List of Famous people who died at 60
Eduardo Bonvallet
Eduardo Guillermo Bonvallet Godoy, was a Chilean footballer who played as a defensive midfielder and later developed a sportscasting career.
Angela Madsen
Angela Madsen was an American Paralympian sportswoman in both rowing and track and field. In a long career, Madsen moved from race rowing to ocean challenges before switching in 2011 to athletics, winning a bronze medal in the shot put at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Madsen and teammate Helen Taylor were the first women to row across the Indian Ocean. She died in June 2020 while attempting a solo row from Los Angeles to Honolulu.
Janet Patterson
Janet Patterson was an Australian costume designer and production designer. She won one BAFTA award and four Australian Film Institute awards, and was nominated for four Academy awards.
Tony Horwitz
Anthony Lander Horwitz was an American journalist and author who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
Philippe Muray
Philippe Muray was a French essayist and novelist. None of his works have yet been translated into English. In 2010, the French actor Fabrice Luchini read some of Muray's works at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris, which contributed to a renewed discussion of his writings in the French press. Muray's literary styles and the wealth of works he published make him one of the most important writers of the 20th and 21st century.
Peter Finch
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch was an English-Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as crazed television anchorman Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes.
David Buckel
David Stroh Buckel was an American LGBT rights lawyer and an environmental activist. He died on April 14, 2018, by self-immolation as a protest against the use of fossil fuels.
Joni Sledge
Joan Elise Sledge was an American singer–songwriter, actress and producer. Sledge was best known as a founding member of the American family vocal group Sister Sledge, who were best known for their hits during the mid–1970s through the mid–1990s; most notably 1979's "We Are Family" and "He's the Greatest Dancer". Sledge died from natural causes on March 10, 2017 at age 60.
Marc Simenon
Marc Jean Chrétien Simenon, was a Belgian born French director and screenwriter. He was the son of writer Georges Simenon (1903-1989) and the husband of Mylène Demongeot from 16 September 1968. He died falling down the stairs at his home in Paris.
Ras Kimono
Ras Kimono was a Nigerian reggae artist whose debut album Under Pressure, led by the single "Rum-Bar Stylée", was a big hit in the Nigerian music scene in 1989. Before he released his solo album, he was in a group called The Jastix along with Amos McRoy and Majek Fashek.