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List of events
Events in the year 1941 in
Japan . It corresponds to
Shōwa 16 (昭和16年) in the
Japanese calendar .
Incumbents
Governors
Events
Births
January 3 –
Judi Yassin , actress
January 5 –
Hayao Miyazaki , film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist
January 22 –
Rintaro , anime director
May 7 –
Kinichi Hagimoto , comedian
June 29 –
Chieko Baisho , actress and singer
July 8 –
Masayuki Minami , volleyball player(d.
2000 )
August 26 –
Akiko Wakabayashi , actress
September 10 –
Gunpei Yokoi , creator of
Game Boy and
Game & Watch handheld systems (d.
1997 )
November 21 –
Eiji Kanie , voice actor (d.
1985 )
December 10 –
Kyu Sakamoto , singer and actor (d.
1985 )
Deaths
January 22 –
Hayashi Tadataka , former
daimyō (b.
1848 )
August 22 –
Hasegawa Shigure , playwright (b.
1879 )
August 27 –
Mitsuko Aoyama , emigrate, wife of
Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi (b.
1874 )
September 2 –
Kei Okami , physician, first Japanese woman to obtain a degree in Western medicine from a Western university (b.
1859 )
December 11 –
Masaaki Iinuma , aviator, flew the first Japanese-built aircraft from Japan to Western Europe (b.
1912 )
December 13 –
Shigenori Nishikaichi , military pilot (b. ca.
1919 )
December 24 –
Sueo Ōe , athlete (killed in action) (b.
1914 )
See also
References