* 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 )

According to Robin Blackburn, " The decline of CND by late 1961, however, deprived the New Left of much of its momentum as a movement, and uncertainties and divisions within the Board of the journal led to the transfer of the Review to a younger and less experienced group in 1962.

Though trouble in Southeast Asia was shown in Jack L. Warner's Brushfire ( 1961 ), and Marshall Thompson's A Yank in Viet-Nam ( 1964 ) and To the Shores of Hell ( 1966 ), the major Hollywood studios refused to make any Vietnam War films with the exception of John Wayne's The Green Berets based on the best-selling book by Robin Moore and using the theme song " Ballad of the Green Berets ".

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.

Many major Scottish post-war novelists, such as Muriel Spark, James Kennaway, Alexander Trocchi, Jessie Kesson and Robin Jenkins spent much or most of their lives outside Scotland, but often dealt with Scottish themes, as in Spark's Edinburgh-set The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1961 ) and Kennaway's script for the film Tunes of Glory ( 1956 ).

Cast members throughout the program's 40-year run included Bob Bell as Bozo ( 1960 – 1984 ), Ned Locke as Ringmaster Ned ( 1961 – 1976 ), Don Sandburg as Sandy the Tramp ( 1961 – 1969 ), Ray Rayner as Oliver O. Oliver ( 1961 – 1971 ), Roy Brown as Cooky the Cook ( 1968 – 1994 ), Marshall Brodien as Wizzo the Wizard ( 1968 – 1994 ), Frazier Thomas as the circus manager ( 1976 – 1985 ), Joey D ' Auria as Bozo ( 1984 – 2001 ), Andy Mitran as Professor Andy ( 1987 – 2001 ) and Robin Eurich as Rusty the Handyman ( 1994 – 2001 ).

On the Sir Malcolm Sargent / Glyndebourne series, he recorded: 1958 Pinafore ( Sir Joseph Porter ); 1959 Iolanthe ( Lord Chancellor ); 1961 Pirates ( Major-General ); 1961 Trial ( The Learned Judge ); 1963 Patience ( Bunthorne ); and 1963 Ruddigore ( Robin Oakapple ).

They had four children: their son, actor and author Christopher Kennedy Lawford ( born 1955 ), their daughters Sydney Maleia Kennedy Lawford ( born 1956 ), Victoria Francis Lawford ( born 1958 ), and Robin Elizabeth Lawford ( born 1961 ).

Researchers in anthropology and foreign relations were often debriefed after foreign field trips ( see: Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939 – 1961.

He supplemented his income by working as a scriptwriter for The Eagle and its sister publications Girl, Robin and Swift until 1961.

* 1961 – 1964: Robin Chichester-Clark

ITV had already a reputation for entertaining historical TV shows that would display adventure and swordplay, such as The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1956 ), The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1955 ), The Adventures of Sir Lancelot ( 1956 ), Ivanhoe ( 1958 ) and Sir Francis Drake ( 1961 ).

Robin Carnahan ( born August 4, 1961 ) is an American politician, daughter of Missouri politicians Mel and Jean Carnahan and the current Missouri Secretary of State.

In 1961 the regiment converted to engineers and re-titled as the 350 ( The Robin Hood Foresters ) Field Squadron.

Reitherman directed several Disney animated feature films including, One Hundred and One Dalmatians ( 1961 ), The Sword in the Stone ( 1963 ), The Jungle Book ( 1967 ), The Aristocats ( 1970 ), Robin Hood ( 1973 ) and The Rescuers ( 1977 ).

Robert Maksymilian Brylewski ( Afa, Robin Goldroker ), born May 25, 1961 in Warsaw, is a Polish rock musician, lead guitarist of several punk-rock and reggae bands, such as Kryzys, Brygada Kryzys, Izrael, Armia and Falarek Band.

Other roles included television's The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1957 ), Danger Man ( 1960, 1961 ), Bergerac ( 1990 ) and The Avengers ( 1964 ).

The author was the English doctor Sir Henry Howarth Bashford ( 1880 – 1961 ), and the illustrations were by " Robin " ( Marjorie Blood ).

She made many appearances at The Muny, including Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella ( 1969 ); Marie Esterhazy in Blossom Time ( 1966 ); Gretel in Hansel & Gretel ( 1966 ); Barbara in Milk and Honey ( 1964 ); Anna Belle in Robin Hood ( 1961 ); Resi in The Great Waltz ( 1961 ); Gretchen in The Red Mill ( 1960 ) and Adele in Die Fledermaus ( 1958 ).

Hollywood adopted the medieval as a major genre, issuing periodic remakes of the King Arthur, William Wallace and Robin Hood stories, adapting to the screen such historical romantic novels as Ivanhoe ( 1952 — by MGM ), and producing epics in the vein of El Cid ( 1961 ).

* Robin Hall & Jimmie MacGregor perform this song on their 1961 album, Scottish Choice.