In the year 1941, U.S. President F.D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a third term (Jan 20), plutonium is discovered (Feb 23), Citizen Kane premieres in New York City (May 1), the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer is presented in Berlin (May 12), Operation Barbarossa begins (Jun 22), Finland as a co-belligerent with Germany attacks the Soviet Union to start the Continuation War (Jun 25), the world’s first TV commercial is aired on NBC (Jul 1), the requirement to wear the Star of David is extended to all Jews over the age of six in German-occupied areas (Sep 6), construction of The Pentagon begins (Sep 12), last day of carving on Mount Rushmore (Oct 31), Japanese aircraft attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii (Dec 7), Thailand and Japan sign a military alliance (Dec 21), the World War II and the Holocaust continue - and all these fine people were born:

1941-0101 Wenzel Hagelstam* antique dealer/television host - Helsinki, Finland 1941-0102 Kazuyoshi Akiyama* 秋山 和慶 conductor - Tokyo, Japan (2025/84) 1941-0105 1941-0107 Joanne Pierce Misko* nun/ FBI agent - Niagara Falls, NY USA (2024/83) 1941-0114 Faye Dunaway* actress - Bascom, FL USA 1941-0115 Placido Domingo* singer - Madrid, Spain 1941-0120 1941-0122 Jaan Kaplinski* poet/ philosopher/politician - Tartu, Estonia, Soviet Union (2021/80) 1941-0124 Neil Diamond* singer-songwriter/musician - Brooklyn, NY USA 1941-0126 Scott Glenn* actor - Pittsburgh, PA USA 1941-0130 Dick Cheney* politician/businessman - Lincoln, NE USA 1941-0131 Jessica Walter* actress - New York City, NY USA (2021/80) 1941-0203 Antoine Duquesne* politician - Ixelles, Belgium (2010/69) 1941-0203 Carol Mann* golf player - Buffalo, NY USA 1941-0205 Stephen J. Cannell* writer/novelist/producer - Los Angeles, CA USA (2010/69) 1941-0208 Nick Nolte* actor - Omaha, NE USA 1941-0208 Elena Santiago* writer - Veguellina de Órbigo, Spain (2021/79) 1941-0210 Michael Apted* director/ producer/writer - Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England (2021/79) 1941-0212 Ritva Vepsä* actress - Helsinki, Finland (2016/75) 1941-0213 Bo Svenson* Swedish–American actor/director/ producer - Gothenburg, Sweden 1941-0218 Mati Nuude* weightlifter/singer - Tallinn, Estonia (2001/60) 1941-0226 Tupuna Vaissi* children’s book writer/dramaturg - Turku, Finland (2012/71) 1941-0227 Charlotte Stewart* actress - Yuba City, CA USA 1941-0227 Colin Stubs* tennis player/promoter - Melbourne, Australia (2022/81) 1941-0301 1941-0302 John Cornell* journalist/ producer/businessman - Kalgoorlie, WA Australia (2021/80) 1941-0303 Jutta Hoffmann* actress - Halle an der Saale, Nazi Germany 1941-0304 Richard Harrison* businessman/reality television personality - Danville, VA USA (2018/77) 1941-0304 Matti Kuosku* Finnish-Swedish runner/cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Pelkosenniemi, Finland (2012/71) 1941-0304 Adrian Lyne* film director/writer/producer - Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England 1941-0306 Peter Brötzmann* jazz saxophonist/clarinetist - Remscheid, Nazi Germany (2023/82) 1941-0307 John C. Malone* billionaire businessman/landowner/philanthropist - Milford, CT USA 1941-0307 Andrei Mironov* actor - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (1987/46) 1941-0310 George Smith * biochemist/N - Norwalk, CT USA 1941-0312 Erkki Salmenhaara* composer/musicologist - Helsinki, Finland (2002/61) 1941-0312 Tapani Valtasaari* opera singer - Helsinki, Finland (2004/63) 1941-0314 Wolfgang Petersen* film director/ screenwriter - Emden, Lower Saxony, Nazi Germany (2022/81) 1941-0315 Esko Alhava* surgeon/professor - Lahti, Finland (2016/75) 1941-0315 Franz Josef Altenburg* ceramicist/ sculptor - Kaiservilla, Bad Ischl, Austria (2021/80) 1941-0316 Bernardo Bertolucci* film director/ screenwriter - Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (2018/77) 1941-0316 Volodymyr Kozhukhar* conductor/academic teacher - Vinnytsia, Ukraine, Soviet Union (2022/81) 1941-0320 1941-0322 Bruno Ganz* actor - Zürich, Switzerland (2019/77) 1941-0323 Carola