Today in History for Year 1941

Months in Year 1941: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 642

Jan 1st - Netherlands begins taxing wages
Jan 1st - Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff
Jan 2nd - World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
Jan 2nd - World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.
Jan 3rd - Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
Jan 3rd - Italian counter offensive in Albania
Jan 3rd - Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia
Jan 4th - Resistance fighters counter d'Estienne d'Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st meet
Jan 5th - British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia
Jan 6th - FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear)
Jan 8th - British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
Jan 9th - 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
Jan 9th - Maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane
Jan 10th - Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in NYC
Jan 10th - Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
Jan 10th - World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
Jan 11th - Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton
Jan 16th - US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
Jan 16th - War Dept forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
Jan 17th - Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-Shek open fire at communist forces, resuming the Chinese Civil War after World War II.
Jan 19th - British offensive in Eritrea
Jan 19th - British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan
Jan 20th - Bela Bartok's 6th string quartet, premieres in NYC
Jan 21st - 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
Jan 21st - 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX
Jan 21st - Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
Jan 21st - British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
Jan 22nd - 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
Jan 22nd - British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
Jan 23rd - Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center
Jan 23rd - WOR-AM in Newark NJ moves to NYC
Jan 24th - British troops march into Abyssinia
Jan 25th - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
Jan 27th - Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor
Jan 28th - French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
Jan 30th - Australian troops conquer Derna Libya
Jan 31st - 21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton)
Jan 31st - Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands
Jan 31st - Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
Jan 31st - Layforce set sail.
Feb 1st - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
Feb 1st - US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
Feb 3rd - Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages & max hrs
Feb 4th - British tanks occupy Maus Libya
Feb 4th - Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin
Feb 4th - United Service Organization (USO) founded
Feb 5th - Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
Feb 6th - Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19)
Feb 6th - Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed
Feb 6th - British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra Feb 7th - Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me"
Feb 8th - Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
Feb 8th - NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio
Feb 9th - British troops conquer El Agheila
Feb 9th - Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)
Feb 10th - 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA
Feb 10th - Anti-nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands
Feb 11th - 1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo)
Feb 11th - Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
Feb 11th - Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
Feb 12th - Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen
Feb 12th - Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
Feb 13th - Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council
Feb 14th - 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel
Feb 14th - Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
Feb 14th - Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
Feb 14th - German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
Feb 15th - Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
Feb 17th - Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
Feb 19th - Nazi police attacks & driven away from Koco Amsterdam (by young Jews)
Feb 19th - Nazi raid Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation
Feb 20th - 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
Feb 20th - Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
Feb 20th - Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
Feb 21st - Omar Bradley is promoted to the rank of brigadier general
Feb 22nd - Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
Feb 22nd - German assault on El Agheila Libya
Feb 22nd - IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Feb 22nd - Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam
