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

* 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

Erin Fleming ( 13 August 1941 – 15 April 2003 ) was a Canadian actress who was best known as the companion and " secretary " to Groucho Marx in his final years.

In 1941 the London Power Company commemorated Fleming by naming a new 1, 555 GRT coastal collier SS Ambrose Fleming.

According to The Man Who Was M: The Life of Charles Henry Maxwell Knight by Anthony Masters, ISBN 0-631-13392-5, The Link was allegedly resurrected in 1940 by Ian Fleming, then working in the Department of Naval Intelligence, in order to successfully lure Rudolf Hess ( deputy party leader and third in leadership of Germany, after Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring ) to Britain in May 1941.

In 1892, FTF married Jane Clyde Fleming ( 1869 – 1941 ).

Fleming began working as a film actress while attending Beverly Hills High School, from which she was graduated in 1941.

* Siegfried Scheer, Paul Fleming 1609 – 1640: seine literar-historischen Nachwirkungen in drei Jahrhunderten ( 1941 )

In 1941, van Vogt decided to become a full-time writer, quitting his job at the Canadian Department of National Defence.

* 1941 – Réjean Ducharme, Canadian novelist and playwright

* 1941 – J. P. Parisé, Canadian ice hockey player

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 – Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist

* 1941 – Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1941 – Rod Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1941 – Paul Anka, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

* 1941 – Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey

* 1941 – Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler

* 1941 – Peter Cullen, Canadian voice actor

* 1941 – Denis Héroux, Canadian director and producer

* 1941 – Gino Brito, Canadian wrestler

* 1941 – Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Bennett retired to Britain in 1938, and, on June 12, 1941, became the first and only former Canadian Prime Minister to be elevated to the peerage as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada.

* 1941 – Simon Nolet, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1941 – Serge Ménard, Canadian politician

* 1941 – Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player

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

King linked Canada more and more closely to the United States, signing an agreement with Roosevelt at Ogdensburg, New York in August 1940 that provided for the close cooperation of Canadian and American forces, despite the fact that the U. S. remained officially neutral until the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

* November 14 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1941 )

* Mildred Dover ( born 1941 ), former Canadian politician

In 1941 the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission completed the third current crossing in the immediate area of Niagara Falls with the Rainbow Bridge, carrying both pedestrian and vehicular traffic between the two countries and Canadian and U. S. customs for each country.