* 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 – 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 )

Andrew Stuart Fastow ( born December 22, 1961 ) is an American businessman who served as the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation that was based in Houston, Texas until the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into his and the company's conduct in 2001.

The actor Robert Bray, who portrayed forest ranger Corey Stuart in CBS's Lassie from 1964 – 1968 and Simon Kane in ABC's Stagecoach West from 1960 – 1961, retired to Bishop, where he died in 1983 at the age of sixty-five.

NY: Lyle Stuart, 1961.

His two elder sons were both killed in the Second World War and Arthur Stuart was succeeded in 1961 by his third son Arthur Patrick Avondale, the eighth Earl and 15th Baronet ; present holder of the titles.

* Arthur Stuart, 7th Earl Castle Stewart ( 1889 – 1961 )

* Stuart Novins with the News ( 1961 )

* Stuart Ballantine Medal, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1961

They had two children, Allyson Lee Adams ( 1960 ) and Jeb Stuart Adams ( 1961 ) who both later pursued careers in the film industry.

Paul Stuart Keetch ( born 21 May 1961, Hereford ) is an English Liberal Democrat politician who served as the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Hereford from 1997 to 2010.

* Stuart McDonald Cartoon Collection Digitized cartoons of Stuart McDonald, editorial cartoonist of the Grand Forks Herald from 1961 – 1967

Some of the first computer music was created in 1961 by LaFarr Stuart, who wrote software to modulate the duration of and between pulses ( pulse-width modulation or " PWM ", via a process now often referred to as " bit-banging ") on a bus line that had been connected to an amplified speaker originally installed to monitor the functioning of Iowa State University's CYCLONE computer, a derivative of the Illiac.

They had four children together, Amy ( 1958 – 2004 ), Molly ( b. 1961 ), Stuart ( b. 1962 ), and Andrew ( b. 1964 ).

He was preceded by Gilbert A. Peterson ( 1979 – 1999 ), Dr. Stuart E. Lease ( 1961 – 1979 ), Dr. William J. Randolph ( 1953 – 1961 ), and Dr. Henry J. Heydt ( 1933 – 1953 ).

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

In 1961, she appeared as Pilar Graile in The Comancheros with John Wayne and Stuart Whitman.

The album follows the history of airborne exploration, from the mythological flight of Daedalus and Icarus to escape the labyrinth of the Minotaur in " Too Close To The Sun ", through Leonardo da Vinci's search to design a flying machine, or ornithopter, in long-time Project drummer Stuart Elliott's " One Day To Fly ", until finally mankind's aspirations for space exploration placed on the shoulders of a single astronaut in " So Far Away " and the subsequent superpower race to put a man on the moon in " Apollo ", a track backed by John F. Kennedy's famous speech of May 25, 1961.

Bruce Stuart ( November 30, 1881 in Ottawa, Ontario-October 28, 1961 in Ottawa, Ontario ) was a Canadian amateur and professional ice hockey forward who played for the Quebec Bulldogs, Ottawa Senators and Montreal Wanderers from 1899 to 1911.

* Stuart Piggott: Prehistoric India to 1000 B. C., Harmondsworth 1961 ( 3rd reprint ), 98-114