Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
1
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
2
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
3
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
4
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
6
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
7
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
Director
8
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
9
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
10
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
11
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
12
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
13
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
14
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
15
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
16
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
17
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
18
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
19
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
20
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
21
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
22
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
23
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
24
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
25
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
26
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
Folk Singer
27
George Formby (1904-1961)
28
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
29
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
30
Wally Brown (1904-1961)
31
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
32
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
33
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
34
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
35
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
Poet
36
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
37
Julia Peterkin (1880-1961)
38
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
39
Scott LaFaro (1936-1961)
Bassist
40
Ada Cornaro (1881-1961)
41
Hubert Van Innis (1866-1961)
Archer
42
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
43
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
44
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
45
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
46
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
47
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
48
Celebrities Born in 1961
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