People who died in 1961
Ernest Hemingway
1899
– 1961
· Age 61
Deceased
Erwin Schrödinger
1887
– 1961
· Age 73
Deceased
Carl Jung
1875
– 1961
· Age 85
Deceased
Dag Hammarskjöld
1905
– 1961
· Age 56
Deceased
Patrice Lumumba
1925
– 1961
· Age 35
Deceased
Gary Cooper
1901
– 1961
· Age 60
Deceased
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
1894
– 1961
· Age 67
Deceased
Percy Williams Bridgman
1882
– 1961
· Age 79
Deceased
Emily Greene Balch
1867
– 1961
· Age 94
Deceased
Dashiell Hammett
1894
– 1961
· Age 66
Deceased
Frantz Fanon
1925
– 1961
· Age 36
Deceased
Jules Bordet
1870
– 1961
· Age 90
Deceased
Zog I of Albania
1895
– 1961
· Age 65
Deceased
Rafael Trujillo
1891
– 1961
· Age 69
Deceased
Adnan Menderes
1899
– 1961
· Age 62
Deceased
Luigi Einaudi
1874
– 1961
· Age 87
Deceased
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
1908
– 1961
· Age 53
Deceased
Otto Loewi
1873
– 1961
· Age 88
Deceased
Lee de Forest
1873
– 1961
· Age 87
Deceased
Mohammed V of Morocco
1909
– 1961
· Age 51
Deceased
Blaise Meliani
1887
– 1961
· Age 73
Deceased
Eero Saarinen
1910
– 1961
· Age 51
Deceased
Sergio Osmeña
1878
– 1961
· Age 83
Deceased
Anna May Wong
1905
– 1961
· Age 56
Deceased
H.D.
1886
– 1961
· Age 75
Deceased