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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.

The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million each.^[1]

Events

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

April

Main article: April 1941

• 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, Italy and Hungary invade Yugoslavia and the Battle of Greece begins.
• April 9 – The U.S. acquires full military defense rights in Greenland.
• April 10 – WWII:
  • 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).^[10]
  • 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.^[11]
• 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 (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) receives its first theatrical production, at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
• April 21 – WWII: Greece capitulates to Germany. 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.

Ansel Adams photograph of the Hoover Dam in 1941.

December

Main article: December 1941

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 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 5 – WWII: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
• December 6 – WWII:
  • Soviet counterattacks begin against German troops encircling Moscow. The Heer is subsequently pushed back over 200 mi (320 km).
  • British submarine HMS 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 are 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.^[28]
  • 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.^[29] 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.^[28]
  • WWII: Japanese forces attack British Malaya and Thailand.^[28]
  • WWII: The German advance on Moscow (Operation Typhoon) is suspended for the winter.^[28]
  • 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 December 8, 1941, when the Nazis use gas vans to murder people from the Lodz ghetto.
• December 10 – WWII:
  • British battleship HMS 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 11–13 – WWII: Battle of Jitra: Japanese compel British troops to withdraw from their positions in Malaya.
• 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 liner SS Normandie.
  • The Kimura Detachment of the Japanese Imperial forces occupies Legaspi, Albay, Philippines.
• December 13
  • WWII: The United Kingdom, New Zealand and South Africa declare war on Bulgaria; Hungary declares war on the United States; and Honduras declares war on Germany and Italy.
  • WWII: The Battle of Cape Bon is fought off Cape Bon, Tunisia: Italian cruisers Alberico da Barbiano and Alberto da Giussano are sunk without loss to the Allies.
  • 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.^[30]
• December 21
  • Thailand 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 off Newfoundland, 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.

Births

January

Abdiqasim Salad Hassan

Hayao Miyazaki

Joan Baez

Faye Dunaway

Plácido Domingo

Neil Diamond

Aaron Neville

Dick Cheney

• January 1
  • Asrani, Indian actor and director
  • Dardo Cabo, Argentine journalist, activist (d. 1977)
  • Martin Evans, British biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
  • Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, Somali politician, 5th President of Somalia
• January 3 – Shima Iwashita, Japanese actress
• January 4
  • Maureen Reagan, American political activist (d. 2001)
  • John Bennett Perry, American actor, singer and former model
• January 5
  • Harvey Hall, American businessman, politician (d. 2018)
  • Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (d. 1986)
  • Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film director, screenwriter
  • Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer (d. 2011)
• January 7
  • Iona Brown, British violinist, conductor (d. 2004)
  • Frederick D. Gregory, African-American astronaut
  • John E. Walker, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• January 8
  • Graham Chapman, British comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus) (d. 1989)
  • Boris Vallejo, Peruvian painter
• January 9
  • Joan Baez, American singer, songwriter and activist
  • Reza Sheikholeslami, Professor of Persian Studies (d. 2018)
• January 10 – José Greci, Italian actress (d. 2017)
• January 11
  • Dave Edwards, American musician (d. 2000)
  • Gérson, Brazilian footballer
  • Pak Seung-zin, North Korean footballer (d. 2011)
  • Jimmy Velvit, American singer/songwriter
• January 12 – Long John Baldry, English singer (d. 2005)
• January 13 – Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician
• January 14
  • Faye Dunaway, American actress
  • Milan Kučan, Slovenian politician, 1st President of Slovenia
• January 15 – Captain Beefheart, American singer (d. 2010)
• January 17 – Mircea Snegur, 1st President of Moldova
• January 18
  • Bobby Goldsboro, American pop and country singer-songwriter
  • David Ruffin, African-American singer (the Temptations) (d. 1991)
• January 19 – Pat Patterson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2020)
• January 20
  • Clift Tsuji, American politician (d. 2016)
  • Allan Young, English footballer (d. 2009)
• January 21
  • Plácido Domingo, Spanish opera singer, conductor and arts administrator
  • Richie Havens, African-American musician (d. 2013)
  • Ivan Putski, Polish-American professional wrestler and bodybuilder
• January 22 – Rintaro, Japanese anime director
• January 24
  • Neil Diamond, American singer, songwriter
  • Aaron Neville, African-American singer
  • Dan Shechtman, Israeli chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• January 27
  • Bobby Hutcherson, African-American jazz musician (d. 2016)
  • Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer (d. 1981)
• January 28 – Fernando Serena, Spanish footballer (d. 2018)
• January 29 – Robin Morgan, Poet, author, political theorist, activist, journalist, lecturer, and editor
• January 30
  • Gregory Benford, American author and astrophysicist
  • Delbert Mann, American television, film director (d. 2007)
  • Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
  • Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
• January 31
  • Dick Gephardt, American politician
  • Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African farmer, pro-apartheid activist (d. 2010)
  • Jessica Walter, American actress (d. 2021)

