page_title: 1960
section_title: November
hierarchical_section_title: 1960 / Deaths / November
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Richard Wright
context_page_description: 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 960th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade.
  It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
context_section_description: November 2
  Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist and composer (b. 1896)
  Julio Nakpil, Filipino composer and general (b. 1867)
  Otoya Yamaguchi, ultranationalist who assassinated Inejiro Asanuma, a politician and head of the Japan Socialist Party (b. 1943)
  November 3
  Bobby Wallace, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1873)
  Sir Harold Spencer Jones, English astronomer (b. 1890)
  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)
  Erich Neumann, German psychologist (b. 1905)
  November 6
  Sir John Bonython, Australian businessman and politician (b. 1875)
  Erich Raeder, German World War II naval leader (b. 1876)
  November 7 – A. P. Carter, American singer and songwriter (b. 1891)
  November 9 - Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, German Nazi general (b. 1903)
  November 12 – Lord Buckley, American monologist (b. 1906)
  November 16
  Paul Faure, French Socialist politician (b. 1878)
  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 26 – Helen Hellwig, American tennis player (b. 1874)
  November 28
  Richard Wright, American novelist (b. 1908)
  Dirk Jan de Geer, Dutch nobleman, lawyer and politician, 26th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870)
  November 29 – Sir Andrew Russell, New Zealand Army general (b. 1868)
caption: Richard Wright
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