Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
3
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
4
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
5
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
6
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
7
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
8
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
9
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
10
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
11
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
12
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
13
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
14
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
15
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
16
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
17
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
18
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
19
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
20
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
21
York Bowen (1884-1961)
Composer
22
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
23
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
24
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
25
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
26
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
27
Edward Cline (1891-1961)
Screenwriter
28
Essington Lewis (1881-1961)
29
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
30
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
31
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (1896-1961)
Poet
32
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
33
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
34
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
35
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
36
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
37
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
38
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
39
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
40
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
41
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
42
Ferdoos Mohammed (1906-1961)
43
Hans Muller (1884-1961)
44
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
45
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
46
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
47
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
48
Celebrities Born in 1961
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