1941

القرون:	قرن 19 · قرن 20 · قرن 21st
العقود:	ع1910 ع1920 ع1930 ع1940 ع1950 ع1960 ع1970
السنوات:	1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944

1941 يناير فبراير مارس أبريل مايو يونيو يوليو أغسطس سبتمبر أكتوبر نوفمبر ديسمبر

ألفية:	الألفية 2
قرون:	القرن 19 – القرن 20 – القرن 21
عقود:	عقد 1910  عقد 1920  عقد 1930  – عقد 1940 –  عقد 1950  عقد 1960  عقد 1970
سنين:	1938 1939 1940 – 1941 – 1942 1943 1944

1941 حسب الموضوع:

الموضوع

علم الآثار العمارة الفن الطيران جوائز القصص المصورة السينما الأدب (الشعر) الأرصاد الجوية الموسيقى (الكنتري) النقل بالسكك الحديدية الراديو العلوم الرياضة التلفزيون

حسب البلد

مصر سوريا العراق فلسطين السعودية اليمن الجزائر المغرب تونس تركيا إيران إثيوپيا أستراليا كندا الصين الإكوادور فرنسا ألمانيا اليونان الهند أيرلندا إيطاليا اليابان الملايو المكسيك نيوزيلندا النرويج فلسطين الانتداب الفلپين سنغافورة جنوب أفريقيا الاتحاد السوڤيتي المملكة المتحدة الولايات المتحدة

القادة

الدول السيادية قادة الدول قادة دينيون القانون

تصنيفات المواليد والوفيات

مواليد وفيات

تصنيفات تأسيسات وانحلالات

تأسيسات انحلالات

تصنيفات أعمال وأطروحات

أعمال أطروحات

1941 في التقاويم الأخرى

التقويم الگريگوري	1941 MCMXLI
آب أوربه كونديتا	2694
التقويم الأرمني	1390 ԹՎ ՌՅՂ
التقويم الآشوري	6691
التقويم البهائي	97–98
التقويم البنغالي	1348
التقويم الأمازيغي	2891
سنة العهد البريطاني	5 جو. 6 – 6 جو. 6
التقويم البوذي	2485
التقويم البورمي	1303
التقويم البيزنطي	7449–7450
التقويم الصيني	庚辰年 (المعدن التنين) 4637 أو 4577     — إلى — 辛巳年 (المعدن الثعبان) 4638 أو 4578
التقويم القبطي	1657–1658
التقويم الديسكوردي	3107
التقويم الإثيوپي	1933–1934
التقويم العبري	5701–5702
التقاويم الهندوسية
- ڤيكرام سامڤات	1997–1998
- شاكا سامڤات	1863–1864
- كالي يوگا	5042–5043
تقويم الهولوسين	11941
تقويم الإگبو	941–942
التقويم الإيراني	1319–1320
التقويم الهجري	1359–1360
التقويم الياباني	Shōwa 16 (昭和１６年)
تقويم جوچى	30
التقويم اليوليوسي	الگريگوري ناقص 13 يوم
التقويم الكوري	4274
تقويم مينگوو	جمهورية الصين 30 民國30年
التقويم الشمسي التايلندي	2484

سنة 1941 (MCMXLI) كانت سنة بسيطة تبدأ يوم الاربعاء (الرابط يعرض التقويم كاملاً) التقويم الگريگوري، السنة 1941st بعد الميلاد (م)، السنة 941st في الألفية 2، السنة 41st في القرن 20، والسنة 2nd في عقد 1940.

أحداث

Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

January

• يناير–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.
• 1 يناير – تايلند 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 Hitler, requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua.
• 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: 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.
• January 6
  • 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 يوإس‌إس 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 إتش‌إم‌إس 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• January 22
  • 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

• February 3 – WWII: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy France.
• 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: Benghazi falls 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,
• 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."
• February 12
  • 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.
• February 13 – Aircraft from إتش‌إم‌إس 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 lasts 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 are reported.
• February 22 – WWII: إتش‌إم‌إس 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 إتش‌إم‌إس 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

• 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 (the 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 Savić and Stjepan Burazović, Colonel General Miodrag Lazić, Milorad Petrović and many other general officers (with British support) forces Prince Paul into 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.

April

• April – The Valley of Geysers is discovered on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia, by Tatyana Ustinova.
• April 1 – A military coup d'état, launched by Rashid Ali Al-Gaylani, overthrows the pro-British regime in Iraq.
• 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:
  • U.S. destroyer يوإس‌إس 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).
  • 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 – The Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact is signed.
• April 15 – WWII: Axis forces reach Halfaya Pass, on the Libyan-Egyptian frontier.
• April 18 – WWII:
  • The Yugoslav Royal Army capitulates.
  • Greek Prime Minister Alexandros Koryzis commits suicide, as German troops approach Athens.
• April 19 – Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play Mother Courage and Her Children (ألمانية: 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

