1941

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1941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film).

Years :	1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Nobel Prizes 5 Films released

[edit] Events

• Pearl Harbor Incident; U.S. enters World War II
• January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
• January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the United States 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 United States Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.

[edit] Births

• January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, musician, composer
• January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer
• January 5 - Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese film maker
• January 5 - Grady Thomas, singer (P-Funk)
• January 8 - Graham Chapman, comedian
• January 9 - Joan Baez, American singer
• January 14 - Faye Dunaway, actress
• January 14 - Milan Kučan, Slovene politician, statesman
• January 15 - Captain Beefheart, singer
• January 18 - David Ruffin, singer (died 1991)
• January 21 - Richie Havens, musician
• January 21 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish opera singer
• January 26 - Henry Jaglom, director
• January 26 - Scott Glenn, actor
• January 30 - Dick Cheney, politician
• January 31 - Richard Gephardt, American politician
• February 5 - Kaspar Villiger, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
• February 8 - Nick Nolte, actor
• February 10 - Michael Apted, director
• February 11 - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman
• February 11 - Jeremy Mackenzie, general
• February 13 - Sigmar Polke, painter
• February 17 - Julia McKenzie, actress
• February 17 - Gene Pitney, singer
• February 20 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, singer
• February 27 - Paddy Ashdown, British politician
• March 3 - Jutta Hoffmann, actress
• March 4 - Adrian Lyne, director
• March 6 - Willie Stargell, Baseball Hall of Famer (died 2001)
• March 14 - Wolfgang Petersen, director, Das Boot
• March 15 - Mike Love, musician ("The Beach Boys")
• March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci, film director
• March 18 - Wilson Pickett, singer
• March 26 - Richard Dawkins, British scientist
• March 30 - Wasim Sajjad, former President of Pakistan
• April 6 - Hans W. Geissendörfer, German film director
• April 8 - Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer
• April 14 - Pete Rose, baseball star
• April 23 - Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland
• May 13 - Ritchie Valens, singer (died 1959)
• May 13 - Senta Berger, actress
• May 15 - K.T. Oslin, country musician
• May 19 - Nora Ephron, screenwriter
• May 24 - Bob Dylan, US poet and musician
• June 5 - Martha Argerich, Argentinian pianist
• June 5 - Spalding Gray, actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (died 2004)
• June 27 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director
• July 14 - Maulana Karenga, author & activist
• August 22 - Bill Parcells, NFL coach
• September 9 - Otis Redding, musician (died 1967)
• September 9 - Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist
• September 19 - Cass Elliott, singer (died 1974)
• October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer
• October 5 - Eduardo Duhalde former president of Argentina
• October 13 - Paul Simon, musician
• November 29 - Bill Freehan, baseball player
• December 18- His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester

[edit] Deaths

• January 5 - Amy Johnson, aviator
• January 8 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scouting
• January 10 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor
• January 13 - James Joyce, writer
• February 11 - Rudolf Hilferding, German economist, Minister of Finance
• February 28 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain
• March 6 - Gutzon Borglum, sculptor
• March 8 - Sherwood Anderson, author
• March 15 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian impressionist painter
• March 28 - Virginia Woolf, writer
• June 2 - Lou Gehrig, baseball legend (born 1903)
• June 6 - Louis Chevrolet, automobile builder
• July 10 - Jelly Roll Morton - jazz musician & composer (b. 1890)
• July 11 - Arthur Evans, archaeologist
• July 26 - Henri Lebesgue, mathematician
• August 31 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (suicide)
• August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, author
• September 13 - Elias Disney, American farmer and father of Walt Disney.
• November 18 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia
• December 3 - Christian Sinding, composer

[edit] Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physics - not awarded
• Chemistry - not awarded
• Medicine - not awarded
• Literature - not awarded
• Peace - not awarded

[edit] Films released

• Citizen Kane