1 Events: - in France, President
1 Events: - in France, President
Main article: January 1960                                        January 28  The National Football League an-
                                                                   nounces expansion teams for Dallas to start in the
                                                                   1960 NFL season, and MinneapolisSt. Paul for the
     January  The state of emergency is lifted in Kenya,         1961 NFL season.
      ocially ending the Mau Mau Uprising.
                                                                  January 30  The African National Party is founded
     January 1  Cameroon gains its independence from             in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
      French-administered U.N. trusteeship.
     January 2  U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) 1.2            February
      announces his candidacy for the Democratic presi-
      dential nomination.
     January 6  The Associations Law comes into force
      in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
     January 911  Aswan High Dam construction be-
      gins in Egypt.
     January 10  British Prime Minister Harold
      Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech for
      the rst time (see February 3).
     January 14  The Reserve Bank and Commonwealth
      Bank are created in Australia.
     January 15  The rst televised anime, Three Tales,
      debuts on NHK.
     January 19  The Treaty of Mutual Cooperation
      and Security between the United States and Japan
      is signed in Washington, D.C.
     January 21  A coal mine collapses at Coalbrook,
      South Africa, killing 435 miners.                1960 Winter Olympics
                                                             1
2                                                                                                            1 EVENTS
Main article: February 1960                                               The N-class blimp ZPG-3W of the U.S.
                                                                           Navy is destroyed during a storm over
                                                                           Massachusetts.
     February 1  In Greensboro, North Carolina, four                    Twelve Indian soldiers die in clashes with Red
      black students from North Carolina Agricultural                      Chinese troops along their small common bor-
      and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a                   der.
      segregated Woolworths lunch counter. Although
      they are refused service, they are allowed to stay             February 13  France tests its rst atomic bomb in
      at the counter. The event triggers many simi-                   the Sahara Desert of Algeria.
      lar non-violent protests throughout the Southern
      United States, and six months later the original four          February 18  The 1960 Winter Olympics begin at
      protesters are served lunch at the same counter.                the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, in Placer County, Cal-
                                                                      ifornia.
1.3 March
February 9
March 5
March 6
   March 23  Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev                      Elvis Presley's song "Are You Lonesome
    meets French president Charles de Gaulle in Paris.                Tonight?" is recorded for the rst time.
   March 29  "Tom Pillibi" by Jacqueline Boyer (mu-           April 9  Gunman David Pratt shoots South African
    sic by Andr Popp, text by Pierre Cour) wins the             Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in Johannesburg,
    Eurovision Song Contest 1960 for France.                     wounding him seriously.
                                                                April 13
   April 1                                                          United States launches navigation satellite
                                                                      Transit I-b.
         Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tu-
          anku Muhammad, 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong                   The proposed mass-production of the Blue
          of Malaysia, dies in oce. He is replaced                   Streak missile is cancelled.
          by Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum
          Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, Sultan of              April 19  April Revolution: South Korean students
          Selangor.                                              hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against
                                                                 President Syngman Rhee, eventually leading him to
         The United States launches the rst weather
                                                                 resign from that oce.
          satellite, TIROS-1.
         The 1960 United States Census begins. There           April 21  In Brazil, the countrys capital (Federal
          are 179,323,175 U.S. residents on this day.[2]         District) is relocated from the city of Rio de Janeiro
          All people from Latin America are listed as            to the new city, Braslia, in the highlands. The actual
          white, including blacks from the Dominican             city of Rio de Janeiro becomes the State of Guan-
          Republic, European whites from Argentina               abara.
          and Mexicans who resemble Native Ameri-
          cans.                                                 April 27  Togo gains independence from France,
                                                                 with the French-administered United Nations Trust
   April 4                                                      Territory being terminated.
4                                                                                                          1 EVENTS
Francis Gary Powers wearing special pressure suit for strato-    May 15  The satellite Sputnik 4 is launched into
spheric ying                                                     orbit by the Soviet Union.
                                                                 May 16
   May 30  Cemal Grsel forms the new government                  The Belgian Congo receives its independence
    of Turkey (its 24th government, composed mostly                  from Belgium as the Republic of the Congo
    of so-called technocrats).                                     (Lopoldville). A civil war follows closely on
                                                                     the heels of this.
