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1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1941st year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 941st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of
the 20th century,
and the 2nd year of the 1940s decade. Contents ·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit] Below, the events
of World War II have
the "WWII" prefix. January[edit] ·
January–August – 10,072 men, women and
children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon
monoxide in a gas chamber at Hadamar Euthanasia
Centre in Germany in the
first phase of mass killings under the Action T4 program here. ·
January 1 – Thailand Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees
January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new
year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). ·
January 3 – A decree (Normalschrifterlass)
promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann on behalf of Adolf Hitlerrequires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua.[1] ·
January 4 – The short subject Elmer's Pet Rabbit is
released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his
name on a title card. ·
January 5 – WWII: At the Battle of Bardia in Libya, Australian and British troops
defeat Italian forces,
the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation takes part. ·
During his State of the Union address, President
of the United States Franklin D.
Roosevelt presents his Four Freedoms as fundamental
global human rights. ·
The keel of the USS Missouri is
laid at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn. ·
January 10 – The Lend-Lease Act is introduced into
the United States
Congress. ·
January 11 – The British Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Southampton (83) is
sunk off Malta. ·
January 13 – All persons born in Puerto Rico since this day are declared
U.S. citizens by birth, through U.S. federal law.[2] ·
January 14 – WWII: Commerce raiding German
auxiliary cruiser Pinguin captures the Norwegian
whaling fleet near Bouvet Island,
effectively ending Southern Ocean whaling for the duration of the war.[3] ·
January 15 – John Vincent
Atanasoff and Clifford Berry describe the workings of
the Atanasoff–Berry
computer in print. ·
January 19 – WWII: British troops
attack Italian-held Eritrea. ·
January 20 – Franklin D.
Roosevelt is sworn
in for a third term as President of the United States. ·
WWII: Battle of Tobruk:
Australian and British forces capture Tobruk from the Italians. ·
In Sweden, Victor Hasselblad registers
the Hasselblad camera company. ·
January 23 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh testifies
before the U.S. Congress and
recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact
with Adolf Hitler. ·
January 27 – WWII: Joseph Grew, the U.S. ambassador to Japan,
reports to Washington a rumor overheard at a diplomatic reception concerning
a planned surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ·
January 30 – WWII: Australians
capture Derna, Libya,
from the Italians. February[edit] ·
February 3 – WWII: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in
occupied Vichy France.[4] ·
February 4 – WWII: The United
Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American
troops. ·
February 5 – The Air Training Corps is
formed in the United Kingdom. ·
February 5–April 1 – WWII: Battle of Keren – British and Free French Forces fight
hard to capture the strategic town of Keren in Italian Eritrea. ·
February 6 – WWII: Fall of Benghazi to the Western Desert Force.
Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel is
appointed commander of Afrika Korps. ·
February 8 – WWII: The U.S. House of
Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Act.[5] ·
February 9 – Winston Churchill,
in a worldwide broadcast, tells the United States to show its support by
sending arms to the British: "Give us the tools, and we will finish the
job." ·
WWII: Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli. ·
Reserve Constable Albert
Alexander, a patient at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England, becomes the first person
treated with penicillin intravenously,
by Howard Florey's
team. He reacts positively but there is insufficient supply of the drug to
reverse his terminal infection. A successful treatment is achieved during
May.[6] ·
February 13 – Aircraft from HMS Formidable attack Massawa in Eritrea. ·
February 14 – WWII: Admiral Kichisaburō Nomura begins
his duties as Japanese Ambassador to the United States. ·
February 19–22 – WWII: Three Nights' Blitz over Swansea, South Wales: Over these 3 nights of
intensive bombing, which lasted a total of 13 hours and 48 minutes, Swansea's
town centre is almost completely obliterated by the 896 high explosive bombs
employed by the Luftwaffe; 397
casualties and 230 deaths reported. ·
February 22 – WWII: HMS Shropshire bombards Barawa, on the coast between Kismayo and Mogadishu. ·
February 23 – Glenn T. Seaborg isolates and
discovers plutonium. ·
February 25 – WWII: ·
The occupied Netherlands starts
the first popular uprising in Europe against the Axis powers, the "February strike" against German deportation of Jews in Amsterdam and surroundings. ·
British submarine HMS Upright attacks
an Italian convoy, sinking the cruiser Armando
Diaz. ·
February 27 – WWII: The New
Zealand Division cruiser HMS Leander (1931) sinks
Italian armed merchant raider Ramb I off the Maldives. March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
WWII: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, thus joining the Axis powers. ·
Arthur L. Bristol becomes
Rear Admiral for the United States Navy's Support Force, Atlantic Fleet. ·
March 4 – WWII: Operation Claymore –
British Commandos carry out a successful raid on the Lofoten Islands off the north coast of
Norway. ·
March 8 – WWII: The U.S. Senate passes
the Lend-Lease Act. ·
March 11 – WWII: Franklin D.
Roosevelt, President of the United States, signs the Lend-Lease
Act into law, providing for the U.S. to provide Lend-Lease aid to the Allies. ·
March 15 – Richard C. Hottelet is
arrested by the Gestapo on
"suspicion of espionage", but eventually released in July as part
of a prisoner exchange with
the U.S. ·
March 16 – A group of U.S. warships
arrive in Auckland, New Zealand,
on a goodwill visit. On March 20, they arrive in Sydney, Australia. ·
March 17 ·
In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery
of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt. ·
British Minister
of Labour Ernest Bevin calls
for women to fill vital jobs. ·
March 22 – Washington state's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate
electricity. ·
March 24 – WWII: Rommel launches his
first offensive in Cyrenaica. ·
March 25 – WWII: The Kingdom of
Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers in Vienna. ·
March 27 – WWII: ·
Battle of Cape
Matapan: Off the Peloponnese coast in the
Mediterranean, British naval forces defeat
those of Italy, sinking 5 warships. Battle ends on March 29. ·
Yugoslav coup d'état:
An anti-Axis coup d'état in the Kingdom of
Yugoslavia led by General Dušan Simović,
Brigadier General Borivoje
Mirković, Colonels Dragutin Savic and Stjepan Burazovic,
Colonel General Miodrag Lazic, Milorad
Petrović and many other general officers (with British
support) forces Prince Paulinto
exile; 17-year-old King Peter II assumes
power following the coup and Simović is
elected new Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia. ·
Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu to study the United States
Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in preparation for a
future attack. ·
March 30 – WWII: ·
All German, Italian and Danish ships
anchored in United States waters are taken into "protective
custody". ·
A German Lorenz cipher machine operator sends a
4,000-character message twice, allowing British mathematician Bill Tutte to decipher the machine's
coding mechanism.[7] April[edit] ·
April – The Valley of Geysers is
discovered on the Kamchatka Peninsula of
Russia by Tatyana Ustinova. ·
April 4 – WWII: Axis forces
capture Benghazi. ·
April 6 – WWII: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece. ·
April 9 – The U.S. acquires full
military defense rights in Greenland. ·
April 10 – WWII: ·
The U.S. destroyer USS Niblack,
while picking up survivors from a sunken Dutch freighter, drops depth charges
on a German U-boat (the first "shot in
anger" fired by America against Germany).[8] ·
The Independent
State of Croatia, a puppet state of the Axis powers, is established with Ustashe leader Ante Pavelić as head (Poglavnik) of the government. ·
April 12 – WWII: German troops
enter Belgrade. ·
April 13 – Soviet–Japanese
Neutrality Pact signed.[9] ·
April 15 – WWII: Axis forces reach
Halfaya Pass on the Libyan-Egyptian frontier. ·
April 18 – WWII: ·
The Yugoslav Royal Army capitulates. ·
Prime Minister of Greece Alexandros Koryzis commits
suicide as German troops approach Athens. ·
April 19 – Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play Mother
Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre
Kinder) receives its first theatrical production at the Schauspielhaus
Zürich. ·
April 21 – WWII: Greece
capitulates. Commonwealth troops
and some elements of the Greek Army withdraw to Crete. ·
April 23 – The America First
Committee holds its first mass rally in New York City,
with Charles Lindbergh as
keynote speaker. ·
April 25 – Franklin D.
Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, criticizes Charles
Lindbergh by comparing him to the Copperheads of
the Civil War period. In response, Lindbergh resigns his commission in the U.S.
