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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Emily Greene Balch
Activist
8-Jan-1867 9-Jan-1961 Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient
Thomas Beecham
Conductor
29-Apr-1879 8-Mar-1961 Founder, London and Royal Philharmonics
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr.
Diplomat
17-Dec-1897 13-Nov-1961 Ambassador to governments in exile
Jules Bordet
Scientist
13-Jun-1870 6-Apr-1961 Researched antibodies and antigens
Owen Brewster
Politician
22-Feb-1888 25-Dec-1961 Governor and Senator from Maine
Styles Bridges
Politician
9-Sep-1898 26-Nov-1961 Governor and Senator from New Hampshire
Percy Williams Bridgman
Physicist
21-Apr-1882 20-Aug-1961 High-pressure physics
Wally Brown
Actor
9-Oct-1904 13-Nov-1961 Zombies on Broadway
Dorothy Burgess
Actor
4-Mar-1907 20-Aug-1961 Hold Your Man
Leo Carrillo
Actor
6-Aug-1881 10-Sep-1961 Pancho on The Cisco Kid
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Novelist
27-May-1894 1-Jul-1961 Voyage au bout de la nuit
Whittaker Chambers
Author
1-Apr-1901 9-Jul-1961 Accuser of Alger Hiss
Jeff Chandler
Actor
15-Dec-1918 17-Jun-1961 Broken Arrow
Ruth Chatterton
Actor
24-Dec-1893 24-Nov-1961 Madame X
John D. Clark
Economist
26-Sep-1884 6-Nov-1961 Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-53
Edward F. Cline
Film Director
4-Nov-1891 22-May-1961 The Bank Dick
Ty Cobb
Baseball
18-Dec-1886 17-Jul-1961 Legendary Detroit Tigers hitter
Charles Coburn
Actor
17-Jun-1877 30-Aug-1961 The More the Merrier
Donald Cook
Actor
26-Sep-1901 1-Oct-1961 Viva Villa!
Gary Cooper
Actor
7-May-1901 14-May-1961 High Noon
Violet Kemble Cooper
Actor
12-Dec-1886 17-Aug-1961 Our Betters
Harry Crookshank
Politician
27-May-1893 17-Oct-1961 Leader, House of Commons, 1951-55
Esther Dale
Actor
10-Nov-1885 23-Jul-1961 Curly Top
Marion Davies
Actor
3-Jan-1897 22-Sep-1961 When Knighthood Was in Flower
Joan Davis
Actor
29-Jun-1907 22-May-1961 I Married Joan
Roy Del Ruth
Film Director
18-Oct-1893 27-Apr-1961 The Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Phil M. Donnelly
Politician
16-Mar-1891 12-Sep-1961 Twice Governor of Missouri
Tom Dooley
Activist
17-Jan-1927 18-Jan-1961 Deliver Us from Evil
Sheridan Downey
Politician
11-Mar-1884 25-Oct-1961 US Senator from California, 1939-50
William Duncan
Actor
16-Dec-1879 8-Feb-1961 Silent film actor
Frantz Fanon
Psychiatrist
20-Jul-1925 6-Dec-1961 Black Skin, White Masks
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Novelist
27-Apr-1882 30-Apr-1961 Comedy: American Style
Kenneth Fearing
Novelist
28-Jul-1902 26-Jun-1961 The Big Clock
Barry Fitzgerald
Actor
10-Mar-1888 14-Jan-1961 Going My Way
Lee De Forest
Inventor
26-Aug-1873 30-Jun-1961 Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube
Eddie Gaedel
Baseball
8-Jun-1925 18-Jun-1961 Dwarf MLB player
Percy Grainger
Composer
8-Jul-1882 20-Feb-1961 Country Gardens
Joseph R. Grundy
Politician
13-Jan-1863 3-Mar-1961 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1929-30
Paul Guilfoyle
Actor
14-Jul-1902 27-Jun-1961 Winterset
Dag Hammarskjold
Diplomat
29-Jul-1905 18-Sep-1961 UN Secretary General, 1953-61
Dashiell Hammett
Author
27-May-1894 10-Jan-1961 The Maltese Falcon
Learned Hand
Judge
27-Jan-1872 18-Aug-1961 Influential American justice
Moss Hart
Playwright
24-Oct-1904 20-Dec-1961 You Can't Take It With You
H. D.
Poet
10-Sep-1886 27-Sep-1961 Imagist poet, Sea Garden
Ernest Hemingway
Author
21-Jul-1899 2-Jul-1961 The Old Man And The Sea
Sidney Holland
Head of State
18-Oct-1893 5-Aug-1961 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1949-57
Marian Jordan
Actor
15-Apr-1898 7-Apr-1961 Molly of Fibber McGee and Molly
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist
26-Jul-1875 6-Jun-1961 Inventor of the collective unconscious
George S. Kaufman
Playwright
16-Nov-1889 2-Jun-1961 You Can't Take It With You
Martin H. Kennelly
Politician
11-Aug-1887 29-Nov-1961 Mayor of Chicago, 1947-55
Zoltán Korda
Film Director
3-Jun-1895 13-Oct-1961 Sahara
Belinda Lee
Actor
15-Jun-1935 12-Mar-1961 Who Done It?