February

Nick Nolte

Sérgio Mendes

Kim Jong-il

Paddy Ashdown

• February 1
  • Karl Dall, German comedian, singer and television presenter
  • Jerry Spinelli, American author
• February 3
  • Dory Funk Jr., American professional wrestler
  • Howard Phillips, American politician (d. 2013)
• February 4
  • Laisenia Qarase, Fijian politician (d. 2020)
  • John Steel, English drummer
• February 5
  • Stephen J. Cannell, American director, producer (d. 2010)
  • Henson Cargill, American country music singer (d. 2007)
  • David Selby, American actor
  • Barrett Strong, American Motown singer-songwriter (d. 2023)
  • Kaspar Villiger, Swiss politician
  • Cory Wells, American rock singer (Three Dog Night) (d. 2015)
• February 6 – Stephen Albert, American composer (d. 1992)
• February 8
  • Nick Nolte, American actor
  • Jagjit Singh, Indian singer, composer and musician (d. 2011)
• February 9 — Kermit Gosnell, American abortionist and serial killer^[31]
• February 10 – Michael Apted, British film director (d. 2021)
• February 11
  • Sergio Mendes, Brazilian jazz musician
  • Sonny Landham, American actor (d. 2017)
• February 12
  • Hubert Marcoux, Canadian solo sailor and author (d. 2009)
  • Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer (d. 1984)
• February 13
  • Sigmar Polke, German painter
  • Bo Svenson, Swedish-American actor
• February 15 – Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress and model
• February 16 – Kim Jong Il, Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (d. 2011)
• February 18 – Irma Thomas, African-American singer
• February 19 – David Gross, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• February 20 – Buffy Sainte-Marie, America singer^[32]
• February 22
  • Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic (2000-2004)
  • Yau Leung, Hong Kong photographer (d. 1997)
• February 27 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician, diplomat (d. 2018)

March

Mike Love

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bruno Ganz

Richard Dawkins

• March 4
  • Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman, reality TV star (d. 2018)
  • Adrian Lyne, English film director
• March 7 – Andrei Mironov, Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor (d. 1987)
• March 9 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (d. 1976)
• March 10 – George P. Smith, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 12 – Erkki Salmenhaara, Finnish composer (d. 2002)
• March 13 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and author (d. 2008)
• March 14 – Wolfgang Petersen, German film director (d. 2022)
• March 15 – Mike Love, American musician (Beach Boys)
• March 16
  • Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director (d. 2018)
  • Robert Guéï, military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
  • Chuck Woolery, American game show host
• March 17 – Paul Kantner, American rock guitarist (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2016)
• March 18 – Wilson Pickett, African-American singer (d. 2006)
• March 20 – Kenji Kimihara, Japanese long-distance runner
• March 21 – Dirk Frimout, Belgian cosmonaut and astrophysicist
• March 22 – Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (d. 2019)
• March 23 – Jim Trelease, American educator, author
• March 26 – Richard Dawkins, British scientist
• March 27
  • Ivan Gašparovič, 3rd President of Slovakia
  • Bunny Sigler, American singer, songwriter and record producer (d. 2017)
• March 28
  • Alf Clausen, American composer
  • Philip Fang, Hong Kong simultaneous interpretation specialist, United Nations official (d. 2013)
  • Jim Turner, American football player
  • Rolf Zacher, German actor (d. 2018)
  • Jaime Pardo Leal, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician (d. 1987)
• March 29 – Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 30
  • Graeme Edge, British rock drummer, songwriter (The Moody Blues) (d. 2021)
  • Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
• March 31 – Rosario Green, Mexican economist, diplomat and politician (d. 2017)

