1961
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The year 1961 (MCMLXI) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by twenty-three years.
- For further information, see: Transformers timeline
Fiction
[edit]- Sentinel Prime's ship the Ark, carrying the Space Bridge Pillars, crash lands on the moon. The USA detects this and sets out to find it before the Russians. Dark of the Moon
Non-Fiction
[edit]Events
[edit]June
[edit]- Marvel Comics is launched by Martin Goodman. The company would go on to publish the original Generation One and US Generation 2 comics.
Births
[edit]- ???? — Richard Marcej, Javier Saltares
January
[edit]- January 3 — Bob Skir
- January 4 — Graham McTavish
- January 6 — Francisco Brêtas
- January 8 — Stephan Baumecker
- January 9 — José Granadillo
- January 17 — Michel Dodane
- January 21 — Denis Gravereaux
- January 27 — Hiroko Emori
- January 31 — Torsten Michaelis
February
[edit]- February 3 — Martine Irzenski
- February 10 — Pekka Lehtosaari
- February 13 — Mauro Ramos
- February 18 — Hironobu Kageyama
- February 19 — Grzegorz Pawlak
March
[edit]- March 1 — Oliver Siebeck
- March 5 — Seiji Katsu
- March 12 — Titus Welliver
- March 17 — Niclas Ekholm
- March 20 — Louis Chirillo, Isabel Martiñón
- March 22 — Simon Furman
April
[edit]- April 10 — Silvio Amato, James Taylor
- April 19 — Peter Chung
- April 22 — Zoltán Tóth
- April 23 — Art Wetherell
- April 25 — Marcella Silvestri
- April 28 — Jamieson Price, John Culkin
- April 29 — Fumihiko Tachiki, Thierry Mercier
May
[edit]- ???? — Nancy Krulik
- May 6 — Wally Wingert
- May 13 — Pierluigi Astore
- May 21 — Jean-Michel Vovk
June
[edit]- June 4 — Julie White
- June 8 — Clyde Klotz
- June 12 — Gerhard Jilka
- June 17 — Nancy Cortés, Kōichi Yamadera
- June 27 - Butch Guice
- June 30 — Christopher J. Priest
July
[edit]- July 2 — Michael Lindsay
- July 5 — Yasunori Masutani, Marie Vincent, Patrizia Scianca
- July 9 — Martin Halm
- July 21 — Eiji Itō
- July 24 — Salvador Delgado
- July 26 — Zbigniew Suszyński
- July 30 — Laurence Fishburne
August
[edit]- ???? — Stanley Townsend
- August 4 — Barack Obama, Lauren Tom
- August 20 — Stanley Townsend
- August 25 — Kev Hopgood
- August 26 — Satoko Shimonari
- August 30 — Mauro Castro
September
[edit]- September 1 — Heikki Kujanpää
- September 2 — Miyoko Aoba
- September 4 — Mark Leiren-Young
- September 18 — Brian Garvey
- September 22 — Gavin Blair
- September 28 — Takamune Negishi, Marc Fayet
October
[edit]- October 1 — Akira Nishimori
- October 18 — Rosario Zamora
- October 23 — Bernhard Völger
- October 26 — Yoshiyuki Kaneko, Tomoko Shiota