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

Over the course of late 1941, the Einsatzkommandos settled into headquarters in Kovno, Riga and Tallinn.

* Mart Laar: 14. juuni 1941 ( 14th June 1941 ; about the deportations to Siberia ), Valgus, Tallinn, 1990, 210 pages.

During German occupation ( 1941 – 1944 ), the team was revived and they played two unofficial friendlies ( in Riga 0 – 4 and in Tallinn 1 – 8 ), but only few players remained from the pre-war era.

Kentmanni street in Tallinn was named after Konstantin Päts in 1939 – 1940 and 1941 – 1944 and Lossi street in Põltsamaa was named after him in 1936 – 1940.

* 14 juuni 1941. a: mälestusi ja dokumente ( Tallinn, 1990 )

The Fleet carried out the Soviet evacuation of Tallinn in late August 1941.

Jaan Tõnisson VR I / 3, II / 3 and III / 1 (, near Tänassilma – 1941 ?, in Tallinn?

The most credible speculation about his death centres on Tõnisson being shot dead in Tallinn during the first days of July in 1941.

Igor Severyanin (, pen name, real name Igor Vasilyevich Lotaryov ( И ́ горь Васи ́ льевич Лотарёв ) ( May 16, 1887, Petersburg – December 20, 1941, Tallinn ) was a Russian poet who presided over the circle of the so-called Ego-Futurists.

After the Soviet occupation of Estonia, 1940 Severyanin continued literary activities, and later died of heart attack in the German occupied Tallinn in 1941.

Hayek continued his research on monetary and capital theory, revising his theories of the relations between credit cycles and capital structure in Profits, Interest and Investment ( 1939 ) and The Pure Theory of Capital ( 1941 ), but his reputation as an economic theorist had by then fallen so much that those works were largely ignored, except for scathing critiques by Nicholas Kaldor.

The portion of Interstate 395 between the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the interchange with Interstate 95 and the Capital Beltway in Springfield is part of the Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway, named for a Virginia Highway Commissioner who died on July 16, 1941, just a few weeks after approving work on the new expressway.

By 1941, Suffolk had been declared " The Peanut Capital of the World ".

Actions for loss of consortium have been abolished in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand, by the Administration of Justice Act 1982 ( UK ) s 2, the Law Reform ( Marital Consortium ) Act 1984 ( NSW ) s 3, the Common law ( Miscellaneous Actions ) Act 1986 ( Tas ) s 3, the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1941 ( WA ) s 3, the Civil Law ( Wrongs ) Act 2002 ( ACT ) s 218 and the Accident Compensation Act 1972 ( NZ ) s 5 ( 2 ) respectively.

On August 2, 1941, Pennsylvania Central Airline which later became Capital Airlines, brought the first scheduled air-carrier service to Hickory.

On August 2, 1941, Pennsylvania Central Airlines which later became Capital Airlines, brought the first scheduled air-carrier service to Hickory.

The Omakaitse ( Home Guard ) was an organisation formed by the local population of Estonia on the basis of the Estonian Defence League and the forest brothers resistance movement active in the Eastern Front, 3 July 1941 – 17 September 1944.

* 1941 – Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.

After World War II started, Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union ( USSR ) in 1940, and later occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944.

** Soviet Union invades Poland, Finland, occupies Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Romanian region of Bessarabia from 1939 to 1941.

During the war Estonia was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941, then reoccupied by the Soviet Union in 1944.

After Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, and the Wehrmacht reached Estonia in July 1941, most Estonians greeted the Germans with relatively open arms and hoped to restore independence.

* About 7, 000 resettled from Estonia by late March 1941

No books were published listing those who resettled in 1941, however the present day archives of Estonia and Latvia still have the lists of all those who left in this year.

The names and data those deported from Estonia from 1941 to 1953 have been published in books.

The university was named Ostland-Universität in Dorpat during the German occupation of Estonia in 1941 – 1944 and Tartu State University ( Estonian: Tartu Riiklik Ülikool ) in 1940 – 1941 and 1944 – 1989, during the Soviet occupation.

* Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Yugoslavia and Luxembourg ( 1941 )

It was expected that the winner of this tournament would be the challenger for the World Champion title, in a match against World Champion Alexander Alekhine, but the outbreak of the Second World War, especially because of the first occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union in 1940 – 1941, brought negotiations with Alekhine to an end.

With the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Estonia came under German control soon afterwards.

Diver of the Estonia n Omakaitse | Home Guard, 1941

On 17 July 1941, the Reichskommissariat Ostland (" Eastland ") was established, soon uniting German-occupied Lithuania, Latvia ( from 1 September 1941 ) and Estonia ( from 5 December 1941 ) and Belarus.

Otto August Strandman VR III / 1 ( 30 November 1875 – 5 February 1941 ) was an Estonian politician, who served as Prime Minister ( 1919 ) and State Elder of Estonia ( 1929 – 1931 ).

He established and led an anti-Soviet Forest Brothers unit in Virumaa ( Northern Estonia ) in May 1941.

In Estonia in 1941, Jüri Uluots proposed restoration of independence ; later, by 1944, he had become a key figure in the secret National Committee.

On June 14, 1941, the USSR performed first mass deportations from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

( Background note: Estonia was occupied by Soviet forces from summer 1940 to summer 1941 ; then the German Nazis occupied Estonia until 1944, when many Estonians escaped to Sweden ; finally the Soviets came back and stayed until 1991.