                                                                    Public demonstrations by democratic and left
1.6    June                                                          forces, against Italian government support of
                                                                     the post-fascist Italian Social Movement, are
Main article: June 1960
                                                                     heavily suppressed by police.
   June 9  Typhoon Mary kills 1,600 people in China.              Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame
                                                                     Nkrumah becomes its rst President.
   June 10  Dominos Pizza is founded.                            Cold War: A Soviet Air Force MiG-19 ghter
                                                                     plane ying north of Murmansk, Russia, over
   June 15
                                                                     the Barents Sea shoots down a six-man RB-47
         Violent demonstrations at Tokyo University                 Stratojet reconnaissance plane of the U.S. Air
          result in 182 arrests, 589 injuries.                       Force. Four of the U.S. Air Force ocers are
                                                                     killed, and the two survivors are held prisoner
         The BC Ferries company, later to become                    in the Soviet Union.
          the second-largest ferry operator in the world,
          commences service between Tsawwassen and                  The Trust Territory of Somaliland (the for-
          Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.                      mer Italian Somaliland) gains its independence
                                                                     from Italy. Concurrently, it unites as sched-
   June 19  The Associated Broadcasting Company                    uled with the ve-day-old State of Somaliland
    (now TV5) is founded in the Philippines.                         (the former British Somaliland) to form the
                                                                     Somali Republic.
   June 20  The short-lived Mali Federation, consist-
    ing of the Sudanese Republic (now the Republic of          July 4  Following the admission of the State of
    Mali) and Senegal, gains independence from France.          Hawaii as the 50th state in August 1959, the new 50-
                                                                star Flag of the United States is rst ocially own
   June 23  Japanese prime minister Nobusuke Kishi            over Philadelphia.
    announces his resignation.
                                                               July 10  The Soviet Union national football team
   June 24  Joseph Kasa-Vubu is elected as the rst           defeats the Yugoslavian national football team 21
    President of the independent Congo.                         in Paris to win the rst European Soccer Champi-
                                                                onship.
   June 26
                                                               July 11
         The State of Somaliland (the former British
          Somaliland protectorate) receives its indepen-            Congo Crisis: Moise Tshombe declares the
          dence from the United Kingdom. Five days                   Congolese province of Katanga independent.
          later, it unites as scheduled with the Trust Ter-          He requests and receives help from Belgium.
          ritory of Somalia (the former Italian Soma-               Harper Lee publishes her novel To Kill a Mock-
          liland) to form the Somali Republic.                       ingbird, which later wins the Pulitzer Prize for
         The Malagasy Republic, now Madagascar, be-                 the best American novel of 1960.
          comes independent from France.
                                                               July 12  Chin Peng is exiled from Malaysia to
   June 28                                                     Thailand and the Malayan state of emergency is
                                                                lifted.
         King Bhumibol Adulyadej arrives in Washing-
          ton, D.C. for a 4-day royal visit to the U.S.        July 13  U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy is nomi-
                                                                nated for President of the United States at the 1960
   June 30                                                     Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.
6                                                                                                          1 EVENTS
     July 14  The United Nations Security Council de-         August 3  Niger becomes independent from
      cides to send troops to Katanga to oversee the with-       France.
      drawal of Belgian troops.
                                                                August 5  Upper Volta, now known as Burkina
     July 20  Ceylon elects Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike         Faso, becomes independent from France.
      as its Prime Minister, the worlds rst elected female
                                                                August 6
      head of government. She takes oce the following
      day.                                                           Cuban Revolution: In response to a United
                                                                      States embargo against Cuba, Fidel Castro
     July 21  Francis Chichester, English navigator and
                                                                      nationalizes all American and foreign-owned
      yachtsman, arrives at New York City aboard his
                                                                      property in Cuba.
      yacht, Gypsy Moth II, crossing the Atlantic Ocean
      solo in a new record of just forty days.                       In the Republic of the Congo (Lopoldville),
                                                                      now the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
     July 25  The Woolworth Company's lunch counter                 Albert Kalonji declares the independence of
      in Greensboro, North Carolina, the location of a                the Autonomous State of South Kasai".
      sit-in that had sparked demonstrations by Negroes
      across the Southern United States, serves a meal to       August 7  The Ivory Coast becomes independent
      its rst black customer.                                   from France.
