List of Famous people who died in 1961

Jeanne Pouquet

First Name Jeanne
Last Name Pouquet
Born on April 26, 1874
Died on January 12, 1961 (aged 86)
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Edward J. Hart

First Name Edward
Last Name Hart
Born on March 25, 1893
Died on April 20, 1961 (aged 68)

Edward Joseph Hart was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 14th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1935 to 1955.

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Algernon Heber-Percy

First Name Algernon
Born on April 27, 1904
Died on February 27, 1961 (aged 56)
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Richard Rumbold

First Name Richard
Last Name Rumbold
Born on January 17, 1913
Died on January 17, 1961 (aged 48)
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Princess Elisabeth of Waldeck and Pyrmont

First Name Princess
Last Name Pyrmont
Born on September 6, 1873
Died on November 23, 1961 (aged 88)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Princess Elisabeth of Waldeck and Pyrmont was the youngest daughter of George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and wife of Alexander, 2nd Prince of Erbach-Schönberg.

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Oskar Wälterlin

First Name Oskar
Last Name Wälterlin
Died on April 4, 1961
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Paul-Émile Naggiar

First Name Paul-Émile
Born on May 3, 1883
Died on August 28, 1961 (aged 78)
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Matthew A. Hunter

First Name Matthew
Last Name Hunter
Born on November 30, 1877
Died on March 24, 1961 (aged 83)

Matthew Albert Hunter (1878-1961) was a metallurgist and inventor of the Hunter process for producing titanium metal.

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John D. Graham

Иван Грацианович Домбровский
First Name John
Last Name Graham
Died on June 21, 1961
Born in Ukraine

John D. Graham was a Ukrainian born American Modernist / figurative painter, collector and mentor of modernist artists in New York City.

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Jules Bordet

First Name Jules
Last Name Bordet
Died on April 6, 1961
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named after him. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to him in 1919 for his discoveries relating to immunity.

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