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

* Mary Penelope Aubrey-Fletcher, 8th Baroness Braye ( b. 1941 )

* SS Ragnhild ( 1941 ), a Finnish cargo ship renamed Penelope from 1946 to 1972

Penelope Delta (, Alexandria, 1874 – Athens, 2 May 1941 ) was a Greek author of books for children.

In 1939 his daughter Ruth was born, and in 1941 his daughter Penelope.

* Delta Blues ( 1941 – 1942 ) Smithsonian 31028

* Delta Blues ( 1941 – 1942 ) ( 2003 ) Biograph Cd 118

According to Dixon & Godrich ( 1981 ) and Leadbitter and Slaven ( 1968 ), Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress researchers did not record any Delta bluesmen ( or women ) prior to 1941, when he recorded Son House and Willie Brown near Lake Cormorant, Mississippi, and Muddy Waters at Stovall, Mississippi ; however, this claim is disputed as John and Alan Lomax did record Bukka White in 1939, Lead Belly in 1933 and most likely others.

In fall 1940 Italian Marshal Rodolfo Graziani ordered his Army in western Egypt to complete this new coastal road extending the Via Balbia 60 miles inside Egypt, even in order to create an infrastructure for a planned Italian invasion of the Nile Delta in January / February 1941.

He graduated from Yale Law School in 1941, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and a member of Phi Delta Phi.

Following Work's collection Negro Folk Songs, the bulk of which was recorded at Fort Valley, he and two colleagues from Fisk University, Charles S. Johnson, head of the department of sociology ( later, in October 1946, chosen as the university's first black president ), and Lewis Jones, professor of sociology, collaborated with the Archive of American Folk Song on the Library of Congress / Fisk University Mississippi Delta Collection ( AFC 1941 / 002 ).

Before the recording project at Fort Valley, where he was a member of the summer faculty, Jones, along with Johnson and John W. Work III collaborated with the Archive of American Folk Song on the Library of Congress / Fisk University Mississippi Delta Collection ( AFC 1941 / 002 ).

" Phi Beta Delta merged into Pi Lambda Phi on February 1, 1941.

Astaire also made a successful recording of this number with Decca in September 1941, backed in this instance by the Delta Rhythm Boys.

* 1941 – Manolis Mavrommatis, Greek politician

* 1941 – Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician ( d. 2009 )

* 1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.

* 1941 – Giorgos Arvanitis, Greek cinematographer

In April 1941, after Greece capitulated to the German forces, the Greek territorial gains in southern Albania returned to Italian command.

* 1941 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator ( b. 1871 )

* 1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.

* 1941 – World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.

* 1941 – World War II: The Greek Triton ( Y-5 ) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.

* 1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.

* 2009 – Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician ( b. 1941 )

* 2008 – Elena Nathanael, Greek film actress ( b. 1941 )

* 1941 – Christos Papanikolaou, Greek pole vaulter

* 1941 – Spilios Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician

During World War II Thessaloniki was heavily bombarded by Fascist Italy ( with 232 people dead, 871 wounded and over 800 buildings damaged or destroyed in November 1940 alone ), and, the Italians having failed to succeed in their invasion of Greece, it fell to the forces of Nazi Germany on 8 April 1941 and remained under German occupation until 30 October 1944 when it was liberated by the Greek People's Liberation Army.

Sir Arthur John Evans FRS ( 8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941 ) was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

In this tale, loosely based upon the life of Kazan's uncle, the director uses little-known cast members, with the entire storyline revolving around the central performance of Greek actor Stathis Giallelis ( born 1941 ), twenty-two years old at the time of production, who is in virtually every scene of the nearly three-hour movie.

During the German invasion of Greece in World War II, the harbor was bombed by the Luftwaffe on April 23, 1941, sinking the Greek battleships Kilkis and Lemnos.

Eliade's reinterpreted the Greek mythological figure Iphigeneia in his eponymous 1941 play.

The Greek campaign-Operation ' Marita ' - was launched on April 6, 1941.

At some times, particularly under the nationalist 4th of August Regime under Ioannis Metaxas of 1936 – 1941, Greek state institutions followed a policy of actively discouraging and repressing the use of Arvanitika.

This gun was used by the Hellenic ( Greek ) Army in the Greek-Italian war from October 1940-Spring 1941.