• 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.
• 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 إتش‌إم‌إس Cornwall (56) in the Indian Ocean; 555 are killed.
• May 9 – WWII: 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 1 for 4 against Chicago White Sox Pitcher Eddie Smith.
• May 19 – The Viet Minh is formed 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 إس‌إس 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 إتش‌إم‌إس Hood, killing all but 3 crewmen, from a total of 1,418 aboard the pride of the Royal Navy.
  • British submarine إتش‌إم‌إس Upholder torpedoes and sinks Italian ocean liner إس‌إس Conte Rosso.
• May 26 – WWII: In the North Atlantic, Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the carrier إتش‌إم‌إس 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."
  • 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.
• 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

• 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 Barbarossa among 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 18 – The German–Turkish Treaty of Friendship is signed between Nazi Germany and إيطاليا, in Ankara.
• June 20
  • The 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: A Provisional Government of Lithuania is established by the Lithuanian Activist Front, in an attempt to liberate Lithuania from 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.
  • Rainiai massacre: 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 – 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

• July – The British Army's Special Air Service is formed.
• July 1
  • Commercial television is 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." 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 China.
• July 2 – WWII: The 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 – A [Massacre of Lviv professors|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 إس‌إس Anselm is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-96 in the Atlantic Ocean, with the loss of around 250 out of about 1,310 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.
• July 11 – The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
• July 13 – WWII: An 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 cartoon 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 إتش‌إم‌إس Fearless which has to be sunk.
• July 25 – Postal codes are introduced 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 8 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."

August

• August – The Political Warfare Executive is formed in the United Kingdom, to disseminate information to Germany and its occupied countries.
• August 1 – The Willys MB U.S. Army Jeep is first produced.
• August 5 – The Provisional Government of Lithuania is 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 إتش‌إم‌إس 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.
• August 16
  • 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.
  • إتش‌إم‌إس Mercury Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
• August 25 – WWII: The 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.
• August 29
  • 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 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 إتش‌إم‌إس Trident (N52); 450 are killed.
• August 31
  • 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

• 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: Siege of Leningrad: German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Germans deported to Siberia.
• September 11
  • 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.
• September 12
  • 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.
• 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 makes landfall near Bay City, Texas, causing extensive damage and flooding in Galveston and Houston.
• September 27
  • 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 إس‌إس 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 Vyacheslav 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

• Mid-October – The first P-38E Lightning fighter is produced by Lockheed in the United States.
• October 1
  • The Holocaust: The Nazi German Majdanek concentration camp (Konzentrationslager Lublin) opens in occupied Poland, on the outskirts of the town of Lublin. Between October 1941 and July 1944, at least 200,000 people will be killed in the camp.
  • The 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 2 – Tudeh Party of Iran is founded.
• 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.
• October 13 – The Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler instructs SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik to begin construction of Bełżec, the first of the Operation Reinhard extermination camps.
• October 15 – British submarine إتش‌إم‌إس 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: Destroyer يوإس‌إس 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 2,000 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 – German fighter pilot 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.
• October 30
  • WWII: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
  • The Holocaust: 1,500 Jews from Pidhaitsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by the Nazis to the Bełżec extermination camp.
• October 31
  • WWII: Destroyer يوإس‌إس Reuben James, on convoy escort, is accidentally torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.
  • The last day of carving on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota arrives.

November

• 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 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 Crimean hospitals. 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.
  • 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.
• November 14
  • WWII: British aircraft carrier إتش‌إم‌إس 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 9,000 Jews.
• 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 إتش‌إم‌إيه‌إس Sydney sink, following a battle off the coast of Western Australia. There are no survivors from the 645 Australian sailors aboard Sydney.
• 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: إتش‌إم‌إس Devonshire sinks commerce raiding German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis, ending the longest warship cruise of the war (622 days without in-port replenishment or repair).
• 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.
• November 27
  • WWII: Germans reach their closest approach to Moscow. They are subsequently frozen by cold weather and stopped by 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

يوإس‌إس 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 إتش‌إم‌إس 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 7:55 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.
• December 8
  • WWII: The Battle of Hong Kong begins shortly after 8:00 a.m. (local time), less than 8 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: The Japanese Invade Shanghai International Settlement, to occupy the British and the American sectors, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • WWII: The Japanese invasion of the Philippines begins 10 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when Japanese forces invade Luzon and destroy U.S. aircraft on Clark Field.
  • 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. 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.
  • WWII: Japanese forces attack British Malaya and تايلند.
  • WWII: The German advance on Moscow (Operation Typhoon) is suspended for the winter.
  • 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 begins at the Chełmno extermination camp on 8 December 1941, when the Nazis use gas vans to murder people from the Lodz ghetto.
• December 10 – WWII:
  • British battleships إتش‌إم‌إس 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 إس‌إس Normandie.
  • The Kimura Detachment of the Japanese Imperial forces occupies 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.
• December 21
  • تايلند and Japan sign a military alliance.
  • The Holocaust: The Stanisławów Ghetto is established.
• December 22 – WWII: The 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 the 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.

