* 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 )

* 1961 – Jonathan Nossiter, American film director

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

Notable later 20th century productions include the Hilton Edwards ' 1959 production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, starring Milo O ' Shea and Anna Manahan ; John Barton's 1960 Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Peter O ' Toole and Peggy Ashcroft, and which included both the complete Induction and the epilogue from A Shrew ; Maurice Daniels's 1961 RSC production at the Aldwych Theatre, starring Derek Godfrey and Vanessa Redgrave ; Trevor Nunn's 1969 RSC production also at the Aldwych, starring Michael Williams and Janet Suzman ; Clifford Williams ' 1973 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Alan Bates and Susan Fleetwood ; William Ball's 1976 commedia dell ' arte-style production at the American Conservatory Theater ; Wilford Leach's 1978 production at the Delacorte Theater, starring Raúl Juliá and Meryl Streep ; Barry Kyle's 1982 RSC production at the Barbican Centre, starring Alun Armstrong and Sinéad Cusack ; Toby Robertson's 1986 production at the Clwyd Theatr Cymru, starring Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave ; Jonathan Miller's 1987 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Brian Cox and Fiona Shaw ; A. J.

As a result, he was awarded the International Master title in 1972, the first English player to achieve this since Jonathan Penrose in 1961.

It was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 27 March 1961, where the initial print run of 50, 938 copies quickly sold out.

Thunderball was published on 27 March 1961 in the UK as a hardcover edition by publishers Jonathan Cape ; it was 253 pages long and cost 15 shillings.

True Theater, March 12, 1961 ( Season 9, Episode 21 ), starring Ronald Reagan as Host, Jonathan Harris of Lost in Space fame, Barbara Nichols, Cliff Robertson, and George Sanders.

Writers like Dashiell Hammett ( 1894 – 1961 ), Raymond Chandler ( 1888 – 1959 ), Jonathan Latimer ( 1906 – 1983 ), Mickey Spillane ( 1918 – 2006 ), and many others decided on an altogether different, innovative approach to crime fiction.

Jonathan Hugo Durival Kemp ( b. 1961 )

* Jonathan Butler ( born 1961 ), South African singer-songwriter

His best-known contribution was a consultation game, recorded in 1960 and broadcast in 1961, where he partnered Bobby Fischer against the English masters Jonathan Penrose and Peter Clarke.

In 1961 it was transferred to the Army and redesignated Fort Wainwright in honor of World War II general Jonathan M. Wainwright.

The author Jonathan Coe was born in Lickey in 1961.

Jonathan Avon was born in 1961 in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Jonathan Turley ( born May 6, 1961 ) is an American lawyer, legal scholar, writer, commentator, and legal analyst in broadcast and print journalism.

The author Jonathan Coe was born in Lickey in 1961.

* Jonathan Smith ( rower ) ( born 1961 ), American rower

1961 Conrad Richter ........ 2001 Jonathan Franzen

Queensberry has an eldest but illegitimate son, Ambrose Jonathan Carey ( b. 1961 ), head of a British security and intelligence firm, whose half-sister Caroline Carey ( b. 1959 ), an English art student, married the late Salem bin Laden, prior head of the global Bin Laden family corporation.

David Jonathan Heyman ( born 26 July 1961 ) is an English film producer and the founder of Heyday Films.

Jonathan Mostow ( born November 28, 1961 ) is an American film director, writer and producer.