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Carrie Matilda Derick
Canadian botanist and geneticist (1862-1941)
The last Jew in Vinnitsa
iconic photograph picturing the imminent execution of a Jewish man by a Nazi
Cecilio Báez
President of Paraguay (1862-1941)
Jin Shuren
Chinese politician (1879-1941)
Źmitrok Biadula
Jewish Belarusian poet, writer, political activist (1886–1941)
Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos
Greek general (1874–1941)
Herwarth Walden
German artist and art collector (1878-1941)
Kalle Jalkanen
Finnish cross-country skier (1907-1941)
Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith
British tennis player (1883–1941)
Simon Guggenheim
American businessman and politician (1867–1941)
Albert Charles Seward
British botanist (1863–1941)
Joachim Schepke
German World War II U-boat commander (1912-1941)
František Křižík
Czech engineer, entrepreneur and inventor (1847-1941)
Jakob Emanuel Lange
Danish mycologist (1864-1941)
Jnanadanandini Devi
Bengali writer
Nikolai Gastello
Hero of the Soviet Union
Yelizaveta Chaikina
WWII partisan leader and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1918–1941)
Fred Karno
British theatre manager (1866-1941)
August Cesarec
Croatian writer (1893–1941)
Franciszek Kleeberg
Polish general (1888–1941)
Giuseppe Amisani
Italian painter (1881-1941)
Yefim Fomin
Soviet political commissar (1909–1941)
Kazys Bizauskas
Lithuanian politician (1893-1941)
Menachem Ussishkin
Jewish politician (1863–1941)
Peggy Shannon
American actress (1907–1941)
John Lavery
Irish artist (1856-1941)
Leo Gestel
Dutch painter (1881-1941)
Ira Davenport
American track athlete, baseball player, American football player and coach (1887–1941)
Franz Bartl
Austrian handball player (1915-1941)
Masha Bruskina
Soviet Belarusian partisan
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist (1875-1941)
Hugo Celmiņš
Latvian politician (1877-1941)
Lev Dovator
Soviet major general (1903–1941)
Pavel Blonsky
Ukrainian psychologist (1884–1941)
Hamilton Harty
Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist
Ulrich Grauert
German World War II Luftwaffe general and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (1889–1941)
Wilhelm Leichum
Olympic jumper (1911–1941)
Wilhelm Carstens
German rower (1869-1941)
Drina Martyrs
Roman Catholic nuns and martyrs
Hans Scheele
Olympic athlete (1908–1941)
Aleksander Prystor
Prime Minister of Poland (1874-1941)
Karel Kašpar
Czech cardinal, lawyer and theologist (1870-1941)
Alexander Svanidze
Georgian soviet politician (1886–1941)
Karl Joseph Schulte
Catholic cardinal (1871–1941)
Princess Sophie of Luxembourg
Luxembourgian princess (1902–1941)
Hippolyte Delehaye
Belgian Jesuit and hagiography scholar (1859–1941)
Mustafa Shokay
Kazakhstani politician (1890–1941)
John Lander
British rower (1907-1941)
Mariya Androsova-Ionova
Russian folklorist, author and performer
José Leite de Vasconcelos
Portuguese ethnographer, archaeologist and author (1858–1941)
Antoni Łyko
Polish footballer (1907-1941)
Joachim Gottschalk
German actor (1904–1941)
Richard Carle
American actor and playwright (1871-1941)
Talaat Harb
Egyptian economist (1867-1941)
Frederick Moloney
American Olympic medalist (1882–1941)
Dmitry Lavrinenko
soviet tank commander (1914–1941)
Edu Snethlage
Dutch footballer (1886-1941)
Fritz-Julius Lemp
German World War II U-boat commander
Hélène Swarth
Dutch poet (1859–1941)
Filipp Makharadze
Georgian Soviet politician