Although nearly all of the adult actors repeat their originalBroadway roles, all of the original children have, ironically, outgrown their roles and are replaced by new actors.December 9 – French PresidentCharles de Gaulle 's visit toAlgeria is bloodied by European and Muslim rioters in Algeria's largest cities. These riots cause 127 deaths.December 13 1960 Ethiopian coup attempt : While EmperorHaile Selassie ofEthiopia visits Brazil, hisKebur Zabagna (Imperial Bodyguard) leads a military coup against his rule, proclaiming that the emperor's son,Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen Taffari , is the new emperor.The countries ofEl Salvador ,Guatemala ,Honduras , andNicaragua announce the formation of theCentral American Common Market . The U.S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath (pilot) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe (bombardier/navigator) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91,450 feet (27,870 m), withpayload , in anA-5 Vigilante bomber carrying 2,200 lb (1,000 kg), and better the previous world record by over four miles (6.4 km). December 14 December 15 December 16 December 17 – Troops loyal to EmperorHaile Selassie inEthiopia overcome thecoup 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 theUSSConstellation , to become the U.S. Navy's largestaircraft carrier , while she is under construction at theBrooklyn Navy Yard ; killing 50 workers and injuring 150.December 23 – Hilkka Saarinen née Pylkkänen is murdered in the so-called the "oven homicide " case in Krootila,Kokemäki ,Finland .[ 20]
World population World population : 3,021,475,000Africa: 277,398,000 Asia: 1,701,336,000 Europe: 604,401,000 Latin America: 218,300,000 North America: 204,152,000 Oceania: 15,888,000
Births
January Michael Stipe April Winchell Nigella Lawson Mohammad Javad Zarif Mark Rylance Michael Hutchence January 2 –Naoki Urasawa , Japanese manga author and artistJanuary 4 January 6 January 7 –Mohammad Javad Zarif , Iranian politician, diplomatJanuary 10 January 12 January 16 January 18 –Mark Rylance , English actor, theatre director and playwrightJanuary 20 January 21 –Mamoru Nagano , Japanese designerJanuary 22 –Michael Hutchence , Australian rock musician (INXS ) (d.1997 )January 23 –Patrick de Gayardon , French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d.1998 )January 27 –Samia Suluhu , President of TanzaniaJanuary 29 January 31 –Grant Morrison , Scottish comic book writer and playwright
February James Spader Benigno Aquino III Prince Andrew, Duke of York Naruhito, Emperor of Japan February 2 –Jari Porttila , Finnish sports journalistFebruary 3 –Joachim Löw , German football managerFebruary 4 –Jonathan Larson , American composer and playwright (d.1996 )February 7 February 8 February 9 –Frederik Ndoci , Albanian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and international recording artistFebruary 13 –Pierluigi Collina , Italian football (soccer) refereeFebruary 14 February 16 –Tineke Huizinga , Dutch politicianFebruary 18 February 19 –Prince Andrew, Duke of York , British prince and second son ofElizabeth II andThe Duke of Edinburgh February 20 February 21 February 23 –Naruhito, Emperor of Japan February 24 –Wendy Sharpe , Australian artistFebruary 27 February 28
March Ayrton Senna Jennifer Grey March 2 –Hector Calma , Filipino basketball playerMarch 4 March 7 –Ivan Lendl , Czech tennis playerMarch 8 March 10 March 11 –Sharon Jordan , American actressMarch 12 –Minoru Niihara , Japanese singer (Loudness )March 13 March 15 –Rosa Beltrán , Mexican writer, lecturer and academicMarch 17 –Arye Gross , American actorMarch 20 –Norbert Pohlmann , German computer scientistMarch 21 –Ayrton Senna , Brazilian tripleFormula One world champion (d.1994 )March 23 March 24 March 25 –Brenda Strong , American actressMarch 26 –Jennifer Grey , American actressMarch 27 March 29 –Hiromi Tsuru , Japanese voice actress (d.2017 )