Otto Loewi
Scientist
3-Jun-1873 25-Dec-1961 Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter
Patrice Lumumba
Head of State
2-Jul-1925 17-Jan-1961 First Prime Minister of Congo
George W. Malone
Politician
7-Aug-1890 19-May-1961 US Senator from Nevada, 1947-59
Alan Marshal
Actor
29-Jan-1909 13-Jul-1961 Night Must Fall
Chico Marx
Actor
22-Mar-1887 11-Oct-1961 An Italian con-man of a Marx Brother
Clarence W. Meadows
Politician
11-Feb-1904 12-Sep-1961 Governor of West Virginia, 1945-49
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Philosopher
14-Mar-1908 4-May-1961 Phenomenology of Perception
Paul W. Merrill
Astronomer
15-Aug-1887 19-Jul-1961 S-process of nucleosynthesis
Lee Moran
Actor
23-Jun-1888 24-Apr-1961 American character actor
Grandma Moses
Painter
7-Sep-1860 13-Dec-1961 Painter began at age 77
Henry O'Neill
Actor
10-Aug-1891 18-May-1961 Anchors Aweigh
Vivienne Osborne
Actor
10-Dec-1896 10-Jun-1961 The Dark Horse
Sergio Osmeña
Head of State
9-Sep-1878 19-Oct-1961 4th President of the Philippines
Earle Page
Head of State
8-Aug-1880 20-Dec-1961 Prime Minister of Australia, 1939
Isabel Paterson
Author
22-Jan-1886 10-Jan-1961 The God of the Machine
Herbert C. Pell
Diplomat
16-Feb-1884 17-Jul-1961 US Ambassador to Portugal, 1937-41
George W. Pepper
Politician
16-Mar-1867 24-May-1961 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-27
Sam Rayburn
Politician
6-Jan-1882 16-Nov-1961 Speaker of the US House, 1940-61
B. Carroll Reece
Politician
22-Dec-1889 19-Mar-1961 Congressman from Tennessee
Alice Grant Rosman
Novelist
1887 20-Aug-1961 Visitors to Hugo
Gail Russell
Actor
21-Sep-1924 26-Aug-1961 Angel and the Badman
Eero Saarinen
Architect
20-Aug-1910 1-Sep-1961 Designed Gateway Arch in St. Louis
Erwin Schrödinger
Physicist
12-Aug-1887 4-Jan-1961 Schrödinger's wave equation
Clark Ashton Smith
Author
13-Jan-1893 14-Aug-1961 Horror/fantasy author
Walter Bedell Smith
Government
5-Oct-1895 9-Aug-1961 CIA Director, 1950-53
Ernest Thesiger
Actor
15-Jan-1879 14-Jan-1961 Dr. Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein
Dorothy Thompson
Journalist
9-Jul-1893 30-Jan-1961 I Saw Hitler!
James Thurber
Author
8-Dec-1894 2-Nov-1961 Short story writer and cartoonist
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
Head of State
24-Oct-1891 30-May-1961 Dictator of the Dominican Republic
John H. Trumbull
Politician
4-Mar-1873 21-May-1961 Governor of Connecticut, 1925-31
Millard E. Tydings
Politician
6-Apr-1890 9-Feb-1961 US Senator from Maryland, 1927-51
Monrad C. Wallgren
Politician
17-Apr-1891 18-Sep-1961 Governor of Washington, 1945-49
Sumner Welles
Diplomat
14-Oct-1892 24-Sep-1961 US Under Secretary of State, 1937-43
Charles E. Wilson
Government
18-Jul-1890 26-Sep-1961 US Secretary of Defense, 1953-57
Edith Wilson
First Lady
15-Oct-1872 28-Dec-1961 Second wife of US President Woodrow Wilson
Anna May Wong
Actor
3-Jan-1905 3-Feb-1961 Shanghai Express
King Zog
Royalty
8-Oct-1895 9-Apr-1961 King of Albania


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