List of Famous people who died at 61

Earl John Hindman was an American actor, best known for his role as the kindly unseen neighbor Wilson W. Wilson, Jr. on the television sitcom Home Improvement (1991–99).

Wolfgang Kieling was a German actor.

James Roy Horner was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator of over 100 film scores. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements, and for his frequent use of motifs associated with Celtic music.

Viktor Kosykh was a Soviet and Russian theater and cinema actor. He is probably best known for the role of Danko Schusya in the famous film The Elusive Avengers and in its sequels, The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers and The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers.

Philip Carr Valentine was an American conservative talk radio host, author, and actor. He broadcast daily on WWTN, a Cumulus Media station on Nashville, Tennessee. He was known in Tennessee for leading protests against a proposed state income tax.

Jordi Estadella Gracia was a Spanish voice actor, journalist, radio and television host and film dubber. Estadella's career spanned more than 40 years. He was best known to Spaniards as the host of the game show, Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez, from 1991 until 1993.

Magenta Devine was a British television presenter, journalist and music promoter best known for presenting the travel programme Rough Guide and youth programme Reportage on BBC2 in the 1990s. She later presented Young, Gifted and Broke for ITV.

Penelope Cook was an Australian actress, stage director, TV presenter and writer. She played roles in the soap opera A Country Practice, as Vicki Dean Bowen from 1981 to 1985, E Street as lead anchor-character, Dr Elly Fielding, between 1989 and 1991, and Neighbours in the recurring role of Prue Brown from 2007 to 2010. She was also a presenter on travel show The Great Outdoors

Ibrahim Al-Faqi or Ibrahim Elfiki was a human development and neuro-linguistic programming expert, was the CEO of the Canadian Trading Centre for Human Development, and the founder of Ibrahim Elfiky International Enterprises Inc.

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu was a French actor.