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

* 1941 – Bo Svenson, Swedish actor

* 1858 – Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor, theatre director ( d. 1941 )

The strategy of the Warsaw Pact was dominated by the desire of the Soviet Union to prevent, at all costs, the recurrence of another large scale invasion of its territory by hostile Western powers, akin to those carried out by the Swedish Empire in 1708, Napoleonic France in 1812, the Central Powers during the First World War and most recently by Nazi Germany in 1941.

* April 7 – Anna Lindhagen, Swedish politician ( d. 1941 )

Sam Jerrie Lundwall ( born 24 February 1941 ) is a Swedish science fiction writer, translator, publisher and singer.

* Selma Ek ( 1856 – 1941 ), Swedish opera singer

Percy Nils Barnevik ( born 13 February 1941 in Simrishamn ) is a Swedish business executive, best known as CEO and later Chairman of Asea Brown Boveri ( ABB ) 1988 – 2002, and for being the centre of a giant pension dispute that shook Sweden in 2003.

According to Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, the King in a private conversation had threatened to abdicate if the Government did not approve a German request to transfer a fighting infantry division – the so-called Engelbrecht Division – through Swedish territory from southern Norway to northern Finland in June 1941, around Midsummer.

* MS Stockholm ( 1941 ), an ocean liner of the same design as above, completed for the Swedish American Line but sold to the Italian government, becoming a troopship

By late 1941, the operation had over 20 employees and the Swedish Air Force asked for another camera, one which would have a larger negative and could be permanently mounted to an aircraft.

Between 1941 and 1945, Hasselblad delivered 342 cameras to the Swedish military.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Operation Barbarossa sparkled an ultimatum by the government of Nazi Germany to Hansson's cabinet, demanding some military concessions, including German troop transports on Swedish railways in order to support Germany's ally Finland.

Due to the acute lack of housing, the Swedish Government helped build 107 apartments in the winter of 1941.

Sweden Day, a Midsummer celebration which also honors Swedish heritage and history, has been held annually on the sound in Throgs Neck in New York City since 1941.

Ulf Adelsohn ( born 4 October 1941 ) is a Swedish politician, leader of the Moderate Party from 1981 to 1986 and landshövding of Stockholm County in 1992 – 2001.

( October 26, 1900 – April 24, 1941 ) was a Swedish poet and novelist.

She was also a member of the Swedish literary institution Samfundet De Nio ( chair number 6 ) from 1931 until her death in 1941.

Swedish author Gunnar Ekelöf made Nike a central image in his poem Samothrace, written in 1941, where the faceless deity, arms outstretched like sails, is made into a symbol of the fight and the coming victory against Nazism and the struggle for freedom throughout history.

Anders Hjalmar Linder ( born 27 August 1941 in Solna, Sweden ) is a Swedish actor and jazz musician.

According to Stümpke's account, the snouters were discovered on the main island of Hiddudify in 1941 by the Swedish explorer Einar Pettersson-Skämtkvist when he landed on the island trying to escape spies in WW2.

During the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Sweden allowed the Wehrmacht to use Swedish railways to transport ( June – July 1941 ) the German 163rd Infantry Division along with howitzers, tanks and anti-aircraft weapons and associated ammunition, from Norway to Finland.

* 1941 begins Swedish production of carbide and calcium nitrate at a new plant in Stockvik.

Zarah Leander on the cover of Swedish weekly Se 1941

Hjalmar Emil Fredrik Söderberg ( July 2, 1869-October 14, 1941 ) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet and journalist.