1960
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Art and culture
- 1960 U-2 incident
- Hara Kiri is launched
- November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
Film
- Peeping Tom by Michael Powell
- Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock
- Eyes Without a Face by Georges Franju
- Black Sunday by Mario Bava
- Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard
- Jigoku by Nobuo Nakagawa
- House of Usher by Roger Corman
- The Little Shop of Horrors by Roger Corman
- L'Avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni
- Shoot the Piano Player by François Truffaut
- The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman
- The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers
- El cochecito by Marco Ferreri
- La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini
- Village of the Damned by Wolf Rilla
- Zazie dans le métro by Louis Malle
Short film
- High Note, Looney Tunes animated short directed by Chuck Jones
Visual art
- March 9 – Anthropométries de l'époque bleue performance by Yves Klein in Paris
- Leap into the Void (Saut dans le vide), a photograph by Yves Klein
- Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Literature
- Blue Movie by Terry Southern
- Boredom by Alberto Moravia
- Theory of Film by Siegfried Kracauer
Music
Albums
- Kontakte by Stockhausen
Singles
- "Angel Baby" by Rosie & The Originals
- "This Bitter Earth" by Dinah Washington
Births
- Lev Manovich
- Takashi Miike
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Julianne Moore
- Atom Egoyan
- Maurizio Cattelan
- Hopeton "Overton" Brown (Scientist)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)
Deaths
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Paul-Emile Bécat (1885 – 1960)
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