A list of events in 1961 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 1 — Donald Broadnax is born.
- 3 — Thomas Rung is born.
- 5 — Edward Spreitzer is born.
- 10 — Kelvin Malone is born.
- 31 — Darin Kendrick (victim) is born.
February[]
- 18 — Mark Riebe is born.
- 19 — David Misch is born.
- 20 — John Williams Jr. (suspect) is born.
- ? — Leroy McGahuey is apprehended.
March[]
April[]
- 4 — Bill Currier is born.
- 8 — Ingrid Kanike is murdered by Ernst-Dieter Beck.
- 15 — Michael Torrence is born.
- 24 — Orville Lynn Majors is born.
- 28 — Futoshi Matsunaga is born.
- 29 — Mathias Kindlinger is apprehended.
May[]
- 11 — Kimberly McCarthy is born.
- 11 — Donald Piper is born.
- 12 — Isabel Cristina Torreão Pires da Silveira is born.
- 22 — Carol Christensen (victim) is born.
June[]
- 4 — Alfred Reginald Greenfield is murdered by William MacDonald.
- 9 — Nathaniel Lipscomb died.
- 25 — David Middleton is born.
- 26 — Frank Duane Welch is born.
- 28 — Michael Mullins is born.
July[]
- 3 — Westley Allan Dodd is born.
- 5 — Viktor Malyuk is born.
- 22 — Masumi Hayashi is born.
August[]
- 5 — Andrei Barausov is born.
- 7 — Phillip Ingle is born.
- 13 — Cary Stayner is born.
- 20 — Richard Holman is born.
- 20 — Euphemia Mondich died.
- 21 — Alis Johns is born.
- 22 — Clark Perry Baldwin is born.
- 28 — Agustín Ramón Martínez is born.
September[]
- 16 — Terry A. Blair is born.
- 18 — Steve Wells is born.
October[]
- 13 — Hugh Morse is apprehended.
- 15 — Manuel Octavio Bermúdez is born.
- 15 — Steven Zelich is born.
November[]
- 6 — Yuri Gritsenko is born.
- 6 — Earl Richmond is born.
- 26 — Viktor Sotnikov is born.
December[]
- 3 — Wayne Adam Ford is born.
- 14 — Jorge Beltrão Negromonte da Silveira is born.
- 17 — Joseph Sutherland is born.
Unknown[]
- ? — Curtis Anderson is born.
- ? — Baekuni is born.
- ? — Eudóxio Donizete Bento is born.
- ? — Abdelaziz Bouajila is born.
- ? — Marvin Chaney is born.
- ? — Kenneth Dudley is apprehended.
- ? — Warren Harris is born.
- ? — Alejandro Henriquez is born.
- ? — Daniel Steven Jones is born.
- ? — José Jurado Montilla is born.
- ? — Vladimir Kolpakov is born.
- ? — Alexander Konoplyov is born.
- ? — Ramón Pardo Valenzuela is born.
- ? — Terri Rachals is born.
- ? — Ethem Sakin is born.
- ? — Shim Young-gu is born.
- ? — Sam Stapleton (victim) is born.
- ? — Floyd Tapson is born.
- ? — Antonie Wessels is born.