Army Air Corps Reserve on April 28. ·
April 27 – WWII: German troops
enter Athens. ·
April 28 – World
War II persecution of Serbs: Gudovac massacre – Members of the Croatian nationalist Ustashe movement kill around 190 Bjelovar Serbs in the village of Gudovac in the Independent
State of Croatia. May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
The breakfast cereal Cheerios is introduced as CheeriOats by General Mills. ·
Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane premieres in New York
City. ·
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 2 – Anglo-Iraqi War: British combat operations
against the rebel government of Rashid Ali in
the Kingdom of Iraq begin.[10] ·
May 5 – WWII: Emperor Haile Selassie enters Addis Ababa, which has been liberated from
Italian forces; this date is subsequently commemorated as Liberation Day in Ethiopia. ·
May 6 – At California's March Field,
entertainer Bob Hope performs
his first USO Show. ·
May 8 – WWII: The German
auxiliary cruiser Pinguin is sunk by HMS Cornwall (56) in
the Indian Ocean; 555 are killed. ·
May 9 – WWII: 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 ·
WWII: The British House of
Commons is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid. ·
Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland,
claiming to be on a peace mission. ·
May 11/May 12 – WWII: The Ustaše massacre 260–373 Serb men
in a Catholic church in Glina, Croatia where the men had
assembled to be received into the Catholic faith in exchange for their lives. ·
May 12 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable,
fully automatic computer, in Berlin. ·
May 13 – WWII: Yugoslav General Draža
Mihailović and a group of 80 soldiers and officers cross
the Drina river in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, arrive at Ravna Gora,
in western Nazi-occupied Serbia and start fighting with German
occupation troops. ·
May 15 ·
The first British jet aircraft, the Gloster E.28/39, is flown. ·
Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak begins as the New York Yankees' center fielder goes one for four
against Chicago White Sox Pitcher Eddie Smith. ·
May 19 – The Viet Minh is formed in at Pác Bó in Vietnam to overthrow French rule of
the nation as an alliance between the Indochina Communist party, led by Ho Chi Minh, and the Nationalist party. It
will become the Viet Cong during
the Vietnam War. ·
May 20 – WWII: The Battle of Crete begins as Germany
launches an airborne invasion of Crete, the first mainly airborne invasion in
military history. ·
May 21 – German
submarine U-69 sinks the U.S.-flagged SS Robin Moor off the west
African coast, having allowed the passengers and crew to disembark. ·
May 24 ·
WWII: In the North Atlantic, German
battleship Bismarck sinks battlecruiser HMS Hood, killing all but 3
crewmen from a total of 1,418 aboard the pride of the Royal Navy. ·
The British submarine HMS Upholder torpedoes
and sinks the Italian ocean liner SS Conte Rosso. ·
May 26 – WWII: In the North Atlantic, Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the
carrier HMS Ark Royal cripple
the steering of German
battleship Bismarck in an aerial torpedo attack. ·
May 27 ·
WWII: Franklin D.
Roosevelt, President of the United States, proclaims an
"unlimited national emergency."[11] ·
WWII: German
battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North
Atlantic, killing 2,300. It is eventually found in 1989. ·
The Swiss
Socialist Federation is banned.[12] ·
May 29 – The Disney
animators' strike occurs due to Walt Disney refusing to recognize his
animators and their low pay. ·
May 30 – WWII: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas tear down the Nazi swastika on the Acropolis in Athens, and replace it with the Greek flag. ·
May 31 – Anglo-Iraqi War: British troops complete the
re-occupation of the Kingdom of Iraq, returning Prince 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent
for Faisal II. June[edit] ·
June 1 – WWII: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete
surrenders to invading German forces. ·
June 5 ·
Second
Sino-Japanese War: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in
a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing. ·
A Serbian ammunition depot explodes
at Smederevo on the outskirts of Belgrade, Serbia, killing 2,500 and injuring over
4,500. ·
June 6 – WWII: The Commissar Order is issued by Oberkommando
der Wehrmacht requiring all Soviet political commissars identified
in Operation Barbarossaamong
captured forces to receive summary execution. ·
June 8 – WWII: British and Free French forces invade Syria. ·
June 13 – TASS,
the official Soviet news agency, denies reports of tension between Germany
and the Soviet Union. ·
June 14 ·
June deportation: Soviet officials deport about 65,000
people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Siberia. ·
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 10. ·
WWII: British Fleet Air Arm aircraft sink the Vichy ship Chevalier
Paul. ·
June 20 ·
United
States Army Air Corps becomes the United
States Army Air Forces, with the earlier name reserved solely for
the new USAAF's logistics and training elements. ·
Walt Disney's live-action/animated
feature The
Reluctant Dragon is released. ·
June 22 – ·
WWII: Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany (with allies) invades
the Soviet Union. Winston Churchill promises
all possible British assistance to the Soviet Union in a worldwide broadcast:
"Any man or state who fights against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man
or state who marches with Hitler is our foe." Italy and Romania declare war on the Soviet
Union. ·
WWII: The First Sisak
Partisan Brigade, the first anti-fascist armed unit in occupied
Europe, is founded by Yugoslav partisans near Sisak, Croatia. ·
June Uprising
in Lithuania and establishment of a Provisional
Government of Lithuania begun by the Lithuanian
Activist Front in an attempt to liberate Lithuaniafrom Soviet
occupation. ·
Rapid escalation of the Holocaust in
Lithuania: Between now and the end of the year an estimated
190,000-195,000 out of 210,000 Lithuanian Jews will be massacred,
killing an estimated 95% of the nation's Jewish population. ·
Rapid Vienna beats Schalke 04 in the final of the
German Fottballchampionship after 0:3 with 4:3. ·
June 23 – WWII: Hungary and Slovakia declare war on the Soviet
Union. ·
June 24 ·
The Soviet
Information Bureau, predecessor of RIA Novosti, is founded. ·
The Rainiai massacre takes place:
Approximately 80 political prisoners are killed by the NKVD in
Lithuania. ·
June 25 – WWII: Finland as a co-belligerent with Germany attacks
the Soviet Union to
start the Continuation War. ·
June 28 – WWII: Albania declares war on the Soviet
Union. ·
June 28–30 – The Holocaust: The Iași pogrom takes place killing
"at least 13,266" Romanian Jews. ·
June 29 – WWII: Hitler's second-in-command, Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring,
is appointed as Hitler's successor in a written decree. The decree will come
into effect should Hitler die in the middle of the war. (The decree becomes
void in April 1945 after Göring tries to assume power while Hitler is still
alive, leading to Göring's expulsion from the Nazi Party.) July[edit] ·
July – The British Army's Special Air Service is
formed. ·
July 1 ·
Commercial television authorized by
the Federal
Communications Commission in the United States. ·
NBC television
begins commercial operation on WNBT on channel 1. The world's first legal TV
commercial, for Bulova watches,
occurs at 2:29 PM over WNBT before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia
Phillies. The 10-second spot displays a picture of a clock
superimposed on a map of the United States, accompanied by the voice-over
"America runs on Bulova time."[13][14] As a one-off
special, the first quiz show called "Uncle Bee" is telecast on
WNBT's inaugural broadcast day, followed later the same day by Ralph Edwards hosting the second game
show broadcast on U.S. television, Truth or
Consequences, as simulcast on radio and TV and sponsored
by Ivory soap.
