List of Famous people who died at 61
Boris Karpov
Patrice Cramer
Joseph C. Wilson
Joseph Chamberlain Wilson was the founder of the Xerox Corporation, a graduate of the University of Rochester and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He helped to develop xerography pioneered by Chester Carlson.
Heinrich Schäfer
Kunihiko Tsuji
Muhammad Husayn al-Dhahabi
Muhammad Husayn al-Dhahabi was an Al-Azhar scholar and the former Egyptian Minister of Religious Endowments. He was a critic of the militant jihadist movement that had splintered from the mainstream Muslim Brotherhood. On July 3, 1977, he was kidnapped by the radical group Takfir wal-Hijra, who held him hostage and demanded the release of imprisoned members of their movement. When their demand was not met, they executed al-Dhahabi. Following his execution, the government of Anwar Sadat cracked down on militant Islamic organizations in Egypt.
Tameo Toyama
Hirō Terada
Robert Steinberg
Robert Wayne Steinberg was an American physician who co-founded Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker in 1996 with John Scharffenberger, his friend and former patient.