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
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
10
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
11
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
12
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
13
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
Director
14
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
15
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
16
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
17
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
18
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
19
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
20
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
21
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
22
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
23
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
25
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
26
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
27
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
28
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
29
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
30
York Bowen (1884-1961)
Composer
31
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
Screenwriter
32
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
33
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
34
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
35
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
36
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
37
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
38
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
39
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
40
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
41
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
42
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
Philosopher
43
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
44
Ida Siekmann (1902-1961)
45
Juanita Hansen (1895-1961)
46
Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961)
Chess Player
47
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
48
