She was born on April 3, 1961 in Ozark, Arkansas, and raised in Booneville, Arkansas, the daughter of Jimmy Young Ward and Patricia " Pat " ( Murphy ) Ward.

* Fusion ( album ), a 1961 album by Jimmy Giuffre

* 1961 – Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician ( Bronski Beat and The Communards )

Patting Mr Tibbs while playing vet Jimmy Fox-Upton in In The Doghouse ( 1961 )

Naming the band after actress Marilyn Monroe's final film The Misfits ( 1961 ), Danzig recruited guitarist Jimmy Battle, bassist Diane DiPiazza, and drummer Manny Martínez to fill out the lineup while Danzig himself sang and played the electric piano.

* Jimmy Choo 周仰杰 ( 1961 -; born in Malaysia ; Hakka pronunciation: Chiu Yong Ket ), Renowned designer of shoes and handbags, United Kingdom

Gaye spent most of 1961 afterwards playing drums on the road for The Miracles and blues artist Jimmy Reed.

His other early appearances included Dixon of Dock Green ( 1962 ), The Morecambe & Wise Show, The Seven Faces of Jim ( 1961 ) with Jimmy Edwards, a production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever ( 1968 ) and the storyteller in several episodes of Jackanory ( 1969 ).

By 1961, Taylor was working regularly with alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons, one of his most important and consistent collaborators.

Although he may be best known today as the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand, he became a national television personality starting in 1957, rising to fame for his 1961 country crossover hit " Big Bad John " and his television series, The Jimmy Dean Show, which also gave puppeteer Jim Henson his first national media exposure.

( 1956 – 60 ) and three series of Faces of Jim ( 1961 – 1963 ), both as vehicles for Jimmy Edwards.

* 1961 – " Pocketful of Miracles " ( music by Jimmy Van Heusen ) for the film Pocketful of Miracles.

The following season Burnley played in European competition for the first time beating Reims and losing to Hamburger SV, lost in an FA Cup semi-final and finished fourth in the league and the highlights of the 1961 – 62 season were finishing second in the league and a run to The FA Cup Final, where a Jimmy Robson goal was Burnley's only reply to 3 from Spurs.

James Edward " Jimmy " Key ( born April 22, 1961 ) is a former left-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Toronto Blue Jays ( 1984 – 1992 ), New York Yankees ( 1993 – 1996 ), and Baltimore Orioles ( 1997 – 1998 ).

In 1957, Jimmy Hill became chairman of the PFA and campaigned to have the Football League's £ 20 maximum wage scrapped, which he achieved in January 1961.

* 1961 – Former Fulham player and PFA chairman Jimmy Hill is appointed manager following an embarrassing FA Cup defeat at home to non-league King's Lynn.

* 1961: Jimmy Guiffre-Thesis (" Ictus ")

* 1961: Jimmy Guiffre-Emphasis & Flight 1961 ( live recordings of " Jesus Maria " and " Postures ")

In 1961, Jimmy became a singer as part of the Motown stable, mostly on sessions but also recording singles for its subsidiary Miracle label, but was then drafted for national service.

Brooks is best known for his work for Blue Note Records between 1958 and 1961, recording primarily as a sideman with Kenny Burrell, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Freddie Redd, and Jimmy Smith.

The tennis courts at the Highlands were where player Jimmy Connors began his career, and the facility hosted Davis Cup qualifying matches in 1927, 1946, and 1961.

Famous examples of this are the Dixie Classic scandal of 1961, the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal in 1950 – 51 and the Boston College basketball point shaving scandal of 1978-79, which was perpetrated by gangsters Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke.

Carlos Alberto Valderrama Palacio (; born September 2, 1961 in Santa Marta, Colombia ), also known as El Pibe (" The Kid ") is a former Colombian football player.

In 1961, the name was changed from Stalingrad to Volgograd (" Volga City ") as part of Nikita Khrushchev's programme of de-Stalinization.

The first draft, entitled " Decretum de Judaeis " (" Decree on the Jews "), was completed in November 1961, approximately fourteen months after Cardinal Bea was commissioned by Pope John XXIII.

