* 1961 – Sophia Vossou, Greek singer

His prominent films include La Notte ( 1961 ) with Jeanne Moreau ; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ( 1963 ), Marriage Italian-Style ( 1964 ), A Special Day ( 1977 ) and Ready to Wear ( 1994 ) with Sophia Loren ; The 10th Victim ( 1965 ) with Ursula Andress ; A Place for Lovers ( 1968 ) with Faye Dunaway ; It Only Happens to Others ( 1971 ) and La cagna ( 1972 ) with Catherine Deneuve ; Stay As You Are ( 1978 ) with Nastassja Kinski ; City of Women ( 1980 ); and Dark Eyes.

from Sophia University in 1961.

* El Cid ( 1961 ) Sophia Loren, Charlton Heston, U. S ./ Italian film shot in Italy

* El Cid ( 1961 ) Sophia Loren, Charlton Heston, U. S ./ Italian film shot in Italy

Gavin co-starred with such top leading ladies of the era as Doris Day in the 1960 thriller Midnight Lace, Sophia Loren the same year in the comedic A Breath of Scandal and, in 1961, with Susan Hayward in the melodrama Back Street and in Romanoff and Juliet and Tammy Tell Me True, both with Sandra Dee.

She is the first Best Actress winner in a non-English language performance since Sophia Loren's win in 1961.

Loren also won the award for Best Actress at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The following year, Robinson won the American League Most Valuable Player award, thus becoming the first ( and so far only ) man to win the MVP in each league ( Robinson won the NL MVP in 1961, leading the Reds to the pennant ).

The film won the Golden Bear for Best Documentary at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival.

He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

In March 1961 the Grenada United Labour Party won the general election and George E. D.

In the elections of February 1961, KANU won 19 of the 33 African seats while KADU won 11 ( twenty seats were reserved by quota for Europeans, Asians, and Arabs ).

On 15 April 1961, the MCP won an overwhelming victory in elections for a new Legislative Council.

He led the National League in batting average four times ( 1961, 1964, 1965, and 1967 ), led the National League in hits twice ( 1964 and 1967 ), and won the Most Valuable Player award in the 1966 season, when he hit. 317 while setting career highs in home runs ( 29 ) and RBIs ( 119 ).

In 1961 Ford introduced the FE 390 in a low drag Galaxie " Starliner ", but 1960 and ' 61 championships were won by drivers in 409-powered Chevrolet Impalas.

Featured performers were George Chakiris, who won an Academy Award as Bernardo in the 1961 film version, as Riff, Marlys Watters as Maria, Don McKay as Tony, and Chita Rivera reprising her Broadway role as Anita.

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.

* December 18 – The South Korean presidential election is won by Kim Young-sam, the first non-military candidate elected since 1961.

England won the first post-war competition in 1947, and followed up with victories in 1948, 1950, 1953 – 1958 and 1961.

UPI reporters and photographers have won ten Pulitzer Prizes: Russell Jones ( International Reporting, 1957 ), Andrew Lopez ( News Photography, 1960 ), Yasushi Nagao ( News Photography, 1961 ), Merriman Smith ( National Reporting, 1964 ), Kyoichi Sawada ( News Photography, 1966 ), Toshio Sakai ( Feature Photography, 1968 ), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers ( National Reporting, 1971 ), and David Hume Kennerly ( Feature Photography, 1972 ).

In 1961, he introduced Warren Beatty in his first screen appearance with a starring role in Splendor in the Grass ( 1961 ), with Natalie Wood ; the film was nominated for two Oscars and won one.

Although the series never won an Emmy it was a major success for several years, reaching its peak at number six in the ratings between October 1960 and April 1961.

Although the Reds won the NL pennant in 1961 and Robinson won his first MVP that year, his best offensive year arguably came in 1962, when he hit. 342 with 51 doubles, 136 RBI and 134 runs.

When he won the vice presidency, he made arrangements to resign from the Senate, as he was required to do under federal law, as soon as it convened on January 3, 1961.

Tsuburaya continued producing the special effects for non-kaiju films like The H-Man ( 1958 ), and The Last War ( 1961 ), and won another Japanese Movie Technique Award for his work in the 1957 science-fiction film The Mysterians.

The Tribune won its first post-McCormick Pulitzer in 1961, when Carey Orr won the award for editorial cartooning.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1961.

He attended the Glasgow Academy before studying at the University of Glasgow, in 1957, where he gained both a MA degree in History in 1961, and a second-class LLB degree in 1964, as well as editing the Glasgow University Guardian.

In 1961, multiple Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra cast Falk in the comedy Pocketful of Miracles.

In 1961, at age of 18, Musharraf entered the prestigious Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul.

Academy Award winning Japanese director Akira Kurosawa produced Yojimbo ( 1961 ), and Sanjuro ( 1962 ), which both starred Toshirō Mifune as a mysterious Samurai swordsman for hire.

Rockwell married his third wife, retired Milton Academy English teacher Molly Punderson, in 1961.

At both the 34th Academy Awards ( 1961 ) and the 80th Academy Awards ( 2007 ), Best Director was presented to a co-directing team, rather than to an individual director.

In the history of the Academy Awards, established duos have been nominated for Best Director only four times: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins ( who won for West Side Story in 1961 ); Warren Beatty and Buck Henry ( who were nominated for Heaven Can Wait in 1978 ), and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ( who won for No Country for Old Men in 2007 and were nominated again in 2010 for True Grit ).

He twice won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, for West Side Story ( 1961 ) and The Sound of Music ( 1965 ).

In 1961, teamed with Jerome Robbins, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for West Side Story, which he also produced.

In earlier times Jack Clayton's The Innocents ( 1961 ) brought The Turn of the Screw to vivid life on film, and William Wyler's The Heiress ( 1949 ), adapted from Washington Square, won four Academy Awards, including a Best Actress award for Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper.

Hung joined the China Drama Academy, a Peking Opera School in Hong Kong, in 1961.

She was honored in 1961 with membership in the National Academy of Sciences, from which she had received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1951.

Maximilian Schell ( born 8 December 1930 ) is an Austrian-born Swiss actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961.

In 1961, he reprised the role on film, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor.

In 1961, Whitman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a child molester in The Mark, a role many other better known actors turned down.

Gramm attended public schools, graduated 1961 from Georgia Military Academy ( now Woodward Academy ), and graduated 1964 from the University of Georgia.

In 1961, United Artists released West Side Story, an adaptation of the Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim stage musical, which won a record ten Academy Awards ( including Best Picture ).

* Laurence Fishburne ( born 1961 ), Academy Award nominated actor.

He was awarded Kerala Sahithya Academy Award ( Kerala literary academy award ) in 1961 for Sargasangeetham, the President's gold medal for best lyricist in 1974, and the Kerala state film award for best lyricist three times.

From September 1961 to January 1968 he studied at the faculty of engineering of the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy and graduated with a diploma of a pilot-engineer-cosmonaut.