About the day » Wednesday December 7, 1960Calender converter

• Philippe Peet
• Leonie Alexandra Hoffman, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Johannes Evert van Noord, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Richard Huzink, Geesteren,, Overijssel, Nederland († 2013)
• Monique Tupker, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Jacqueline Schiebergen
• Haak († 1960)
• Pascale Depré, Etterbeek (bruxelles-Capitale),Brussels Capital Region,Belgique († 2010)
• Gerrit Zeger Post († 1999)
• Connie Sue Ornduff, Dayton, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1993)

• Arend Hartman (68), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alma Sophia Mussche (70), Oostburg (gem. Sluis)
• Andrew Dennis Quinn (70), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Aukje Oosterhuis (71), Houwerzijl, gem. Ulrum, Groningen, Nederland
• Bertha Owens, Rockcastle County, Kentucky
• Andries Pieter Quist (60), Koudekerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Vermeulen (76)
• Anna van der Zanden (60), Etten
• Alberdina Knikker (53), Wezep, Nederland
• Bernardus Veldmans (69), Uitgeest

• 1957 » Geoff Lawson, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
• 1957 » Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Nigerian career-diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (2019)
• 1957 » Tom Winsor, English lawyer and civil servant
• 1958 » Rick Rude, American wrestler and sportscaster († 1999)
• 1958 » Tim Butler, English bass player and songwriter
• 1959 » Saleem Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
• 1960 » Craig Scanlon, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1962 » Alain Blondel, French decathlete
• 1962 » Imad Mughniyah, Lebanese activist († 2008)
• 1962 » Jeffrey Donaldson, Northern Irish politician

• 1947 » Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1960 » Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1882)
• 1962 » Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (b. 1895)
• 1969 » Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903)
• 1969 » Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and manager (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor, and author (b. 1883)

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 8 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
• April 4 » France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
• 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 7 » Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
• July 12 » Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
• August 16 » Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.

The temperature on December 7, 1960 was between 2.9 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.