Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
3
Harriet Bosse (1878-1961)
Movie Actress
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
6
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
7
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
8
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
World Leader
9
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
10
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
11
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
12
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
13
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
14
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Philosopher
15
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
16
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
17
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
18
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
19
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
20
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
21
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
22
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
23
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
25
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
26
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
27
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
28
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
29
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
30
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
31
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
32
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
33
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
34
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
35
Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961)
Journalist
36
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
37
Sam Zemurray (1877-1961)
38
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
39
Bill Holmes (1899-1961)
Hockey Player
40
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
41
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
42
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
43
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
44
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
45
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
46
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
47
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
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