Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
2
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
3
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
4
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
5
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
6
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
7
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
8
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
9
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
10
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
11
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
12
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
13
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
14
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
15
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
16
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
17
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
18
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
19
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
20
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
21
Henry O'Neill (1891-1961)
22
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
23
Ferdoos Mohammed (1906-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
25
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
26
Frank Fay (1891-1961)
Comedian
27
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
28
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
29
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
30
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
31
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
32
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
33
Julia Peterkin (1880-1961)
34
Mordecai Ham (1877-1961)
Religious Leader
35
Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961)
36
Shane Summers (1936-1961)
37
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
38
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
39
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
40
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
41
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
42
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
43
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
44
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
45
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
46
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
47
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
48