Feb 22nd - Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres
Feb 22nd - Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres
Feb 23rd - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
Feb 24th - 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
Feb 24th - Anti nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
Feb 25th - Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
Feb 25th - February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
Feb 26th - 2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declares double KO
Feb 26th - Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)
Feb 26th - Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews
Feb 26th - Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
Feb 28th - 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month
Feb 28th - British-Italian dogfight above Albania
Mar 1st - "Captain America" appears in a comic book
Mar 1st - 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tenn
Mar 1st - Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner
Mar 1st - German troops invade Bulgaria
Mar 1st - Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp
Mar 2nd - World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
Mar 3rd - Neth NSB-leader Mussert visits Goering in Berlin
Mar 4th - 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 760

Jan 3rd - Shima Iwashita, actress (Red Lion, Hara-Kiri, Double Suicide)
Jan 3rd - Van Dyke Parks, Alabama, actor/musician (Bonino, Billy Crystal Hour)
Jan 4th - John Bennett Perry, Williamstown Mass, singer/actor (Falcon Crest)
Jan 4th - Maureen Reagan, 1st daughter (Ronald Reagan)
Jan 5th - Bob Cunis, cricketer (New Zealand pace bowler of the late 60's)
Jan 5th - Grady Thomas, US rock vocalist (Parliaments, Funkadelic, Maggot Brain)
Jan 5th - Mansur Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, Indian batsman & capt)
Jan 5th - Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
Jan 6th - Sandy Denny, country singer (Fairport Convention-If You Gotta Go)
Jan 7th - Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist
Jan 7th - Frederick Drew Gregory, Wash DC, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-B, 33, 44)
Jan 7th - Robert Hicks, rocker (Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
Jan 7th - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
Jan 7th - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Jan 8th - Graham Chapman, England, comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
Jan 8th - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
Jan 9th - Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
Jan 9th - Susannah York, London, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones)
Jan 9th - Gilles Vaillancourt, Quebec politician
Jan 11th - Gérson, Brazilian footballer
Jan 12th - Jaime B Fuster, (Rep-D-PR, 1985- )
Jan 12th - Long John Baldry, England, blues vocalist (Don't try to Lay No Boogie)
Jan 13th - Meinhard Nehmer, German DR, 2 man bobsledder (Olympic-gold-1976)
Jan 13th - Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician
Jan 14th - C L "Gibby" Gilbert Jr, Chattanooga TN, PGA golfer (1976 Danny Thomas)
Jan 14th - Marjoe Gortner, Long Beach Ca, actor (Speak Up America, Falcon Crest)
Actress Faye Dunaway (Jan 14th) Jan 14th - [Dorothy] Faye Dunaway, Bascom Fl, actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde)
Jan 14th - Milan Kučan, Slovenian statesman
Jan 15th - Captain Beefheart, [Don Van Vliet], rocker (Bongo Fury, Shiny Beast)
Jan 16th - Christine Janes, tennis player
Jan 16th - Richard Bohringer, Paris France, actor (Diva, I Married a Shadow)
Jan 17th - Dame Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist
Jan 18th - Bobby Goldsboro, Marianna Fla, singer (Honey)
Jan 18th - David Ruffin, Miss, vocalist (Temptations-Papa Was a Rolling Stone)
Jan 18th - Iva Zanicchi, actress (Ragazza Tutta d'Oro)
Jan 18th - Denise Bombardier, Quebec journalist, television host and novelist
Jan 19th - Tony Anholt, British actor (d. 2002)
Jan 19th - Colin Gunton, British theologian (d. 2003)
Jan 19th - Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler
Jan 20th - Pierre Lalonde, Quebec singer and television host
Jan 21st - Edwin Starr, [Charles Hatcher], US singer (War)
Jan 21st - Placido Domingo, Madrid Spain, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly)
Jan 21st - Richie Havens, Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun), (d. 2013)
Jan 21st - Stathis Giallelis, Greek actor
Jan 21st - Ivan Putski, Polish-born American professional wrestler
Jan 24th - Aaron Neville, US singer/keyboardist (Neville Brothers)
Jan 24th - Michael Chapman, Leeds England, rocker (Looking for 11)
Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond (Jan 24th) Jan 24th - Neil Diamond, Brooklyn NY, singer/actor (Jazz Singer)
Jan 25th - Elzie "Buddy" Baker, race-car driver
Jan 25th - Gregory Sierra, American actor
Jan 26th - Henry Jaglom, London England, actor (Eating, Lucky Ducks, Always)
Jan 26th - Scott Glenn, Pittsburgh, actor (Right Stuff, Personal Best, Backdraft)
Jan 28th - Joel Crothers, Cincinnati OH, actor (Edge of Night)
Jan 30th - Dick Cheney, Lincoln, Nebraska, 46th US Vice President
