August 1941 in History

Events in History

Aug 4 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US

Aug 10 FDR & Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia, Newfoundland

Aug 12 French Marshal Philippe Pétain gives full support to Nazi Germany

Aug 13 Red army evacuates Smolensk, Russia, as the German army advances
Aug 14 US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic Charter
Aug 15 Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto
Aug 16 HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
Aug 17 German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan
Aug 18 German concentration camp Amersfoort opens

Aug 19 Romania annexes the Transnistria territory from the Soviet Union after Operation Barbarossa

Aug 27 Shah of Iran Rezā Shāh Pahlavi abdicates throne in favour of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Aug 28 Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves
Aug 29 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
Aug 30 Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so

Aug 1 Ron Brown, American politician (US Secretary of Commerce, 1993-96; Democratic Party Chairman, 1989-93), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1996)
Aug 3 Hage Geingob, Namibian politician (President of Namibia 2015-), born in Otjiwarongo, Namibia
Aug 4 Ted Strickland, American politician, Governor of Ohio (2007-2011), born in Lucasville, Ohio
Aug 5 Leonid Kizim, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-10, T-15), born in rasnyi Lyman, Soviet Union (d. 2010)
Aug 6 Lyle Berman, American poker player
Aug 7 Thomas F. Hartnett, American politician (Rep-R-SC, 1981-86), born in Charleston, South Carolina
Aug 11 Elizabeth Holtzman, Bkln DA (D-Rep-NY, Watergate Committee)
Aug 12 Réjean Ducharme, Quebec novelist and playwright
Aug 15 Viktor Mikhailovich Pisarev, Russian cosmonaut

Aug 17 Nigerian Head of State (1985–1993), born in Northern Region, British Nigeria

Aug 20 President of Serbia (1991-97) and Yugoslavia (1997-2000), born in Pozarevac, Yugoslavia

Aug 20 William H. Gray III, American politician (Rep-D-PA, 1978-1991), born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (d. 2013)
Aug 22 Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist, born in Wels (d. 2006)
Aug 22 Michael Aldrich, British inventor (online shopping), born in Brocket Hall, England (d. 2014)
Aug 22 Thomas Lovejoy, American conservation biologist who coined the term "biodiversity", born in New York City (d. 2021)
Aug 23 Patrick Taylor, Irish-Canadian medical researcher, editor, and novelist (An Irish Country series), born in Bangor, Northern Ireland
Aug 25 Shirley Carter Burden, patrician, born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 1996)
Aug 26 Barbet Schroeder, Iranian-Swiss director (Barfly, Single White Female, More), born in Tehran, Iran
Aug 27 Yuri Vassilyevich Malyshev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11)

Aug 7 Indian philosopher, poet, writer (Nobel Prize for Literature 1913), dies at 80

Aug 14 Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London
Aug 14 Paul Sabatier, French chemist (Nobel 1912 - improving the hydrogenation of organic species in the presence of metals), dies at 86
Aug 14 Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b. 1894)
Aug 29 Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40
Aug 29 Jan Louis Guillaume Doornik, Dutch resistance fighter in France, executed at 36
Aug 30 Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist, dies at 67
Aug 31 Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (The Train of Life), committed suicide at 48