1941
For the movie, see 1941 (film)1941 (
MCMXLI) was a
common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar).
January
*
January 6 -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his
Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
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january 8 -
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell the founder of Scouting died.
*
January 10 -
Lend-Lease is introduced into the
U.S. Congress.
*
January 19 -
British troops attack
Italian-held
Eritrea.
*
January 21 -
World War II:
Australian and
British forces attack
Tobruk,
Libya.
*
January 22 - World War II: British troops capture
Tobruk from the Italians.
*
January 23 -
Charles Lindbergh testifies before the
U.S. Congress and recommends that the
United States negotiate a
neutrality pact with
Adolf Hitler.
February
*
February 3 -
World War II: The
Nazis forcibly restore
Pierre Laval to office in occupied
Vichy,
France.
*
February 4 - World War II: The
United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain
American troops.
*
February 11 - World War II: Lieutenant-General
Erwin Rommel arrives in
Tripoli.
*
February 19 - World War II: The start of the "three nights' Blitz" over
Swansea, South
Wales. Over these three nights of intensive bombing, which lasted a total of 13 hours and 48 minutes, Swansea town centre was almost completely obliterated by the 896 High Explosive bombs employed by the
Luftwaffe. A total of 397 casualties and 230 deaths were reported. The Three nights Blitz ended in the early hours of February 22.
March
*
March 1 -
World War II:
Bulgaria signs the
Tripartite Pact thus joining the
Axis powers.
*
March 1 -
W47NV begins operations in
Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first
FM radio station.
*
March 1 -
Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the
U.S. Navy's Support Force,
Atlantic Fleet*
March 11 -
World War II:
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the
Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the
Allies on loan.
*
March 17 - In
Washington, DC, the
National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
*
March 17 - British Minister of Labour,
Ernest Bevin, calls for women to fill vital jobs
*
March 22 -
Washington's
Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate
electricity.
*
March 25 -
World War II:
Kingdom of Yugoslavia in
Vienna joins the
Axis powers *
March 27 -
World War II: Anti-Axis coup d'etat in Yugoslavia - Prince Paul exiled; 17-year-old King Peter II assumes power.
*
March 27 - World War II:
Attack on Pearl Harbor -
Japanese spy
Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in
Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the
United States fleet at
Pearl Harbor.
*
March 29 - World War II:
Battle of Cape Matapan - Off the
Peloponnesus coast in the
Mediterranean,
British naval forces defeat those of
Italy sinking five warships. Battle started on
March 27.
April
*
April 6 - World War II:
Germany invades
Yugoslavia and
Greece.
*
April 12 - World War II:
German troops enter
Belgrade.
*
April 13 -
Soviet Union and
Japan sign a
neutrality pact.
*
April 17 - World War II: Yugoslav Royal Army capitulates.
*
April 21 - World War II: Greece capitulates. British troops withdraw to
Crete.
*
April 23 -
America First Committee holds its first mass rally in
New York City with
Charles Lindbergh as keynote speaker.
*
April 27 - World War II:
German troops enter
Athens.
May
*
May 1 - Breakfast cereal
Cheerios is introduced as
CheeriOats by
General Mills*
May 1 -
Orson Welles' film
Citizen Kane premieres in
New York City*
May 1 - The first Defense Bonds and Defense Savings Stamps go on sale in the
United States to help fund the greatly increased production of military equipment.
*
May 5 - Emperor
Haile Selassie enters
Addis Ababa, which had been liberated from
Italian forces; this date has been since commemorated as
Liberation Day in
Ethiopia.
*
May 6 - At
California's March Field,
Bob Hope performs his first
USO Show.
*
May 9 -
World War II: The
German submarine
U-110 is captured by the British
Royal Navy. On board is the latest
Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
*
May 10 - World War II: The
United Kingdom's
House of Commons is damaged by the
Luftwaffe in an
air raid.
*
May 10 - World War II:
Rudolf Hess parachutes into
Scotland claiming to be on a peace mission.
*
May 12 -
Konrad Zuse presented the
Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic
computer in
Berlin.
*
May 15 - World War II: First British jet aircraft, the
Gloster E.28/39, is flown.
