second son of Elizabeth II

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

Andrew Albert Christian Edward Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, Duke of York, is the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a younger brother of King Charles III. Andrew was born second in the line of succession to the British throne and is eighth as of 2026.

Born

1960

February 19

Died

Living

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1960s

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Key dates

1960 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

197 Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan idols in the Roman Empire.
607 Pope Boniface III is consecrated in Rome.
1594 Having already been elected to the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.

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The world in 1960

When Andrew arrived

april 1 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
april 13 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
april 15 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
april 19 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on February 19

Nicolaus Copernicus 1473–1543 Prussian mathematician and astronomer (died 1543) David Bronstein 1924–2006 Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player and theoretician (born 1924) Homer Hickam 1943– American author and engineer K. Viswanath 1930–2023 Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2023) Nikola Jokić 1995– Serbian basketball player Norm O'Neill 1937– Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 2008) Paul Krause 1942– American football player and politician Raúl Grijalva 1948–2025 United States representative from Arizona (died 2025) Reynhard Sinaga 1983– Indonesian sex offender

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1960

Aaron Allston 1960–2014 American game designer and author (died 2014) Akbar Ganji 1960– Iranian journalist and author Annabella Sciorra 1960– American actress Arjen Anthony Lucassen 1960– Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Ayuo Takahashi 1960– Japanese-American singer-songwriter Bernard Rose 1960–1996 English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer Cem Uzan 1960– Turkish businessman and politician Craig Hodges 1960– American basketball player and coach Dan Hawkins 1960– American football player, coach, and sportscaster

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