1941: The Year in People

What happened in 1941

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

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Died in 1941

• Alfonso XIII1886–1941 · King of Spain from 1886 to 1931
• Helen Morgan (singer)1900–1941 · American jazz singer and actress
• Frederick Banting1891–1941 · Canadian medical scientist and doctor
• Amrita Sher-Gil1913–1941 · Hungarian-Indian painter
• Amy Johnson1903–1941 · British aviator
• Emanuel Lasker1868–1941 · German chess player
• Al Bowlly1898–1941 · South African–British vocalist
• Banjo Paterson1864–1941 · Australian journalist, author, and poet
• El Lissitzky1890–1941 · Soviet Avantgarde artist
• Arthur Evans1851–1941 · British archaeologist and scholar
• James George Frazer1854–1941 · Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist
• Annie Jump Cannon1863–1941 · American astronomer