Timeline August 1941

Events in August 1941 13

• 1861 – 1941 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Died 7 August 1941, aged 80 Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, composer and philosopher, and in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
• 1892 – 1941 Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) Died 31 August 1941, aged 48 Marina Tsvetaeva was one of the major Russian poets of the twentieth century. After returning from emigration she was isolated and destitute, and she took her own life in Yelabuga after being evacuated there.
• 1894 – 1941 Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941) Died 14 August 1941, aged 47 Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger condemned to starvation at Auschwitz. He was killed by lethal injection and canonised in 1982.
• 1941 Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Louisiana Maneuvers His planning in the largest US army exercise to date wins him promotion and a post in the War Department.
• 1941 Muddy Waters recorded by Alan Lomax Library of Congress Folklorist Alan Lomax records him at Stovall — hearing himself convinces him to go professional.
• 1941 US Championships 1941 Men: Bobby Riggs · Women: Sarah Palfrey Cooke
• 1941 – 2024 Hage Geingob (1941-2024) Died 4 February 2024, aged 82 Namibian politician who was president from 2014 until his death and had earlier served twice as prime minister.
• 1941 Atlantic Charter issued Roosevelt and Churchill set out shared war aims After meeting aboard warships in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, Roosevelt and Churchill issued a joint declaration of principles for the postwar world. Its commitments to self-determination and collective security later shaped the founding of the United Nations.
• 1941 – 2006 Slobodan Milošević (1941-2006) Died 11 March 2006, aged 64 Slobodan Milošević, former President of Serbia and Yugoslavia, died of a heart attack in his cell at the UN detention center in The Hague. He was on trial for genocide and war crimes committed during the Yugoslav wars when he died, and the tribunal proceedings were formally terminated. No verdict was ever reached.
• 1941 Battle of Kiev The largest encirclement in military history German armies encircled the Soviet Southwestern Front east of Kyiv, and the city fell on 19 September. More than 600,000 Soviet soldiers were taken prisoner.
• 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran Britain and the USSR secure Iran's oil and supply routes British and Soviet forces invaded Iran to secure its oilfields and a supply corridor to the Soviet Union. Reza Shah abdicated on 16 September in favour of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
• 1941 – 2011 Cesaria Evora (1941-2011) Died 17 December 2011, aged 70 The Cape Verdean singer, known as the "Barefoot Diva," brought morna music to international audiences and won a Grammy Award in 2004. She died in her hometown of Mindelo after years of declining health. She remains Cape Verde's best-known cultural export.
• 1941 Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre First mass killing of over 20,000 Jews German police battalions and Einsatzgruppen shot about 23,600 Jews near Kamianets-Podilskyi in occupied Ukraine, many of them deported from Hungary. It was the first Holocaust massacre to pass 20,000 victims.