Events in the year 1941 in India. Incumbents Emperor of India – George VI Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow President of the Indian National Congress - Abul Kalam Azad Events National income - 44,085 million June 21 - Rajendra Prasad lays the foundation stone of Scindia Shipyard at Visakhapatnam. Law The Delhi Restriction of Uses of Land Act, 1941 The Berar Laws Act, 1941 Births 1 January – Asrani, actor. 17 January – Bindu, actress. 25 March – Udyavara Madhava Acharya, writer, poet and actor (died 2020) 10 April – Mani Shankar Aiyar, politician and Minister. 2 July – Ashalata Wabgaonkar, actress (died 2020). 5 July – Nitin Desai, Under Secretary General, United Nations, 1993–2003 15 July – Nikhil Kumar, politician. 17 July – Bharathiraja, filmmaker. 31 July – Amarsinh Chaudhary, politician and Chief Minister of Gujarat (died 2004). 4 September – Sushilkumar Shinde, politician and Minister, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Full date unknown Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, medical scientist. T S Krishnamurthy, civil servant, Chief Election Commissioner. Yasmeen Lari, Architect Deaths 28 March – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (born 1877). 7 August – Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (born 1861). 9 November – Ganganath Jha, scholar of Sanskrit, Indian philosophy and Buddhist philosophy (born 1872). Full date unknown Binodini Dasi, actress and writer (born 1862). References India Years of the 20th century in India India in World War II