April

Eric Braeden

Michael D. Higgins

Ryan O'Neal

Ann-Margret

Karl Barry Sharpless

• April 2 – Dr. Demento (Barret Eugene Hansen), American radio disc jockey, novelty music collector
• April 3
  • Jan Berry, American singer (Jan & Dean) (d. 2004)
  • Eric Braeden, German-born American actor
  • Jorma Hynninen, Finnish baritone
  • Philippé Wynne, American musician (d. 1984)
• April 5
  • Michael Moriarty, American-Canadian actor
  • Dave Swarbrick, English folk musician (d. 2016)
• April 6 – Phil Austin, American comedian (The Firesign Theater) (d. 2015)
• April 7
  • Mussum, Brazilian actor and musician (d. 1994)
  • Cornelia Frances, British-born Australian actress (d. 2018)
  • Gorden Kaye, British actor ('Allo 'Allo!) (d. 2017)
  • ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, 15th Prime Minister of Tonga (d. 2019)
• April 8 – Peggy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
• April 9 – Kay Adams, American country singer
• April 10
  • John Kurila, Scottish footballer (d. 2018)
  • Paul Theroux, American travel writer and novelist
• April 11
  • Frederick Hauck, American astronaut
  • Shirley Stelfox, English actress (d. 2015)
• April 12 – Bobby Moore, English football player, World Cup winning captain (d. 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 19
  • Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter
  • Jürgen Kocka, German historian
• April 20 – Ryan O'Neal, American actor (Love Story) (d. 2023)
• April 21 – Eduardo Guedes, U.S., Portuguese film-maker (d. 2000)
• April 22 – Amir Pnueli, Israeli computer scientist (d. 2009)
• April 23
  • Arie den Hartog, Dutch road bicycle racer (d. 2018)
  • Paavo Lipponen, 59th Prime Minister of Finland
  • Ed Stewart, British disc jockey (d. 2016)
  • Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (d. 2016)
• April 24
  • Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (d. 2010)
  • John Williams, Australian guitarist
• April 25
  • Princess Muna al-Hussein, Princess consort of Jordan
  • Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter, actor and producer
• April 26 – Claudine Auger, French actress (d. 2019)
• April 28
  • Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
  • Ann-Margret, Swedish-born American actress, singer and dancer
  • Karl Barry Sharpless, American chemist, double Nobel Prize laureate
  • Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet (d. 2013)

May

Eric Burdon

Goh Chok Tong

Bob Dylan

Vladimir Voronin

William Nordhaus

• May 3
  • Paul Ferris, English film composer, actor (d. 1995)
  • Kornel Morawiecki, Polish politician and theoretical physicist (d. 2019)
• May 5
  • Anatoly Levchenko, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1988)
  • Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (d. 2004)
• May 6
  • Peter Corrigan, Australian architect (d. 2016)
  • Ivica Osim, Bosnian football player, manager
• May 8
  • James Mitchum, American actor
  • Yuri Voronov, Abkhazian politician, academic (murdered) (d. 1995)
• May 9 – Howard Komives, American professional basketball player (d. 2009)
• May 10
  • Taurean Blacque, American television and stage actor (d. 2022)
  • Chris Denning, English radio presenter and convicted sex offender (d. 2022)^[33]
  • Aydın Güven Gürkan, Turkish academic, politician (d. 2006)
• May 11 – Eric Burdon, British singer
• May 13
  • Senta Berger, Austrian actress
  • Ritchie Valens, American singer (La Bamba) (d. 1959)
• May 14 – Jesús Gómez, Mexican equestrian (d. 2017)
• May 16
  • Aldrich Ames, American CIA analyst and KGB agent
  • Eric Berntson, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
• May 18 – Miriam Margolyes, British-Australian actress
• May 19
  • Peter C. Bjarkman, American baseball historian, author (d. 2018)
  • Bobby Burgess, American dancer, singer
  • Nora Ephron, American film producer, director, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• May 20 – Goh Chok Tong, 2nd Prime Minister of Singapore
• May 21 – Bobby Cox, American baseball manager
• May 22 – Menzies Campbell, British politician
• May 23
  • K. Raghavendra Rao, Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and choreographer
  • Rod Thorn, American basketball player, coach, and executive
• May 24
  • Andrés García, Dominican-Mexican actor
  • Bob Dylan, American poet, musician and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
• May 25 – Rudolf Adler, Czech filmmaker
  • Vladimir Voronin, 3rd President of Moldova
• May 26 – John Kaufman, British sculptor
• May 27
  • Ira Berlin, American historian (d. 2018)
  • Teppo Hauta-aho, Finnish double bassist, composer
• May 29 – Doug Scott, English mountaineer
• 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