مجهولة التاريخ

• The Classic Comics series is launched in the United States, with a version of The Three Musketeers.

مواليد

January

Abdiqasim Salad Hassan

Hayao Miyazaki

Joan Baez

Faye Dunaway

Neil Diamond

Scott Glenn

Dick Cheney

• 1 يناير
  • Dardo Cabo, Argentine journalist, activist (ت. 1977)
  • Martin Evans, British biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, Somali politician, 5th President of Somalia
  • Marshall "Rock" Jones, African-American bass player (Ohio Players) (ت. 2016)
• January 5
  • Harvey Hall, American businessman, politician (ت. 2018)
  • Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese anime film director, screenwriter
• January 7
  • Iona Brown, British violinist, conductor (ت. 2004)
  • Manfred Schellscheidt, German soccer coach
  • John E. Walker, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• January 8 – Graham Chapman, British comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus) (ت. 1989)
• 9 يناير
  • Joan Baez, American singer, songwriter and activist
  • Reza Sheikholeslami, Professor of Persian Studies (ت. 2018)
• January 10 – José Greci, Italian actress (ت. 2017)
• January 11
  • Dave Edwards, American musician (ت. 2000)
  • Jimmy Velvit, American singer/songwriter
• January 12 – Long John Baldry, English singer (ت. 2005)
• January 14
  • Faye Dunaway, American actress
  • Milan Kučan, Slovenian politician, statesman
• January 15 – Captain Beefheart, American singer (ت. 2010)
• January 16 – Ivan Allan, Malaysian race horse trainer, businessman (ت. 2009)
• January 18 – David Ruffin, African-American singer (The Temptations) (ت. 1991)
• January 19 – Pat Patterson, Canadian professional wrestler
• January 20
  • Clift Tsuji, American politician (ت. 2016)
  • Allan Young, English footballer (ت. 2009)
• January 21 – Richie Havens, African-American musician (ت. 2013)
• January 23 – Buddy Buie, American songwriter, record producer (ت. 2015)
• January 24
  • Neil Diamond, American singer, songwriter
  • Aaron Neville, African-American singer
  • Dan Shechtman, Israeli chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 26 يناير – Scott Glenn, American actor
• January 27 – Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer (ت. 1981)
• January 28 – Fernando Serena, Spanish footballer (ت. 2018)
• January 30
  • Dick Cheney, American politician
  • Delbert Mann, American television, film director (ت. 2007)
  • Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
• January 31
  • Lynne Abraham, American lawyer, District Attorney of Philadelphia (1991–2010)
  • Dick Gephardt, American politician
  • Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African farmer, pro-apartheid activist (murdered in 2010)
  • Jessica Walter, American actress

February

Nick Nolte

Sergio Mendes

Kim Jong-il

• February 1
  • Karl Dall, German comedian, singer and television presenter
  • Jerry Spinelli, American author
• February 2 – Omar Sey, Gambian politician (ت. 2018)
• February 3
  • Dory Funk, Jr., American professional wrestler
  • Howard Phillips, American politician (ت. 2013)
• February 5
  • Stephen J. Cannell, American director, producer (ت. 2010)
  • Henson Cargill, American country music singer (ت. 2007)
  • David Selby, American actor
  • Kaspar Villiger, Swiss politician
  • Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night) (ت. 2015)
• February 6 – Stephen Albert, American composer (ت. 1992)
• February 8 – Nick Nolte, American actor
• February 10
  • John Hampshire, English cricketer (ت. 2017)
  • Michael Apted, British film director
• February 11
  • Sergio Mendes, Brazilian jazz musician
  • Sonny Landham, American actor (ت. 2017)
• February 12 – Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer (ت. 1984)
• February 13
  • David Jeremiah, American televangelist
  • Sigmar Polke, German painter
• February 14 – Sylvester Carmel Magro, Maltese bishop (ت. 2017)
• February 16 – Kim Jong-il, Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (ت. 2011)
• February 17 – Ron Meyer, American football coach (ت. 2017)
• February 19 – David Gross, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• February 20 – Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer
• February 22
  • Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic (2000-2004)
  • Yau Leung, Hong Kong photographer (ت. 1997)
• February 25 – Sandy Bull, American folk musician, composer (ت. 2001)
• February 27 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician, diplomat (ت. 2018)

