About the day » Monday October 3, 1960Calender converter

• Jeanny Bool, Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1991)
• Veerle Donckers, Ekeren, Antwerpen († 1989)
• Yvonne Hendrikse, Woudenberg
• Ronald Joseph Casadaban († 2004)
• Josina Veronica Wilhelmina van den Brink, Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands († 1960)
• Teresinha Schlickmann, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1999)
• Wilhelmus Johannes Baarslag, Dalfsen († 1971)
• Michael PARSONS († 2009)
• Elisabeth Anna Catharina Ruiter, Amsterdam
• Karen Bianca DENNEBOOM, Velp, Gelderland, Nederland († 2003)

• Agatha Martina Kerkhoff (82), Hilversum
• Anna Lela (61), Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Peterdina Knevel (78), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Josephus Bastiaansen (21)
• Anna Gertrud Schopen (83), Waubach (L)
• Christiaan Dingena (56), Maastricht
• Antonius Pennings (73), Den Dungen
• Anna Elisabeth Munnikes (77), Hilversum
• Annetta Amelia (Amelia Anetta) van den Berg (95), De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Louwrier (64), Leiden

• 1958 » Chen Yanyin, Chinese sculptor
• 1958 » Louise Lecavalier, Canadian dancer and choreographer
• 1959 » Craig Bellamy, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1959 » Fred Couples, American golfer
• 1959 » Greg Proops, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Jack Wagner, American actor and singer
• 1961 » Ludger Stühlmeyer, German cantor, composer, and musicologist
• 1961 » Rebecca Stephens, English journalist and mountaineer
• 1962 » Simon Scarrow, Nigerian-English novelist
• 1962 » Tommy Lee, Greek-American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer

• 1953 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1966 » Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1967 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1969 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1902)
• 1979 » Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936)
• 1980 » Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (b. 1907)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Peter
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Hendrik
7. John
8. Robert
9. Gerrit
10. Ronald
11. Petrus
12. Pieter
13. Paul
14. Dirk
15. Johan
16. Hans

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Cornelia
5. Anna
6. Yvonne
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Monique
10. Ingrid
11. Anita
12. Jacqueline
13. Marianne
14. Karin
15. Petronella
16. Adriana

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
• April 25 » The United States Navy submarine USSTriton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
• May 9 » The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
• July 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• August 12 » Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
• November 4 » At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
• December 13 » While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.

The temperature on October 3, 1960 was between 13.5 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.