*
May 20 - World War II:
Battle of Crete -
Germany launches airborne invasion of
Crete.
*
May 21 - World War II: 950 miles off the coast of
Brazil, the freighter
SS Robin Moor becomes the first
United States ship sunk by a German
U-boat.
*
May 24 - World War II: In the
North Atlantic, the
German battleship
Bismarck sinks the
HMS Hood killing all but three crewman on what was the pride of the
Royal Navy.
*
May 26 - World War II: In the
North Atlantic,
Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the carrier
HMS Ark Royal fatally cripple the
German battleship Bismarck in torpedo attack.
*
May 27 - World War II:
President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency."
*
May 27 - World War II: German battleship
Bismarck is sunk in
North Atlantic killing 2,300.
June
*
June 1 - World War II:
Allies evacuate
Crete.
*
June 4 - Britain invades
Iraq, the pro-Axis government there is overthrown.
*
June 4 - The ex-
kaiser of
Germany,
Wilhelm II, dies in exile at
Doorn,
Netherlands.
*
June 8 - World War II:
Allies invade
Syria and
Lebanon.
*
June 9 - World War II:
Finland initiate mobilization and put some units under German command.
*
June 14 - Mass deportations by
Soviet Union authorities take place in
Estonia,
Latvia and
Lithuania.
*
June 14 - All German and Italian assets in the
United States are frozen.
*
June 16 - All German and Italian consulates in the
United States are ordered closed and their staffs to leave the country by July 10th.
*
June 22 -
World War II:
Germany attacks the
Soviet Union in
Operation Barbarossa*
June 23 -
Hungary and
Slovakia declare war on the Soviet Union.
*
June 25 - World War II:
Finland attack the
Soviet Union to seek the opportunity of revenge in the
Continuation War.
*
June 28 -
Albania declares war on the Soviet Union.
July
*
July 4 -
Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers, committed by
German troops in captured
Polish city of
Lwów.
*
July 5 - World War II:
German troops reach the
Dnieper River.
*
July 5-
19 - War between
Peru and
Ecuador*
July 7 - World War II:
American forces take over the defence of
Iceland from the
British *
July 7 - World War II:
Serbia starts the first popular uprising in Europe against the Axis Powers.
*
July 13 -
World War II -
Montenegro starts the second popular uprising in Europe against the Axis Powers.
*
July 19 -
World War II: A
BBC broadcast by "Colonel Britton" calls on the people of Occupied Europe to resist the Nazis under the slogan "V for Victory".
*
July 26 - World War II: In response to the
Japanese occupation of
French Indo-China, US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the
United States.
*
July 31 -
Holocaust: Under instructions from
Adolf Hitler,
Nazi official
Hermann Göring, orders
SS general
Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired
final solution of the Jewish question."
August
* August - Formation of the
Political Warfare Executive in the
United Kingdom*
August 1 - The first
jeep is produced
*
August 6 - 6-year-old
Elaine Esposito goes to an
appendix operation in
Florida and lapses into a
coma. She dies
1978, still in coma.
*
August 9 -
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Winston Churchill meet at
Argentia, Newfoundland. The
Atlantic Charter is created as a result.
*
August 12 - By one vote (203-202), the
U.S. House of Representatives passes legislation extending the draft period for selectees and the
National Guard from one year to 30 months.
*
August 18 -
Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to
Nazi Germany's systematic
euthanasia of
mentally ill and
handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the
T-4 Euthanasia Program were then transferred to
concentration camps, where they continued in their trade.
*
August 25 -
World War II:
Operation Countenance -
United Kingdom and
Soviet forces invade
Iran.
*
August 27 -
World War II:
France -
Pierre Laval is shot in an assassination attempt at
Versailles.
*
August 28 -
World War II:
Soviets announce the destruction of massive
Dniepr River dam at
Zaporozhye to prevent its capture by the Germans.
*
August 31 -
The Great Gildersleeve debuts on
NBC Radio.
September
*
September 4 -
World War II: The
USS Greer becomes the first
United States ship fired upon by a
German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power. Tension heightens between the two nations as a result.
*
September 6 - Holocaust: The requirement to wear the
Star of David with the word "
Jew" inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in
German-occupied areas.