March

Mike Love

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bruno Ganz

Richard Dawkins

• March 4
  • Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman, reality TV star (ت. 2018)
  • Adrian Lyne, English film director
• March 9 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (ت. 1976)
• March 10 – George P. Smith, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 12 – Erkki Salmenhaara, Finnish composer (ت. 2002)
• March 14 – Wolfgang Petersen, German film director
• March 15 – Mike Love, American musician (Beach Boys)
• March 16
  • Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director (ت. 2018)
  • Robert Guéï, military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (ت. 2002)
  • Chuck Woolery, American game show host
• March 17 – Paul Kantner, American rock guitarist (Jefferson Airplane) (ت. 2016)
• March 18 – Wilson Pickett, African-American singer (ت. 2006)
• March 20
  • Paul Junger Witt, American film & television producer (ت. 2018)
  • Kenji Kimihara, Japanese long-distance runner
• March 22 – Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (ت. 2019)
• March 23 – Jim Trelease, American educator, author
• March 26 – Richard Dawkins, British scientist
• March 27 – Bunny Sigler, American singer, songwriter and record producer (ت. 2017)
• March 28
  • Alf Clausen, American composer
  • Philip Fang, Hong Kong simultaneous interpretation specialist, United Nations official (ت. 2013)
  • Jim Turner, American football player
  • Rolf Zacher, German actor (ت. 2018)
• March 29 – Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 30
  • Graeme Edge, British rock drummer, songwriter (The Moody Blues)
  • Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
• March 31 – Rosario Green, Mexican economist, diplomat and politician (ت. 2017)

April

Bobby Moore

Ryan O'Neal

Ann-Margret

• April 2 – Dr. Demento (Barret Eugene Hansen), American radio disc jockey, novelty music collector
• April 3
  • Jan Berry, American singer (Jan & Dean) (ت. 2004)
  • Eric Braeden, German-born American actor
  • Jorma Hynninen, Finnish baritone
  • Philippé Wynne, American musician (ت. 1984)
• April 6 – Phil Austin, American comedian (The Firesign Theater) (ت. 2015)
• April 7
  • Cornelia Frances, Australian actress (ت. 2018)
  • Gorden Kaye, British actor ('Allo 'Allo!) (ت. 2017)
• April 8 – Peggy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
• April 9 – Kay Adams, American country singer
• April 10 – John Kurila, Scottish footballer (ت. 2018)
• April 11 – Shirley Stelfox, English actress (ت. 2015)
• April 12 – Bobby Moore, English football player, World Cup winning captain (ت. 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 (Love Story)
• April 21 – Eduardo Guedes, U.S., Portuguese film-maker (ت. 2000)
• April 23
  • Arie den Hartog, Dutch road bicycle racer (ت. 2018)
  • Paavo Lipponen, 59th Prime Minister of Finland
  • Ed Stewart, British disc jockey (ت. 2016)
  • Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (ت. 2016)
• April 24
  • Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (ت. 2010)
  • John Williams, Australian guitarist
• April 27
  • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., American philosopher (ت. 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 (ت. 2013)

May

Goh Chok Tong

Bob Dylan

• May 3 – Paul Ferris, English film composer, actor (ت. 1995)
• May 5 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (ت. 2004)
• May 6
  • Peter Corrigan, Australian architect (ت. 2016)
  • Ivica Osim, Bosnian football player, manager
• May 8
  • James Mitchum, American actor
  • Yuri Voronov, Abkhazian politician, academic (murdered) (ت. 1995)
• May 9 – Howard Komives, American professional basketball player (ت. 2009)
• May 10
  • Chris Denning, English radio presenter and convicted sex offender
  • Aydın Güven Gürkan, Turkish academic, politician (ت. 2006)
• May 11 – Eric Burdon, British singer
• May 13
  • Senta Berger, Austrian actress
  • Ritchie Valens, American singer (La Bamba) (ت. 1959)
• May 14 – Jesús Gómez, Mexican equestrian (ت. 2017)
• May 16 – Eric Berntson, Canadian politician (ت. 2018)
• May 19
  • Peter C. Bjarkman, American baseball historian, author (ت. 2018)
  • Bobby Burgess, American dancer, singer
  • Nora Ephron, American film producer, director, and screenwriter (ت. 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, African-American actor (ت. 2004)
• May 24 – Bob Dylan, American poet, musician and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
• May 26 – John Kaufman, British sculptor
• May 27
  • Ira Berlin, American historian (ت. 2018)
  • Teppo Hauta-aho, Finnish double bassist, 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

