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Events on Tuesday 10 January 1961 1
1894 – 1961Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)Died 10 January 1961, aged 66American writer of hardboiled detective fiction, author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man. He was jailed in 1951 for refusing to testify before a grand jury about his political associations and died of lung cancer in New York.