     July 25July 28  In Chicago, the 1960 Republi-           August 7  The worlds rst standard gauge passen-
      can National Convention nominates Vice President           ger preserved railway, The Bluebell Railway, opens
      Richard Nixon as its candidate for President of the        to the public.
      United States, and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., as its can-     August 11  Chad becomes independent from
      didate to become the new Vice-President.                   France.
                                                                August 13  Ubangi-Shari becomes independent
1.8     August                                                   from France, as the "Central African Republic".
                                                                 It later becomes the "Central African Empire" for
                                                                 some years.
                                                                August 15  Middle Congo becomes indepen-
                                                                 dent from France, as Republic of Congo (Congo-
                                                                 Brazzaville).
                                                                August 16
                                                                     Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon
                                                                      over New Mexico at an altitude of about
                                                                      102,800 feet (31,333 meters). Kittinger sets
                                                                      world records for: high-altitude jump; free-fall
                                                                      by falling 16.0 miles (25.7 kilometers) before
                                                                      opening his parachute; and the fastest speed at-
                                                                      tained by a human being without mechanical
                                                                      or chemical assistance, about 982 k.p.h (614
                                                                      m.p.h.). (Kittinger survives more or less unin-
                                                                      jured, and he is still alive in Florida as of 2013.
                                                                      Felix Baumgartner breaks his record in 2012.)
                                                                     The Mediterranean island of Cyprus receives
                                                                      its independence from the United Kingdom.
                                                                August 17
                                                                     The newly named Beatles begin a 48-night res-
1960 Summer Olympics                                                  idency at the Indra club in Hamburg, West
                                                                      Germany.
Main article: August 1960                                            Gabon becomes independent from France.
                                                                     The trial of the American U-2 pilot Francis
                                                                      Gary Powers begins in Moscow.
     August 1  Dahomey, now known as Benin, be-
      comes independent from France.                            August 19
1.10   October                                                                                                      7
         Cold War: In Moscow, American U-2 pilot               September 8  In Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. Presi-
          Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years           dent Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the
          in prison for espionage.                               Marshall Space Flight Center (which had been acti-
         Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches             vated by NASA on July 1).
          the satellite Sputnik 5, with the dogs Belka and      September 14
          Strelka (the Russian for Squirrel and Little
          Arrow), 40 mice, two rats and a variety of                Colonel Joseph Mobutu takes power in
          plants. This satellite returns to earth the next            Republic of the Congo via a military coup.
          day and all animals are recovered safely.                  The countries of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi
   August 20  Senegal breaks away from the Mali Fed-                Arabia, and Venezuela form OPEC.
    eration, declaring its independence.                        September 22  Mali, the sole remaining member
                                                                 of the Mali Federation following the withdrawal
   August 25
                                                                 of Senegal one month earlier, declares its full inde-
         The 1960 Summer Olympic Games begin in                 pendence as the Republic of Mali.
          Rome.
                                                                September 26  The leading candidates for
         The American nuclear submarine USS Sead-               President of the United States, Richard Nixon and
          ragon surfaces through the Arctic ice cap at the       John F. Kennedy, make the rst televised debate.
          North Pole, the rst submarine ever to do so.
                                                                September 30  The television animated sitcom, The
   August 29  Hurricane Donna kills 50 people in               Flintstones premieres on ABC.
    Florida and New England.
                                                             1.10 October
1.9    September
                                                             Main article: October 1960
Main article: September 1960
                                                                October 1
   September 1
                                                                     Nigeria becomes independent from United
         Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, Sultan of                      Kingdom, and Nnamdi Azikiwe becomes its
          Selangor and 2nd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of                   rst native-born Governor General.
          Malaysia, dies in oce. He is replaced by                  Cameroon declares independence from United
          Tuanku Syed Putra, Raja of Perlis.                          Kingdom.
         Disgruntled railroad workers eectively halt
                                                                October 3  Jnio Quadros is elected President of
          operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
                                                                 Brazil for a ve-year term.
          marking the rst shutdown in the companys
          history (the event lasts two days).                   October 5  White South Africans vote to make the
                                                                 country a republic.
