Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
3
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
6
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
7
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
8
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
9
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
10
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
11
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
12
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
13
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
14
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
15
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
16
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
17
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
18
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
19
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
20
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
21
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
22
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
23
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
25
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
26
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
27
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Poet
28
Ida Siekmann (1902-1961)
29
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
30
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
31
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
32
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
33
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
34
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
35
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
36
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
37
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
38
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
39
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
40
Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961)
Journalist
41
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
42
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
43
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
44
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
45
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
46
Learned Hand (1872-1961)
47
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
48
