List of Famous people who died in 1960

Dorothea Lambert Chambers was a British tennis player. She won seven Wimbledon Women's Singles titles and a gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun was a British peeress.

Leó Weiner was one of the leading Hungarian music educators of the first half of the twentieth century, and a composer.

Anton Giulio Bragaglia was a pioneer in Italian Futurist photography and Futurist cinema. A versatile and intellectual artist with wide interests, he wrote about film, theatre, and dance.

Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov was a Soviet astronomer who was a pioneer in astrobiology and is considered to be the father of astrobotany. He worked as an observer at the Pulkovo Observatory from 1906 until 1941. After undertaking an expedition to Alma-Ata Observatory to observe a solar eclipse, he remained and became one of the founders of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences.

Hope Emerson was an American actress, vaudeville and nightclub performer, and strongwoman. An imposing person physically, she weighed between 190 and 230 pounds and stood 6 feet 2 inches (188cm) tall in her prime.

Lieutenant-General Ronald Morce Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks was a British Army general during the Second World War.

Tun Dato' Sir Tan Cheng Lock was a Chinese Malaysian businessman and a key public figure who devoted his life to fighting for the rights and the social welfare of the Chinese community in Malaya. Tan was also the founder and the first president of the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA), which advocated his cause for the Malaysian Chinese population.

Sol Polito, A.S.C. was a Sicilian-American cinematographer. He is best known for his work with directors Michael Curtiz and Mervyn LeRoy at Warner Bros. studios in the 1930s and 1940s.

Léon Bérard was a French politician and lawyer.