Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
3
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
4
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
5
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
6
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
7
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
8
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
9
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
10
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
11
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
Folk Singer
12
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
13
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
Screenwriter
14
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
15
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
16
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
17
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
18
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
19
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
20
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
21
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
22
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
23
George Formby (1904-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
25
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
26
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
27
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
28
Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961)
Journalist
29
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
30
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
31
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
Politician
32
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
33
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
34
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
Poet
35
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961)
Philosopher
36
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
37
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
38
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
39
Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961)
40
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
41
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
42
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
43
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
44
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
45
Lee Deforest (1873-1961)
46
Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961)
Chess Player
47
Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961)
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