page_title: 1961
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 1961 / Births / July
caption_attribution_description: English: Elizabeth McGovern at the screening of the restored version of "Once upon a time in America" at the Cannes Film Festival
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: July 1
  Diana, Princess of Wales, British Princess and first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales (d. 1997)
  Vito Bratta, American rock guitarist
  Ivan Kaye, English actor
  Jefferson King, British bodybuilder and wrestler
  Carl Lewis, American athlete
  Fredy Schmidtke, German track cyclist (d. 2017)
  Michelle Wright, Canadian country music artist
  July 2
  Tetchie Agbayani, Filipina actress
  Jimmy McNichol, American child actor
  Samy Naceri, French actor
  Ram Chiang, Hong Kong actor and singer-composer
  July 3
  Tatiana Aleshina, Russian composer, singer-songwriter, theater artist, and poet
  Mosi Alli, Tanzanian sprinter
  Suzanne Dando, English Olympic gymnast
  Joe Moreira, Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and mixed martial artist
  July 4
  Charles Hector, Malaysian Human Rights advocate and activist
  Andrew Zimmern, American television personality (Bizarre Foods)
  July 5 – Patrizia Scianca, Italian voice actress
  July 6
  Richard Mofe-Damijo, Nigerian actor
  Rick Price, Australian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer
  July 7
  Peter Michael Escovedo, American percussionist and musical director
  Eric Jerome Dickey, American writer
  July 8
  Toby Keith, American country music singer
  Olaf Johannessen, Faroese stage and actor
  July 9 – Raymond Cruz, American actor
  July 10
  Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
  Lee Heung-sil, South Korean footballer
  Liyel Imoke, Nigerian politician
  Killion Munyama, Zambian-Polish economist, academic lecturer and politician
  July 11
  João Donizeti Silvestre, Brazilian businessman, historian, biologist and politician
  Ron Luce, American writer
  Ophir Pines-Paz, Israeli politician
  Sylvester Tung Kiem San, Indonesian bishop
  July 12 – Mark McGann, English actor, director, writer and musician
  July 13 – Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer
  July 14 – Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
  July 15
  Forest Whitaker, African-American actor and film director
  David Cicilline, American politician
  July 16
  Li Ruiying, Chinese media personality and politician
  J. Alan Brogan, Irish programmer
  July 17
  António Costa, Portuguese politician, 119th Prime Minister (2015–present)
  Jeremy Hardy, English comedian (d. 2019)
  Guru, American rapper (Gang Starr) (d. 2010)
  Jonathan Potts, Canadian actor
  Zbigniew Zamachowski, Polish actor
  July 18 – Elizabeth McGovern, American actress and musician
  July 19
  Campbell Scott, American actor, director, producer, and voice artist
  Noriyuki Abe, Japanese anime director
  Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
  Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
  Lisa Lampanelli, American stand-up comedian, actress and insult comic
  July 21
  Kenji Haga, Japanese entertainment talent, actor and businessperson
  Mokgweetsi Masisi, 5th President of Botswana
  July 22
  Irina Rozanova, Russian actress
  Masumi Hayashi, Japanese serial killer
  Keith Sweat, American singer
  July 23
  Milind Gunaji, Indian actor, model, television show host
  Woody Harrelson, American actor and comedian
  David Kaufman, American actor and voice actor
  July 24 – Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army
  July 25
  Katherine Kelly Lang, American Actress
  Hugo Teufel III, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security
  July 26
  Raquel Dodge, General Prosecutor of Brazil
  Gary Cherone, American rock singer and songwriter
  David Heyman, English film producer and founder of Heyday Films
  Keiko Matsui, Japanese pianist and composer
  Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer
  July 27
  Ed Orgeron, American football coach
  Erez Tal, Israeli TV host
  July 28
  Mustafa El Haddaoui, Moroccan footballer
  Aleksandr Kurlovich, Soviet-Belarusian Olympic weightlifter (d. 2018)
  July 30 – Laurence Fishburne, African-American actor and film director
caption: Elizabeth McGovern
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