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Events[]

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

January[]

  • January 1Thailand 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 in Germany outlaws the use of Blackletter Gothic typefaces in favour of 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: At the Battle of Bardia in Libya, Australian and British troops defeat Italian forces, the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation takes part.
  • January 6 – The keel of the USS Missouri is laid at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn.
  • January 10Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.
  • January 11 – The light cruiser HMS Southampton (83) is sunk off Malta.
  • January 13 – All persons born in Puerto Rico since this day are declared U.S. citizens by birth, through U.S. federal law 8 U.S.C. § 1402.
  • January 14 – WWII: Commerce raiding hilfskreuzer Pinguin captures the Norwegian whaling fleet near Bouvet Island, effectively ending Southern Ocean whaling for the duration of the war.[1]
  • January 15John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry describe the workings of the Atanasoff–Berry Computer in print.
  • January 19 – WWII: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea.
  • January 20 – Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes swears in U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for his third term.
  • January 22 – WWII: Battle of Tobruk: Australian and British forces capture Tobruk from the Italians.
  • January 22 – In Sweden, Victor Hasselblad had the Victor Hasselblad AB Camera Company registered.
  • 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 – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Joseph C. 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.
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January 21: Tobruk

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 5Air Training Corps: The Air Training Corps was formed.
  • February 6 – WWII – Fall of Benghazi to the Western Desert Force. Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel is appointed commander of Afrika Korps.
  • February 8 – WWII – The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Act (260–165).
  • February 9Winston 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, 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.[2]
  • February 13 – Aircraft from HMS Formidable (67) attack Massawa.
  • February 14 – WWII – Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura begins his duties as Japanese Ambassador to the United States.
  • February 19February 22 – WWII: Three Nights' Blitz over Swansea, South Wales: Over these 3 nights of intensive bombing, which last 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. A total of 397 casualties and 230 deaths are reported.
  • February 22 – HMS Shropshire (73) bombards Barawa, on the coast between Kismayo and Mogadishu.
  • February 23Glenn T. Seaborg isolates and discovers plutonium.
  • February 25 – The British submarine HMS Upright (N89) attacks an Italian covoy sinking the Italian cruiser Armando Diaz.
  • February 27 – 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.
    • W47NV begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee, becoming the first FM radio station.
    • Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the U.S. 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 (60–31).
  • March 11 – WWII: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law.
  • March 15Richard C. Hottelet is arrested by the Gestapo on "suspicion of espionage". He is eventually released in July as part of a prisoner exchange.
  • March 16 – A group of U.S. warships arrive in Auckland, New Zealand on a goodwill visit. On March 20, they visit Sydney, Australia.
  • March 17
  • March 22Washington'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 Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean, British naval forces defeat those of Italy, sinking 5 warships. Battle ends on March 29.
    • An anti-Axis coup d'état in Yugoslavia forces Prince Paul into exile; 17-year-old King Peter II assumes power.
    • Attack on Pearl Harbor: Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
  • 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.[3]

April[]

  • April 4 – WWII: Axis forces capture Benghazi.
  • April 6 – WWII: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
  • April 9 – The U.S. acquires full military defense rights in Greenland.
  • April 10 – WWII: The U.S. destroyer USS Niblack, while picking up survivors from a sunken Dutch freighter, drops depth charges on a German U-Boat (the first "shot in anger" fired by America against Germany).
  • April 12 – WWII: German troops enter Belgrade.
  • April 13 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a neutrality pact.[4]
  • April 15 – WWII: Axis forces reach Halfaya Pass on the Libyan-Egyptian frontier.
  • April 17 – WWII: The Yugoslav Royal Army capitulates.
  • April 18 – WWII: Prime Minister of Greece Alexandros Koryzis commits suicide as German troops approach Athens.
  • April 19Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play Mother Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) receives its first theatrical production at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
  • April 21 – WWII: Greece capitulates. Commonwealth troops and some elements of the Greek Army withdraw to Crete.
  • April 23 – The America First Committee holds its first mass rally in New York City, with Charles Lindbergh as keynote speaker.
  • April 25Franklin 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.

