Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
3
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
4
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
5
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
6
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
7
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
8
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
9
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
10
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
11
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
12
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
13
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
14
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
15
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
16
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
17
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
18
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
19
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
20
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
21
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
22
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
23
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
Philosopher
25
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
26
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
27
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
Screenwriter
28
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
29
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
30
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
31
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
32
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
33
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
34
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
35
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
36
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
37
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
38
Learned Hand (1872-1961)
39
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
40
Ida Siekmann (1902-1961)
41
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
42
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
43
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
44
Longtack Sam (1884-1961)
Magician
45
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
46
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
47
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
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