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
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
7
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
8
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
9
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
10
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
11
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
12
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
13
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
14
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
15
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
16
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
17
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
Playwright
18
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Philosopher
19
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
20
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
21
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
22
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
23
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
Composer
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Wolfgang Von Trips (1928-1961)
Race Car Driver
25
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
26
Learned Hand (1872-1961)
27
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
28
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
29
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
30
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
31
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
32
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
33
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
34
Ruth Chatterton (1892-1961)
35
Belinda Lee (1935-1961)
36
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
37
Ed Oliver (1916-1961)
Golfer
38
Nita Naldi (1894-1961)
39
Julia Peterkin (1880-1961)
40
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961)
41
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
42
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
43
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
44
Edward Cline (1891-1961)
Screenwriter
45
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
46
Longtack Sam (1884-1961)
Magician
47
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
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