Famous People Who Died in 1961

• Cooper, Gary

  The tall, laconic actor who starred in High Noon

• Fauset, Jessie Redmon

  The "midwife" of the Harlem Renaissance and editor of 'The Crisis'

• Hammett, Dashiell

  The author of "The Maltese Falcon"

• Hemingway, Ernest

  The famously manly author of For Whom the Bell Tolls

• Jung, Carl

  The founder of analytical psychology

• Moses, Grandma

  The American folk artist who started painting in her seventies

• Saarinen, Eero

  The Midcentury Modern architect who designed the Gateway Arch

• Schrödinger, Erwin

  Creator of the Schrödinger's Cat paradox

• Thurber, James

  Author of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

• Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt

  The second wife of President Woodrow Wilson

• Wong, Anna May

  Hollywood's first Chinese American film star

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