Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
3
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
6
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
7
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
8
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
9
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
10
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
11
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
12
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
13
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
14
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
15
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
16
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
17
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
18
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
19
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
20
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
21
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
22
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
23
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
25
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
26
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
27
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
28
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
29
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
30
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
31
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
32
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
33
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
34
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Philosopher
35
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
36
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
37
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
38
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
39
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
40
Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961)
Chess Player
41
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Poet
42
Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961)
Journalist
43
Harriet Bosse (1878-1961)
44
Sam Zemurray (1877-1961)
45
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
46
Mordecai Ham (1877-1961)
Religious Leader
47
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
48
