List of Famous people who died in 1960

Francis Ridgley Cotton O.P. was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of the new Diocese of Owensboro in Kentucky from 1938 to 1960.

Raoul Louis du Roveray (1879-1961), was a male badminton player from England.

Owen Marks was an English film editor.

Paul Sheriff was a Russian-born British art director. In early life he used the names Paul Schouvaloff, or Paul Shouvalov. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.

Paul John Weatherwax was an American film editor, and two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick John Marrian Stratton PRAS was a British astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer.

Walter Leland Catlett was an American actor. He made a career of playing excitable, meddlesome, temperamental, and officious blowhards.

Ferdinando "Fred" Buscaglione was an Italian singer and actor who became very popular in the late 1950s. His public persona – the character he played both in his songs and his movies – was of a humorous mobster with a penchant for whisky and women.

Colin Stanley Gum was an Australian astronomer who catalogued emission nebulae in the southern sky at the Mount Stromlo Observatory using wide field photography. Gum published his findings in 1955 in a study entitled A study of diffuse southern H-alpha nebulae which presented a catalog, now known as the Gum catalog, of 85 nebulae or nebular complexes. Gum 12, a large area of nebulosity in the direction of the constellations Puppis and Vela, was later named the Gum Nebula in his honour. Gum was part of the team, whose number included Frank John Kerr and Gart Westerhout, that determined the precise position of the neutral hydrogen plane in space.