Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
3
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
6
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
7
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
8
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
9
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
10
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
11
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
12
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
13
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
14
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
15
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
16
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
17
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
18
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
19
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
20
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
21
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
22
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
23
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
25
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
26
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
Screenwriter
27
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
28
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
29
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
30
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
Philosopher
31
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
32
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
33
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
34
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
35
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
36
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
37
Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961)
Chess Player
38
Ida Siekmann (1902-1961)
39
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
40
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
41
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
42
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
43
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
44
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
45
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
46
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
47
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
48
