Senta Verhoeven is an Austrian-German actress. She received many award nominations for her acting in theatre, film, and television; her awards include three Bambi Awards, two Romys, an Adolf Grimme Award, both a Deutscher Fernsehpreis and a Bayerischer Fernsehpreis, and a Goldene Kamera.

1941Jody Conradt, American basketball player and coach^[†]

Addie Jo "Jody" Conradt is an American retired women's basketball coach. She was the head coach for the women's team at University of Texas at Austin (UT). Her coaching career spanned 38 years, with the last 31 years at UT from 1976 to 2007. She also served concurrently as the UT women's athletic director from 1992 to 2001. During her tenure at UT, she achieved several notable personal and team milestones in collegiate basketball. At retirement, she had tallied 900 career victories, second place in all time victories for an NCAA Division I basketball coach. Conradt was inducted in the inaugural class at the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.

1941Ritchie Valens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1959)^[†]

Richard Steven Valenzuela, better known by his stage name Ritchie Valens, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens died in a plane crash just eight months after his breakthrough.

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1941Frederick Christian, English cricketer (born 1877)^[†]

A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.

1941Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (born 1891)^[†]

Ōnishiki Uichirō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 26th yokozuna. On 2 November 1922, he became the first yokozuna to perform the yokozuna dohyō-iri at the Meiji Shrine.

Headlines from May 13, 1941

Bodies of Brewster and Wife Found In Plane Wreckage in Alleghenies; DIES IN PLANE CRASH BREWSTERS' BODIES ARE FOUND ON PEAK

HAMBURG HIT HARD; Miles of Docks Fired in British Bombing a Second Night BREMEN LIKE TARGET U-Boat Yards and War Plants of Reich Bases Kept Under Attack HAMBURG HIT HARD IN NEW R.A.F. RAID

ROOSEVELT TO TALK TO NATION MAY 27; 'Fireside Chat' Two Weeks From Today Is Substituted for Address Tomorrow ROOSEVELT TO TALK TO NATION MAY 27

U.S. Gives Press Concern; DARLAN AND HITLER HOLD CONFERENCE

'Peace' Pickets Routed At White House Gates

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