Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
1
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
2
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
3
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
4
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
5
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
6
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
7
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
8
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
9
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
10
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
11
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
12
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
13
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
14
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
15
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
16
Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961)
Poet
17
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
18
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
19
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
20
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
21
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
22
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
23
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
25
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
26
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
27
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
28
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Philosopher
29
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
30
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
31
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
32
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
33
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
34
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
35
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
36
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
37
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
38
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
39
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
40
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
41
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
42
Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961)
Journalist
43
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
44
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
45
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961)
46
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
47
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
48
