page_title: 1941
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1941 / Births / August
caption_attribution_description: English: Martha Stewart speaking at an event in Scottsdale, Arizona.
context_page_description: 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1941st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 941st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1940s decade.
context_section_description: August 2 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
  August 3
  Martha Stewart, American television personality, media entrepreneur
  Hage Geingob, 1st Prime Minister of Namibia, 3rd President of Namibia
  August 4
  Martin Jarvis, English actor and voice actor
  Ted Strickland, American politician
  August 5 – Gil Garcetti, American politician
  August 6 – Lyle Berman, American poker player
  August 8
  Earl Boen, American actor and voice actor
  George Tiller, American physician (d. 2009)
  Anri Jergenia, 4th Prime Minister of Abkhazia (d. 2020)
  August 9 – Shirlee Busbee, American novelist
  August 12 – Deborah Walley, American actress (d. 2001)
  August 14
  Lynne Cheney, Second Lady of the United States, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
  David Crosby, American musician (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
  Connie Smith, American singer
  August 16
  Théoneste Bagosora, Rwandan army officer, alleged planner of the Rwandan genocide
  David Dickinson, British antiques expert, television presenter
  August 17
  Ibrahim Babangida, President of Nigeria
  Lothar Bisky, German politician (d. 2013)
  Fritz Wepper, German actor
  August 20 – Slobodan Milošević, 3rd President of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Serbia (d. 2006)
  August 21
  Howard Lew Lewis, English comedian, actor (d. 2018)
  Jackie DeShannon, American singer, songwriter ("What the World Needs Now")
  August 26
  Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
  Ayşe Kulin, Turkish writer
  August 27
  Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (d. 2011)
  Yury Malyshev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1999)
  August 28 – A. I. Katsina-Alu, Nigerian judge (d. 2018)
  August 29 – Robin Leach, English television personality (d. 2018)
caption: Martha Stewart
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