* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

* Phil Austin ( born 1941 ), American comedian and writer

* 1941 – Phil Austin, American comedian

* 1941 – Don " The Snake " Prudhomme, American drag racer

* 1941 – Johnny Farina, American musician and composer ( Santo & Johnny )

* 1941 – Harrison Page, American actor

* 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

* 1902 – Helen Morgan, American actress ( d. 1941 )

* 1941 – Doris Coley, American singer ( The Shirelles ) ( d. 2000 )

* 1941 – Ron Brown, American politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1895 – Marguerite Nichols, American actress ( d. 1941 )

* 1941 – Beverly Lee, American singer ( The Shirelles )

* 1941 – Martha Stewart, American businesswoman, publisher, and author, founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

* 1941 – Lynne Cheney, American politician, founded American Council of Trustees and Alumni

* 1941 – David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and CPR )

* 1941 – Connie Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1860 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American writer and public speaker ( d. 1941 )

* 1941 – Dana Ivey, American actress

* 1941 – Marshall Brickman, American screenwriter

* 1941 – Dr. Demento, American radio personality

* 1941 – Paul Plishka, American opera singer

The provinces of Turkey are organized into 7 census-defined regions (), which were originally defined at the First Geography Congress in 1941.

Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In October 1941 Goebbels organized the " Weimarer Dichtertreffen " ( Weimar Convention of Poets ) inviting collaborating writers from all of Europe.

He won thanks to the support of the Quebec bloc, organized by his long-time lieutenant in Quebec, Ernest Lapointe ( 1876 – 1941 ).

By 1941, the SD had been organized into the following sections:

Following the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Warren organized the state's civilian defense program, warning in January, 1942, that, " The Japanese situation as it exists in this state today may well be the Achilles heel of the entire civilian defense effort.

He served as President of the American Baptist Association from 1941 until 1946 and helped organized the Missionary Baptist Seminary in Little Rock, Arkansas.

In the city of Lwow, some Ukrainian police along with occupying Nazis organized two large pogroms in June – July, 1941, in which around 6, 000 Jews were murdered, in alleged retribution for the collaboration of some Jews with the Soviet regime and the large number of communists who happened to be of Jewish descent ( see The Lviv pogroms controversy ( 1941 )).

This unit was formally organized in 1913 and, on July 26, 1941, was attached to US Army Forces-Far East ( USAFFE ).

From 11 December 1941 to 23 December 1941, positions were organized and strengthened and on 23 December 1941 the Division was assigned to the Bataan Defense Forces.

While the 31st Infantry Regiment moved to the vicinity of Zig Zag Pass to cover the flanks of troops withdrawing from central and southern Luzon, 30 December 1941, the rest of the Division organized the main and reserve positions on Bataan.

With the declaration of war in December 1941, the War Industries Board declared shellac a rationed commodity, and newly organized record labels were forced to purchase their shellac allocations from existing companies.

It was he who organized the COI's New York headquarters in Room 3603 of Rockefeller Center in October, 1941 and asked Allen Dulles to head it ; the offices Dulles took over had been the location of the operations of Britain's MI6.

The Poti naval base was organized by the Soviet government in July 1941, a month after the German invasion during World War II.

The Soviet Federation held a further tournament of the top six from the 1940 event, and this was called the 1941 Absolute Championship of the USSR, one of the strongest tournaments ever organized.

The Soviet Chess Federation organized the " Absolute Championship of the USSR " in 1941, with the top six finishers from the 1940 championship meeting each other four times ; it was split between Leningrad and Moscow.

The UAW finally organized Ford in 1941.

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the PCF expanded Resistance efforts within France notably advocating the use of direct action and political assassinations which had not been systematically organized up until this point.

Starting in July 1941, the Jewish inhabitants were subjected to mass extermination by shooting in a German campaign carried out by four Einsatzgruppen (" operational groups ") specially organized for the purpose.

After the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Polish territories previously occupied by the Soviets were organized as follows:

Onslow Ford, one of the few Surrealists who was an English speaker, was invited to give a series of lectures at the New School for Social Research and organized four important Surrealist shows in 1941.