* Herbert Austin ( 1866 – 1941 ), British founder of the Austin Motor Company

* 1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.

* 1941 – Julie Christie, British actress

* Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington ( 1876 – 1941 ), British soldier and nobleman

Starting in 1941, the British developed the " en portee " method of mounting an anti-tank gun ( initially a 2 pounder ) on a truck.

* 1941 – Gorden Kaye, British actor

* 1941: Jeannie Chapman and her children said they had escaped their home when a tall Sasquatch approached their residence in Ruby Creek, British Columbia.

* Columbus ( novel ), a 1941 novel by the British writer Rafael Sabatini depicting the explorations of Christopher Columbus

In the British Army, all cavalry regiments were mechanised between 1929 and 1941, redefining their role from horse to armoured vehicles to form the Royal Armoured Corps together with the Royal Tank Regiment.

* 1875 – Evelyn Underhill, British poet ( d. 1941 )

* 1941 – John Levene, British actor

* 1941 – Michael Pinder, British musician ( Moody Blues )

When the British army conquered Eritrea from the Italians in spring 1941, most of the infrastructures and the industrial areas were extremely damaged.

British forces defeated the Italian army in Eritrea in 1941 at the Battle of Keren and placed the colony under British military administration until Allied forces could determine its fate.

* 1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and Scout movement founder ( d. 1941 )

* 1941 – Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer ( d. 1972 )

* 1941 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician

Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.

As a result, and because a British blockade initially hindered foreign relief efforts, a wide-scale famine resulted, when hundreds of thousands perished, especially in the winter of 1941 – 1942.

*, British aircraft carrier launched in 1937 that participated in World War II and was sunk by a U-boat in 1941.

In September 1941, Stalin told British diplomats that he wanted two agreements: ( 1 ) a mutual assistance / aid pact and ( 2 ) a recognition that, after the war, the Soviet Union would gain the territories in countries that it had taken pursuant to its division of Eastern Europe with Hitler in the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact.

Very early conferences, such as that with British diplomats in Moscow in 1941 and with Churchill and American diplomats in Moscow in 1942, focused mostly upon war planning and supply, though some preliminary postwar reorganization discussion also occurred.

* 1941 – World War II: U. S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.

* 1941 – World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.

On 25 June 1941, the German Minister in Stockholm sent a " Most Urgent-Top Secret " message to Berlin in which he stated that the King had just informed him that the transit of German troops would be allowed.

* Tarzan's Secret Treasure ( 1941 )

In 1941 he patented a " Secret Communications System " with actress Hedy Lamarr that used a code ( stored on a punched paper tape ) to synchronize a frequency hopping receiver and transmitter, a technique now known as spread spectrum which is now widely used in telecommunications.

* Tarzan's Secret Treasure ( 1941 )

Stalin's Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941 – 1945.

Kellerman joined the Secret Service in Detroit just before Christmas, 1941, transferring temporarily to the White House detail in March 1942 and permanently one month later.

According to the experts at TNA, documents now shown to be forgeries supported controversial arguments central to each of Allen's books: in Hidden Agenda, five documents now known to be forged helped justify his claim that the Duke of Windsor betrayed military secrets to Hitler ; in The Hitler / Hess Deception, thirteen forged papers supported Allen's contention that, in 1941, British intelligence used members of the Royal Family to fool the Nazis into thinking Britain was on the verge of a pro-German putsch ; in Himmler's Secret War, twenty-two counterfeit papers also underpinned the book's core claims that British intelligence played mind games with Himmler to encourage him to betray Hitler from 1943 onwards, and that ultimately they murdered the SS chief.

Following the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland in World War II, a wave of anti-Polish repression by the Soviet Secret Police was conducted between 1939 and 1941.

In 1941 German director Herbert Selpin directed a biopic about Bauer with the title Geheimakte W. B. 1 ( Secret file W. B. 1 ; W. B

* The Secret History of the American Revolution ( 1941 )

* Il gioco segreto (" The Secret Game ", 1941 )

Holt made the serial — Holt of the Secret Service ( 1941 )— and it turned out well enough for Columbia to promote it vigorously, introducing this veteran action star to serial audiences.

* Holt of the Secret Service ( 1941 serial )

* Holt of the Secret Service ( 1941 )

* The Nurse's Secret ( 1941 ) Plays Miss Ruth Adams, an intelligent nurse.

* ( 1941 ) The Secret Sense

* " The Secret Sense " ( 1941 )

It was used in films such as A Letter to Three Wives ( 1949 ), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), the voice of Casey Junior the train in Dumbo ( 1941 ) and The Reluctant Dragon ( 1941 ), the instruments in Rusty in Orchestraville, the piano in Sparky's Magic Piano, and the airplane in Whizzer The Talking Airplane ( 1947 ).

* Tarzan's Secret Treasure ( 1941 )

* Voice Silencer on Telephone Lets You Talk in Secret Popular Mechanics, February 1941

* The Nurse's Secret ( 1941 )

From 1941 to 1943, President Roosevelt's Secret Service was housed in the basement and third-floor service areas, and some of the President's personal White House staff and friends occasionally stayed in the main bedrooms of the house, including those of Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt.

* The G-Bomb ( 1941 as " The Last Secret Weapon " by Polton Cross ; revised 1952 )