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

* 1905 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist ( d. 1941 )

Arndt Juho Pekurinen ( August 29, 1905 in Juva, Finland – November 5, 1941 in Kalevala district, Soviet Union, now Russia ) was a Finnish pacifist and conscientious objector.

* 2003 – Jyrki Otila, Finnish quiz show judge and member of the European Parliament ( b. 1941 )

Bassists noted for their virtuoso solo skills include Canadian player Gary Karr ( b. 1941 ), Finnish composer Teppo Hauta-Aho ( b. 1941 ), Italian composer Fernando Grillo, and US player-composer Edgar Meyer.

* 1941 – Terttu Savola, Finnish politician

* 1944 – World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.

During the Continuation War ( 1941 – 1944 ) not only Finnish and Soviet, but also German and Italian vessels operated there ( see also Naval Detachment K and Regia Marina ).

Paavo Tapio Lipponen () ( born 23 April 1941 ) is a Finnish politician and former reporter.

Another German failure was the Siege of Leningrad, in which the city was fully blockaded on land between 1941 – 44 by German and Finnish forces, suffering starvation and more than a million deaths, but never surrendering.

Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

Then, in the spring of 1941, the German Army and the Finnish Army invaded the Soviet Union together.

Finnish Waffen-SS volunteers of the battalion in Gross Born Truppenlager in 1941.

* 1941 – Jyrki Otila, Finnish economist, politician, and game show host ( d. 2003 )

In retaliation, the Soviet Union launched a major air offensive against Finnish airfields and towns, which resulted in a Finnish declaration of war against the Soviet Union on 25 June 1941.

However, on 10 July 1941, Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim issued an Order of the Day that contained a formulation understood internationally as a Finnish territorial interest in Russian Karelia.

Diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Finland were severed on 1 August 1941, after the British bombed German forces in the Finnish village and port of Petsamo.

German forces in Finnish territory launched an offensive against the city in 1941 as part of Operation Silver Fox, and Murmansk suffered extensive destruction, the magnitude of which was rivaled only by the destruction of Leningrad and Stalingrad.

In fact, from January 1941 to March 1943, even the far-right Patriotic People's Movement ( IKL ) participated in the government ( see, for example, Martti Turtola, " Risto Ryti: A Life for the Fatherland ", Sakari Virkkunen, " The Finnish Presidents II ", and " The Republic's Presidents 1940-1956 " / Tasavallan presidentit 1940-1956 ).

He appeared with actress / singer Birgit Kronström in the 1941 romantic comedy " Onnellinen ministeri " (" Happy Minister "), which included the famous song " Katupoikien Laulu ", remade by other Finnish pop singers including Katri Helena.

Finnish Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union by Finland following the Winter War ( 1939 – 1940 ) and Continuation War ( 1941 – 1944 ).

Finland initially regained the lost territory, reaching the Russian side of the border of 1939 and seen by the Russians as indirectly contributing to the Siege of Leningrad ( see Finnish reconquest of the Karelian Isthmus ( 1941 )).

He was arrested by the Finnish authorities in 1941 and was expelled to the Soviet Union in 1944.