* 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 )

It was agreed as international law in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations ( 1961 ), though the concept and custom have a much longer history.

Under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a papal nuncio is an ambassador like those from any other country.

Exclusively, Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which is entitled by the founding of United Nations as the cornerstone of modern day diplomacy since the Vienna Congress, was signed and ratified by the Republic of China on 18 April 1961 and 19 December 1969.

* Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations ( 1961 )

The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 is an international treaty that defines a framework for diplomatic relations between independent countries.

The 1961 UN Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations marked its 50th anniversary in April 2011.

The treaty was adopted on April 18, 1961, by the United Nations Conference on Diplomatic Intercourse and Immunities held in Vienna, Austria, and first implemented on April 24, 1964.

The ranks of diplomats — ambassador, envoys, ministers, and chargé d ’ affaires — are determined by international law, namely the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961.

He was also chief conductor of the Houston Symphony from 1961 to 1967, and was a guest conductor of many other orchestras, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic, with all of which he made recordings.

A rising conductor of a younger generation, Georg Solti, began working with the LSO ; Fleischmann persuaded the management of the Vienna Festival to engage the LSO with Solti, Stokowski and Monteux for the 1961 Festwochen.

In 1955 he was awarded a professorship of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna, and as visiting professor, he resided at Harvard University ( 1961 ), at Southern Methodist University, Dallas ( 1966 ), Duquesne University, Pittsburgh ( 1972 ).

Other important debuts for Corelli soon followed, including his first appearances at: the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence and the Arena di Verona Festival in 1955 ; the Vienna State Opera, as Radamès, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London, as Cavaradossi, in 1957 ; the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the San Francisco Opera in 1958 ; and the Berlin State Opera in 1961.

From 1961 to 1962, Hanson took the Eastman Philharmonia, a student ensemble, on a European tour which passed through Paris, Cairo, Moscow, and Vienna, among other cities.

He was educated at Hillsdale College, the University of Vienna, and Indiana University, where received aPhD in history in 1961.

He studied law at the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1961.

# Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna ( 1961 )-Chaplain of the Order

The most important point is that as long as it is externally marked to show its status, the " bag " has diplomatic immunity from search or seizure, as codified in article 27 of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

Additionally, the Republic of China had signed and ratified the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations on April 18, 1961 and December 19, 1969 respectively.

In 1961 served as head of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations Conference on Diplomatic Intercourse and Immunities, held in Vienna.

He was the recipient of the Vienna Schubert Prize ( 1943 ), the Austrian State Prize ( 1960 ), the Vienna Music Prize ( 1961 ), the Viennese Gold Medal of Honour ( 1969 ) and the Austrian Badge of Honour for Service and Arts ( 1980 ).

From 1946 to 1961 Friedrich Heer was the editor of the weekly magazine Die Furche Furrow and in 1961 he was appointed chief literacy to the Vienna Burgtheater.