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• Coby Schobben, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Cornelis Hendrikus Mooij, Alkmaar († 2010)
• Carolina Schipma, Leiden († 1942)
• Adriana Sofia Weiss, Essen Kray (Duitsland)
• Adrianus van Delft, Katwijk († 2017)
• Rijke, de, Spijkenisse Zhl. Nederland († 1941)
• Bernard Ralph WILTJER, Bellflower Los Angeles County California U.S.A († 1996)
• Gary Dannen, South Dakota († 2023)
• - van den Booren, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 1941)
• George Davidson Weeks († 2011)

• Alina Willemina Hendriksen (69), Dieren, Gemeente Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna van Schooten (57), Lisse
• Aart van Jelen (68)
• Anna C J van Beveren (72), Woensdrecht,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Allbert Boer (74), Assen (woonplaats Beilen)
• Arthur H. Pitz (58), Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States of America
• Anna Ludovica Calluy (73), Hoevenen
• Antony Johannes Akkermans (91), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Alida Henzen (50), Nijmegen
• Andreas Musolf (61), Frankfurt am Main

• 1939 » Cleavon Little, American actor and comedian († 1992)
• 1940 » Katerina Gogou, Greek writer and actress († 1993)
• 1940 » Kip Thorne, American physicist, astronomer, and academic
• 1940 » René Auberjonois, American actor († 2019)
• 1941 » Alexander V. Zakharov, Russian physicist and astronomer
• 1941 » Dean Chance, American baseball player and manager († 2015)
• 1941 » Toyo Ito, Japanese architect, designed the Torre Realia BCN and Hotel Porta Fira
• 1942 » Parveen Kumar, Pakistani-English physician and academic
• 1943 » Orietta Berti, Italian singer and actress
• 1943 » Richard Goode, American pianist

• 1934 » Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel and polo player (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Romanian-Hungarian general († 1857)
• 1938 » Ödön von Horváth, Croatian-French author and playwright (b. 1901)
• 1941 » Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic (b. 1873)
• 1941 » Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English author (b. 1884)
• 1943 » Leslie Howard, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1943 » Wilfrid Israel, English-German businessman and philanthropist (b. 1899)
• 1946 » Ion Antonescu, Romanian marshal and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
• 1948 » Alex Gard, Russian-American cartoonist (b. 1900)
• 1952 » John Dewey, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1859)

• 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.
• January 6 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
• May 9 » World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
• June 23 » The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
• July 5 » World War II: Operation Barbarossa: German troops reach the Dnieper river.
• July 16 » Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as an MLB record.
• September 20 » The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police murder 403 Jews in Nemenčinė.

The temperature on June 1, 1941 was between 6.5 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.