Liemola* (b Standertskjöld) singer - Helsinki, Finland (1997/56) 1941-0326 Richard Dawkins* ethologist/ evolutionary biologist/author - Nairobi, British Kenya 1941-0331 Faith Leech* swimmer/OGr - Bendigo, VIC Australia (2013/72) 1941-0401 1941-0402 Heinz Hermann Thiele* businessman - Mainz, Germany (2021/79) 1941-0403 Jorma Hynninen* opera singer - Leppävirta, Finland 1941-0405 Michael Moriarty* actor - Detroit, MI USA 1941-0411 Shirley Stelfox* actress (Emmerdale) - Dukinfield, Cheshire England (2015/74) 1941-0418 Maria Guarnaschelli* cookbook editor/publisher - Brookline, MA USA (2021/79) 1941-0418 Michael D. Higgins* broadcaster/politician/P - Limerick, Ireland 1941-0419 Michel Roux* chef/restaurateur - Charolles, France (2020/78) 1941-0420 Ryan O´Neal* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA 1941-0423 Paavo Lipponen* politician - Turtola (now Pello), Finland 1941-0425 1941-0428 Ann-Margret Olsson* Swedish-American actress/singer/ dancer/to U.S. at age 5 - Stockholm, Sweden 1941-0428 Karl Barry Sharpless* chemist/N - Philadelphia, PA USA 1941-0430 1941-0501 1941-0512 Hannu Hautala* nature photographer/writer - Töysä, Finland (2023/82) 1941-0513 Ritchie Valens* singer/songwriter/guitarist - Pacoima, CA USA (1959/17) 1941-0514 Ada den Haan* swimmer/EG - Eindhoven, Netherlands 1941-0519 James P. Hoffa* attorney/labor leader - Detroit, MI USA 1941-0519 Igor Judge* British lawyer/ judge - Malta 1941-0519 Tania Mallet* actress - Blackpool, Lancashire, England (2019/77) 1941-0523 Ristomatti Ratia* businessman/designer - Helsinki, Finland 1941-0524 Bob Dylan* singer/songwriter/author/N - Duluth, MN USA 1941-0529 Doug Scott* mountaineer - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England (2020/79) 1941-0531 David Braley* businessman/politician - Montreal, QC Canada (2020/79) 1941-0601 Richard Donat* actor - Kentville, NS Canada 1941-0602 Stacy Keach* actor/ narrator - Savannah, GA USA 1941-0602 Charlie Watts* drummer (Rolling Stones) - Bloomsbury, London England (2021/80) 1941-0605 Martha Argerich* concert pianist - Buenos Aires, Argentina 1941-0610 Jürgen Prochnow* actor - Berlin, Germany 1941-0612 Chick Corea* jazz pianist/composer - Chelsea, MA USA 1941-0619 Magnus Härenstam* television host/comedian - Västervik, Sweden (2015/73) 1941-0620 Dieter Mann* actor/ director/radio personality - Berlin, Nazi Germany (2022/80) 1941-0622 Michael Lerner* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA 1941-0623 Robert Hunter* lyricist/songwriter/translator - Arroyo Grance, CA USA (2019/78) 1941-0624 Charles Whitman* mass murderer - Lake Worth, FL USA (1966/25) 1941-0625 Jutta Brückner* film director/screenwriter/film producer - Düsseldorf, Nazi Germany 1941-0627 Leonardo Vitale* member of the Sicilian Mafia/informant - Palermo, Kingdom of Italy (1984/43) 1941-0630 1941-0701 Rod Gilbert* hockey player/ “Mr. Ranger”/restaurant owner - Montreal, QC Canada (2021/80) 1941-0702 1941-0705 Barbara Frischmuth* Austrian writer/poet/translator - Altaussee, Nazi Germany (2025/83) 1941-0707 Jim Rodford* musician - St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England (2018/76) 1941-0710 Erkki Kurenniemi* designer/ electronic music pioneer - Hämeenlinna, Finland (2017/75) 1941-0710 Kaarina Suonperä* (b Maaranen) journalist/educator in good manners - Helsinki, Finland (2022/81) 1941-0712 Juha Väätäinen* long-distance runner - Oulu, Finland 1941-0715 Larry Cohen* film director/producer - New York, NY USA 1941-0716 Dag Solstad* novelist/short-story writer/dramatist - Sandefjord, Reichskommissariat Norwegen (2025/83) 1941-0717 Jürgen Flimm*  theater and opera director/theater manager - Gießen, Hesse, Nazi Germany (2023/81) 1941-0717 Marina Oswald Porter* (b Prusakova) wife of Lee Harvey Oswald - Molotovsk, Russia, Soviet Union 1941-0718 Michael Erlewine* astrologer/musician/entrepreneur - Lancaster, PA USA 1941-0720 1941-0723 Sergio Mattarella* lawyer/ politician/P - Palermo, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy 1941-0729 David Warner* actor - Manchester, England (2022/80) 1941-0730 Paul Anka* singer/songwriter/ actor - Ottawa, ON Canada 1941-0730 Rosa Maria Sardá* actress/comedian - Barcelona, Spain (2020/78) 1941-0731 1941-0801 Krista Fanedl* Slovenian alpine skier - Maribor, Yugoslavia 1941-0803 Martha Stewart* businesswoman/ writer - Jersey City, NJ USA 1941-0807 Franco Columbu* bodybuilder/actor/ chiropractor - Ollolai, Sardinia, Italy (2019/78) 1941-0808 Tapani Ilkka* sports director - Jämsänkoski, Finland 1941-0809 Alfred Aho* computer scientist/of Finnish descent - Timmins, ON Canada 1941-0809 Volker Prechtel* actor - Füssen, Bavaria, Nazi Germany (1997/55) 1941-0814 David Crosby* singer/ songwriter/guitarist (Crosby, Stills & Nash) - Los Angeles, CA USA (2023/81) 1941-0817 Fritz Wepper* actor - Munich, Germany 1941-0820 Pirkko Lahti* psychologist/crisis manager - Kisko, Finland 1941-0820 Slobodan Milosevic* politician/P - Pozaverac, German-occupied Serbia (2006/64) 1941-0828 Tony Barry* actor/ activist - Ipswich, QLD Australia (2022/81) 1941-0829 Robin Leach* entertainment reporter/writer - London, England (2018/76) 1941-0831 1941-0901 1941-0905 1941-0908 Christopher Connelly* actor - Wichita, KS USA (1988/47) 1941-0908 Bernie Sanders* politician - New York, NY USA 1941-0910 Gunpei Yokoi* 横井 軍平 video game designer - Kyoto, Empire of Japan (1997/56) 1941-0913 Jan-Åke Edvinsson* ice hockey administrator  - Kristianstad, Sweden (2022/81) 1941-0915 Signe Toly Anderson* singer (Jefferson Airplane)  - Seattle, WA USA (2016/74) 1941-0915 Miroslaw Hermaszewski* Polish fighter plane pilot/cosmonaut - Lipniki, Reichskommissariat Ukraine (2022/81) 1941-0916 1941-0919 Gérard Corbiau* film director - Brussels, Belgium 1941-0919 Cass Elliot* singer/actress - Baltimore, MD USA (1974/32) 1941-0920 1941-0921 Núria Feliu* Catalan singer/actress - Barcelona, Spain (2022/80) 1941-0922 1941-0924 Linda McCartney* musician/ photographer/ activist - New York, NY USA (1998/56) 1941-0927 Joel Shapiro* sculptor - New York City, NY USA 1941-0929 Fred West* serial killer - Much Marcle, Herefordshire, England (1995/53) 1941-0930 1941-1001 1941-1003 Chubby Checker* (b Ernest Evans) singer/dancer - Spring Gully, SC USA 1941-1004 Anne Rice* author (The Vampire Chronicles) - New Orleans, LA USA (2021/80) 1941-1005 Stephanie Cole* actress - Solihull, Warwickshire, EngEngland 1941-1008 Jesse Jackson* civil rights activist/politician - Greenville, SC USA 1941-1010 Peter Coyote* actor - Manhattan, NY USA 1941-1013 Paul Simon* singer-songwriter (Simon&Garfunkel) - Newark, NJ USA 1941-1020 1941-1025 Helen Reddy* singer/actress/ activist - Melbourne, VIC Australia (2020/78) 1941-1025 Gordon Tootoosis* actor of Cree and Stoney descent/Cree activist/band chief - Poundmaker Reserve, SK Canada (2011/69) 1041-1030 1941-1101 Robert Foxworth* actor - Houston, TX USA 1941-1105 Art Garfunkel* singer (Simon&Garfunkel)/poet/teacher - Queens, NY USA 1941-1105 Pekka Soini* seaman/ biologist active in Peru/preservationist - Helsinki, Finland (2004/62) 1941-1107 David Blackwood* Canadian artist - Wesleyville, New Foundland (2022/80) 1941-1110 1941-1113 Eberhard Diepgen* mayor - Berlin, Germany 1941-1113 Joseph L. Galloway* newspaper correspondent/columnist - Bryan, TX USA (2021/79) 1941-1114 Tom Golisano* businessman/ philanthropist/m to Monica Seles - Rochester, NY USA 1941-1120 1941-1123 Franco Nero* actor - San Prospero, Parma, Italy 1941-1129 Bill Freehan* baseball player/coach/color commentator - Detroit, MI USA (2021/79) 1941-1209 Beau Bridges* actor - Hollywood, CA USA 1941-1210 Fionnula Flanagan* actress/political activist - Dublin, Ireland 1941-1215 Jorma Kinnunen* athlete (javelin)/world record holder in 1969 - Pihtipudas, Finland (2019/78) 1941-1216 Lesley Stahl* television journalist - Lynn, MA USA 1941-1220 Pamela Austin* actress - Omaha, NE USA 1941-1221 Jared Martin* actor - Philadelphia, PA USA 1941-1223 Lucien Szpiro* mathematician - Paris, France (2020/78) 1941-1229 Pentti Saaritsa* poet/translator - Helsinki, Finland 1941-1231 Sarah Miles* actress - Ingatestone, Essex, England 1941-0 1941-0 1941-0 Updated 2025-0411 Helsinki Search for another year here