page_title: 1941
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1941 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Somali president Abdiqasim salad Hassan
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: January 1
  Asrani, Indian actor and director
  Dardo Cabo, Argentine journalist, activist (d. 1977)
  Martin Evans, British biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
  Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, Somali politician, 5th President of Somalia
  January 3 – Shima Iwashita, Japanese actress
  January 4
  Maureen Reagan, American political activist (d. 2001)
  John Bennett Perry, American actor, singer and former model
  January 5
  Harvey Hall, American businessman, politician (d. 2018)
  Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (d. 1986)
  Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film director, screenwriter
  Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer (d. 2011)
  January 7
  Iona Brown, British violinist, conductor (d. 2004)
  Frederick D. Gregory, African-American astronaut
  John E. Walker, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  January 8
  Graham Chapman, British comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus) (d. 1989)
  Boris Vallejo, Peruvian painter
  January 9
  Joan Baez, American singer, songwriter and activist
  Reza Sheikholeslami, Professor of Persian Studies (d. 2018)
  January 10 – José Greci, Italian actress (d. 2017)
  January 11
  Dave Edwards, American musician (d. 2000)
  Gérson, Brazilian footballer
  Pak Seung-zin, North Korean footballer (d. 2011)
  Jimmy Velvit, American singer/songwriter
  January 12 – Long John Baldry, English singer (d. 2005)
  January 13 – Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician
  January 14
  Faye Dunaway, American actress
  Milan Kučan, Slovenian politician, 1st President of Slovenia
  January 15 – Captain Beefheart, American singer (d. 2010)
  January 17 – Mircea Snegur, 1st President of Moldova
  January 18
  Bobby Goldsboro, American pop and country singer-songwriter
  David Ruffin, African-American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)
  January 19 – Pat Patterson, Canadian professional wrestler
  January 20
  Clift Tsuji, American politician (d. 2016)
  Allan Young, English footballer (d. 2009)
  January 21
  Plácido Domingo, Spanish opera singer, conductor and arts administrator
  Richie Havens, African-American musician (d. 2013)
  Ivan Putski, Polish-American professional wrestler and bodybuilder
  January 22 – Rintaro, Japanese anime director
  January 24
  Neil Diamond, American singer, songwriter
  Aaron Neville, African-American singer
  Dan Shechtman, Israeli chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  January 27
  Bobby Hutcherson, African-American jazz musician (d. 2016)
  Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer (d. 1981)
  January 28 – Fernando Serena, Spanish footballer (d. 2018)
  January 29 – Robin Morgan, Poet, author, political theorist, activist, journalist, lecturer, and editor
  January 30
  Gregory Benford, American author and astrophysicist
  Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States, 17th US Secretary of Defense
  Delbert Mann, American television, film director (d. 2007)
  Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
  January 31
  Dick Gephardt, American politician
  Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African farmer, pro-apartheid activist (d. in 2010)
  Jessica Walter, American actress
caption: Abdiqasim Salad Hassan
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