Famous People Who Died In 1961
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1961. This list includes people like Ernest Hemingway, Carl Jung, Gary Cooper, Ty Cobb, Erwin Schrödinger and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, journalists, artists and novelists who died in 1961. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Switzerland and many more countries.
Rafael Trujillo(President)
24 October 1891
Dominican
Eero Saarinen(Architect, Designer)
20 August 1910
Finnish,American
Anna May Wong(Film actor, Stage actor, Television actor)
03 January 1905
American
Dashiell Hammett(American author)
27 May 1894
American
Esperanza Baur(actor)
1924 AD
Mexican
George Formby(Actor, Comedian, Film producer, Musician)
26 May 1904
British
Maurice Merleau-Ponty(Philosopher, Professor)
14 March 1908
French
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(French novelist)
27 May 1894
French
Grandma Moses(Painter, Illustrator)
07 September 1860
American
Vanessa Bell(Painter)
30 May 1879
British
Kurt Meyer(Officer)
23 December 1910
German
Mohammed V of Morocco(Sultan of Morocco)
10 August 1909
Moroccan
Maya Deren(Filmmaker)
29 April 1917
Russian
Adnan Menderes(politician, diplomat)
1899 AD
Turkish
Augustus John(Painter, Etcher)
04 January 1878
British
Masanobu Tsuji(politician, military personnel)
11 October 1900
Japanese
Moss Hart(Screenwriter, Playwright, Writer)
24 October 1904
American
George S. Kaufman(Theatre director, Screenwriter, Journalist, Playwright, Bridge player, Writer)
16 November 1889
American
Frederick McKinley Jones17 May 1893
American
Alastair Denniston(Field hockey player, Cryptographer, Mathematician)
01 December 1881
British
Dorothy Thompson(Journalist, Writer)
09 July 1893
American
Earle Page(Politician)
08 August 1880
Australian
Blaise Cendrars(War correspondent, Journalist, Poet, Writer, Novelist, Travel writer)
01 September 1887
Swiss,French
Sumner Welles(Diplomat, Non-fiction writer)
14 October 1892
American
Luigi Einaudi(President)
24 March 1874
Italian
Josef Priller(Aviator, Fighter pilot)
27 July 1915
German
Otto Loewi(Pharmacologist)
03 June 1873
German,American
Arnold Gesell(Psychologist, University teacher, Physician)
21 June 1880
American
Zog of Albania(King)
08 October 1895
Albanian
B. Carroll Reece(Politician)
22 December 1889
American
Sir Thomas Beecham29 April 1879
British
Jessie Fauset(Author, Editor, Poet, Educator, Journalist)
1882 AD
Frederick Jones(American inventor)
17 May 1893
American
George Simon Kaufman16 November 1889
American
Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches27 May 1894
French