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

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On 29 October 1941, the police arrested Abdullah Mas ' ud and Fahd took over his leadership role.

* 1941 – Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist

* 1941 – Haseena Moin, Pakistani television writer and playwright

* 1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani author and spiritual leader

* November 25 – Gohar Shahi, Pakistani spiritual leader ( b. 1941 )

Wasim Sajjad ( Urdu: وسیم سجاد ; born 30 March 1941 ), is Pakistani a lawyer and legal educator, serving as an acting President of Pakistan on two nonconsecutive terms from July 1993 until November 1993, and from 1996 until 1997.

* Abdul Aziz ( cricketer ) ( 1941 – 1959 ), Pakistani cricketer killed by ball

Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri ( Urdu: خورشيد محمود قصورى ; b. 18 June 1941 ), is a Pakistani senior statesman and a career diplomat who served as the 26th Minister of Foreign Affairs from 23 November 2002 until 15 November 2007.

* Javed Ashraf Qazi, HI ( M ), SBt, ( born 1941 ), Pakistani general, politician, Senator in the Parliament of Pakistan

* Yasmeen Lari ( born 1941 ), Pakistani architect

Intikhab Alam Khan ( Urdu: انتخاب عالم خان ) ( born 28 December 1941 ) is a retired Pakistani cricketer who played in 47 Tests and 4 ODIs from 1959 to 1977.

* Nasim-ul-Ghani ( born 1941 ), Pakistani cricketer

The Aeronautic Ministry was created on January 20, 1941, and absorbed the former Army and Navy aviation under its command.

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

Hal Trosky retired in 1941 due to migraine headaches and Bob Feller enlisted in the Navy two days after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

* 1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States.

* 1941 – Randall Cunningham, First Navy Vietnam Ace, American politician

* 1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships and are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Bush postponed going to college, enlisted in the US Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the Navy at the time.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Bush decided to join the US Navy, so after graduating from Phillips Academy earlier in 1942, he became a naval aviator at the age of 18.

* 1941 – Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.

* 1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the then pride of the Royal Navy,, killing all but three crewmen.

* 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy.

* 1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.

Recognising the need for an even larger craft capable of landing both tanks and infantry onto a hostile shore, the Navy began development of the 220-ton Marinefährprahm ( MFP ) but these too were unavailable in time for a landing on English soil in 1940, the first of them not being commissioned until April 1941.

* 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.

The Navy took over the atoll for use as the Palmyra Island Naval Air Station on August 15, 1941.

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

The term RADAR was coined in 1941 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging.

The exception was the Italian Navy which, early in 1941, started using a version of the Hagelin rotor-based cipher machine called the C-38.

The real U-570 was captured almost intact by the Royal Navy in 1941, although not before her crew had destroyed almost all the secret materials on board.

The first capture of a Naval Enigma machine and associated cipher keys from a U-boat were made on May 9, 1941 by HMS Bulldog of Britain's Royal Navy, commanded by Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell.