page_title: 1961
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1961 / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: English: Padma Shamsher JBR (1882-1961); PM of Nepal and Maharaja of Kaski and Lamjung between 1945 and 1948 and portrait commissioned in his reign.
context_page_description: 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1961st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 961st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade.
  As MAD Magazine pointed out on its cover for the March 1961 issue, this was the first "upside-up" year — i.e., one in which the numerals that form the year look the same as when the numerals are rotated upside down, a strobogrammatic number — since 1881. The next such year will be 6009.
context_section_description: April 2 – Wallingford Riegger, American music composer (b. 1885)
  April 3 – Eliseo Mouriño, Argentine footballer (b. 1927)
  April 6 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870)
  April 7
  Vanessa Bell, English artist and interior designer (b. 1879)
  Jesús Guridi, Spanish Basque composer (b. 1886)
  Marian Driscoll Jordan, American actress and radio personality (b. 1898)
  April 9 – Ahmet Zog/Zog I, Skanderberg III, Albanian political leader, 11th Prime Minister of Albania, 7th President of Albania and King of Albania (b. 1895)
  April 10 – Sir John Hope Simpson, British politician (b. 1868)
  April 11 – Padma Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 16th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1882)
  April 12
  Mbarek Bekkay, 1st Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1907)
  Aziz Ezzat Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1869)
  April 19 – Manuel Quiroga, Spanish violinist (b. 1892)
  April 21 – James Melton, American tenor (b. 1904)
  April 24 – Lee Moran, American actor (b. 1888)
  April 25
  Robert Garrett, American Olympic athlete (b. 1875)
  George Melford, American actor (b. 1877)
  April 27
  Roy Del Ruth, American film director (b. 1893)
  Minoru Sasaki, Japanese general (b. 1893)
  April 30
  Dickie Dale, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1927)
  Jessie Redmon Fauset, American editor, writer and educator (b. 1882)
caption: Padma Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana
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