About the day » Monday December 1, 1941Calender converter

• Hendrikus Johannes Andreas Zuidberg, Zwollerkerspel († 2000)
• Adrianus Dominicus Scholte, Ede († 1941)
• Gerard Saraber, Malang († 1970)
• Alexander Wilhelmus Cornelissen, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1989)
• Anna Nuis, Nieuwolda († 1986)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Hasenpflug, Neviges, Mettmann, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 1994)
• Bernardina Geertruida Johanna Janssen, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland († 1952)
• Corrine WILLIAMS, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, United States of America († 2014)
• Bernardus Johannes Xaverius Wanink († 1941)
• Bart Saunders Chesebro, Stonington, New London County, CT († 1947)

• Anna de Waard (94), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Beene Brouwer (70), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Barend Jan van Herpe (81), Meppel
• Anne Jochums (Huike) Vrijburg (78), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Anna Jansson (42), Schiedam
• Bastiaan aan de Wiel (58), Schiedam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Verheezen (67), Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Jansson (42), Schiedam, Nederland
• Alberdina Jacoba de Fockert (56), Pella, Marion County, Iowa
• Anthonia Dijkers (78), Woerden

• 1938 » Sandy Nelson, American rock and roll drummer
• 1939 » Lee Trevino, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1940 » Jerry Lawson, American electronic engineer and inventor († 2011)
• 1940 » Mike Denness, Scottish-English cricketer and referee († 2013)
• 1940 » Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter († 2005)
• 1940 » Tasso Wild, German footballer
• 1942 » John Crowley, American author and academic
• 1942 » Mohamed Kamel Amr, Egyptian politician, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1942 » Ross Edwards, Australian cricketer
• 1943 » Kenny Moore, American runner and journalist

• 1923 » Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1928 » José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
• 1933 » Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
• 1934 » Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (b. 1886)
• 1935 » Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (b. 1875)
• 1947 » G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Ernest John Moeran, English pianist and composer (b. 1894)
• 1954 » Fred Rose, American pianist, composer, and publisher (b. 1898)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
• April 15 » In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
• June 14 » June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
• July 13 » World War II: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
• October 30 » Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
• November 25 » HMSBarham is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II.
• December 10 » World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMSPrince of Wales and HMSRepulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya.

The temperature on December 1, 1941 was between -2.9 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.