Who Was Alive in 1961
178 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1961
Bertrand RussellAge 89
Winston ChurchillAge 87
Carl JungAge 86
Albert SchweitzerAge 86
Lise MeitnerAge 83
Helen KellerAge 81
Pablo PicassoAge 80
Igor StravinskyAge 79
Coco ChanelAge 78
Eleanor RooseveltAge 77
Harry S. TrumanAge 77
Niels BohrAge 76
Erwin SchrödingerAge 74
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 74
Chiang Kai-shekAge 74
Le CorbusierAge 74
T. S. EliotAge 73
Charlie ChaplinAge 72
Jawaharlal NehruAge 72
Ho Chi MinhAge 71
Agatha ChristieAge 71
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 71
Charles de GaulleAge 71
Haile SelassieAge 69
J.R.R. TolkienAge 69
Mao ZedongAge 68
Aldous HuxleyAge 67
Nikita KhrushchevAge 67
Buster KeatonAge 66
Golda MeirAge 63
C. S. LewisAge 63
Duke EllingtonAge 62
Ernest HemingwayAge 62
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 62
Alfred HitchcockAge 62
Werner HeisenbergAge 60
Louis ArmstrongAge 60
Walt DisneyAge 60
HirohitoAge 60
Marlene DietrichAge 60
Bob HopeAge 58
Robert OppenheimerAge 57
Salvador DalíAge 57
Pablo NerudaAge 57
Jean-Paul SartreAge 56
Hannah ArendtAge 55
Rachel CarsonAge 54
Simone de BeauvoirAge 53
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 53
Kwame NkrumahAge 52
Dorothy HodgkinAge 51
Mother TeresaAge 51
Akira KurosawaAge 51
Jacques CousteauAge 51
Ronald ReaganAge 50
Naguib MahfouzAge 50
Rosa ParksAge 48
Jesse OwensAge 48
Richard NixonAge 48
Gerald FordAge 48
Hedy LamarrAge 47
Orson WellesAge 46
Frank SinatraAge 46
Ingrid BergmanAge 46
Roald DahlAge 45
John F. KennedyAge 44
Ella FitzgeraldAge 44
Indira GandhiAge 44
Ingmar BergmanAge 43
Nelson MandelaAge 43
Richard FeynmanAge 43
Edmund HillaryAge 42
Jackie RobinsonAge 42
Pope John Paul IIAge 41
Toshiro MifuneAge 41
Stan LeeAge 39
Marlon BrandoAge 37
James BaldwinAge 37
Jimmy CarterAge 37
George H. W. BushAge 37
Patrice LumumbaAge 36
Margaret ThatcherAge 36
B.B. KingAge 36
Malcolm XAge 36
Marilyn MonroeAge 35
Fidel CastroAge 35
Elizabeth IIAge 35
Gabriel García MárquezAge 34
Pope Benedict XVIAge 34
James WatsonAge 33
Andy WarholAge 33
Stanley KubrickAge 33
Maya AngelouAge 33
Che GuevaraAge 33
Vera RubinAge 33
Noam ChomskyAge 33
Martin Luther King Jr.Age 32
Audrey HepburnAge 32
Grace KellyAge 32
Chinua AchebeAge 31
Neil ArmstrongAge 31
Ray CharlesAge 31
Tu YouyouAge 31
Desmond TutuAge 30
Toni MorrisonAge 30
Mikhail GorbachevAge 30
Johnny CashAge 29
Elizabeth TaylorAge 29
Sylvia PlathAge 29
Yoko OnoAge 28
Wole SoyinkaAge 27
Yuri GagarinAge 27
Carl SaganAge 27
Jane GoodallAge 27
Dalai LamaAge 26
Elvis PresleyAge 26
Woody AllenAge 26
Pope FrancisAge 25
Jack NicholsonAge 24
Saddam HusseinAge 24
Kofi AnnanAge 23
Francis Ford CoppolaAge 22
PeléAge 21
Bruce LeeAge 21
John LennonAge 21
Wangari MaathaiAge 21
Bob DylanAge 20
Muhammad AliAge 19
Aretha FranklinAge 19
Jimi HendrixAge 19
Stephen HawkingAge 19
Paul McCartneyAge 19
Muammar GaddafiAge 19
Joe BidenAge 19
Billie Jean KingAge 18
George HarrisonAge 18
Janis JoplinAge 18
Jim MorrisonAge 18
Lech WałęsaAge 18
George LucasAge 17
Aung San Suu KyiAge 16
Bob MarleyAge 16
Freddie MercuryAge 15
Steven SpielbergAge 15
Donald TrumpAge 15
George W. BushAge 15
Bill ClintonAge 15
David BowieAge 14
Hillary ClintonAge 14
Charles IIIAge 13
Haruki MurakamiAge 12
Benjamin NetanyahuAge 12
Narendra ModiAge 11
Robin WilliamsAge 10
Vladimir PutinAge 9
Xi JinpingAge 8
Oprah WinfreyAge 7
Angela MerkelAge 7
Hugo ChávezAge 7
Recep Tayyip ErdoğanAge 7
François HollandeAge 7
Steve JobsAge 6
Bill GatesAge 6
Nicolas SarkozyAge 6
Pope Leo XIVAge 6
Ai WeiweiAge 4
Osama bin LadenAge 4
Michael JacksonAge 3
PrinceAge 3
Keith HaringAge 3
MadonnaAge 3
Rigoberta MenchúAge 2
Jean-Michel BasquiatAge 1
Diego MaradonaAge 1
NaruhitoAge 1
Princess DianaAge 0
Wayne GretzkyAge 0
Barack ObamaAge 0
Born in 1961
Barack Obama
44th US President, first African American president
Princess Diana
People's Princess, humanitarian
Wayne Gretzky
The Great One, greatest ice hockey player
Also Born in 1961
President of Azerbaijan since 2003
American actor and filmmaker (born 1961)
President of Indonesia from 2014 to 2024
Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013
Irish singer (born 1961)
American comedian, actor, and singer (born 1961)
New Zealand filmmaker (born 1961)
Indian author and activist (born 1961)
American actor (1961–2013)
Romanian gymnast (born 1961)
Russian oligarch and mercenary leader (1961–2023)
Canadian-American actor and activist (born 1961)
Died in 1961
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea, Nobel laureate
Erwin Schrödinger
Schrödinger's cat, wave equation
Carl Jung
Analytical psychology, archetypes
Patrice Lumumba
First Prime Minister of independent Congo
Also Died in 1961
UN Secretary-General from 1953 to 1961
American actor (1901–1961)
French writer (1894–1961)
American economist, academic, and Nobel Laureate
American physicist (1882–1961)
French psychiatrist and philosopher (1925-1961)
American writer (1894–1961)
Belgian scientist and Nobel laureate (1870–1961)
9th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey from 1950 to 1960
Dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961
Leader of Albania from 1922 to 1939
President of Italy from 1948 to 1955
Notable World Events in 1961
Sources
- 1961 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
- Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
- Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
- Carl Jung — Wikipedia
- Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
- Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
- Helen Keller — Wikipedia
- Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
- Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
- Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
- Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
- Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
- Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
- Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
- Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
- Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
- T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
- Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
- Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
- Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
- Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
- Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
- Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
- J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
- Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
- Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
- Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
- Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
- Golda Meir — Wikipedia
- C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
- Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
- Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
- Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
- Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
- Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
- Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Walt Disney — Wikipedia
- Hirohito — Wikipedia
- Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
- Bob Hope — Wikipedia
- J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
- Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
- Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
- Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
- Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
- Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
- Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
- Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
- Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
- Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
- Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