Stacy Keach

Charlie Watts

Václav Klaus

Ed Bradley

Charles Whitman

Stokely Carmichael

• June 1
  • Wayne Kemp, American country music singer (ت. 2015)
  • Alexander Zakharov, Soviet (later Russian) deputy scientist, astronomer
  • Jigjidiin Mönkhbat, Mongolian wrestler (ت. 2018)
• June 2
  • Stacy Keach, American actor
  • Charlie Watts, English musician
• June 5
  • Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
  • Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter (ت. 2004)
• June 7 – Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (ت. 1972)
• June 8
  • Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician (murdered in 1981)
  • Fuzzy Haskins, American musician
• June 9 – Jon Lord, English composer, pianist, and organist (ت. 2012)
• June 10
  • Mickey Jones, American rock drummer, character actor (ت. 2018)
  • Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
• June 12
  • Marv Albert, American sports announcer
  • Reg Presley, English musician (ت. 2013)
• June 14 – Roy Harper, English guitarist
• June 15
  • Neal Adams, American comic book artist
  • Harry Nilsson, American musician (ت. 1994)
• June 16 – Rosalind Baker, Australian author
• June 17 – Roberta Maxwell, Canadian actress
• June 19
  • Gilberto Benetton, Italian billionaire businessman (ت. 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, comedian (Second City Television)
  • Totto Osvold, Norwegian radio entertainer
  • Liz Mohn, widow of Reinhard Mohn, owner of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann
  • Jimmy Rayl, American professional basketball player (ت. 2019)
  • Eduardo Suplicy, Brazilian left-wing politician, economist and professor
  • Valeri Zolotukhin, Soviet/Russian actor (ت. 2013)
• June 22
  • Ed Bradley, African-American journalist (60 Minutes) (ت. 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, educator
  • Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (ت. 1966)
• June 25
  • Prince Jacques, Duke of Orléans
  • Prince Michel, Count of Évreux
  • Miles Feinstein, American criminal law defense attorney, 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, 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 (ت. 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 (ت. 2006)
  • David Johnston, 28th Governor General of Canada
  • Barbara Stolz, German gymnast
• June 29
  • Chieko Baisho, Japanese actress, singer
  • John Boccabella, American professional baseball player
  • David A. Bramlett, United States Army four-star general
  • Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture), African-American civil rights activist (ت. 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 (ت. 1996)
  • Otto Sander, German actor (ت. 2013)
  • Nigel Walley, English golfer, tea-chest bass player

July

Epeli Nailatikau

Bill Oddie

Robert Forster

Sergio Mattarella

Paul Anka

• 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 (ت. 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 (ت. 1995)
• July 2
  • Mogens Frey, Danish amateur cyclist
  • Chris Noel, American actress
  • Stéphane Venne, French-Canadian songwriter, 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, 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, manager
  • Louis Friedman, American astronautics engineer, space spokesperson
  • Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, Welsh politician
  • Bill Oddie, English writer, composer, musician and comedian
  • John Fru Ndi, Cameroonian politician
  • Jim Rodford, English musician (ت. 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 (ت. 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 (ت. 2007)
• July 13
  • Affonso Beato, Brazilian cinematographer
  • Robert Forster, American actor
  • Zoila Martínez, Dominican lawyer, prosecutor and diplomat
• July 14
  • Maulana Karenga, African-American author, activist; founder of Kwanzaa
  • 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, football referee
  • Ken Herock, American college, professional football player
  • Seijirō Kōyama, Japanese film director
  • Kálmán Mészöly, Hungarian football (soccer) player, coach
  • Lloyd Sisco, American football coach
  • Hans Wiegel, Dutch politician
• July 17
  • Namirembe Bitamazire, Ugandan academic, politician
  • Marina Oswald Porter, Russian-born widow of JFK assassin 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, songwriter
  • Marcia Jones-Smoke, American sprint canoer
  • Lonnie Mack, American singer, guitarist (ت. 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, coach
  • Gary Waslewski, American baseball player
• July 22
  • George Clinton, African-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 (ت. 2017)
  • Emmett Till, African-American civil rights icon (ت. 1955)
• July 26 – Darlene Love, African-American singer, actress
• July 27 – Bill Baxley, Alabama politician
• July 28
  • Peter Cullen, Canadian voice actor
  • Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
• July 29
  • Jennifer Dunn, American politician (ت. 2007)
  • David Warner, British actor
• July 30 – Paul Anka, Canadian-American singer, songwriter
• July 31 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician

August

Martha Stewart

Hage Geingob

David Crosby

Ibrahim Babangida

Slobodan Milosevic

• August 2 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter
• August 3
  • Martha Stewart, American television personality, media entrepreneur
  • Hage Geingob, 1st Prime Minister of Namibia, 3rd President of Namibia
• August 4 – Ted Strickland, American politician
• August 6 – Lyle Berman, American poker player
• August 8 – George Tiller, American physician (ت. 2009)
• August 9 – Shirlee Busbee, American novelist
• August 12 – Deborah Walley, American actress (ت. 2001)
• August 14
  • Lynne Cheney, Second Lady of the United States, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
  • David Crosby, American musician (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
  • Connie Smith, American singer
• August 16
  • Théoneste Bagosora, Rwandan army officer, alleged planner of the Rwandan Genocide
  • David Dickinson, British antiques expert, television presenter
• August 17
  • Ibrahim Babangida, President of Nigeria
  • Lothar Bisky, German politician (ت. 2013)
  • Fritz Wepper, German actor
• August 20 – Slobodan Milošević, 3rd President of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Serbia (ت. 2006)
• August 21
  • Howard Lew Lewis, English comedian, actor (ت. 2018)
  • Jackie DeShannon, American singer, songwriter (What the World Needs Now)
• August 27 – Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (ت. 2011)
• August 28 – A. I. Katsina-Alu, Nigerian judge (ت. 2018)
• August 29 – Robin Leach, English television personality (ت. 2018)