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 2Anglo-Iraqi War: British combat operations against the rebel government of Rashid Ali in the Kingdom of Iraq begin.[5]
  • May 5 – WWII: Emperor Haile Selassie enters Addis Ababa, which had been liberated from Italian forces; this date has been since commemorated as Liberation Day in Ethiopia.
  • May 6 – At California's March Field, entertainer Bob Hope performs his first USO Show.
  • May 8 – WWII: The German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin is sunk by HMS Cornwall (56) in the Indian Ocean.
  • May 9 – WWII: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the British Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine, which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
  • May 10
    • WWII: The British House of Commons is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
    • Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland, claiming to be on a peace mission.
  • May 12Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
  • 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 Yankee center fielder goes one for four against Chicago White Sox Pitcher Eddie Smith.
  • May 19 – The Viet Minh is formed in Vietnam to overthrow the French Army in the nation.
  • May 20 – WWII: The Battle of Crete begins as Germany launches an airborne invasion of Crete.
  • May 21 – A U-boat sinks SS Robin Moor.
  • May 24 – WWII: In the North Atlantic, the German battleship Bismarck sinks battlecruiser HMS Hood, killing all but 3 crewmen from a total of 1,418 aboard the pride of the Royal Navy.
  • May 24 – The British submarine HMS Upholder (P37) torpedoes and sinks the Italian ocean liner SS Conte Rosso.
  • May 26 – WWII: In the North Atlantic, Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the carrier HMS Ark Royal cripple the steering of Bismarck in an aerial torpedo attack.
  • May 27
    • WWII: President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency."
    • WWII:Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing 2,300.
    • The Swiss Socialist Federation is banned.[6]
  • 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 31Anglo-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 5
    • 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 8 – WWII: British and Free French forces invade Syria.
  • June 13TASS, the official Soviet news agency, denies reports of tension between Germany and the Soviet Union.
  • June 14
    • 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.
  • June 16 – WWII: Royal Navy planes sink the Vichy French ship Chevalier Paul
  • June 20
    • United States Army Air Corps becomes the Army Air Forces.
    • Walt Disney's live-action animated feature, The Reluctant Dragon, is released.
  • June 22
    • WWII: Italy and Romania declare war on the Soviet Union.
    • WWII: Germany invades the Soviet Union under Operation Barbarossa.
    • WWII: 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."
    • WWII: The First Sisak Partisan Brigade, the first anti-fascist armed unit in occupied Europe, is founded by partisans near Sisak, Croatia.
  • June 23 – WWII: Hungary and Slovakia declare war on the Soviet Union.
  • June 24 – Founding of RIA Novosti.
  • June 25 – WWII: Finland attacks the Soviet Union to seek the opportunity of revenge in the Continuation War.
  • June 28 – WWII: Albania declares war on the Soviet Union.

July[]

  • July – The British Army's Special Air Service is formed.
  • July 2 – WWII: Empire of Japan calls up 1 million men for military service.
  • July 3 – WWII: Joseph Stalin, in his first address since the German invasion, calls upon the Soviet people to carry out a "scorched earth" policy of resistance to the bitter end.
  • July 4The Holocaust: The Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers is committed by German troops in the captured Polish city of Lwów.
  • July 5 – WWII: German troops reach the Dnieper River.
  • July 5July 31: War is fought between Peru and Ecuador.
  • July 7
    • WWII: American forces take over the defense of Iceland from the British.
    • WWII: German troops take over Estonia from the Soviets.
  • July 10 – The Holocaust: Jedwabne pogrom: Local ethnic Poles massacre at least 340 Jewish residents of Jedwabne in occupied Poland.[7]
  • July 13 – WWII: Montenegro starts the second popular uprising in Europe against the Axis Powers, the first being the so-called February strike against deportation of Jews in Amsterdam and surroundings on February 25, 1941.
  • July 14 – WWII: Vichy France signs armistice terms, ending all fighting in Syria and Lebanon.
  • July 17Joe 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 first episode The Midnight Snack in which Tom and Jerry are officially named, more than a year after their first production Puss Gets the Boot
  • July 23 – WWII Italian planes damege the destroyer HMS Fearless (H67) which has to be sunk by the British.
  • July 25 – The Postal Code system is introduced in Germany.
  • July 26
    • WWII: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
    • WWII: General Douglas MacArthur is named commander of all U.S. forces in the Philippines; the Philippines Army is ordered nationalized by President Roosevelt.
  • 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 – Political Warfare Executive is formed in the United Kingdom.
  • August 1 – The first Jeep is produced.
  • August 6 – Six-year-old Elaine Esposito goes to an appendix operation in Florida and lapses into a coma. She dies in 1978, still in a coma.
  • August 7 – The British destroyer HMS Severn (N57)sinks the Italien Marconi class submarine.
  • August 9Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet at Argentia, Newfoundland and Labrador. The Atlantic Charter is created as a result.
  • August 16 – The HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School open at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
  • August 18Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program are then transferred to concentration camps, where they continue in their trade.
  • August 22 – WWII – France: The German Occupation Authority announces that anyone found either working for or aiding the Free French will be sentenced to death.
  • August 24 – WWII: A Luftwaffe bomb hits an Estonian steamer with 3,500 Soviet-mobilized Estonian men on board, killing 598 of them.
  • August 25 – WWII: Operation Countenance begins with United Kingdom and Soviet forces invading Iran.
  • August 27 – WWII – Pierre Laval is shot in an assassination attempt at Versailles, France.
  • August 28 – WWII: The Soviets announce the destruction of the massive Dnieper River dam at Zaporozhye, to prevent its capture by the Germans.
  • August 31The Great Gildersleeve debuts on NBC Radio.

