List of Famous people who died in 1961

Joseph Francis Vaughan Gibbs

First Name Joseph
Last Name Gibbs
Born on December 8, 1887
Died on March 4, 1961 (aged 73)
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Ethel Mary Gibbs

First Name Ethel
Born on May 31, 1873
Died on January 16, 1961 (aged 87)
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Heinrich Rau

First Name Heinrich
Last Name Rau
Born on April 2, 1899
Died on March 23, 1961 (aged 61)

Heinrich Gottlob "Heiner" Rau was a German communist politician during the time of the Weimar Republic; subsequently, during the Spanish Civil War, he was a leading member of the International Brigades and after World War II an East German statesman.

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Lady Dorothy Margaret Browne

First Name Lady
Last Name Browne
Born on January 1, 1888
Died on March 8, 1961 (aged 73)
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Hilda Margaret Workman-Macnaghten

First Name Hilda
Last Name Workman-Macnaghten
Born on December 23, 1868
Died on March 4, 1961 (aged 92)
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Hanns Seidel

Franz Wendelin Seidel
First Name Hanns
Born on October 12, 1901
Died on August 5, 1961 (aged 59)

Franz Wendelin "Hanns" Seidel was a German politician who served as Prime Minister of Bavaria from 1957 to 1960. He was a member, and from 1955 to 1961 chairman, of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.

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Jane Anne Scott Myrtle

First Name Jane
Last Name Myrtle
Died on January 1, 1961
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Hester Russell

First Name Hester
Last Name Russell
Died on February 1, 1961
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Gladys Maud Lascelles

First Name Gladys
Last Name Lascelles
Born on July 21, 1886
Died on April 23, 1961 (aged 74)
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Stephen Schilizzi

First Name Stephen
Last Name Schilizzi
Born on April 15, 1872
Died on July 18, 1961 (aged 89)
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