List of Famous people who died at 61

Miguel Ángel D'Annibale was an Argentine prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Charles Adkins was a boxer from the United States.

Sheikh Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel was a Saudi Arabian statesman and diplomat who most notably served as the minister of foreign affairs from 1960 to 1962. Appointed on 22 December 1960 by King Saud, he succeeded the future king, Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and was succeeded by him again in on 16 March 1961. He was noted for being the first non-member of the Saudi royal family to hold the position of foreign minister. He also served as the Saudi Arabian ambassador to both the United States and Iraq, as the minister of agriculture, and later as a member of the Council of Ministers and an advisor to the Royal Court.

Carol M. Bundy was an American serial killer. Bundy and Doug Clark became collectively known as the Sunset Strip Killers after being convicted of a series of murders in Los Angeles during the late spring and early summer of 1980. The victims were young sex workers or runaways.