September[]

  • September 6 – Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
  • September 8 – WWII – The Siege of Leningrad begins: German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Germans deported to Siberia.
  • 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.
  • September 12 – WWII: The first snowfall is reported on the Russian front.
  • 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.[8]
  • September 15 – The Estonian Self-Administration, headed by Hjalmar Mäe, is appointed by the German military administration.
  • September 16 – Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran is forced to resign in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, under pressure from the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.
  • September 22 The town of Reshetylivka in the Soviet Union is occupied by German forces.
  • September 27 – The first Liberty Ship, the SS Patrick Henry, is launched at Baltimore, Maryland.
  • September 29 – WWII: The Moscow Conference begins; U.S. representative Averill Harriman and British representative Lord Beaverbrook meet with Soviet foreign minister Molotov to arrange urgent assistance for Russia.
  • September 29September 30 – Holocaust: Babi Yar massacre – German troops, assisted by Ukrainian police and local collaborators, killed 33,771 Jews of Kiev, Ukraine.

October[]

  • October 1
    • Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Konzentrationslager Lublin (commonly known as "Majdanek") opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town Lublin. Between October 1941 and July 1944 at least 200,000 people were killed in the camp.
    • New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy becomes the Royal New Zealand Navy
  • October 2 – WWII: Operation Typhoon begins as Germany launches an all-out offensive against Moscow.
  • October 7John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Australia.
  • October 8 – WWII: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
  • October 11October 12 – Fire destroys a Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Fall River, Massachusetts, consuming 15,850 tons of rubber and causing a setback to the United States war effort.[9] Apollonia,
  • October 15 – the sumbmarine HMS Torbay (N79) bombards the Libyan port of Apollonia.
  • Mid-October – First production P-38E Lightning fighter produced by Lockheed.
  • October 16 – WWII: The Soviet Union government moves to Kuibyshev (modern Samara), but Joseph Stalin remains in Moscow.
  • October 17 – WWII: The destroyer USS Kearny is torpedoed and damaged near Iceland, killing 11 sailors (the first American military casualties of the war).
  • October 18 – General Hideki Tojo becomes the 40th Prime Minister of Japan.
  • October 21 – WWII: The Germans rampage in Yugoslavia, killing thousands of civilians.
  • October 23 – Walt Disney's animated film Dumbo is released.
  • October 24Franz von Werra disappears during a flight over the North Sea.
  • October 30 – WWII: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
  • October 31
    • Last day of carving on Mount Rushmore.
    • WWII: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.

November[]

  • 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 that year on July 2). He states that even though 350,000 troops have been killed in German attacks so far, 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 planes while evacuating refugees, wounded military and the staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people die in the sinking.
  • November 10 – In a speech at the Mansion House in 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 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.
  • November 14 – WWII: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks after being torpedoed by U-81.
  • November 17 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables to Washington a warning that Japan may strike suddenly and unexpectedly.
  • November 18 – WWII: Operation Crusader in North Africa begins
  • November 19 – WWII: Both commerce raiding hilfskreuzer Kormoran and Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney sink following a battle off the coast of Western Australia. There are no survivors from the 645 Australian sailors aboard Sydney.[10]
  • November 21 – The radio program King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time (it later becomes the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program).
  • November 22 – WWII: HMS Devonshire sinks commerce raiding hilfskreuzer Atlantis, ending the longest warship cruise of the war. (622 days without in-port replenishment or repair)[11]
  • November 26 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: A fleet of 6 aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence
  • November 27
    • 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.
    • WWII: Germans reach their closest approach to Moscow. They are subsequently frozen by cold weather and attacks by the Soviets.

