Famous People Who Died at Age 61

From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:

• Eliot, George (natural causes at 61 years 30 days on December 22, 1880)

• Scott, Sir Walter (died of a stroke at 61 years 37 days on September 21, 1832)

• Ride, Sally (died of pancreatic cancer at 61 years 58 days on July 23, 2012)

• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (at 61 years 79 days on November 14, 1831)

• Lawford, Peter (died of kidney and heart failure at 61 years 108 days on December 24, 1984)

• Scott, Hazel (at 61 years 113 days on October 2, 1981)

• Mendel, Gregor (at 61 years 168 days on January 6, 1884)

• Liu Xiaobo (at 61 years 185 days on July, 2017)

• Jackson, Rachel Donelson Robards (at 61 years 190 days on December 22, 1828)

• Mussolini, Benito (was shot to death at 61 years 273 days on April 28, 1945)

• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (died of a heart attack at 61 years 277 days on July 25, 1834)

• Paxton, Bill (died of complications from surgery at 61 years 284 days on February 25, 2017)

• Brett, Jeremy (died of heart failure at 61 years 313 days on September 12, 1995)

• Prokofiev, Sergei (died of cerebral hemorrhage at 61 years 316 days on March 5, 1953)

• Ledbetter, Huddie "Lead Belly" (at 61 years 320 days on December 6, 1949)

• Macdonald, Norm (died of cancer at 61 years 332 days on September 14, 2021)

• Hemingway, Ernest (committed suicide at 61 years 346 days on July 2, 1961)

• Bourdain, Anthony (committed suicide at 61 years 348 days on June 8, 2018)

• Plessy, Homer (at 61 years 349 days on March 1, 1925)

• Cooper, James Fenimore (at 61 years 364 days on September 14, 1851)

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