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

* Jacques Henri ( 1941 – 1975 )

Jacques Dupuis became a Jesuit in 1941.

When Germany declared war on the Soviet Union in June 1941, he expressed his support for Jacques Doriot's recently-founded collaborationist force Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism ( LVF ):

In 1941, his parents enrolled Jacques at the Saint-Louis College, at rue du Marais, near the Botanical Garden of Brussels.

Jacques Toubon ( born 29 June 1941 in Nice, France ) is a right-wing French politician who held several major national and Parisian offices.

His third wife was Mary Huntemuller Kirk ( 1896 – 1941 ), the former wife of Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, a French-born New York insurance broker, and a daughter of Henry Child Kirk, owner and manager of the Kirk Silversmith Co. of Baltimore, Maryland, and his wife, the former Edith Huntemuller.

Barbet Schroeder ( born 26 August 1941 ) is a Franco-Swiss film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette.

* Jacques Ramouillet ( born 1941 ), mountaineer

The National Front ( or Front national de l ' indépendance de la France ) was a World War II French Resistance movement, created in 1941 by Jacques Duclos and Pierre Villon, both members of the French Communist Party ( PCF ).

* Iradj Gandjbakhch ( 1941 -), cardiac surgeon, performed Europe's first heart transplantation on April 27, 1968 along with Dr. Cabrol ; fitted a pacemaker on former president Jacques Chirac in 2008.

Judith Miller ( born 1941 ) is a French philosopher, and the daughter of Jacques Lacan — radical psychoanalyst, and wife to prominent Lacanian Jacques-Alain Miller.

Jacqueline Boyer ( born Jacqueline Ducos, 23 April 1941 in Paris ) is a French singer and actress, the daughter of performers Jacques Pills and Lucienne Boyer.

* Morane, Daniel: Émile Bernard 1868 – 1941, Catalogue de l ' œuvre gravé, Musée de Pont-Aven & Bibliothèque d ' Art et d ' Archéologie – Jacques Doucet, Paris, 2000 ISBN 2-910128-20-2

* Jacques Curie ( 1856 – 1941 ), French physicist, Pierre's brother

* Jacques Perrin ( born 1941 ), French actor and film maker

Joseph Jacques Hughes Laperrière ( born November 22, 1941 ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player.

She is the daughter of Sybille, Baroness de Selys Longchamps (° 1941 ), whose husband was Jacques Boël (° 1929 ), scion of a family of industrialists.

Jacques Perrin ( born Jacques André Simonet ; 13 July 1941 ) is a French actor and filmmaker.