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

Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, KBE, PC ( born 27 February 1941 ), usually known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and diplomat.

* Paddy Ashdown ( 1941 – 1983 )

* Paddy Ashdown ( born 1941 ), British politician and diplomat

* Paddy Ashdown ( born 1941 ), Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon

* Paddy, Lord Ashdown ( born 1941 ) was raised on a farm near Donaghadee.

* Paddy Flanagan, cyclist ( born 1941 ).

* 1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.

* 1941 – Julie Christie, British actress

* Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington ( 1876 – 1941 ), British soldier and nobleman

Starting in 1941, the British developed the " en portee " method of mounting an anti-tank gun ( initially a 2 pounder ) on a truck.

* 1941 – Gorden Kaye, British actor

* 1941: Jeannie Chapman and her children said they had escaped their home when a tall Sasquatch approached their residence in Ruby Creek, British Columbia.

* Columbus ( novel ), a 1941 novel by the British writer Rafael Sabatini depicting the explorations of Christopher Columbus

In the British Army, all cavalry regiments were mechanised between 1929 and 1941, redefining their role from horse to armoured vehicles to form the Royal Armoured Corps together with the Royal Tank Regiment.

* 1875 – Evelyn Underhill, British poet ( d. 1941 )

* 1941 – John Levene, British actor

* 1941 – Michael Pinder, British musician ( Moody Blues )

When the British army conquered Eritrea from the Italians in spring 1941, most of the infrastructures and the industrial areas were extremely damaged.

British forces defeated the Italian army in Eritrea in 1941 at the Battle of Keren and placed the colony under British military administration until Allied forces could determine its fate.

* 1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and Scout movement founder ( d. 1941 )

* 1941 – Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer ( d. 1972 )

Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.

As a result, and because a British blockade initially hindered foreign relief efforts, a wide-scale famine resulted, when hundreds of thousands perished, especially in the winter of 1941 – 1942.

*, British aircraft carrier launched in 1937 that participated in World War II and was sunk by a U-boat in 1941.

In September 1941, Stalin told British diplomats that he wanted two agreements: ( 1 ) a mutual assistance / aid pact and ( 2 ) a recognition that, after the war, the Soviet Union would gain the territories in countries that it had taken pursuant to its division of Eastern Europe with Hitler in the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact.

Very early conferences, such as that with British diplomats in Moscow in 1941 and with Churchill and American diplomats in Moscow in 1942, focused mostly upon war planning and supply, though some preliminary postwar reorganization discussion also occurred.

* 1941 – World War II: U. S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.

* 1941 – World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.