April Gustavo Petro Hugo Weaving Jeremy Clarkson Brad Garrett Susanne Bier Philippe of Belgium Miguel Díaz-Canel Valerie Bertinelli April 1 –Michael Praed , British actorApril 2 –Linford Christie , British athleteApril 4 –Hugo Weaving , Nigerian-born Australian actorApril 8 –John Schneider , American actorApril 9 –Isabel Coixet , Spanish film directorApril 10 April 11 –Jeremy Clarkson , English journalist, television show host and comedianApril 12 –David Thirdkill , American basketball player[ 27] April 13 April 14 –Brad Garrett , American actor, comedian and voice actorApril 15 April 16 April 18 April 19 April 20 –Miguel Díaz-Canel , Cuban politician,First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and 17thPresident of Cuba April 23 April 24 –Masami Kikuchi , Japanese voice actorApril 25 –Michael Lohan , American television personality; father ofLindsay Lohan April 28 April 29 –Steve Blum , American voice actor
May Gjorge Ivanov Bono Tony Goldwyn Kristin Scott Thomas Chris Elliott May 2 May 4 –Werner Faymann ,Chancellor of Austria May 8 May 10 May 14 –Ronan Tynan , Irish tenorMay 15 –Julian Jarrold , English film and television director and producerMay 16 May 17 –John Payne , English actor and voice actorMay 18 May 19 –Yazz , British pop singerMay 20 May 21 May 21 –Mohanlal , Indian actorMay 22 May 23 –Linden Ashby , American actorMay 24 May 25 –Amy Klobuchar , American politicianMay 26 –Rob Murphy , American baseball playerMay 27 May 29 May 30 May 31 –Chris Elliott , American actor and comedian
June Gary Trousdale Dr.Mehmet Oz Thomas Haden Church Diego Trujillo June 2 June 3 –Catherine Davani , first femalePapua New Guinean judge (d.2016 )June 5 –Seiichi Endo , Japanese criminal (d.2018 )June 6 –Steve Vai , American guitaristJune 7 −Hirohiko Araki , Japanese manga writerJune 8 June 11 –Mehmet Oz , Turkish-American cardiothoracic surgeon and television personalityJune 12 –Corynne Charby , French model, actress and singerJune 15 –Michèle Laroque , French actressJune 17 June 18 –Coco Fusco , Cuban-American artist, writer and curatorJune 20 –Anatoly Donika , Russian ice hockey playerJune 21 –Karl Erjavec , Slovenian lawyer and politicianJune 22 –Erin Brockovich , American environmental activistJune 23 –Per Morberg , Swedish actor, chef and news presenterJune 26 –Mauro Carlesse , Brazilian politician, Governor ofTocantins June 27 –Michael Mayer , American theatre director, film director, television director and playwrightJune 28 –John Elway , American football playerJune 29 –Ivans Ribakovs , Latvian politicianJune 30
July Jane Lynch John Leguizamo Richard Linklater July 1 July 3 July 4 –Roland Ratzenberger , Austrian Formula One driver (d.1994 )July 5 July 6 July 7 –Kevin A. Ford , American astronautJuly 8 July 9 July 10 Jeff Bergman , American voice actor, comedian and impressionistAriel Castro , Puerto Rican-American convicted kidnapper and rapist, previously bus driver (d.2013 )July 11 –Jafar Panahi , Iranian filmmaker[ 33] July 12 –Sully Díaz , Puerto Rican actress and singerJuly 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 19 –Atom Egoyan , Armenian-Canadian film makerJuly 20 –Jonathon Morris , English actor and television presenterJuly 21 July 22 −John Leguizamo , Colombian-American actor, comedian and producer[ 34] July 27 –Uddhav Thackeray , Indian PoliticianJuly 28 Jonathan Gold , American food critic (d.2018 )Harald Lesch , German physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, author, television presenter, professor of physicsJuly 30 –Richard Linklater , American directorJuly 31 –Dale Hunter , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
August José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero David Duchovny Antonio Banderas Sean Penn Branford Marsalis August 1 August 4 August 7 August 10 August 12 –Laurent Fignon , French road bicycle racer (d.2010 )August 13 August 14 –Sarah Brightman , English soprano singer and actressAugust 15 –Judy Holt , British television actressAugust 16 August 17 –Sean Penn , American actor and film directorAugust 18 –Stuart Matthewman , English songwriterAugust 19 –Morten Andersen , American football playerAugust 20 –Elizabeth Alda , American actressAugust 22 –Regina Taylor , American actressAugust 23 –Chris Potter , Canadian actor and musicianAugust 24 –Cal Ripken Jr. , American baseball playerAugust 26 August 28 August 29 –Viire Valdma , Estonian actress
