List of Famous people who died in 1961

Gyula Bíró was a Hungarian Olympic football (soccer) player and manager of Jewish heritage.

Karl Korsch was a German Marxist theoretician and political philosopher. Along with György Lukács, Korsch is considered to be one of the major figures responsible for laying the groundwork for Western Marxism in the 1920s.

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Hossein Ali Tababataei Borujerdi was a leading Iranian Shia Marja' in Iran from approximately 1947 to his death in 1961.

Anton Flettner was a German aviation engineer and inventor. Born in Eddersheim, Flettner made important contributions to airplane, helicopter, vessel, and automobile designs.

Giovanni Battista Angioletti was an Italian writer and journalist.

Paul Götz (1883–1962) was a German astronomer and discoverer of 20 minor planets between 1903 and 1905.

Werner Wilhelm Jaeger was a classicist of the 20th century.

John James Hamilton Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair,, styled Viscount Dalrymple between 1903 and 1914, was a Scottish soldier and Conservative Party, later Unionist Party, politician.

Harry Frederick Ernest "Fred" Whitlam was Australia's Crown Solicitor from 1936 to 1949, and a pioneer of international human rights law in Australia. He was the father of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, and had a great influence on his son's values and interests.