George Pell

Václav Klaus

Liz Mohn

Eduardo Suplicy

Charles Whitman

Stokely Carmichael

Otto Sander

• June 1
  • Wayne Kemp, American country music singer (d. 2015)
  • Jigjidiin Mönkhbat, Mongolian wrestler (d. 2018)
  • Alexander V. Zakharov, Soviet and Russian astronomer
• June 2
  • Renée Auphan, Franco-Swiss singer and director of opera
  • Stacy Keach, American actor
  • Charlie Watts, English musician (d. 2021)
• June 5
  • Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
  • Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter (d. 2004)
  • Robert Kraft, American businessman
• June 6 – Alexander Cockburn, Irish-American political journalist and writer (d. 2012)
• June 7
  • Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
  • Jaime Laredo, Bolivian-American violinist and conductor
• June 8
  • Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician (murdered in 1981)
  • Fuzzy Haskins, American musician
  • George Pell, Australian cardinal (d. 2023)
• June 9 – Jon Lord, English composer, pianist and organist (d. 2012)
• June 10
  • Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
  • Aida Vedishcheva, Soviet and Russian singer
• June 12
  • Marv Albert, American sports announcer
  • Chick Corea, American jazz pianist (d. 2021)
  • Reg Presley, English musician (d. 2013)
• June 13 – Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
• June 14
  • Roy Harper, English guitarist
  • John Edgar Wideman, African-American novelist, author and professor
• June 15
  • Neal Adams, American comic book artist
  • Harry Nilsson, American musician (d. 1994)
• June 17 – Roberta Maxwell, Canadian actress
• June 19
  • Gilberto Benetton, Italian billionaire businessman (d. 2018)
  • Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
  • Václav Klaus, 2nd President of the Czech Republic
• June 20
  • Ulf Merbold, German astronaut and physicist
  • Albert Shesternyov, Soviet footballer (d. 1994)
• June 21
  • Mitty Collier, American church pastor and gospel (previously 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)
  • Liz Mohn, German businesswoman in management of media conglomerate Bertelsmann, widow of Reinhard Mohn
  • Totto Osvold, Norwegian radio entertainer
  • Jimmy Rayl, American basketball player (d. 2019)
  • Eduardo Suplicy, Brazilian left-wing politician, economist and professor
  • Valeri Zolotukhin, Soviet and Russian actor (d. 2013)
• June 22
  • Ed Bradley, African-American journalist (60 Minutes) (d. 2006)
  • Howard Kindig, American football player
  • Michael Lerner, American actor (d. 2023)
  • Terttu Savola, Finnish politician
• June 23
  • Robert Hunter, American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator and poet (d. 2019)
  • Madampu Kunjukuttan, Malayalam author (d. 2021)
  • Tsai Hsun-hsiung, Taiwanese politician
• June 24
  • Erkin Koray, Turkish musician
  • Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, feminist and novelist
  • Nelson López, Argentine football defender
  • Graham McKenzie, Australian cricketer
  • Bill Reardon, American politician, educator
  • Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (d. 1966)
• June 25
  • Denys Arcand, French-Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer
  • Miles Feinstein, American criminal law defense attorney, legal commentator
  • Eddie Large, British comedian (d. 2020)
  • Kenneth Walker, Australian cricketer
• June 26
  • Gil Garrido, Panamanian baseball player
  • Nick Macarchuk, American basketball head coach
  • Tamara Moskvina, Russian competitive skater and pair skating 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
  • James P. Hogan, British author (d. 2010)
  • Mike Honda, American politician and educator
  • Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
  • Pavel Schenk, Czech 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 (d. 2006)
  • David Johnston, 28th Governor General of Canada
  • Barbara Stolz, German gymnast
• June 29
  • Chieko Baisho, Japanese actress, singer
  • John Boccabella, American baseball player
  • David A. Bramlett, United States Army four-star general
  • Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture), Trinidadian-American civil rights activist (d. 1998)
  • Margitta Gummel, German Olympic gold medalist
  • Larry Stahl, American baseball player
• June 30
  • Cyril Atanassoff, French-born Bulgarian ballet dancer
  • Roberto Castrillo, Cuban sports shooter
  • Mike Leander, English arranger, songwriter and record producer (d. 1996)
  • Otto Sander, German actor (d. 2013)
  • Nigel Walley, English golfer, tea-chest bass player

