Editing 1960 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 2]] – [[Leila Megane]], mezzo-soprano, 68
*[[January 5]] – [[Jakob van Domselaer]], composer, 69
*[[January 18]] – [[Gladys Bentley]], blues singer, 52 (pneumonia)
*[[January 24]] – [[Edwin Fischer]], pianist and conductor, 73
*[[January 25]] – [[Rutland Boughton]], composer, 82
*[[February 2]] – [[Jenő Huszka]], composer of operettas, 84
*[[February 3]]
**[[Ace Brigode]], bandleader, 67
**[[Fred Buscaglione]], Italian singer, musician and songwriter, 38 (car accident)
*[[February 6]] – [[Jesse Belvin]], singer, pianist and songwriter, 27 (car accident)
*[[February 9]] – [[Ernő Dohnányi]], pianist, conductor and composer, 82
*[[February 12]] – [[Bobby Clark (comedian)|Bobby Clark]], US comedian and singer, 71
*[[March 4]] – [[Leonard Warren]], baritone, operatic baritone (cerebral hemorrhage)
*[[March 16]] – [[Billy Garland]], blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, 41 (car accident)
*[[March 30]] – [[Fabian Andre]], composer, 50
*[[April 10]] – [[Arthur Benjamin]], composer, 66
*[[April 17]] – [[Eddie Cochran]], rock & roll singer, 21 (road accident)
*[[April 24]] – [[Carl Braun (opera singer)|Carl Braun]], operatic bass, 73
*[[May 8]] – [[Hugo Alfvén]], violinist, conductor and composer, 88
*[[May 12]] – [[Cecil Armstrong Gibbs]], composer, 70
*[[May 13]] – [[Gid Tanner]], country music star, 74
*[[May 14]] – [[Lucrezia Bori]], operatic soprano, 72
*[[July 18]] – [[F.A. Reynolds|Foster Reynolds]], instrument manufacturer, 75 (heart attack at work)
*[[July 24]]
**<!--July 24-->[[Hans Albers]], actor and singer, 69
**<!--July 24-->[[Louise Gunning]], singer, Broadway and vaudeville, 81
*[[August 9]] – [[Louis Cahuzac]], clarinetist and composer, 80
*[[August 23]] – [[Oscar Hammerstein II]], librettist and director of many musicals, 65
*[[September 1]] – [[Aunt Molly Jackson]], folk singer and union activist, c. 80
*[[September 3]] – [[Joseph Lamb (composer)|Joseph Lamb]], ragtime composer, 72
*[[September 5]] – [[Oliphant Chuckerbutty]], organist and composer, 75
*[[September 8]] – [[Oscar Pettiford]], American jazz musician and composer, 37
*[[September 9]] – [[Jussi Björling]], operatic tenor, 49 (heart attack)
*[[September 13]] – [[Leo Weiner]], music teacher, 75
*[[September 24]] – [[Mátyás Seiber]], composer, 55 (car accident)
*[[October 19]] – [[Günter Raphael]], composer, 57
*[[October 20]] – [[Denise Orme]], music hall performer, 75
*[[October 30]] – [[Alfred Hill (composer)|Alfred Hill]], composer and conductor, 90
*[[November 2]] – [[Dimitris Mitropoulos]], pianist, conductor and composer, 64
*[[November 5]] – [[Johnny Horton]], American country singer, 35 (car accident)
*[[December 4]] – [[Walter Goehr]], composer, 57
*[[December 7]] – [[Clara Haskil]], pianist, 65
*[[December 10]] – [[Mado Robin]], singer, 41 (cancer)
*''Date unknown''
**[[Lawrence Duhé]] (b. 1887), jazz musician
**[[Lorenzo Herrera]] (b. 1896), singer and composer
**[[Jacobo Rubalcaba]] (b. 1895), musician and bandleader