List of Famous people who died at 61

John Paul Papanicolaou was a Greek businessman active in the shipping industry. A friend of the Onassis family, he is best known for his purchase and restoration of the Onassis yacht, Christina O, and purchase and conversion of the now decaying former Yugoslavian presidential yacht Galeb, which was the third largest yacht in the world at one time.

Generoso Paul "Gene" Pope Jr. (1927–1988) was an American media mogul, best known for creating The National Enquirer as it is known today.

Eugene Leighton (Gene) Lawler was an American computer scientist, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Laerte Patrocínio Orpinelli, known as The Bicycle Maniac, was a Brazilian serial killer and rapist who beat, raped and strangled at least 10 children around São Paulo from 1990 to 1999, but is suspected in more than 100 deaths since the 1970s. He was sentenced to 100 years imprisonment for his known crimes, and died behind bars in 2013.