July

Epeli Nailatikau

Bill Oddie

Robert Forster

Lonnie Mack

Neelie Kroes

Diogo Freitas do Amaral

George Clinton

Sergio Mattarella

Darlene Love

Peter Cullen

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 (d. 2015)
  • Zimani Kadzamira, Malawian academic, civil servant and diplomat
  • Jaakko Kailajärvi, Finnish weightlifter
  • Ursula Koch, Swiss politician
  • Denis Michael Rohan, Australian citizen who, on August 21, 1969, set fire to the pulpit of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem (d. 1995)
  • Nicolae Saramandu, Romanian linguist and philologist^[34]
  • Myron Scholes, Canadian-American financial economist
  • Twyla Tharp, American dancer, choreographer and author
• July 2
  • Mogens Frey, Danish amateur cyclist
  • Chris Noel, American actress
  • Stéphane Venne, French-Canadian songwriter, composer
• July 3
  • Gloria Allred, American lawyer
  • Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Indian film director, screenwriter and producer
  • Hertha Haase, German swimmer
  • Liamine Zéroual, 4th President of Algeria
• July 4
  • Jay Carty, American basketball player (d. 2017)
  • Sergio Oliva, Cuban bodybuilder (d. 2012)
  • Digger Phelps, American former college basketball coach
• July 5
  • Lynley Dodd, New Zealand writer and illustrator
  • Peggy Miley, American actress, writer
  • Epeli Nailatikau, Fijian chief, 4th President of Fiji
• July 6
  • John DeCamp, American politician (d. 2017)
  • 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, Welsh politician
  • Bill Oddie, English writer, composer, musician and comedian
  • John Fru Ndi, Cameroonian politician (d. 2023)
  • Jim Rodford, English musician (d. 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
  • Takehide Nakatani Japanese lightweight judoka
• 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 (d. 2005)
  • Rosa Morena, Spanish flamenco-pop singer and actress (d. 2019)
• 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 (d. 2007)
• July 13
  • Affonso Beato, Brazilian cinematographer
  • Robert Forster, American actor (d. 2019)
  • Zoila Martínez, Dominican lawyer, prosecutor and diplomat
  • Jacques Perrin, French actor and filmmaker (d. 2022)
• 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
  • Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and songwriter (d. 2006)
  • 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 (d. 2020)
  • 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 (d. 2016)
  • Martha Reeves, African-American singer
  • Duncan Worsley, British cricketer
• July 19
  • Carlos Alberto Álvarez, Argentine cyclist
  • Natalia Bessmertnova, Russian ballerina (d. 2008)
  • Vikki Carr, American singer
  • Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician
  • Vittorio Di Prima, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2016)
• July 20
  • Vladimir Lyakhov, Ukrainian-Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2018)
  • Frank Natterer, German mathematician
  • Vladimir Veber, Moldovan footballer
• July 21
  • Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Portuguese politician, 110th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 2019)
  • Ron Corry, Australian football (soccer) player, coach
  • Gary Waslewski, American baseball player
• July 22 – George Clinton, African-American musician
• July 23
  • Pierre Agostini, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Sergio Mattarella, Italian lawyer, judge and politician, 12th President of Italy
• July 25
  • Margarita Isabel, Mexican actress (d. 2017)
  • Nate Thurmond, African-American basketball player (d. 2016)
  • Emmett Till, African-American civil rights icon (d. 1955)
• July 26 – Darlene Love, African-American singer, actress
• July 28
  • Peter Cullen, Canadian voice actor
  • Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
• July 30 – Paul Anka, Canadian-American singer, songwriter

August

Martha Stewart

David Crosby

Ibrahim Babangida

Slobodan Milošević

• August 2 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
• August 3
  • Martha Stewart, American television personality, media entrepreneur
  • Hage Geingob, 1st Prime Minister of Namibia, 3rd President of Namibia
• August 4
  • Martin Jarvis, English actor and voice actor
  • Ted Strickland, American politician
• August 5 – Gil Garcetti, American politician
• August 6 – Lyle Berman, American poker player
• August 8
  • Earl Boen, American actor and voice actor (d. 2023)
  • George Tiller, American physician (d. 2009)
  • Anri Jergenia, 4th Prime Minister of Abkhazia (d. 2020)
• August 9 – Shirlee Busbee, American novelist
• August 12 – Deborah Walley, American actress (d. 2001)
• August 14
  • Aïcha Chenna, Moroccan women's rights activist (d. 2022)
  • David Crosby, American musician (Crosby, Stills and Nash) (d. 2023)^[35]
  • Connie Smith, American singer
• August 16
  • Théoneste Bagosora, Rwandan army officer, alleged planner of the Rwandan genocide (d. 2021)
  • David Dickinson, British antiques expert, television presenter
• August 17
  • Ibrahim Babangida, President of Nigeria
  • Lothar Bisky, German politician (d. 2013)
  • Fritz Wepper, German actor
• August 20 – Slobodan Milošević, 3rd President of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Serbia (d. 2006)
• August 21
  • Howard Lew Lewis, English comedian, actor (d. 2018)
  • Jackie DeShannon, American singer, songwriter ("What the World Needs Now")
• August 26
  • Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
  • Ayşe Kulin, Turkish writer
• August 27
  • Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (d. 2011)
  • Yury Malyshev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1999)
• August 28 – A. I. Katsina-Alu, Nigerian judge (d. 2018)
• August 29 – Robin Leach, English television personality (d. 2018)

