* Andrew Ainslie Common ( 1841 – 1903 ), built his own very large reflecting telescopes and demonstrated that photography could record astronomical features invisible to the human eye.

For 18 months, during 1841 – 1842, Nobel went to the only school he ever attended as a child, the Jacobs Apologistic School in Stockholm.

* 1841 – Karl Binding, German jurist ( d. 1920 )

* 1841 – Johnny Mullagh, Australian cricketer ( d. 1891 )

* 1841 – U. S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States.

* 1841 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician and medical researcher, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1917 )

The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.

* 1841 – Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer ( d. 1926 )

The concept of allotropy was originally proposed in 1841 by the Swedish scientist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius ( 1779 – 1848 ).

The Habsburgs founded a number of monasteries ( with some structures enduring, e. g., in Wettingen and Muri ), the closing of which by the government in 1841 was a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Swiss civil war – the " Sonderbund War " – in 1847.

* 1920 – Karl Binding, German jurist ( b. 1841 )

Sir Robert Peel, Bt., Prime Minister 1834 – 35, 1841 – 46

The first attempt at legislation was drafted by the President of the Board of Control, Lord Ellenborough, who had previously served as Governor-General of India ( 1841 – 44 ).

Berthe Morisot ( January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895 ) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

The first Portalian president was General Joaquín Prieto, who served two terms ( 1831 – 1836, 1836 – 1841 ).

His father was Henry Attlee ( 1841 – 1908 ), a solicitor, and his mother was Ellen Bravery Watson ( 1847 – 1920 ).

After a few presidents of the Provisional Junta, there were again consuls of the republic, 14 March 1841 – 13 March 1844 ( ruling jointly, but occasionally styled " first consul ", " second consul "): Carlos Antonio López Ynsfrán ( b. 1792 – d. 1862 ) + Mariano Roque Alonzo Romero ( d. 1853 ) ( the lasts of the aforementioned juntistas, Commandant-General of the Army )

The winter of 1837 – 38 saw rebellion in both of the Canadas, with the result they were rejoined as the Province of Canada in 1841.

** Anne Darwin ( 1841 – 1851 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

* 1841 – David Wilkie, Scottish artist ( b. 1785 )

* 1785 – Sir David Wilkie, Scottish painter ( d. 1841 )

* Solomon Northup, David Wilson, Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, Auburn, N. Y .: Derby and Miller, 1853, at Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina.

* November 18 – David Wilkie, Scottish artist ( d. 1841 )

* June 15 – David Daniel Davis, British physician ( d. 1841 )

* David Wilkie ( 1785 – 1841 )

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands ( 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904 ), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone.

* Robert Danzig & David Goldsmith, The Cancellations of the 1841 Penny Red ( Philatelic Imprint, London 1991 ).

It was named for David Levy, a planter elected in 1841 as the state's territorial delegate to the US House of Representatives, and he served two terms.

* David S. Garland ( 1769 – 1841 ), Congressman, master of the Brick House ( Clifford, Virginia ), founder of the New Glasgow Academy.

The town of Milford was established in 1816 by George Reed, Marysville in 1819 by Samuel Culbertson, Richwood in 1832 by Philip Plumber, Kingsville in 1834, Somerville in 1835, Watkins and Arbelia in 1838, Newton in 1838 by David Paul, York Center in 1841, Frankfort in 1846, Unionville in 1847, Pharisburg in 1847, New California in 1853, Dover in 1854, Union Center in 1863, Broadway in 1865, Pottersburg in 1869, Peoria in 1870, Magnetic Springs in 1879, and Claibourne in 1881.

In the 1841 general election Sudbury became the first place in the UK to elect a member of an ethnic minority to parliament, with David Dye Sombre, the son of an Indian queen, winning the seat.

In 1841 Joseph Stronach's brother, David Stronach and his son Adam Stronach arrived by schooner with machinery and approximately 15 men to begin construction of the sawmill.

Marcus Peck ; 1825 – 1826, William F. Averill ; 1827 – 1833, Marcus Peck ; 1834, Peter F. Westervelt ; 1835 – 1837, John I. Vosburgh ; 1838 – 1839 ; John H. Gregory ; 1840, Calvin Sliter ; 1841, John H. Gregory ; 1842 – 1843, Solomon Coons ; 1844, Reuben A. Thomas ; 1845, S. V. R. Cole ; 1846, David Fonda ; 1847, David Luce ; 1848, Lorenzo M. Lown ; 1849 – 1850, William L. Stewart, jr .; 1851, Jacob Boyce ; 1852, W. H. Wicks ; 1853, Joseph Alden ; 1854, William H. Lyons ; 1855, Samuel D. Seymour ; 1856, Harmon Westfall ; 1857, George Sliter ; 1858, Albert H. Dutcher ; 1859 – 1861, George Sliter ; 1862, D. E. Barnes ; 1863, William H. Ford ; 1864, B. M. Wilkinson ; 1865, Jeffrey P. Thomas ; 1866 – 1867, David Horton ;

David Kimball, in his book compiled for the National Park Service, suggests that it most likely cracked sometime between 1841 and 1845, either on the Fourth of July or on Washington's Birthday.

David Henderson Houston ( b. June 14, 1841 ; d. May 6, 1906

* March 30 — David Léon Cahun, French Orientalist and writer ( born 1841 )

Outraged by this and by the chain of insults and slander against him by some members of the press, he wrote and published his famous ' Manifest of David ' dated July 16, 1841.

* Henry Morton Stanley ( 1841 – 1904 ) – Welsh journalist and explorer in central Africa best remembered for his search for David Livingstone, and upon finding him saying: " Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

* Sir David Wilkie ( artist ) ( 1785 – 1841 ), Scottish painter

Sir David Wilkie ( 18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841 ) was a Scottish painter.

The word derives from the Greek σεισμός, seismós, a shaking or quake, from the verb σείω, seíō, to shake ; and μέτρον, métron, measure and was coined by David Milne-Home in 1841.