Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
1
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
2
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
3
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
4
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
5
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
Painter
6
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
7
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
8
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
9
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
10
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
11
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
12
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
13
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
14
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
15
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
16
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
17
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
18
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
19
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961)
Philosopher
20
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
21
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
22
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
23
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
25
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
26
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
27
Tsuru Aoki (1892-1961)
28
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
29
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
30
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
31
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
32
Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961)
Poet
33
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
34
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
35
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
36
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
37
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
38
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
39
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
40
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
41
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
42
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
43
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
44
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
45
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
46
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
47
Scott LaFaro (1936-1961)
Bassist
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