Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1961

Paul Richter fue un actor teatral y cinematográfico austriaco. Debió su gran fama en el cine alemán de la época muda a su trabajo con los directores Joe May y Fritz Lang.

Yrjö Kaarlo Leino was a Finnish communist politician. Imprisoned twice for his communist activities, and spending much of the Second World War as an underground communist activist, he served as a minister in three cabinets between 1944 and 1948.

Leonhard Frank was a German expressionist writer. He studied painting and graphic art in Munich, and gained acclaim with his first novel The Robber Band. When a Berlin journalist celebrated in a famous café about news of the loss of the ship RMS Lusitania, torpedoed by a German submarine, Frank was upset – and slapped the man in his face. That is why he went into exile in Switzerland (1915–18), where he wrote a series of pacifist short-stories published under the title Man is Good. He returned to Germany, but after the Nazis gained power in 1933 Frank had to emigrate a second time. He lived in Switzerland again, moved to London, then Paris and finally fled under adventurous conditions to the United States in 1940, returning to Munich in 1950. His best-known novels were In the Last Coach and Carl and Anna, which he dramatized in 1929. In 1947 MGM made a movie titled Desire Me out of this story.

Otto Loewi fue un fisiólogo alemán, nacido en el seno de una familia judía.

Carl Hermann fue un profesor alemán de cristalografía. Con Charles-Victor Mauguin, inventó una notación estándar internacional para los grupos cristalográficos, conocida como notación de Hermann-Mauguin o notación internacional.

Thomas James Howard Jr. was an American photographer who worked at the Washington bureau of P. & A. Photographs during the 1920s. His photograph of the execution of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, on January 12, 1928 has been called "the most famous tabloid photo of the decade".