List of Famous people who died in 1960

Adolf Schulten was a German historian and archaeologist.

Per August Leonard Hallström was a Swedish author, short-story writer, dramatist, poet and member of the Swedish Academy. He joined the academy in 1908, and served as its Permanent Secretary from 1931 to 1941.

José Padilla Sánchez, popularly known as Maestro Padilla was a famous Spanish composer and pianist. He was best known for the songs La Violetera and El Relicario, popularized by cuplé singer Raquel Meller, and the pasodoble Valencia

Erich Neumann, was a psychologist, philosopher, writer, and student of Carl Jung.

Arthur Wontner was a British actor best known for playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes in five films from 1931 to 1937.

Oskar Wilhelm Robert Paul Ludwig Hellmuth von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a German Generalleutnant. The son and aide-de-camp to Field Marshal and Reich President Paul von Hindenburg had considerable influence on the appointment of Adolf Hitler as German chancellor in January 1933.

Walter Noddack was a German chemist. He, Ida Tacke, and Otto Berg reported the discovery of element 43 and element 75 in 1925.

Albert Châtelet was a French politician and mathematician.