*
September 8 -
World War II:
Siege of Leningrad begins -
German forces begin a siege against the
Soviet Union's second-largest city,
Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Deutsche deported to Siberia.
*
September 11 -
World War II:
Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the
United States Navy to shoot on sight if any ship or convoy is threatened.
*
September 11 -
Charles Lindbergh, at an
America First Committee rally in
Des Moines, Iowa, accuses "the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt administration" of leading the
United States toward war. Widespread condemnation of Lindbergh follows.
*
September 15 - self-government of
Estonia, headed by
Hjalmar Mäe, is appointed by German military administration.
*
September 16 -
Reza Pahlavi,
Shah of Iran is forced to resign in favor of his son
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran under pressure from the
United Kingdom and the
Soviet Union.
October
*
October 2 -
World War II:
Operation Typhoon -
Germany begins an all-out offensive against
Moscow.
*
October 7 -
John Curtin becomes the 14th
Prime Minister of Australia*
October 8 - World War II: In their invasion of the
Soviet Union,
Germany reaches the
Sea of Azov with the capture of
Mariupol.
*
October 16 -
World War II:
Soviet Union government moves to
Kuibyshev, but
Stalin remains in
Moscow.
*
October 17 -
World War II: The destroyer USS
Kearney is torpedoed and damaged near
Iceland, killing eleven sailors - the first American military casualties of the war.
*
October 18 - General
Hideki Tojo becomes the 40th
Prime Minister of Japan.
*
October 21 - World War II:
Germans rampage in
Yugoslavia, killing thousands of civilians
*
October 24 -
Franz von Werra disappears during a flight over North Sea
*
October 30 - World War II:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in
Lend-Lease aid to the
Soviet Union.
*
October 31 - After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on
Mount Rushmore.
*
October 31 -
World War II: The destroyer
USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a
German U-boat near
Iceland, killing more than 100
United States Navy sailors.
November
*
November 6 - World War II: Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin addresses the
Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule (the first time was earlier that year on
July 2). He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in
German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a gross exaggeration) and that Soviet victory was near.
*
November 12 - World War II:
Battle of Moscow: Temperatures around
Moscow drop to −12 °
C and the
Soviet Union launches
ski troops for the first time against the freezing
German forces near the city.
*
November 13 - World War II: The
aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is hit by German
U-boat U-81*
November 14 - World War II:
HMS Ark Royal capsizes and sinks, having been torpedoed by
U 81.
*
November 17 - World War II:
Attack on Pearl Harbor -
Joseph Grew, the
United States ambassador to
Japan, cables the
State Department that Japan had plans to launch an attack against
Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii (his cable was ignored).
*
November 19 - World War II: The
Australian war cruiser
HMAS Sydney sinks off the coast of
Western Australia, killing 645 sailors.
*
November 21 - The
radio program
King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time (it would later become the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live
blues radio program).
*
November 24 -
World War II: The
United States grants
Lend-Lease to the
Free French.
*
November 26 - US President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as
Thanksgiving Day in the
United States (this partly reversed a
1939 action by Roosevelt that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November).
*
November 26 -
World War II: The
Hull note ultimatum is delivered to Japan by the United States.
*
November 26 - World War II:
Attack on Pearl Harbor - A fleet of six
aircraft carriers commanded by
Japanese Vice Admiral
Chuichi Nagumo leaves
Hitokapu Bay for
Pearl Harbor under strict
radio silence.
*
November 27 - A group of young men stop traffic on highway US 99 south of
Yreka, California, handing out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the
State of Jefferson.
*
November 27 -
World War II:
Battle of Moscow - Germans reach their closest approach to
Moscow. They are subsequently frozen by cold weather and attacks by the
Soviets.
December
 |
The USS Arizona ablaze after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
*
December 1 - World War II: Former mayor of
New York City,
Fiorello LaGuardia, and the director of the Office of Civilian Defense, sign an order creating the
Civil Air Patrol (CAP) as the civilian auxiliary of the
United States Air Force (in April 1943 the CAP was placed under the jurisdiction of the
United States Army Air Forces).
