* 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 – 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 )

But watching Mrs. Cyril Ring, Berniece Dalton Janssen, Mrs. Robert Jarvis, Mrs. Walter Adams order low-calorie seafood, no bread, I could see the Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 were determined to be glamorous grandmothers of 1961.

* 1961 – Micky Adams, English football manager

By 1961, Barrow had replaced Adams as Premier and the DLP controlled the government.

In 1961, Barrow supplanted Adams as Premier as the DLP took control of the government.

* 1961: Bye Bye Birdie – Book by Michael Stewart, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams

Goodson-Todman Productions were also involved with three westerns: Jefferson Drum ( 1958 – 1959 ), starring Jeff Richards as a newspaper editor in the Old West ; The Rebel ( 1959 – 1961 ), starring Nick Adams as an ex-Confederate soldier who traveled to the West after the Civil War ( Johnny Cash sang the theme ); and Branded, starring Chuck Connors as a soldier who had wrongly been given a dishonorable discharge from the Army.

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

By 1961, Barrow had replaced Adams as Premier and the DLP controlled the government.

In 1961 brothers Dennis Adams and Peter Adams started working with Marcos and introduced several changes to the original design.

However, at the instigation of the British Resident, Theodore Samuel Adams ( 1885 – 1961 ; in office 1935-1937 ), Tengku Musa Eddin was dismissed as Raja Muda in 1934 for alleged " misbehaviour ".

However, at the instigation of the British Resident, Theodore Samuel Adams ( 1885 – 1961 ; in office 1935-1937 ), Tengku Musa Eddin was dismissed as Raja Muda in 1934 for alleged

Jack Adams was fired in 1961.

* Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams, Out of This World ( Warwick, 1961 ), with pianist Herbie Hancock

The Festival was founded in 1961 by Fred C. Adams.

Adams won Tony Awards in 1961 for Bye Bye Birdie and in 1970 for Applause.

Adams taught law at the American Institute of Banking from 1954 to 1960, and served as United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington from 1961 to 1964.

Secretary of State Tom Adams showing battle flag of Natural Bridge ( 1961 )

Also in 1961, comedian Jimmy Edwards promotes a tea-shop band ' The Burke Adams Tea-Time Three ', who have a record judged a hit on Juke Box Jury, in the programme The Face of Enthusiasm, part of his comedy series The Faces of Jim.

Episodes crediting but not featuring both Bond and his replacement, John McIntire, were then alternated for a time until the final Ward Bond episode was screened as a tribute to him (" The Beth Pearson Story ", season four, ep 22, trans 22 Feb 1961 ), then a few weeks later McIntire actually debuted as the new wagonmaster in ' The Christopher Hale Story ' ( ep 25, trans 15 March 1961 ) in a tale where the train -- without any on-screen explanation of Adams ' absence -- is awaiting the arrival of a new wagonmaster.

The text was completely rewritten by series owner Harriet Stratemeyer Adams in 1961.

The U. S. Supreme Court has mentioned Miller in only 7 subsequent cases: McDonald v. City of Chicago ( 2010 ); Heller ( 2008 ); Prinz ( 1997 ); Lewis ( 1980 ); Adams ( 1972 ); Atlanta Motel ( 1961 ); and Konigsberg ( 1961 ).