Aged 101
Famous people who died at 101
22 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 101, including Leni Riefenstahl, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Katherine Johnson.
- Leni RiefenstahlGerman filmmaker, photographer, actress, and nazi propagandist · 1902–2003
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen MotherQueen consort of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952 · 1900–2002
- Katherine JohnsonAfrican-American mathematician · 1918–2020
- Irving BerlinAmerican composer and lyricist · 1888–1989
- Yasuhiro NakasoneJapanese politician · 1918–2019
- George F. Kennan ↗American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian · 1904–2005
- David Rockefeller ↗American banker and philanthropist · 1915–2017
- Tomiichi Murayama ↗81st Prime Minister of Japan · 1924–2025
- Willem Drees ↗Dutch politician · 1886–1988
- Edmond H. Fischer ↗American biochemist · 1920–2021
- Charles Greeley Abbot ↗American astrophysicist and the 5th Secretary of the Smithsonian · 1872–1973
- Bernard Lewis ↗British-American historian · 1916–2018
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti ↗American artist, writer and activist · 1919–2021
- Piet de Jong ↗Prime minister of the Netherlands · 1915–2016
- Jacque Fresco ↗American futurist and self-described social engineer · 1916–2017
- Sergey Sokolov ↗Soviet military commander · 1911–2012
- Françoise Gilot ↗French painter, art critic, writer and beloved of Pablo Picasso · 1921–2023
- Grandma Moses ↗American painter · 1860–1961
- Friedrich Hund ↗German physicist · 1896–1997
- Gottfried Böhm ↗German architect · 1920–2021
- Frances Oldham Kelsey ↗Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist · 1914–2015
- Khamtai Siphandone ↗Former Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party · 1924–2025
"c." means only the years are known, so the age could be a year out. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.
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