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
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
6
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
7
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
8
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
9
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
10
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
11
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
12
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
13
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
14
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
15
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
16
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
17
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
18
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
19
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
20
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
21
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
22
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
23
Scott LaFaro (1936-1961)
Bassist
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
25
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
26
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961)
Philosopher
27
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
28
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Poet
29
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
30
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
31
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
32
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
33
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
34
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
35
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
36
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
37
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
38
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
39
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
40
Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961)
Journalist
41
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
42
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
43
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
44
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
45
Ida Siekmann (1902-1961)
46
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
47
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
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