   September 2  The rst elections of the Parliament
    of the Central Tibetan Administration are held. The         October 7  Nigeria becomes the 99th member of
    Tibetan community observes this date as Democ-               the United Nations.
    racy Day.
                                                                October 12
   September 5
                                                                     Cold War: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev
         1960 Summer Olympic Games: Muhammad                         pounds his shoe on a table at a meeting of the
          Ali (then Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in              United Nations General Assembly, his way of
          light-heavyweight boxing.                                   protesting the discussion of the Soviet Union's
         The Congolese president, Joseph Kasa-Vubu,                  policies toward Eastern Europe.
          res Patrice Lumumba's entire government,                  Inejiro Asanuma, chairman of the Japan So-
          and also places Lumumba under house arrest.                 cialist Party, is assassinated by Otoya Yam-
                                                                      aguchi using a wakizashi (samurai sword) dur-
   September 6  William Hamilton Martin and                         ing a political debate in Tokyo being taped for
    Bernon F. Mitchell, two American cryptologists, an-               broadcast on Japanese television.
    nounce their defection to the Soviet Union at a press
    conference in Moscow.                                       October 13
8                                                                                                        1 EVENTS
October 14
     October 29  In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay                A collision between two trains in Pardubice,
      (later Muhammad Ali) wins his rst professional                    Czechoslovakia, kills 117 people.
      boxing match.
                                                                  November 15  A Polaris missile is test-launched
     October 30  Dr. Michael Woodru carries out the             from Cape Canaveral, Florida
      rst successful kidney transplant in the United King-
      dom, at the Edinburgh Royal Inrmary.                       November 22  The United Nations supports
                                                                   the government of Joseph Kasavubu and Joseph
                                                                   Mobutu in the Republic of the Congo.
1.11 November
                                                                  November 24  The professional basketball player
Main article: November 1960                                        Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers gets 55
                                                                   rebounds in an NBA game versus the Boston Celtics.
         Patrice Lumumba, deposed premier of the                    The classic British TV series Coronation Street
          Republic of the Congo, is arrested by the                   premieres. Planned as a 13-part drama, it be-
          troops of Colonel Joseph Mobutu.                            comes such a success among viewers it contin-
                                                                      ues to be shown ve times per week through
         A Soviet satellite containing live animals and
                                                                      2012.
          plants is launched into orbit. Due to a mal-
          function it burns up during re-entry.                 December 11  MGMs The Wizard of Oz is re-
                                                                 run on CBS only a year after its previous telecast,
   December 2
                                                                 thus beginning the tradition of annual telecasts of
                                                                 the lm.
         The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev.
          Georey Francis Fisher, talks with Pope John          December 12  The Supreme Court of the United
          XXIII for about one hour in Vatican City. This         States upholds a lower Federal Court ruling that
          is the rst time that any chief of the Anglican        the State of Louisiana's racial segregation laws are
          Church had ever visited the Pope.                      unconstitutional, and overturns them.
         U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower autho-
          rizes the use of $1.0 million for the relief and      December 13
          resettlement of Cuban refugees, who had been
                                                                     1960 Ethiopian coup attempt: While Emperor
          arriving in Florida at the rate of about 1,000
                                                                      Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his
          per week.
                                                                      Kebur Zabagna (Imperial Bodyguard) leads
                                                                      a military coup against his rule, proclaiming
   December 4  The admission of Mauritania to the
                                                                      that the emperors son, Crown Prince Asfaw
    United Nations is vetoed by the Soviet Union.
                                                                      Wossen Taari, is the new emperor.
   December 5                                                       The countries of El Salvador, Guatemala,
                                                                      Honduras, and Nicaragua announce the for-
         Pierre Lagaillarde, who led the insurrections               mation of the Central American Common
          in 1958 and 1960 in Algeria, fails to appear                Market.
          in court in Paris, France. He had reportedly
                                                                     The U.S. Navys Commander Leroy Heath
          ed with his four fellow defendants to Spain
                                                                      (pilot) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe (bom-
          en route to Algeria.
