1961

«	1961	»

The year 1961 (MCMLXI) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by twenty-three years.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Fiction

• 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

Events

June

• Marvel Comics is launched by Martin Goodman. The company would go on to publish the original Generation One and US Generation 2 comics.

Births

• ???? — Richard Marcej, Javier Saltares, Bernhard Völger

January

• January 4 — Graham McTavish
• January 17 — Michel Dodane
• January 21 — Denis Gravereaux
• January 27 — Hiroko Emori
• January 31 — Torsten Michaelis

February

• February 13 — Mauro Ramos
• February 18 — Hironobu Kageyama

March

• March 1 — Oliver Siebeck
• March 5 — Seiji Katsu
• March 12 — Titus Welliver
• March 20 — Louis Chirillo
• March 22 — Simon Furman

April

• April 10 — Silvio Amato, James Taylor
• April 19 — Peter Chung
• April 23 — Art Wetherell
• April 28 — Jamieson Price
• April 29 — Fumihiko Tachiki

May

• ???? — Nancy Krulik
• May 6 — Wally Wingert
• May 13 — Pierluigi Astore
• May 21 — Jean-Michel Vovk

June

• June 4 — Julie White
• June 8 — Clyde Klotz
• June 17 — Nancy Cortés, Kōichi Yamadera
• June 30 — Christopher J. Priest

July

• July 2 — Michael Lindsay
• July 5 — Yasunori Masutani, Marie Vincent
• July 9 — Martin Halm
• July 21 — Eiji Itō
• July 24 — Salvador Delgado

August

• ???? — Stanley Townsend
• August 4 — Barack Obama
• August 4 — Lauren Tom
• August 12 — Luiz Feier Motta
• August 25 — Kev Hopgood
• August 26 — Satoko Shimonari

September

• September 2 — Miyoko Aoba
• September 18 — Brian Garvey
• September 22 — Gavin Blair
• September 28 — Takamune Negishi

October

• October 1 — Akira Nishimori
• October 18 — Rosario Zamora
• October 26 — Yoshiyuki Kaneko

November

• November 8 — Katsuyuki Sumisawa

December

• December 4 — Chafūrin
• December 6 — Robin Riggs