Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
3
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
6
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
Baseball Player
7
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
8
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
9
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
10
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
11
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
12
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
13
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
14
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
15
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
16
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
17
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
18
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
19
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
20
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
21
Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961)
Chess Player
22
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
Screenwriter
23
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
25
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
Politician
26
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
27
Ida Siekmann (1902-1961)
28
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
29
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
30
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
31
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
32
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
33
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
Poet
34
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
35
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
36
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
37
Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961)
Journalist
38
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
39
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
40
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
41
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
42
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
43
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
44
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
45
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
46
Romeo Neri (1903-1961)
Gymnast
47
Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961)
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