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