List of Famous people who died at 61

Sardar Dur Muhammad Nasir was a Pakistani politician who was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan, from May 2013 to May 2018.

Gigi Ballista was an Italian film and television actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1961 and 1980.

David Lance Arneson was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s. Arneson's early work was fundamental to the development of the genre, developing the concept of the RPG using devices now considered to be archetypical, such as adventuring in "dungeons" and using a neutral judge who doubles as the voice and consciousness of all other characters to develop the storyline.

Gerd Nienstedt was a German and Austrian opera singer, bass and bass-baritone. After an international career at major opera houses and the Bayreuth Festival, he was also a theatre director, stage director and academic voice teacher.

Hugh Gerard Sweetman was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Finance from 1954 to 1957. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare constituency from 1948 to 1970. He was a Senator for the Labour Panel from 1943 to 1948.

John Campbell Wells was an English actor, writer and satirist.