1941 in the United Kingdom

none April 2020 January 2013 1941 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1941 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1941 in British radio 1941 in British television 1941 in British music Events from the year 1941 in the United Kingdom. The year was dominated by the Second World War. Incumbents Monarch – George VI Prime Minister – Winston Churchill (Coalition) Events 9 January – Avro Manchester Mark III BT308, prototype of the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber, first flies, from RAF Ringway.Donald, David The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft New York Barnes & Noble Books 1997 0-7607-0592-5 82 19 January – British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea. 20 January – Firewatching mandatory for business premises, to limit incendiary damage. 21 January – the Daily Worker, newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, is suppressed by the (Labour) Home Secretary in the Churchill war ministry, Herbert Morrisonhttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/1941/jan/22/past.secondworldwar The Daily Worker Manchester Guardian 22 January 1941 (until September 1942) in view of its continuing pro-Soviet stance. 21–22 January – Battle of Tobruk: Australian and British forces attack and capture Tobruk (Libya) from the Italians. 31 January – German spy Josef Jakobs parachutes into the village of Ramsey, Cambridgeshire; he breaks his ankle on landing and is immediately arrested.Josef Jakobs Stephen's Study Room: British Military & Criminal History in the period 1900 to 1999 http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/josef_jakobs.htm 22 March 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20170202005747/http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/josef_jakobs.htm 2 February 2017 5 February – Air Training Corps formed.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 11 February – Queen Elizabeth begins her first voyage as a troopship, from Singapore. 12 February – Reserve Constable Albert Alexander, a patient at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, becomes the first person treated with penicillin intravenously, by Howard Florey’s team. He reacts positively but there is insufficient supply of the drug to reverse his terminal infection. A successful treatment is achieved during May.Patrick Robertson The Shell Book of Firsts London Ebury Press 1974 124–5 19 February – "Three nights' Blitz" over Swansea, South Wales, begins. 230 are killed and 409 injured. February – white flour is replaced by "National flour", a wholemeal flour.Austin J. Ruddy The Home Front 1939-1945 in 100 Objects Barnsley Frontline Books 2019 9-781-52674-086-1 2 March – John Gilbert Winant takes up post as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom in succession to Joseph P. Kennedy; he will serve for 5 years. 11 March President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into United States law, allowing the country to supply military equipment to Britain.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 388–389 0-7126-5616-2 Luftwaffe air raids on Manchester cause extensive damage to the city, a notable casualty being Old Trafford football stadium, home of Manchester United, which is severely damaged.Old Trafford: 100 years of the iconic Manchester United stadium https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/old-trafford-100-years-of-the-iconic-manchester-united-stadium-1901127.html?action=Gallery&ino=3 London The Independent Simon Stone 16 February 2010 28 December 2010 13 March – Clydebank Blitz: bombing of Clydebank. 528 people die, 617 more are seriously injured, and hundreds more are injured by blast debris. Another 35,000 people are made homeless. 15 March – Plymouth Blitz: bombing of Plymouth. 336 people lose their lives.http://www.plymouthdata.info/Second%20World%20War-1941-Blitz.htm The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History The Plymouth Blitz – The March Raids Moseley Brian 11 August 2007 12 February 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20070916174428/http://www.plymouthdata.info/Second%20World%20War-1941-Blitz.htm 16 September 2007 27–29 March – Battle of Cape Matapan: Off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean, British naval forces defeat those of Italy sinking five warships. 15 April – Belfast Blitz: Belfast is heavily bombed, killing 900 and injuring 1,500. 