Rabindranath Tagore died on 7 August 1941 in Kolkata, aged 80. A Bengali poet, writer, composer and painter, Tagore was a leading figure of the cultural revival in Bengal and across India. His collection of poems Gitanjali brought him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, making him the first non-European to receive it. He wrote novels, short stories, plays and songs, and the music and lyrics for the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh. He founded the school at Santiniketan, which became the Visva-Bharati University, with ideas of education in natural surroundings. In 1919, after the Amritsar massacre, he renounced the knighthood he had been given.
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- from 19 July 1941 to 31 August 1941Pripyat swamps
- 23 July 1941Birth of Sergio Mattarella
- from August 1941 to April 1945Construction of Jasenovac concentration camp
- from 7 August 1941 to 26 September 1941Battle of Kiev
- 7 August 1941Death of Rabindranath Tagore
- 14 August 1941The Atlantic Charter
- 20 August 1941Birth of Slobodan Milošević
- from 25 August 1941 to 17 September 1941Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
- from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944Siege of Leningrad
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