Famous Deaths for Year 1961

Months in Year 1961: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 227

Jan 2nd - Bob Catterall, cricketer (1555 runs/24 Tests for S Afr 1922-31), dies
Jan 4th - Barry Fitzgerald, actor (Going My Way), dies at 72
Jan 4th - Erwin Schrodinger, Austrian physicist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 73
Jan 6th - Regina Ullmann, writer, dies at 76
Jan 7th - Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74
Jan 9th - Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
Jan 10th - Dashiell Hammett, US detective writer (Thin Man, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66
Jan 11th - Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)
Jan 14th - Ernest Thesiger, actor (Brass Monkey, Ghoul), dies at 81
Jan 14th - Henry Geehl, composer, dies at 79
Jan 15th - Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer, dies at 49
Jan 16th - Janos Viski, composer, dies at 54
Jan 17th - Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36
Jan 21st - John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday
Jan 24th - Willem J M van Eysinga, people rights scholar, dies at 82
Jan 24th - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
Jan 26th - Morris Nichols, cricketer (41 wkts in 14 Tests for Eng 1930-39), dies
Feb 2nd - Adolf Vogl, composer, dies at 87
Feb 2nd - Anna May Wong, actress (Thief of Baghdad), dies at about 56
Physicist and Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrodinger (Jan 4th) Feb 3rd - Anna May Wong, actress (Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), dies at 54
Feb 3rd - Viscount Dunrossil, Gov-Gen of Australia (1959-61), dies at 67
Feb 5th - Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73
Feb 6th - Archibald T Davison, composer, dies at 77
Feb 8th - William Duncan, actor (Hopalong Rides Again), dies at 81
Feb 9th - Grigory Levenfish, Intl chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70
Feb 11th - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director (Pygmalion), dies at 82
Feb 11th - Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, murdered at 34
Feb 14th - Wallis Clark, actress (Easy Money), dies at 78
Feb 15th - Jack Whiting, actor (Top Speed, Life of the Party), dies at 59
Feb 15th - Marubel Vinaon Owen, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1932), dies
Feb 17th - Nita Naldi, actress (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies of heart attack at 63
Feb 20th - Otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor (Negro Worker), dies at 67
Feb 20th - Percy Aldridge Grainger, Australian/US composer/pianist, dies at 78
Feb 21st - Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Switz, poet, dies at 73
Feb 22nd - George de las Cuevas Bustillo y Teheran, Chilean marquis, dies at 75
Feb 22nd - Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
Feb 23rd - Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies
Feb 26th - Karl Albiker, German sculptor (Problem of the Plastic), dies at 83
Feb 26th - Mohammed V, ibn Yusuf, sultan/King of Morocco, dies at 51
Feb 27th - Platt Adams, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1912), dies
Feb 28th - Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at 64
Mar 3rd - Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
Mar 6th - George Formby, British singer/comedian, dies at 56
Mar 6th - Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at 59
Mar 7th - Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter, dies at 42
Mar 7th - Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60
Mar 8th - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81
Mar 12th - Belinda Lee, actress (Joseph & his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25
Mar 14th - Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78
Mar 16th - Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903)
Mar 17th - Susanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101
Mar 19th - Edric Cundell, composer, dies at 68
Mar 23rd - A C Russell, cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies
Mar 23rd - James Edward Murray, (Sen-D-Montana) (1935-61), dies
Mar 23rd - Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut, dies in accident at 24
Mar 27th - Jack Kane, orchestra leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37
Mar 30th - P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies
Mar 31st - Seerp Anema, Dutch poet/writer (Modern Art & Degenerating), dies at 85
Apr 2nd - August Defresne, Dutch director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67
Apr 2nd - Wallingford Riegger, US composer (Bacchangle), dies at 75
Apr 4th - Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873)
Apr 6th - Jules J B V Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel 1919), dies at 90
Apr 7th - Jesus Guridi, composer, dies at 74
Apr 7th - Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 62
Apr 7th - Yusef Greiss, composer, dies at 61
Apr 9th - Zog I, [Ahmed Zogu], King of Albania (1925-39), dies at 65
Apr 10th - Irene Warfield, silent screen actress (Satan Sanderson), dies at 65
Apr 11th - Francis de Bourguignon, composer, dies at 70
Apr 12th - Nils-Eric Fougstedt, composer, dies at 50
Apr 12th - Philippine "Pine" Belder, [Mary de Klerk], actress, dies at 93
Apr 13th - John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (b. 1935)
Apr 21st - James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57
Apr 22nd - Maria Radulphus, [Adrian Hermus], Curacao school inspector, dies at 91