Weekly broadcasts of the show commence in 1956,
with Bob Barker. ·
CBS television begins
commercial operation on New York station WCBW (modern-day WCBS-TV) on channel 2. ·
WWII: Germany and Italy recognize the
Japanese-sponsored Chinese
reorganized national government under Wang Jingwei as the legitimate
government of the China. ·
July 2 – WWII: Empire of Japan calls up 1 million men
for military service. ·
July 3 – WWII: Joseph Stalin, in his first address since
the German invasion, calls upon the Soviet people to carry out a "scorched earth" policy of resistance to
the bitter end. ·
July 4 – The massacre of
Polish scientists and writers is committed by Nazi German troops in the occupied
Polish city of Lwów. ·
July 5 – WWII: ·
Operation Barbarossa: German troops reach
the Dnieper River. ·
British troopship SS Anselm is torpedoed and
sunk by German
submarine U-96 in the Atlantic Ocean with the
loss of around 250 out of about 1310 on board. ·
July 5–31: War is
fought between Peru and Ecuador. ·
July 7 ·
Uprising in
Serbia: The Communist
Party of Yugoslavia raises an uprising against the Nazi
occupation, beginning when Žikica
Jovanović Španac and Miša Pantić kill two Nazi
gendarmes in the village of Bela Crkva, ·
WWII: American forces take over the
defense of Iceland from the
British. ·
July 10 – The Holocaust: Jedwabne pogrom: Local ethnic Poles massacre at least 340 Jewish
residents of Jedwabne in occupied
Poland.[15] ·
July 11 – The Northern
Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.[16] ·
July 13 – WWII: Uprising in
Montenegro against the Axis powers starts; the second popular
uprising in Europe (the first being the "February strike" of February 25 (above) in
the Netherlands). ·
July 14 – WWII: Vichy France signs armistice terms
ending all fighting in Syria and Lebanon. ·
July 17 – Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends. ·
July 19 ·
WWII: A BBC broadcast
by "Colonel Britton" calls on the people of occupied Europe to
resist the Nazis under the slogan "V for Victory". ·
The Tom and Jerry short The Midnight Snack is
released; it is the second appearance for the duo and the first in which they
are officially named. ·
July 23 – WWII: Italian aircraft damage
the British destroyer HMS Fearless which
has to be sunk. ·
July 25 – Introduction of postal codes in
Germany. ·
July 26 – WWII: ·
In response to the Japanese occupation
of French Indochina,
U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the
United States. ·
General Douglas MacArthur is
named commander of all U.S. forces in the Philippines; the Philippines Army is ordered
nationalized by President Roosevelt. ·
July 29 – The Vichy Regime signs the Protocol
Concerning Joint Defense and Joint Military Cooperation with the Empire of Japan, giving the Japanese a total
of eight airfields, allowing them greater troop presence and the use of the
Indochinese financial system in return for continued French autonomy. ·
July 30 – WWII: Glina massacre of
July–August 1941 – The Ustaše brutally kill 200 Serbs inside a Serbian Orthodox church
in Glina, Croatia,
with a total of 700–1,200 being killed in the area of the next few days. ·
July 31 – WWII: The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders S.S. 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."[17] August[edit] ·
August – Political
Warfare Executive is formed in the United Kingdom to
disseminate information to Germany and its Occupied countries. ·
August 1 – First production Willys MB U.S. Army Jeep. ·
August 5 – Provisional
Government of Lithuania dissolved. ·
August 6 – Six-year-old Elaine Esposito goes to have an appendix operation in Florida and lapses into a coma,
dying 37 years later, still comatose. ·
August 7 – WWII: British
submarine HMS Severn sinks
an Italian Marconi-class
submarine. ·
August 9 – Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet
onboard ship at Naval Station
Argentia, Newfoundland.
The Atlantic Charter (released August 14), setting goals for postwar
international cooperation, is created as a result. ·
The Holocaust: Units of the Wehrmacht and the Einsatzgruppen as part of Operation Barbarossa start
killing Jewish children, which signal the start of the Jewish Genocide. ·
HMS Mercury Royal
Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England. ·
August 25 – WWII: Anglo-Soviet
invasion of Iran to secure the Persian Corridor and oilfields begins. ·
August 28 – WWII: ·
German troops capture Tallinn, Estonia from the Soviet Union,
while attacks on
the evacuating Soviet ships leave more than 12,000 dead in
one of the bloodiest naval battles of the war. German forces will capture the
entire Estonian territory by 6 December. ·
WWII: The Government
of National Salvation, a Serb puppet state of the Axis powers, is established by General Milan Nedić in Nazi-occupied Serbia in Belgrade under the military
commander Heinrich Danckelmann;
the regime includes 15 Ministers. ·
Robert Menzies resigns as Prime Minister
of Australia after losing the support of his party.
He will not return to the Prime Ministership until 1949. Arthur Fadden, leader of the Country Party,
consequently becomes Prime Minister, while former Prime Minister Billy Hughes replaces Menzies as UAP leader. ·
August 30 – German troopship Bahia
Laura is sunk by HMS Trident (N52);
450 are killed. ·
WWII (Uprising in
Serbia): Battle of
Loznica: Chetniks capture
the town of Loznica in Nazi-occupied Serbia. ·
The Great
Gildersleeve debuts on NBC Radio
in the United States. September[edit] ·
September 3 – The Holocaust: SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch first uses the
pesticide Zyklon B to
execute Soviet prisoners of war en masse at Auschwitz
concentration camp; eventually it will be used to kill about 1.2
million people. ·
September 6 – The 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 – WWII: The Siege of Leningrad begins:
German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Germans deported to Siberia. ·
WWII: 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. ·
The Medvedev Forest
massacre of political prisoners takes place at the Oryol Prison in the Soviet Union. ·
WWII: The first snowfall is reported on
the Russian front. ·
Construction on The Pentagon begins in Washington, D.C. ·
Franklin Roosevelt gives one of his fireside chats on the USS Greer incident. ·
September 14 – The State of Vermont "declares war" on
Germany, by defining the United States to be in "armed conflict" in
order to extend a wartime bonus to Vermonters in the service.[18] ·
September 15 – The Estonian
Self-Administration, headed by Hjalmar Mäe, is appointed by the German
military administration. ·
September 16 – Rezā Shāh of Iran is
forced to resign in favor of his son Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi, under pressure from the United Kingdom and the Soviet
Union, concluding the Anglo-Soviet
invasion of Iran. ·
September 16–30 – The Nikolaev massacre takes
place in Mykolaiv; 35,782 men,
women and children; mostly Jews, are killed by Einsatzgruppe D and local
collaborators. ·
September 22 – The town of Reshetylivka in the Soviet Union is occupied by German
forces. ·
September 23 – The 1941 Texas hurricane made
landfall near Bay City, Texas causing
extensive damage and flooding in Galveston and Houston. ·
WWII: The National
Liberation Front (Greece), the main Greek Resistance movement, is
established and Georgios Siantos is
appointed its first acting leader. ·
The first liberty ship, the SS Patrick Henry, is launched
at Baltimore. ·
September 28 – WWII: The Drama Uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in
northern Greece begins. ·
September 29 – WWII: The Moscow
Conference begins; U.S. representative Averell Harriman and British
representative Lord
Beaverbrook meet with Soviet foreign minister Molotov to
arrange urgent assistance for Russia. ·
September 29–30 – The Holocaust: Babi Yar massacre –
German troops, assisted by Ukrainian police and local collaborators, kill
33,771 Jews. October[edit] ·
Mid-October – First production P-38E Lightning fighter produced
by Lockheed in
the United States. ·
The Holocaust: The Nazi German Majdanek
concentration camp (Konzentrationslager Lublin) opens
in occupied
Poland on the outskirts of the town Lublin. Between October 1941 and July 1944
at least 200,000 people will be killed in the camp. ·
New
Zealand Division of the Royal Navy becomes the Royal New Zealand
Navy ·
October 2 – WWII: Operation Typhoon begins
as Germany launches an all-out offensive against Moscow. ·
October 5 – The Holocaust: In Berdychiv 20-30,000 Jews are shot dead. ·
October 7 – John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime
Minister of Australia following the defeat of Arthur Fadden's Country/UAP Coalition Government on
the floor of the House
of Representatives. ·
October 8 – WWII: In their invasion of
the Soviet Union,
Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with
the capture of Mariupol. ·
October 11 – WWII: Armed insurgents
from the People's
Liberation Army of Macedonia attack Axis-occupied zones in the city of Prilep, beginning the National
Liberation War of Macedonia. ·
October 11–12 – Fire destroys a Firestone Tire and Rubber Company plant
in Fall River,
Massachusetts, consuming 15,850 tons of rubber and causing a setback to the
United States war effort.[19] ·
October 13 – The Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler instructs SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik to begin construction
of Bełżec;
the first of the Operation Reinhardextermination camps. ·
October 15 – British submarine HMS Torbay bombards the
port of Apollonia, Cyrenaica in Italian Libya. ·
October 16 – WWII: The Soviet government moves to Kuibyshev
(modern Samara),
but Stalin remains
in Moscow. ·
October 17 – WWII: The destroyer USS Kearny is
torpedoed and damaged near Iceland, killing 11 sailors (the first
American military casualties of the war, in which the US is at this time
neutral). ·
October 18 – General Hideki Tōjō becomes the
40th Prime Minister of
Japan. ·
October 18 – The
Maltese Falcon is released in the United States,
starring Humphrey Bogart,
directed by John Huston. ·
October 21 – WWII: Kragujevac massacre –
German soldiers and local auxiliaries massacre more than 2000 civilian men
at Kragujevac in Nazi-occupied Serbia. ·
October 23 – Walt Disney's fourth animated film Dumbo is released in the United
States. ·
October 25 – Franz von Werra disappears during a
flight over the North Sea. ·
October 29 – The Holocaust: Kaunas
massacre of October 29, 1941 – Over 9,200 Lithuanian Jews are shot dead. ·
WWII: Franklin D.
