Wikilivres:1960 deaths, therefore now in the Public Domain

This page is modeled after similar page for 1963 and 1964 and ported from the English Wikipedia. It serves as a starting guide for those want to curate new and significant content that entered the Canadian public domain on January 1, 2010.

Highlights include:

• Albert Camus
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Boris Pasternak
• A. P. Carter

January

• January 1 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress (b. 1909)
• January 3 – Victor Sjöström, Swedish actor (b. 1879)
• January 4
  • Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1913)
  • Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter (b. 1895)
• January 5 – Donald Knight, English cricketer (b. 1894)
• January 7 – Dorothea Chambers, English tennis champion (b. 1878)
• January 9 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's novelist (b. 1880)
• January 10 – Arthur S. Carpender, American admiral (b. 1884)
• January 12 – Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
• January 17 – Andrew Kennaway Henderson, New Zealand illustrator, cartoonist, and pacifist (b. 1879)
• January 19 – Dadasaheb Torne, Indian filmmaker (b. 1890)
• January 24
  • Matt Moore, Irish-American actor (b. 1888)
  • Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
  • John Miljan, American actor (b. 1892)
• January 25 – Diana Barrymore, American stage & film actress (b. 1921)
• January 27 – Osvaldo Aranha, Brazilian politician (b. 1894)
• January 28 – Zora Neale Hurston, American folklorist and author (b. 1891)
• January 30 – J. C. Kumarappa, Indian economist (b. 1892)

February

• February 2 – Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha, Hindu teacher (b. 1884)
• February 3 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
• February 6 – Jesse Belvin, American R&B singer (b. 1932)
• February 7 – Igor Kurchatov, Soviet physicist (b. 1903)
• February 8 – J. L. Austin, British philosopher (b. 1911)
• February 10 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
• February 11 – Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian conductor (b. 1877)
• February 12 – Jean-Michel Atlan, French painter (b. 1913)
• February 14 – Masatomi Kimura, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• February 20
  • Leonard Woolley, English archaeologist (b. 1880)
  • Adone Zoli, Italian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1887)
• February 29
  • Jacques Becker, French director (b. 1906)
  • Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (b. 1901), last Vicereine of India
  • Melvin Purvis, American lawman (b. 1903)
  • Walter Yust, American encyclopedia editor (b. 1894)

March

• March 2 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (b. 1874)
• March 4 – Leonard Warren, American opera singer (b. 1911)
• March 9 – Jack Beattie, Irish politician (b. 1886)
• March 11 – Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer, adventurer and naturalist (b. 1884)
• March 13 – Yosef Zvi HaLevy, Israeli rabbi and judge (b.1874)
• March 26 – Ian Keith, American actor (b. 1899)
• March 27 – Mario Talavera, Mexican songwriter (b. 1885)

April

• April 1 – Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, King of Malaysia (b. 1895)
• April 5
  • Cuthbert Burnup, English sportsman (b. 1875)
  • Peter Llewelyn Davies, namesake for Peter Pan (b. 1897)
  • Alma Kruger, American actress (b. 1868)
• April 17 – Eddie Cochran, American rock singer (b. 1938)
• April 19 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and tax plan author (b. 1894)
• April 24
  • Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
  • George Relph, English actor (b. 1888)
• April 25
  • Hope Emerson, American actress (b. 1897)
  • Amānullāh Khān, former Afghan Emir and King (b. 1892)

May

• May 2 – Caryl Chessman, American criminal (b. 1921)
• May 3 – Masa Niemi, Finnish actor (b. 1914)
• May 8 – J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904)
• May 11 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)
• May 12 – Prince Aly Khan, Pakistani United Nations ambassador (b. 1911)
• May 14 – Lucrezia Bori, Spanish opera singer (b. 1887)
• May 23 – Georges Claude, French inventor (b. 1870)
• May 24 – Avraham Arnon, Israeli educator and a recipient of the Israel Prize (b. 1887)
• May 27
  • Edward Brophy, American actor (b. 1895)
  • James Montgomery Flagg, American artist and illustrator (b. 1877)
  • George Zucco, English actor (b. 1886)
• May 30 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890)
• May 31 – Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (b. 1890)

June

• June 4
  • Józef Haller de Hallenburg, Polish general (b. 1873)
  • Lucien Littlefield, American actor (b. 1895)
• June 14 – Ana Pauker, Romanian communist politician (b. 1893)
• June 17 – Arthur Rosson, English film director (b. 1886)
• June 18 – Shalva Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian politician (b. 1884)
• June 19 – Chris Bristow, English race car driver (b. 1937)
• June 20
  • William E. Fairbairn, English soldier, police officer, and hand-to-hand combat expert (b. 1885)
  • John B. Kelly Sr., American Olympic rower, father of Grace Kelly (b. 1889)
• June 25 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
• June 27 – Lottie Dod, English tennis player; Wimbledon women's champion, 1887–88, 1891-93 (b. 1871)