7 April – Budget Day: Chancellor of the Exchequer Kingsley Wood presents a Keynesian budget that increases taxes;Howlett Peter The Wartime Economy, 1939–1945 The Economic History of Britain Since 1700, Volume 3: 1939–1992 Roderick Floud Deirdre McCloskey Cambridge University Press 1994 15–16 978-0-521-42522-3 for the first time in British history, a majority of the population is liable to income tax.Jenkins Roy Roy Jenkins 1998 The Chancellors London Macmillan 0-333-73057-7 399 18 April – heaviest air-raid of the year on London. 21 April – Greece capitulates. British troops withdraw to Crete. May The Ministry of Information issues more than 14 million copies of a leaflet Beating the Invader, with a preface from Churchill, giving advice on what to do "if invasion comes".Ronald I. Cohen Preparing for an Invasion of Britain… In Writing https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-181/invasion-of-britain-beating-the-invader/ Finest Hour 181 Summer 2018 International Churchill Society 38 2020-06-29 2 July 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200702142622/https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-181/invasion-of-britain-beating-the-invader/ dead Meatless Woolton pie introduced.http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/woolton.html Woolton Pie World Carrot Museum 19 August 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100731051413/http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/woolton.html 31 July 2010 live 2–8 May – 'May Week Raids', sustained heavy bombing on Merseyside, result in over 1,700 deaths and well over 1,000 injuries. 6–7 May – Greenock Blitz: Greenock in Scotland is intensively bombed. 280 people are killed, and 1,200 more injured. 9 May – U-110 1940 6 is captured by the Royal Navy in the North Atlantic with its Enigma cryptography machine and codebooks intact.Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Enigma: the Battle for the Code London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2000 0-7538-1130-8 10 May The House of Commons is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid. Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland claiming to be on a peace mission. 15 May – first British jet aircraft, the Gloster E.28/39, is flown at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire. thumb|The Gloster E.28/39, the first British aircraft to fly with a turbojet engine 17 May – Tipton, near Dudley in the midlands, is bombed by the Luftwaffe for the second time in six months, with a further six civilian deaths. 24 May – in the North Atlantic, the German battleship Bismarck sinks Hood 51 6 killing all but three crewmen on what was the pride of the Royal Navy. 26 May – in the North Atlantic, Fairey Swordfish biplanes from the carrier HMS Ark Royal fatally cripple the German battleship Bismarck in a torpedo attack. May – Emergency Work (Merchant Navy) Order requires merchant seamen to serve for the duration, establishes a Merchant Navy Reserve Pool of labour, and guarantees a wage (which will continue in the event of shipwreck).Lane Tony 1990 The Merchant Seamen's War Manchester University Press 0-7190-2397-1 31-2 1 June – clothes rationing introduced. 4 June – Britain invades Iraq; the pro-Axis government there is overthrown. June – Noël Coward's comedy Blithe Spirit is premiered at Manchester Opera House. Opening in London on 2 July,Piccadilly Theatre: Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward The Times London 3 July 1941 48968 2 its run of 1,997 consecutive performances sets a record for non-musical plays in the West End theatre which will not be surpassed for more than twenty years. 12 July – Anglo-Soviet Agreement signed for mutual co-operation following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. August – Political Warfare Executive is formed to disseminate information to Germany and its Occupied countries. 9 August Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet on board ship at Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter (released 14 August), setting goals for postwar international cooperation, is agreed as a result. RAF pilot Douglas Bader taken prisoner by the Germans after a mid-air collision over France. 12 August – Dudley, which suffered 10 fatalities in a landmine attack in November last year, suffers five more fatalities when a second landmine is dropped in the town. 15 August – Josef Jakobs becomes the last person executed at the Tower of London when he faces execution by firing squad following conviction for an offence under the Treachery Act 1940.Aug 15 1941 – The last execution in the Tower of London http://ww2today.com/15th-august-1941-the-last-execution-in-the-tower-of-london https://web.archive.org/web/20120302180424/http://ww2today.com/15th-august-1941-the-last-execution-in-the-tower-of-london dead 2 March 2012 World War II Today 30 October 2011 16 August – HMS Mercury Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire. 18 August – National Fire Service established. 