Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
3
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
6
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
7
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
8
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
9
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
10
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
11
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
12
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
13
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
14
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
15
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
16
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
17
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
18
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
Screenwriter
19
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
20
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
21
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
22
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
23
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
Folk Singer
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
25
Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961)
Poet
26
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
27
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
28
Scott LaFaro (1936-1961)
Bassist
29
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
30
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
31
George Formby (1904-1961)
32
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
33
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
34
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
35
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
36
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
37
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
38
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
39
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
40
Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961)
Journalist
41
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
42
Tsuru Aoki (1892-1961)
43
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
44
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
45
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
46
York Bowen (1884-1961)
47
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
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