Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
2
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
3
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
Movie Actress
4
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
5
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
6
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
7
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
Politician
8
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
9
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
10
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
11
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
12
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
13
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
Screenwriter
14
Essington Lewis (1881-1961)
15
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
16
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
Playwright
17
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
18
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
19
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
20
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
21
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
22
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
23
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
24
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
25
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
26
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
27
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
28
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (1896-1961)
Poet
29
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
30
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
31
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
32
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
33
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
34
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
35
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
36
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961)
37
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
38
Hans Muller (1884-1961)
39
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
40
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
41
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
42
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
43
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
44
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
45
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
46
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
47
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
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