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* 1961 – thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.
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1961 and –
* 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 )
1961 and thirteen
Mid-table finishes in 1961 – 62 and 1962 – 63 ( and an appearance in the League Cup semi-finals during the former ) were offset by another lowly finish of eighteenth in 1963 – 64, with Alan Ball top-scoring with thirteen goals.
A formative experience was the distress his family suffered following his father's death in 1961, when Nickles was thirteen.
In 1961, she came to the United States when she was thirteen years old and the eldest in a family that included eleven children.
During the 1960s he received thirteen opportunities to wrestle for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, including eleven against " Nature Boy " Buddy Rogers between 1961 and 1963.
All thirteen shorts were commercial successes ; in 1961, the Tom and Jerry series became the highest-grossing film series of all-time, dethroning the Looney Tunes series which had held the position for sixteen years ; this success was repeated once more in 1962.
The film spawned a television series The Asphalt Jungle starring Jack Warden, Arch Johnson, and William Smith ( billed as " Bill Smith "), which ran for thirteen episodes in the summer of 1961 on ABC.
Wilson released his first single " Emy Lou " in 1961 for record producer, Clement " Coxsone " Dodd, at the age of thirteen.
However, all thirteen shorts were commercial successes ; in 1961, the Tom and Jerry series became the highest-grossing film series of all-time, dethroning the Looney Tunes series which had held the position for sixteen years ; this success was repeated once more in 1962.
Wright topped the LPGA money list for four consecutive seasons from 1961 – 1964 and made the top ten on the list thirteen times in total between 1956 and 1969.
Starr began her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music at the age of seven where she studied with Rudolf Serkin from the age of thirteen until her graduation in 1961, and was one of the youngest pianists to ever study at the institute.
He founded the Christian Democrat Movement of Ireland in 1961 and stood for election to Dáil Éireann at the 1961 general election in the Dublin North – East constituency, the first of thirteen attempts.
Subba Row played in thirteen Test matches for England, opening the batting regularly from 1959 to 1961.
1961 and Italian
Italian Comedy is generally considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti Ignoti ( Big Deal on Madonna Street ) and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all ' Italiana ( Divorce Italian Style, 1961 ).
In 1961 Dino Risi directed Una vita difficile ( A Difficult Life ), then Il sorpasso ( The Easy Life ), now a cult-movie, followed by: I Mostri ( The Monsters, also known as 15 From Rome ), In nome del Popolo Italiano ( In the Name of the Italian People ) and Profumo di donna ( Scent of a Woman ).
* 1961 – Patrizia Scianca, Italian voice actress
* 1961 – Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian violinist
* 1874 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian politician and economist, 2nd President of the Italian Republic ( d. 1961 )
* Pierluigi Martini ( born 1961 ), Italian racing driver
* 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
On the other hand, in 1961 an Italian company co-produced the French Taste of violence, with a Mexican Revolution theme.
* Antonicelli, Franco ( 1961 ) Trent ' anni di storia italiana 1915-1945, Saggi series 295, Torino: Einaudi, 387 p. Italian
In 1957, Fonda married the Italian countess Afdera Franchetti ; they divorced in 1961.
Both Goliath and the Vampires ( 1961 ) and Goliath and the Sins of Babylon ( 1963 ) actually featured the famed superhero Maciste in the original Italian versions, but American distributors didn't feel the name Maciste had any meaning to American audiences.
His father's background helped his career: the elder Bertolucci had helped the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini publish his first novel, and Pasolini reciprocated by hiring Bertolucci as first assistant in Rome on Accattone ( 1961 ), where he met his first wife, Adriana Asti.
In October 1961 Pierre Lagaillarde, who had escaped to Francoist Spain following the 1960 barricades week, was arrested in Madrid, along with the Italian activist Guido Giannettini.
* La Fayette ( film ), also known as Lafayette, a 1961 French / Italian coproduction directed by Jean Dréville, with Orson Welles and Pascale Audret
In 1961 Rangers became the first British team to reach a European final when they contested the Cup Winners ' Cup final against Italian side Fiorentina, only to lose 4 – 1 on aggregate.
* Artist's Shit ( Italian: " Merda d ' artista ") ( 1961 ), by Piero Manzoni, in which the artist canned and sold 90 cans of his own excrement to be sold for their weight in gold ;
* Carlo Anti ( 1889 – 1961 ), Italian archaeologist
Margheriti made two of the first ever Italian space movies in 1960 and 1961 respectively ; Assignment Outer Space ( known as " Space Men " in Italy ) and Battle of the Worlds ( known as " The Planet of Extinct Men " in Italy ).
The novel Põlev lipp ( The Burning Banner ) by Karl Ristikivi ( 1961 ; in Estonian ) depicts Conradin's Italian campaign.
Divorce, Italian Style () is a 1961 Italian comedy film directed by Pietro Germi.
Francis explained in a 1961 television interview that she was fluent in Spanish and Italian, but always had a translator nearby to make sure her translated lyrics and especially her pronunciation were as grammatically correct as possible.
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