December[]

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USS Arizona ablaze after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

  • December 1 – WWII:
    • Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air Force.
    • A state of emergency is declared in Malaya and the Straits Settlements.
  • December 2 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: The code message "Climb Mount Niitaka" is transmitted to the Japanese task force, indicating that negotiations have broken down and that the attack is to be carried out according to plan.
  • December 4 – The State of Jefferson is declared in Yreka, California, with judge John Childs as a governor.
  • December 6 – WWII:
    • Soviet counterattacks begin against German troops encircling Moscow. The Wehrmacht is subsequently pushed back over 200 miles.
    • The United Kingdom declares war on Finland.
  • December 6 – WWII: HMS Perseus (N36)is sunk by a mine.
  • December 7 (December 8, Japan standard time) – WWII:
    • Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II. The attack is announced on radio stations in the US at about 2:26 p.m. EST (19.26 GMT).
    • The Empire of Japan launches invasions in Hong Kong, Malaya, Manila, Singapore and the Philippines.
    • Canada declares war on Japan.
    • Tobruk's garrison is relieved.
  • December 8
    • WWII: The United States, United Kingdom, China and The Netherlands officially declare war on the Empire of Japan.
    • President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Infamy" Address to a Joint Session of Congress at 12:30 p.m. EST (17.30 GMT) and transmitted live over all four major national networks attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81% of homes.[12]
    • Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Chelmno opens in occupied Poland near a small village called Chełmno nad Nerem. Between December 1941-April 1943 and June 1944-January 1945 at least 153,000 people are killed in the camp.
  • December 10 – WWII: The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse are sunk by Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea north of Singapore.
  • December 11 – WWII: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The U.S. responds in kind.
  • December 12 – WWII:
    • Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
    • British India declares war on the Empire of Japan.
    • The United States seizes the French ship SS Normandie.
    • The Kimura Detachment of the Japanese Imperial forces is occupied in Legaspi, Albay in Eastern Philippines.
  • December 13 – Sweden's low temperature record of -53°C is set in a village within the Vilhelmina Municipality.
  • December 19 – WWII: Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
  • 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 British and Canadians are defeated by the Japanese at Hong Kong.
  • December 26 – WWII: Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a joint session of the U.S. 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.

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  • The Valley of Geysers is discovered in Russia.
  • The Indochina Communist party, led by Ho Chi Minh, combines with the Nationalist party to form the Viet Minh.
  • Classic Comics series launched in the United States with a version of The Three Musketeers.

Births[]

January[]

  • January 1Dardo Cabo, Argentine journalist and activist (d. 1977)
  • January 3Van Dyke Parks, American composer, producer, and musician
  • January 4
    • John Bennett Perry, American actor
    • Maureen Reagan, American actress (d. 2001)
  • January 5
    • Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
    • Kevin Keelan, English footballer
  • January 7
    • Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
    • Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
    • John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • January 8Graham Chapman, English comedian (d. 1989)
  • January 9Joan Baez, American singer and activist
  • January 11
    • Dave Edwards, American musician (d. 2000)
    • Jimmy Velvit, American singer/songwriter
  • January 12Long John Baldry, British singer (d. 2005)
  • January 14
    • Faye Dunaway, American actress
    • Milan Kučan, Slovenian politician and statesman
    • David Johnston, retired Australian newsreader
  • January 15Captain Beefheart, American singer (d. 2010)
  • January 18David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)
  • January 19Pat Patterson, Canadian professional wrestler
  • January 20Allan Young (d. 2009)
  • January 21
    • Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor
    • Richie Havens, American musician
  • January 24
    • Neil Diamond, American singer and songwriter
    • Aaron Neville, American singer
  • January 25Theo Berger, German criminal
  • January 26
    • Scott Glenn, American actor
    • Henry Jaglom, English film director
  • January 27Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer (d. 1981)
  • January 30
    • Dick Cheney, former Vice President of the United States
    • Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
  • January 31
    • Lynne Abraham, American lawyer; former District Attorney of Philadelphia (1991–2010)
    • Dick Gephardt, American politician
    • Jessica Walter, American actress

February[]

  • February 1Jerry Spinelli, American children's author
  • February 3Dory Funk, Jr., American professional wrestler
  • February 5
    • David Selby, American actor
    • Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor
    • Stephen J. Cannell, American director and producer (d. 2010)
  • February 6Howard Phillips, American politician
  • February 7Peter Foxhall, Australian evangelist
  • February 8Nick Nolte, American actor
  • February 10Michael Apted, English film director
  • February 12Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer (d. 1984)
  • February 13
    • Sigmar Polke, German painter
    • David Jeremiah, American televangelist
  • February 19David Gross, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • February 20Buffy Sainte-Marie, American singer
  • February 26Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
  • February 27Paddy Ashdown, British politician
  • February 28Suzanne Mubarak, Egyptian first lady

March[]

  • March 1Joo Hyun, South Korean actor
  • March 4
    • Adrian Lyne, English film director
    • John Aprea, American actor
  • March 5Nona Gaprindashvili, Georgian chess player
  • March 6Willie Stargell, American baseball player (d. 2001)
  • March 13Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose (d. 2008)
  • March 14Wolfgang Petersen, German film director
  • March 15Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
  • March 16
    • Robert Guéï, military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
    • Chuck Woolery, American game show host
  • March 17Paul Kantner, American rock guitarist (Jefferson Airplane)
  • March 18Wilson Pickett, American singer (d. 2006)
  • March 20Kenji Kimihara, Japanese long-distance runner
  • March 23Jim Trelease, American educator and author
  • March 26Richard Dawkins, British scientist
  • March 28Jim Turner, American football player
  • March 29Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • March 30Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan

