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 – Ron Hunt, baseball player

* 1941 – Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey

* Ron Everett, aka Maulana Karenga ( born 1941 ), US political activist and social scientist

Ron Lyle ( February 12, 1941 – November 26, 2011 ) was an American professional boxer in the heavyweight division .< ref >

* Ron Lapin ( 1941 – 1995 ) was a maverick Israeli-born American physician, who pioneered " bloodless surgery " and was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1983.

Ronald Harmon " Ron " Brown ( August 1, 1941 – April 3, 1996 ) was the United States Secretary of Commerce, serving during the first term of President Bill Clinton.

* Ron Brown ( U. S. politician ) ( 1941 – 1996 ), United States Secretary of Commerce

* Ron Powers ( born 1941 ), American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer

* Ron Wilson ( footballer ) ( born 1941 ), Scottish football player

* Ron Lyle ( 1941 – 2011 ), professional boxer

A final planned story set in the world of Persian mythology was never written, nor was a projected response to L. Ron Hubbard's misuse of their hero in his novella The Case of the Friendly Corpse ( 1941 ).

* Ron Lapin ( 1941 – 1995 ), American surgeon

Ron Gostick entered the Canadian Army in 1941 and fought in the Second World War.

* 1941 – Bob Brown, American football player

Already in 1941 Day appeared as a singer with the Les Brown band in a soundie ( a Cinemasters production ).

* 2004 – Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor ( b. 1941 )

* 1941 – Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor ( d. 2004 )

* John W. Brown ( 1867 – 1941 ), Canadian-born labor leader in the United States

* 1941 – Joe Brown, English singer and musician

Hold Back the Dawn was adapted as a radio play on the November 10, 1941 episode of Lux Radio Theater with Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard and Susan Hayward, again on the February 8, 1943 episode of The Screen Guild Theater with Charles Boyer and Susan Hayward, the July 31, 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater starring Olivia de Havilland and Jean Pierre Aumont, the May 31, 1948 episode of Screen Guild Theater with Charles Boyer and Ida Lupino, the May 14, 1949 episode of Screen Director's Playhouse with Boyer and Vanessa Brown, the May 4, 1950 episode of Screen Guild Theater with de Havilland and Boyer and the June 15, 1952 Screen Guild Theater with Barbara Stanwyck and Jean Pierre Aumont.

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.

* The Best of Big Bands: Les Brown and His Great Vocalists ( 1941 )

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.

Brown was the President of the Boston Athletic Association from 1941 to 1964.

From 1941 to 1947, the USO presented more than 400, 000 performances, featuring entertainers such as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel, Eubie Blake, Ann Sheridan, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Larry Adler, Ossy Renardy, Zero Mostel, James Cagney, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Doraine and Ellis, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, The Rockettes, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Curly Joe DeRita, The Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Brown, Joe E. Lewis, Ray Bolger, Lucille Ball, Glenn Miller, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, Betty Hutton, Dinah Shore, and most famously, Bob Hope.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Destroyer Squadron 1 was attached to the Task Force under Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, made up of with cruisers Indianapolis ( CA 35 ), and Portland ( CA 33 ).

Joseph Roger " Joe " Brown, MBE ( born 13 May 1941 ,) is an English entertainer.

* Percy Barnevik ( b. 1941 ), industry leader, former CEO of Asea Brown Boveri and board member of GM

An opportunity for Bevin to ease Beveridge out presented itself in May 1941 when Minister of Health Ernest Brown announced the formation of a committee of officials to survey existing social insurance and allied services, and to make recommendations.

Inner Sanctum Mystery, a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952, was created by producer Himan Brown.

* Brown, Ralph H. " The American Geographies of Jedidiah Morse ," Annals of the Association of American Geographers ( Volume 31, Number 3, 1941 ): 145 – 217.

Bobby Brown was one such player who started at Queen's in 1939 but left in 1941 to serve as a pilot.

In 1941 the first prison meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous took place at San Quentin ; in commemoration of this, the 25-millionth copy of the AA Big Book was presented to Jill Brown, of San Quentin, at the International Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The first exhibition, Sixteen Brown County Painters, opened on November 21, 1941.

* Peter Brown ( rugby union ) ( born 1941 ), Scottish rugby union footballer

By the time Brown arrived in Cleveland, the team had signed a number of players to its roster, including quarterback Otto Graham, whose Northwestern squad had beaten the Buckeyes in 1941.

* Joe Brown ( singer ) ( born 1941 ), British singer