List of Famous people who died in 1941

Thomas Louis Heylen OPraem (1856–1941) was the twenty-sixth bishop of Namur in Belgium (1899-1941). He also served as President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses.

Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya was a Soviet partisan. She was executed after acts of sabotage against the invading armies of Nazi Germany; after stories emerged of her defiance towards her captors, she was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union. She became one of the most revered heroines of the Soviet Union.

John Christian Watson, commonly known as Chris Watson, was an Australian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of Australia. He was the first Prime Minister from the Australian Labour Party, and led the world's first Labour Party government, From paternal German and maternal British ancestry, he is the only Australian Prime Minister not born in a Commonwealth country.

Sherwood Anderson was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer.

Arthur Charles Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington,, known as Arthur Wellesley from 1876 to 1900, and styled as Marquess of Douro from 1900 to 1934, was a British nobleman and landowner.

Paul Baras was a road racing cyclist and racing driver from France. He competed in several early Grand Prix motor races, and held the world land speed record between November 1904 and January 1905.

William Le Roy Emmet was an electrical engineer who made major contributions to alternating current power systems including the design of large rotary converters.