September

Bernie Sanders

Otis Redding

Ahmet Necdet Sezer

• September 1 – Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer (ت. 2018)
• September 2
  • Jyrki Otila, Finnish quiz show judge, Member of the European Parliament (ت. 2003)
  • John Thompson, American basketball coach
• September 3 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian short-story writer, novelist (ت. 1990)
• September 4 – Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
• September 8
  • Ito Giani, Italian sprinter (ت. 2018)
  • Bernie Sanders, American politician, U.S. Senator (D-Vt.), and 2016 presidential candidate
• September 9
  • Otis Redding, African-American singer, musician (Dock of the Bay) (ت. 1967)
  • Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, creator of the C programming language (ت. 2011)
• September 10
  • Christopher Hogwood, English conductor, harpsichordist (ت. 2014)
  • Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese computer game producer (ت. 1997)
• September 13
  • Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
  • Ahmet Necdet Sezer, President of Turkey
• September 14 – Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
• September 15
  • Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (ت. 2016)
  • Etelka Barsi-Pataky, Hungarian politician (ت. 2018)
• September 17 – Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from California (ت. 2005)
• September 18 – Priscilla Mitchell, American country music singer (ت. 2014)
• September 19 – Cass Elliot, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (ت. 1974)
• September 20 – Dale Chihuly, American glass sculptor
• September 23 – George Jackson, American author (ت. 1971)
• September 24
  • Jesús Mosterín, Spanish philosopher (ت. 2017)
  • Guy Hovis, American singer
  • Linda McCartney, American activist, musician and photographer (ت. 1998)
• September 26 – Martine Beswick, British actress, model
• September 27
  • Gay Kayler Ashcroft, Australian country music singer
  • Sam Zell, American publisher, investor
• September 28 – Edmund Stoiber, German politician
• September 29 – Fred West, British serial killer (ت. 1995)
• September 30 – Angela Pleasence, British actress

October

Chubby Checker

Eduardo Duhalde

Jesse Jackson

Paul Simon

Helen Reddy

• October 3 – Chubby Checker, African-American singer (The Twist)
• October 4
  • Mighty Shadow, Trinidadian calypsonian (ت. 2018)
  • Roy Blount, Jr., American writer, comedian
  • Elizabeth Eckford, African-American activist (Little Rock Nine)
  • Anne Rice, American writer
• October 5 – Eduardo Duhalde, 50th President of Argentina
• 8 اكتوبر - جيسي جاكسون, African-American clergyman, civil rights activist and presidential candidate
• October 9 – Trent Lott, United States Senator (R-MS)
• October 10 – Peter Coyote, American actor
• October 11 – Valerii Postoyanov, Soviet Olympic sport shooter (ت. 2018)
• October 13 – Paul Simon, American singer, composer (Simon and Garfunkel)
• October 15 – Rosie Douglas, 4th Prime Minister of Dominica (ت. 2000)
• October 16 – Tim McCarver, American baseball commentator
• October 20 – Anneke Wills, British actress
• October 21 – Dickie Pride, British rock and roll singer (ت. 1969)
• October 23 – Mel Winkler, American actor
• October 24 – Frank Aendenboom, Belgian actor (ت. 2018)
• October 25
  • Helen Reddy, Australian singer, actress (I Am Woman)
  • Anne Tyler, American novelist
• October 27
  • Gerd Brantenberg, Norwegian feminist author, gay rights activist
  • Dick Trickle, American race car driver (ت. 2013)
• October 28
  • John Hallam, Irish actor
  • Hank Marvin, British guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Shadows)
• October 30 – Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
• October 31 – Sally Kirkland, American actress

November

Art Garfunkel

Franco Nero

Pete Best

• November 1
  • Marina Baura, Spanish actress
  • Nigel Dempster, British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist (ت. 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 (Simon and Garfunkel)
• November 6
  • Guy Clark, American singer, songwriter (ت. 2016)
  • Doug Sahm, American musician (ت. 1999)
• November 7 – Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal
• November 9 – Tom Fogerty, American guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (ت. 1990)
• November 12 – Mae-Wan Ho, geneticist known for her critical views on genetic engineering and neo-Darwinism (ت. 2016)
• November 13
  • Joseph L. Galloway, American newspaper columnist, Vietnam War historian
  • Dack Rambo, American actor (ت. 1994)
• November 17 – Tova Traesnaes, Norwegian-American cosmetician and businesswoman; widow of actor Ernest Borgnine
• November 18 – David Hemmings, English actor (ت. 2003)
• November 19 – Dan Haggerty, American actor (Grizzly Adams) (ت. 2016)
• November 20 – Oliver Sipple, decorated US Marine, Vietnam War veteran (ت. 1989)
• November 22 – Tom Conti, British actor, theatre director
• 23 نوفمبر - الشاعر و المسرحي السوري ممدوح عدوان

December

Lee Myung-bak

Alex Ferguson

• December 1
  • Nigel Rodley, English international human rights lawyer (ت. 2017)
  • Sean S. Cunningham, American filmmaker, director, producer, and writer
• December 4
  • David Johnston, Australian newsreader
  • Leila Säälik, Estonian actress
• December 6
  • Wende Wagner, American actress (ت. 1997)
  • Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (ت. 1994)
  • Richard Speck, American mass murderer (ت. 1991)
• December 9
  • Beau Bridges, American actor
  • Dan Hicks, American singer, songwriter (ت. 2016)
• December 10
  • Tommy Rettig, American actor (ت. 1996)
  • Peter Sarstedt, English singer, songwriter (ت. 2017)
  • Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer, actor (Sukiyaki) (ت. 1985)
• December 11 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer (ت. 1991)
• December 13 – John Davidson, American singer, actor
• December 16 – Poldy Bird, Argentine writer (ت. 2018)
• December 19
  • Lee Myung-bak, 17th President of the Republic of Korea
  • Maurice White, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer (ت. 2016)
• December 21
  • Lo Hoi-pang, Hong Kong-born Chinese actor
  • Jared Martin, American actor (ت. 2017)
• December 23
  • Ron Bushy, American rock musician
  • Tim Hardin, American folk musician (ت. 1980)
• December 24 – Lex Hixon, American Sufi author, poet, and spiritual teacher (ت. 1995)
• December 27 – Miles Aiken, American basketball player and coach
• December 29 – Ray Thomas, English flautist, singer and songwriter (The Moody Blues) (ت. 2018)
• December 30 – Mel Renfro, American football player
• December 31 – Sir Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager (Manchester United)
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Deaths

January

James Joyce

• 1 يناير – József Konkolics, Hungarian Slovene writer (و. 1861)
• January 4 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (و. 1859)
• January 8 – Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier; founder of the Scouts (و. 1857)
• January 10
  • Frank Bridge, English composer (و. 1879)
  • Sir John Lavery, Anglo-Irish artist (و. 1856)
• January 11 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess champion (و. 1868)
• January 13 – James Joyce, Irish writer, poet (و. 1882)
• January 24 – Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, British aristocrat, murder victim (و. 1901)
• January 29 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek military officer, politician and Prime Minister of Greece (و. 1871)

February

Frederick Banting

King Alfonso XIII of Spain

• February 2 – Harris Laning, American admiral (و. 1873)
• February 5 – Otto Strandman, 1st Prime Minister of Estonia (و. 1875)
• February 6 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, journalist (و. 1864)
• February 7 – Giuseppe Tellera, Italian general (died of wounds) (و. 1882)
• February 9 – Aaron S. Watkins, American temperance movement leader (و. 1863)
• February 11 – Rudolf Hilferding, German economist, Minister of Finance (و. 1877)
• February 21 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (و. 1891)
• February 24 – Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German submarine commander (و. 1886)
• February 27 – William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (و. 1895)
• February 28 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (و. 1886)

March

Gutzon Borglum

Virginia Woolf

• March 4 – Ludwig Quidde, German activist, politician and Nobel Prize laureate (و. 1858)
• March 6 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (Mount Rushmore) (و. 1867)
• March 8 – Sherwood Anderson, American author (و. 1876)
• March 15 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (و. 1864)
• March 17 – Joachim Schepke, German submarine commander (killed in action) (و. 1912)
• March 18 – Alexander Pfänder, German philosopher (و. 1870)
• March 28
  • Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police commissioner (و. 1887)
  • Virginia Woolf, British writer (و. 1882)
• March 30 – Vasil Kutinchev, Bulgarian general (و. 1859)

April

• April 3 – Pál Teleki, 2-time Prime Minister of Hungary (و. 1879)
• April 5 – Sir Nigel Gresley, English steam locomotive engineer (Flying Scotsman and Mallard) (و. 1876)
• April 13 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (و. 1863)
• April 16 – Josiah Stamp, British baron, banker, civil servant, industrialist, economist and statistician (b.1880)
• April 17 – Hans Driesch, German biologist, philosopher (و. 1867)
• April 30 – Edwin S. Porter, American film director (و. 1870)

May

• May 6 – Shūzō Kuki, Japanese philosopher (و. 1888)
• May 7 – James George Frazer, Scottish social anthropologist (و. 1854)
• May 11 – Peggy Shannon, American actress (و. 1910)
• May 12 – Ruth Stonehouse, American actress (و. 1892)
• May 16 – Minnie Vautrin, American missionary, heroine of the Nanjing Massacre (و. 1887)
• May 24 – Lancelot Holland, British admiral (و. 1887)
• May 27 – Günther Lütjens, German admiral (و. 1889)
• May 30 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, King of Siam (و. 1893)

June

Hans Berger

Wilhelm II

Louis Chevrolet

• June 1
  • Hans Berger, German neurologist (و. 1873)
  • Jenny Dolly, American singer (و. 1892)
  • Hugh Walpole, British writer (و. 1884)
• June 2 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (New York Yankees), MLB Hall of Famer (و. 1903)
• June 4 – Wilhelm II, last Emperor of Germany (و. 1859)
• June 6 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile builder, race car driver (و. 1878)
• June 15 – Evelyn Underhill, British writer (و. 1875)
• June 21 – Elliott Dexter, American actor (و. 1870)
• June 28 – Richard Carle, American actor (و. 1871)
• June 29 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and third Prime Minister of Poland (و. 1860)

