List of Famous people who died at 60
Anna-Maria Müller
Anna-Maria Müller was an East German luger who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She won the gold medal in the women's singles event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. At the previous Winter Olympics in Grenoble, she initially finished second after the competition was halted to three runs due to bad weather, but was disqualified with her East German teammates Ortrun Enderlein and Angela Knösel when it was discovered that they had illegally heated their runners. Enderlein, who was leading at the time, and Müller were stripped of their respective medals as a result.
Andriy Fedecki
Andriy Fedetskyi was a Ukrainian professional football player who played as defender and midfielder and manager.
Alexander Wallace Cheyne
György Hajós
György Hajós was a Hungarian mathematician who worked in group theory, graph theory, and geometry.
Patricia Roberts Harris
Patricia Roberts Harris was an American government official and diplomat who served under President Jimmy Carter as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. She was the first African American woman to serve in the United States Cabinet, and the first to enter the line of succession to the Presidency. She previously served as United States Ambassador to Luxembourg under President Lyndon B. Johnson, and was the first African-American woman to represent the United States as an ambassador.
Aileen Baviera
Aileen San Pablo-Baviera was a Filipino political scientist and sinologist. She was one of the leading China experts in her country.
Michel de Certeau
Michel de Certeau SJ was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences. He was known as the philosopher of everyday life and widely regarded as a historian with interests ranging from travelogues of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to contemporary urban life.
Klaus Schmidt
Klaus Schmidt was a German archaeologist and pre-historian who led the excavations at Göbekli Tepe from 1996 to 2014.