Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
3
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
4
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
5
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
6
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
7
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
8
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
9
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
10
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
11
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
12
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
13
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
14
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
15
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
16
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
17
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
18
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
19
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
20
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
21
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
22
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
23
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
24
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
Poet
25
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
26
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
27
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
28
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
29
York Bowen (1884-1961)
30
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
31
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
32
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
33
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
34
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
35
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
36
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
37
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
38
Edward Cline (1891-1961)
Screenwriter
39
Essington Lewis (1881-1961)
40
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (1896-1961)
41
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
42
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
43
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
44
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
45
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
46
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
47
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
48
Celebrities Born in 1961
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