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
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
6
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
7
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
8
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
9
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
10
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
11
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
12
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
13
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
14
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
Director
15
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
16
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
17
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
18
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
19
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
20
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
21
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
22
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
23
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
25
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
26
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
27
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
28
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
Philosopher
29
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
30
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
31
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
32
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
33
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
34
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
35
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
36
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
37
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
38
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
39
Learned Hand (1872-1961)
40
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
41
Julia Peterkin (1880-1961)
42
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
43
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961)
44
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
45
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
46
Edward Cline (1891-1961)
Screenwriter
47
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
48