April[]

  • April 2Dr. Demento (Barret Eugene Hansen), American radio disc jockey and novelty music collector
  • April 3
    • Eric Braeden, German-born American actor
    • Philippe Wynne, American musician (d. 1984)
  • April 8Peggy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
  • April 9Kay Adams, American country singer
  • April 11Shirley Stelfox, English actress
  • April 12Bobby Moore, English football player and World Cup winning captain (d. 1993)
  • April 13Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • April 14 - Pete Rose, American baseball player
  • April 20Ryan O'Neal, American actor
  • April 23
    • Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland
    • Ed Stewart, English disc jockey
  • April 24John Williams, Australian guitarist
  • April 27Lee 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

May[]

  • May 5Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (d. 2004)
  • May 6Ivica Osim, Bosnian football player and manager
  • May 11Eric Burdon, English singer (The Animals)
  • May 13
    • Senta Berger, Austrian actress
    • Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959)
  • May 19
    • Bobby Burgess, American dancer and singer
    • Nora Ephron, American film, producer, director, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
  • May 20Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of Singapore
  • May 21Bobby Cox, American baseball manager
  • May 22Menzies Campbell, British politician
  • May 24Bob Dylan, American poet and musician
  • May 26John Kaufman, English sculptor
  • May 31Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

June[]

  • June 1Alexander Zakharov, Soviet and Russian deputy scientist and astronomer, IKI
  • June 2
    • Charlie Watts, English Drummer, (The Rolling Stones)
    • Stacy Keach, American actor
  • June 4Erkin Koray, Turkish musician
  • June 5
    • Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
    • Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2004)
  • June 6Neal Adams, American comic book artist
  • June 8
    • Robert Bradford, Irish footballer and politician (d. 1981)
    • Fuzzy Haskins, American musician (P-Funk)
  • June 9Jon Lord, organist of Deep Purple, the "Lord of the Hammond organ"
  • June 10
    • Mickey Jones, American actor and musician
    • Valeri Zolotukhin, Soviet/Russian actor
    • James A. Paul, American writer and non-profit executive
  • June 12Marv Albert, American sports announcer
  • June 14Roy Harper, English guitarist
  • June 15Harry Nilsson, American musician (d. 1994)
  • June 19
    • Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
    • Vaclav Klaus. President of the Czech Republic
  • June 21Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor and comedian
  • June 22
    • Ed Bradley, American journalist (60 Minutes) (d. 2006)
    • Michael Lerner, American actor
    • Terttu Savola, Finnish politician
  • June 24
    • Bill Reardon, American politician and educator
    • Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (d. 1966)
  • June 27Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
  • June 28Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)

July[]

  • July 1
    • Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • July 6Harold Leighton Weller, American conductor
  • July 7Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
  • July 10Jackie Lane, English actress
  • July 11Tommy Vance, English disc jockey (d. 2005)
  • July 12
    • Benny Parsons, American race car driver (d. 2007)
    • John Lahr, "New Yorker" senior drama critic
  • July 14
    • Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
    • Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
  • July 16Hans Wiegel, Dutch politician
  • July 19
    • Vikki Carr, American singer
    • Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician
  • July 27Bill Baxley, Alabama politician
  • July 28Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
  • July 29
    • Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007)
    • David Warner, English actor
  • July 30Paul Anka, Canadian-American singer and songwriter
  • July 31Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician

August[]

  • August 3Martha Stewart, American television and magazine personality
  • August 2Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter
  • August 6Lyle Berman, American poker player
  • August 8George Tiller, American physician (d. 2009)
  • August 9Shirlee Busbee, American novelist.
  • August 12Deborah Walley, American actress (The Mothers-in-Law) (d. 2001)
  • August 14
    • Connie Smith, American singer
    • David Crosby, American Musician (The Byrds)
  • August 16
    • David Dickinson, British antiques expert and television presenter
    • Théoneste Bagosora, former Rwandan army officer and alleged planner of the Rwandan Genocide
  • August 17Ibrahim Babangida, former President of Nigeria
  • August 20Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (d. 2006)
  • August 22Bill Parcells, American football coach
  • August 28Joseph Shabalala, South African musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo)

September[]