30 August – first official 'Shetland bus' clandestine mission using Norwegian fishing boats between Shetland and German-occupied Norway. September Air Raid Precautions is renamed the Civil Defence Service. Local authorities are ordered to survey iron railings with the intention of their removal as scrap for munitions. The Royal Scots Greys, stationed in the Middle East, receive their first tanks, being the last of the cavalry regiments of the British Army to have abandoned horses for combat operations.Charles Grant Royal Scots Greys Reading Osprey 1972 0850450594 34 October – the first Ronald Searle cartoon to feature St Trinian's School is published, in the magazine Lilliput.Ju Gosling 1998 Ronald Searle & the St Trinian's Cartoons http://www.ju90.co.uk/ron.htm Virtual Worlds of Girls 15 December 2011 30 October – J. Arthur Rank purchases the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, with its 251 cinemas and its subsidiary operations, Gainsborough Pictures and Lime Grove Studios.G-B Deal Completed – J. A. Rank Appointed Chairman Kinematograph Weekly 1941-11-06 11 31 October – a Huddersfield factory fire kills 49, many of them young women.Permanent memorial to Booth's factory fire in Huddersfield unveiled https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/permanent-memorial-booths-factory-fire-4938324 2021-05-22 Huddersfield Examiner 5 November 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20180425032014/https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/permanent-memorial-booths-factory-fire-4938324 2018-04-25 live End October – President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt approves US$1bn in Lend-Lease aid to Britain. 1 November – announcement that radical politician Sir Charles Trevelyan is donating his family home, Wallington Hall, Northumberland, to the National Trust, its first such stately home acquisition.Sir C. Trevelyan Gives His Estate To National Trust For The People Newcastle Journal Newcastle upon Tyne 1 November 1941 3 13 November – the aircraft carrier Ark Royal 91 6 is hit by the U-81 1941 6 off Gibraltar; she capsizes and sinks under tow the next day. 27 November – Tobruk is relieved by the Eighth Army (which has controlled British and other Allied ground forces in the Western Desert from September) in Operation Crusader. 5 December – Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1138501.shtml WW2 People's War 23 March 2012 8 December – the Battle of Hong Kong begins less than eight hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor when Imperial Japanese forces invade British Hong Kong. British Malaya is also attacked and there follows the declaration of war on Japan. 10 December – sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse in the South China Sea: two Royal Navy capital ships, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, are sunk by Japanese aircraft. 13 December Battle of Cape Bon off Tunisia: two Italian cruisers are sunk without Allied losses. Britain declares war on Bulgaria. 15 December – Crofter Hand Woven Harris Tweed Co Ltd v Veitch decided in the House of Lords upholds the right of trade unionists to strike as part of collective bargaining. 18 December – National Service (No. 2) Act comes into effect: All men and women aged 18–60 are now liable to some form of national service, including military service for men under 51 and unmarried women between 20 and 30. The first military registration of 18½-year-olds takes place. The schedule of reserved occupations is abandoned. 25 December The Battle of Hong Kong ends after 17 days with surrender of the Crown colony of Hong Kong to the Japanese. Sir Alan Brooke succeeds John Dill as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, an office he will hold until 1946. 