Famous people and celebrities who died in August 1961

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in August 1961. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• Aug. 2 Giovanni B Angioletti

  Italian writer, "i grandi ospiti", dies at 64

• Aug. 3 Hilda Rix Nicholas

  Australian artist (b. 1884)

• Aug. 4 Margarito Bautista

  Nahua-mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (b. 1878)

• Aug. 5 Sidney Holland

  Lieutenant and politician from new zealand, 25th prime minister for new zealand (d. 1961).

• Aug. 5 Eva JC Beck

  Actress (elckerlyc resurrection), is killed at 63

• Aug. 6 Jozef E Van Roey

  Flemish cardinal/archbishop of mechelen dies at 87

• Aug. 8 Charlie Gemora

  Actor who played king kong dies at the age of 58.

• Aug. 8 Mei Lanfang

  Chinese opera performer (born 1894)

• Aug. 8 Franc N D Buchman

  Us theology (moral rearms) dies at 83

• Aug. 9 Walter Bedell Smith

  At 75, us general/wwii chief of staff, dies

• Aug. 10 Julia Peterkin

  American author (d. 1961)

• Aug. 11 Antanas Škėma

  Prominent Lithuanian-American modernist writer known for his experimental prose and significant contributions to post-war émigré literature.

• Aug. 13 Adeline De Walt Reynolds

  Actress (son of dracula), dead at 78

• Aug. 14 Henri-Edouard-Prosper Breuil

  Priest / archaeologist

• Aug. 14 Clarke Ashton Smith

  At 68, sci-fi author (lost worlds) dies

• Aug. 14 Guido Alberto Fano

  Composer dies at 86

• Aug. 16 Abdul Haq

  Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)

• Aug. 16 Maulvi Abdul Haq

  Indian educator and linguist, father of modern urdu (born 1870).

• Aug. 17 Carlos Leon Salzedo

  Composer dies at 76

• Aug. 18 Learned Hand

  American lawyer, jurist, and philosopher (b. 1872)

• Aug. 18 Leonhard Frank

  Writer dies at 78

• Aug. 20 Percy Williams Bridgman

  Nobel Prize laureate for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics

• Aug. 20 Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Arctic explorer dies at the age of 82.

• Aug. 28 Thomas Connolly

  First baseball umpire to be elected to the hall of fame, is dead.

• Aug. 30 Charles Coburn

  American actor and singer (d. 1961).

• Aug. 30 Cristóbal de Losada y Puga

  Peruvian mathematician (b. 1894)