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
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Painter
5
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Baseball Player
6
George Formby (1904-1961)
Folk Singer
7
Mary Chase Perry-Stratton (1867-1961)
Entrepreneur
8
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
Playwright
9
Archer Macmackin (1888-1961)
Director
10
Dummy Hoy (1862-1961)
11
William Alexander Morgan (1928-1961)
12
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1961)
World Leader
13
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961)
Physicist
14
Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)
Politician
15
Chico Marx (1887-1961)
16
Ida Siekmann (1902-1961)
17
Winifred Lawson (1892-1961)
Opera Singer
18
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
19
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
20
Gwen Lee (1904-1961)
21
Marion Davies (1897-1961)
22
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
23
Edith Wilson (1872-1961)
First Lady
24
Celebrities Born in 1961
Deaths by Year
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
25
Oliver Brown (1918-1961)
Activist
26
Cisco Houston (1918-1961)
27
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875-1961)
28
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
Poet
29
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Composer
30
Joan Davis (1907-1961)
31
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Cartoonist
32
Barry Fitzgerald (1888-1961)
33
Leo Carrillo (1881-1961)
TV Actor
34
Scott LaFaro (1936-1961)
Bassist
35
Booker Little (1938-1961)
Trumpet Player
36
Shane Summers (1936-1961)
Race Car Driver
37
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
38
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
39
Harry O. Hoyt (1885-1961)
Screenwriter
40
Edwin Perkins (1889-1961)
Inventor
41
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
42
Learned Hand (1872-1961)
43
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961)
44
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
Philosopher
45
Gail Russell (1924-1961)
46
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896-1961)
47
Esperanza Baur (1920-1961)
48
