Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Novelist
1
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Movie Actor
2
Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Movie Actress
3
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
4
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
5
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
6
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
7
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
8
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
9
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
10
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
11
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
12
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
13
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
14
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
15
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
16
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
17
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
18
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
19
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
20
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
21
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
22
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
23
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
25
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
26
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
27
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
28
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Composer
29
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961)
30
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
31
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
32
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
33
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
34
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
35
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
36
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
37
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Poet
38
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961)
Philosopher
39
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
40
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
41
Tsuru Aoki (1892-1961)
42
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
43
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
44
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
45
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
46
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
47
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
48
