List of Famous people who died at 61

Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Michael Bourdain
First Name Anthony
Last Name Bourdain
Born on June 25, 1956
Died on June 8, 2018 (aged 61)
Height 193 cm | 6'4

Anthony Michael Bourdain was an American chef, book author, journalist, and travel documentarian who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. Bourdain was a 1978 graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of a number of professional kitchens in his long career, which included many years spent as an executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan. He first became known for his bestselling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000).

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Bill Paxton

First Name Bill
Last Name Paxton
Born on May 17, 1955
Died on February 25, 2017 (aged 61)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

William Paxton was an American actor, musician, director, producer and writer. He appeared in films such as Weird Science (1985), Near Dark (1987), True Lies (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Twister (1996) and Titanic (1997). He also starred in the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011), earning three Golden Globe Award nominations during the show's run. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for portraying Randall McCoy in the History channel miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012) and as Detective Frank Roarke in the CBS television series Training Day (2017). His final film appearance was in The Circle (2017), released two months after his death.

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John Gotti

John Joseph Gotti, Jr.
First Name John
Last Name Gotti
Born on October 27, 1940
Died on June 10, 2002 (aged 61)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

John Joseph Gotti Jr. was an American gangster and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. He organized the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano in December 1985 and took over the family shortly thereafter, becoming boss of what has been described as America's most powerful crime syndicate.

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Roddy Piper

Roderick George Toombs
First Name Roddy
Last Name Piper
Born on April 17, 1954
Died on July 31, 2015 (aged 61)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Roderick George Toombs was a Canadian professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, and actor, better known by his ring name "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.

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Miguel Ferrer

Miguel José Ferrer
First Name Miguel
Last Name Ferrer
Born on February 7, 1955
Died on January 19, 2017 (aged 61)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Miguel José Ferrer was an American actor. His breakthrough role was in the 1987 film RoboCop. Other film roles include Quigley in Blank Check (1994), Harbinger in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Shan Yu in Mulan (1998), Eduardo Ruiz in Traffic (2000) and Vice President Rodriguez in Iron Man 3 (2013).

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Susan Atkins

First Name Susan
Born on May 7, 1948
Died on September 24, 2009 (aged 61)

Susan Denise Atkins was an American convicted murderer who was a member of Charles Manson's "Family". Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California, over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969. Known within the Manson family as Sadie Mae Glutz or Sexy Sadie, Atkins was convicted for her participation in eight of these killings, including the most notorious, the Tate murders in 1969. She was sentenced to death, which was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment when the California Supreme Court invalidated all death sentences issued prior to 1972. Atkins was incarcerated until her death in 2009. At the time of her death, she was California's longest-serving female inmate, long since surpassed by her fellow murderous Manson family members Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel.

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Marie Fredriksson

Gun-Marie Fredriksson
First Name Marie
Last Name Fredriksson
Born on May 30, 1958
Died on December 9, 2019 (aged 61)

Gun-Marie Fredriksson was a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, pianist and painter, who was best known internationally as the lead vocalist of pop rock duo Roxette, which she formed in 1986 with Per Gessle. The duo achieved international success in the late-1980s and early-1990s with their albums Look Sharp! (1988) and Joyride (1991), and had multiple hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including four number ones.

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Joe Diffie

Joe Logan Diffie
First Name Joe
Last Name Diffie
Born on December 28, 1958
Died on March 29, 2020 (aged 61)

Joe Logan Diffie was an American country music singer and songwriter. After working as a demo singer in the mid 1980s, he signed with Epic Records' Nashville division in 1990. Between then and 2004, Diffie charted 35 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, five of which peaked at number one: his debut release "Home", "If the Devil Danced ", "Third Rock from the Sun", "Pickup Man" and "Bigger Than the Beatles". In addition to these singles, he had 12 others reach the top 10 and ten more reach the top 40 on the same chart. He also co-wrote singles for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw, and Jo Dee Messina, and recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter, George Jones, and Marty Stuart.

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Reckful

Byron Daniel Bernstein
Born on May 8, 1989
Died on July 2, 2050 (aged 61)

Byron Daniel Bernstein, better known by his online alias Reckful, was an American Twitch streamer and professional Esports player. Bernstein was best known in the gaming community for his achievements in World of Warcraft and Asheron's Call.

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Rocío Dúrcal

María de los Ángeles de las Heras Ortiz
First Name Rocío
Born on October 4, 1944
Died on March 25, 2006 (aged 61)

María de los Ángeles de las Heras Ortiz, better known professionally as Rocío Dúrcal, was a Spanish singer and actress. Widely successful in Mexico, she earned the sobriquet of Reina de las Rancheras.

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