Famous People Who Died in February 1960
February1960 Calendar
- Feb 2 Jeno Huszka, Hungarian composer, dies at 84
- Feb 3 Ferdinando "Fred" Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor, dies in an automobile accident at 38
- Feb 3 Johannes Geelkerken, Dutch theologian and vicar, dies at 80
- Feb 5 Louis Stricker, South African cricketer (South African open bat in 13 Tests 1909-12), dies at 75
- Feb 5 Rudolf Nelson, German composer, dies at 81
- Feb 6 Jesse Belvin, American pop singer, piano player (Mr. Easy), and songwriter (Earth Angel), dies in a car crash after a concert in Little Rock, Arkansas at 27
- Feb 7 Igor Kurchatov, Soviet-Russian nuclear physicist who directed the Soviet atomic bomb project, dies of a cardiac embolism at 57 likely caused by radiation poisoning during the catastrophe at Chelyabinsk-40
- Feb 8 Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect (b. 1880)
- Feb 8 John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher, (b. 1911)
- Feb 9 Alexandre Benois, Russian artist, dies at 89
- Feb 9 Ernst von Dohnányi [Dohnányi Ernő], Hungarian composer and conductor, dies at 82
- Feb 10 Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
- Feb 12 Bobby Clark, American vaudevillian, clown and actor (in comedy act with Paul McCullough), dies at 71
- Feb 13 Delmar 'Barney' Roos, American automotive engineer, designer of the Jeep, dies at 71
- Feb 20 Leonard Woolley, British pioneering archaeologist, excavated Royal Cemetery at Ur, dies at 79
- Feb 22 Hubert Cuypers, Dutch organist, composer and choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at 86
- Feb 22 Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian abstract painter, dies at 54
- Feb 24 Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66
- Feb 25 Everhardus Jacobus van Romondt, Dutch Antillean minister, dies at 51
- Feb 26 Aleksandar Belic, Serbian linguist, dies at 83
- Feb 27 Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer and manufacturer (typewriter), dies at 58
- Feb 28 F. S. Flint, English translator and imagist movement poet (In the Net of the Stars), dies at 74
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