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In the year 1941

1,415 Notable birthdays

Heather McKay

Australian squash player.

Born July 31st, 1941 (age 84 years) in Queanbeyan.

Stanley Cowell

American musician (1941–2020).

Born May 5th, 1941 in Toledo.

Died December 17th, 2020 at 79 years old in Dover. [ref]

George Smith

Nobel prize winning us chemist.

Born March 10th, 1941 (age 85 years) in Norwalk. [ref]

Wilfrid Napier

Roman catholic cardinal.

Born March 8th, 1941 (age 85 years) in Western Cape.

Holger Meins

German revolutionary (1941-1974).

Born October 26th, 1941 in Hamburg.

Died November 9th, 1974 at 33 years old in Wittlich (hunger strike).

David Johnston

Governor general of canada from 2010 to 2017.

Born June 28th, 1941 (age 84 years) in Greater Sudbury.

David Darling

American musician.

Born March 3rd, 1941 in Elkhart.

Died January 8th, 2021 at 79 years old in Goshen. [ref]

Tom Coster

American musician.

Born August 21st, 1941 (age 84 years) in Detroit.

Dai Qing

Chinese activist and journalist.

Born January 8th, 1941 (age 85 years) in Chongqing.

Dieter Mann

German actor (1941–2022).

Born June 20th, 1941 in Berlin.

Died February 3rd, 2022 at 80 years old in Berlin (Parkinson's disease). [ref]

Karl Dall

German comedian (1941–2020).

Born February 1st, 1941 in Emden.

Died November 23rd, 2020 at 79 years old in University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (stroke). [ref]

Temel Karamollaoğlu

Turkish statesperson (born 1941).

Born September 20th, 1941 (age 84 years) in Kahramanmaraş.

Tord Magnuson

Swedish businessman; husband of princess christina of sweden.

Born April 7th, 1941 (age 85 years) in Stockholm.

Philippe Honoré

French cartoonist.

Born November 25th, 1941 in Vichy.

Died January 7th, 2015 at 73 years old in 11th arrondissement of Paris.

Cristina Peri Rossi

Uruguayan writer (born 1941).

Born November 12th, 1941 (age 84 years) in Montevideo.

Nils Arne Eggen

Norwegian footballer and manager (1941–2022).

Born September 17th, 1941 in Orkdal Municipality.

Died January 19th, 2022 at 80 years old in Orkdal Municipality. [ref]

Yosef Shiloach

Israeli actor (1941–2011).

Born July 9th, 1941 in Iranian Kurdistan.

Died January 3rd, 2011 at 69 years old in Tel Aviv (cancer). [ref]

John Fru Ndi

Cameroonian politician (1941–2023).

Born July 7th, 1941 in Bamenda. [ref]

Died June 12th, 2023 at 81 years old in Yaoundé. [ref]

Amir Pnueli

Israeli computer scientist (1941–2009) researching temporal logic, model checking, and concurrent systems.

Born April 22nd, 1941 in Nahalal.

Died November 2nd, 2009 at 68 years old in New York City (cerebral hemorrhage). [ref]

Lothar Bisky

German politician (1941–2013).

Born August 17th, 1941 in Korzybie, Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Died August 13th, 2013 at 71 years old in Leipzig.

James Wong

Hong kong lyricist, composer, television presenter, writer and actor (1941–2004).

Born March 18th, 1941 in Kuang-chou.

Died November 24th, 2004 at 63 years old in Union Hospital (lung cancer).

Anita Lonsbrough

British swimmer, olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder.

Born August 10th, 1941 (age 84 years) in Huddersfield.

Hanne Darboven

German artist (1941-2009).

Born April 29th, 1941 in Munich.

Died March 9th, 2009 at 67 years old in Hamburg, Rönneburg. [ref]

Harald Nielsen

Danish footballer (1941-2015).

Born October 26th, 1941 in Frederikshavn.

Died August 11th, 2015 at 73 years old in Bologna (disease). [ref]

Marc Norman

Screenwriter.

Born February 10th, 1941 (age 85 years) in Los Angeles.

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