Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (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
Births
- January 1 - John Carmack, programmer.
- February 11 - Angie Ridgeway, golfer.
- February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor.
- May 17 - Trent Reznor, musician.
- May 31 - Brooke Shields, actress.
- June 10 - Elizabeth Hurley, actress.
- July 31 - Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author.
- August 28 - Shania Twain, musician.
- November 20 - Ben Stiller, actor.
- December 3 - Katarina Witt, figure skater.
Deaths
- January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet
- January 24 - Winston Churchill, British politician
Events
- February 11 - Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox.
- March 7 - Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama
- Physics - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
- Chemistry - Robert Burns Woodward
- Medicine - François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod
- Literature - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
- Peace - United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF)