** Billy Ray Cyrus ( born 1961 ), American musician and actor

** Bernard Darwin ( 1876 – 1961 ), golf writer

** Kurukshetra ( Epic Poem ) ( 1946 ), Rashmirathi ( 1952 ), Urvashi ( 1961 ), Hunkar by Ramdhari Singh ' Dinkar '

** ( 1961 ), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

** Runner-up 1961, 1963

David Pears and Brian McGuinness ( 1961 ), Routledge, hardcover: ISBN 0-7100-3004-5, 1974 paperback: ISBN 0-415-02825-6, 2001 hardcover: ISBN 0-415-25562-7, 2001 paperback: ISBN 0-415-25408-6 ; ** Philosophische Untersuchungen ( 1953 ) or Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M.

** Miko Brando ( born 1961 )

** 103. lawrencium, Lr, named after Ernest O. Lawrence, a physicist best known for development of the cyclotron, and the person for whom the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( which hosted the creation of these transuranium elements ) are named ( 1961 ).

** The Bay of Pigs Invasion ( 1961 ) – an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

** Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ) – the war was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies.

** Jill Dando, British television journalist ( b. 1961 )

** Doug Hopkins, American musician ( b. 1961 )

** Fernando Collor de Mello takes office as President of Brazil, Brazil's first democratically elected president since 1961.

** Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer ( b. 1961 )

** Jonathan Melvoin, American musician ( b. 1961 )

** Justin Fashanu, British footballer ( b. 1961 )

** Nous les amoureux by Jean-Claude Pascal ( music by Jacques Datin, text by Maurice Vidalin ) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 for Luxembourg.

** King Zog of Albania ( d. 1961 )

** Elsie Ferguson, American actress ( d. 1961 )

** Marion Davies, American actress ( d. 1961 )

** Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist ( d. 1961 )

** Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ( d. 1961 )

** Metropolitan Benjamin ( Fedchenkov ), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America ( d. 1961 )

** Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer ( d. 1961 )

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

** Atlas V ( 2002 – Present )

** Atlas Major, a Standard Motor Company van 1962 – 1963

** The Banach – Tarski paradox.

** The Nielsen – Schreier theorem, that every subgroup of a free group is free.

** The Hahn – Banach theorem in functional analysis, allowing the extension of linear functionals

** The Banach – Alaoglu theorem about compactness of sets of functionals.

** Every Tychonoff space has a Stone – Čech compactification.

** This is a distinguished work which stands out from, and above, many of the books and articles which have ben written in this century on Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā ) ( A. D. 980 – 1037 ).

** The numbers and are not algebraic numbers ( see the Lindemann – Weierstrass theorem ); hence they are transcendental.

** Laozi ( 5th – 4th century BC )

** Ge Hong ( 283 AD – 343 AD )

** Xun Zi ( c. 312 BC – 230 BC )

** Gongsun Long ( c. 325 BC – c. 250 BC )

** Zou Yan ( 305 BC – 240 BC )

** Mani ( c. 216 AD – 276 AD )

** Haliotis brazieri f. hargravesi ( Cox, 1869 ) – synonym: Haliotis ethologus, the Mimic abalone, Haliotis hargravesi, the Hargraves ’ s abalone

** Haliotis dalli roberti McLean, 1970 – synonym: Haliotis roberti

** Haliotis diversicolor squamata Reeve, 1846 – synonym: Haliotis squamata – the scaly Australian abalone

** Haliotis diversicolor supertexta – the Taiwan abalone or jiukong

** Haliotis kamtschatkana assimilis Dall, 1878 – synonym: Haliotis assimilis, the threaded abalone

** Haliotis ovina f. patamakanthini Dekker, Regter, & Gras, 2001 – synonym: Haliotis patamakanthini

** Haliotis rubra conicopora Péron, 1816 – synonym: Haliotis conicopora – the conical pore abalone