Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
3
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
4
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
5
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
6
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
7
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
8
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
9
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
10
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
11
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
Folk Singer
12
George Formby (1904-1961)
13
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
14
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
15
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
16
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
17
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
18
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
19
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
Politician
20
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
21
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
22
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
23
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Juanita Hansen (1895-1961)
25
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
26
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
27
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
28
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
29
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
30
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
31
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
32
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
33
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
34
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
35
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
36
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
37
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
38
Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961)
Chess Player
39
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
40
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
41
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
42
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
43
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
44
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
45
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
46
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
47
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
Screenwriter
48
