1941

1941 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1941; MCMXLI
Ab urbe condita	2694
Armenian calendar	1390; ԹՎ ՌՅՂ
Assyrian calendar	6691
Bahá'í calendar	97–98
Balinese saka calendar	1862–1863
Bengali calendar	1348
Berber calendar	2891
British Regnal year	5 Geo. 6 – 6 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar	2485
Burmese calendar	1303
Byzantine calendar	7449–7450
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon); 4637 or 4577; — to —; 辛巳年 (Metal Snake); 4638 or 4578
Coptic calendar	1657–1658
Discordian calendar	3107
Ethiopian calendar	1933–1934
Hebrew calendar	5701–5702
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1997–1998
- Shaka Samvat	1862–1863
- Kali Yuga	5041–5042
Holocene calendar	11941
Igbo calendar	941–942
Iranian calendar	1319–1320
Islamic calendar	1359–1360
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 16; (昭和１６年)
Javanese calendar	1871–1872
Juche calendar	30
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4274
Minguo calendar	ROC 30; 民國30年
Nanakshahi calendar	473
Thai solar calendar	2484
Tibetan calendar	阳金龙年; (male Iron-Dragon); 2067 or 1686 or 914; — to —; 阴金蛇年; (female Iron-Snake); 2068 or 1687 or 915

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s – 1940s – 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1938 1939 1940 – 1941 – 1942 1943 1944

1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday in 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.

Events

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 6 – World War II: The German army attacked Yugoslavia.
April 10 – Croatia declares itself independent of Yugoslavia.
June 22 - Nazi German invasion to the Soviet Union. The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union begins.
September 11 – Building of The Pentagon starts.
December 5 - Soviet counteroffensive near Moscow begins.
December 7 – The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Following this, the U.S. enters World War II.

Births

January 3 – Van Dyke Parks, musician, composer
January 5 – Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese movie maker
January 5 – Grady Thomas, singer (P-Funk)
January 8 – Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
January 9 – Joan Baez, American singer
January 14 – Faye Dunaway, American actress
January 14 – Milan Kučan, Slovene politician, statesman
January 15 – Captain Beefheart, American singer (d. 2010)
January 18 – David Ruffin, singer (died 1991)
January 21 – Richie Havens, American musician (d. 2013)
January 21 – Plácido Domingo, Spanish opera singer
January 26 – Henry Jaglom, director
January 26 – Scott Glenn, actor
January 30 – Dick Cheney, former Vice President of the United States
January 31 - Eugene Terre'Blanche, South African far-right politician (d. 2010)
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, German painter (d. 2010)
February 16 - Kim Jong-il, North Korean supreme commander. (died 2011)
February 17 – Julia McKenzie, actress
February 17 – Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006)
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, movie director
March 18 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (d. 2006)
March 26 – Richard Dawkins, British scientist
March 30 – Wasim Sajjad, former President of Pakistan
April 6 – Hans W. Geissendörfer, German movie director
April 8 – Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer
April 14 – Pete Rose, American baseball player
April 18 - Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland
April 23 – Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland
April 24 - Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (d. 2010)
May 13 – Ritchie Valens, singer (died 1959)
May 13 – Senta Berger, actress
May 15 – K.T. Oslin, country musician
May 19 – Nora Ephron, American screenwriter (d. 2012)
May 24 – Bob Dylan, American poet and musician
June 5 – Martha Argerich, Argentinian pianist
June 5 – Spalding Gray, actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (died 2004)
June 9 - Jon Lord, British musician (Deep Purple) (d. 2012)
June 15 - Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1994)
June 27 – Krzysztof Kieslowski, movie director
July 14 – Maulana Karenga, writer and activist
August 14 - David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and musician (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
August 22 – Bill Parcells, NFL coach
September 8 - Bernie Sanders, American politician
September 9 – Otis Redding, musician (died 1967)
September 9 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (d. 2011)
September 11 — The Pentagon is beeing constructed
September 19 – Cass Elliott, singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (died 1974)
September 28 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician
October 4 – Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer
October 5 – Eduardo Duhalde former President of Argentina
October 8 - Jesse Jackson, American pastor and civil rights leader
October 13 – Paul Simon, American musician (Simon & Garfunkel)
November 5 - Art Garfunkel, American musician (Simon & Garfunkel)
November 7 - Angelo Scola, Italian archbishop and cardinal
November 29 – Bill Freehan, baseball player
December 18 - His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester
December 23 - Nigel Anthony, English actor
December 31 - Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager

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, writer
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, writer
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

Nobel Prizes

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

Movies released

Citizen Kane