About the day » Thursday June 23, 1960Calender converter

• Adriana Annechina Maria Wendels, Emmen
• Godfried Hubertus Maria Schmitz, Schinnen
• Josephus Calis, Laren († 1960)
• Ronald Dean Kroeze, Orange City, Sioux City, Sioux County, Iowa († 2014)
• M.I.G. Meuleman († 2012)
• Margaretha Helena Johanna Wensveen, Wassenaar († 2007)
• André van Ginkel († 2020)
• Willem van der Schuur († 1964)
• Dale R Snyder, Los Angeles, California († 2015)
• Luc Geysen, Balen, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen († 1998)

• Arie ♂ Keur (75), Zandvoort, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Christina Johanna Poulina van Es (51), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Cornelis Lantinga (79), Wedde
• Carl McKinley Shoup (65)
• Adrianus Ludovicus De Schutter (80), Ekeren, Antwerpen
• Anna Dijk (78), Platte, Charles Mix County, South Dakota
• Catharina Magdalena Schipper (32), Oost-en West-Souburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arie Keur (75), Zandvoort
• Antonie van Lienden (65), Tiel
• Catharina Adriana Pronk (77), 's-Gravenhage

• 1957 » Dave Houghton, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
• 1957 » Frances McDormand, American actress, winner of the Triple Crown of Acting
• 1958 » John Hayes, English politician, Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change
• 1960 » Donald Harrison, American saxophonist, composer, and producer
• 1960 » Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese composer and programmer
• 1961 » LaSalle Thompson, American basketball player, coach, and manager
• 1961 » Richard Arnold, English lawyer and judge
• 1961 » Zoran Janjetov, Serbian singer and illustrator
• 1962 » Chuck Billy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 » Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer

• 1945 » Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1923)
• 1953 » Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881)
• 1954 » Salih Omurtak, Turkish general (b. 1889)
• 1956 » Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and educator (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Boris Vian, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1959 » Hidir Lutfi, Iraqi poet. (b. 1880)
• 1969 » Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish runner (b. 1907)
• 1970 » Roscoe Turner, American soldier and pilot (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Gerry Birrell, Scottish race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Sanjay Gandhi, Indian engineer and politician (b. 1946)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Peter
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. John
7. Hendrik
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.
• January 9 » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
• March 21 » Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
• April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
• April 21 » Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
• April 27 » Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
• November 28 » Mauritania becomes independent of France.

The temperature on June 23, 1960 was between 11.7 °C and 27.3 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.