* 1960 – Cecilia Gasdia, Italian soprano

* 1960 – Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress

Franco Baresi (; born 8 May 1960 in Travagliato, Italy ) is an Italian football youth team coach and former player.

* 1891 – Dino Borgioli, Italian lyric tenor ( d. 1960 )

* 1960 – Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee

* 1960 – Franco Baresi, Italian footballer

* 1921 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor ( d. 1960 )

British Somaliland became independent on June 26, 1960 as the State of Somaliland, and the Trust Territory of Somalia ( the former Italian Somaliland ) followed suit five days later.

:* 26 June 1960: Independence of British Somalia to reunite with Italian Somalia.

:* 1 July 1960: Reunification of British Somalia with Italian Somalia to form the Somali Republic.

The Somali Air Corps ( SAC ) was originally established with Italian aid in the early 1960s, emerging from the Italian " Corpo di Sicurezza della Somalia " while the country was under Italian and British administration, between 1950 and 1960.

* 1919 – Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist ( d. 1960 )

* 1960 – Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman, husband of Caroline, Princess of Hanover ( d. 1990 )

* November 23 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor ( died 1960 )

Basing its electoral majority largely on the Catholic countryside, the party originally supported governments based on liberal-conservative political positions, then to move into centre-left coalitions by European standards, despite some disbandaments to the right, such as the short-lived government led by Fernando Tambroni in 1960, relying on parliamentary support from the Italian Social Movement, the post-Fascist party.

Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize ( 1960, 1962 ), Palme d ' Or ( 1966 ), and 35th Anniversary Prize ( 1982 ); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion ( 1955 ), Golden Lion ( 1964 ), FIPRESCI Prize ( 1964, 1995 ), and Pietro Bianchi Award ( 1998 ); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times ; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995.

In 1949 Italian Somaliland was reconstituted as the Trust Territory of Somalia, which was administered by Italy from 1949 until its independence in 1960.

( The 1960 Italian film David and Goliath starring Orson Welles was not one of these, since that movie was a straightforward adaptation of the Biblical story ).

Goliath and the Dragon ( 1960 ) was originally an Italian Hercules movie called The Revenge of Hercules.

The protectorate briefly obtained independence on July 1, 1960 as the State of Somaliland before uniting as scheduled later the same week with the Trust Territory of Somalia ( the former Italian Somaliland ) to form the Somali Republic.

In May 1960, the British Government stated that it would be prepared to grant independence to the then protectorate of British Somaliland, with the intention that the territory would unite with the Italian-administered Trust Territory of Somalia ( the former Italian Somaliland ).

In October 1961 Pierre Lagaillarde, who had escaped to Francoist Spain following the 1960 barricades week, was arrested in Madrid, along with the Italian activist Guido Giannettini.

Some of the Italian groups who had national chart hits included Dion and the Belmonts in 1958 with " I Wonder Why ", The Capris with " There's A Moon Out Tonight " in 1960, The Demensions, The Elegants, The Mystics, The Duprees, Vito & the Salutations, The Gaylords, Johnny Maestro, and The Del-Satins.

In 1960, David D. Thomas published Basic Vocabulary In some Mon-Khmer Languages ( AL 2, No. 3, pp. 7 - 11 ), which compares 8 Mon-Khmer languages with the I-E language data on which Swadesh based the revised retention rate ( Af ) in place of original ( Af ), and his revised 100 word basic glottochronological list in Towards Greater Accuracy ( IJAL 21::

* 1960 – David Miscavige, American leader of the Church of Scientology

* 1960 – David Yow, American singer-songwriter ( Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard, and Qui )

In the 1960 film David and Goliath, Abner ( Massimo Serato ) tries to murder David ( Ivica Pajer ) when he returns in triumph after killing Goliath ; however, Abner is slain by King Saul ( Orson Welles ).

In 1960, David Berlo expanded on Shannon and Weaver's ( 1949 ) linear model of communication and created the SMCR Model of Communication.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.

File: David Eisenhower in Camp David. jpg | David Eisenhower ( age 12 ), grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, poses with sign at presidential retreat named in his honor, 1960

" In 2004, the Manchester Evening News published a contradictory story that a young musician from Wilmslow called David Browning played the trumpet on both the original recording of the theme in 1960 and a re-recording in 1964, for a one-off payment of £ 36.

One Canadian author, economist and demographer David Foot, divides the generation born after the baby boomers into two groups in his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift: Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966 ; and the " Bust Generation ", born between 1967 and 1979.

* 1960 – David Baerwald American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer ( David & David )

* 1960 – David Marciano, American actor

* 1960 – David James Elliott, Canadian actor

* 1960 – David Lowery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven )

* 1960 – David Steele, English bass player and songwriter ( The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals )

* In the 1960 Cold War novel Village of Stars by David Beaty ( writing as Paul Stanton ), an RAF V-bomber of the fictional Venger type is sent to drop a nuclear bomb on a rebel force in the Middle East.

He was a frequent interviewer with Bob Clark on the ABC Sunday news program, Issues and Answers, which began in 1960 but was revamped and renamed in 1981 as This Week with David Brinkley.

UPI reporters and photographers have won ten Pulitzer Prizes: Russell Jones ( International Reporting, 1957 ), Andrew Lopez ( News Photography, 1960 ), Yasushi Nagao ( News Photography, 1961 ), Merriman Smith ( National Reporting, 1964 ), Kyoichi Sawada ( News Photography, 1966 ), Toshio Sakai ( Feature Photography, 1968 ), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers ( National Reporting, 1971 ), and David Hume Kennerly ( Feature Photography, 1972 ).

On February 1, 1960, four students Ezell A. Blair, Jr. ( now known as Jibreel Khazan ), David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Franklin McCain from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College, an all-black college, sat down at the segregated lunch counter to protest Woolworth's policy of excluding African Americans.

The chess game between " Kronsteen " and " McAdams " in the early part of the James Bond movie From Russia With Love is based on a game in that opening played between Spassky and David Bronstein in 1960 in which Spassky (" Kronsteen ") was victorious.