27 December Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a Joint session of the U.S. Congress. British Commandos raid the Norwegian port of Måløy on the island of Vågsøy, causing the Germans to reinforce the garrison and defenses. Undated Spring – Noël Coward composes the song London Pride. The circular silver-alloy threepence coin is last minted for general circulation in the UK. Factory Canteen, predecessor of multinational foodservice company Compass Group, is founded in England by Jack Bateman.Long Vicky 2014 Situating the factory canteen in discourses of health and industrial work in Britain (1914-1939) Le Mouvement Social 2 247 65–83 10.3917/lms.247.0065 0027-2671 4113673 25082999 Publications Joyce Carey's memoir A House of Children, novel Herself Surprised and pamphlet The Case for African Freedom. Lord David Cecil's The English Poets, first of the 'Britain in Pictures' series.Britain in Pictures: a history and bibliography Michael Carney London Werner Shaw 1995 9780907961093 Agatha Christie's novels Evil Under the Sun (featuring Hercule Poirot) and N or M? (featuring Tommy and Tuppence working undercover in the war). A. J. Cronin's novel The Keys of the Kingdom. T. S. Eliot's poem The Dry Salvages, third of the Four Quartets (in February New English Weekly). Patrick Hamilton’s eve-of-war blackly comic novel Hangover Square.H. R. F. Keating H. R. F. Keating Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction London Windward 1982 0-7112-0249-4 James Hilton's wartime novel Random Harvest. John Gillespie Magee, Jr.'s wartime sonnet "High Flight". The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. John Pudney's wartime poem "For Johnny". Hilary St George Saunders' official booklet The Battle of Britain, August–October 1940. Rebecca West's Balkan travelogue Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Births 1 January – Martin Evans, biologist 2 January – Celia Birtwell, textile and fashion designer 5 January – Kevin Keelan, English footballer 7 January Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (died 2004) John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 8 January – Graham Chapman, English comedy writer-performer (died 1989)Screen International Film and TV Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=pqNmAAAAMAAJ 1984 Screen International, King Publications 342 9 January – Terry Hands, English theatre director (died 2020) 10 January – Tom Clarke, Scottish politician 12 January – Long John Baldry, blues singer (died 2005)Lawrence Goldman Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=nbGcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA48 7 March 2013 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-967154-0 48 19 January Tony Anholt, actor (died 2002) Colin Gunton, theologian (died 2003)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jun/03/guardianobituaries.highereducation The Rev Prof Colin Gunton June 2, 2003 Stephen R Holmes The Guardian January 3, 2022 20 January – Allan Young, English footballer (died 2009) 27 January – Beatrice Tinsley, English-born astronomer (died 1981) 28 January – Ann Leslie, English journalist, born in British India (died 2023)https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/27/dame-ann-leslie-obituary Dame Ann Leslie obituary Maggie Brown The Guardian London 2023-06-27 2023-06-27 5 February – Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, Labour politician, Leader of the House of Lords, Lord President of the Council (died 2003) 7 February – Kevin Crossley-Holland, English author and poet 10 February – Michael Apted, English film director (died 2021) 17 February – Julia McKenzie, actress 20 February – Richard Mabey, English writer and broadcaster 25 February – David Puttnam, English film producer and life peer 26 February – Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (died 1972) 27 February – Paddy Ashdown, Liberal Democrat politician, born in the British Raj (died 2018)https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/mar/19/profiles.parliament Sir Paddy Ashdown Andrew Roth The Guardian 19 March 2001 22 November 2007 London Andrew Roth 28 February – Tristan Garel-Jones, Welsh-born Conservative politician (died 2020) 4 March – Adrian Lyne, English film director 5 March – Errol Le Cain, children's book illustrator and animator (died 1989) 25 March Lindy Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, artist, conservationist and businesswoman (died 2020) Rose Dugdale. heiress and IRA militant (died 2024) 26 March – Richard Dawkins, Kenyan-born British scientist Thompson Clifford World authors 1990-1995 H.W. Wilson New York 1999 9780824209568 159 28 March – Jack Simmons, English cricketer 30 March – Graeme Edge, rock drummer and songwriter (The Moody Blues) (died 2021) 5 April – Dave Swarbrick, folk rock fiddle player (died 2016) 7 April Peter Fluck, caricaturist Gorden Kaye, comic actor (died 2017) 8 April – Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer (died 2022) 10 April – John Kurila, Scottish footballer (died 2018) 11 April – Shirley Stelfox, English actress (died 2015) 12 April – Bobby Moore, English football player and World Cup