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

* Simon Tyssot de Patot and the Seventeenth-Century Background of Critical Deism by David Rice McKee ( Johns Hopkins Press, 1941 )

* 2003 – David Bale, South African – born activist ( b. 1941 )

* 1941 – David Gross, American physicist, Nobel laureate

* 1941 – David Selby, American actor

Eventually, he signed with David O. Selznick, agreeing to go to Hollywood at the end of his commitment to Pal Joey, in October 1941.

* 1941 – David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist

* 1991 – David Ruffin, American singer and drummer ( The Temptations ) ( b. 1941 )

* 1941 – David Satcher, 16th United States Surgeon General

Claims by Suvorov that Stalin planned to invade Germany in 1941 are debated by historians with, for example, David Glantz opposing such claims, while Mikhail Meltyukhov supports them.

* 1941 – David Hemmings, British actor ( d. 2003 )

* 1941 – David Bale, South African – American pilot and activist ( d. 2003 )

* 1941 – David Clayton-Thomas, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Blood, Sweat & Tears )

In 1941, Breton went to the United States, where he co-founded the short-lived magazine VVV with Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and the American artist David Hare.

* June 1 – David Ruffin, American singer ( b. 1941 )

David Boies ( born March 11, 1941 ) is an American lawyer and chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

* Opler, Morris E .; & French, David H. ( 1941 ).

* David Coke ( 1915 – 1941 ), a British pilot during World War II

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

( David ) Euan Wallace, MC, MP, PC ( 1892 – 1941 ).

Among those who can lay claim to fame, and who have either been born or lived in Beckenham or have had some important contribution to make to the town, there are show business people such as Bob Monkhouse ( 1928 – 2003 ); Julie Andrews ( 1935-); David Bowie ( 1947-), who lived at 42 Southend Road, Beckenham from 1969 – 1973 ; Peter Frampton ( 1950-); Wende Snijders ( 1978-), the Dutch singer ; and the actors Maurice Denham ( 1909 – 2002 ), and Simon Ward ( 1941 – 2012 ).

* 1941 – 1946: Sir David Petrie ( b. 1879 – d.

The concentration of Latter-day Saints was high enough in St. David that a stake was created there in 1941, 5 years prior to one being established in Mesa, even though a temple had been built in Mesa in 1927.

* David Duffield ( born 1941 ), businessman and founder of Information Associates, Integral Software Systems, Business Software, PeopleSoft, and Workday.

It successfully ran from 1941 to 1950, starring Claudia Morgan as Nora, with Les Daman, Les Tremayne and David Gothard all giving voice to Nick, depending on the season.