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

* 1941 – Connie Crothers, American jazz pianist

In 1941, Olson moved to New York and joined Constance " Connie " Wilcock in civil marriage, together having one child, Katherine.

Connie Smith ( born Constance June Meador ; August 14, 1941 ) is an American country music artist.

He became a fisherman, married Connie McGillicuddy, and joined the U. S. Navy during the 1941 War, seeing action around the Sandwich Islands aboard the destroyer USS Townsend.

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

* 1941 – Delia Smith, English chef

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

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

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 ).

* Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 1941 )

He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) and roles in Berkeley Square ( 1933 ), Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ), The Petrified Forest ( 1936 ), Pygmalion ( 1938 ), Intermezzo ( 1939 ), " Pimpernel " Smith ( 1941 ) and The First of the Few ( 1942 ).

He starred in a number of Second World War films including 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), " Pimpernel " Smith ( 1941 ), and The First of the Few ( 1942, known in the U. S. as Spitfire ), the latter two of which he also directed and co-produced.

* William Ruthven Smith ( 1868 – 1941 ), United States Army officer

* William Smith ( c. 1872 – 1941 ), Master of the SS Sauternes, English merchant seaman killed in World War II

* Bruce Smith, 1941 Heisman trophy winner.

He also played other bit parts, and minor unbilled roles in ten additional films produced between 1936 and 1940 ; the last of which, Pimpernel Smith, had a belated release in July 1941, when Rennie was already in uniform, serving in the Royal Air Force.

* ' Pimpernel ' Smith ( 1941 )

Comedians Charlie Dale ( left ) and Joe Smith ( Smith and Dale ) in a comedy sketch for Soundies movie jukeboxes ( 1941 )

Beginning in 1941, Soundies experimented with expanding its format, and filmed comedy Soundies with Our Gang star Carl " Alfalfa " Switzer, Broadway comic Willie Howard, dialect comedians Smith and Dale, and silent-movie comedians The Keystone Kops.

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.

He worked on other Capra films during the following decade, including the comedy, You Can't Take It With You ( 1938-AA winner for " Best Picture ); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939-AA winner for " Best Picture "); Meet John Doe ( 1941 ); and It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ).

A number of members were imprisoned under the Smith Act of 1941, including J. P. Cannon ( see Smith Act Trials ).

* James C. Smith ( born 1941 ), former Florida Attorney General

*" The Enchantress of Sylaire ", by Clark Ashton Smith ( Weird Tales, Weird Tales, July 1941 )