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1961 and –
* 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 – 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 and Magda
Her role as Vivien Leigh's earthy friend Contessa
Magda Terribili-Gonzales in the screen version of Tennessee Williams ' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (
1961 ) brought Lenya an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress.
1961 and Australian
* 1880
– Earle Page
, Australian politician ( d.
1961 )
* 1961 – Jon Farriss
, Australian drummer ( INXS )
* 1961 – Mikey Robins
, Australian comedian
* 1961 – Andrew Lock
, Australian mountaineer
Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page
, GCMG
, CH ( 8 August 188020 December
1961 ) was the 11th Prime Minister of Australia
, and is to date the second-longest serving federal parliamentarian in
Australian history
, with 41 years
, 361 days in Parliament .< ref >
* 1961 – Mark Latham
, Australian politician
* 1961 – Rick Price
, Australian singer-songwriter and musician
* 1882
– Percy Grainger
, Australian composer ( d.
1961 )
* 1961 – Andrew Thomson
, Australian politician
* 1881
– Essington Lewis
, Australian industrialist ( d.
1961 )
* 1961 – Gina Riley
, Australian actress, writer
, singer and comedian
* 1961 – Simone Young
, Australian conductor
* 1961 – Brett Kenny
, Australian rugby league footballer
* 1961 – Dean Jones
, Australian cricketer
* 1961 – Merv Hughes
, Australian cricketer
* 1961 – Brian Mannix
, Australian singer and actor
* 1908
– Harry Hooton
, Australian poet ( d.
1961 )
The
1961 / 62
Australian season was purely a domestic one
, with no touring international team.
* 1961 – Terry Lamb
, Australian rugby player
* August 18
– Sibyl Morrison
, Australian barrister ( d.
1961 )
The
Australian obstetrician William McBride and the German pediatrician Widukind Lenz suspected a link between birth defects and the drug
, a theory Lenz proved in
1961.
* Julia Gillard ( born
1961 ),
Australian politician
, Prime Minister
The
Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks wrote an opera entitled Nausicaa ( libretto by Robert Graves ), first performed in
1961 at the Athens Festival.
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