Roosevelt, President of the United States, approves US$1 billion
in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. ·
The Holocaust: 1500 Jews from Pidhaitsi (in western Ukraine) are sent
by Nazis to Bełżec
extermination camp. ·
WWII: The destroyer USS Reuben
James on convoy escort is accidentally torpedoed by a
German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors. ·
Last day of carving on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. November[edit] ·
November 5 – WWII: The United States
holds peace talks with Japan. ·
November 6 – WWII: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time
during his three-decade rule (the first time was earlier this year on July 2). He states that 350,000 Soviet
troops have been killed in German attacks but that the Germans have lost 4.5
million[citation needed] soldiers (a gross
exaggeration) and that Soviet victory is near. ·
November 7 – WWII: The Soviet hospital
ship Armenia is
sunk by German aircraft while evacuating refugees, wounded military and the
staff of several Crimeanhospitals. It is
estimated that more than 5,000 die in the sinking. ·
November 10 – In a speech at the Mansion House,
London, Winston Churchill promises
"should the United States become involved in war with Japan, the British
declaration will follow within the hour". ·
November 12 – WWII: ·
As the Battle of Moscow begins, 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. ·
The Soviet cruiser Chervona
Ukraina is hit three times in the Severnaya Bay by bombs
from German Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers from II./StG 77 during
the Siege of
Sevastopol.[20] ·
WWII: The British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks
under tow off Gibraltar after
being torpedoed the previous day by German
submarine U-81. ·
The Holocaust: In Slonim (Byelorussian
SSR), German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder
9000 Jews this day. ·
November 17 – WWII: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to
Japan, cables to Washington, D.C., a warning that Japan may strike suddenly
and unexpectedly. ·
November 18 – WWII: Operation Crusader,
a British Eighth Army operation
to relieve the Siege of Tobruk in
North Africa, begins. ·
November 19 – WWII: Both commerce raiding German
auxiliary cruiser Kormoran and Australian
cruiser HMAS Sydney sink
following a battle off the coast of Western Australia. There are no survivors
from the 645 Australian sailors aboard Sydney.[21] ·
November 21 – The radio program King Biscuit Time is
broadcast for the first time (it later becomes the longest running daily
radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program). ·
November 22 – WWII: HMS Devonshire sinks commerce raiding German
auxiliary cruiser Atlantis, ending the longest warship
cruise of the war (622 days without in-port replenishment or repair).[22] ·
November 26 – WWII: ·
The Hull note (Outline of Proposed Basis
for Agreement Between the United States and Japan), named for Secretary of State Cordell Hull, is delivered to the Empire of Japan by the United States. ·
A task force of 6 aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese
Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo leaves
Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under
strict radio silence. ·
WWII: Germans reach their closest
approach to Moscow. They are subsequently frozen by cold weather and attacks
by the Soviets. ·
A group of young men stop traffic on U.S.
Highway 99 south of Yreka, California,
handing out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the State
of Jefferson. ·
November 30 and December 8 – Rumbula massacre: Nazi forces kill
approximately 24,000 Latvian Jews and
1,000 German Jews outside
of Riga. December[edit] USS Arizona ablaze
after the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor ·
December 1 – WWII: ·
Fiorello La Guardia,
Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of
Civilian Defense, signs Administrative
Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of
the United
States Army Air Forces. ·
A state of emergency is declared in British Malaya and the Straits Settlements. ·
December 2 – WWII: The code message
"Climb Mount Niitaka" is transmitted to the Japanese task force,
indicating that negotiations have broken down and that the attack on Pearl
Harbor is to be carried out according to plan. ·
December 4 – The State
of Jefferson is declared in Yreka, California,
with a judge, John Childs, as governor. ·
December 6 – WWII: ·
Soviet counterattacks begin against
German troops encircling Moscow. The Heer is subsequently pushed back
over 200 mi (320 km). ·
The United Kingdom declares war on
Finland and Romania. ·
December 6 – WWII: British
submarine HMS Perseus is mined off Cephalonia. ·
December 7 (December 8 – 3:18 a.m., Japan Standard Time)
– WWII: ·
Attack on Pearl
Harbor: Aircraft flying from Imperial Japanese
Navy carriers launch
a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii,
thus drawing the United States into World War II. The attack begins at
7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Standard Time and is announced on radio stations in
the U.S. at about 11:26 p.m. PST (19.26 GMT). ·
The Japanese declaration of war on the United States and
the British Empire is published in Japanese evening
newspapers but not formally delivered to the U.S. until the following day.
Canada declares war on Japan. ·
Adolf Hitler makes his Nacht und Nebel decree, declaring
that all political prisoners and those involved in both German
resistance to Nazism and resistance to Nazism throughout German-occupied
Europe were to be apprehended by the Gestapo, Sicherheitsdienst and
other security forces under Heinrich Himmler's control. ·
Tobruk's British and Commonwealth garrison
is relieved after Axis forces under Rommel withdraw. ·
WWII: The Battle of Hong Kong begins
shortly after 8:00 a.m. (local time), less than eight hours after the
attack on Pearl Harbor, when Japanese forces invade Hong Kong,
which is defended by British, Canadian and local troops. The United Kingdom
officially declares war on the Empire of Japan. ·
WWII: Japanese Invasion of Shanghai
International Settlement, Began to occupy the British and the
American sectors after the attack on Pearl Harbor. ·
WWII: The Japanese
occupation of the Philippines begins ten hours after the
attack on Pearl Harbor when Japanese forces invade Luzon and destroy U.S. aircraft
on Clark Field.[23] ·
WWII: President of the United
States Franklin D.
Roosevelt delivers his "Infamy Speech" to a Joint
session of the United States Congress at
12:30 p.m. EST(17.30 GMT).
Transmitted live over all four major national networks it attracts the
largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81% of homes.[24]Within an hour,
Congress agrees to the President's request for a United
States declaration of war upon Japan and he signs it at
4:10 p.m. ·
WWII: Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, the Free
French, Yugoslavia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras also officially declare war on
Japan, and the Republic of
China declares war on the Axis powers.[23] ·
WWII: Japanese also attack British Malaya and Thailand.[23] ·
WWII: The German advance on Moscow
(Operation Typhoon) is suspended for the winter.[23] ·
The Holocaust: the Nazi German Chełmno
extermination camp opens in occupied
Poland near the village of Chełmno nad
Nerem. Between December 1941-April 1943 and June 1944-January 1945
at least 153,000 Jews will be killed in the camp. ·
The Holocaust The first mass gassing of
Jews began in Chełmno
extermination camp on 8 December 1941, when the Nazis used
gas vans to murder people from the Lodz ghetto. ·
December 10 – WWII: ·
The British battleship HMS Prince
of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse are
sunk by Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea north of Singapore. ·
The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea officially
declares war on Japan. ·
December 11 – WWII: ·
Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The U.S.
