Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
3
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
4
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
5
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
6
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
7
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
8
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
9
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
10
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
11
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
12
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
13
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
14
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
World Leader
15
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
16
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
17
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
18
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
19
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
20
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
21
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
22
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
23
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
24
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
25
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
26
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
27
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
28
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
29
York Bowen (1884-1961)
30
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
31
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
32
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
33
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
34
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
Poet
35
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
36
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
37
Edward Cline (1891-1961)
Screenwriter
38
Essington Lewis (1881-1961)
39
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (1896-1961)
40
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
41
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
42
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
43
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
44
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
45
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
46
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
47
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
48
Celebrities Born in 1961
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