Died at Age 61

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