Jan 30th - Joe Terranoua, rocker (Danny & The Juniors)
Jan 30th - Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
Jan 30th - Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
Jan 31st - George S Mickelson, (Gov-SD)
Jan 31st - Richard A Gephardt, (Rep-D-MO, 1977- )
Jan 31st - Sharon Miller, LPGA golfer
Feb 1st - Anatoliy Firssov, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
Feb 1st - Franco Nones, Italy, 30K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1968)
46th US Vice-President Dick Cheney (Jan 30th) Feb 1st - Robert Walmsley, British Vice-Admiral
Feb 1st - Karl Dall, German television host
Feb 1st - Jerry Spinelli, children's author
Feb 2nd - Serge Alexandrovich Tcherepnin, composer
Feb 3rd - Angelo D'Aleo, Bronx, tenor (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
Feb 3rd - Bridget Hanley, Minneapolis Mn, actress (Here Come the Brides)
Feb 3rd - Carol Mann, Buffalo NY, golfer (LPGA Hall of Fame 1977, 1965 US Open)
Feb 3rd - Chuck Tharp, rock vocalist (Fireballs)
Feb 3rd - Gary Bartlett, cricket pace bowler (NZ in 10 Tests in the 1960's)
Feb 3rd - Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)
Feb 4th - John Steel, rock drummer (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
Feb 5th - Barrett Strong, Detroit, vocalist (Money, That's What I Want)
Feb 5th - David Selby, Morganstown WV, actor (Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road)
Feb 5th - Rick Laird, jazz musician (Gerry Niewood & Timepiece)
Feb 5th - Stephen J Cannell, producer (Rockford Files)
Feb 5th - Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist
Feb 5th - Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor
Feb 6th - Gigi Perreau, LA California, actress (Journey to Center of Time)
Feb 6th - Stephen Albert, composer
Feb 7th - Peter Foxhall, Australian evangelist
Feb 8th - Tom Rush, NH, rock guitarist/vocalist (Circle Game, Urge For Going)
Feb 9th - Sheila James Kuehl, politician/actress (Zelda-Dobie Gillis)
Feb 10th - John Hampshire, cricketer (of Yorkshire Century on debut for Eng 1969)
Feb 10th - Michael Apted, director/researcher (Granada TV)
Feb 11th - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman (Species, Mrs Soffel, Return of the Jedi)
Feb 11th - Jeremy Mackenzie, general
Feb 11th - Sergio Mendes, jazz/pop musician (Brazil '66/'77/'88)
Feb 12th - Naomi Uemura, mountain climber (1st Japanese to scale Everest)
Feb 12th - Ross Morgan, cricketer (NZ batsman in 20 Tests 1965-72)
Feb 13th - Bo Svenson, Goteborg Sweden, actor (North Dallas 40, Walking Tall)
Feb 13th - Andrea Conte, First Lady of Tennessee
Feb 13th - Sigmar Polke, German painter
Feb 14th - John Butterfill, MP
Feb 14th - Paul Tsongas, (Sen-D-Mass)
Feb 14th - Donna Shalala, American educator
Feb 15th - Brian Holland, US pianist/producer (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
Feb 15th - Dan Crompton, Nottinghamshire, Chief Constable
Feb 15th - Florinda Bolkan, Ceara Brazil, actress (Damned, Last Valley, Word)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

Jun 3rd - Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn
Aug 12th - "I Love Lucy" actress Vivan Vance (32) weds actor Philip Ober (39)
Sep 11th - Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels
Dec 6th - King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels
Dec 30th - Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 178

Jan 2nd - Mischa Levitzki, composer, dies at 42
Jan 4th - Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81
Jan 5th - Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
Jan 6th - Franz Hessel, writer, dies at 60
Jan 6th - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
Jan 8th - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement), dies at 83
Jan 9th - Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
Jan 10th - Frank Bridge, English violinist/composer (Sea), dies at 61
Jan 10th - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian, murdered at 67
Jan 10th - Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)
Jan 10th - Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)
Jan 11th - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
Jan 13th - James Joyce, novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zurich Switzerland, at 58
Jan 17th - Jose Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82
Jan 23rd - Dobri Khristov, composer, dies at 65
Jan 27th - Iver Paul Fredrik Holter, composer, dies at 90
Jan 29th - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek gen/dictator (1936-41), commits suicide at 69
Feb 2nd - Johannes Schlaf, writer, dies at 78
Feb 4th - Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian, dies at 79
Novelist & Poet James Joyce (Jan 13th) Feb 5th - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)
Feb 6th - Maximilien Luce, French painter, dies at 82
Feb 11th - Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Min of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63
Feb 19th - Alexander Josiah Webbe, English cricket keeper (v Aus 1879), dies
Feb 19th - Hamilton Hamilton Harty, composer/conductor, dies at 61
Feb 20th - La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894)
Feb 21st - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891)
Feb 24th - Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56
