List of covers of Time magazine (1960s)

This is a list of people and other topics appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1960s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading news magazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles.

Between 1961 and 1969, all of the dates had been issued on Friday instead of Monday scheduled time frame.

For other decades, see Lists of covers of Time magazine.

1960

January 4 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Man of the Year January 11 – Population Explosion January 18 – U.S. Commuters January 25 – Nobusuke Kishi February 1 – Hubert H. Humphrey February 8 – Rómulo Betancourt February 15 – James Reston February 22 – Pete Quesada February 29 – Pat Nixon March 7 – Tom Mboya March 14 – Ingmar Bergman March 21 – Caryl Chessman March 28 – Jacques Cousteau April 4 – Robert Menzies April 11 – Bowman Gray Jr. April 18 – St. Paul by Lippo Memmi April 25 – Lyndon B. Johnson May 2 – Arnold Palmer May 9 – John H. Loudon May 16 – Francis Gary Powers May 23 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan, Charles de Gaulle & Nikita Khrushchev May 30 – Rodion Malinovsky June 6 – U.S. Satellites June 13 – Nikita Khrushchev June 20 – Suburban Wife June 27 – Douglas MacArthur II July 4 – William Shakespeare July 11 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Rose Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy & John F. Kennedy July 18 – Lyndon B. Johnson July 25 – Sherman Fairchild August 1 – Nelson Rockefeller & Richard Nixon August 8 – Che Guevara August 15 – Mort Sahl August 22 – Dag Hammarskjöld August 29 – Rafer Johnson September 5 – Margaret Chase Smith & Lucia M. Cormier September 12 – Shah of Iran September 19 – New Products September 26 – Henry Cabot Lodge October 3 – Cartoon by Herblock depicting Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Todor Zhivkov, Antonín Novotný, János Kádár, Mehmet Shehu, Valerian Zorin & Josip Broz Tito October 10 – Robert F. Kennedy October 17 – Clark Kerr October 24 – Paul Bagwell October 31 – Richard Nixon November 7 – John F. Kennedy November 14 – Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe November 16 – John F. Kennedy November 21 – Hong Kong November 28 – Sylvia Porter December 5 – Abubakar Balewa December 12 – John Courtney Murray December 19 – Franz Josef Strauss December 26 – Dean Rusk

1961

January 2 – U.S. Scientists (represented by George Beadle, Charles Draper, John Enders, Donald A. Glaser, Joshua Lederberg, Willard Libby, Linus Pauling, Edward Purcell, Isidor Rabi, Emilio Segrè, William Shockley, Edward Teller, Charles Townes, James Van Allen, and Robert Woodward), Men of the Year January 6 – Harry Felt January 13 – Ancel Keys January 20 – Jacqueline Kennedy January 27 – Kennedy Inauguration February 3 – John R. McKone & Bruce Olmstead February 10 – Samuel T. Rayburn February 17 – Oscar Robertson February 24 – Valerian Zorin March 3 – Walter W. Heller March 10 – Leontyne Price March 17 – Savang Vatthana March 24 – James M. Moran March 31 – Guilt and Anxiety (The Scream by Edvard Munch) April 7 – Robert S. McNamara April 14 – Jean Kerr April 21 – Yuri Gagarin April 28 – Jose Miro Cardona May 5 – Le Corbusier May 12 – Alan Shepard May 19 – The Faraway Places May 26 – Eugene Carson Blake June 2 – John Patterson June 9 – John F. Kennedy June 16 – Clint & John Murchison June 23 – Barry Goldwater June 30 – Jânio Quadros July 7 – Leonard Larson July 14 – Camping: Call of the Not So Wild July 21 – Bill Mauldin July 28 – Maxwell Taylor August 4 – Ngo Dinh Diem August 11 – Donald J.M. Russell August 18 – C. Douglas Dillon August 25 – Walter Ulbricht (Construction of the Berlin Wall) September 1 – Lawrence F. O'Brien September 8 – Nikita Khrushchev September 15 – J. D. Salinger September 22 – Arthur J. Goldberg September 29 – Mongi Slim October 6 – Jean Monnet October 13 – Creighton Abrams October 20 – Virgil Couch October 27 – Thomas V. Jones November 3 – Mary Bunting November 10 – Glenn T. Seaborg November 17 – John F. Enders November 24 – Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer December 1 – Li Fu-chun December 8 – Willem Visser't Hooft December 15 – Christmas Shopping December 22 – Moise Tshombe December 29 – Jackie Gleason