                                                                      bardier/navigator) establish a world ight-
         Boynton v. Virginia: The Supreme Court of                   altitude record of 91,450 feet (27,874 m), with
          the United States declares that segregation in              payload, in an A-5 Vigilante bomber carrying
          public transportation is illegal in the United              2,200 lb (1,000 kg), and better the previous
          States.                                                     world record by over four miles (6 km).
          Africa: 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
2.2 February
Oliver Platt
    January 21
                                                           February 2  Jari Porttila, Finnish sports journalist
          Toxey Haas, American entrepreneur, founder
           of Haas Outdoors, Inc.                          February 3
          Mamoru Nagano, Japanese designer                     Marty Jannetty,        American     professional
    January 22  Michael Hutchence, Australian rock             wrestler
     musician (INXS) (d. 1997)                                  Joachim Lw, German football manager
12                                                                                               2 BIRTHS
2.4 April
Philippe of Belgium
Hugo Weaving
Valerie Bertinelli
2.5 May
Bono
May 3 Amy Steel, American lm actress May 17 John Payne, British voice actor
May 4 May 18
         Andrew Denton, Australian television presen-            Jari Kurri, Finnish hockey player
          ter and comedian                                        Yannick Noah, French tennis player
         Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria
                                                             May 19  Yazz, British pop singer
   May 6  John Flansburgh, American singer-
                                                             May 20
    songwriter, half of alternative rock duo They Might
    Be Giants                                                     John Billingsley, American actor
   May 7  Adam Bernstein, American music                        Tony Goldwyn, American actor, voice actor,
    video/television director                                      and lm director
   May 8  Eric Brittingham, American rock bassist          May 21  Jerey Dahmer, American serial killer (d.
                                                              1994)
   May 9  Tony Gwynn, American baseball player (d.
    2014)                                                    May 22  Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
May 10 Bono, Irish rock singer (U2) May 23 Linden Ashby, American actor
   May 14                                                   May 24
2.6   June                                                                                               17
Jerey Dahmer
Andrew Denton
2.6    June
   June 1  Elena Mukhina, Soviet artistic gymnast (d.
    2006)                                                 Thomas Haden Church
   June 2
         Tony Hadley, British pop musician and was               Kyle Petty, former NASCAR driver and cur-
          lead singer of Spandau Ballet                            rent sports commentator
18                                                                                                  2 BIRTHS
June 4
June 8
       Angela Raiola, American television personal-             Kyle Gass, American          music    singer-
        ity (d. 2016)                                             songwriter-guitarist/actor
       Tony Bellotto, Brazilian guitarist and writer            Jane Lynch, American actress
                                                           July 15  Kim Alexis, American model and actress
2.7   July                                                 July 17
  July 1  Kji Ishii, Japanese voice actor                     Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor
                                                                 Jan Wouters, Dutch football player and man-
  July 3
                                                                  ager
       Vince Clarke, British musician and composer
                                                           July 18  Anne-Marie Johnson, American actress
        (Depeche Mode, Erasure)
       Perrine Pelen, French alpine skier                 July 19
2.8 August
David Duchovny
August 4
August 10
Sean Penn
August 26
September 16
2.10 October
Melissa Leo
September 4
September 9
October 29
2.11 November
Diego Maradona
        Kerry Sanders, American news correspondent           November 4  Frl. Menke, German pop singer
        Jeremy Swift, English television actor
                                                              November 5  Tilda Swinton, British actress
   October 24
                                                              November 9
        Jaime Garzn, Colombian journalist and co-
         median (d. 1999)                                          Andreas Brehme, German football player and
                                                                    manager
        BD Wong, American actor
                                                                   Jolle Ursull, Guadeloupean singer
   October 26  Jouke de Vries, DutchFrisian politi-
    cian                                                      November 10  Neil Gaiman, English author
2.11   November                                                                                          23
2.12 December
Daryl Hannah
Kenneth Branagh
3 Deaths
3.1 January
Beno Gutenberg
February 29
3.3 March
Adone Zoli
March 27
3.4 April
Gustaf Lindblom
April 24
April 25
Georges Claude
   May 11  John D. Rockefeller Jr., American philan-        May 14  Lucrezia Bori, Spanish opera singer (b.
    thropist (b. 1874)                                         1887)
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3.6   June
  June 4
       Jzef Haller de Hallenburg, Polish general (b.
