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

* 1882 – James Joyce, Irish author ( d. 1941 )

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, his role was turned over to full-time director of OCD, James M. Landis.

James Harcourt played Fox in the 1941 film Penn of Pennsylvania.

They adopted a son, James Cagney, Jr., in 1941, and then a daughter, Cathleen " Casey " Cagney.

James Patrick Hogan ( 27 June 1941 – 12 July 2010 ) was a British science fiction author.

Henri Bergson ( 1859 – 1941 ), on the other hand, emphasized the difference between scientific, clock time and the direct, subjective, human experience of time His work on time and consciousness " had a great influence on twentieth-century novelists ," especially those modernists who used the stream of consciousness technique, such as Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, ( 1915 ), James Joyce, Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Virginia Woolf ( 1882 – 1941 ) Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), To the Lighthouse ( 1927 ).

* 1941 – Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist ( b. 1854 )

* 1941 – World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.

* Admiral James O. Richardson, United States Navy Fleet Commander 1940 – 1941

* 1941 – R. James Woolsey, Jr., American 16th Director of Central Intelligence

* January 5 – James Stuart Blackton, American film producer ( d. 1941 )

** James Joyce, Irish author ( d. 1941 )

After America entered World War II in December 1941, Johnson, still in Congress, became a commissioned officer in the Naval Reserve, then asked Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal for a combat assignment.

* James Edward Maceo West ( born 1941 ), co-inventor of the foil electret microphone and member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

* James A. Yorke ( born 1941 ), chair of the Mathematics Department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

James Oliver Eastland ( November 28, 1904 February 19, 1986 ) was an American politician from Mississippi who briefly served in the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1941 ; and again from 1943 until his resignation December 27, 1978.

Mildred Pierce is a 1941 hardboiled novel by James M. Cain.

Random Harvest is a 1942 film based on the 1941 James Hilton novel of the same name, directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

Hale County is connected to three major twentieth century artists: Walker Evans photographed the area in 1936 while he collaborated with James Agee on the 1941 book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

* Problems Of Cooperation, by James Peter Warbasse, 1941

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer ( 1854 – 1941 ).

In 1941, she married James Lloyd Crawford, real estate salesman.