Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
1
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
2
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
3
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
6
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
7
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
8
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
9
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
10
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
11
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
12
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
13
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
14
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
15
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
Director
16
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
17
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
18
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
19
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
20
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
21
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
22
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
23
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
25
Julia Peterkin (1880-1961)
26
Mordecai Ham (1877-1961)
Religious Leader
27
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
28
Shane Summers (1936-1961)
29
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
30
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
31
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
32
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
33
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Poet
34
Learned Hand (1872-1961)
35
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
36
Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961)
37
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
38
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
39
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
40
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
41
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
42
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
43
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
44
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
45
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
46
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
47
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
48
