November 24 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
November 25 - Alexander Marinesko,captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff
November 26 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b. 1882)
November 28 - Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941)
December 2 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (b. 1924)
December 2 - Thomas J. Hicks, British-born runner (b. 1875)
December 5 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
December 12 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (b. 1903)
December 14 - Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
December 25 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born writer (b. 1896)
December 26 - George Wagner (Gorgeous George), American professional wrestler and television personality (b. 1915)
December 28 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)
Events
January 22 - The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany was signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
January 29 - First inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
February 8 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
February 11 - Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres.
February 27 - The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
March 8 - The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a Coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
March 16 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali, as 11,000 die.
March 21 - Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
March 27 - Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
April 7 - Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life.
April 10 - 129 people die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
April 12 - The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
April 16 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
April 21 - The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá'í Faith is elected for the first time.
April 24 - Marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
April 26 - In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
May 2 - Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven, a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
May 3 - The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing newfound attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
May 15 - Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
May 17 - Bruno Sammartino defeats Nature Boy Buddy Rogers in 48 seconds in Madison Square Garden for the WWWF Heavyweight Championship. It begins the longest heavyweight championship reign in professional wrestling history.
May 22 - Assassination attempt of Greek left-wing politician Gregoris Lambrakis, who will die five days afterwards.
May 25 - In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
June 1 - Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
June 3 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.
June 5 - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.
June 5 - Movement of 15 Khordad: Protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
June 11 - American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students from attending that school.
June 11 - Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
June 12 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
June 17 - The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
June 20 - The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
June 24 - Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the United Kingdom.
June 26 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.
June 30 - Ciaculli massacre: A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo.
July 1 - ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
July 1 - The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
July 19 - Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
July 26 - Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
July 26 - Earthquake in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (formerly part of Yugoslavia)
July 26 - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
August 5 - The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
August 8 - Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
August 18 - American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
August 21 - Xa Loi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
August 22 - Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km (67 miles).
August 24 - The 200-metre freestyle is swum in less than 2 minutes for the first time by Don Schollander (1:58).
August 28 - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
August 30 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
September 2 - CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
September 4 - Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
September 6 - The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
September 7 - The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
September 10 - 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
September 15 - The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four children at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
September 16 - Malaysia is formed from Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak.
September 19 - Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
September 29 - The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
September 29 - The University of East Anglia is established in Norwich, England.
October 7 - John F. Kennedy signs ratification for Partial Test Ban Treaty.
October 9 - In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
October 10 - France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
October 22 - BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes on October 22 in UK with the loss of all on board.
October 31 - An explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Pepsi Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people during an ice skating show. The explosion also injures 400. A faulty propane tank connection in a concession stand was blamed.
November 1 - The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
November 2 - South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
November 6 - Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
November 7 - Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
November 9 - At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people.
November 22 - In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded by an assassin, identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, who was later captured and charged with the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit. That same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
November 24 - Lee Harvey Oswald is assassinated by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters on live television.
November 24 - Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
November 25 - President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
November 27 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
November 29 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
November 29 - Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.
December 1 - Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
December 7 - Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.
December 8 - Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outside Elkton, Maryland with a loss of 81 people.
December 12 - Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
December 22 - Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.
December 25 - Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots were forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
December 31 - The Central African Federation officially collapses and splits into Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