September Damon Wayans Hugh Grant Colin Firth Melissa Leo September 1 –Joseph Williams , American singer and film score composerSeptember 2 –John S. Hall , American poet and spoken-word artistSeptember 4 September 5 September 7 September 9 September 10 September 11 –Annie Gosfield , American composerSeptember 12 September 13 –Kevin Carter , South African photojournalist (d.1994 )September 14 September 15 –Jimmy Bridges , American actorSeptember 18 –Elena Valenciano , Spanish politicianSeptember 16 September 17 September 19 –Yolanda Saldívar , American murderer oftejano singerSelena September 21 –David James Elliott , Canadian-American actorSeptember 22 –Scott Baio , American actorSeptember 25 –Eduardo Yáñez , Mexican film and television actor
October Jean-Claude Van Damme Diego Maradona Reza Pahlavi October 1 –Gilles Dyan , French art dealer[ 37] October 4 –Ana Patricia Botín , Spanish bankerOctober 5 October 6 –Toru Takahashi , Japanese race car driver (d.1983 )October 8 –Rano Karno , Indonesian actor and politicianOctober 9 –Marin Mazzie , American actress and singer (d.2018 )October 13 –Joey Belladonna , American heavy metal singer (Anthrax )October 17 –Bernie Nolan , Irish actress and singer (The Nolans ) (d.2013 )October 18 October 24 October 26 –Jouke de Vries , Dutch–Frisian politicianOctober 29 –Dieter Nuhr , German comedianOctober 30 –Diego Maradona , Argentine footballer (d.2020 )October 31
November Tim Cook Tilda Swinton Yulia Tymoshenko Daryl Hannah November 1 –Tim Cook , American businessman and current CEO ofApple, Inc [ 39] November 3 –Karch Kiraly , American volleyball playerNovember 4 –Siniša Glavašević , Croatian reporter (d.1991 )November 5 –Tilda Swinton , British actressNovember 8 November 9 November 10 –Neil Gaiman , English authorNovember 11 –November 12 –Maurane , Belgian singer and actress (d.2018 )November 15 –Susanne Lothar , German actress (d.2012 )November 17 November 18 November 19 November 20 –Marc Labrèche , Canadian actor and television hostNovember 23 –Robin Roberts , American television broadcasterNovember 24 –Amanda Wyss , American actressNovember 25 November 26 November 27 November 29 –Cathy Moriarty , American actressNovember 30
December Julianne Moore Kenneth Branagh Temuera Morrison December 1 –Carol Alt , American model and actressDecember 2 –Silk Smitha , Indian actress (d.1996 )December 3 December 4 –Glynis Nunn , Australian athleteDecember 5 December 8 –Lim Guan Eng , Malaysian politician, Chief Minister ofPenang December 9 –Steve Doll , American professional wrestler (d.2009 )December 10 – SirKenneth Branagh , Northern Irish actor and directorDecember 12 –Volker Beck , German politicianDecember 14 –Ebrahim Raisi , Iranian politician, 8thPresident of Iran (d.2024 )[ 42] December 17 –Tarako , Japanese voice actressDecember 18 –Kazuhide Uekusa , Japanese economistDecember 19 –Michelangelo Signorile , American journalist, author and talk radio hostDecember 20 –Kim Ki-duk , South Korean director and screenwriter (d.2020 )December 22 –Jean-Michel Basquiat , American musician and graffiti painter (d.1988 )December 26 –Temuera Morrison , New Zealand actor[ 43] December 27 –Maryam d'Abo , British actressDecember 28 December 29 –Dave Pelzer , American author
Deaths
January Zora Neale Hurston Margaret Sullavan Albert Camus Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria Beno Gutenberg January 1 January 2 –Paul Sauvé , Premier ofQuebec (b.1907 )January 3 –Victor Sjöström , Swedish actor (b.1879 )January 4 January 5 –Donald Knight , English cricketer (b.1894 )January 7 –Dorothea Chambers , English tennis champion (b.1878 )January 9 –Elsie J. Oxenham , English children's novelist (b.1880 )January 10 –Arthur S. Carpender , American admiral (b.1884 )January 11 –Isabel Emslie Hutton , Scottish nurse in Serbia during World War I and psychiatrist (b.1887 )January 12 –Nevil Shute , English-born novelist (b.1899 )January 16 –Wilmer W. MacElree , American lawyer and author (b.1859 )January 19 –Dadasaheb Torne , Indian filmmaker (b.1890 )January 20 –Matt Moore , Irish-American actor (b.1888 )January 24 –Edwin Fischer , Swiss pianist and conductor (b.1886 )January 25 January 27 –Osvaldo Aranha , Brazilian politician (b.1894 )January 28 –Zora Neale Hurston , American folklorist, anthropologist and author (b.1891 )January 30 –J. C. Kumarappa , Indian economist (b.1892 )
