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
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
5
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
6
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
7
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
8
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
9
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
10
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
11
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
12
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
13
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
14
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
15
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
16
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
17
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
18
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
19
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
20
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
21
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
22
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
23
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
25
Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961)
Chess Player
26
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
27
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
28
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
29
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
30
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
31
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
32
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
33
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
34
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
35
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
36
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
37
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
38
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Philosopher
39
York Bowen (1884-1961)
40
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
41
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
42
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
43
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Poet
44
Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961)
Journalist
45
Harriet Bosse (1878-1961)
46
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
47
Sam Zemurray (1877-1961)
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