  • September 2
    • David Bale, South African–born activist (d. 2003)
    • Jyrki Otila, Finnish quiz show judge and Member of the European Parliament (d. 2003)
    • John Thompson, American basketball coach
  • September 3Sergei Dovlatov, Russian short-story writer and novelist (d. 1990)
  • September 4Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
  • September 9
    • Otis Redding, American musician (d. 1967)
    • Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (d. 2011)
  • September 10
    • Christopher Hogwood, English conductor and harpsichordist
    • Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese computer game producer (d. 1997)
  • September 13
    • Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
    • Ahmet Necdet Sezer, former President of Turkey
  • September 14Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
  • September 15
    • George Saimes, American football player
    • Mirosław Hermaszewski, first Polish cosmonaut in space
  • September 17Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from California (d. 2005)
  • September 19Cass Elliott, American singer (d. 1974)
  • September 20Dale Chihuly, American glass sculptor
  • September 24
    • Guy Hovis, American singer
    • Linda McCartney, American activist, musician and photographer (d. 1998)
  • September 26Martine Beswick, British actress and model
  • September 27Gay Kayler Ashcroft, Australian country music singer
  • September 28Sam Zell, American billionaire investor and publisher

October[]

  • October 2Zareh Baronian, Archimandrite doctor, theologian of the Armenian Church, Bucarest
  • October 4
    • Elizabeth Eckford, American activist
    • Anne Rice, American writer
    • Roy Blount, Jr., American writer and comedian
  • October 5Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
  • October 8Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
  • October 9Trent Lott, former United States Senate Minority Leader and United States Senate Majority Leader
  • October 10Peter Coyote, American actor
  • October 13Paul Simon, American singer and composer
  • October 16Tim McCarver, American baseball commentator
  • October 20Anneke Wills, British actress
  • October 23Mel Winkler, American actor
  • October 25
    • Helen Reddy, Australian singer and actress
    • Anne Tyler, American novelist
  • October 27Gerd Brantenberg, Norwegian feminist author and gay rights activist
  • October 28
    • John Hallam, Irish actor
    • Hank Marvin, British guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Shadows)
  • October 30Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
  • October 31Sally Kirkland, American actress

November[]

  • November 1
    • Nigel Dempster, British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist (d. 2007)
    • Robert Foxworth, American actor
  • November 2Bruce Welch, British guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Shadows)
  • November 5Art Garfunkel, American singer
  • November 6Doug Sahm, American musician (d. 1999)
  • November 17Tova Traesnaes, American cosmetician and fifth wife of Ernest Borgnine
  • November 18David Hemmings, English actor (d. 2003)
  • November 21Juliet Mills, English actress
  • November 23Derek Mahon, Irish poet
  • November 24Pete Best, First Beatles Drummer
  • November 25
    • Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Sufi, author, poet and a growing following consider him to be the Mehdi, Messiah & Kalki Avatar
    • Ralph Haben, American politician, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
  • November 26G. Alan Marlatt, American psychologist
  • November 27Eddie Rabbitt, American country musician (d. 1998)
  • November 29Bill Freehan, American baseball player

December[]

  • December 6Vittorio Mezzogiorno,Italian actor (d. 1994)
  • December 9Beau Bridges, American actor
  • December 10Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
  • December 11J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (d. 1991)
  • December 13John Davidson, American singer and actor
  • December 18Prince William of Gloucester
  • December 19Lee Myung Bak, 17th president of South Korea
  • December 21Lo Hoi Pang, Hong Kong actor
  • December 23
    • Ron Bushy, American rock musician (Iron Butterfly)
    • Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
  • December 24John Levene, English actor
  • December 30Mel Renfro, American football player
  • December 31Alex Ferguson, English football manager (Manchester United)

Deaths[]

January–February[]

March–July[]

  • March 5Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Russian royal (b. 1891)
  • March 6Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (Mount Rushmore) (b. 1867)
  • March 8Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876)
  • March 15Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
  • March 28
    • Virginia Woolf, English writer (b. 1882)
    • Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police commissioner (b. 1887)
  • April 5Sir Nigel Gresley, English steam locomotive engineer (Flying Scotsman and Mallard) (b. 1876)
  • April 13Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
  • April 16Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, Bt, GCB, GBE, FBA, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (b.1880)
  • April 24Karin Boye, Swedish poetess (suicide) (b. 1900)
  • April 30Edwin S. Porter, American film director (b. 1870)
  • May 1Jenny Dolly, American singer (b. 1892)
  • May 11Peggy Shannon, American actress (b. 1907)
  • May 12Ruth Stonehouse, American actress (b. 1892)
  • May 16Minnie Vautrin, American missionary and heroine of the Nanjing Massacre (b. 1887)
  • May 24Lancelot Holland, British admiral (b. 1887)
  • May 27Günther Lütjens, German admiral (b. 1889)
  • May 30Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
  • June 1Hugh Walpole, British writer (b. 1884)
  • June 2Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
  • June 4Wilhelm II, last Emperor of Germany (b. 1859)
  • June 6Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile builder and race car driver (b. 1878)
  • June 21Elliott Dexter, American actor (b. 1870)
  • June 29Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and third Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)
  • July 3Friedrich Akel, Estonian diplomat and politician (b. 1871)
  • July 4Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
  • July 10Jelly Roll Morton, African-American jazz musician and composer (b. 1890)
  • July 11Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (b. 1851)
  • July 15Walter Ruttmann, German director (b. 1887)
  • July 20Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
  • July 25Allan Forrest, American actor (b. 1885)
  • July 26Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
  • July 29James Stephenson, British actor (b. 1889)

