E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* Herbert Austin ( 1866 – 1941 ), British founder of the Austin Motor Company

* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

* 1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 ( the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) and Operation Marita ( the invasion of Greece ).

* 1941 – Phil Austin, American comedian

* 1941 – Hans W. Geissendörfer, German director

* 1941 – Don " The Snake " Prudhomme, American drag racer

* 1941 – Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian musician

* 1871 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator ( d. 1941 )

* 1941 – Bobby Moore, English footballer ( d. 1993 )

* 1941 – Stavros Dimas, Greek politician

* 1941 – Johnny Farina, American musician and composer ( Santo & Johnny )

* 1941 – Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer ( d. 2011 )

* 1941 – János Konrád, Hungarian water polo player and swimmer

* 1941 – Harrison Page, American actor

* 1908 – Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter ( d. 1941 )

* 1941 – Lyle Berman, American poker player

* 1941 – Ray Culp, American baseball player

* 1941 – Way Bandy, American make-up artist ( d. 1986 )

* 1941 – Shirlee Busbee, American novelist

* 1941 – Erin Fleming, Canadian actress ( d. 2003 )

* 1902 – Helen Morgan, American actress ( d. 1941 )

* 1941 – Doris Coley, American singer ( The Shirelles ) ( d. 2000 )

* 1941 – Jules A. Hoffmann, French biologist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1858 – Alfred Henry O ' Keeffe, New Zealand artist ( d. 1941 )

In the summer of 1941, German Nazi-ideologist Alfred Rosenberg suggested that conquered Soviet territory should be administered in the following Reichskommissariates:

* Mr. and Mrs. Smith ( 1941 ), d. Alfred Hitchcock

", The Big Sleep directed by Howard Hawks ( 1946 ), The Lady Eve directed by Preston Sturges ( 1941 ), The Shop Around the Corner directed by Ernst Lubitsch ( 1940 ), White Heat directed by Raoul Walsh ( 1949 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), and Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock, ( 1946 ).

** in The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, 1941, P. A. Schilpp, Ed.

Audiences did not respond as well to Lombard in dramatic roles ; she made a return to comedy, teaming with director Alfred Hitchcock in Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 1941 ).

In 1939 Meyer was made Chef der Zivilverwaltung and in 1941 he became deputy to Alfred Rosenberg in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories.

* Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville ( 1852 – 1941 ), painter

Suspicion ( 1941 ) is a romantic psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple.

Alfred Vaino Aho ( born August 9, 1941 in Timmins, Ontario ) is a Canadian computer scientist.

At 20, he played the son in the Broadway production of There Shall Be No Night, which won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

In 1941, they visited the gallery of Alfred Stieglitz, where Diane learned about photographers such as Mathew Brady, Timothy O ' Sullivan, Paul Strand, Bill Brandt, and Eugène Atget.

An Academy Award-winner ( for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941 ), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo.

* Suspicion ( film ), a 1941 film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine

Fontaine won for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion ( 1941 ) over de Havilland's nomination for Hold Back the Dawn ( 1941 ).

* Alfred Tarski 1941 ( 1995 Dover edition ), Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences, Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York.

In the film, Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 1941 ) a comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond visit the fair after a dinner date and find themselves stuck high in the air on the fair's popular parachute ride when it malfunctions.

Carroll is perhaps best known for his roles in six Alfred Hitchcock films: Rebecca ( 1940 ), Suspicion ( 1941 ), Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), and North by Northwest ( 1959 ).

* In Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact ( 1932 ), which is also set among the landed gentry ( and which was filmed in 1941 by Alfred Hitchcock as Suspicion ), a wealthy young woman becomes the wife, and eventually the victim, of a ruthless criminal.

People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.

The mathematical structure of modal logic, namely Boolean algebras augmented with unary operations ( often called modal algebras ), began to emerge with J. C. C. McKinsey's 1941 proof that S2 and S4 are decidable, and reached full flower in the work of Alfred Tarski and his student Bjarni Jonsson ( Jonsson and Tarski 1951 – 52 ).

* Alfred North Whitehead ( 1941 );