* Streets were also named after him in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, in Budapest, Hungary ( between 1961 and 1990 ); Jakarta ( between 1945 to 1967 ); Belgrade, Serbia ; Sofia, Bulgaria ( until 1991-2 ) Skopje, Republic of Macedonia ; Bata and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea ; Tehran, Iran ; Algiers, Algeria ( Rue Patrice Lumumba ); Santiago de Cuba, Cuba ( since 1960, formerly Avenida de Bélgica ); Łódź, Warsaw, Poland ; Kiev, Ukraine ; Perm, Russia ; Rabat, Morocco ; Maputo, Mozambique ; Leipzig, Germany ; Lusaka, Zambia (" Lumumba Street "); Kampala, Uganda (" Lumumba Avenue "); Tunis, Tunisia ; Fort-de-France, Martinique ; Montpellier, France ; Accra, Ghana ; Antananarivo, Madagascar ; Rotterdam, Netherlands ; Alexandria, Egypt and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

* Republic of Niger – Young Pioneers ( Niger )/ Jeunes Pionniers ( 1961 – 1974 ) non-communist youth paramilitary group, one of several set up in post independence Africa, funded by and modeled on the Israeli Nahal (" Fighting Pioneer Youth ").

In 1961, it was renamed " Tselinograd " (" Virgin Lands City ") and made capital of the Soviet Virgin Lands Territory ( Tselinny Krai ).

On 13 August 1961, work began on what was to become the Berlin Wall, only two months after Ulbricht had emphatically denied that there were such plans (" Nobody has the intention of building a wall ").

Richard Armour's book It All Started With Columbus ( 1953, revised 1961 ) treats the history of the United States, from 1492 to the JFK presidency, in a manner that owes a great deal to Sellar and Yeatman (" Ferdinand and Isabella refused to believe the world was round, even when Columbus showed them an egg ").

In 1961, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi designed the rainbow tallit ( prayer shawl ) as a symbol of the Kabalah for the members of the Jewish Bene Ohr (" The Children of Light ").

* De knop (" The button ", 1961 ; play )

* Voer voor Psychologen (" Food for psychologists ", 1961 ; autobiography )

* Wenken voor de bescherming van uw gezin en uzelf, tijdens de Jongste Dag (" Tips for the Protection of Your Family and Yourself During the Last Judgment "), 1961 ; essays )

The British aircraft manufacturer Saunders-Roe developed the first practical man-carrying hovercraft, the SR. N1, which carried out several test programmes in 1959 to 1961 ( the first public demonstration in 1959 ), including a cross-channel test run in July 1959 piloted by Peter (" Sheepy ") Lamb, an ex-naval test pilot and the Chief Test Pilot at Saunders Roe.

The Four Seasons released their first single in 1961 (" Bermuda "/" Spanish Lace " on Gone Records ).

The radio series aired from April 26, 1952 (" Billy the Kid ," written by Walter Newman ), until June 18, 1961, on CBS.

* " Marin " (" Sailor ") ( 1961 )

She had three children with Byrd, Gwendolyn Lee (" Gwen ") Byrd ( born 1961 ), Jacquelyn Faye (" Jackie ") Byrd ( born 1962 ) and Tina Denise Byrd ( born 1965, she is featured on one of Jones and Wynette's duet albums, George and Tammy and Tina ), She had a daughter with George Jones, Tamala Georgette Jones ( born 1970 ), who is also a country singer.

* Hayart Albi Ma ' ak (" You Confused My Heart ")...... maqam nahwand ( 1961 )

From 1961 to 1981 it provisionally replaced (" When You Call, My Country ", French ; Italian, Romansh ) the anthem by Johann Rudolf Wyss ( 1743 – 1818 ) which was set to the melody of God Save the Queen.

Four episodes of the TV series were re-recorded and released on LP format, two by Pye on the 1961 album Hancock (" The Blood Donor " and " The Radio Ham ") and two by Decca Records on the 1965 album It's Hancock (" The Missing Page " and " The Reunion Party "), which was reissued as The World of Tony Hancock in 1975.

One 1961 episode (" The Sorcerer's Apprentice ") was not initially broadcast by NBC because the sponsor felt that the ending was too gruesome.

* Rafael Trujillo (" El Jefe ", 1891 – 1961 ), dictator of the Dominican Republic