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 – 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

* Hans Heinrich Euler, ( 1901 – 1941 ), physicist

*:: 1947: Hans Peter Luhn ( research engineer at IBM since 1941 ) began work on a mechanized punch card-based system for searching chemical compounds.

* 1941 – Hans Berger, German scientist ( b. 1873 )

In the spring of 1941, Ribbentrop appointed an assemblage of SA men to German embassies in Eastern Europe, with Manfred von Killinger going to Romania, Siegfried Kasche to Croatia, Adolf Beckerle to Bulgaria, Dietrich von Jagow to Hungary, and Hans Ludin to Slovakia.

* 1941 Ohm Krüger by Hans Steinhoff ( Germany )

During World War II, on the order of Hans Frank – the Governor-General of that region of occupied Poland – the dismantled Altar was shipped to the Third Reich around 1941.

* June 27 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1941 )

In April 1941, Hans Thomsen, a diplomat at the German embassy in Washington, D. C., sent a message to Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister, informing him that " an absolutely reliable source " had told Thomsen that the Americans had broken the Japanese diplomatic cipher ( that is, Purple ).

* Late 1930s – Hans von Ohain and Frank Whittle separately build pioneering gas turbine engines intended for aircraft propulsion, leading to the pioneering turbojet powered flights in 1939 Germany and 1941 England.

In 1941 the Swiss scientist Hans Jenny expanded Vasily Dokuchaev equation by adding relief / topology as a factor and separating the biological processes into the fauna and flora coming up with the equation:

Vitalism was also important in the thinking of later teleologists such as Hans Driesch ( 1867 – 1941 ).

* Hans Spemann ( 1869 – 1941 ), biologist, Nobel Prize for biology in 1935

Hans Spemann ( 27 June 1869 – 9 September 1941 ) was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence, exercised by various parts of the embryo, that directs the development of groups of cells into particular tissues and organs.

* Hans Berger ( 1873 – 1941 ), German neuroscientist

In March 1941 Hans Frank informed his subordinates that Hitler had made the decision to " turn this region into a purely German area within 15 – 20 years.

Hans Eichel ( born 24 December 1941 ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and was Minister of Finance from 1999 to 2005.

A propaganda film " Carl Peters " by Herbert Selpin was released in 1941, starring Hans Albers.

A. Milne, written c. 1941, which has nothing to do with the Hans Christian Andersen story.

These new scenes tell the history of the piece, depicting Hans Krása and others who worked on the piece in Terezin working on Brundibár, from the first performance of Brundibár in Prague in 1941 all the way up to the Red Cross performance in 1944.

This however was not true since at the same time SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Krüger, commander of the Gestapo unit supervising the massacres in Lviv in 1941, was being held in Hamburg prison ( he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the mass murder of Jews and Poles in Stanisławów, committed several weeks after his unit was transferred from Lviv ).

Eric Braeden ( born Hans Jörg Gudegast ; April 3, 1941 ) is a German-American film and television actor, best known for his role as Victor Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Hans Dietrich in the 1960s TV series The Rat Patrol, and as John Jacob Astor IV in the 1997 film Titanic.

* 1941 – Der Weg ins Freie, with Hans Stüwe, Agnes Windeck, Siegfried Breuer, Hedwig Wangel

* General of the Cavalry Hans Feige ( Mai 1940-30 November 1941 )