1962

January 5 – John F. Kennedy, Man of the Year January 12 – John K. Galbraith, George F. Kennan and Edwin O. Reischauer January 19 – John W. McCormack January 26 – Raoul Salan February 2 – V. K. Krishna Menon February 9 – Theodore Hesburgh February 16 – Robert F. Kennedy February 23 – Konosuke Matsushita March 2 – John Glenn March 9 – Tennessee Williams March 16 – Benyoucef Benkhedda March 23 – John F. Collins, Lewis W. Cutrer, Richard J. Daley, Robert F. Wagner Jr. & Sam Yorty March 30 – Arturo Frondizi April 6 – Sophia Loren April 13 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko April 20 – Karl Barth April 27 – Blas Roca May 4 – William E. Ogle May 11 – Paul D. Harkins May 18 – Frederic G. Donner May 25 – Billie Sol Estes June 1 – Bear vs. Bull on Wall Street June 8 – Walter W. Heller June 15 – Nelson Rockefeller June 22 – Don Juan June 29 – Jack Nicklaus July 6 – Eugene Ferkauf July 13 – Edward R. Heath July 20 – Lucy Douglas Cochrane July 27 – Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. August 3 – Del Webb August 10 – D. Brainerd Holmes August 17 – Harry F. Byrd August 24 – Andriyan Nikolayev & Pavel Popovich August 31 – The Wall September 7 – David Rockefeller September 14 – Everett Dirksen September 21 – James Monroe September 28 – Edward Kennedy October 5 – Pope John XXIII October 12 – U.S. Advertising Executives Norman Hulbert Strouse, Fairfax M. Cone, Charles H. Brower, Harry Albert Batten, Leo Burnett, David Ogilvy, Marion Harper Jr., George Homer Gribbin, John Philip Cunningham, Robert Emmett Lusk, Henry Guy Little & Robert Mondell Ganger October 19 – William Scranton October 26 – John M. Kemper November 2 – George W. Anderson Jr. November 9 – Nikita Khrushchev November 16 – George W. Romney November 23 – Joan Baez November 30 – Jawaharlal Nehru December 7 – Charles de Gaulle December 14 – Adlai Stevenson II December 21 – Vince Lombardi December 28 – Lynn A. Townsend

1963

January 4 – Pope John XXIII, Man of the Year January 11 – Wilbur Mills January 18 – Minoru Yamasaki January 25 – Great Britain February 1 – Mortimer Caplin February 8 – Charles de Gaulle February 15 – Robert McNamara February 22 – George Szell March 1 – Bertram A. Powers March 8 – William H. Pickering March 15 – Richard J. Daley March 22 – Muhammad Ali March 29 – Gamal Abdel Nasser April 5 – Orville Freeman April 12 – Tunku Abdul Rahman April 19 – Lester B. Pearson April 26 – Richard Burton May 3 – Francis Daniels Moore May 10 – Abraham Lincoln May 17 – James Baldwin May 24 – Gordon Cooper May 31 – 12 Top U.S. Executives (Oil: Rathbone, Steel: Block, Stocks: McCarthy, Manufactures: Cresap, Banking: Peterson, Insurance: Fitzhugh, Airlines: Patterson, Autos: Gordon, Electronics: Thornton, Chemicals: Copeland, Aerospace: Gross & Retail: Lazarus) June 7 – Pope John XXIII June 14 – Barry Goldwater June 21 – Robert F. Kennedy & John F. Kennedy June 28 – Pope Paul VI (Conclave) July 5 – Sargent Shriver July 12 – Seán Lemass July 19 – Conrad Hilton July 26 – H. Edward Gilbert August 2 – W. Averell Harriman August 9 – Madame Nhu August 16 – Michael Ramsey August 23 – U.S. Atomic Arsenal August 30 – Roy Wilkins September 6 – William L. Pereira September 13 – Red China with caricatures of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Liu Shaoqi & Zhou Enlai September 20 – International Cinema (Zygmunt Malanowicz & Jolanta Umecka, a still from the film Knife in the Water) September 27 – George Wallace October 4 – Tex Thornton October 11 – Harold Wilson October 18 – Roger Staubach October 25 – Alec Douglas-Home November 1 – Ludwig Erhard November 8 – Dương Văn Minh November 15 – Calvin E. Gross November 22 – Nicole Alphand November 29 – Lyndon B. Johnson (Kennedy's assassination, Johnson's inauguration) December 6 – Dean Rusk December 13 – Nelson Glueck December 20 – Guy de Rothschild December 27 – Andrew Wyeth

