* 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 – 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 )

Dawnn Lewis ( born August 13, 1961 ) is an American actress and singer, perhaps best known for her roles on sitcoms such as A Different World and in the first season of Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper.

The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.

* Lewis, G. N., Randall, M. ( 1923 / 1961 ).

He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

* 1961 – Carl Lewis, American athlete

Lewis followed The Bellboy by directing several more films which he co-wrote with Richmond, including The Ladies Man ( 1961 ), The Errand Boy ( 1961 ), The Patsy ( 1964 ) and the well-known comedy, The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ).

* 1881 – Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist ( d. 1961 )

Nominalism has been endorsed or defended by many, including William of Ockham, Peter Abelard, D. C. Williams ( 1953 ), David Lewis ( 1983 ), and arguably H. H. Price ( 1953 ) and W. V. O. Quine ( 1961 ).

Lewis gave his radio speech responding to the 1961 census, which showed a decrease in the number of Welsh speakers from 36 % in 1931 to 26 %, out of a population of about 2. 5 million.

John Lewis ( U. S. politician ) | John Lewis and James Zwerg in 1961 after being beaten by a mob in Montgomery, Alabama during the Freedom Ride.

* Lewis, W. H., The Scandalous Regent, André Deutsch, London, 1961, ( English ).

* Mark Schorer, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, 1961, McGraw-Hill, ISBN B000NWQ8QK

* Carl Lewis ( born 1961 ), United States Olympic track athlete, won ten Olympic medals ( 9 gold, 1 silver ).

* Carl Lewis ( born 1961 ), athlete and winner of nine Olympic gold medals.

Lomax also did important field work with Elizabeth Barnicle and Zora Neale Hurston in Florida and the Bahamas ( 1935 ); with John Wesley Work III and Lewis Jones in Mississippi ( 1941 and 42 ); with folksingers Robin Roberts and Jean Ritchie in Ireland ( 1950 ); with his second wife Antoinette Marchand in the Caribbean ( 1961 ); with Shirley Collins in Britain and the American South ( 1959 ); with Joan Halifax in Morocco ; and with his daughter.

* Lewis appeared on April 14, 1960, and again on January 12, 1961, on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

* Lewis, Lamb Chop ( dressed as Santa ) and Charlie Horse sing " Jingle Bells " on " The Ed Sullivan Show " ( Season 15, Episode 15, Aired Dec 24, 1961 )

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

Douglas, after much consultation, with Coldwell, Lewis and his caucus, decided in June 1961 to reluctantly contest the leadership of the New Party.

* 1961: Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges ( with Johnny Hodges ( a. sax ), Claude Williamson ( p ), Buddy Clark ( b ), and Mel Lewis ( d )

* The Jazztet and John Lewis ( Argo, 1961 )

The technique also appears in the instrumental break in Bobby Lewis ' 1961 US # 1 hit " Tossin ' and Turnin '".

A. Richards, who in 1929 analyzed a group of Cambridge undergraduates ' misreadings ; Louise Rosenblatt, who, in Literature as Exploration ( 1938 ), argued that it is important for the teacher to avoid imposing any " preconceived notions about the proper way to react to any work "; and C. S. Lewis in An Experiment in Criticism ( 1961 ).