Famous Deaths for Year 1941

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

Deaths 1 - 150 of 179

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
Industrialist Andre Michelin (Apr 4th) 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 2nd - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
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
Jun 29th - Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in NY at 80
Jul 2nd - Mohammad Baqa Jilani, cricketer (Test for India), dies at 29
Jul 4th - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
Jul 5th - Oskar Fried, composer, dies at 69
Jul 8th - Philippe Gaubert, composer, dies at 62
Jul 8th - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
Jul 10th - Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, pioneer jazz pianist, dies in LA at 56
Jul 18th - Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer, dies at 80
Jul 20th - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
Jul 21st - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
Jul 26th - Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies
Jul 26th - Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb
Jul 27th - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
Jul 29th - James Stephenson, actor (Sea Hawk, River's End), dies at 52
Aug 2nd - Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70
Aug 7th - Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer, dies at 80
Aug 12th - Bobby Peel, cricketer (took 102 wickets for England), dies
Aug 14th - Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London
Aug 14th - Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b. 1894)
Aug 23rd - Jack O'Connor, cricketer (four Tests for Aust 1908-09, 13 wkts), dies
Aug 29th - Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40
Aug 29th - Jan L G "Yvan" Doornik, Dutch resist fighter in France, executed at 36
Aug 30th - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
Aug 31st - Marian Zwetajewa, writer, dies
Aug 31st - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
Sep 1st - Benjamin Dwight, US tennis championship umpire, dies
Sep 6th - Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81
Sep 9th - Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist, dies at 85
Sep 29th - Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory), dies at 79
Oct 3rd - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austria composer (Kuhreigen), dies at 84
Oct 5th - Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84
Oct 9th - Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
Oct 13th - GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies
Oct 17th - John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies
Oct 18th - Dirk Fock, governor-general van/of Neth-Indies 1921-6, dies at 83
Oct 18th - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
Oct 20th - Ken Farnes (WWII) 15 Tests for England, cricketer (60 wickets), dies
Oct 26th - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
Oct 29th - Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
Oct 31st - Herwarth Walden, writer, dies at 63
Nov 1st - Camille Melloy, [the Paepe], Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50
Nov 5th - Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905)
Nov 6th - Maurice Leblanc, French novelist (b. 1864)
Nov 7th - Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46
Nov 8th - Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
Nov 12th - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, NY gangster/police informer, killed
Nov 17th - Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide
Nov 18th - Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77
Nov 18th - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)