page_title: 1961
section_title: November
hierarchical_section_title: 1961 / Births / November
caption_attribution_description: Nadia Comăneci at the 1976 Olympics
context_page_description: 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1961st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 961st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade.
  As MAD Magazine pointed out on its cover for the March 1961 issue, this was the first "upside-up" year — i.e., one in which the numerals that form the year look the same as when the numerals are rotated upside down, a strobogrammatic number — since 1881. The next such year will be 6009.
context_section_description: November 1
  Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2018)
  Heng Swee Keat, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
  November 2
  Lisa de Cazotte, American soap opera producer (d. 2019)
  k.d. lang, Canadian singer and songwriter
  November 3 – David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon
  November 4
  Daron Hagen, American composer
  Dominic Heale, British journalist and newsreader
  Ralph Macchio, American actor
  Jeff Probst, American television personality
  Jerry Sadowitz, American-born British stand-up comic and card magician
  Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
  November 5 – Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (d. 2012)
  November 9
  Jill Dando, British journalist and television presenter (k. 1999)
  Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist
  November 12 – Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast
  November 14
  Ben Coleman, American basketball player (d. 2019)
  Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (d. 2007)
  D. B. Sweeney, American actor
  November 16
  Andrea Prodan, Scottish-Italian film actor, composer and musician
  Corinne Hermès, French singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1983 winner
  November 18
  Michael Hawley, American academic and artist (d. 2020)
  Steven Moffat, Scottish screenwriter
  Anthony Warlow, Australian singer
  November 19 – Meg Ryan, American actress and film director
  November 20 – Dave Watson, English footballer
  November 21 – Maria Kawamura, Japanese voice actress
  November 22
  Mariel Hemingway, American actress
  Stephen Hough, British-Australian pianist
  Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
  November 24 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist
  November 25 – Matthias Freihof, German television actor and director
  November 28 – Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer
  November 29 – Kim Delaney, American actress
caption: Nadia Comăneci
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