Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years: 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 - 1966 - 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971
Events
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- January 12 - Rob Zombie, musician, artist, writer
- January 13 - Patrick Dempsey[?], actor
- January 17 - Shabba Ranks[?], singer
- February 9 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
- February 11 - Anthony Parker[?], American football player
- February 11 - Patrick Kuhnen[?], West German tennis player
- February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor
- February 20 - Cindy Crawford[?], model
- February 22 - Brian Andrew Greig[?], statesman
- February 24 - Billy Zane[?], actor
- March 3 - Tone Loc[?], musician
- March 10 - Edie Brickell[?], singer
- April 18 - Trine Hattestad, Norwegian javelin thrower
- May 12 - Stephen Baldwin, actor
- May 13 - Darius Rucker[?], musician ("Hootie & the Blowfish")
- May 16 - Krist Novoselic, a musician of Nirvana (band)
- May 16 - Janet Jackson, singer
- May 25 - Sugar Minott, singer
- May 26 - Helena Bonham Carter, actress
- July 15 - Irène Jacob, actress
- August 3 - Oliver Brown, ukulele performer and theorist
- August 11 - Juan Maria Solare, classical music composer
- August 14 - Halle Berry, actress
- September 9 - Georg Hackl, German luger
- September 4 - Yanka Dyagileva, Russian punk-rock singer
- November 12 - David Schwimmer, American actor.
- November 17 - Sophie Marceau, actress
- November 17 - Jeff Buckley, singer
- Jonathan Edwards, British triple jumper
Deaths
- January 11 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor
- January 14 - Barry Fitzgerald, actor
- January 18 - Kathleen Norris[?], writer
- February 1 - Buster Keaton, American actor and film director
- February 1 - Hedda Hopper[?], gossip columnist
- February 10 - Billy Rose[?], composer, band leader
- February 20 - Chester Nimitz, American admiral
- March 3 - Maxfield Parrish[?], artist
- April 2 - C.S. Forester, author
- June 7 - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, and poet
- June 8 - Anton Melik, Slovene geographer
- August 3 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian
- August 6 - Cordwainer Smith, science fiction author
- September 28 - Andre Breton, founder of surrealism
- November 2 - Mississippi John Hurt
- December 7 - C. Thomas Howell, actor
- December 15 - Walt Disney
Nobel Prizes