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Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
» : (Below, many events of World War II have the "World War II" prefix.)
January
Births
January
January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, American composer, producer, and musician
January 4 - John Bennett Perry, American actor
January 5
January 7
January 8 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
January 9 - Joan Baez, American singer and activitist
January 11 - Dave Edwards, American musician (d. 2000)
January 12 - Long John Baldry, British singer (d. 2005)
January 14
January 15 - Captain Beefheart, American singer
January 18 - David Ruffin, American singer (d. 1991)
January 21
January 24
January 26
January 27 - Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer
January 30
January 31 - Dick Gephardt, American politician
February
February 1 - Jerry Spinelli, American children's author
February 5
February 6 - Howard Phillips, American politician
February 7 - Peter Foxhall, Australian evangelist
February 8 - Nick Nolte, American actor
February 10 - Michael Apted, English film director
February 13 - Sigmar Polke, German painter
February 19 - David Gross, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
February 20 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, American singer
February 26 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
February 27 - Paddy Ashdown, British politician
March
March 4
March 5 - Nona Gaprindashvili, Georgian chess player
March 6 - Willie Stargell, baseball player (d. 2001)
March 14 - Wolfgang Petersen, German film director
March 15 - Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
March 16
March 18 - Wilson Pickett, American singer (d. 2006)
March 23 - Jim Trelease, American educator and author
March 26 - Richard Dawkins, British scientist
March 28 - Jim Turner, American football player
March 29 - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 30 - Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
April
April 3 - Philippe Wynne, American musician (d. 1984)
April 8 - Peggy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
April 12 - Bobby Moore, English football player and World Cup winning captain (d. 1993)
April 13 - Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
April 14 - Julie Christie, British actress
April 14 - Pete Rose, baseball player
April 23
April 24 - John Williams, Australian guitarist
April 27 - Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
April 28
May
May 5 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (d. 2004)
May 11 - Eric Burdon, English singer (The Animals)
May 13
May 15 - K.T. Oslin, American musician
May 19
May 20 - Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of Singapore
May 22 - Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
May 24 - Bob Dylan, American poet and musician
May 26 - John Kaufman, Sculptor
May 31 - Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June
June 4 - Erkin Koray, Turkish musician
June 5
June 6 - Neal Adams, American comic book artist
June 8
June 9
June 10 - Mickey Jones, American actor and musician
June 21
June 22 - Michael Lerner, American actor
June 24 - Bill Reardon, American politician and educator
June 27 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
June 28 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
July
July 1
July 6 - Harold Leighton Weller, American conductor
July 7 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
July 10 - Jackie Lane, British actress
July 11 - Tommy Vance, English disc jockey (d. 2005)
July 14
July 19 - Vikki Carr, American singer
July 27 - Bill Baxley, Alabama politician
July 28 - Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
July 29
July 30 - Paul Anka, Canadian-American singer and songwriter
July 31 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician
August
August 3 - Martha Stewart, American television and magazine personality
August 6 - Lyle Berman, American poker player
August 14 - Connie Smith, American singer
August 20 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (d. 2006)
August 22 - Bill Parcells, American football coach
August 28 - Joseph Shabalala, South African musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
September
September 2 - David Bale, South African-born activist (d. 2003)
September 4 - Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
September 9
September 10
September 14 - Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
September 15
September 17 - Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from California (d. 2005)
September 19 - Cass Elliott, American singer (d. 1974)
September 24 - Guy Hovis, American singer
October
October 4
October 5 - Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
October 8 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
October 10 - Peter Coyote, American actor
October 13 - Paul Simon, American singer and composer
October 16 - Tim McCarver, baseball commentator
October 20 - Anneke Wills, British actress
October 25
October 28
October 30 - Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November
November 1 - Nigel Dempster, British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist (d.2007)
November 5 - Art Garfunkel, American singer.
November 6 - Doug Sahm, American musician (d. 1999)
November 18 - David Hemmings, English actor (d. 2003)
November 23 - Derek Mahon, Irish poet
November 25 - Gohar Shahi, Spiritual Leader of Pakistan (d. 2001)
November 26 - G. Alan Marlatt, American psychologist
November 27 - Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (d. 1998)
November 29 - Bill Freehan, baseball player
December
December 9 - Beau Bridges, American actor
December 10
December 13 - John Davidson, American singer and actor
December 18 - Prince William of Gloucester
December 23 - Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
December 24 - John Levene, British actor
December 30 - Mel Renfro, American football player
December 31 - Sir Alex Ferguson, Manager of Manchester United
date unknown - T S Krishnamurthy, Chief Election Commissioner of India
Deaths
January-February
January 4 - Henri Bergson, French philiosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859)
January 5 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
January 8 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier and founder of the Boy Scouts (b. 1847)
January 10
January 13 - James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
February 6 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet & journalist (b. 1864)
February 9 - Aaron S. Watkins, American temperance movement leader (b. 1863)
February 11 - Rudolf Hilferding, German economist and Minister of Finance (b. 1877)
February 21 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891)
February 24 - Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German submariner (b. 1886)
February 27 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
February 28 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
March-July
March 6 - Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (b. 1867)
March 8 - Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876)
March 15 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
March 28 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (b. 1882)
April 13 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
April 16 - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, Bt, GCB, GBE, FBA, a British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (b.1880)
April 24 - Karin Boye, Swedish poetess (suicide) (b. 1900)
April 28 - Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian coloratura soprano (b. 1871)
May 16 - Minnie Vautrin, American missionary and heroine of the Nanjing Massacre (b. 1887)
May 30 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
June 2 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player (b. 1903)
June 4 - Wilhelm II, Last Emperor of Germany (b. 1859)
June 6 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile builder and race car driver (b. 1878)
June 29 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and third Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)
July 4 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
July 10 - Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1890)
July 11 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (b. 1851)
July 25 - Allan Forrest, American actor (b. 1885)
July 26 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
August-December
August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
August 13 - James Stuart Blackton, American film producer (b. 1875)
August 14 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
August 30 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
August 31 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (suicide) (b. 1892)
September 12 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
October 5 - Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1856)
October 26 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian writer (killed in combat) (b. 1904)
November 18
November 21 - Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker (b. 1860)
November 26 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)
December 3 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (b. 1856)
December 7 - Pearl Harbor Attack, Japanese Surprise Attack On Naval Base In Hawaii) (b. 1884)
December 7 - Isaac Campbell Kidd, American admiral (died in the attack on Pearl Harbor) (b. 1884)
December 30 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)
Nobel prizes
Physics - not awarded
Chemistry - not awarded
Medicine - not awarded
Literature - not awarded
Peace - not awarded
Ship events
List of ship launches in 1941
List of ship commissionings in 1941
List of shipwrecks in 1941
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