Feb 26th - Jan Keizer, Zaanse February striker, shot to death
Feb 27th - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
Feb 28th - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
Mar 3rd - Constant W L Scheurleer, archaeologist/banker/art expert, dies at 59
Mar 3rd - Ernst Cahn, owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed
Mar 4th - Edoardo Mascheroni, composer, dies at 81
Mar 5th - Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82
Mar 6th - Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore), dies at 73
Mar 6th - John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73
Mar 6th - Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed
Mar 7th - Arnold Schering, German musicologist, dies at 63
Mar 7th - Gunther Prien, German commandant (U-47), dies in battle
Mar 8th - Jose Serrano Simeon, composer, dies at 67
Mar 8th - Sherwood Anderson, US writer/publisher (Winesburg Ohio), dies at 64
Mar 9th - Carlos Pedrell, composer, dies at 62
Mar 11th - Walford Davies, British organist/composer, dies at 71
Mar 12th - Charles Sanford Skilton, composer, dies at 72
Mar 13th - A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
Mar 13th - Bernard Ijzerdraat, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
Mar 13th - E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
Mar 13th - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46
Mar 13th - J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
Mar 13th - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
Mar 15th - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
Mar 16th - John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Challenger), dies at 73
Mar 17th - Isaak E Babel, writer, dies at 46
Mar 17th - Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), executed at 46
Mar 17th - Joachim Schepke, German commandant (U-100), dies in battle
Mar 17th - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (b. 1895)
Mar 20th - D A van den Bosch, anti-nazi clergyman (Amersfoort Camp), dies
Mar 21st - Robert Liefmann, German economist (Kartelle und Trusts), dies at 67
Author Virginia Woolf (Mar 28th) Mar 28th - Virginia Woolf-Stephen [Adeline] , author (To Lighthouse), dies from suicide at 59
Mar 28th - Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
Apr 1st - Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian, dies at 81
Apr 2nd - Paul Teleki, premier Hungary, dies
Apr 3rd - Pal Teleki-von Szek, PM Hungary (1920-21, 39-41), suicide at 61
Apr 4th - Andre Michelin, French tire manufacturer, dies at 88
Apr 4th - Max Frisch, writer, dies at 29
Apr 5th - Sir Nigel Gresley, Steam locomotive engineer (b. 1876)
Apr 13th - Annie Jump Cannon, US astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues), dies at 77
Apr 14th - Jack Edmonson, Australian corporal in Tobruk (Victoria Cross), dies
Apr 14th - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (b. 1871)
Apr 16th - Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st baron/statisician, dies
Apr 17th - Al Bowlly, British dance band vocalist (b. 1899)
Apr 18th - ... Korysis, PM of Greece, commits suicide
Apr 19th - Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63
Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (Apr 13th) Apr 20th - Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer, dies in Buchenwald at 49
Apr 22nd - Arthur Briscoe, cricketer (South African batsman in 2 Tests), dies
Apr 26th - Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist/educationalist, dies at 74
Apr 27th - Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
May 1st - John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71
May 5th - Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)
May 7th - David Wijnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies
May 7th - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854)
May 8th - Heinrich Zollner, composer, dies at 86
May 23rd - Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies
May 23rd - Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 45
May 24th - Lancelot Holland, British vice-admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle
May 27th - AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76
May 30th - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
Jun 1st - Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain), dies
Jun 2nd - Lou Gehrig, 1st baseman (NY Yankee), dies of ALS in Riverdale NY at 37
Jun 4th - Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, emperor (Germany, 1888-1918), dies
Jun 6th - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
Jun 10th - Herschel Mayall, actor (Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 78
Jun 10th - Marcus Garvey, US black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52
Jun 11th - Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
Jun 14th - Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (John Knox), dies at 74
Jun 15th - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
Jun 15th - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
Jun 16th - Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies
Jun 17th - Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 78
Jun 20th - Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies