Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
3
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
4
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
5
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
6
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
7
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
8
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
9
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
10
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
11
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
12
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
13
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
14
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
15
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
16
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
17
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
18
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
19
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
20
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
21
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
22
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
23
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
25
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
26
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
27
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
28
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
29
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
30
Ida Siekmann (1902-1961)
31
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
Philosopher
32
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
33
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
34
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
35
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
36
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
37
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
38
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
39
Learned Hand (1872-1961)
40
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
41
Julia Peterkin (1880-1961)
42
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
43
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
44
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
45
Edward Cline (1891-1961)
Screenwriter
46
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
47
Longtack Sam (1884-1961)
Magician
48
