List of Famous people who died in 1941

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Stephen
First Name Virginia
Last Name Woolf
Born on January 25, 1882
Died on March 28, 1941 (aged 59)

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

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Frederick Banting

First Name Frederick
Last Name Banting
Born on November 14, 1891
Died on February 21, 1941 (aged 49)

Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter, and Nobel laureate noted as the co-discoverer of insulin and its therapeutic potential.

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Amrita Sher-Gil

First Name Amrita
Born on January 30, 1913
Died on December 5, 1941 (aged 28)
Born in Hungary

Amrita Sher-Gil was a Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a "pioneer" in modern Indian art. Drawn to painting from an early age, Sher-Gil started getting formal lessons in the art, at the age of eight. She first gained recognition at the age of 19, for her oil painting titled Young Girls (1932).

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Rabindranath Tagore

First Name Rabindranath
Died on August 7, 1941
Born in India

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European as well as the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".

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Wilhelm II

First Name Wilhelm
Last Name II
Born on January 27, 1859
Died on June 4, 1941 (aged 82)
Born in Germany, Berlin

Wilhelm II, Anglicised as William II, was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, reigning from 15 June 1888 until his abdication on 9 November 1918. Despite strengthening Germany’s position as a great power by building a blue-water navy and promoting scientific innovation, his tactless public statements and reckless foreign policy greatly antagonized the international community and ultimately plunged his country into World War I. When the German war effort collapsed after a series of crushing defeats on the Western Front in 1918, he was forced to abdicate, thereby bringing an end to the Hohenzollern dynasty’s three-hundred-year rule.

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Lou Gehrig

First Name Lou
Last Name Gehrig
Born on June 19, 1903
Died on June 2, 1941 (aged 37)

Henry Louis Gehrig was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1923–1939). Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, which earned him his nickname "The Iron Horse". He was an All-Star seven consecutive times, a Triple Crown winner once, an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player twice, and a member of six World Series champion teams. He had a career .340 batting average, .632 slugging average, and a .447 on base average. He hit 493 home runs and had 1,995 runs batted in (RBI). He still has the highest ratio of runs scored plus runs batted in per 100 plate appearances (35.08) and per 100 games (156.7) among Hall of Fame players. In 1939, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number (4) retired by a team.

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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell
First Name Robert
Last Name Baden-Powell
Born on February 22, 1857
Died on January 8, 1941 (aged 83)

Lieutenant General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell,, was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement. Baden-Powell authored the first editions of the seminal work Scouting for Boys, which was an inspiration for the Scout Movement.

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Amy Johnson

First Name Amy
Last Name Johnson
Born on July 1, 1903
Died on January 5, 1941 (aged 37)

Amy Johnson was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.

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Maximilian Kolbe

Rajmund Kolbe
First Name Maximilian
Last Name Kolbe
Born on January 8, 1894
Died on August 14, 1941 (aged 47)

Maximilian Maria Kolbe, venerated as Saint Maximilian Kolbe, was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur-radio station (SP3RN), and founding or running several other organizations and publications.

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Bill Brown

William Walter Brown
First Name Bill
Last Name Brown
Born on July 19, 1855
Died on January 11, 1941 (aged 85)

William Walter Brown was an American pioneer rancher in central Oregon. He owned two large ranches between Burns and Prineville, Oregon. Together, his properties comprised one of the largest privately owned sheep and horse operations in the United States. He was known as the Horse King of the West and the Millionaire Horse King because over 10,000 horses carried his Horseshoe Bar brand. Brown was also a well-known philanthropist who gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to a wide range of religious and educational institutions.

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