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

High Sierra, a 1941 movie directed by Raoul Walsh, had a screenplay written by Bogart's friend and drinking partner, John Huston, adapted from the novel by W. R. Burnett ( Little Caesar, etc .).

In optics, polarized light can be described using the Jones calculus, invented by R. C. Jones in 1941.

Such distortions of Germanic mythology were denounced by J. R. R. Tolkien, e. g. in a 1941 letter where he speaks of Hitler's corruption of "... that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved and tried to present in its true light.

* Jakobson R., Child Language, Aphasia and Phonological Universals, 1941

* Coke R. Stevenson ( 1888 – 1975 ), Governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947

Franklin D. Roosevelt set up the Office of Lend-Lease Administration in 1941, appointing steel executive Edward R. Stettinius as head.

Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).

* Academy Awards: Oscar ; Best Black-and-White Cinematography, Gregg Toland ; Best Special Effects, R. T. Layton ( photographic ), Ray Binger ( photographic ) and Thomas T. Moulton ( sound ); Best Film Editing, Sherman Todd ; Best Original Score, Richard Hageman ; Best Picture, John Ford ; Best Screenplay Writing, Dudley Nichols ; 1941.

In 1941, Komarov left school because of World War II, and the Nazi German invasion of the U. S. S. R., and he became a laborer on a collective farm.

In 1941, BMW began series production of the R 75 and ended production of the R 71.

* J. R. Ackerley, author and literary editor of The Listener lived at Star and Garter Mansions from 1941 until his death in 1967

A team of Royal Engineer ( RE ) officers was assembled at the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment ( MEXE ), in Barrack Road Christchurch, Dorset, in 1941 and 1942 ; among them were Robin Foulkes, Darrell Herbert, John de Waele, and Bill Buckle, all R. E.

* Wilson Pickett ( March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006 ), R & B and soul singer and songwriter

In Polish the inscription reads: " Pamięci Zydów z Jedwabnego i okolic, męzczyzn, kobiet, i dzieci, współgospodarzy tej ziemi, zamordowanych, żywcem spalonych w tym miejscu 10 lipca 1941 ...... 10 lipca 2001 R ."

* Kenneth R. Plum ( 3 November 1941 – ) is a Democrat in the Virginia House of Delegates.

* W. R. Davies, second president ( 1941 – 1959 ) of the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire

* W. R. Davies, second president ( 1941 – 1959 ) of the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire

( Reprint, with Foreword by R. Amundson, of the 1941 McGraw-Hill publication ).

In the mean time, R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, the controversial Diwan of Cochin Kingdom from 1935 to 1941, was developing City by constructing Thrissur Town Hall and Ramanilayam.

São Paulo Futebol Clube finished as runners-up once again in the Campeonato Paulista in 1941, and a year later the club paid 200 contos de réis ( equivalent to approximately R $ 162, 000 today ) to acquire Leônidas da Silva from Flamengo.

# Bagnold, R. A. 1941.

Philippé Wynne ( April 3, 1941 – July 14, 1984 ), born Phillip Walker, was an American R & B singer.