page_title: 1961
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1961 / Deaths / February
caption_attribution_description: Português: Foto oficial de Carlos Luz, presidente do Brasil em 1955.
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: February 2 – Anna May Wong, Chinese-American actress (b. 1905)
  February 3 – Viscount Dunrossil, Australian Governor-General (b. 1893)
  February 4
  Hazel Heald, American writer (b. 1896)
  Sir Philip Game, British army officer, colonial governor and police officer (b. 1876)
  February 6 – Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, British politician (b. 1876)
  February 7 – William Duncan, American actor (b. 1879)
  February 9 – Carlos Luz, Brazilian politician, 19th President of Brazil (b. 1894)
  February 12 – Richmond K. Turner, American admiral (b. 1885)
  February 13 – Arthur Ripley, American film director (b. 1897)
  February 15 – Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
  February 16 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891)
  February 17
  Horatio Berney-Filkin, British army general (b. 1892)
  Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)
  February 20 – Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882)
  February 22
  George de Cuevas, Chilean-American ballet impresario and choreographer (b. 1885)
  Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
  February 26
  Karl Albiker, German sculptor (b. 1878)
  King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
  February 28 – Aaron S. "Tip" Merrill, American admiral (b. 1890)
caption: Carlos Luz
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