1960

January 1

• Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), dies of overdose at age 48. [1]

January 2

• Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur, Dutch actor/director (Hague Comedy), dies at age 60. [1]
• Chris van Abkoude, author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), dies at about age 79. [1]
• Fausto Coppi, Italian, ran world record 45,798 km, dies at age 40. [1]
• Friedrich Adler, Austrian social-democrat, assasinated Prime Minister Stürgkh, dies in Zürich, Switzerland at age 80. [1]

January 3

• Victor Seastrom, entertainer, dies at age 80. [1]

January 4

• Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an automobile accident at age 46. [1]

January 5

• Donald Knight, cricketer (54 runs in two Tests for England 1921), dies. [1]
• Pavel P Parenago, Russian cosmonaut, dies at age 53. [1]

January 6

• Edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at age 52. [1]
• Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist (Scope and Means), dies at age 68. [1]

January 7

• Luis da Costa, composer, dies at age 80. [1]

January 11

• Johan E Elias, Dutch historian (Elias Family), dies at age 84. [1]

January 12

• Nevil Shute [Norway], English/Australian author (Town like Alice), dies at age 60. [1]

January 13

• Sibilla Aleramo [Rina Faccio], Italian poet (Una Donna), dies at age 83. [1]

January 20

• Matt Moore, actor (Deluge, Coquette), dies at age 72. [1]

January 24

• John Miljan, actor (Charlie Chan in Paris, Yankee Clipper), dies at age 66. [1]
• Rutland Boughton, composer, dies at age 82. [1]

January 25

• Diana Barrymore, actress (Ladies Courageous), dies at age 38. [1]
• Rutland Boughton, composer, dies at age 82. [1]

January 28

• Jacques de Menasce, composer, dies at age 54. [1]

January 29

• Louis Jean Heydt, actor (Joe - Waterfront), dies at age 54. [1]

January 31

• Lowell Gilmore, actor (Calcutta, Roadblock), dies at age 53. [1]

February 2

• Jeno Huszka, composer, dies at age 84. [1]

February 3

• Johannes G Geelkerken, Dutch reformed vicar, dies at age 80. [1]

February 5

• Louis Stricker, cricketer (South Africa open bat in 13 Tests 1909-12), dies. [1]
• Rudolf Nelson, composer, dies at age 81. [1]

February 6

• Jesse Belvin, rocker, dies at age 26 in a car crash. [1]

February 7

• Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at age 57. [1]

February 9

• Ernst von Dohnanyi, US composer, dies at age 82. [1]

February 12

• Bobby Clark, vaudevillian (World's funniest circus clown), dies at age 71. [1]

February 13

• Delmar G Roos, designer of the jeep, dies at age 79. [1]

February 14

• Sven R Lidman, Swedish writer (Tvedräktens Barn), dies at age 77. [1]

February 20

• Leonard Woolley, archaeologist, dies. [1]

February 22

• Hubert Cuypers, composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at age 86. [1]

February 24

• Jean Binet, composer, dies at age 66. [1]

February 25

• Everhardus J van Romondt, Dutch Antillean minister, dies at age 51. [1]

February 26

• Aleksandar Belic, Swedish linguist, dies at age 83. [1]

February 27

• Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at age 58. [1]

February 28

• F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at age 74. [1]

March 3

• Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at age 65. [1]

March 4

• Leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at age 48. [1]

March 11

• Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at age 76. [1]

March 23

• Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at age 78. [1]

March 24

• Paul Joostens, Flemish painter, dies at age 70. [1]

March 27

• Ian Whyte, composer, dies at age 58. [1]

March 28

• Ian Keith, US actor (Ramses I - The Ten Commandments, Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at age 61. [1]

March 30

• Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter, dies at age 90. [1]

March 31

• Joseph Haas, German (opera) composer (Totenmesse), dies at age 81. [1]

April 1

• Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch journalist/writer (Ciske), dies at age 62. [1]

April 3

• Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at age 87. [1]

April 5

• Alma Kruger, actor (Made For Each Other), dies at age 88. [1]

April 10

• Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at age 66. [1]

April 14

• Archibald McIndoe, plastic surgeon, dies. [1]

April 17

• Eddie Cochran, rocker, dies in an auto accident at age 21. [1]

April 18

• Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at age 66. [1]

April 23

• Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies. [1]
• Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at age 71. [1]

April 24

• John P "John" Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at age 84. [1]

April 25

• Amanullah, emir/king of Afhanistan (1919-28), dies at age 67. [1]
• Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at age 62. [1]
• Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer, dies at age 92. [1]

April 26

• Wander J de Haas, Dutch physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at age 82. [1]

April 28

• Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at age 87. [1]

May 5

• Sulho Ranta, composer, dies at age 58. [1]

May 6

• Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at age 67. [1]

May 8

• Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at age 88. [1]

May 10

• Juri Olescha, writer, dies at age 61. [1]

May 11

• John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist, dies at age 86. [1]

May 12

• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer, dies at age 70. [1]

May 23

• Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies. [1]

May 27

• Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at age 65. [1]
• George Zucco, actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Desire Me), dies at age 74. [1]

May 30

• Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at age 70. [1]

May 31

• Willem Elsschot [Alfons de Ridder], Flemish writer (Kas), dies at age 78. [1]

June 1

• Lester Patrick, NHL coach/star, dies at age 76. [1]

June 4

• Lucien Littlefield, actor (Mr Beasley - Blondie), dies at age 64. [1]

June 25

• Walter Baade, astronomer, dies. [1]

July 29

• Richard Simon, cofounder of publisher Simon and Shuster, dies. [1]

August 8

• Danton Walker, columnist (Broadway Spotlight), dies at age 61. [1]

August 23

• Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at age 65. [1]

August 29

• Alexander Gauge, actor (Adventures of Robin Hood), dies at age 46. [1]
• Hazza el-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated. [1]

September 6

• Jimmy Savo; comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at age 65. [1]

September 18

• A DC-6 airplane carrying United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld crashes in Northern Rhodesia. (The plane was accidentally shot down by a local group that had planned to kidnap Hammarskjöld.) [1] [7]

September 25

• Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at age 86. [1]

October 9

• Howard Glenn, New York Titans' player, dies of injuries sustained in this day's game. [1]

October 24

• Disaster on USSR launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin and team (unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash. [1]

November 5

• Ward Bond, actor, dies at age 55. [1]

November 16

• Clark Gable, American actor, dies at age 59. [1] [5]

December 1

• Ion Vasilescu, composer, dies at age 57. [1]

December 3

• Hermann Stephani, composer, dies at age 83. [1]

December 14

• Gregory Ratoff, actor (Skyscraper Souls), dies of leukemia at age 63. [1]

December 16

• Anna Luther, silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk), dies at age 63. [1]

December 26

• Eduard Ludwig, German architect (Hansa quarter, Berlin), dies at age 54. [1]

December 31

• Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Trees die Upright), dies at age 69. [1]
• Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer, dies at age 70. [1]