Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
1
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
2
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
3
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
4
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
5
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
6
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
World Leader
7
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
Painter
8
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
9
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
10
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
11
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
Movie Actress
12
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
13
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
14
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
15
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
Entrepreneur
16
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
17
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
18
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
19
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
20
Sam Zemurray (1877-1961)
21
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
22
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
23
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
25
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
26
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
27
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
28
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
29
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
30
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
31
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
32
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
33
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
34
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
35
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
36
Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961)
Journalist
37
Ida Siekmann (1902-1961)
38
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
39
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961)
40
Piet Kramer (1881-1961)
41
Thomas Bell (1903-1961)
42
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
43
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
44
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
45
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
46
Ferdoos Mohammed (1906-1961)
47
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
48