        1873)
       Lucien Littleeld, American actor (b. 1895)
  June 13  Ken McArthur, South African athlete (b.
   1881)
  June 14  Ana Pauker, Romanian communist politi-
   cian (b. 1893)
  June 17  Arthur Rosson, English lm director (b.
   1886)
  June 18  Shalva Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian
   politician (b. 1884)
  June 19  Chris Bristow, English race car driver (b.   Ken McArthur
   1937)
  June 20                                                3.7 July
       William E. Fairbairn, English soldier, police
                                                             July 6  Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
        ocer, and hand-to-hand combat expert (b.
        1885)                                                July 14  Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie, French physi-
       John B. Kelly Sr., American rower, father of          cist (b. 1875)
        Grace Kelly (b. 1889)
                                                             July 15
  June 25
                                                                  Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Italian cinematogra-
       Walter Baade, German astronomer (b. 1893)                  pher (b. 1890)
       Otto Ender, 9th Chancellor of Austria (b.                 Set Persson, Swedish politician (b. 1897)
        1875)
                                                                  Lawrence Tibbett, American opera singer and
       Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player                   actor (b. 1896)
        (b. 1869)
                                                             July 16
  June 27  Lottie Dod, English tennis player; Wim-
   bledon womens champion, 188788, 1891-93 (b.                  Albert Kesselring, German eld marshal (b.
   1871)                                                           1885)
3.8   August                                                                                                   31
                                                          Arthur Meighen
Hasan Saka
   July 26  Cedric Gibbons, Irish-American art direc-      August 17  Charles W. Ryder, American general
    tor (b. 1893)                                             (b. 1892)
         Walden L. Pug Ainsworth, American admi-          August 27  Stanley Cliord Weyman, American
          ral (b. 1886)                                       impostor (b. 1890)
         Luis ngel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)        August 28  Charles Forbes, British Admiral (b.
                                                              1880)
   August 9  Richard Cramer, American actor (b.
    1889)                                                    August 29
   August 10                                                      Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (b. 1888)
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        David Diop, French West African poet (b.          September 24  Mtys Seiber, Hungarian com-
         1927)                                              poser (b. 1905)
                                                         3.10 October
                                                           October 11  Richard Cromwell, American actor (b.
                                                            1910)
October 15
   September 11  Edwin Justus Mayer, American                 Bobby Wallace, American baseball player (St.
    screenwriter (b. 1896)                                       Louis Browns) and a member of the MLB Hall
                                                                 of Fame (b. 1873)
   September 13  Le Weiner, Hungarian composer
    (b. 1885)                                                   Harold Spencer Jones, English astronomer (b.
                                                                 1890)
   September 20  Ida Rubinstein, Russian ballet
    dancer (b. 1885)                                       November 5
   September 22  Melanie Klein, Austrian-British              Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903)
    psychoanalyst (b. 1882)                                     August Gailit, Estonian writer (b. 1891)
   September 23  Kathlyn Williams, American stage             Johnny Horton, American country singer (b.
    and silent lm actress (b. 1879)                             1925)
3.12   December                                                                                           33
                                                        3.12 December
                                                          December 2  Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot, Ger-
                                                           man architect, interior designer and designer (b.
                                                           1883)
                                                          December 7  Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral
                                                           (b. 1882)
                                                          December 13  John Charles Thomas, American
                                                           opera singer (b. 1891)
                                                          December 14  Gregory Rato, Russian actor and
                                                           director
Dirk Jan de Geer                                          December 20  Sir Godfrey Ince, British civil ser-
                                                           vant (b. 1891)
         Mack Sennett, Canadian lm producer and di-     December 22  Ninian Comper, British architect (b.
          rector (b. 1880)                                 1864)
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     December 26
          Giuseppe Bellanca, Italian-American aircraft
           designer and company founder (b. 1886)
          Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b.
           1889)
4 Nobel Prizes
5     References
[1] Brand Che: Revolutionary as Marketers Dream by
    Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, April 20, 2009
[2] Population
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