About the day » Friday August 26, 1960Calender converter

• Michael Lawrence Richardson, Fort Dodge (Webster County) (Iowa) († 2014)
• Cornelis Pieter Jongenburger, Athene († 2019)
• Gjermund Sandberg († 2013)
• Randall Fred Wayne Sweatt, Charlotte,Mecklenburg County, North Carolina († 2002)
• Dirk Joannes Jacobus Heldens, Heeze († 2010)
• Martine Verhoeven, Gent († 1992)
• Monique Otterloo, 's-Gravenhage († 1995)
• Doodgeboren kind Horck, Haarlem († 1960)
• Nn Visser, EaZ († 1960)
• Marleen Bex († 2022)

• Aaltje Potasse (92), Heemstede
• Carel Ferdinand de Vries (75), Heerenveen
• Adolphe VAN COPPENOLLE (87), Renaix,9600,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Bernardus Leverland (96)
• Aaltje de Dood (48), Amsterdam
• Aloysius Hendrikus KUIJLAARS (74), 's-Gravenhage (Zuid Holland) (NL)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Peperkamp (65), Maasbracht, Nederland
• Atje Jacobs van der Wal (56), Leeuwarden
• Adrianus Johannes Marinus Geboers (60), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna Schuler (72), Baarn

• 1957 » Nikky Finney, American poet and academic
• 1958 » Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist
• 1959 » Oliver Colvile, English lawyer and politician
• 1959 » Stan Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach
• 1960 » Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
• 1960 » Ola Ray, American model and actress
• 1961 » Daniel Lévi, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1961 » Jeff Parrett, American baseball player
• 1962 » Roger Kingdom, American hurdler
• 1963 » David Byas, English cricketer and umpire

• 1944 » Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (b. 1909)
• 1945 » Franz Werfel, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1890)
• 1946 » Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist (b. 1881)
• 1958 » Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (b. 1872)
• 1966 » W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1972 » Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (b. 1901)
• 1974 » Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1885)

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. Hans
16. Johan

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.
• February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
• March 21 » Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
• May 16 » Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
• 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 17 » Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.

The temperature on August 26, 1960 was between 13.4 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 13.1 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.