About the day » Thursday June 23, 1960Calender converter

• Ludo WILS, Turnhout,2300,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2013)
• Godfried Hubertus Maria Schmitz, Schinnen
• Josephus Calis, Laren († 1960)
• William George Brayton, Mount Vernon, Knox, Ohio, United States († 2011)
• M.I.G. Meuleman († 2012)
• Adriana Annechina Maria Wendels, Emmen
• Luc Geysen, Balen, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen († 1998)
• Marleen Hermien Suzanne Wijling, Voorhout
• Margaretha Helena Johanna Wensveen, Wassenaar († 2007)
• Willem van der Schuur († 1964)

• Arendina (Die) Hutteman (72), Deventer
• Arie Keur (75), Zandvoort
• Anthonius Goossen (79), Breda, Nederland
• Adrianus Ludovicus De Schutter (80), Ekeren, BE, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Adriana Aartje van der Graaf (60), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Irma Hallman RAPP (76), Presbyterian Home
• "Marie" Emilie Thérèse Flûry (88), Bretteville-Saint-Laurent, Seine-Maritime, France
• Adrianus Ludovicus De Schutter (80), Ekeren, Antwerpen
• Alva Wenger Eby (71), Elkhart, Indiana, United States
• Benny Joe Huggins (14), Florence, Lauderdale Cnty, Alabama, Verenigde Staten

• 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)

• 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.
• February 13 » Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
• April 4 » France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
• May 1 » Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra; also known as "Maharashtra Day".
• September 8 » In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
• September 24 » USSEnterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.

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.