İsmet Yılmaz

Turkish statesperson (born 1961).

Born December 10th, 1961 (age 64 years) in Gürün.

Eivind Aarset

Norwegian guitarist.

Born March 23rd, 1961 (age 65 years) in Kolbotn.

Peter Evans

Australian swimmer, olympic gold medallist.

Born August 1st, 1961 (age 64 years) in Perth.

Georgy Guryanov

Russian musician and painter (1961-2013).

Born February 27th, 1961 in Saint Petersburg.

Died July 20th, 2013 at 52 years old in Saint Petersburg (pancreatic cancer).

Rune Bratseth

Norwegian association football player.

Born March 19th, 1961 (age 65 years) in Trondheim.

Boško Gjurovski

Macedonian association football player and manager.

Born December 28th, 1961 (age 64 years) in Tetovo.

Ferdinando De Giorgi

Former italian volleyball player and head coach italian national volleyball team.

Born October 10th, 1961 (age 64 years) in Squinzano.

Ruslan Yamadayev

Chechen warlord (1961–2008).

Born December 10th, 1961 in Gudermes.

Died September 24th, 2008 at 46 years old in Moscow. ^[ref]

Truls Mørk

Norwegian cellist.

Born April 25th, 1961 (age 65 years) in Bergen.

Yohannes Haile-Selassie

Ethiopian paleoanthropologist.

Born February 23rd, 1961 (age 65 years) in Adigrat.

Luis Herrera

Colombian racing cyclist.

Born May 4th, 1961 (age 64 years) in Fusagasugá. ^[ref]

Steve Lundquist

American swimmer, olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder.

Born February 20th, 1961 (age 65 years) in Atlanta.

Hitoshi Saito

Japanese judoka (1961-2015).

Born January 2nd, 1961 in Aomori.

Died January 20th, 2015 at 54 years old in Osaka (cholangiocarcinoma). ^[ref]

Yassin al-Haj Saleh

Syrian writer and political dissident.

Born February 1st, 1961 (age 65 years) in Raqqa.

Bob Loughman

Vanuatuan politician.

Born March 8th, 1961 (age 65 years) in Tanna.

Hala Sedki

Egyptian actress.

Born June 1st, 1961 (age 64 years) in Cairo.

Luigi De Agostini

Italian association football player.

Born April 7th, 1961 (age 65 years) in Udine.

Bernard Casoni

French footballer and manager (born 1961).

Born September 4th, 1961 (age 64 years) in Cannes.

Sandra Sabattini

Italian roman catholic lay young woman and blessed (1961-1984).

Born August 19th, 1961 in Riccione.

Died May 2nd, 1984 at 22 years old in Bologna (struck by vehicle).

Éric Rochant

French film director and screenwriter (born 1961).

Born February 24th, 1961 (age 65 years) in Paris.

Yannick Stopyra

French association football player.

Born January 9th, 1961 (age 65 years) in Troyes.

Vladimir Pashkov

Russian politician and leader in self-proclaimed proxy republic in eastern ukraine.

Born February 4th, 1961 (age 65 years) in Bratsk.

José Anigo

French footballer.

Born April 15th, 1961 (age 65 years) in Marseille.

Sumaira Abdulali

Indian environmentalist, activist.

Born May 22nd, 1961 (age 64 years) in Mumbai.

Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin

Russian-swiss writer.

Born January 18th, 1961 (age 65 years) in Moscow.