1941 facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

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

Contents

Events
Births
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Movies released
Images for kids
See also

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

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 (d. 2012)
June 27 – Krzysztof Kieslowski, movie director
July 14 – Maulana Karenga, writer and activist
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 19 – Cass Elliott, singer (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
November 7 - Angelo Scola, Italian archbishop and cardinal
November 29 – Bill Freehan, baseball player
December 18- His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester
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
May 24 – Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter
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 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

Nobel Prize in Physics – not awarded
Chemistry – not awarded
Medicine – not awarded
Literature – not awarded
Peace – not awarded

Movies released

Citizen Kane

Images for kids

See also

In Spanish: 1941 para niños

All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise. Cite this article:

1941 Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.