August–December[]

  • August 7Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
  • August 13James Stuart Blackton, American film producer (b. 1875)
  • August 14Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
  • August 30Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
  • August 31Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (suicide) (b. 1892)
  • September 1Karl Parts, Estonia military commander (b. 1886)
  • September 12Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
  • September 18Fred Karno, British music hall comedian (b. 1866)
  • October 5Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1856)
  • October 8
    • Gus Kahn, German songwriter (b. 1886)
    • Valentine O'Hara, Irish author and authority on Russia and the Baltic States (b. 1875)
  • October 9Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
  • October 26
    • Arkady Gaidar, Russian writer (b. 1904)
    • Victor Schertzinger, American composer and director (b. 1888)
  • October 29Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
  • November 13
    • Daniel J. Callaghan, American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1890)
    • Norman Scott, American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1889)
  • November 16Miina Härma, Estonian composer (b. 1864)
  • November 17Ernst Udet, German World War I fighter ace and Nazi Luftwaffe official (b. 1896)
  • November 18
    • Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet (b. 1879)
    • Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
    • Chris Watson, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
  • November 21Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker (b. 1860)
  • November 22Werner Moelders, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
  • November 26Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)
  • November 30Esmond Romilly, British socialist (b. 1918)
  • December 3Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (b. 1856)
  • December 7Isaac Campbell Kidd, American admiral (died in the attack on Pearl Harbor) (b. 1884)
  • December 9Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Austrian general and German field marshal (b. 1856)
  • December 12César Basa, Filipino pilot (b. 1915)
  • December 25Blanche Bates, stage actress (b. 1873)
  • December 30El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)

Nobel Prizes[]

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

References[]

  1. ^ Muggenthaler, August Karl (1977). German Raiders of WWII. Prentice-Hall. pp. 140–143. ISBN 0-13-354027-8. 
  2. ^ Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts. London: Ebury Press. pp. 124–5. 
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People of the year 1941 at Familypedia

79 people were born in 1941

 FatherMotherAge mother at birth
Barbara Al-Fasi (1941-1999)
Barbara Baumstark (1941-2017)Joachim Baumstark (1914-1979)Charlotte Ballantine (1916-1996)
Bonnie Sue Beeler (1941-)William Crawford Beeler Jr. (1920-1974)Mildred Irene Augustine (1920-)
Seth Belkin (1941-1999)Aaron Belkin (1903-1957)Alice Berliner (1905-1978)
David Benally (1941-2009)
Jacobus Frederik Theodorus Bergman (1941)Jacobus Frederik Theodorus Bergman (1913-1982)Cornelia Helena Vlietman (1911-2003)
Umberto Bossi (1941)
Arie Bremer (1941)Arie Bremer (1909-1980)Cornelia Pieternella Boot (1910-1985)
Péter Böjthe de Kerczed (1941)
Șerban Cantacuzino (1941-2011)Ion Filotti-Cantacuzino (1908-1975)Elena Warthiadi (1912-2001)
Joe Carroll (1941-2021)
Doris Gwendolyn Carter (1941-)
Richard Bruce Cheney (1941-)Richard Herbert Cheney (1915-1999)Marjorie Lorraine Dickey (1918-1993)
David Kipp Conover (1941-2013)David Kipp Conover Sr. (1895-1985)Virginia Ailene Swift (1913-2002)
Gene Raymond Cook (1941)Clarence Harvey Cook (1913-1969)Cora Myrl Thornton (1914-2001)
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27 children were born to the 29 women born in 1941