September

John Thompson

Bernie Sanders

Otis Redding

Ahmet Necdet Sezer

Linda McCartney

• September 2
  • Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league player (d. 2018)
  • Jyrki Otila, Finnish quiz show judge, Member of the European Parliament (d. 2003)
  • John Thompson, American basketball coach (d. 2020)
• September 3 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian short-story writer, novelist (d. 1990)
• September 4 – Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
• September 8
  • Ito Giani, Italian sprinter (d. 2018)
  • Bernie Sanders, American politician, U.S. Senator (D-Vt.), and 2016 presidential candidate
  • Christopher Connelly, American actor (d. 1988)
• September 9
  • Otis Redding, African-American singer, musician (Dock of the Bay) (d. 1967)
  • Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, creator of the C programming language (d. 2011)
• September 10
  • Christopher Hogwood, English conductor, harpsichordist (d. 2014)
  • Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese computer game producer (d. 1997)
• September 13
  • Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
  • Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 10th President of Turkey
• September 14 – Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician (d. 2020)
• September 15
  • Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (d. 2016)
  • Etelka Barsi-Pataky, Hungarian politician (d. 2018)
• September 17 – Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from California (d. 2005)
• September 18 – Priscilla Mitchell, American country music singer (d. 2014)
• September 19 – Cass Elliot, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 1974)
• September 20 – Dale Chihuly, American glass sculptor
• September 21 – R. James Woolsey Jr., American lawyer and diplomat
• September 23 – George Jackson, American author (d. 1971)
• September 24
  • Jesús Mosterín, Spanish philosopher (d. 2017)
  • Guy Hovis, American singer
  • Linda McCartney, American activist, musician and photographer (d. 1998)
• September 26 – Martine Beswick, British actress, model
• September 27
  • Gay Kayler Ashcroft, Australian country music singer
  • Sam Zell, American publisher, investor (d. 2023)
• September 28 – Edmund Stoiber, German politician
• September 29 – Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995)
• September 30 – Angela Pleasence, British actress

October

Chubby Checker

Eduardo Duhalde

Jesse Jackson

Paul Simon

Helen Reddy

• October 1 – Vyacheslav Vedenin, Soviet cross-country skier
• October 3
  • Chubby Checker, American singer (The Twist)
  • Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca, Romanian historian and philologist (d. 2017)^[36]
• October 4
  • Mighty Shadow, Trinidadian calypsonian (d. 2018)
  • Roy Blount Jr., American writer, comedian
  • Elizabeth Eckford, African-American activist (Little Rock Nine)
  • Anne Rice, American writer (d. 2021)
• October 5 – Eduardo Duhalde, 50th President of Argentina
• October 8 – Jesse Jackson, African-American clergyman, civil rights activist and presidential candidate
• October 9 – Trent Lott, American politician and author
• October 10
  • Peter Coyote, American actor
  • Hanan Goldblatt, Israeli actor
  • Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer, television producer, and environmental activist (d. 1995)
• October 11 – Valerii Postoyanov, Soviet Olympic sport shooter (d. 2018)
• October 13 – Paul Simon, American singer, composer (Simon and Garfunkel)
• October 15
  • Rosie Douglas, 4th Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2000)
  • Joan Antoni Solans Huguet, Spanish urban planner (d. 2019)
• October 16 – Tim McCarver, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2023)
• October 17 – Earl Thomas Conley, American country music singer (d. 2019)
• October 19 – Peter Thornley, English professional wrestler best known for the ring character Kendo Nagasaki^[37]
• October 20 – Anneke Wills, British actress
• October 21 – Dickie Pride, British rock and roll singer (d. 1969)
• October 23 – Mel Winkler, American actor (d. 2020)
• October 24 – Frank Aendenboom, Belgian actor (d. 2018)
• October 25
  • Helen Reddy, Australian singer, actress (I Am Woman) (d. 2020)
  • Anne Tyler, American novelist
• October 27
  • Gerd Brantenberg, Norwegian feminist author, gay rights activist
  • Dick Trickle, American race car driver (d. 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

Tom Conti

Franco Nero

Pete Best

• November 1
  • Marina Baura, Spanish actress
  • Nigel Dempster, British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist (d. 2007)
  • Robert Foxworth, American actor
• November 2 – Bruce Welch, British guitarist and singer-songwriter
• November 2 – Arun Shourie, Indian author and economist
• November 5 – Art Garfunkel, American singer (Simon and Garfunkel)
• November 6
  • James Bowman, English countertenor (d. 2023)
  • Guy Clark, American folk singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
  • Doug Sahm, American Tex-Mex musician (d. 1999)
• November 7 – Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal
• November 9 – Tom Fogerty, American guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
• November 13 – Dack Rambo, American actor (d. 1994)
• November 17 – Tova Traesnaes, Norwegian-American cosmetician and businesswoman; wife of actor Ernest Borgnine
• November 18 – David Hemmings, English actor (d. 2003)
• November 19 – Dan Haggerty, American actor (Grizzly Adams) (d. 2016)
• November 20
  • Dr. John, American singer and songwriter (d. 2019)
  • Oliver Sipple, decorated US Marine, Vietnam War veteran (d. 1989)
• November 21 – İdil Biret, Turkish pianist
• November 22 – Tom Conti, Scottish actor
• November 23
  • Derek Mahon, Irish poet
  • Franco Nero, Italian actor
• November 24 – Pete Best, English drummer
• November 25
  • Ralph Haben, American politician, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
  • Percy Sledge, African-American singer (d. 2015)
  • Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani Sufi author, poet
• November 27
  • Tom Morga, American stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor.
  • Henry Carr, American Olympic athlete (d. 2015)
  • Aimé Jacquet, French football player, manager
  • Eddie Rabbitt, American country musician (d. 1998)
• November 28 – Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (d. 2015)
• November 29
  • Lothar Emmerich, German footballer (d. 2003)
  • Bill Freehan, American baseball player

