List of Famous people who died in 1960

Edmond Walter Savile Foljambe was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Foljambe played first-class cricket for Oxford University and the Free Foresters in 1912, before serving in the First World War with the Rifle Brigade.

Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter and director. He was the first person to decline an Academy Award, as part of a boycott to gain recognition for the Screen Writers Guild; he would later accept his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1938.

Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck was a German communist politician. In 1949, he became the first, and only President of the German Democratic Republic, and the office was abolished upon his death. His successor as head of state was the collective Council of State, whose chairman, and thus most prominent member, was SED First Secretary Walter Ulbricht.

Gottfried, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was the only surviving son of Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

Louis Jean Heydt was an American character actor in film, television and theatre, most frequently seen in hapless, ineffectual, or fall guy roles.

William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate was a British Liberal politician who later joined the Labour Party. A decorated Royal Air Force officer, he was Secretary of State for India between 1929 and 1931 and Secretary of State for Air between 1945 and 1946. He was the father of Tony Benn and the paternal grandfather of Hilary Benn.

Walther Kranz was a German classical philologist and historian of philosophy.

Jean-Michel Atlan was a French artist.

Jhr. Dirk Jan de Geer was a Dutch politician of the defunct Christian Historical Union (CHU) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 8 March 1926 until 10 August 1929 and from 10 August 1939 until 3 September 1940.