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

He was enlisted in the Regular Army as Corporal Neville L. Brand, infantryman on March 5, 1941, he was listed as being six feet tall and weighing 169 pounds.

The game starts when U. S. Marine Corporal Joseph D. " Joe " Griffin wakes up on the USS California to the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.

Brand fought in the North African campaign, including the advance on Benghazi, and was promoted to Corporal before the 2 / 11th was sent to the Greek campaign, in which he was seriously wounded on 24 April 1941.

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 ).

* 1941, 15 August: Josef Jakobs, a German spy, was executed by firing squad, the last execution in the Tower of London.

* Josef Schwarz ( born 1941 ), Czech-born German long jumper

Josef Bürckel ( b. 1895-d. 1944 ) was appointed on 1 March 1935 as Reichskommissar für die Rückgliederung des Saarlandes, then changed his style from 17 June 1936 to Reichskommissar für das Saarland, and from 8 April 1940 to Reichskommissar für die Saarpfalz ; finally from 11 March 1941, he was made Reichsstatthalter in der " Westmark " ( the region's new name, meaning " Western March or Border "), till 28 September 1944 when he was succeeded by Willi Stöhr ( b. 1903, also NSDAP ), who remained in office until 21 March 1945.

Composers who wrote a called " Missa Solemnis " have included France Ačko ( 1941 ), Hendrik Andriessen ( 1946 ), Marco Betta, František Brixi, Antonio Buonomo ( 1983 ), Alfredo Casella ( 1944 ), Paul Creston, Georg Druschetzky ( 1804 ), Bohumil Fidler ( 1901 ), Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Konstanty Gorski, Michael Haydn ( 1772 ), Václav Emanuel Horák, Sigurd Islandsmoen ( 1954 ), Friedrich Kiel, Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Josef Lammerz ( 1990 ), Boleslaw Ocias and Johann Nepomuk Schelble, Wolfgang Seifen, Johann Baptist Vanhal ( 1778 ), Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann ( 1848 ).

Between 1938 and 1941, Upper and Lower Silesia were again merged to a single province under governor Josef Wagner.

* Josef Nebeský, party leader of the National Union from 1939 to 1941.

* Josef Fousek ( 1875 – 1942 ), party leader of the National Union from 1941 to 1942.

On September 1, 1941, he was appointed the State Secretary of the General Government in Poland, serving as deputy to Deputy Governor Josef Bühler.

Josef Strzygowski ( March 7, 1862, in Biala – January 2, 1941, Vienna ) was a Polish-Austrian art historian known for his theory on the influence of Early Christian Armenian architecture on the early Medieval architecture of Europe, outlined in his book, Die Baukunst der Armenier und Europa.

* LEOPOLD, Josef ( 1889 – 1941 ) Nazi Party politician.

In May 1941, Stroop changed his name from Josef to Jürgen for ideological reasons and in honor of his deceased son.

In 1941 the Nazi Gestapo Obersturmbannführer ( Lt. Col .) Josef Meisinger, the ' Butcher of Warsaw ', acting as the Gestapo's liaison with the German Embassy in Tokyo, tried to influence the Japanese to " exterminate " or enslave approximately 18, 000 – 20, 000 Jews who had escaped from Austria and Germany and who were living in Japanese-occupied Shanghai.

* Josef Sayer ( born 1941 ), German Roman Catholic priest, theologian and development aid official.

Josef Florian ( February 9, 1873 – December 29, 1941, both in Stará Říše in Moravia ) was a Czech book publisher and translator.

He was discovered by Josef von Sternberg and given a bit part in his film The Shanghai Gesture ( 1941 ).

* Josef Schulz ( died 1941 ), German soldier during WWII

Among the films Cassini costumed for were The Shanghai Gesture, a 1941 film by Josef von Sternberg, which starred actress Gene Tierney., Tales of Manhattan ( 1942 ) for Rita Hayworth, The Razor ’ s Edge ( 1946 ), It's a Joke Son!

Josef Motzfeldt ( born 1941 ) is a Greenland politician and serves as Minister for Finance and Foreign Affairs in the Greenland Homerule Government.

Josef Jakobs ( 30 June 1898 – 15 August 1941 ) was a German spy who became the last person to be executed at the Tower of London.