Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
3
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
4
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
5
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
6
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
7
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
8
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
9
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
10
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
11
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
12
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
13
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
14
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
15
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
16
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
17
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
18
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
19
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
20
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
21
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
22
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
23
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
25
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
26
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
27
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
28
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
29
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
30
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
31
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
32
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
33
Scott LaFaro (1936-1961)
Bassist
34
Booker Little (1938-1961)
Trumpet Player
35
Ida Siekmann (1902-1961)
36
Shane Summers (1936-1961)
Race Car Driver
37
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
38
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
39
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
40
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
41
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
Poet
42
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
43
Learned Hand (1872-1961)
44
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
Screenwriter
45
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
Philosopher
46
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
47
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
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