*
December 4 -
State of Jefferson declared in
Yreka, California, with judge
John Childs as a governor
*
December 7,
December 8 (in
Japan standard time) -
Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack consisting of two full regiments on the
United States fleet at
Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the
United States into
World War II.
*
December 8 - World War II: The
United States officially declares war on
Japan.
*
December 8 - World War II:
China officially declares war on
Japan*
December 8 - World War VI: The
Netherlands declares war on
Japan*
December 8 - World War II:
Japan launches an invasion of
Malaya.
*
December 11 - World War II:
Germany declares war on the
United States.
*
December 11 - World War II: American forces repel a Japanese landing attempt at
Wake Island.
*
December 12 -
Hungary and
Romania declare war on the
United States.
India declares war on
Japan.
United States seizes
French ship
Normandie.
*
December 13 -
Sweden's low temperature record with -53° C was set in a village within
Vilhelmina Municipality.
*
December 19 -
World War II:
Hitler becomes Supreme
Commander-in-Chief of the
German Army*
December 23 - World War II: A second Japanese landing attempt on
Wake Island is successful, and the American garrison surrenders after hours of fighting.
*
December 25 - World War II: British and Canadians are defeated by the Japanese at
Hong Kong.
*
December 27 - World War II:
Winston Churchill becomes the first
British Prime Minister to address a
Joint session of the U.S. Congress*
December 27 - World War II:
British Commandos raid the
Norwegian port of
Vaagso, causing Hitler to reinforce the garrison and defenses
*
December 28 - World War II: starts the
Operation Anthropoid (the assassination of
Heydrich in
Prague).
Unknown dates
*
John Vincent Atanasoff and
Clifford E. Berry developed the
Atanasoff-Berry Computer.
*
Ives and
Stilwell prove that
ions radiate at
frequencies affected by their motion.
* In
Sweden,
Victor Hasselblad forms the
Hasselblad camera company.
* The
Pinnacle Commune, a
Rastafarian community, is destroyed by
Jamaican authorities
* Indochina Communist party, led by
Ho Chi Minh, combines with Nationalist party to form the
Vietminh.
*
Meet John Doe makes its film debut.
*
Berlin Diary by
William L. Shirer is published.
Ongoing events
*
Sino-Japanese War (
1937-
1945) (which may or may not be a part of World War II, depending on who's telling the tale)
*
World War II (
1939-
1945)
January
*
January 3 -
Van Dyke Parks, American composer, producer, and musician
*
January 5 -
Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese filmmaker
*
January 7 -
Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d.
2004)
*
January 7 -
John E. Walker, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
January 8 -
Graham Chapman, British comedian (d.
1989)
*
January 9 -
Joan Baez, American singer and activitist
*
January 14 -
Faye Dunaway, American actress
*
January 14 -
Milan Kučan, Slovenian politician and statesman
*
January 15 -
Captain Beefheart, American singer
*
January 18 -
David Ruffin, American singer (d.
1991)
*
January 21 -
Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor
*
January 21 -
Richie Havens, American musician
*
January 24 -
Neil Diamond, legendary American singer, songwriter, and performer
*
January 26 -
Scott Glenn, American actor
*
January 26 -
Henry Jaglom, English director
*
January 27 -
Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer
*
January 30 -
Dick Cheney,
Vice President of the United States*
January 30 -
Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
*
January 31 -
Dick Gephardt, American politician
February
*
February 5 -
Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Feeral Councilor
*
February 6 -
Howard Phillips, American politician
*
February 8 -
Nick Nolte, American actor
*
February 10 -
Michael Apted, English director
*
February 13 -
Sigmar Polke, German painter
*
February 16 -
Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea
*
February 17 -
Gene Pitney, American singer (d.
2006)
*
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 -
Adrian Lyne, English director
*
March 4 -
John Aprea, Italian-American actor
*
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 -
Robert Guéï, military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d.
2002)
*
March 16 -
Chuck Woolery, American game show host
*
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 PakistanApril-May
*
April 3 -
Philippe Wynne, American musician (d.
