Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 - 1965 - 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
Events
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- January 15 - Adam Jones, musician of Tool
- January 27 - Alan Cumming, actor
- February 1 - Brandon Lee, actor (+ 1993)
- February 1 - Sherilyn Fenn[?], actress
- February 1 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco
- February 11 - Angie Ridgeway[?], golfer
- February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor
- February 18 - Dr. Dre, rap music performer, music producer
- March 25 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
- April 4 - Robert Downey Jr., actor
- May 9 - Steve Yzerman, ice hockey player
- May 15 - Lizi Rodriguez[?], psychologist and media psychotherapist
- May 17 - Trent Reznor, musician
- May 28 - Chris Ballew, musician
- May 31 - Brooke Shields, actress
- June 1 - Nigel Short, chess player
- June 10 - Elizabeth Hurley[?], actress
- July 31 - Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author
- August 14 - Emmanuelle Beart, Cesar Award winning actress
- August 28 - Shania Twain, musician
- September 9 - Adam Sandler American actor, comedian
- November 20 - Ben Stiller, actor
- December 3 - Katarina Witt, figure skater
Deaths
- January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet
- January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry[?], writer
- January 14 - Jeanette MacDonald[?], actress, singer
- January 20 - Alan Freed, disk jockey
- January 24 - Winston Churchill, British politician
- January 28 - Maxime Weygand, soldier
- February 15 - Nat King Cole, singer, musician
- February 21 - Malcolm X, writer, political activist
- February 22 - Felix Frankfurter[?], justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- February 23 -Stan Laurel, British actor.
- March 6 - Margaret Dumont[?], actress
- March 13 - Corrado Gini, statistician
- March 17 - Amos Alonzo Stagg[?], baseball, basketball and American football coach and player
- March 18 - King Farouk I of Egypt
- May 25 - Sonny Boy Williamson[?]
- August 27 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect
Nobel Prizes
Books