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Events on Monday 30 May 1960 1
1890 – 1960Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)Died 30 May 1960, aged 70Russian poet and novelist best known for Doctor Zhivago, for which he was awarded and then forced to decline the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at his home in Peredelkino near Moscow.