About the day » Thursday December 29, 1960Calender converter

• Philip Craig Deelstra, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah († 1961)
• Baby Boy McCloskey, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1961)
• Gilles Richardot († 2017)
• gerarda wilhelmina maria (gerda) houben, helden-grashoek
• NN Dusseljee, Winschoten († 1960)
• NN Sjoerdsma, Westdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1960)
• Margaretha Geertruida (Margreet) van den Berg, Hoofddorp, Haarlemmermeer († 2019)
• Johanna Maria Apeldoorn, Egmond-Binnen († 1969)
• Johan Hendrik Drs. De Vries, Zaltbommel (GLD) NL
• Johanna Maria Apeldoorn, Egmond-Binnen († 1969)

• Anthonie Vermeij (60), Rotterdam
• Carolina Maria Waardeloo (87), 's Gravenhage
• Aaltje van Mourik (85)
• Anna Margaretha Buijs, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfonsus Christianus C.J. Kuijer (0), Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Nederland
• Apolonia Johanna Becht (76), Breda
• Aaron Dean Deutschendorf (20), Clinton, Custer, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonie Vermeij (60), Rotterdam
• Antje Goede (78), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Anne IJdes de Vries (95), Jubbega-Schurega

• 1959 » Ann Demeulemeester, Belgian fashion designer
• 1959 » Keith Crossan, Irish rugby player
• 1959 » Milton Ottey, Jamaican-Canadian high jumper and coach
• 1959 » Patricia Clarkson, American actress
• 1959 » Paula Poundstone, American comedian and author
• 1960 » David Gilbert, Australian cricketer
• 1960 » David Boon, Australian cricketer
• 1960 » Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Congolese militia leader, founded the Union of Congolese Patriots
• 1961 » Jim Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 » Kevin Granata, American engineer and academic († 2007)

• 1944 » Khasan Israilov, Chechen rebel (b. 1910)
• 1949 » Tyler Dennett, American historian and author (b. 1883)
• 1952 » Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1897)
• 1959 » Robin Milford, English soldier and composer (b. 1903)
• 1960 » Eden Phillpotts, English author and poet (b. 1862)
• 1967 » Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1890)
• 1968 » Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Marie Menken, American director and painter (b. 1909)
• 1972 » Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Greek priest and missionary (b. 1903)
• 1972 » Joseph Cornell, American sculptor and director (b. 1903)

• 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.
• May 1 » Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
• May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
• May 23 » A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
• June 23 » The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
• September 14 » Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
• December 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.

The temperature on December 29, 1960 was between -2.1 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.