Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
3
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
4
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
5
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
6
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
7
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
8
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
9
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
10
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
11
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
12
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
13
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
14
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
15
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
16
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
17
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
18
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
19
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
20
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
21
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
22
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
23
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
24
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Poet
25
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
26
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
27
Hubert Van Innis (1866-1961)
Archer
28
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
29
Scott LaFaro (1936-1961)
Bassist
30
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
31
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
32
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
33
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
34
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
35
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
36
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
37
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
38
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
39
Edward Cline (1891-1961)
Screenwriter
40
Essington Lewis (1881-1961)
41
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (1896-1961)
42
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
43
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
44
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
45
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
46
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
47
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
48
Celebrities Born in 1961
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