December

Beau Bridges

Kyu Sakamoto

Lee Myung-bak

Maurice White

Sir Alex Ferguson

• December 1
  • Nigel Rodley, English international human rights lawyer (d. 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 (d. 1997)
  • Richard Speck, American mass murderer (d. 1991)
• December 8 – Geoff Hurst, English footballer
• December 9
  • Beau Bridges, American actor
  • Dan Hicks, American singer, songwriter (d. 2016)
• December 10
  • Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996)
  • Peter Sarstedt, English singer, songwriter (d. 2017)
  • Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer, actor ("Sukiyaki") (d. 1985)
• December 11
  • J. Frank Wilson, American singer (d. 1991)
  • Max Baucus, American politician and diplomat
• December 12 – Vitaly Solomin, Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• December 13 – John Davidson, American singer, actor
• December 16
  • Poldy Bird, Argentine writer (d. 2018)
  • Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (d. 1994)
• December 19
  • Lee Myung-bak, 17th President of the Republic of Korea
  • Maurice White, African-American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer (d. 2016)
• December 21
  • Lo Hoi-pang, Hong Kong-born Chinese actor
  • Jared Martin, American actor (d. 2017)
• December 23
  • Ron Bushy, American rock musician (d. 2021)
  • Tim Hardin, American folk musician (d. 1980)
  • Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan (d. 2021)
• December 24
  • Hans Eichel, German politician
  • Lex Hixon, American Sufi author, poet, and spiritual teacher (d. 1995)
• December 27
  • Miles Aiken, American basketball player and coach
  • Younoussi Touré, 4th prime minister of Mali (d. 2022)
• December 29 – Ray Thomas, English flautist, singer and songwriter (The Moody Blues) (d. 2018)
• December 30 – Mel Renfro, American football player
• December 31 – Sir Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager (Manchester United)

Deaths

January

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

James Joyce

• January 1 – József Konkolics, Hungarian Slovene writer (b. 1861)
• January 4 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859)
• January 5 – Amy Johnson, English aviator (aviation accident) (b. 1903)^[38]
• January 8
  • Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English soldier; founder of the Scouts (b. 1857)
  • Viktor Dankl von Krasnik, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1854)
• January 10
  • Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
  • Sir John Lavery, Anglo-Irish artist (b. 1856)
• January 11 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess champion (b. 1868)
• January 13 – James Joyce, Irish writer, poet (b. 1882)
• January 15 – Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi, Italian nobleman, general and politician (b. 1856)
• January 21 – Rudolf von Brudermann, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1851)
• January 24 – Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, British aristocrat (murder) (b. 1901)
• January 29 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek military officer, politician and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1871)

February

Frederick Banting

King Alfonso XIII of Spain

• February 2 – Harris Laning, American admiral (b. 1873)
• February 4 – George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, British politician and diplomat (b. 1879)
• February 5
  • Banjo Paterson, Australian poet and journalist (b. 1864)
  • Otto Strandman, 1st Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1875)
• February 7 – Giuseppe Tellera, Italian general (died of wounds) (b. 1882)
• February 9 – Aaron S. Watkins, American temperance movement leader (b. 1863)
• February 11 – Rudolf Hilferding, German economist, Minister of Finance (b. 1877)
• February 13 – Blind Boy Fuller, African-American blues musician (b. 1904)
• February 21 – Sir Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891)
• February 24 – Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German submarine commander (b. 1886)
• February 27 – William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
• February 28 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)

March

Gutzon Borglum

Virginia Woolf

• March 4 – Ludwig Quidde, German activist, politician and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• March 6 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (Mount Rushmore) (b. 1867)
• March 8 – Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876)
• March 14 – C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, English historian (b. 1887)^[39]
• March 15 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
• March 17 – Joachim Schepke, German submarine commander (killed in action) (b. 1912)
• March 18 – Alexander Pfänder, German philosopher (b. 1870)
• March 28
  • Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police commissioner (b. 1877)
  • Virginia Woolf, English novelist (suicide) (b. 1882)
• March 30 – Vasil Kutinchev, Bulgarian general (b. 1859)

