Famous people and celebrities who died in May 1960

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in May 1960. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• May 1 Charles Holden

  The bristol central library was designed by an english architect (d. 1960).

• May 2 Caryl Chessman

  Notorious criminal known as the 'Red Light Bandit' who committed a series of rapes, robberies, and kidnappings in California during the late 1940s. He gained significant public attention due to his multiple death row appeals and became a controversial figure in the debate about capital punishment.

• May 5 Sulho Ranta

  Composer dies at 58

• May 6 Paul Abraham

  Hungarian composer (blume von hawaii), dies at 67

• May 8 Hugo Alfven

  Swedish composer (midsommarvaka), is killed at 88

• May 8 J H C Whitehead

  British mathematician (born 1904)

• May 10 Yury Olesha

  Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1899)

• May 10 Juri Olescha

  Writer dies at 61

• May 11 John D. Rockefeller Jr.

  American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)

• May 12 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs

  Composer dies at age 70

• May 14 Lucrezia Bori

  Spanish soprano and actress (b. 1887)

• May 23 Georges Claude

  Neon lighting was invented by a french engineer and chemist (d. 1960).

• May 24 Avraham Arnon

  Israeli educator, recipient of the israel prize (born1887)

• May 27 Edward Brophy

  Actor (champ dumbo, great guy), passes away at 65

• May 27 James Montgomery Flagg

  American painter and illustrator (b. 1877)

• May 27 George Zucco

  Actor (fog island, black raven, desire me) dies at 74

• May 30 Boris Pasternak

  LIT - Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator, nobel prize laureate (b. 1890)

• May 30 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

  Nobel Prize laureate for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition

• May 31 Willem Elsschot

  Pseudonym for alfons de ridder. flemish poet and novelist, alfons de ridder is a remarkable example of an outstanding flemish novelist of the first half century. his laconic style and ironic observations of urban life in the middle class make him one of the most notable flemish novelists.

• May 31 Walther Funk

  German economist, journalist, and politician, german minister of economics (b. 1890)

• May 31 Willem Elsschot [Alfons de Ridder]

  Flemish writer (kas) dies at 78