1961

«	1961	»

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

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Fiction

• Dracula's resurrection is stopped by Simon Belmondo. DreamMix TV World Fighters Alternately, this occurred in 1691.
• 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, Graham McTavish

January

• January 27 — Hiroko Emori

February

• February 18 — Hironobu Kageyama

March

• March 12 — Titus Welliver
• March 20 — Louis Chirillo
• March 22 — Simon Furman

April

• April 10 — James Taylor
• April 18 — Jamieson Price
• April 19 — Peter Chung
• April 23 — Art Wetherell
• April 29 — Fumihiko Tachiki

May

• May 6 — Wally Wingert

June

• June 4 — Julie White
• June 8 — Clyde Klotz
• June 30 — Christopher J. Priest

July

• July 2 — Michael Lindsay
• July 5 — Yasunori Masutani
• July 21 — Eiji Itō
• July 24 — Salvador Delgado

August

• August 4 — Barack Obama
• August 25 — Kev Hopgood
• August 26 — Satoko Shimonari

September

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

October

• October 1 — Akira Nishimori

December

• December 4 — Chafūrin
• December 6 — Robin Riggs