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: 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 - 1962 - 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967
Events
- July 1 - Independence of Rwanda and Burundi
- Brazil wins Football World Cup in Chile
- October - Cuban missile crisis
- Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring released, giving rise to the modern environmentalist movement.
Births
- February 11 - Sheryl Crow American singer.
- February 11 - Scott Kolden, actor.
Deaths
- May 31 - Adolf Eichmann, aged 56, Nazi official responsible for the execution of the holocaust (executed)
- July 6 - William Faulkner, American novelist
- Niels Bohr, Danish physicist
- Physics - Lev Davidovich Landau
- Chemistry - Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew
- Medicine - Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
- Literature - John Steinbeck
- Peace - Linus Carl Pauling