Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
3
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
6
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
7
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
8
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
9
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
10
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
11
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
12
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
13
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
14
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
15
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
16
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
17
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
18
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
Playwright
19
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
20
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
Director
21
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
22
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
23
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
25
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
26
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
27
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
28
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
29
Ida Siekmann (1902-1961)
30
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Philosopher
31
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
32
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
33
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
34
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
35
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
36
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
37
Learned Hand (1872-1961)
38
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
39
Julia Peterkin (1880-1961)
40
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
41
Edward Cline (1891-1961)
Screenwriter
42
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
43
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
44
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
45
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
46
Longtack Sam (1884-1961)
Magician
47
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
48
