* 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 )

* Robertson, A. and A. Plumber, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians ( Edinburgh 1961 ).

* 1961 – Paul Coffey, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1961 – Paul Geary, American singer, drummer, and manager ( Extreme )

* Dinsdale, Tim, Loch Ness Monster, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961, SBN 7100 1279 9

* 1961 – Paul Begala, American political commentator

* 1888 – Paul Ramadier, French politician ( d. 1961 )

* 1961 – Andrew Paul, English actor

* 2007 – Paul Raven, British bass-player ( Killing Joke, Ministry ) ( b. 1961 )

In the late 1950s, his work in films took the shape of scoring for soundtracks, notably Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), with James Stewart, in which he appeared fronting a roadhouse combo, and Paris Blues ( 1961 ), which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians.

* Johnson, Harry M. ( 1961 ) Sociology: A Systematic Introduction, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.

* Study Guide for Stanisław Lem: Solaris ( 1961 ), by Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University

Over the next ten years, they had five children: Émile ( 1874 – 1955 ); Aline ( 1877 – 1897 ); Clovis ( 1879 – 1900 ); Jean René ( 1881 – 1961 ); and Paul Rollon ( 1883 – 1961 ).

* 1961: Washington Senators move to Minneapolis-St. Paul, renamed Minnesota Twins

* Minnesota Twins enfranchised 1894 as the Kansas City Blues, moved to Washington ( 1901 ), and to Minneapolis-St. Paul ( 1961 )

Pope John XXIII invoked her as " Mother of the Americas " in 1961, referring to her as Mother and Teacher of the Faith of All American populations, and in 1966 Pope Paul VI sent a Golden Rose to the shrine.

* Paul Landowski ( 1875 – 1961 ), architect and sculptor

Alternatively, the comic book story " Mickey's Strange Mission " from Walt Disney's Comics & Stories # 245 ( 1961, by Carl Fallberg and Paul Murry ) suggests a cultured ancestry for Pete, giving his full name as the genteel Percy P. Percival.

The Hustler was adapted into a 1961 film of the same title, starring Paul Newman as Fast Eddie.

Existential phenomenologists include: Martin Heidegger ( 1889 – 1976 ), Hannah Arendt ( 1906 – 1975 ), Emmanuel Levinas ( 1906 – 1995 ), Gabriel Marcel ( 1889 – 1973 ), Jean-Paul Sartre ( 1905 – 1980 ), Paul Ricoeur ( 1913 – 2005 ) and Maurice Merleau-Ponty ( 1908 – 1961 ).

Paul, MN pre recorded attack warning messages from 1961 and aircheck of 1971 EBS mistake

Paul Wittgenstein ( November 5, 1887March 3, 1961 ) was an Austrian-born concert pianist who became known for commissioning new piano concerti for the left hand alone, following the amputation of his right arm during the First World War.

* 1961 to 1963 Paul B.