List of Famous people who died in 1961
Jeanne Pouquet
Edward J. Hart
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.
Algernon Heber-Percy
Richard Rumbold
Princess Elisabeth of Waldeck and Pyrmont
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.
Oskar Wälterlin
Paul-Émile Naggiar
Matthew A. Hunter
Matthew Albert Hunter (1878-1961) was a metallurgist and inventor of the Hunter process for producing titanium metal.
John D. Graham
John D. Graham was a Ukrainian born American Modernist / figurative painter, collector and mentor of modernist artists in New York City.
Jules Bordet
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.