* 1961 – Rory Bremner, Scottish comedian

* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).

* 1961 – Enedina Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker

* 1961 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian singer, musician, and composer ( Dead Can Dance )

* 1961 – Charles Mann, American football player

* 1961 – Magda Szubanski, Australian actress

* 1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.

* 1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player

* 1961 – Yolanda Adams, American singer, producer, and actress

* 1961 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer and director

* 1961 – Helmut Winklhofer, German footballer

* 1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor ( d. 1961 )

* 1961 – Brad Gilbert, American tennis player

* 1961 – John Key, New Zealand politician, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand

* 1961 – Amy Stiller, American comedian and actress

* 1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants ' attempts to escape to the West.

* 1961 – Sam Champion, American weatherman

* 1961 – Christos Christodoulou, Greek basketball player

* 1961 – Dawnn Lewis, American actress

* 1961 – Stuart Maconie, English journalist, author, and broadcaster

* 1961 – Neil Mallender, England cricketer

* 1961 – Tom Perrotta, American novelist

* 1961 – Sunil Shetty, Indian actor and producer

* 1961 – Cary Stayner, American serial killer

* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )

* McKitrick, Eric L., Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction ( 1961 ).

* 1961 – Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer

* 1961 – Andrew Fastow, American businessman

* 1961 – Andrew Thomson, Australian politician

The Blumes had two children: Randy Lee, an airline pilot ( born 1961 ), and Lawrence Andrew, a filmmaker ( born 1963 ).

* 1961 – Andrew Paul, English actor

Andrew Sarris called it the " directorial surprise of 1961 ," and it became a " romantic touchstone " for college students in the early 1960s.

For the 1753 revision, the best are by L. W. Tancock ( Penguin, 1949 — though he divides the 2-part novel into a number of chapters ), Donald M. Frame ( Signet, 1961 — which notes differences between the 1731 and 1753 editions ), Angela Scholar ( Oxford, 2004, with extensive notes and commentary ), and Andrew Brown ( Hesperus, 2004, with a foreword by Germaine Greer ).

Andrew Stuart Fastow ( born December 22, 1961 ) is an American businessman who served as the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation that was based in Houston, Texas until the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into his and the company's conduct in 2001.

UPI reporters and photographers have won ten Pulitzer Prizes: Russell Jones ( International Reporting, 1957 ), Andrew Lopez ( News Photography, 1960 ), Yasushi Nagao ( News Photography, 1961 ), Merriman Smith ( National Reporting, 1964 ), Kyoichi Sawada ( News Photography, 1966 ), Toshio Sakai ( Feature Photography, 1968 ), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers ( National Reporting, 1971 ), and David Hume Kennerly ( Feature Photography, 1972 ).

Fox, OC ( born Michael Andrew Fox ; June 9, 1961 ) is a Canadian American

* Andrew Schlafly, ( born 1961 ), founder of Conservapedia, son of Phyllis Schlafly.

* Andrew Fastow ( born 1961 ), convicted CFO of Enron, went to NPHS and grew up in New Providence on the same street as the Allen W. Roberts Elementary School.

* Show Boat ( 1961 New York City Center revival )— Andrew Frierson singing " Ol ' Man River ", and Carol Bruce, from the 1946 Broadway revival, singing " Bill ".

They had four children, all sons: Peter, born in 1954, Thomas, Andrew, and the youngest, Christopher, born in 1961.

At age 19, she married Andrew " Andy " Stewart, on July 1, 1961.

In a 1961 foreword to the novel, Henry D. Aiken states that the U. S. president of the novel " bears some resemblance to Andrew Johnson, to Garfield, and to Grant ".

* Browning Mummery ( Electronic sound works ) ( 1983 ) by the Australian musician Andrew Lonsdale ( 1961 –)

Whistle Down the Wind is a musical based on the 1961 film Whistle Down the Wind with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Jim Steinman, known for his work with Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler.

* McKitrick, Eric L. Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction ( 1961 ).

** Andrew H. Amyx ( 1961 – 1966 ) at WFGA-TV ( now WTLV-TV )

When the state of Tennessee revoked Highlander's charter and confiscated its land and property in 1961, SCLC rescued the citizenship school program and added Septima Clark, Bernice Robinson, and Andrew Young to its staff.

* Andrew Wilson ( historian ) ( born 1961 ), British historian

In 1917 Anslinger married Martha Kind Denniston, niece of Andrew W. Mellon ( Sept 1886 – Oct 10, 1961 ).