Died at Age 61

1
Anthony Bourdain
2
Benito Mussolini
3
Sally Ride
4
Bill Paxton
5
Roddy Piper
6
Samuel De Champlain
7
Jimmy Griffin
8
Ernest Hemingway
9
Diego Velázquez
10
Jack Daniel
11
King Kong Bundy
12
Hannah Williams
13
Gregor Mendel
14
Miguel Ferrer
15
James Horner
16
Jeanette MacDonald
17
Rocio Dúrcal
18
Oliver Reed
19
Bill Pickett
20
Jimmy Johnstone
21
Ray Wilkins
22
Dwight Clark
23
Mitch Mitchell
24
Lead Belly
25
Sergei Prokofiev
26
Peter Brock
27
Otis Boykin
28
John Franklin
29
Gwen Ifill
30
Bobby Farrell
31
Lal Bahadur Shastri
32
Billy Martin
33
Peter Lawford
34
Hazel Scott
35
Rachel Jackson
36
Theresa Saldana
37
George Eliot
38
Edwin Starr
39
Walter Scott
40
Andrew Lewis
41
Tom Longboat
42
Thomas Hooker
43
Mirabeau B. Lamar
44
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
45
John W. Campbell
46
James Fenimore Cooper
47
John Saunders
48
Ross Martin
Deaths by Year
61 Year Olds