* 1961 – Eddie James, American murderer and sex offender

* 1894 – James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist ( d. 1961 )

* 1961 – James Worthy, American basketball player

James Thurber used the ancient fable style in his books Fables for Our Time ( 1940 ) and Further Fables for Our Time ( 1956 ), and in his stories " The Princess and the Tin Box " in The Beast in Me and Other Animals ( 1948 ) and " The Last Clock: A Fable for the Time, Such As It Is, of Man " in Lanterns and Lances ( 1961 ).

* James Thurber ( 1894 – 1961 ), Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time.

* James Leasor, The Plague and the Fire ( 1961 ) ISBN 978-1-908291-22-6

The Innocents ( Jack Clayton, 1961 ) based on the Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting ( Robert Wise, 1963 ) are two such horror-of-the-demonic films from the early 1960s, both made in the UK by American studios.

* 1961 – Craig James, American football player

* 1961 – Steve James, English snooker player

* 1961 – Slim Jim Phantom ( James McDonnell ), American musician ( Stray Cats, Phantom, Rocker & Slick, Dead Men Walking, and The Head Cat )

In 1961, Falk was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance in the episode " Cold Turkey " of James Whitmore's short-lived series The Law and Mr. Jones on ABC.

* 1961 – James Gandolfini, American actor

* Brion Gysin used the King James translation of the Songs of Songs in the cut-up poem The Poem of Poems ( 1958 – 1961 )

Also in 1961, the year of her father's death, Rudolph won the James E. Sullivan Award, an award for the top amateur athlete in the United States, and visited President John F. Kennedy.

** James Thurber, American writer ( d. 1961 )

In the late 1950s, his work in films took the shape of scoring for soundtracks, notably Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), with James Stewart, in which he appeared fronting a roadhouse combo, and Paris Blues ( 1961 ), which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians.

* Samantha Bond ( born 1961 ), English actress, best known for her role of Miss Moneypenny in the fictional James Bond movies

TTL was invented in 1961 by James L. Buie of TRW, " particularly suited to the newly developing integrated circuit design technology ", and it was originally named transistor-coupled transistor logic ( TCTL ).

* James F. Johnson and Floyd Miller, The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower, 1961, Doubleday & Company Inc., 216 pages, Congress Catalog Number 61-9522

John Lewis ( U. S. politician ) | John Lewis and James Zwerg in 1961 after being beaten by a mob in Montgomery, Alabama during the Freedom Ride.

* The African Slave Trade, Basil Davidson, James Currey Publishers, 1961, ISBN 0-85255-798-1

* James E. Murray ( 1876 – 1961 ), United States Senator from Montana

* ed., The Journals of Captain James Cook: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775, Cambridge, 1961, reprinted 1969.

* Etta James recorded the song in 1961 on her debut album At Last !.

Scottish traveler Jeannie Robertson from Aberdeen, made the next recorded version in 1961.

* Robertson, A. and A. Plumber, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians ( Edinburgh 1961 ).

* Pat Robertson – TV evangelist, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network ( in 1961 )

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* September 7 – Anna Mary Robertson Moses aka Grandma Moses, painter & centoginerean ( d. 1961 )

" Anne Roe's papers are in the American Philosophical Society archives in Philadelphia ; those records ( as noted by Stephen Goranson on the American Dialect Society list 12 / 31 / 2008 ) identify the interviewed physicist as Howard Percy " Bob " Robertson ( 1903 – 1961 ).

* Anna Mary Robertson Moses, ( 1860 – 1961 ), United States painter known as " Grandma Moses "

Anna Mary Robertson Moses ( September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961 ), better known as " Grandma Moses ", was a renowned American folk artist.

Robertson met with individual success, averaging a triple-double in 1961 – 62 and winning the Most Valuable Player award in 1964.

True Theater, March 12, 1961 ( Season 9, Episode 21 ), starring Ronald Reagan as Host, Jonathan Harris of Lost in Space fame, Barbara Nichols, Cliff Robertson, and George Sanders.

Shell Centre was constructed in 1961, to a design by Sir Howard Robertson, and the tower stands at with 27 storeys ( 26 numbered and a mezzanine level ) and extends three storeys below ground.

* John Robertson ( Berwick MP ) ( 1898 – 1955 ), British Labour Party MP 1961 – 1979 for Berwick and Haddington, then Berwick and East Lothian

In 1961, Charles ' 26 and Marie Robertson provided a historic gift to expand and strengthen the graduate school as a place where men ( and later women ) dedicated to public service could obtain the knowledge and skills that would qualify them for careers in government service, particularly in the areas of international relations and affairs, upon graduation or later in their careers.

It was created in 1961 for the military commander Sir Brian Robertson, 2nd Baronet.

* Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, 2nd Baronet ( 1896 – 1974 ) ( created Baron Robertson of Oakridge in 1961 )

* Sir Brian Robertson ( 1953 – 1961 )

Howard Percy Robertson ( January 27, 1903 – August 26, 1961 ) was an American mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle.

Eileen Arbuthnot Robertson ( born on 20 January 1903 at Moor Cottage, South Holmwood, Surrey, died on 21 September 1961 in Hampstead, London ) was a British novelist, critic and broadcaster.

Father David Bauer led the 1961 St. Michael's Majors to the OHA finals in 1961, where they upset the first place Guelph Royals 4 games to 2 with a tie, to win the J. Ross Robertson Cup.

His eldest son, Brian Hubert, succeeded to the baronetcy, rose to become a general in the British Army and was raised to the peerage as Baron Robertson of Oakridge in 1961.

CBN was founded by televangelist Pat Robertson in 1961 using a religious variety program format that has been successfully used in religious broadcasting ever since.

In late 1961 at the second YSA convention, held in Chicago, the SWP central leadership arranged the removal of Wohlforth and Robertson from the YSA on age grounds and replaced the initial majority group with Barry Sheppard and Peter Camejo from Boston, Sheppard as national chairman and Camejo as national secretary.