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

In World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed Labour politician Tom Johnston as Secretary of State for Scotland in February 1941 ; he controlled Scottish affairs until the war ended.

* 1941 – Tom Fogerty, American musician ( Creedence Clearwater Revival ) ( d. 1990 )

Other inventions of Tom's have not come to pass, such as the device for silencing airplane engines that he invents in Tom Swift and His Magnetic Silencer ( 1941 ).

The first Tom Swift series ended in 1941.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

Although Frank Capra cast Raymond Massey in the 1944 film, which was shot in 1941, while Karloff was still appearing in the role on Broadway, Karloff reprised the role on television with Tony Randall and Tom Bosley in a 1962 production on the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

* Tom McCreery, ( 1874 – 1941 ), major league baseball player

Hanna and Barbera also produced / directed for MGM cartoon studio half a dozen one-shot theatrical shorts besides Tom and Jerry series, including Gallopin ' Gals ( 1940 ), Officer Pooch ( 1941 ), War Dogs ( 1943 ) and Good Will to Men ( 1955 ).

* The reservation was the setting for a Tom Swift children's book series ( 1910 – 1941 ).

Thomas Antonio " Tom " Conti ( born 22 November 1941 ) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and novelist.

1941 ) and Tom Schulman ( B. A.

* Tom, Dick and Harry ( 1941 )

* Tom, Dick and Harry ( 1941 )

* Tom, Dick and Harry ( 1941 )

* Tom Mann, Born April 15, 1856, Died March 13, 1941: A Tribute by Harry Pollitt.

Thomas " Tom " Clarke, CBE, JP ( born 10 January 1941 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament ( MP ) since 1982 and has represented Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill since 2005.

Tom ( 1937 ) and Dick Smothers ( 1939 ), also known as the Smothers Brothers, were born on the island, as was comic book ( Batman, Green Lantern ) artist Neal Adams ( 1941 ).

* Tom Clarke ( politician ) ( born 1941 ), British Member of Parliament

Tom Mann ( 1856 – 1941 ) was a noted British trade unionist.

Tom Mann continued to actively champion socialism, communism and co-operation until his death in 1941.

Tom Mann died on 13 March 1941.

* Pollitt, Harry Tom Mann: A Tribute 1941

* Tom Breneman, 46, radio talk show host from 1941 – 1948, best known for the radio program, Breakfast in Hollywood.

* Tom Morrissey ( baseball ), ( 1860 – 1941 ), American Major League Baseball player