Title: 1941 Content: == Events == * January 6 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. * January 10 – Lend-Lease is introduced into the United States Congress. * January 19 – British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea. * January 21 – World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya. * January 22 – World War II: British troops capture Tobruk from the Italians. * January 23 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the United States Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. * April 6 – World War II: The German army attacked Yugoslavia. * April 10 – Croatia declares itself independent of Yugoslavia. * June 22 - Nazi German invasion to the Soviet Union. The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union begins. * September 11 – Building of The Pentagon starts. * December 5 - Soviet counteroffensive near Moscow begins. * December 7 – The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Following this, the U.S. enters World War II. == Births == * January 3 – Van Dyke Parks, musician, composer * January 5 – Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese movie maker * January 5 – Grady Thomas, singer (P-Funk) * January 8 – Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989) * January 9 – Joan Baez, American singer * January 14 – Faye Dunaway, American actress * January 14 – Milan Kučan, Slovene politician, statesman * January 15 – Captain Beefheart, American singer (d. 2010) * January 18 – David Ruffin, singer (died 1991) * January 21 – Richie Havens, American musician (d. 2013) * January 21 – Plácido Domingo, Spanish opera singer * January 26 – Henry Jaglom, director * January 26 – Scott Glenn, actor * January 30 – Dick Cheney, former Vice President of the United States * January 31 - Eugene Terre'Blanche, South African far-right politician (d. 2010) * January 31 – Richard Gephardt, American politician * February 5 – Kaspar Villiger, former member of the Swiss Federal Council * February 8 – Nick Nolte, actor * February 10 – Michael Apted, director * February 11 – Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman * February 11 – Jeremy Mackenzie, general * February 13 – Sigmar Polke, German painter (d. 2010) * February 16 - Kim Jong- il, North Korean supreme commander. (died 2011) * February 17 – Julia McKenzie, actress * February 17 – Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006) * February 20 – Buffy Sainte-Marie, singer * February 27 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician * March 3 – Jutta Hoffmann, actress * March 4 – Adrian Lyne, director * March 6 – Willie Stargell, Baseball Hall of Famer (died 2001) * March 14 – Wolfgang Petersen, director, Das Boot * March 15 – Mike Love, musician ("The Beach Boys") * March 16 – Bernardo Bertolucci, movie director * March 18 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (d. 2006) * March 26 – Richard Dawkins, British scientist * March 30 – Wasim Sajjad, former President of Pakistan * April 6 – Hans W. Geissendörfer, German movie director * April 8 – Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer * April 14 – Pete Rose, American baseball player * April 18 - Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland * April 23 – Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland * April 24 - Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (d. 2010) * May 13 – Ritchie Valens, singer (died 1959) * May 13 – Senta Berger, actress * May 15 – K.T. Oslin, country musician * May 19 – Nora Ephron, American screenwriter (d. 2012) * May 24 – Bob Dylan, American poet and musician * June 5 – Martha Argerich, Argentinian pianist * June 5 – Spalding Gray, actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (died 2004) * June 9 - Jon Lord, British musician (Deep Purple) (d. 2012) * June 15 - Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1994) * June 27 – Krzysztof Kieslowski, movie director * July 14 – Maulana Karenga, writer and activist * August 14 - David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and musician (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) * August 22 – Bill Parcells, NFL coach * September 8 - Bernie Sanders, American politician * September 9 – Otis Redding, musician (died 1967) * September 9 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (d. 2011) * September 19 – Cass Elliott, singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (died 1974) * September 28 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician * October 4 – Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer * October 5 – Eduardo Duhalde former President of Argentina * October 8 - Jesse Jackson, American pastor and civil rights leader * October 13 – Paul Simon, American musician (Simon & Garfunkel) * November 5 - Art Garfunkel, American musician (Simon & Garfunkel) * November 7 - Angelo Scola, Italian archbishop and cardinal * November 29 – Bill Freehan, baseball player * December 18 - His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester * December 23 - Nigel Anthony, English actor * December 31 - Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager == Deaths == * January 5 – Amy Johnson, aviator * January 8 – Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scouting * January 10 – Joe Penner, comedian, actor * January 13 – James Joyce, writer * February 11 – Rudolf Hilferding, German economist, Minister of Finance * February 28 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain * March 6 – Gutzon Borglum, sculptor * March 8 – Sherwood Anderson, writer * March 15 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian impressionist painter * March 28 – Virginia Woolf, writer * June 2 – Lou Gehrig, baseball legend (born 1903) * June 6 – Louis Chevrolet, automobile builder * July 10 – Jelly Roll Morton – jazz musician & composer (b. 1890) * July 11 – Arthur Evans, archaeologist * July 26 – Henri Lebesgue, mathematician * August 31 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (suicide) * August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, writer * September 13 – Elias Disney, American farmer and father of Walt Disney. * November 18 – Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia * December 3 – Christian Sinding, composer == Nobel Prizes == * Physics – not awarded * Chemistry – not awarded * Medicine – not awarded * Literature – not awarded * Peace – not awarded == Movies released == * Citizen Kane