List of Famous people who died at 61

Zoran Žižić was a Yugoslav politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro in the first two Đukanović cabinets from 1991 to 1996, and was the first Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia following the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in 2000.

Paul Cohen was an American country music producer.

Gary Kurfirst was an American music promoter, producer, manager, publisher, and record label executive. Kurfirst founded Radioactive Records, whose acts included Live, Black Grape, Jane's Addiction, the Ramones, Big Audio Dynamite, Talking Heads, Eurythmics and Shirley Manson. He managed a variety of artists including Manson, Blondie, Tom Tom Club, the Ramones, Jean Beauvoir, Eurythmics, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Toots and the Maytals, and The B-52s.

Robert Filliou was a French artist associated with Fluxus, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and happenings maestro.

Father José María Arizmendiarrieta Madariaga was a Basque Catholic priest and founder of the Mondragón Corporation, the largest cooperative in the world, in Gipuzkoa, present-day Basque Autonomous Community.