Famous people and celebrities who died in March 1941

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in March 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

• March 3 Constant W L Scheurleer

  Archaeologist/banker/art expert, dies at age 59.

• March 4 Ludwig Quidde

  PEA - German activist and politician, nobel prize laureate (b. 1858)

• March 4 Edoardo Mascheroni

  Composer dies at 81

• March 6 Francis Aveling

  Canadian priest, psychologist, and author (b. 1875)

• March 6 Gutzon Borglum

  American sculptor who carved the faces of four american presidents in the mountainside at mt. rushmore, sd. he was also responsible for the washington, dc statue of sheridan and the large head lincoln at the capital building.

• March 6 Leen Schijvenschuurder

  Execution of the dutch february strike leader

• March 6 John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum

  At the age of 73, mount rushmore sculptor dies.

• March 7 Arnold Schering

  German musicologist, who died at the age of 63.

• March 8 Sherwood Anderson

  American author/publisher (winesburg ohio), died at the age of 64.

• March 13 A Coenradi

  Dutch resistance fighter executed.

• March 13 Bernard Ijzerdraat

  Dutch resistance fighter executed.

• March 13 E Hellendoorn

  Dutch resistance fighter executed.

• March 13 Elizabeth Madox Roberts

  American novelist and poet (born 1881).

• March 14 C. R. M. F. Cruttwell

  English historian (b. 1887)

• March 15 Alexej von Jawlensky

  Russian-german painter (d. 1941).

• March 17 Nicolae Titulescu

  Nicolae Titulescu was a Romanian diplomat who served as the Foreign Minister of Romania and as the President of the League of Nations.

• March 17 Marguerite Nichols

  American actress (born 1895).

• March 17 Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel

  Rus writer (crvenakonjica), executed at 46

• March 17 Joachim Schepke

  German commandant (u100), dies in battle

• March 18 Henri Cornet

  The 1904 tour de france was won by a french cyclist. he is the youngest winner of the tour de france, just shy of his 20th birthday.

• March 20 Oskar Baum

  Bohemian writer (b. 1883)

• March 20 D A van den Bosch

  Anti-nazi clergyman (amersfoort camp), dies.

• March 21 Robert Liefmann

  German economist (kartelle und trusts), dies at 67

• March 28 Virginia Woolf

  Virginia Woolf was a renowned British author and one of the most influential figures of the 20th-century literary modernism.

• March 28 Marcus Hurley

  American basketball player and cyclist (b. 1883)

• March 28 Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen

  Author (to lighthouse), suicide at 59

• March 28 Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara

  Indian police commissioner (born 1877)