responds in kind. ·
Mildred Gillars ("Axis
Sally") delivers her first propaganda broadcast to Allied troops. ·
December 12 – WWII: ·
Hungary and Romania declare
war on the United States. ·
British India declares war on the Empire of Japan. ·
The United States seizes the French
ship SS Normandie. ·
The Kimura Detachment of the Japanese
Imperial forces is occupied in Legaspi,
Albay, Philippines. ·
December 13 – Sweden's low temperature
record of −53 °C is set in a village within the Vilhelmina
Municipality. ·
December 14 – WWII: The Independent
State of Croatia declares war on the United States and the
United Kingdom. ·
December 15 – WWII: at Drobytsky Yar, 15,000 Jews are shot dead by
German troops. ·
December 19 – WWII: ·
Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of
the Nazi Army. ·
Raid on
Alexandria: Italian Regia Marina divers on human torpedoes place limpet mines on ships of the
British Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet in
port at Alexandria, Egypt,
disabling battleships Queen
Elizabeth and Valiant . ·
Twelve days after the Japanese raid on
Pearl Harbor, the United States
Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland graduates
its "Class of 1942" a semester early so as to induct the graduating
students without delay into the U.S. Navy and/or Marine Corps as officers,
for immediate stationing in the war.[25] ·
Thailand and Japan sign a military
alliance. ·
The Holocaust: Stanisławów
Ghetto established. ·
December 22 – WWII: Arcadia Conference opens
in Washington, D.C., the first meeting on military strategy between the heads
of government of the United Kingdom and the United States following the
latter's entry into the war. ·
December 23 – WWII: A second Japanese
landing attempt on Wake Island is
successful and the American garrison surrenders after a full night and
morning of fighting. ·
December 24 – WWII: ·
British forces capture Benghazi. ·
Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI is the first Allied ship to
sink a Japanese warship, sinking the destroyer Sagiri near Sarawak; K XVI is herself torpedoed the
following day by Japanese submarine I-66. ·
December 25 – WWII: ·
The Battle of Hong Kong ends
after 17 days with surrender of the British Crown colony to the Japanese. ·
Admiral Émile Muselier seizes
the archipelago of Saint Pierre
and Miquelon, the first part of France to be liberated by
the Free French Forces. ·
December 26 – WWII: Winston Churchill becomes
the first British Prime Minister to address a joint
session of the United States Congress. ·
December 27 – WWII: British Commandos raid
the Norwegian port of Vaagso, causing Hitler to reinforce the
garrison and defenses, drawing vital troops away from other areas. Date unknown[edit] ·
Classic Comics series launched
in the United States with a version of The Three Musketeers. Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
Dardo Cabo, Argentine journalist and
activist (d. 1977) ·
Martin Evans, British biologist, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
Abdiqasim Salad
Hassan, Somali politician, 5th President of Somalia ·
Marshall
"Rock" Jones, American bass player (Ohio Players) (d. 2016) ·
Harvey Hall, American businessman and
politician (d. 2018) ·
Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese anime film director
and screenwriter ·
Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor
(d. 2004) ·
Manfred
Schellscheidt, German soccer coach ·
John E. Walker, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
January 8 – Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989) ·
Joan Baez, American singer, songwriter and
activist ·
Reza Sheikholeslami,
Professor of Persian Studies (d. 2018) ·
January 10 – José Greci, Italian actress (d. 2017) ·
Dave Edwards,
American musician (d. 2000) ·
Jimmy Velvit, American singer/songwriter ·
January 12 – Long John Baldry, British singer (d. 2005) ·
Faye Dunaway, American actress ·
Milan Kučan, Slovenian politician and
statesman ·
January 15 – Captain Beefheart,
American singer (d. 2010) ·
January 16 – Ivan Allan, Malaysian race horse trainer and
businessman (d. 2009) ·
January 18 – David Ruffin, American singer (d. 1991) ·
January 19 – Pat Patterson,
Canadian professional wrestler ·
Clift Tsuji, American politician ·
Allan Young, English footballer (d. 2009) ·
January 21 – Richie Havens, American musician (d. 2013) ·
Neil Diamond, American singer-songwriter ·
Aaron Neville, American singer ·
Dan Shechtman, Israeli chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
January 26 – Scott Glenn, American actor ·
January 27 – Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer
(d. 1981) ·
January 28 – Fernando Serena, Spanish footballer
(d. 2018) ·
Dick Cheney, American politician ·
Delbert Mann, American television and film
director (d. 2007) ·
Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer ·
Lynne Abraham, American lawyer; District
Attorney of Philadelphia (1991–2010) ·
Dick Gephardt, American politician ·
Eugène Terre'Blanche,
South African farmer and pro-apartheid activist (murdered in 2010) ·
Jessica Walter, American actress February[edit] ·
Karl Dall, German comedian, singer and
television presenter ·
Jerry Spinelli, American author ·
February 2 – Omar Sey, Gambian politician (d. 2018) ·
Dory Funk, Jr., American professional
wrestler ·
Howard
Phillips, American politician ·
Stephen J. Cannell,
American director and producer (d. 2010) ·
David Selby, American actor ·
Kaspar Villiger, Swiss politician ·
Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night) (d. 2015) ·
February 6 – Stephen Albert, American composer. (d. 1992) ·
February 8 – Nick Nolte, American actor ·
John Hampshire, English cricketer (d. 2017) ·
Michael Apted, British film director ·
Sergio Mendes, Brazilian jazz musician ·
Sonny Landham, American actor (d. 2017) ·
February 12 – Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer (d. 1984) ·
David Jeremiah, American televangelist ·
Sigmar Polke, German painter ·
February 14 – Sylvester Carmel
Magro, Maltese bishop (d. 2017) ·
February 16 – Kim Jong-Il, Leader of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (d. 2011) ·
February 17 – Ron Meyer, American football coach (d. 2017) ·
February 19 – David Gross, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
February 20 – Buffy Sainte-Marie,
Canadian singer ·
Hipólito Mejía, President
of the Dominican Republic from 2000 to 2004 ·
Yau Leung, photographer in Hong Kong
(d. 1997) ·
February 25 – Sandy Bull, American folk musician and composer
(d. 2001) March[edit] ·
March 1 – Joo Hyun, South Korean actor ·
March 4 ·
Richard
Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and reality TV star
(d. 2018) ·
Adrian Lyne, English film director ·
March 9 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (d. 1976) ·
March 10 – George P. Smith,
American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
March 12 – Erkki Salmenhaara,
Finnish composer (d. 2002) ·
March 14 – Wolfgang Petersen,
German film director ·
March 15 – Mike Love, American musician ·
March 16 ·
Bernardo Bertolucci,
Italian film director (d. 2018) ·
Robert Guéï, military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire
(d. 2002) ·
Chuck Woolery, American game show host ·
March 17 – Paul Kantner, American rock guitarist
(d. 2016) ·
March 18 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (d. 2006) ·
March 20 – Kenji Kimihara, Japanese long-distance
runner ·
March 23 – Jim Trelease, American educator and author ·
March 26 – Richard Dawkins, British scientist ·
March 28 ·
Alf Clausen, American composer ·
Philip Fang, Hong Kong simultaneous
interpretation specialist, United Nations official (d. 2013) ·
Jim Turner,
American football player ·
Rolf Zacher, German actor (d. 2018) ·
March 29 – Joseph Hooton
Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
March 30 ·
Graeme Edge, British rock drummer and
songwriter (The Moody Blues) ·
Wasim Sajjad, President of
Pakistan ·
March 31 – Rosario Green, Mexican economist, diplomat
and politician (d. 2017) April[edit] ·
April 2 – Dr. Demento (né Barret Eugene Hansen),
American radio disc jockey, novelty music collector ·
April 3 ·
Eric Braeden, German-born American actor ·
Jorma Hynninen, Finnish baritone ·
Philippé Wynne,
American musician (d. 1984) ·
April 6 – Phil Austin, American comedian (The Firesign Theater)
(d. 2015) ·
April 7 ·
Cornelia Frances, Australian actress
(d. 2018) ·
Gorden Kaye, British actor ('Allo 'Allo!) (d. 2017) ·
April 8 – Peggy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters) ·
April 9 – Kay Adams,
American country singer ·
April 10 – John Kurila, Scottish footballer (d. 2018) ·
April 11 – Shirley Stelfox, English actress (d. 2015) ·
April 12 – Bobby Moore, English football player; World
Cup winning captain (d. 1993) ·
April 13 – Michael Stuart Brown,
American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
April 14 – Pete Rose, American baseball player ·
April 18 – Michael D. Higgins,
9th President of Ireland ·
April 20 – Ryan O'Neal, American actor ·
April 21 – Eduardo Guedes, U.S. Portuguese film-maker
(d. 2000) ·
April 23 ·
Arie den Hartog, Dutch road bicycle racer
(d. 2018) ·
Paavo Lipponen, 59th Prime Minister
