About the day » Tuesday November 8, 1960Calender converter

• N.N. Menkens, Hengelo († 1960)
• Quinton Taljaard († 2011)
• Albert Hendrik Buijen van Weelderen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2003)
• Alfred Hein, Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland († 2023)
• anton kessels, nederweert († 1988)
• Albert Hendrik Buijen_van_Weelderen, Amsterdam († 2003)
• Ralph Edward MUDDIMAN, Warrenton, Fauquier, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 1977)
• Matthew Alan HANRAHAN († 1978)
• Maarten Poulain, Wijdenes, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1960)
• Clara Elizabeth (Claartje) Heesterman, Poona, India († 1980)

• Bessie Georgina Pritchard
• Augustinus VAN DYCK (72), Zoersel, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Augustinus Van Dyck (72), Zoersel
• Alexander Franciscus Fiëvez (66), Eindhoven
• Bruun (bruno) Molenaar (66), Alkmaar / N-H Nederland
• Alberdina Stremmelaar (60), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adeleida Imthorn (45), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Huigen (78), Hengelo
• Arnolda Huijdink, Rhenen
• aaltje MORET (70), dordrecht

• 1957 » Alan Curbishley, English footballer and manager
• 1958 » Don Byron, American clarinet player and composer
• 1958 » Ken Lamberton, American author and educator
• 1958 » Selçuk Yula, Turkish footballer and journalist († 2013)
• 1959 » Chi Chi LaRue, American drag queen performer and director
• 1959 » Miroslav Janů, Czech footballer and manager († 2013)
• 1960 » Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor and producer († 2017)
• 1960 » Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor, singer, and director
• 1961 » Leif Garrett, American singer, actor, and television personality
• 1961 » Micky Adams, English footballer and manager

• 1949 » Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874)
• 1953 » Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1953 » John van Melle, Dutch-South African author and educator (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (b. 1884)
• 1959 » Frank S. Land, American activist, founded the DeMolay International (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Subroto Mukerjee, Indian soldier; Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (b. 1911)
• 1965 » Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, television personality, and game show panelist (b. 1913)
• 1968 » Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
• 1968 » Wendell Corey, American actor and politician (b. 1914)
• 1970 » Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (b. 1892)

• 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.
• January 18 » Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
• January 19 » Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
• January 28 » The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
• February 16 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSTriton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
• August 12 » Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
• December 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.

The temperature on November 8, 1960 was between -2.6 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.