July

• July 6 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician (b. 1897)
• July 14 – Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie, French physicist (b. 1875)
• July 15
  • Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Italian cinematographer (b. 1890)
  • Set Persson, Swedish politician (b. 1897)
  • Lawrence Tibbett, American opera singer and actor (b. 1896)
• July 16
  • Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1885)
  • John P. Marquand, American novelist (b. 1893)
• July 22 – Buddy Adler, American film producer (b. 1909)
• July 24 – Hans Albers, German actor and singer (b. 1891)
• July 26 – Cedric Gibbons, Irish-American art director (b. 1893)
• July 28 – Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan novelist (b. 1900)
• July 29 – Hasan Saka, former Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1885)

August

• August 5 – Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• August 10 – Frank Lloyd, American film director (b. 1886)
• August 14 - Fred Clarke, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1872)
• August 22
  • Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
  • Johannes Sikkar, Estonian politician (b. 1897)
• August 23
  • Jersey Flegg, English-Australian rugby league player and chairman (b. 1878)
  • Oscar Hammerstein II, American librettist (b. 1895)
• August 27 – Stanley Clifford Weyman, American impostor (b. 1890)
• August 29 – Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (b. 1888)

September

• September 1 – Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, King of Malaysia (b. 1898)
• September 8
  • Feroze Gandhi, Indian politician (b. 1912)
  • Oscar Pettiford, American jazz musician (b. 1922)
• September 9 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
• September 11 – Edwin Justus Mayer, American screenwriter (b. 1896)
• September 20 – Ida Rubinstein, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1885)
• September 23 – Kathlyn Williams, American actress (b. 1879)
• September 24 – Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian composer (b. 1905)
• September 27 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1882)

October

• October 11 – Richard Cromwell, American actor (b. 1910)
• October 12 – Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese Socialist politician (assassinated) (b. 1898)
• October 15
  • Henny Porten, German actress (b. 1890)
  • Clara Kimball Young, American actress (b. 1890)
• October 21 – Ma Hongbin, Chinese warlord (b. 1884)
• October 24 - Yevgeny Ostashev, was the test pilot of rocket and space complexes, head of the 1st control polygon NIIP-5 (Baikonur), Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences, engineer-Lieutenant Colonel.(b. 1924)
• October 31 – H. L. Davis, American author (b. 1894)

November

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Johnny Horton

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Clark Gable

• November 2 –
  • Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (b. 1896)
  • Otoya Yamaguchi ultranationalist who assassinated Inejiro Asanuma, a politician and head of the Japan Socialist Party (d. 1960)
• November 3 - Bobby Wallace, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1873)
• November 5
  • Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903)
  • August Gailit, Estonian writer (b. 1891)
  • Johnny Horton, American country singer (b. 1925)
  • Mack Sennett, Canadian film producer and director (b. 1880)
• November 6 – Erich Raeder, German World War II naval leader (b. 1876)
• November 7 – A. P. Carter, American singer and songwriter (b. 1891)
• November 12 – Lord Buckley, American monologist (b. 1906)
• November 14 – Walter Catlett, American actor (b. 1889)
• November 16 – Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
• November 19 – Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
• November 20 – Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli poet (b. 1881)
• November 23 – Allen Hobbs, 32nd Governor of American Samoa (b. 1889)
• November 24 – Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, sister of Tsar Nicholas II (b. 1882)
• November 25 – Patria (b. 1924), Minerva (b. 1926), and Maria Teresa Mirabal (b. 1935), three Dominican revolutionaries (and their driver, Rufino de la Cruz)
• November 28
  • Richard Wright, American novelist (b. 1908)
  • Dirk Jan de Geer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870)

December

• December 2 – Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot, German architect, interior designer and designer (b. 1883)
• December 7 – Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral (b. 1882)
• December 13 – John Charles Thomas, American opera singer (b. 1891)
• December 14 – Gregory Ratoff, Russian actor and director
• December 20 – Sir Godfrey Ince, British civil servant (b. 1891)
• December 26
  • Giuseppe Bellanca, Italian-American aircraft designer and company founder (b. 1886)
  • Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)

Date unknown

• Guillermo Sánchez Boix, Spanish cartoonist (b. 1917)