February BlessedAloysius Stepinac Adone Zoli
March
April Eddie Cochran Max von Laue Gustaf Lindblom
May John D. Rockefeller Jr. Georges Claude George Zucco James Montgomery Flagg May 1 –Sergei Safronov , Soviet fighter pilot (b.1930 )May 2 –Caryl Chessman , American criminal (executed) (b.1921 )May 3 –Masa Niemi , Finnish actor (b.1914 )May 8 May 11 –John D. Rockefeller Jr. , American philanthropist (b.1874 )May 12 –Prince Aly Khan , PakistaniUnited Nations ambassador (b.1911 )May 14 –Lucrezia Bori , Spanish opera singer (b.1887 )May 22 –İbrahim Çallı , Turkish painter (b.1882 )May 23 May 24 –Avraham Arnon , Israeli educator and a recipient of the Israel Prize (b.1887 )May 25 –Rafael Gómez Ortega , Spanish bullfighter (b.1882 )May 27 May 30 –Boris Pasternak , Russian writer,Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b.1890 )May 31 –Walther Funk , German Nazi politician (b.1890 )
June Ken McArthur Otto Ender June 3 –Ana Pauker , Romanian politician (b.1893 )[ 48] June 4 June 13 –Ken McArthur , South African athlete (b.1881 )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 )June 25 June 27 –Lottie Dod , English tennis player; Wimbledon women's champion, 1887–88, 1891–93 (b.1871 )June 28
July Pavel Peter Gojdič Hasan Saka July 2 –Margherita Bagni , Italian actress (b.1902 )July 6 July 7 –Francis Browne , Irish Jesuit priest, famous for his last photos of theRMS Titanic 1880 )[ 52] July 12 July 14 –Maurice de Broglie , French physicist (b.1875 )July 15 July 16 July 17 July 22 –Yan Xishan , Chinese warlord and politician (b.1883 )July 24 –Hans Albers , German actor and singer (b.1891 )[ 54] July 26 –Cedric Gibbons , Irish-American art director (b.1893 )July 27 –Georgi Kyoseivanov , 27thPrime Minister of Bulgaria (b.1884 )July 28 –Enrique Amorim , Uruguayan novelist (b.1900 )July 29 –Hasan Saka , 7th Prime Minister of Turkey (b.1885 )
August Arthur Meighen Carlo Emilio Bonferroni
September KingHisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah September 1 –Hisamuddin of Selangor , King of Malaysia (b.1898 )September 4 –Alfred E. Green , American film director (b.1889 )September 8 September 9 –Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (b.1911 )September 11 –Edwin Justus Mayer , American screenwriter (b.1896 )September 13 –Leó Weiner , Hungarian composer (b.1885 )September 20 September 22 –Melanie Klein , Austrian-British psychoanalyst (b.1882 )September 23 –Kathlyn Williams , American stage and silent film actress (b.1879 )September 24 –Mátyás Seiber , Hungarian composer (b.1905 )September 25 –Emily Post , American etiquette expert (b.1873 )[ 56] September 27 –Sylvia Pankhurst , Englishsuffragette (b.1882 )September 29 –Vladimir Dimitrov , Bulgarian artist (b. 1882)[ 57] September 30 –St John Philby , Ceylonese-born British Arabist (b.1885 )[ 58]
October SultanKhalifa bin Harub of Zanzibar
November Julio Nakpil Clark Gable Dirk Jan de Geer Richard Wright Erich Raeder November 2 November 3 November 5 November 6 November 7 –A. P. Carter , American singer-songwriter (b.1891 )November 11 –Monte Attell , American boxer (b.1885 )[ 61] November 12 –Lord Buckley , Americanmonologist (b.1906 )November 16 November 19 –Phyllis Haver , American actress (b.1899 )November 23 –Allen Hobbs , 32ndGovernor of American Samoa (b.1889 )November 24 –Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia , sister of TsarNicholas II (b.1882 )November 25 –Mirabal sisters : Patria (b. 1924), Minerva (b. 1926) and Maria Teresa Mirabal (b. 1935), three Dominican revolutionaries (and Rufino de la Cruz, their driver) (assassinated)November 26 –Helen Hellwig , American tennis player (b.1874 )November 28 November 29 –Sir Andrew Russell , New Zealand Army general (b.1868 )
December Hashim al-Atassi Nancy Elizabeth Prophet
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Nobel Prizes
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