Famous People Who Died In 1961

• James Thurber

  Cartoonist

  Ohio, United States of America

• Learned Hand

  Judge

  New York, United States of America

• Ernest Hemingway

  Author

  Illinois, United States of America

• Patrice Lumumba

  Politician

  Kasai, DR Congo

• Dag Hammarskjold

  Politician

  Jönköping, Sweden

• Govind Ballabh Pant

  Freedom Fighter

  Uttarakhand, India

• Sam Rayburn

  Politician

  Tennessee, United States of America

• Carl Jung

  Inventor

  Thurgau, Switzerland

• Percy Grainger

  Composer

  Victoria, Australia

• Ruth Chatterton

  Actress

  New York, United States of America

• Grandma Moses

  Painter

  New York, United States of America

• Emily Greene Balch

  Economist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Ty Cobb

  Sportsman

  Georgia, United States of America

• Dashiell Hammett

  Author

  Maryland, United States of America

• Jules Bordet

  Microbiologist

  Hainaut, Belgium

• Lee De Forest

  Inventor

  Iowa, United States of America

• B. Carroll Reece

  Politician

  Tennessee, United States of America

• Erwin Schrödinger

  Physicist

  Vienna, Austria

• Cuno Amiet

  Painter

  Solothurn, Switzerland

• Percy Williams Bridgman

  Physicist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Academic

  Charente-Maritime, France

• Charlotte Hawkins Brown

  Author

  North Carolina, United States of America

• Jessie Fauset

  Author

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Frederick Jones

  Inventor

  Ohio, United States of America

• Hilda Doolittle

  Poet

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• George S. Kaufman

  Critic

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Rafael Trujillo

  Dictator

  San Cristobal, Dominican Republic

• Dorothy Thompson

  Journalist

  New York, United States Of America

• Moss Hart

  Actor

  New York, United States of America

• Edith Wilson

  Political Wife

  Virginia, United States