1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1961st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 961st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1961 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1961
MCMLXI
Ab urbe condita2714
Armenian calendar1410
ԹՎ ՌՆԺ
Assyrian calendar6711
Baháʼí calendar117–118
Balinese saka calendar1882–1883
Bengali calendar1368
Berber calendar2911
British Regnal yearEliz. 2 – 10 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2505
Burmese calendar1323
Byzantine calendar7469–7470
Chinese calendar庚子年 (Metal Rat)
4658 or 4451
    — to —
辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
4659 or 4452
Coptic calendar1677–1678
Discordian calendar3127
Ethiopian calendar1953–1954
Hebrew calendar5721–5722
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2017–2018
 - Shaka Samvat1882–1883
 - Kali Yuga5061–5062
Holocene calendar11961
Igbo calendar961–962
Iranian calendar1339–1340
Islamic calendar1380–1381
Japanese calendarShōwa 36
(昭和36年)
Javanese calendar1892–1893
Juche calendar50
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4294
Minguo calendarROC 50
民國50年
Nanakshahi calendar493
Thai solar calendar2504
Tibetan calendar阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
2087 or 1706 or 934
    — to —
阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
2088 or 1707 or 935

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April 12: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to fly in outer space

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Births

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Births
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January

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Gabrielle Carteris
 
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
 
Wayne Gretzky

February

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Malu Dreyer
 
David Graeber
 
Henry Rollins
 
Mark Latham

March

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Laurel Clark
 
Kassie DePaiva
 
Yanis Varoufakis
 
Amy Sedaris

April

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Eddie Murphy
 
Vincent Gallo
 
Robert Carlyle
 
George Lopez
 
Joe Murray
 
George Clooney
 
John Corbett
 
Tim Roth
 
Kevin McDonald

June

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Yevgeny Prigozhin
 
Sam Harris
 
Michael J. Fox
 
Boy George
 
Bidya Devi Bhandari
 
Joko Widodo
 
Ricky Gervais
 
Iztok Mlakar

July

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Diana, Princess of Wales
 
Forest Whitaker
 
António Costa
 
Zbigniew Zamachowski
 
Elizabeth McGovern
 
Milind Gunaji
 
Woody Harrelson
 
Gary Cherone
 
Katherine Kelly Lang
 
Laurence Fishburne

August

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Barack Obama
 
Lauren Tom
 
Mercedes Aráoz
 
Brad Gilbert
 
John Key
 
Koji Kondo
 
Manuel Merino
 
Billy Ray Cyrus

September

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Eugenio Derbez
 
E.G. Daily
 
Virginia Madsen
 
Carlos Valderrama
 
Dave Mustaine
 
Colin McFarlane
 
James Gandolfini
 
Chi McBride
 
Julia Gillard

October

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Jodi Benson
 
Rachel De Thame
 
Kim Wayans
 
Dylan McDermott
 
Randy Jackson
 
Peter Jackson

November

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Ralph Macchio
 
Nadia Comăneci
 
Meg Ryan
 
Mariel Hemingway

December

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Matthew Waterhouse
 
Ilham Aliyev

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Deaths

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Erwin Schrödinger
 
Patrice Lumumba
 
Carlos Luz
 
Mohammed V of Morocco
 
Oswald Rayner
 
Victor d'Arcy
 
Carlos Duarte Costa
 
Eliseo Mouriño
 
Zog I of Albania
 
Padma Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana
 
Mbarek Bekkay
 
Robert Garrett
 
Gary Cooper
 
Rafael Trujillo
 
Carl Jung
 
Jeff Chandler
 
Nasuhi al-Bukhari
 
Ernest Hemingway
 
Ty Cobb
 
Sir Sidney Holland
 
Adnan Menderes
 
Percy Chapman
 
Dag Hammarskjöld
 
Marion Davies
 
Chico Marx
 
Sergio Osmeña
 
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá
 
Sir Earle Page
 
Kurt Meyer

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Nobel Prizes

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References

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