July

Dmitry Pavlov

Rudolf Ramek

• July 3 – Friedrich Akel, Estonian diplomat, politician (و. 1871)
• July 4 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (و. 1881)
• July 10 – Jelly Roll Morton, African-American jazz musician, composer (و. 1890)
• July 11 – Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (و. 1851)
• July 15 – Walter Ruttmann, German director (و. 1887)
• July 20 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (و. 1867)
• July 22 – Dmitry Pavlov, Soviet general (و. 1897)
• July 23 – José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian aviator (و. 1914)
• July 24 – Rudolf Ramek, 5th Chancellor of Austria (و. 1881)
• July 25 – Allan Forrest, American actor (و. 1885)
• July 26 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (و. 1875)
• July 27 – Vladimir Klimovskikh, Soviet general (و. 1885)
• July 29 – James Stephenson, British actor (و. 1889)
• July 30
  • Hugo Celmiņš, Prime Minister of Latvia (و. 1877)
  • Mickey Welch, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (و. 1859)

August

Rabindranath Tagore

Maximilian Kolbe

• August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate (و. 1861)
• August 13 – J. Stuart Blackton, American film producer (و. 1875)
• August 14
  • Saint Maximilian Kolbe, German Roman Catholic priest (martyred in Auschwitz concentration camp) (و. 1894)
  • Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (و. 1854)
• August 20 – John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, British politician, former Governor-General of Australia (و. 1874)
• August 30 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer, physicist (و. 1874)
• August 31 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (suicide) (و. 1892)

September

Hans Spemann

• September 1 – Karl Parts, Estonian military commander (و. 1886)
• September 9 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (و. 1869)
• September 11
  • Alipio Ponce, Peruvian police officer, Civil Guard hero (و. 1906)
  • Maria Spiridonova, Russian revolutionary, former leader of the Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries (executed) (و. 1884)
• September 18 – Fred Karno, British music hall comedian (و. 1866)
• September 20 – Mikhail Kirponos, Soviet general (و. 1892)

October

• October 5 – Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (و. 1856)
• October 8
  • Gus Kahn, German songwriter (و. 1886)
  • Valentine O'Hara, Irish author (و. 1875)
• October 9 – Helen Morgan, American singer, actress (و. 1900)
• October 16 – Sergei Efron, Russian poet, NKVD operative (و. 1893)
• October 18 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (و. 1860)
• October 25 – Robert Delaunay, French painter (و. 1885)
• October 26
  • Arkady Gaidar, Russian writer (و. 1904)
  • Victor Schertzinger, American composer, director (و. 1888)
• October 28
  • Filipp Goloshchyokin, Soviet politician (executed) (و. 1876)
  • Aleksandr Loktionov, Soviet general (executed) (و. 1893)
  • Yakov Smushkevich, Soviet Air Force general (executed) (و. 1902)
• October 29
  • Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (و. 1897)
  • Károly Huszár, 25th Prime Minister of Hungary (و. 1882)

November

Chris Watson

Pedro Aguirre Cerda

• November 7 – Frank Pick, British transport administrator, designer (و. 1878)
• November 16
  • Miina Härma, Estonian composer (و. 1864)
  • Sir Henry Wilson, British general (و. 1859)
• November 17 – Ernst Udet, German World War I fighter ace, Nazi Luftwaffe official (suicide) (و. 1896)
• November 18
  • Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet (و. 1879)
  • Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (و. 1864)
  • Chris Watson, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (و. 1867)
• November 22
  • Kurt Koffka, German psychologist (و. 1886)
  • Werner Mölders, German fighter pilot (و. 1913)
• November 23 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, and public speaker (و. 1860)
• November 25 – Pedro Aguirre Cerda, President of Chile (و. 1879)
• November 26 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor, ceramist (و. 1861)
• November 27 – Sir Charles Briggs, British general (و. 1865)

December

Blessed Martyrs of Drina

• December 2 – Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Polish marshal (و. 1886)
• December 3 – Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (و. 1856)
• December 7 – Isaac Campbell Kidd, American admiral (killed in action) (و. 1884)
• December 9 – Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Austrian general, German field marshal (و. 1856)
• December 10 – Tom Phillips, British admiral (و. 1888)
• December 11 – Émile Picard, French mathematician (و. 1856)
• December 15 – Blessed Martyrs of Drina (و. Croatian Nationality)
• December 25 – Blanche Bates, American stage actress (و. 1873)
• December 29 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (و. 1873)
• December 30 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist, architect (و. 1890)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – not awarded
• Chemistry – not awarded
• Medicine – not awarded
• Literature – not awarded
• Peace – not awarded

== المراجع ==

للاستزادة

• William K. Klingaman. 1941: Our Lives in a World on the Edge (1988) world perspective based on primary sources by a scholar.

وصلات خارجية

• 1941 Coin Pictures, coinpage.com; accessed December 4, 2014.

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