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| 1961 |
| | | In Babi Yar the dissident Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko tackles the subject of Russian anti-Semitism | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski uses 'aleatory counterpoint' in his Venetian Games | |
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| 1961 |
| | | The East German government erects the Berlin Wall to prevent an exodus of its citizens | |
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| 1961 |
| | | French film director François Truffaut makes Jules et Jim, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner | |
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| 1961 |
| | | The UN secretary general, Dag Hammarskjöld, dies in a plane crash while trying to secure peace in Katanga | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Largely under the influence of Tito, a summit is held by nations eager to be non-aligned in the Cold War | |
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| 1961 |
| | | The southern part of the British Cameroons votes to merge with Cameroun, becoming the federal republic of Cameroon | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Rudolf Nureyev makes his first appearance in a western company, dancing in The Sleeping Beauty for the Marquis de Cuevas | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Tanganyika becomes an independent nation with Julius Nyerere as prime minister | |
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| 1961 |
| | | British novelist Muriel Spark publishes The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, set in an Edinburgh school in the 1930s | |
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