1984)
*
April 8 -
Peggy Lennon, American singer,
The Lennon Sisters*
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 -
Paavo Lipponen,
Prime Minister of Finland*
April 23 -
Ed Stewart, English disc jockey
*
April 24 -
John Williams, Australian guitarist
*
April 27 -
Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
*
April 28 -
Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress
*
April 28 -
K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
May 5 -
Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (d.
2004)
*
May 13 -
Senta Berger, Swedish actress
*
May 13 -
Ritchie Valens, American singer (d.
1959)
*
May 15 -
K.T. Oslin, American musician
*
May 19 -
Bobby Burgess, American dancer and singer
*
May 19 -
Nora Ephron, American film, producer, director, and screenwriter
*
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 31 -
Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineJune-July
*
June 5 -
Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
*
June 5 -
Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (d.
2004)
*
June 6 -
Neal Adams, American comic book artist
*
June 8 -
Robert Bradford, Irish footballer and politician (d.
1981)
*
June 8 -
Fuzzy Haskins, American musician (
P-Funk)
*
June 10 -
Mickey Jones, American actor and musician
*
June 24 -
Bill Reardon, American politician and educator
*
June 27 -
Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (d.
1996)
*
July 1 -
Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
July 1 -
Myron Scholes, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
July 11 -
Tommy Vance, English disc jockey (d.
2005)
*
July 14 -
Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
*
July 14 -
Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
*
July 19 -
Vikki Carr, American singer
*
July 27 -
Bill Baxley, Alabama Politician
*
July 28 -
Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
*
July 30 -
Paul Anka, Canadian-American singer and songwriter
*
July 31 -
Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician
August-September
*
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 2 -
David Bale, South African-born activist (d.
2003)
*
September 4 -
Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
*
September 9 -
Otis Redding, American musician (d.
1967)
*
September 9 -
Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
*
September 10 -
Christopher Hogwood, English conductor
*
September 10 -
Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese computer game producer (d.
1997)
*
September 14 -
Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
*
September 15 -
George Saimes, American football player
*
September 17 -
Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from California (d.
2005)
*
September 19 -
Cass Elliott, American singer (d.
1974)
*
September 21 -
Pat Lipsky, American artist
*
September 24 -
Guy Hovis, American singer
October-December
*
October 4 -
Anne Rice, American writer
*
October 5 -
Eduardo Duhalde,
President of Argentina*
October 8 -
Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
*
October 13 -
Paul Simon, American singer and composer
*
October 16 -
Tim McCarver, baseball commentator
*
October 20 -
Anneke Wills, British actress
*
October 28 -
John Hallam, Irish actor
*
October 30 -
Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
November 6 -
Doug Sahm, American musician (d.
1999)
*
November 18 -
David Hemmings, English actor (d.
2003)
*
November 26 -
G. Alan Marlatt, American psychologist
*
November 27 -
Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (d.
1998)
*
November 29 -
Bill Freehan, baseball player
*
December 9 -
Beau Bridges, American actor
*
December 10 -
Colin Kelly, American airman
*
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
Unknown dates
*
Thom Bell, American record producer
*
T S Krishnamurthy, Chief Election Commissioner of India
*
Derek Mahon, Irish poet
*
Peter Sarstedt, English singer and songwriter
January-April
*
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 -
Frank Bridge, English composer (b.
1879)
*
January 10 - Sir
John Lavery, Irish artist (b.
1856)
*
January 10 -
Joe Penner, American comedian and actor
*
January 13 -
James Joyce, Irish writer (b.
1882)
*
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 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 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 28 -
Luisa Tetrazzini,
Italian coloratura soprano (b.
1871)
May-August
*
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 26 -
Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b.
1875)
*
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-December
*
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 -
Walther Nernst, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1864)
*
November 18 -
Chris Watson, third
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1867)
*
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 30 -
El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b.
1890)
* Sometime in this year, events of the
Doctor Who episodes
The Empty Child and
The Doctor Dances take place.
*Sometime in this year, in the movie
Citizen Kane,
Charles Foster Kane dies.
* The
BeeGees song "
New York Mining Disaster 1941" is refers to the year.
*
Physics - not awarded
*
Chemistry - not awarded
*
Medicine - not awarded
*
Literature - not awarded
*
Peace - not awarded
*
1941 Coin Pictures
