Born in 1960

What things cost in 1960

1960 figures are annual averages of the published monthly (or quarterly) values. “Today’s dollars” uses the Consumer Price Index for September 2026; “latest” is the most recent published price. Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, via FRED. Average retail prices are only published from 1976 on; 1960 has the CPI alone.

Who was in charge in 1960

United States

Dwight D. Eisenhower (President)

United Kingdom

Elizabeth II (Queen); Harold Macmillan (Prime minister)

Soviet Union

Nikita Khrushchev (General Secretary); Kliment Voroshilov, then Leonid Brezhnev (Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet); Nikita Khrushchev (Chairman of the Council of Ministers)

People's Republic of China

Mao Zedong (Chairman; Paramount Leader); Liu Shaoqi (President); Zhou Enlai (Premier)

France

Charles de Gaulle (President); Michel Debré (Prime minister)

East Germany

Wilhelm Pieck (President); Walter Ulbricht (Chairmen of the State Council); Otto Grotewohl (Chairman)

West Germany

Heinrich Lübke (President); Konrad Adenauer (Chancellor)

Japan

Hirohito (Emperor); Hayato Ikeda (Prime minister)

Republic of India

Rajendra Prasad (President); Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime minister)

From Wikipedia’s List of state leaders in the 20th century (1951–2000) (revision 1371751893), each name checked against Wikidata. Every country in 1960 →

No. 1 songs of 1960

1. “El Paso” — Marty Robbins (2 weeks)
2. “Running Bear” — Johnny Preston (3 weeks)
3. “Teen Angel” — Mark Dinning (2 weeks)
4. “Theme from A Summer Place” — Percy Faith and his orchestra (9 weeks)
5. “Stuck on You” — Elvis Presley (4 weeks)
6. “Cathy's Clown” — The Everly Brothers (5 weeks)
7. “Everybody's Somebody's Fool” — Connie Francis (2 weeks)
8. “Alley Oop” — Hollywood Argyles (1 week)
9. “I'm Sorry” — Brenda Lee (3 weeks)
10. “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini” — Brian Hyland (1 week)
11. “It's Now or Never” — Elvis Presley (5 weeks)
12. “The Twist” — Chubby Checker (1 week)
13. “My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own” — Connie Francis (2 weeks)
14. “Mr. Custer” — Larry Verne (1 week)
15. “Save the Last Dance for Me” — The Drifters (3 weeks)
16. “I Want to Be Wanted” — Brenda Lee (1 week)
17. “Georgia on My Mind” — Ray Charles (1 week)
18. “Stay” — Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs (1 week)
19. “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” — Elvis Presley (5 weeks)

Weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with issue dates in 1960, from List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1960 (Wikipedia revision 1374867521).

Famous people born in 1960

• November 27 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005 and 2007–2010 source
• March 21 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian triple Formula One world champion (died 1994) source
• May 9 – Tony Gwynn, baseball player (died 2014) source
• 18 December - Yoon Suk Yeol, lawyer and politician, president of South Korea. source
• February 19 – Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Son of Elizabeth II source
• 19 February – Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, third child of Elizabeth II source
• 11 April – Jeremy Clarkson, motoring journalist and television show host source
• May 21 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (died 1994) source
• February 8 - Benigno Aquino III, Filipino politician who served as the 15th president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016 (died 2021) source
• December 14 – James Comey, lawyer, director of the FBI source
• December 22 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist (died 1988) source
• 10 November – Neil Gaiman, English author source
• July 10 – Ariel Castro, criminal (died 2013) source
• August 13 – Phil Taylor, English darts player source
• March 12 – Minoru Niihara, Japanese singer (Loudness) source

What happened in 1960

• January 19 – A revised version of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan ("U.S.-Japan Security Treaty" or "Anpo (jōyaku)"), which allows U.S. troops to be based on Japanese soil, is signed in Washington, D.C. by Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The new treaty is opposed by the massive Anpo protests in Japan. source
• January 22 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France, dismisses Jacques Massu as commander-in-chief of French troops in Algeria. source
• January 22 – Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descend into the Mariana Trench in the bathyscaphe Trieste, reaching a depth of 10,911 m, and become the first human beings to reach the lowest spot on Earth. source
• January 9 – Construction of the Aswan Dam begins in Egypt. source
• January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). source
• January 21 – Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica killing 37, the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca. source
• February 1 – Greensboro sit-ins: In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar non-violent protests throughout the Southern United States, and six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counter. source
• 11 January – The founding of Chi Mei Corporation. source