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Who died in January 1961

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Blaise Meliani

Blaise Meliani

18871961

Swiss writer, poet, and French foreign legionnaire whose work greatly influenced the European modernist movement

Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett

18941961

American writer, novelist, and screenwriter renowned for pioneering hard-boiled detective fiction and creating characters such as Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles

Emily Greene Balch

Emily Greene Balch

18671961

American economist, sociologist, and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1946 for her lifelong dedication to peace and social justice, and a committed academic and advocate against poverty and child labor

Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Schrödinger

18871961

Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist who developed the Schrödinger equation and coined 'quantum entanglement,' sharing the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to atomic theory