page_title: 1941
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1941 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Major-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1896. "The photograph was taken for Elliott and Fry by Francis Henry Hart in 1896 at the time of the Matabele Campaign. It was reissued at various times with different captions as Baden-Powell's fame grew. Baden Powell is decorated with an Ashanti Star ribbon."
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 – József Konkolics, Hungarian Slovene writer (b. 1861)
  January 4 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859)
  January 8
  Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English soldier; founder of the Scouts (b. 1857)
  Viktor Dankl von Krasnik, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1854)
  January 10
  Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
  Sir John Lavery, Anglo-Irish artist (b. 1856)
  January 11 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess champion (b. 1868)
  January 13 – James Joyce, Irish writer, poet (b. 1882)
  January 15 – Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi, Italian nobleman, general, and politician (b. 1856)
  January 21 – Rudolf von Brudermann, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1851)
  January 24 – Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, British aristocrat, murder victim (b. 1901)
  January 29 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek military officer, politician and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1871)
caption: Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
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