About the day » Sunday August 28, 1960Calender converter

• Marten ter Heide († 1985)
• Phillip Darin Haughwout († 2017)
• Henk Schipper († 1993)
• Olivier Dubern († 1981)
• Brigitta Gerdiena Clazina Terwal, Rotterdam
• Onno Hille, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Wilma van de Ven, Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2011)
• Monique Peutevinck, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen (B) († 2024)
• Rob de Jong († 2007)
• Gerard Eleveld († 2019)

• Catharina van den Broek (48), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Voge (83), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis Bakker (85), Barendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje Wemmenhove (76), Hoogeveen
• Clara Elisa Branders (68), Scherpenheuvel
• Annigje Wemmenhoven (76), Hoogeveen
• Christiaan Richardus Akkerman (85), Zaltbommel, Utrecht, NL
• Cornelis Bakker (85), Barendrecht
• Alida Catharina Holswilder (74), Driebergen-Rijsenburg
• Adrianus Kosters (87), Oisterwijk

• 1958 » Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
• 1959 » Brian Thompson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Cliff Benson, American football player
• 1961 » Deepak Tijori, Indian actor and director
• 1961 » Ian Pont, English cricketer and coach
• 1961 » Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
• 1961 » Kim Appleby, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1962 » Craig Anton, American actor and screenwriter
• 1962 » David Fincher, American director and producer
• 1962 » Paul Allen, English footballer

• 1943 » Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
• 1943 » Georg Hellat, Estonian architect (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Emmett Till, American murder victim (b. 1941)
• 1959 » Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American composer and educator (b. 1890)
• 1965 » Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1968 » Dimitris Pikionis, Greek architect and academic (b. 1887)
• 1971 » Reuvein Margolies, Israeli author and scholar (b. 1889)
• 1972 » Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941)
• 1975 » Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
• 1976 » Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)

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. Karin
14. Marianne
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 13 » Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
• April 13 » The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
• 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.
• August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
• November 28 » Mauritania becomes independent of France.
• December 13 » While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.

The temperature on August 28, 1960 was between 11.2 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.