1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1941st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 941st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1940s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1941 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1941
MCMXLI
Ab urbe condita2694
Armenian calendar1390
ԹՎ ՌՅՂ
Assyrian calendar6691
Baháʼí calendar97–98
Balinese saka calendar1862–1863
Bengali calendar1348
Berber calendar2891
British Regnal yearGeo. 6 – 6 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2485
Burmese calendar1303
Byzantine calendar7449–7450
Chinese calendar庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
4638 or 4431
    — to —
辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
4639 or 4432
Coptic calendar1657–1658
Discordian calendar3107
Ethiopian calendar1933–1934
Hebrew calendar5701–5702
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1997–1998
 - Shaka Samvat1862–1863
 - Kali Yuga5041–5042
Holocene calendar11941
Igbo calendar941–942
Iranian calendar1319–1320
Islamic calendar1359–1360
Japanese calendarShōwa 16
(昭和16年)
Javanese calendar1871–1872
Juche calendar30
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4274
Minguo calendarROC 30
民國30年
Nanakshahi calendar473
Thai solar calendar2484
Tibetan calendar阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
2067 or 1686 or 914
    — to —
阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
2068 or 1687 or 915

The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million each.[1]

Events

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Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

January

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February

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March

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April

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Ansel Adams photograph of the Hoover Dam in 1941.

June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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USS Arizona ablaze after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Date unknown

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Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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Abdiqasim Salad Hassan
 
Hayao Miyazaki
 
Joan Baez
 
Faye Dunaway
 
Plácido Domingo
 
Neil Diamond
 
Aaron Neville
 
Dick Cheney

February

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Nick Nolte
 
Sérgio Mendes
 
Kim Jong-il
 
Paddy Ashdown

March

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Mike Love
 
Bernardo Bertolucci
 
Bruno Ganz
 
Richard Dawkins

April

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Eric Braeden
 
Michael D. Higgins
 
Ryan O'Neal
 
Ann-Margret
 
Karl Barry Sharpless
 
Eric Burdon
 
Goh Chok Tong
 
Bob Dylan
 
Vladimir Voronin
 
William Nordhaus

June

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Stacy Keach
 
Charlie Watts
 
George Pell
 
Václav Klaus
 
Liz Mohn
 
Eduardo Suplicy
 
Charles Whitman
 
Otto Sander

July

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Epeli Nailatikau
 
Bill Oddie
 
Robert Forster
 
Lonnie Mack
 
Neelie Kroes
 
Diogo Freitas do Amaral
 
George Clinton
 
Sergio Mattarella
 
Darlene Love
 
Peter Cullen
 
Paul Anka

August

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Martha Stewart
 
David Crosby
 
Ibrahim Babangida
 
Slobodan Milošević

September

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John Thompson
 
Bernie Sanders
 
Otis Redding
 
Ahmet Necdet Sezer
 
Linda McCartney

October

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Chubby Checker
 
Eduardo Duhalde
 
Jesse Jackson
 
Paul Simon
 
Helen Reddy

November

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Art Garfunkel
 
Tom Conti
 
Franco Nero
 
Pete Best

December

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Beau Bridges
 
Kyu Sakamoto
 
Lee Myung-bak
 
Maurice White
 
Sir Alex Ferguson

Deaths

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January

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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
 
James Joyce

February

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Frederick Banting
 
King Alfonso XIII of Spain

March

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Gutzon Borglum
 
Virginia Woolf

April

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June

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Hans Berger
 
Lou Gehrig
 
Wilhelm II
 
Louis Chevrolet

July

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Rudolf Ramek

August

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Rabindranath Tagore
 
Maximilian Kolbe

September

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Hans Spemann

October

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November

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Chris Watson
 
Pedro Aguirre Cerda

December

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Blessed Martyrs of Drina

Nobel Prizes

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Further reading

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  • William K. Klingaman. 1941: Our Lives in a World on the Edge (1988) world perspective based on primary sources by a scholar.