Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
3
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
4
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
5
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
6
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
7
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
8
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
9
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
10
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
Folk Singer
11
George Formby (1904-1961)
12
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
13
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
14
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
15
Dazzy Vance (1891-1961)
16
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
17
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
Playwright
18
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
19
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
20
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
21
Learned Hand (1872-1961)
Politician
22
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Poet
23
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
25
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
26
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
27
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
28
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
29
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
30
Charles Coburn (1877-1961)
31
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
32
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
33
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
34
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Architect
35
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
36
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
37
Juanita Hansen (1895-1961)
38
Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961)
Chess Player
39
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
40
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
41
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
42
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
43
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
44
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
45
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
46
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
47
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
48
