* 1915 – Joy Davidman, American poet and writer, wife of C. S. Lewis ( d. 1960 )

Eden Phillpotts ( 4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960 ) was an English author, poet and dramatist.

* 1881 – Ya ' akov Cohen, Israeli poet ( d. 1960 )

* 1905 – Jan Zahradníček, Czech poet ( d. 1960 )

* 1896 – Nima Yooshij, Iranian contemporary poet ( d. 1960 )

Léopold Senghor, internationally known poet, politician, and statesman, was elected Senegal's first president in August 1960.

* 1960 – John S. Hall, American poet

* 1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.

* June 26 – Ya ' akov Cohen, Israeli poet ( d. 1960 )

* Paul Fort ( 1872 – 1960 ), poet

Currently located in the center of the Plaza de la Merced, looking towards the church of San Andrés is a bust of the poet Rubén Darío, sculptor Santiago de Santiago, which was donated by the Nicaragua government to the city in 1973. Letters related to the bust are also found in the Promenade Lounge, the famous poet José Rodas was first installed in 1927 in the plaza of the gardens, and moved to its present site in 1960 by the segovian sculptor Aniceto Marinas.

Another was the poet Gary Snyder, whom he'd met in Kyoto in 1960, and with whom he'd argued about U. S. foreign policy ; Ellsberg was finally prepared to concede that Gary Snyder had been right, about both the situation and the need for action against it.

* Richard James Allen ( born 1960 ), Australian poet, dancer and filmmaker

Léopold Sédar Senghor ( 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001 ) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal ( 1960 – 1980 ).

* September 20 – Saint-John Perse, poet – winner, 1960 Nobel Prize for Literature

* February 8-Ralph Chubb, gay poet and printer ( died 1960 )

* 1960 Gerard Malanga, poet, photographer and filmmaker

* Spyros Vrettos ( 1960 ), poet

* David Michael Bunting ( born 1960 ), British poet / musician

Jack Kerouac spent a few days in Big Sur in early 1960 at fellow poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in the woods, and wrote a novel titled Big Sur based on his experience there.

George Elliott Clarke, ( born 12 February 1960 ) is a Canadian poet and playwright.

Davey enrolled at the University of British Columbia in 1957 where he met the influential poetry theorist Warren Tallman and student writers George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, Carol Bolt, and Fred Wah, and in 1960 the charismatic San Francisco poet Robert Duncan.

* 1960 J. Langston Hughes ( poet and playwright )

Another children's writer, Winifred Darch ( 1884 – 1960 ), taught at Loughton County High School for Girls 1906 – 1935 ( now Roding Valley High School ), as did the hymnodist and poet, Emily Chisholm ( 1910 – 1991 ), who lived in Loughton at 3 Lower Park Rd.

In 1960, he married British actress Patricia Medina after his first wife, Lenore Kipp, died of leukemia earlier in the year.

In 1960 he headlined in the new Scottish pantomime A Wish for Jamie, with Kenneth McKellar and Fay Lenore premiered at the Alhambra Theatre Glasgow, and in its sequel A Love for Jamie which ran for three consecutive winters.

* Harry Ell and His Summit Road: a Biography of Henry George Ell by Lenore Oakley, published by Caxton Press 1960

Kandel was a student of Zen before she moved from her native New York City to San Francisco in 1960.

The two teams met in the first regular season game the Cowboys ever played in 1960 ( a 35 – 28 loss to the Steelers ), the first-ever regular season victory for the expansion Cowboys in 1961, and would later meet in three Super Bowls, all of them closely contested events.

The two clubs had first met in 1960, and in 1972 met in the playoffs for the first time on December 23 at Candlestick Park, in the Divisional round of the 1972 NFC playoffs.

Relations with the Soviet Union remained at the same level until 1960, when Khrushchev met with Sophocles Venizelos, a left-wing Greek politician.

Bakker attended North Central University, a Bible college affiliated with the Assemblies of God, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where in 1960 he met fellow student Tammy Faye LaValley.

Falk married Alyce Mayo, whom he had met when they were both students at Syracuse University, on April 17, 1960.

Prime Minister Macmillan met President Eisenhower in March 1960 and agreed to purchase 144 Skybolts for the RAF.

In 1960, when Richards, on his way to class at Sidcup Art College, and Jagger, on his way to class at London School of Economics, met at Dartford train station, the Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records Jagger carried revealed a mutual interest, leading to the re-establishment of their friendship and the formation of a band with Dick Taylor ( later of Pretty Things ).

It was there, in 1960, that he met fellow faculty member, architect and planner Denise Scott Brown.

By the end of the Johnson Administration, 226 out of 252 major legislative requests ( over a four-year period ) had been met, federal Aid to the poor had risen from $ 9. 9 billion in 1960 to $ 30 billion by 1968, one million Americans had been retrained under previously non-existent federal programs, and two million children had benefited from the Head Start program.

In 1961 The Beatles ( comprising Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Pete Best ), who had met Sheridan during their first visit to Hamburg in 1960, worked with him on their second.

After two first-round exits at the hands of the eventual champions from Montreal in 1959 and 1960, it was expected that the Canadiens would once again beat the Hawks when they met in the semifinals in 1961.

Hepburn met Marie-Louise Habets while preparing for the role, and Habets later helped nurse Hepburn back to health following her near-fatal horse-riding accident on the set of the 1960 film The Unforgiven.

The two men first met in 1960 when Haley wrote an article about the Nation of Islam for Reader's Digest.

During 1960, Herman also met playwright Tad Mosel and the two men collaborated on an Off-Broadway musical adaptation of Mosel's 1953 television play, Madame Aphrodite.

President Kennedy and Nixon met for the first time after the 1960 Election loss by Nixon in an oceanfront villa at the old Key Biscayne Hotel.

By 1960 Sir Alan Bullock raised a further £ 1, 000, 000 with invaluable assistance from two industrial notables, Sir Alan Wilson ( whom he met by chance on the RMS Queen Mary ) and Sir Hugh Beaver.

In September 10 – 14, 1960, at the initiative of the Venezuelan Energy and Mines minister Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo and the Saudi Arabian Energy and Mines minister Abdullah al-Tariki, the governments of Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela met in Baghdad to discuss ways to increase the price of the crude oil produced by their respective countries.

In 1954 the first proposal made to the National Park Service to climb The Diamond was met with an official closure, a stance not changed until 1960.

Spiritual teacher Vimala Thakar met with Krishnamurti in 1960.

On 29 November 1960, President Eisenhower met with the chiefs of the CIA, Defense, State and Treasury departments to discuss the new concept.

On 9 August 1960, Captain Kong Le and his Special Forces-trained Neutralist paratroop battalion were able to seize control of the administrative capital of Vientiane in a virtually bloodless coup, while Prime Minister Tiao Samsanith, government officials, and military leaders met in the royal capital, Luang Prabang.

The International Association of Consulting Actuaries first met in 1960, and was formally constituted, separate from the International Actuarial Association, in 1968.

On 24 October 1960, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos met in Acuña to sign the initial agreements allowing construction of the dam.