1960  

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Che Guevara by Alberto Diaz Gutierrez

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Art and culture

• 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)