Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
3
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Harriet Bosse (1878-1961)
Movie Actress
6
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
World Leader
7
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
8
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
9
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
10
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
11
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Philosopher
12
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
13
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
14
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
15
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
16
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
17
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
18
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
19
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
20
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
21
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
22
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
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
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
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
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
45
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
46
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
47
Ferdoos Mohammed (1906-1961)
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