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| ya2=1943
| ya3=1944
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1941 (''' MCMXLI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar).
Events
January-February
March
April
May
in May 1941]]
June
July
August
September
- 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.
- with the word " Jew " inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German -occupied areas.
- begins - German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union 's second-largest city, Leningrad . Stalin orders the Volga Deutsche deported to Siberia.
- 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
November
December
ablaze after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]]
Unknown dates
Ongoing events
Births
January
- January 3 - Van Dyke Parks , American composer, producer, and musician
- January 5 - Miyazaki Hayao , 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 Federal 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 Pakistan
April-May
- April 3 - Philippe Wynne , American musician (d. 1984 )
- 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 - 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 Medicine
June-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 28 - Riccardo Muti , Italian conductor
- 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 24 - Guy Hovis , American singer
October-December
- October 4 - Anne Rice , American writer
- October 5 - Eduardo Duhalde , President Of Argentina
- October 9 - Chucho Valdés , Cuban musician
- 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
- December 24 - John Levene , British actor
- December 30 - Mel Renfro , American football player
Unknown dates
Deaths
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 )
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
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