List of Famous people who died in 1961

Yanagi Sōetsu , also known as Yanagi Muneyoshi, was a Japanese art critic, philosopher, and founder of the mingei movement in Japan in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Friedrich Domin was a German film actor. He appeared in 63 films between 1939 and 1961. He was born in Beuthen, Germany and died in Munich, Germany.

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schrodinger or Erwin Schroedinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theory: the Schrödinger equation provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time.

Roy Del Ruth was an American filmmaker.

Harry James Smith was an American long-distance runner. He was most notable for competing in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. He was also the father of Hart wrestling family matriarch Helen Hart and the father-in-law of Stu Hart.

Paul Deman was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for 15 years from 1909–1924, and a carpet maker by trade.

Morgan Foster Larson was an American Republican politician who served as the 40th Governor of New Jersey.

Marius de Zayas Enriquez y Calmet, was an early 20th-century Mexican artist, writer and art gallery owner who was influential in the New York arts circles of the 1910s and 1920s.

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), now merged into Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), and a jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 3 September 1940 until 25 June 1945, based in London during the German occupation of the Netherlands.