Dead at age 61
861 Notable deaths
Raymond Pearl
American biogerontologist (1879-1940).
Born June 3rd, 1879 in Farmington.
Died November 17th, 1940 at 61 years old in Hershey.
Lew Landers
American film and television director (1901–1962).
Born January 2nd, 1901 in New York City.
Died December 16th, 1962 at 61 years old in Palm Desert (myocardial infarction).
Aleksandr Tvardovsky
Soviet poet.
Born June 21st, 1910 in Zagorye. [ref]
Died December 18th, 1971 at 61 years old in Vatutinki (lung cancer). [ref]
Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov
Russian politician (1879–1940).
Born February 1st, 1879 in Saint Petersburg.
Died May 7th, 1940 at 61 years old in Moscow (gunshot wound).
Hans Zinsser
American physician, bacteriologist (1878–1940).
Born November 17th, 1878 in New York City.
Died September 4th, 1940 at 61 years old in New York City (leukemia).
Štefan Tiso
Slovak minister of justice of the slovakia, minister of foreign affairs of the slovakia, prime minister of the slovakia and lawyer (1897-1959).
Born October 18th, 1897 in Bytča. [ref]
Died March 28th, 1959 at 61 years old in Leopoldov.
Mihály Lantos
Hungarian footballer (1928-1989).
Born September 29th, 1928 in Budapest.
Died December 31st, 1989 at 61 years old in Budapest.
Deborah Coleman
American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer (1956-2018).
Born October 3rd, 1956 in Portsmouth.
Died April 12th, 2018 at 61 years old in Norfolk (bronchopneumonia).
Heinrich Rau
German communist politician (1899–1961).
Born April 2nd, 1899 in Feuerbach.
Died March 23rd, 1961 at 61 years old in East Berlin (myocardial infarction).
Fifi Young
Indonesian actress.
Born January 12th, 1914 in Aceh.
Died March 5th, 1975 at 61 years old in Jakarta.
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We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. Chuck Palahniuk