List of Famous people who died at 60

Dušan T. Bataković was a Serbian historian and diplomat. His specialty was modern and contemporary Serbian and Balkan history as well as French-Serbian relations. The last post he held was that of Director of the Institute for Balkan Studies at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Sarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn, a British barrister and writer of detective stories. She is best known for a series of four murder stories written between 1980 and 1999, centred on the lives of a group of young barristers practicing in Lincoln’s Inn and narrated by a Hilary Tamar, a professor of medieval law, who also acts as detective.

Luc Deflo was a Belgian writer.

Joseph Danlami Bagobiri was a Nigerian Roman Catholic bishop.

Sergey Belyayev was a Kazakhstani shooter, who won two silver medals in 50 metre rifle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.

Carlos De León, also known as "Sugar" De Leon, was a Puerto Rican boxer who made history by becoming the first cruiserweight to win the world title twice. Subsequently, he kept breaking his own record for the most times as cruiserweight champion by regaining the title on two further occasions.

Gheorghe Dogărescu was a Romanian handball player who won a bronze medal at the 1984 Olympics. He spent most of his club career with Dinamo București, reaching with them the final of the 1981 EHF Cup Winners' Cup.

Serge André Yourevitch Verebrussoff de Beketch was a French journalist, story writer for cartoons and writer linked to the extreme-right. He was also the co-founder of Radio Courtoisie, where he directed a Wednesday evening broadcast up until his death, and was a founder and host of the Libre Journal de la France courtoise.

Michael George Haynes, known professionally as Michael Prophet, was a Jamaican roots reggae singer known for his "crying" tenor vocal style, whose recording career began in 1977. Prophet was one of Jamaica’s most popular roots reggae singers and had several prominent hits during his 40-year career.