of Finland ·
Ed Stewart, British disc jockey (d. 2016) ·
Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer
(d. 2016) ·
April 24 ·
Richard Holbrooke,
American diplomat (d. 2010) ·
John Williams,
Australian guitarist ·
April 27 ·
H. Tristram
Engelhardt Jr., American philosopher (d. 2018) ·
Lee Roy Jordan, American football player ·
April 28 ·
Ann-Margret, Swedish-born American actress,
singer and dancer ·
K. Barry Sharpless,
American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet (d. 2013) May[edit] ·
May 3 – Paul Ferris,
English film composer and actor (d. 1995) ·
May 5 – Alexander Ragulin,
Russian hockey player (d. 2004) ·
May 6 ·
Peter Corrigan, Australian architect
(d. 2016) ·
Ivica Osim, Bosnian football player and
manager ·
May 8 ·
James Mitchum, American actor ·
Yuri Voronov, politician and academic from
Abkhazia (murdered) (d. 1995) ·
May 9 – Howard Komives, American professional
basketball player (d. 2009) ·
May 10 – Aydın Güven
Gürkan, Turkish academic and politician (d. 2006) ·
May 11 – Eric Burdon, British singer ·
May 13 ·
Senta Berger, Austrian actress ·
Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959) ·
May 14 – Jesús Gómez,
Mexican equestrian (d. 2017) ·
May 16 – Eric Berntson, Canadian politician (d. 2018) ·
May 19 ·
Peter C. Bjarkman,
American baseball historian and author (d. 2018) ·
Bobby Burgess, American dancer and singer ·
Nora Ephron, American film producer,
director, and screenwriter (d. 2012) ·
May 20 – Goh Chok Tong, 2nd Prime
Minister of Singapore ·
May 21 – Bobby Cox, American baseball manager ·
May 22 ·
Menzies Campbell, British politician ·
Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004) ·
May 24 – Bob Dylan, American poet and musician,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Literature ·
May 26 – John Kaufman, British sculptor ·
May 27 ·
Ira Berlin, American historian (d. 2018) ·
Teppo Hauta-aho, Finnish double bassist and
composer ·
May 31 ·
Louis Ignarro, American pharmacologist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
William Nordhaus, American economist,
recipient of the Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Wayne Kemp, American country music singer
(d. 2015) ·
Alexander Zakharov,
Soviet (later Russian) deputy scientist and astronomer ·
Jigjidiin Mönkhbat,
Mongolian wrestler (d. 2018) ·
June 2 ·
Stacy Keach, American actor ·
Charlie Watts, English musician ·
June 5 ·
Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist ·
Spalding Gray, American actor and
screenwriter (d. 2004) ·
June 7 – Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer
(d. 1972) ·
June 8 ·
Robert
Bradford, Northern Irish politician (murdered in 1981) ·
Fuzzy Haskins, American musician ·
June 9 – Jon Lord, English composer, pianist, and organist
(d. 2012) ·
June 10 ·
Mickey Jones, American rock drummer and
character actor (d. 2018) ·
Jürgen Prochnow,
German actor ·
June 12 ·
Marv Albert, American sports announcer ·
Reg Presley, English musician (d. 2013) ·
June 14 – Roy Harper,
English guitarist ·
June 15 ·
Neal Adams, American comic book artist ·
Harry Nilsson, American musician (d. 1994) ·
June 16 – Rosalind Baker, Australian author ·
June 17 – Roberta Maxwell, Canadian actress ·
June 19 ·
Gilberto Benetton,
Italian billionaire businessman (d. 2018) ·
Conchita
Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme
Court jurist ·
Václav Klaus, 2nd President
of the Czech Republic ·
June 21 ·
Mitty Collier, American church pastor,
gospel singer and former rhythm and blues singer ·
Aloysius Paul
D'Souza, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore ·
Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor and
comedian ·
Totto Osvold, Norwegian radio entertainer ·
Liz Mohn, widow of Reinhard Mohn, the owner
of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann ·
Jimmy Rayl, American professional basketball
player ·
Eduardo Suplicy, Brazilian left-wing
politician, economist and professor ·
Valeri Zolotukhin,
Soviet/Russian actor (d. 2013) ·
June 22 ·
Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006) ·
Howard Kindig, American football player ·
Michael Lerner,
American actor ·
Terttu Savola, Finnish politician ·
June 23 ·
Madampu Kunjukuttan,
Malayalam author ·
Tsai Hsun-hsiung, Taiwanese politician ·
June 24 ·
Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French
philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist ·
Graham McKenzie, Australian cricketer ·
Erkin Koray, Turkish musician ·
Nelson López, Argentine football defender ·
Bill Reardon, American politician and
educator ·
Charles Whitman, American mass murderer
(d. 1966) ·
June 25 ·
Prince
Jacques, Duke of Orléans ·
Prince
Michel, Count of Évreux ·
Miles Feinstein, American criminal law
defense attorney, and legal commentator ·
Kenneth
Walker, Australian cricketer ·
Eddie Large, British comedian ·
Mike Stoker, American firefighter, engineer
and captain ·
June 26 ·
Tamara Moskvina, Russian pair skating coach
and former competitive skater ·
Gil Garrido, Panamanian baseball player ·
Nick Macarchuk, American basketball head
coach ·
Thomas Yeh Sheng-nan,
Taiwanese prelate ·
June 27 ·
Jerry Allen, American football running back ·
Ian Black,
British competitive swimmer ·
John Goold, Australian rules footballer ·
Krzysztof
Kieślowski, Polish film director (d. 1996) ·
Pavel Schenk, Czech former volleyball player ·
John Smyth,
British barrister ·
June 28 ·
Ilana Adir, Israeli Olympic runner and long
jumper ·
César Bejarano,
Paraguayan fencer ·
Len Boehmer, American Major League Baseball
player ·
Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist
(d. 2006) ·
David Johnston, 28th Governor
General of Canada ·
Barbara Stolz, German gymnast ·
June 29 ·
Chieko Baisho, Japanese actress and singer ·
John Boccabella, American professional
baseball player ·
David A. Bramlett,
United States Army four-star general ·
Stokely Carmichael,
Civil Rights Movement (d. 1998) ·
Margitta Gummel, German former Olympic gold
medalist ·
Larry Stahl, American baseball player ·
June 30 ·
Cyril Atanassoff, Bulgarian dancer
originally from France ·
Roberto Castrillo,
Cuban sports shooter ·
Mike Leander, English arranger, songwriter
and record producer (d. 1996) ·
Otto Sander, German actor (d. 2013) ·
Nigel Walley, English golfer and tea-chest
bass player July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Alf Duval, Australian rower ·
Rod Gilbert, Canadian professional ice
hockey forward ·
Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2015) ·
Ursula Koch, Swiss politician ·
Jaakko Kailajärvi,
Finnish weightlifter ·
Twyla Tharp, American dancer, choreographer,
and author ·
Zimani Kadzamira, Malawian academic, civil
servant and diplomat ·
Denis Michael Rohan,
Australian citizen who, on 21 August 1969, set fire to the pulpit of the
Al-Aqsa mosque, in Jerusalem (d. 1995) ·
July 2 ·
Mogens Frey, Danish amateur cyclist ·
Chris Noel, American actress ·
Stéphane Venne,
French-Canadian songwriter and composer ·
July 3 ·
Gloria Allred, American lawyer ·
Casey Cox, American baseball player ·
Hertha Haase, German swimmer ·
Liamine Zéroual,
4th President of Algeria ·
July 4 ·
Jay Carty, American basketball player ·
Digger Phelps, American former college
basketball coach ·
July 5 ·
Peggy Miley, American actress and writer ·
Epeli Nailatikau, Fijian chief, 4th President of Fiji ·
July 6 ·
John DeCamp, American politician ·
Randall Robinson, African-American lawyer,
author and activist ·
Harold Leighton
Weller, American conductor ·
July 7 ·
Vivian Barbot, Canadian-Haitian teacher,
activist, and politician ·
Marco Bollesan, Italian former rugby union
player, coach and manager ·
Alan Durban, Welsh international footballer
and manager ·
Louis Friedman, American astronautics
engineer and space spokesperson ·
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne,
Welsh politician ·
Bill Oddie, English writer, composer,
musician, comedian ·
John Fru Ndi, Cameroonian politician ·
Jim Rodford, English musician (d. 2018) ·
July 8 ·
Dario Gradi, Italia amateur football player,
coach and manager ·
Thunderbolt
Patterson, American professional wrestler ·
Ken Sanders, American Major League Baseball
relief pitcher ·
July 9 ·
Cirilo Bautista, Filipino poet, fictionist,
critic and writer of nonfiction ·
Tom Black,
American professional basketball player ·
Jan Lehane, Australian female tennis player ·
Hans-Gunnar
Liljenwall, Swedish modern pentathlete ·
July 10 ·
Jackie Lane,
British actress ·
Robert Pine, American actor ·
July 11 ·
John Kaputin, Papua New Guinean politician ·
Clive Puzey, Southern Rhodesian racing
driver ·
Jürgen Schmidt,
German speed skater ·
Tommy Vance, British disc jockey (d. 2005) ·
July 12 ·
John Lahr, American drama critic ·
Juha Väätäinen,
Finnish athlete ·
Wu Bangguo, Chinese politician ·
Dick Rusteck, American left-handed pitcher ·
Benny Parsons, American race car driver
(d. 2007) ·
July 13 ·
Affonso Beato, Brazilian cinematographer ·
Robert Forster, American actor ·
Zoila Martínez,
Dominican lawyer, prosecutor and diplomat ·
July 14 ·
Maulana Karenga, American author and
activist ·
Dennis Kassian, Canadian professional ice
hockey player ·
Andreas Khol, Austrian politician ·
July 15 ·
Archie Clark,
American professional basketball player ·
Vicente Guillot, Spanish footballer ·
Nikhil Kumar, Indian politician ·
July 16 ·
Valeri Butenko, Soviet midfielder and
football referee ·
Ken Herock, American college and
professional football player ·
Seijirō
Kōyama, Japanese film director ·
Kálmán Mészöly,
Hungarian football (soccer) player and coach ·
Lloyd Sisco, American football coach ·
Hans Wiegel, Dutch politician ·
July 17 ·
Namirembe Bitamazire,
Ugandan academic and politician ·
Marina Oswald Porter,
widow of Lee Harvey Oswald ·
Morimichi Takagi, Japanese baseball player ·
Rob van Empel, Dutch breaststroke swimmer ·
July 18 ·
Winston Choo, Singaporean diplomat, civil
servant and former general ·
Frank Farian, German record producer and
songwriter ·
Marcia Jones-Smoke,
American sprint canoer ·
Lonnie Mack, American singer, guitarist
(d. 2016) ·
Duncan Worsley, British cricketer ·
July 19 ·
Carlos Alberto
Álvarez, Argentine cyclist ·
Vikki Carr, American singer ·
Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician ·
July 20 ·
Vladimir Veber, Moldovan footballer ·
Frank Natterer, German mathematician ·
July 21 ·
Ron Corry, Australian football (soccer)
player and coach ·
Gary Waslewski, American baseball player ·
July 22 ·
George Clinton,
American musician ·
Rich Jackson, American football player ·
Susie Berning, American professional golfer ·
July 23 – Sergio Mattarella,
Italian lawyer, judge and politician, 12th President of Italy ·
July 25 ·
Margarita Isabel, Mexican actress (d. 2017) ·
Emmett Till, American civil rights icon
(d. 1955) ·
July 26 – Darlene Love, American singer and actress ·
July 27 – Bill Baxley, Alabama politician ·
July 28 ·
Peter Cullen, Canadian voice actor ·
Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor ·
July 29 ·
Jennifer Dunn,
American politician (d. 2007) ·
David Warner,
British actor ·
July 30 – Paul Anka, Canadian-American singer and
songwriter ·
July 31 – Amarsinh Chaudhary,
Indian politician August[edit] ·
August 2 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter ·
August 3 ·
Martha Stewart, American television
personality and media entrepreneur ·
Hage Geingob, 1st Prime Minister
of Namibia and 3rd President of Namibia ·
August 4 – Ted Strickland, American politician ·
August 6 – Lyle Berman, American poker player ·
August 8 – George Tiller, American physician (d. 2009) ·
August 9 – Shirlee Busbee, American novelist ·
August 12 – Deborah Walley, American actress (d. 2001) ·
Lynne Cheney, Second
Lady of the United States, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities ·
David Crosby, American musician ·
Connie Smith, American singer ·
Théoneste Bagosora,
Rwandan army officer and alleged planner of the Rwandan Genocide ·
David Dickinson, British antiques expert and
television presenter ·
Ibrahim Babangida, President of Nigeria ·
Lothar Bisky, German politician (d. 2013) ·
Fritz Wepper, German actor ·
August 20 – Slobodan
Milošević, 3rd President of
Yugoslavia and 1st President of Serbia (d. 2006) ·
August 21 – Howard Lew Lewis, English comedian and actor
(d. 2018) ·
August 28 – A. I. Katsina-Alu,
Nigerian judge (d. 2018) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league
footballer (d. 2018) ·
Jyrki Otila, Finnish quiz show judge and
Member of the European Parliament (d. 2003) ·
John Thompson,
American basketball coach ·
September 3 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian short-story writer
and novelist (d. 1990) ·
September 4 – Sushilkumar Shinde,
Indian politician ·
Ito Giani, Italian sprinter (d. 2018) ·
Bernie Sanders, American politician, U.S. Senator (D-Vt.), and 2016 presidential
candidate ·
Otis Redding, American singer and musician
(d. 1967) ·
Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist,
creator of the C programming language (d. 2011) ·
Christopher Hogwood,
English conductor and harpsichordist (d. 2014) ·
Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese computer game
producer (d. 1997) ·
Tadao Ando, Japanese architect ·
Ahmet Necdet Sezer, President of Turkey ·
September 14 – Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician ·
Signe Toly Anderson,
American singer (d. 2016) ·
Etelka Barsi-Pataky,
Hungarian politician (d. 2018) ·
September 17 – Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from California
(d. 2005) ·
September 18 – Priscilla Mitchell,
American country music singer (d. 2014) ·
September 19 – Cass Elliot, American singer (d. 1974) ·
September 20 – Dale Chihuly, American glass sculptor ·
Jesús Mosterín,
Spanish philosopher (d. 2017) ·
Guy Hovis, American singer ·
Linda McCartney, American activist, musician
and photographer (d. 1998) ·
September 26 – Martine Beswick, British actress and model ·
Gay Kayler Ashcroft, Australian country
music singer ·
Sam Zell, American publisher and investor ·
September 28 – Edmund Stoiber, German politician ·
September 29 – Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995) ·
September 30 – Angela Pleasence, British actress October[edit] ·
October 3 – Chubby Checker, American singer ·
Mighty Shadow, Trinidadian calypsonian
(d. 2018) ·
Roy Blount, Jr., American writer and
comedian ·
Elizabeth Eckford,
American activist ·
Anne Rice, American writer ·
October 5 – Eduardo Duhalde, 50th President of
Argentina ·
October 8 – Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil
rights activist ·
October 9 – Trent Lott, United States Senator (R-MS) ·
October 10 – Peter Coyote, American actor ·
October 11 – Valerii Postoyanov,
Soviet Olympic sport shooter (d. 2018) ·
October 13 – Paul Simon, American singer and composer ·
October 15 – Rosie Douglas, 4th Prime Minister of
Dominica (d. 2000) ·
October 16 – Tim McCarver, American baseball commentator ·
October 20 – Anneke Wills, British actress ·
October 21 – Dickie Pride, British rock and roll singer (d. 1969) ·
October 23 – Mel Winkler, American actor ·
October 24 – Frank Aendenboom, Belgian actor (d. 2018) ·
Helen Reddy, Australian singer and actress ·
Anne Tyler, American novelist ·
Gerd Brantenberg, Norwegian feminist author
and gay rights activist ·
Dick Trickle, American race car driver
(d. 2013) ·
John Hallam, Irish actor ·
Hank Marvin, British guitarist, singer and
songwriter (The Shadows) ·
October 30 – Theodor W. Hänsch,
German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics ·
October 31 – Sally Kirkland, American actress November[edit] ·
Marina Baura, Spanish actress ·
Nigel Dempster, British journalist, author,
broadcaster and diarist (d. 2007) ·
Robert Foxworth, American actor ·
November 2 – Bruce Welch, British guitarist, singer and
songwriter ·
November 2 – Arun Shourie, Indian author and economist ·
November 5 – Art Garfunkel, American singer ·
Guy Clark, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2016) ·
Doug Sahm, American musician (d. 1999) ·
November 7 – Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal ·
November 9 – Tom Fogerty, American guitarist (Creedence
Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990) ·
November 12 – Mae-Wan Ho, geneticist known for her
critical views on genetic engineering and neo-Darwinism. (d. 2016) ·
Joseph L. Galloway,
American newspaper columnist and Vietnam War historian ·
Dack Rambo, American actor (d. 1994) ·
November 17 – Tova Traesnaes, Norwegian-American
cosmetician and businesswoman; widow of actor Ernest Borgnine ·
November 18 – David Hemmings, English actor (d. 2003) ·
November 19 – Dan Haggerty, American actor (d. 2016) ·
November 20 – Oliver Sipple, decorated US Marine and
Vietnam War veteran (d. 1989) ·
November 22 – Tom Conti, British actor and theatre
director ·
Derek Mahon, Irish poet ·
Franco Nero, Italian actor ·
November 24 – Pete Best, English drummer ·
Ralph Haben, American politician, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives ·
Riaz Ahmed Gohar
Shahi, Sufi, author, poet ·
November 26 – G. Alan Marlatt, Canadian-born American
psychologist ·
Henry Carr, American Olympic athlete
(d. 2015) ·
Aime Jacquet, French football player and
manager ·
Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (d. 1998) ·
November 28 – Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (d. 2015) ·
November 29 – Bill Freehan, American baseball player December[edit] ·
Nigel Rodley, English international human
rights lawyer (d. 2017) ·
Sean S. Cunningham,
American filmmaker, director, producer, and writer ·
David
Johnston, Australian newsreader ·
Leila Säälik,
Estonian actress ·
Wende Wagner, American actress (d. 1997) ·
Vittorio Mezzogiorno,
Italian actor (d. 1994) ·
Richard Speck, American mass murderer
(d. 1991) ·
Beau Bridges, American actor ·
Dan Hicks,
American singer-songwriter (d. 2016) ·
Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996) ·
Peter Sarstedt, English singer-songwriter
(d. 2017) ·
Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor
(d. 1985) ·
December 11 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer (d. 1991) ·
December 13 – John Davidson,
American singer and actor ·
December 16 – Poldy Bird, Argentine writer (d. 2018) ·
Lee Myung-bak, 17th President of the
Republic of Korea ·
Maurice White, American singer, songwriter,
musician and record producer (d. 2016) ·
Lo Hoi-pang, Hong Kong-born Chinese actor ·