1964

January 3 – Martin Luther King Jr., Man of the Year January 10 – Buckminster Fuller January 17 – John Connally January 24 – Sex in the U.S. January 31 – Thomas C. Mann February 7 – Maurice Couve de Murville February 14 – Marina Oswald February 21 – Leonid Brezhnev February 28 – Thelonious Monk March 6 – Bobby Baker March 13 – Julius Nyerere March 20 – Mike Mansfield March 27 – John Cheever April 3 – Norodom Sihanouk April 10 – Barbra Streisand April 17 – Lee Iacocca April 24 – Vladimir Lenin May 1 – Lyndon B. Johnson May 8 – Gerald H. Kennedy May 15 – Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. May 22 – Nelson Rockefeller May 29 – Frederick Kappel June 5 – New York World's Fair, Robert Moses June 12 – Barry Goldwater June 19 – Everett Dirksen June 26 – Kong Le July 3 – Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark July 10 – Everett Dirksen & Barry Goldwater July 17 – William Faulkner July 24 – Barry Goldwater July 31 – Harlem August 7 – Nguyễn Khánh August 14 – U. S. Grant Sharp Jr. August 21 – Richard Cushing August 28 – Lady Bird Johnson September 4 – Hubert Humphrey & Lyndon B. Johnson September 11 – Hank Bauer September 18 – Charles H. Percy September 25 – The Nuclear Issue October 2 – Lee Harvey Oswald October 9 – Hugo Black October 16 – Pierre Salinger October 23 – Leonid Brezhnev, Lyndon B. Johnson, Alexei Kosygin & Harold Wilson October 30 – Kenneth Keating November 4 – Lyndon B. Johnson November 6 – Edmund N. Bacon November 13 – Zhou Enlai & Alexei Kosygin November 20 – Ara Parseghian November 27 – Lammot Copeland December 4 – Paul Carlson December 11 – Buddhism December 18 – Dorothy Buffum Chandler December 25 – Christian Renewal

1965

January 1 – Lyndon B. Johnson, Man of the Year January 8 – Jack Isidor Straus January 15 – Carl Albert January 22 – J. William Fulbright January 29 – Today's Teenagers February 5 – The Joint Chiefs (David L. McDonald, John P. McConnell, Earle Wheeler, Wallace M. Greene & Harold K. Johnson) February 12 – Evsei Liberman February 19 – William Westmoreland February 26 – Chen Yi March 5 – Jeanne Moreau March 12 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry March 19 – Martin Luther King Jr. March 26 – Alexei Leonov April 2 – Computer in Society April 9 – The World According to Peanuts April 16 – Rudolf Nureyev April 23 – James Robinson Risner April 30 – Harold Wilson May 7 – Elias Wessin y Wessin May 14 – The Communications Explosion May 21 – Rock 'n' Roll May 28 – Michael E. DeBakey June 4 – Norton Simon June 11 – Ed White & James McDivitt June 18 – Phyllis McGinley June 25 – McGeorge Bundy July 2 – A woman (Michael Anderson) at the beach July 9 – Jim Clark July 16 – Ho Chi Minh July 23 – William Pickering July 30 – Marc Chagall August 6 – Lyndon B. Johnson August 13 – Lal Bahadur Shastri August 20 – The Los Angeles Riot August 27 – Chris Kraft September 3 – Charles B. Shuman September 10 – Henry H. Fowler September 17 – Ayub Khan & Lal Bahadur Shastri September 24 – Pope Paul VI October 1 – Water October 8 – Fidel Castro October 15 – Francis Keppel October 22 – Vietnam War October 29 – Bill Moyers November 5 – Ian Smith November 12 – John V. Lindsay November 19 – The Biggest Blackout November 26 – Jim Brown December 3 – Millionaires Under 40 (Merlyn Mickelson, Harold Prince, Arthur Decio, Charles Bluhdorn, John Diebold & Arthur Carlsberg) December 10 – Harold Keith Johnson December 17 – Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. December 24 – Gemini 6A & Gemini 7 Rendezvous December 31 – John Maynard Keynes

1966

January 7 – William Westmoreland, Man of the Year January 14 – U.S. Peace Offensive (Lyndon B. Johnson & advisers; Alexander Shelepin & Ho Chi Minh) January 21 – Francisco Franco January 28 – Indira Gandhi February 4 – Dean Rusk February 11 – Courtlandt S. Gross February 18 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ February 25 – Arthur Rubinstein March 4 – Robert C. Weaver March 11 – Maarten Schmidt March 18 – Nicolae Ceaușescu March 25 – David Merrick April 1 – Hubert H. Humphrey April 8 – Is God Dead? April 15 – London