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.
Ernest Hemingway21 July 1899, American
Journalist
Carl Jung26 July 1875, Swiss
Psychiatrist
Gary Cooper07 May 1901, American
American film actor
Ty Cobb18 December 1886, American
American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder
Erwin Schrödinger12 August 1887, Austrian
Physicist
Patrice Lumumba02 July 1925, Congolese
Political leader
Dag Hammarskjöld29 July 1905, Swedish
Second Secretary-General of the United Nations
Jeff Chandler15 December 1918, American
Actor
Marion Davies03 January 1897, American
Actress
Sam Rayburn06 January 1882, American
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Chico Marx22 March 1887, American
American comedian
James Thurber08 December 1894, American
Cartoonist, Author, Journalist & Playwright
Learned Hand27 January 1872, American
Former United States Judge and Judicial
Govind Ballabh Pant10 September 1887, Indian
Freedom Fighter
Percy Grainger08 July 1882, Australian, American
Musician, Composer, arranger and pianist
Lee de Forest26 August 1873, American
Father of Radio
Ruth Chatterton24 December 1892, American
Actress
Percy Williams Bridgman21 April 1882, American
Physicist
Emily Greene Balch08 January 1867, American
Social Activist
Jules Bordet13 June 1870, Belgian
Microbiologist and Immunologist
Cuno Amiet28 March 1868, Swiss
Painter, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor
Rafael Trujillo24 October 1891, Dominican
President
Eero Saarinen20 August 1910, Finnish, American
Architect, Designer
Dashiell Hammett27 May 1894, American
American author
Anna May Wong03 January 1905, American
Film actor, Stage actor, Television actor
Esperanza Baur1924 AD, Mexican
actor
Paul Guilfoyle14 July 1902, American
Actor
George Formby26 May 1904, British
Actor, Comedian, Film producer, Musician
Maurice Merleau-Ponty14 March 1908, French
Philosopher, Professor
Kurt Meyer23 December 1910, German
Officer
Louis-Ferdinand Céline27 May 1894, French
French novelist
Vanessa Bell30 May 1879, British
Painter
Grandma Moses07 September 1860, American
Painter, Illustrator
Mohammed V of Morocco10 August 1909, Moroccan
Sultan of Morocco
Adnan Menderes1899 AD, Turkish
politician, diplomat
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Maya Deren29 April 1917, Russian
Filmmaker
Augustus John04 January 1878, British
Painter, Etcher
Masanobu Tsuji11 October 1900, Japanese
politician, military personnel
George S. Kaufman16 November 1889, American
Theatre director, Screenwriter, Journalist,
Alastair Denniston01 December 1881, British
Field hockey player, Cryptographer, Mathematician
Moss Hart24 October 1904, American
Screenwriter, Playwright, Writer
Frederick McKinley Jones17 May 1893, American
Josef Priller27 July 1915, German
Aviator, Fighter pilot
Dorothy Thompson09 July 1893, American
Journalist, Writer
Earle Page08 August 1880, Australian
Politician
Blaise Cendrars01 September 1887, Swiss, French
War correspondent, Journalist, Poet, Writer,
Luigi Einaudi24 March 1874, Italian
President
Sumner Welles14 October 1892, American
Diplomat, Non-fiction writer
Otto Loewi03 June 1873, German, American
Pharmacologist
Zog of Albania08 October 1895, Albanian
King
Arnold Gesell21 June 1880, American
Psychologist, University teacher, Physician
B. Carroll Reece22 December 1889, American
Politician
Sir Thomas Beecham29 April 1879, British
Jessie Fauset1882 AD
Author, Editor, Poet, Educator, Journalist
Frederick Jones17 May 1893, American
American inventor
George Simon Kaufman16 November 1889, American
Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches27 May 1894, French