278 people died in 1941

 FatherMotherAge at death
Hubert Charles Titus Aaron (1919-1941)Alfred Alonzo Aaron (1883-1969)Jemima Davis (1884-1966)
Ada Adeline Adams (1882-1941)William John Adams (1842-1920)Martha E Cheney (1845-1920)
Rosanna Charlotte Esther Elizabeth Adams (1862-1941)Henry Adams (1797-1866)Elizabeth Clarke (1822-1870)
Richard Steere Aldrich (1884-1941)Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (1841-1915)Abigail Pierce Truman Chapman (1845-1917)
Karl Johan Aldrin (1866-1941)Johan Jan Henrik Aldrin (1817-1895)Brita Eriksdotter (1830-1889)
Martha Rosabelle Allred (1860-1941)Rueben Warren Allred (1827-1916)Elzadie Emeline Ford (1827-1887)
Etelka Alm (1861-1941)Móricz Fáy (1818-1866)Paulina Staudt (c1825-1904)
George Matthaus Andreas Ambrose (1866-1941)George Ambrose (1843-1934)Maria Schmitt (1844-1910)
Moses Willard Andrus (1869-1941)James Andrus (1835-1914)Manomas Lovina Gibson (1842-1940)
Lois Thompson Angell (1863-1941)James Burrill Angell (1829-1916)Sarah Swope Caswell (1831-1903)
William Apps (1861-1941)Reuben Apps (1837-1898)Mary Elizabeth Foots (1837-1873)
Adam Arnold (1863-1941)Adam Arnold (1831-1895)Mary Music (c1835-1879)
Gerald Arthur Atkins (1919-1941)Bernard Beals Atkins (1896-1976)Lola Kelley (1899-1930)
Thell Arnold (1918-1941)Christopher Columbus Arnold (1883-1923)Mattie Jane Ellis Pollock (1883-1920)
Christina Sophia Atherley (1873-1941)Daniel John Atherley (1829-1908)Ida Amalie Ljungberg (1843-1919)
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13524 people lived in 1941

 FatherMother
Lady Irina Bud de BudfalvaLord János Bud de BudfalvaBaroness Anna Tisza de Borosjenő et Szeged
Tsunekichi Yonogi (1905-2015)Shigeru Yonogi (1876-1940)Miyoko Yonogi (1882-1950)
Reinhard Meyer
Petre Văsescu (1891-1967)Ilie Văsescu (1838-1913)Mardelline Velloton
Geertje Aangeenbrug (1871-1947)Pieter Aangeenbrug (1834-1908)Grietje Breed (1845)
Alfred Alonzo Aaron (1883-1969)Thomas Aaron (1850-1932)Sarah Dobbs (1858-1948)
Hubert Charles Titus Aaron (1919-1941)Alfred Alonzo Aaron (1883-1969)Jemima Davis (1884-1966)
Sadie Aaronson (1908-1970)Jack Aaronson (1880-1927)Laura Barenboim (1882-1932)
Rebecca Ababio (1926-1998)
Isabella Abadiano (1930-2003)
Amanda Abadie (1898-1957)Jean-Claude Abadie (1848-1930)Jeanette Armellino (1860-1934)
Annabelle Abargil (1922-2000)
Dominique Abasolo (1882-1947)Rafael Abasolo (1849-1900)Nancy Haugen (1855-1929)
Jennifer Abaya (1918-1996)
Alysson Abberton (1935-2012)
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Events of the year 1941 at Familypedia

135 people were married in 1941.

 Joined with
Neil Hortt Adams (1920-1989)Elizabeth Cottam (1919-2015)
Howard Parmalee Ady (1917-1998)Beverly Sue McMullen (1921-2005)
Cleveland Amory (1917-1998)Cora Fields Craddock (bef1941-)+Martha Hodge (bef1954-)
Helen Nola Armagost (1918-2008)Wendell Jay Troxell (1917-1988)+John Franklin Doerr (1914-1961)+Lynwood Abraham Thiessen (1923-1997)
María Fortunata Assumma (1918-2002)Ernesto Rodolfo Hintze (1916-1996)
Frances A Bascko (1925-1985)Carvell Monroe Stuart (1918-1987)+ Byron F. Lodge (1930-1988)
Frank Oswald Bellamy (1910-1998)Gladys Ellen Thackray (1905-1960)
Owen Arthur Justin Bellamy (c1905-1996)Kathleen May Hayes (1908-1988)
Mary Pamela Berry (1918-1998)Douglas Charles Lindsey Gordon, 12th Marquess of Huntly (1908-1987)
Joseph Robinette Biden (1915-2002)Catherine Eugenia (Jean) Finnegan (1917-2010)
Henry Warren Birks (1903-1972)Grace Grenfell Laundess (1899-1986)
Betty Blanchette (1919-1941)Philip Ascot Tivey (1915-1991)
Reginald Paul Blunt (1914-1976)Dorothy E Hall+Kathleen E Bowden
William Jefferson Blythe (1918-1946)Virginia Adele Gash (1918-1994)+Minnie Faye Gash (1923)+Wanetta Ellen Alexander (1922)+Virginia Dell Cassidy (1923-1994)
Francis James Cecil Bowes-Lyon (1917-1977)Mary de Trafford (1920-2007)
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There were 0 military battles in 1941.


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