Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 - 1958 - 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
Births
- February 11 - Michael Jackson, controller of BBC2.
- February 11 - Regina Marsikova, Czechoslovakian tennis player.
- October 14 - Thomas Dolby, English rock musician
- October 16 - Tim Robbins, American actor
Deaths
Events
- February 11 - [[ Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chou En-Lai as Chinese Minister of Foreign affairs.
- February 11 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as a flight attendant.
- Brazil wins Football World Cup in Sweden
- Physics - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, Igor Yergenyevich Tamm
- Chemistry - Frederick Sanger]]
- Medicine - George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Joshua Lederberg
- Literature - Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
- Peace - George Henri Pire
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