June

Hans Berger

Lou Gehrig

Wilhelm II

Louis Chevrolet

• June 1
  • Hans Berger, German neurologist (b. 1873)
  • Jenny Dolly, American singer (b. 1892)
  • Sir Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-born British novelist (b. 1884)
• June 2 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (New York Yankees), MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1903)
• June 4 – Wilhelm II, last Emperor of Germany (b. 1859)^[40]
• June 6 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile builder, race car driver (b. 1878)
• June 11 – Daniel Carter Beard, American scouting pioneer (b. 1850)
• June 15 – Evelyn Underhill, English Christian mystic (b. 1875)
• June 21 – Elliott Dexter, American actor (b. 1870)
• June 25 – Luigi Capello, Italian general (b. 1859)
• June 28 – Richard Carle, American actor (b. 1871)
• June 29 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer and third Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)

July

Rudolf Ramek

• July 1 – Mikhail Kaganovich, Soviet politician (b. 1888)
• July 3 – Friedrich Akel, Estonian diplomat, politician (b. 1871)
• July 4 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
• July 10 – Jelly Roll Morton, African-American jazz musician, composer (b. 1890)
• July 11 – Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (b. 1851)
• July 15 – Walter Ruttmann, German director (b. 1887)
• July 20 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
• July 22 – Dmitry Pavlov, Soviet general (executed) (b. 1897)
• July 23 – José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian aviator (b. 1914)
• July 24 – Rudolf Ramek, 5th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1881)
• July 25 – Allan Forrest, American actor (b. 1885)
• July 26 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
• July 27
  • Homer Galpin, America politician and lawyer (b 1871)
  • Vladimir Klimovskikh, Soviet general (b. 1885)
• July 30
  • Hugo Celmiņš, Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1877)
  • Mickey Welch, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1859)

August

Rabindranath Tagore

Maximilian Kolbe

• August 1 –James Drake, Australian politician (b. 1850)
• August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• August 12 – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, British politician and colonial administrator, 22nd Viceroy of India, 13th Governor General of Canada (b. 1866)
• August 13 – J. Stuart Blackton, American film producer (b. 1875)
• August 14
  • Saint Maximilian Kolbe, German Roman Catholic priest (martyred in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1894)
  • Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• August 20 – John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, British politician, 8th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1874)
• August 30 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
• August 31 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Soviet Russian poet (suicide) (b. 1892)

September

Hans Spemann

• September 1 – Karl Parts, Estonian military commander (b. 1886)
• September 9 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
• September 11
  • Alipio Ponce, Peruvian police officer, Civil Guard hero (b. 1906)
  • Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian revolutionary, Russian Bolshevik and Soviet diplomat, journalist, physician and essayist (executed) (b. 1873)
  • Maria Spiridonova, Russian revolutionary, former leader of the Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries (executed) (b. 1884)
• September 18 – Fred Karno, English music hall impresario (b. 1866)
• September 20 – Mikhail Kirponos, Soviet general (b. 1892)

November

Chris Watson

Pedro Aguirre Cerda

• November 7 – Frank Pick, British transport administrator and patron of industrial design (b. 1878)
• November 10 – Carrie Derick, Canadian botanist and geneticist (b. 1862)
• November 16
  • Miina Härma, Estonian composer (b. 1864)
  • Sir Henry Wilson, British general (b. 1859)
• November 17 – Ernst Udet, German World War I fighter ace, Nazi Luftwaffe official (suicide) (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 22
  • Kurt Koffka, German psychologist (b. 1886)
  • Werner Mölders, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
• November 23 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator and public speaker (b. 1860)
• November 25 – Pedro Aguirre Cerda, President of Chile (b. 1879)
• November 26 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor, ceramist (b. 1861)
• November 27 – Sir Charles Briggs, British general (b. 1865)

December

Blessed Martyrs of Drina

• December 2 – Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Polish marshal (b. 1886)
• December 3 – Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (b. 1856)
• December 7 – Isaac C. Kidd, American admiral (killed in action) (b. 1884)
• December 8 – Izidor Kürschner, Hungarian football player and coach (b. 1885)^[41]
• December 9 – Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Austrian general, German field marshal (b. 1856)
• December 10 – Sir Tom Phillips, British admiral (killed in action) (b. 1888)^[42]
• December 11 – Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)
• December 15 – Blessed Martyrs of Drina, Croatian nuns
• December 25 – Blanche Bates, American stage actress (b. 1873)
• December 29 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (b. 1873)
• December 30 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist, architect (b. 1890)

Nobel Prizes

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

References

Further reading

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