Apr 24th - Lee Moran, actor (Circus Clown), dies of heart ailment at 72
Apr 25th - Hans F Blunck, writer, dies
Apr 26th - Gail Russell, actress (Calcutta, Moonrise, El Paso), dies at 36
Apr 27th - Roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67
Apr 29th - Cisco Houston, American folk singer (b. 1918)
May 2nd - J C White, cricketer (49 wickets in 15 Tests for Engld 1921-31), dies
May 3rd - Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies at 53
May 4th - Anita Stewart, dies of heart attack at 66
May 6th - Lucian Blaga, philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65
May 8th - James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63
May 13th - Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60
May 16th - George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (b. 1881)
May 17th - Frans van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81
May 17th - Henri Gagnon, composer, dies at 74
May 18th - Henry O'Neill, actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble), dies
May 19th - Joe Howard, singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at 94
May 20th - Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (b. 1915)
May 22nd - Joan Davis, actress (I Married Joan), dies of heart attack at 53
May 23rd - Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53
May 29th - Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer, dies at 60
May 30th - Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69
May 31st - Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
Jun 2nd - George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72
Jun 2nd - Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor/director (Dutch Comedy), dies at 70
Jun 6th - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (Jun 6th) Jun 6th - Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist, dies at 85
Jun 7th - Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies
Jun 9th - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
Jun 13th - Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 79
Jun 15th - Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
Jun 16th - O C Scott, cricketer (WI leg-spinner in 8 Tests), dies
Jun 16th - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
Jun 17th - Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], actor (Away all boats), dies at 40
Jun 22nd - Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies
Jun 22nd - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
Jun 23rd - Franz de Backer, Flemish writer (Rubens' Daughter), dies at 70
Jun 26th - Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58
Jun 27th - Paul (II) Guilfoyle, actor (Apache, Final Anaylsis), dies at 58
Jun 30th - Lee de Forest, American inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87
Jul 1st - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
Nobel Laureate Author Ernest Hemingway (Jul 2nd) Jul 2nd - Ernest Hemingway, American author and Nobel laureate, dies from suicide at 61
Jul 4th - Franklyn Farnum, dies of cancer at 83
Jul 6th - Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter, dies at 93
Jul 6th - Enrique Larreta, [E Rodriguez Maza], Argentine diplomat/writer, dies
Jul 6th - Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)
Jul 6th - Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
Jul 8th - Julian Bautista, composer, dies at 60
Jul 9th - Alan Marshal, actor (Lydia, Irene, Exile Express), dies at 52
Jul 12th - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879)
Jul 15th - John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
Jul 16th - [Louise] Sophie M E de Vries, actress (English Prof), dies at 88
Jul 17th - Ty Cobb, baseball great (Det Tigers), dies of cancer at 74
Jul 18th - Kit Guard, dies of cancer at 67
Jul 23rd - Esther Dale, actress (Birdie-Ma & Pa Kettle), dies after surgery at 75
Jul 27th - Theodore Chanler, composer, dies at 59
Aug 2nd - Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64
Aug 5th - Eva JC Beck, actress (Elckerlyc, Resurrection), dies at 63
Aug 5th - Sidney Holland, PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67
Aug 6th - Jozef E Van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechelen, dies at 87
Aug 8th - Charlie Gemora, actor (who portrayed King Kong), dies at 58
Aug 8th - Franc N D Buchman, US theology (Moral Rearms), dies at 83
Aug 8th - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (b. 1894)
Aug 9th - Walter Bedell Smith, US general/WW II chief of staff, dies at 75
Aug 11th - Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer actor and director (b. 1910)
Aug 13th - Adeline De Walt Reynolds, actress (Son of Dracula), dies at 78
Aug 14th - Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68
Aug 14th - Guido Alberto Fano, composer, dies at 86
Aug 14th - Henri-Edouard-Prosper Breuil, priest/archaeologist, dies
Aug 16th - Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Modern Urdu (b. 1870)
Aug 17th - Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer, dies at 76
Aug 18th - Learned Hand, Chief judge of US court of Appeals, dies at 89
Aug 18th - Leonhard Frank, writer, dies at 78
Aug 20th - Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, dies at 82
Aug 28th - Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies
Aug 30th - Charles Coburn, actor (Heaven Can Wait, Idiot's Delight), dies at 84
Sep 1st - Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51
Sep 1st - William S Foster, chairman (US Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80