winning captain (died 1993) 13 April – Margaret Price, Welsh soprano (died 2011) 23 April – Ed Stewart, English disc jockey (died 2016) 26 April – Robin Jacob, English academic and judge 3 May – Paul Ferris, film composer and actor (died 1995) 10 May – Chris Denning, English radio presenter and convicted sex offender (died 2022)http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/34384-denning-going-against-social-norms.html https://archive.today/20130910203650/http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/34384-denning-going-against-social-norms.html dead Denning: Going against social norms The Prague Post 10 September 2013 10 September 2013 11 May Eric Burdon, singer-songwriter Graham Miles, snooker player (died 2014) 13 May – Miles Kington, journalist and humorist (died 2008) 18 May – Miriam Margolyes, actress 19 May – Igor Judge, Baron Judge, lord chief justice (died 2023)'A remarkable leader': Legal sector pays tribute to Lord Judge 21 May – Martin Carthy, English folk singer and guitarist 22 May – Menzies Campbell, politician (died 2025) 26 May – Ron Wallwork, English race walker 27 May – Derek Robinson, physicist (died 2002) 29 May – Doug Scott, English mountaineer (died 2020) 2 June – Charlie Watts, English rock drummer (died 2021) 5 June – Jeff Rooker, Baron Rooker, English academic and politician, Minister of State for Immigration 7 June – Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, English party planner, socialite and first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II (died 2020) 8 June – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer and politician (assassinated 1981) 9 June – Jon Lord, composer, pianist and organist (died 2012)Obituary: Jon Lord, composer and Deep Purple founder http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/obituary-jon-lord-composer-and-deep-purple-founder Gramophone Haymarket 3 January 2022 14 June Roy Harper, folk rock singer-guitarist Mike Yarwood, impressionist and comedian (died 2023) 18 June – Delia Smith, cook 20 June – Stephen Frears, film and television director 25 June – Eddie Large, born Edward McGinnis, Scottish-born comedian (died 2020) 27 June Ian Black, swimmer James P. Hogan, author (died 2010) 7 July Christopher Beeny, English actor (died 2020) Alan Durban, Welsh international footballer, manager Michael Howard, Welsh politician Bill Oddie, English comedy writer-performer, songwriter and birder (died 2026) Jim Rodford, English rock bassist (died 2018) 8 July – Polly James, actress 10 July – Jackie Lane, actress (died 2021) 11 July – Tommy Vance, disc jockey (died 2005) 18 July – Duncan Worsley, cricketer 29 July - David Warner, actor 4 August – Martin Jarvis, actor 6 August – Andrew Green, Baron Green of Deddington, diplomat 16 August – David Dickinson, British antiques expert, television presenter 21 August – Howard Lew Lewis, English comedian, actor (died 2018) 22 August – Barry Jackson, English track and field athlete 26 August – Chris Curtis, drummer (The Searchers) (died 2005) 29 August – Robin Leach, television personality (died 2018) 30 August – Sue MacGregor, radio broadcaster 6 September – Roger Law, caricaturist 10 September – Christopher Hogwood, English conductor (died 2014) 17 September – Marit Allen, film costume designer (died 2007) 22 September – Tom Conti, actor 26 September – Martine Beswick, actress and model 27 September – Peter Bonetti, England football goalkeeper (died 2020) 28 September – Mike Osborne, jazz musician (died 2007) 29 September – Fred West, English serial killer (suicide 1995) 30 September – Angela Pleasence, actress 4 October – Jackie Collins, English-born novelist (died 2015) 5 October Stephanie Cole, English actress (died 2026) Steven Spurrier, wine merchant and writer (died 2021) 12 October – Michael Mansfield, barrister 19 October – Peter Thornley, English professional wrestler best known for the ring character Kendo NagasakiThe Eighth Wonder of the World: The True Story of André the Giant - Bertrand Hébert, Pat Laprade, Tony Stabile - Google Books] 20 October – Anneke Wills, actress 21 October – Dickie Pride, rock and roll singer (died 1969) 23 October – Greg Ridley, rock bassist (died 2003) 28 October John Hallam, English actor (died 2006) Hank Marvin, born Brian Rankin, English guitaristPete Prown Harvey P. Newquist Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists https://books.google.com/books?id=60Jde3l7WNwC&pg=PA26 1997 Hal Leonard Corporation 978-0-7935-4042-6 26 29 October – George Davies, English fashion retailerDawn Collinson