Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
3
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
6
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
7
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
8
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
9
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
10
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
Director
11
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
12
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
13
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
14
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
15
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
16
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
17
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
18
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
19
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
20
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
21
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Philosopher
22
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
23
Julia Peterkin (1880-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Edward Cline (1891-1961)
Screenwriter
25
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Composer
26
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
27
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
28
Longtack Sam (1884-1961)
Magician
29
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
30
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
31
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
32
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
33
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
34
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
35
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
36
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
37
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
38
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Poet
39
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961)
40
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
41
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
42
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961)
43
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
44
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
45
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
46
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
47
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
48
