Famous people and celebrities who died in July 1941

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in July 1941. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• July 3 Friedrich Akel

  Estonian physician and politician, head of state of estonia (b. 1871)

• July 4 Antoni Łomnicki

  Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1881)

• July 5 Oskar Fried

  Composer dies at 69

• July 8 Moses Schorr

  Polish rabbi, historian, and politician (b. 1874)

• July 8 Philippe Gaubert

  French musician, composer, flutist and conductor. he was responsible for many important premieres, including "masques et bergamasques", 1919, "padmac/vati," 1923, and "bacchus et ariane," both 1931 and "la chartreuse de parme," in 1939. gaubert was a prolific writer, with many chamber works to its credit. he composed three symphonic poetry for orchestra and the operas "fresques" (1923) and "naa–la" (1927).

• July 10 Jelly Roll Morton

  American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1890)

• July 10 Huntley Wright

  English actor (b. 1868)

• July 10 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton

  Pioneer jazz pianist, dies at age 56 in louisiana.

• July 18 Dionyssios Lavrangas

  Composer dies at age 80

• July 19 Špiro Bocarić

  Serbian painter, victim of genocide of serbs

• July 20 Lew Fields

  American actor producer and manger (d. 1941).

• July 21 Bohdan Lepky

  Ukrainian poet and writer (born 1872)

• July 23 George Lyman Kittredge

  American scholar and educator (b. 1860)

• July 26 Henri Lebesgue

  French mathematician, whose generalizations of the riemann integral revolutionized integration.

• July 26 Benjamin Whorf

  American engineer, linguist, anthropologist (d. 1941).

• July 26 Marx Dormoy

  French socialist politician, well-known for his opposition to extreme right.

• July 27 Alfred Henry O'Keeffe

  New zealand painter and educator (b. 1858)

• July 30 Hugo Celmiņš

  Latvian politician, former prime minister of latvia (b. 1877)