- Akira Kurosawa — Wikipedia
- Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
- Ronald Reagan — Wikipedia
- Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
- Rosa Parks — Wikipedia
- Jesse Owens — Wikipedia
- Richard Nixon — Wikipedia
- Gerald Ford — Wikipedia
- Hedy Lamarr — Wikipedia
- Orson Welles — Wikipedia
- Frank Sinatra — Wikipedia
- Ingrid Bergman — Wikipedia
- Roald Dahl — Wikipedia
- John F. Kennedy — Wikipedia
- Ella Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Indira Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Ingmar Bergman — Wikipedia
- Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
- Richard Feynman — Wikipedia
- Edmund Hillary — Wikipedia
- Jackie Robinson — Wikipedia
- Pope John Paul II — Wikipedia
- Toshiro Mifune — Wikipedia
- Stan Lee — Wikipedia
- Marlon Brando — Wikipedia
- James Baldwin — Wikipedia
- Jimmy Carter — Wikipedia
- George H. W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Patrice Lumumba — Wikipedia
- Margaret Thatcher — Wikipedia
- B. B. King — Wikipedia
- Malcolm X — Wikipedia
- Marilyn Monroe — Wikipedia
- Fidel Castro — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth II — Wikipedia
- Gabriel García Márquez — Wikipedia
- Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
- James Watson — Wikipedia
- Andy Warhol — Wikipedia
- Stanley Kubrick — Wikipedia
- Maya Angelou — Wikipedia
- Che Guevara — Wikipedia
- Vera Rubin — Wikipedia
- Noam Chomsky — Wikipedia
- Martin Luther King Jr. — Wikipedia
- Audrey Hepburn — Wikipedia
- Grace Kelly — Wikipedia
- Chinua Achebe — Wikipedia
- Neil Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Ray Charles — Wikipedia
- Tu Youyou — Wikipedia
- Desmond Tutu — Wikipedia
- Toni Morrison — Wikipedia
- Mikhail Gorbachev — Wikipedia
- Johnny Cash — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth Taylor — Wikipedia
- Sylvia Plath — Wikipedia
- Yoko Ono — Wikipedia
- Wole Soyinka — Wikipedia
- Yuri Gagarin — Wikipedia
- Carl Sagan — Wikipedia
- Jane Goodall — Wikipedia
- 14th Dalai Lama — Wikipedia
- Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
- Woody Allen — Wikipedia
- Pope Francis — Wikipedia
- Jack Nicholson — Wikipedia
- Saddam Hussein — Wikipedia
- Kofi Annan — Wikipedia
- Francis Ford Coppola — Wikipedia
- Pelé — Wikipedia
- Bruce Lee — Wikipedia
- John Lennon — Wikipedia
- Wangarĩ Maathai — Wikipedia
- Bob Dylan — Wikipedia
- Muhammad Ali — Wikipedia
- Aretha Franklin — Wikipedia
- Jimi Hendrix — Wikipedia
- Stephen Hawking — Wikipedia
- Paul McCartney — Wikipedia
- Muammar Gaddafi — Wikipedia
- Joe Biden — Wikipedia
- Billie Jean King — Wikipedia
- George Harrison — Wikipedia
- Janis Joplin — Wikipedia
- Jim Morrison — Wikipedia
- Lech Wałęsa — Wikipedia
- George Lucas — Wikipedia
- Aung San Suu Kyi — Wikipedia
- Bob Marley — Wikipedia
- Freddie Mercury — Wikipedia
- Steven Spielberg — Wikipedia
- Donald Trump — Wikipedia
- George W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Bill Clinton — Wikipedia
- David Bowie — Wikipedia
- Hillary Clinton — Wikipedia
- Charles III — Wikipedia
- Haruki Murakami — Wikipedia
- Benjamin Netanyahu — Wikipedia
- Narendra Modi — Wikipedia
- Robin Williams — Wikipedia
- Vladimir Putin — Wikipedia
- Xi Jinping — Wikipedia
- Oprah Winfrey — Wikipedia
- Angela Merkel — Wikipedia
- Hugo Chávez — Wikipedia
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — Wikipedia
- François Hollande — Wikipedia
- Steve Jobs — Wikipedia
- Bill Gates — Wikipedia
- Nicolas Sarkozy — Wikipedia
- Pope Leo XIV — Wikipedia
- Ai Weiwei — Wikipedia
- Osama bin Laden — Wikipedia
- Michael Jackson — Wikipedia
- Prince (musician) — Wikipedia
- Keith Haring — Wikipedia
- Madonna — Wikipedia
- Rigoberta Menchú — Wikipedia
- Jean-Michel Basquiat — Wikipedia
- Diego Maradona — Wikipedia
- Naruhito — Wikipedia
- Diana, Princess of Wales — Wikipedia
- Wayne Gretzky — Wikipedia
- Barack Obama — Wikipedia