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 – 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 – Don Nix, American saxophonist, songwriter, producer, and author ( The Mar-Keys )

Van Vliet was born Don Glen Vliet in Glendale, California, on January 15, 1941, to Glen Alonzo Vliet, a service station owner of Dutch ancestry from Kansas, and Willie Sue Vliet ( née Warfield ), who was from Arkansas.

* Midnight at Minton's ( c. 1941, issued 1973 under Don Byas ' name.

This Don Raye-Hughie Prince composition was nominated for Best Song at the 1941 Academy Awards ceremony.

The most accepted of all stories is that the Margarita was invented in October 1941, at Hussong's Cantina in Ensenada, Mexico, by bartender Don Carlos Orozco.

Don Kelly enlisted in the United States Navy on June 17, 1941 just prior to World War II and saw active duty aboard the USS Stanton and USS Palmer.

* Don Juan in Sicily ( 1941 )

Shortly after flight training commenced in June 1941, Don C. Bush, a civilian flight instructor lost his life in an aircraft crash.

On 15 January 1941, Alfonso XIII, feeling his death was near, transferred his rights to the Spanish crown to his son Don Juan de Borbon, Count of Barcelona.

Among his roles were Signor Matiste, Susan Alexander Kane's opera coach in Citizen Kane ( 1941 ); General Sebastiano in Five Graves to Cairo ( 1943 ); Don Miguel in The Black Swan ( 1942 ); Fernando in For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ); Sam Garlopis in Double Indemnity ( 1944 ); and a singing Christopher Columbus in Where Do We Go From Here ?.

Roman Lazaro served as municipal president for three terms ( 1919 – 1922, 1931 – 1934, 1938 – 1941 ), Felipe Belarmino served for three consecutive terms ( 1923 – 1925, 1926 – 1928, 1929 – 1931 ) and again in 1943, Don Eduardo A. Barretto from 1935-1937.

Today the Russian state is very different, between 1917 and 1941 more than half of the Don Cossacks population had been killed or deported.

Billy Murray ( born 6 October 1941 ) is an English actor, best known for playing Don Beech in The Bill from 1995 to 2004, Johnny Allen in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2005 to 2006, Captain John Price in the video games Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Don Taylor Udall served as Representative to the Arizona State Legislature from 1941 – 42.

Donald L. " Don " Sherwood ( born March 5, 1941 ) is an American politician.

* John D. Rutherford ( born 1941 ), fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford, and a translator of Don Quixote

The actual construction of today's Volga – Don Canal, designed by Sergey Zhuk's Hydroproject Institute, began prior to the Eastern Front campaign of 1941 – 1945, which would interrupt the process.

In May 1941 at the age of thirteen, George Bizos and his father helped seven New Zealand soldiers ( Don Gladding, Mick Karup, Peter Martin, John Lewis and three others ) who were hiding in the hills to escape Nazi-occupied Greece to Crete.

While there were several smaller Cossack detachments in the Wehrmacht since 1941, the 1st Cossack Division made up of Don, Terek and Kuban Cossacks was formed in 1943.

It was the San Jose affiliate of the Don Lee Broadcasting System from 1937 to 1941, during the time that it was owned by Julius Brunton & Sons, co-located with KJBS at 1470 Pine Street in San Francisco.

Director Don Bernard hired him in October 1941 to do the commercials on the CBS program Meet Mr. Meek but decided his voice cracking between soprano and bass would hurt the commercial so he ordered scriptwriters to come up with a role for him.

The earliest known reference to it is on the 1941 menu of the " Don the Beachcomber " restaurant ( Palm Springs ).

Don Pullen ( December 25, 1941 – April 22, 1995 ) was an American jazz pianist and organist.

* 1941 " I'll Remember April ", w & m Don Raye, Patricia Johnson & Gene de Paul