http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-life/liverpool-lifestyle/2008/05/14/fashion-icon-george-davies-i-m-scouse-and-proud-of-it-100252-20907592/ Fashion icon George Davies: I'm Scouse and proud of it! Liverpool Echo 2008-05-14 2022-07-23 30 October – Bob Wilson, football player and broadcaster 31 October – Joy Grieveson, British sprinter 1 November – Nigel Dempster, columnist (died 2007)Lawrence Goldman Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=nbGcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA308 7 March 2013 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-967154-0 308 2 November – Bruce Welch, born Bruce Cripps, English guitarist 6 November – James Bowman, countertenor (died 2023) 10 November – Graham Clark, operatic tenor (died 2023) 18 November David Hemmings, English actor (died 2003) Angela Watkinson, educator and politician 24 November – Pete Best, English drummer 1 December – Nigel Rodley, English international human rights lawyer (died 2017)https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/feb/02/sir-nigel-rodley-obituary Sir Nigel Rodley obituary Geoffrey Robertson Ivor Crewe 2 February 2017 6 February 2017 The Guardian 5 December – Sheridan Morley, theatre critic (died 2007) 7 December – Val Wilmer, photographer and writer 8 December – Geoff Hurst, footballer 17 December – Alan Sinfield, English academic (died 2017) 18 December – Prince William of Gloucester (died 1972) 22 December – M. Stanley Whittingham, English-born solid-state chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 24 December Michael Billington, English actor (died 2005) John Levene, British actor 25 December – Kenneth Calman, Scottish physician and academic (died 2025) 31 December Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and football managerSir Alex Ferguson Biography & Facts Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alex-Ferguson www.britannica.com 28 January 2023 en Sarah Miles, actress Deaths 5 January – Amy Johnson, aviator (born 1903; aviation accident) 8 January – Lord Robert Baden-Powell, soldier and founder of the Boy Scouts (born 1857) 10 January – Frank Bridge, composer (born 1879) 24 January – Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll (born 1901; murder) 4 February – George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, politician and diplomat (born 1879) 12 February – Charles Voysey, Arts and Crafts designer and domestic architect (born 1857) 8 March – Ken "Snakehips" Johnson, jazz musician and dancer (born 1914 in British Guiana; enemy action) 11 March – Sir Walford Davies, composer (Royal Air Force March Past) (born 1869) 13 March – Tom Mann, trade unionist (born 1856) 28 March – Virginia Woolf, novelist (born 1882; suicide) 5 April – Sir Nigel Gresley, railway steam locomotive designer (Flying Scotsman and Mallard) (born 1876) 16 April – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, economist (born 1880; enemy action) 17 April – Al Bowlly, big band singer (born 1898 in Mozambique; enemy action) 23 May – Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, car designer and manufacturer (born 1866) 24 May – Lancelot Holland, admiral (born 1887; died in action) 30 May – Prajadhipok, deposed king of Siam (born 1893) 1 June – Sir Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-born novelist (born 1884) 15 June – Evelyn Underhill, Christian mystic (born 1875) 30 June – Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor, lawyer and politician (born 1852) 11 July – Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist (born 1851) 12 August – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, politician and colonial administrator, 22nd Viceroy of India, 13th Governor General of Canada (born 1866) 20 August – John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, politician, 8th Governor-General of Australia (born 1874) 17 September – Fred Karno, music hall impresario (born 1866) 13 October – David Devant, stage magician (born 1868) 7 November – Frank Pick, transport administrator and patron of industrial design (born 1878) 16 November – Sir Henry Wilson, general (born 1859) 27 November – Sir Charles Briggs, general (born 1865) 10 December – Sir Tom Phillips, admiral (born 1888; killed in action)https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2486034/PHILLIPS,%20Sir%20TOM%20SPENCER%20VAUGHAN Phillips, Sir Tom Spencer Vaughan CWGC 2020-06-03 See also List of British films of 1941 Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II References 2 1941 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1941 by country Category:1940s in the United Kingdom Category:1941 in Europe