Jared Martin, 75, American actor (d. 2017) ·
Ron Bushy, American rock musician ·
Tim Hardin, American folk musician (d. 1980) ·
December 24 – Lex Hixon, American Sufi author, poet, and
spiritual teacher (d. 1995) ·
December 27 – Miles Aiken, American basketball player and
coach ·
December 29 – Ray Thomas, English flautist, singer and
songwriter (The Moody Blues)
(d. 2018) ·
December 30 – Mel Renfro, American football player ·
December 31 – Sir Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager
(Manchester United) Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – József Konkolics,
Hungarian Slovene writer (b. 1861) ·
January 4 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient
of the Nobel Prize in
Literature (b. 1859) ·
January 8 – Lord Robert Baden-Powell,
English soldier; founder of the Scouts (b. 1857) ·
Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879) ·
Sir John Lavery, Anglo-Irish artist (b. 1856) ·
January 11 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess champion
(b. 1868) ·
January 13 – James Joyce, Irish writer and poet (b. 1882) ·
January 24 – Josslyn
Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, British aristocrat and murder victim (b.1901) ·
January 29 – Ioannis Metaxas, dictator of Greece
(b. 1871) February[edit] ·
February 2 – Harris Laning, American admiral (b. 1873) ·
February 5 – Otto Strandman, 1st Prime Minister of
Estonia (b. 1875) ·
February 6 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet and journalist (b. 1864) ·
February 7 – Giuseppe Tellera, Italian general (died of
wounds) (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
von Arnauld de la Perière, German submarine commander (b. 1886) ·
February 27 – William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895) ·
February 28 – King Alfonso XIII of
Spain (b. 1886) March[edit] ·
March 4 – Ludwig Quidde, German activist and
politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) ·
March 6 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (Mount
Rushmore) (b. 1867) ·
March 8 – Sherwood Anderson,
American author (b. 1876) ·
March 15 – Alexej von Jawlensky,
Russian painter (b. 1864) ·
March 17 – Joachim Schepke, German submarine commander
(killed in action) (b. 1912) ·
March 18 – Alexander Pfänder,
German philosopher (b. 1870) ·
March 28 ·
Kavasji
Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police commissioner (b. 1887) ·
Virginia Woolf, English writer (b. 1882) ·
March 30 – Vasil Kutinchev, Bulgarian general (b. 1859) April[edit] ·
April 3 – Pál Teleki, 2-Time Prime Minister of Hungary
(b. 1879) ·
April 5 – Sir Nigel Gresley, English steam locomotive
engineer (Flying
Scotsman and Mallard)
(b. 1876) ·
April 13 – Annie Jump Cannon,
American astronomer (b. 1863) ·
April 16 – Josiah Stamp, British baron, banker, civil
servant, industrialist, economist and statistician (b.1880) ·
April 17 – Hans Driesch, German biologist and
philosopher (b. 1867) ·
April 30 – Edwin S. Porter, American film director
(b. 1870) May[edit] ·
May 6 – Shūzō Kuki, Japanese philosopher
(b. 1888) ·
May 7 – James George Frazer,
Scottish social anthropologist (b. 1854) ·
May 11 – Peggy Shannon, American actress (b. 1910) ·
May 12 – Ruth Stonehouse, American actress (b. 1892) ·
May 16 – Minnie Vautrin, American missionary and
heroine of the Nanjing Massacre (b. 1887) ·
May 24 – Lancelot Holland, British admiral (b. 1887) ·
May 27 – Günther Lütjens,
German admiral (b. 1889) ·
May 30 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, King of Siam
(b. 1893) June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Hans Berger, German neurologist (b. 1873) ·
Jenny Dolly, American singer (b. 1892) ·
Hugh Walpole, British writer (b. 1884) ·
June 2 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1903) ·
June 4 – .Wilhelm II,
last Emperor of Germany (b. 1859)[26] ·
June 6 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile
builder and race car driver (b. 1878) ·
June 15 – Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875) ·
June 21 – Elliott Dexter, American actor (b. 1870) ·
June 28 – Richard Carle, American actor (b. 1871) ·
June 29 – Ignacy Jan
Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and third Prime Minister
of Poland (b. 1860) July[edit] ·
July 3 – Friedrich Akel, Estonian diplomat and
politician (b. 1871) ·
July 4 – Antoni Łomnicki,
Polish mathematician (b. 1881) ·
July 10 – Jelly Roll Morton,
African-American jazz musician and composer (b. 1890) ·
July 11 – Arthur Evans, English archaeologist
(b. 1851) ·
July 15 – Walter Ruttmann, German director (b. 1887) ·
July 20 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer
(b. 1867) ·
July 22 – Dmitry Pavlov,
Soviet general (b. 1897) ·
July 23 – José Quiñones
Gonzales, Peruvian aviator (b. 1914) ·
July 24 – Rudolf Ramek, 5th Chancellor of
Austria (b. 1881) ·
July 25 – Allan Forrest, American actor (b. 1885) ·
July 26 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician
(b. 1875) ·
July 27 – Vladimir
Klimovskikh, Soviet general (b. 1885) ·
July 29 – James Stephenson, British actor (b. 1889) ·
July 30 ·
Hugo Celmiņš,
Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1877) ·
Mickey Welch, American baseball player
and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1859) August[edit] ·
August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore,
Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1861) ·
August 13 – J. Stuart Blackton,
American film producer (b. 1875) ·
Saint Maximilian Kolbe, German Roman Catholic
priest (martyred in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1894) ·
Paul Sabatier,
French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1854) ·
August 20 – John
Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, British politician, former
Governor-General of Australia (b. 1874) ·
August 30 – Peder Oluf Pedersen,
Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874) ·
August 31 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (suicide)
(b. 1892) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Karl Parts, Estonian military commander
(b. 1886) ·
September 9 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient
of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869) ·
Alipio Ponce, Peruvian police officer, Civil
Guard hero (b. 1906) ·
Maria Spiridonova,
Russian revolutionary, former leader of the Party of
Left Socialist Revolutionaries (executed) (b. 1884) ·
September 18 – Fred Karno, British music hall comedian
(b. 1866) ·
September 20 – Mikhail Kirponos, Soviet general (b. 1892) October[edit] ·
October 5 – Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
(b. 1856) ·
Gus Kahn, German songwriter (b. 1886) ·
Valentine O'Hara,
Irish author (b. 1875) ·
October 9 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress
(b. 1900) ·
October 16 – Sergei Efron, Russian poet and NKVD
operative (b. 1893) ·
October 18 – Manuel Teixeira
Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860) ·
October 25 – Robert Delaunay, French painter (b. 1885) ·
Arkady Gaidar, Russian writer (b. 1904) ·
Victor Schertzinger,
American composer and director (b. 1888) ·
Filipp Goloshchyokin,
Soviet politician (executed) (b. 1876) ·
Aleksandr Loktionov,
Soviet general (executed) (b. 1893) ·
Yakov Smushkevich,
Soviet Air Force general (executed) (b. 1902) ·
Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player
(b. 1897) ·
Károly Huszár,
25th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1882) November[edit] ·
November 7 – Frank Pick, British transport administrator
and designer (b. 1878) ·
November 16 – Miina Härma, Estonian composer (b. 1864) ·
November 17 – Ernst Udet, German World War I fighter ace
and Nazi Luftwaffe official (suicide) (b. 1896) ·
Émile Nelligan,
Canadian poet (b. 1879) ·
Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1864) ·
Chris Watson, 3rd Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1867) ·
Kurt Koffka, German psychologist (b. 1886) ·
Werner Mölders,
German fighter pilot (b. 1913) ·
November 23 – Henrietta Vinton
Davis, American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, and public
speaker (b. 1860) ·
November 25 – Pedro Aguirre Cerda, President of Chile (b. 1879) ·
November 26 – Niels Hansen
Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861) ·
November 27 – Charles James Briggs,
British general (b. 1865) December[edit] ·
December 2 – Edward
Rydz-Śmigły, Polish marshal (b. 1886) ·
December 3 – Christian Sinding,
Norwegian composer (b. 1856) ·
December 7 – Isaac Campbell Kidd,
American admiral (killed in action) (b. 1884) ·
December 9 – Eduard von
Böhm-Ermolli, Austrian general and German field marshal (b. 1856) ·
December 10 – Tom
Phillips, British admiral (b. 1888) ·
December 11 – Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856) ·
December 25 – Blanche Bates, stage actress (b. 1873) ·
December 29 – Tullio Levi-Civita,
Italian mathematician (b. 1873) ·
December 30 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect
(b. 1890) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics –
not awarded ·
Chemistry –
not awarded ·
Medicine –
not awarded ·
Literature –
not awarded ·
Peace –
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