Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
3
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
6
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
7
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
Director
8
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
9
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
10
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
11
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
12
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
13
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
14
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
15
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
16
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
17
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
18
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
19
Scott LaFaro (1936-1961)
Bassist
20
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
21
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
22
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
Folk Singer
23
George Formby (1904-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
25
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
26
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
27
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
28
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
29
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
30
Wally Brown (1904-1961)
Comedian
31
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
32
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
33
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
34
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
35
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
Screenwriter
36
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
37
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
38
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
39
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
40
Julia Peterkin (1880-1961)
41
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Poet
42
Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961)
Journalist
43
Ada Cornaro (1881-1961)
44
Hubert Van Innis (1866-1961)
Archer
45
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
46
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
47
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
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