Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
1
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
2
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
3
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
6
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
7
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
8
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
9
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
10
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
Politician
11
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
12
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
13
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
14
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
15
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
16
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
17
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
18
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
19
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
20
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
Screenwriter
21
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
22
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
Folk Singer
23
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
24
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
25
George Formby (1904-1961)
26
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
27
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
28
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
29
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Composer
30
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
31
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
32
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
33
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Poet
34
Julia Peterkin (1880-1961)
35
Thomas Bell (1903-1961)
36
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961)
37
Scott LaFaro (1936-1961)
Bassist
38
Mordecai Ham (1877-1961)
Religious Leader
39
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
40
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
41
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
42
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
43
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
44
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
45
York Bowen (1884-1961)
46
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
47
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
48
Celebrities Born in 1961
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