Who Was Alive in 1941
165 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1941
Nikola TeslaAge 85
George Bernard ShawAge 85
Max PlanckAge 83
Rabindranath TagoreAge 80
David HilbertAge 79
Henry FordAge 78
Edvard MunchAge 78
H.G. WellsAge 75
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 74
Mahatma GandhiAge 72
Henri MatisseAge 72
Orville WrightAge 70
Bertrand RussellAge 69
Winston ChurchillAge 67
Carl JungAge 66
Albert SchweitzerAge 66
Thomas MannAge 66
Lise MeitnerAge 63
Joseph StalinAge 63
Albert EinsteinAge 62
Helen KellerAge 61
Pablo PicassoAge 60
Alexander FlemingAge 60
Virginia WoolfAge 59
James JoyceAge 59
Igor StravinskyAge 59
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 59
Coco ChanelAge 58
Benito MussoliniAge 58
John Maynard KeynesAge 58
Eleanor RooseveltAge 57
Harry S. TrumanAge 57
Niels BohrAge 56
Diego RiveraAge 55
Erwin SchrödingerAge 54
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 54
Chiang Kai-shekAge 54
Le CorbusierAge 54
T. S. EliotAge 53
Charlie ChaplinAge 52
Jawaharlal NehruAge 52
Adolf HitlerAge 52
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 52
Ho Chi MinhAge 51
Agatha ChristieAge 51
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 51
Charles de GaulleAge 51
Haile SelassieAge 49
J.R.R. TolkienAge 49
Mao ZedongAge 48
Aldous HuxleyAge 47
Nikita KhrushchevAge 47
Babe RuthAge 46
Buster KeatonAge 46
Golda MeirAge 43
C. S. LewisAge 43
Duke EllingtonAge 42
Ernest HemingwayAge 42
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 42
Alfred HitchcockAge 42
Humphrey BogartAge 42
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAge 41
Werner HeisenbergAge 40
Louis ArmstrongAge 40
Walt DisneyAge 40
Enrico FermiAge 40
HirohitoAge 40
Marlene DietrichAge 40
George OrwellAge 38
Bob HopeAge 38
Robert OppenheimerAge 37
Salvador DalíAge 37
Pablo NerudaAge 37
Jean-Paul SartreAge 36
Hannah ArendtAge 35
Frida KahloAge 34
Rachel CarsonAge 34
Simone de BeauvoirAge 33
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 33
Kwame NkrumahAge 32
Dorothy HodgkinAge 31
Mother TeresaAge 31
Akira KurosawaAge 31
Jacques CousteauAge 31
Ronald ReaganAge 30
Naguib MahfouzAge 30
Alan TuringAge 29
Jackson PollockAge 29
Rosa ParksAge 28
Jesse OwensAge 28
Richard NixonAge 28
Albert CamusAge 28
Gerald FordAge 28
Hedy LamarrAge 27
Orson WellesAge 26
Frank SinatraAge 26
Billie HolidayAge 26
Ingrid BergmanAge 26
Roald DahlAge 25
John F. KennedyAge 24
Ella FitzgeraldAge 24
Indira GandhiAge 24
Ingmar BergmanAge 23
Nelson MandelaAge 23
Richard FeynmanAge 23
Eva PerónAge 22
Edmund HillaryAge 22
Jackie RobinsonAge 22
Rosalind FranklinAge 21
Pope John Paul IIAge 21
Toshiro MifuneAge 21
Stan LeeAge 19
Marlon BrandoAge 17
James BaldwinAge 17
Jimmy CarterAge 17
George H. W. BushAge 17
Patrice LumumbaAge 16
Margaret ThatcherAge 16
B.B. KingAge 16
Malcolm XAge 16
Marilyn MonroeAge 15
Fidel CastroAge 15
Elizabeth IIAge 15
Gabriel García MárquezAge 14
Pope Benedict XVIAge 14
James WatsonAge 13
Andy WarholAge 13
Stanley KubrickAge 13
Maya AngelouAge 13
Che GuevaraAge 13
Vera RubinAge 13
Noam ChomskyAge 13
Anne FrankAge 12
Martin Luther King Jr.Age 12
Audrey HepburnAge 12
Grace KellyAge 12
Chinua AchebeAge 11
Neil ArmstrongAge 11
Ray CharlesAge 11
Tu YouyouAge 11
James DeanAge 10
Desmond TutuAge 10
Toni MorrisonAge 10
Mikhail GorbachevAge 10
Johnny CashAge 9
Elizabeth TaylorAge 9
Sylvia PlathAge 9
Yoko OnoAge 8
Wole SoyinkaAge 7
Yuri GagarinAge 7
Carl SaganAge 7
Jane GoodallAge 7
Dalai LamaAge 6
Elvis PresleyAge 6
Woody AllenAge 6
Pope FrancisAge 5
Jack NicholsonAge 4
Saddam HusseinAge 4
Kofi AnnanAge 3
Francis Ford CoppolaAge 2
PeléAge 1
Bruce LeeAge 1
John LennonAge 1
Wangari MaathaiAge 1
Bob DylanAge 0
Born in 1941
Also Born in 1941
American politician and activist (born 1941)
Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011
British evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
President of Italy since 2015
Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
Japanese animator and artist (born 1941)
Yugoslav and Serbian politician (1941–2006)
American contemporary folk musician (born 1941)
American computer scientist known for Unix (1941–2011)
Turkish scholar, theologian and dissident (1941–2024)
Italian filmmaker (1941–2018)
President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013
Died in 1941
Rabindranath Tagore
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
James Joyce
Ulysses, literary revolutionary
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway, modernist pioneer
Also Died in 1941
French philosopher (1859–1941)
German Emperor from 1888 to 1918
British soldier and founder of The Scout Association (1857–1941)
Russian poet (1892–1941)
German chess player (1868–1941)
German physical chemist (1864–1941)
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891–1941)
French chemist (1854–1941)
American astronomer (1863–1941)
American writer (1876–1941)
Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist (1854–1941)
Hungarian-Indian painter (1913–1941)
Notable World Events in 1941
Sources
- 1941 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
- Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
- George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
- Max Planck — Wikipedia
- Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
- David Hilbert — Wikipedia
- Henry Ford — Wikipedia
- Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
- H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
- Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
- Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
- Wright brothers — Wikipedia
- Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
- Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
- Carl Jung — Wikipedia
- Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
- Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
- Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
- Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
- Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
- Helen Keller — Wikipedia
- Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
- Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
- Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
- James Joyce — Wikipedia
- Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
- Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
- John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
- Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
- Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
- Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
- Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
- Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
- Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
- Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
- T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
- Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
- Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
- Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
- Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
- Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
- Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
- Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
- Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
- J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
- Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
- Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
- Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
- Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
- Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
- Golda Meir — Wikipedia
- C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
- Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
- Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
- Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
- Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
- Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Wikipedia
- Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
- Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Walt Disney — Wikipedia
- Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
- Hirohito — Wikipedia
- Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
- George Orwell — Wikipedia
- Bob Hope — Wikipedia
- J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
- Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
- Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
- Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
- Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
- Frida Kahlo — Wikipedia
- Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
- Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
- Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
- Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
- Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
- Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
- Akira Kurosawa — Wikipedia
- Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
- Ronald Reagan — Wikipedia
- Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
- Alan Turing — Wikipedia
- Jackson Pollock — Wikipedia
- Rosa Parks — Wikipedia
- Jesse Owens — Wikipedia
- Richard Nixon — Wikipedia
- Albert Camus — Wikipedia
- Gerald Ford — Wikipedia
- Hedy Lamarr — Wikipedia
- Orson Welles — Wikipedia
- Frank Sinatra — Wikipedia
- Billie Holiday — Wikipedia
- Ingrid Bergman — Wikipedia
- Roald Dahl — Wikipedia
- John F. Kennedy — Wikipedia
- Ella Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Indira Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Ingmar Bergman — Wikipedia
- Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
- Richard Feynman — Wikipedia
- Eva Perón — Wikipedia
- Edmund Hillary — Wikipedia
- Jackie Robinson — Wikipedia
- Rosalind Franklin — Wikipedia
- Pope John Paul II — Wikipedia
- Toshiro Mifune — Wikipedia
- Stan Lee — Wikipedia
- Marlon Brando — Wikipedia
- James Baldwin — Wikipedia
- Jimmy Carter — Wikipedia
- George H. W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Patrice Lumumba — Wikipedia
- Margaret Thatcher — Wikipedia
- B. B. King — Wikipedia
- Malcolm X — Wikipedia
- Marilyn Monroe — Wikipedia
- Fidel Castro — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth II — Wikipedia
- Gabriel García Márquez — Wikipedia
- Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
- James Watson — Wikipedia
- Andy Warhol — Wikipedia
- Stanley Kubrick — Wikipedia
- Maya Angelou — Wikipedia
- Che Guevara — Wikipedia
- Vera Rubin — Wikipedia
- Noam Chomsky — Wikipedia
- Anne Frank — Wikipedia
- Martin Luther King Jr. — Wikipedia
- Audrey Hepburn — Wikipedia
- Grace Kelly — Wikipedia
- Chinua Achebe — Wikipedia
- Neil Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Ray Charles — Wikipedia
- Tu Youyou — Wikipedia
- James Dean — Wikipedia
- Desmond Tutu — Wikipedia
- Toni Morrison — Wikipedia
- Mikhail Gorbachev — Wikipedia
- Johnny Cash — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth Taylor — Wikipedia
- Sylvia Plath — Wikipedia
- Yoko Ono — Wikipedia
- Wole Soyinka — Wikipedia
- Yuri Gagarin — Wikipedia
- Carl Sagan — Wikipedia
- Jane Goodall — Wikipedia
- 14th Dalai Lama — Wikipedia
- Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
- Woody Allen — Wikipedia
- Pope Francis — Wikipedia
- Jack Nicholson — Wikipedia
- Saddam Hussein — Wikipedia
- Kofi Annan — Wikipedia
- Francis Ford Coppola — Wikipedia
- Pelé — Wikipedia
- Bruce Lee — Wikipedia
- John Lennon — Wikipedia
- Wangarĩ Maathai — Wikipedia
- Bob Dylan — Wikipedia