Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
3
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
4
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
5
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
6
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
7
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
8
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
9
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
10
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
Folk Singer
11
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
12
George Formby (1904-1961)
13
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
14
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
15
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
16
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
17
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
18
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
19
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
20
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
21
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
22
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
23
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
25
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
26
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
27
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
28
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
29
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
30
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
31
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
32
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
33
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
34
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
35
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Philosopher
36
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
37
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
38
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
39
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
40
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
41
Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961)
Chess Player
42
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Poet
43
Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961)
Journalist
44
Harriet Bosse (1878-1961)
45
Sam Zemurray (1877-1961)
46
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
47
Mordecai Ham (1877-1961)
Religious Leader
48
