Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
2
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
3
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
4
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
5
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
6
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
7
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
8
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
9
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
10
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
11
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
12
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
13
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
14
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
15
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
16
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
17
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
Director
18
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
19
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
20
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
21
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
22
Ferdoos Mohammed (1906-1961)
23
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
25
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
26
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
27
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
28
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
29
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
30
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
31
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
32
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
33
Julia Peterkin (1880-1961)
34
Mordecai Ham (1877-1961)
Religious Leader
35
Shane Summers (1936-1961)
36
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
37
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
38
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
39
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
40
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
41
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
42
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
43
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
44
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
45
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
46
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
47
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
48
