1941
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- 1941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film).
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[edit] Events
- December 7 - The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Following this, the 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.
- April 10 - Croatia declares itself independent of Yugoslavia.
- September 11 - Building of The Pentagon starts
[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
