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.

* Alfonso XIII ( 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ).

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

Steve Rogers ' physical transformation, from a reprint of Captain America Comics # 1 ( May 1941 ).

The first instance of Captain America's trademark ricocheting shield-toss occurs in Stan Lee's first comics writing, the two-page text story " Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge " in Captain America Comics # 3 ( May 1941 ).

However Kelly was sunk by German dive bombers on 23 May 1941 during the Battle of Crete.

The Albanian fascists claimed in May 1941 that nearly all the Albanian populated territories were united to Albania ( see map ).

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (; born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, ; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953 ) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 until his death in 5 March 1953.

When released on May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane — based in part on the life of William Randolph Hearst — did not do much business at theaters ; Hearst owned numerous major newspapers, and forbade them to carry advertisements for the film.

After coming back to Paris in May 1941, he participated in the founding of the underground group Socialisme et Liberté with other writers de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Toussaint Desanti and his wife Dominique Desanti, Jean Kanapa, and École Normale students.

The abject failure of Ribbentrop's Iraq scheme in May 1941 had a totally opposite effect to the one intended.

On 1 May 1941, Tito issued a pamphlet calling on the people to unite in a battle against the occupation.

His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, which became operational in May 1941.

They saw action in their proper role during 1940 – 1941, most notably in the capture of the Belgian army fortress at the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael and the Battle for The Hague in May 1940, and during the Battle of Crete in May 1941.

Other evidence suggests Luthor's design was confused with that of a stockier, bald henchman in Superman # 4 ( Spring 1940 ); Luthor's next appearance occurs in Superman # 10 ( May 1941 ), in which Novak depicted him as significantly heavier, with visible jowls.

Situation in Europe by May / June 1941, immediately before Operation Barbarossa

Situation in Europe by May / June 1941, at the end of the Balkans Campaign ( World War II ) | Balkans Campaign and immediately before Operation Barbarossa

On 5 December 1940, Hitler received military plans for the invasion, and approved them all, with the start scheduled for May 1941.

The invasion was set for 15 May 1941.

During the next decade ` Abdu ' l-Bahá would be in constant communication with Bahá ' ís around the world, helping them to teach the religion ; the group included May Ellis Bolles in Paris, Englishman Thomas Breakwell, American Herbert Hopper, French Hippolyte Dreyfus, Susan Moody, Lua Getsinger, and American Laura Clifford Barney.

Suggested starting points for the Bronze Age of comics include Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith's Conan No. 1 ( October 1970 ), Denny O ' Neil and Neal Adams ' Green Lantern / Green Arrow No. 76 ( April 1970 ), or Stan Lee and Gil Kane's The Amazing Spider-Man No. 96 ( May 1971 ; the non-Comics Code issue ).

On May 30, 1966, she and Carl Thomas Dean ( in Nashville, Tennessee ) were married in Ringgold, Georgia.

In May 1948 Thomas and his family moved to his final home, the Boat House at Laugharne purchased for him at a cost of £ 2, 500 in April 1949 by Margaret Taylor, first wife of historian A. J. P. Taylor.

While Oxford was under house arrest in May, Thomas Stocker dedicated to him his Divers Sermons of Master John Calvin, stating in the dedication that he had been " brought up in your Lordship's father's house ".

* 3 May: Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas J. Clarke

* May, Thomas ( ed .).

* Essay on Doctor Atomic by Thomas May

* Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford executed May 12, 1641

As chair of the Judiciary Committee, he brought forward a number of measures for the improvement of judicial procedure and, in May 1826, joined with Senator Thomas Hart Benton in reporting on executive patronage.

* Extensive visual, textual and musical studies of American May Day customs since the first Maypole Revels were held at the Ma-Re Mount or Merrymount plantation on Massachusetts Bay in May 1627, hosted by Englishman Thomas Morton ; and, last year the state of Massachusetts ' Governor Deval Patrick proclaimed May 1 as Thomas Morton Day.

In early 1533, Henry married Anne Boleyn, who was pregnant with his child, and in May Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, formally declared the marriage with Catherine void, and the marriage to Anne valid.

Thomas Alva Edison conceived the principle of recording and reproducing sound between May and July 1877 as a byproduct of his efforts to " play back " recorded telegraph messages and to automate speech sounds for transmission by telephone.

The most memorable moment of that 1978 season occurred on May 28, 1978, when pinch hitter Mike Ivie, acquired from the San Diego Padres during the offseason for Darrel Thomas, hit a towering grand slam off of Dodgers pitching ace Don Sutton in front of Candlestick Park's highest paid attendance of 58, 545.

Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS ( 4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895 ) was an English biologist ( anatomist ), known as " Darwin's Bulldog " for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Thomas Hare ( born in England, 28 March 1806 ; died 6 May 1891 ) was a British proponent of electoral reform.

Thomas Edward Burnett, Jr. ( May 29, 1963 – September 11, 2001 ) was the vice-president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corporation, a medical devices company based in Pleasanton, California.

Thomas Gainsborough ( christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788 ) was an English portrait and landscape painter.

Caitlin Clarke ( May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004 ) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998 – 1999 Broadway musical Titanic.

Thomas wrote to his wife, Caitlin, ( about 23 May 1953, from the USA, on notepaper from The Poetry Centre ), towards the end of a long letter: ' I've finished that infernally eternally unfinished ' Play ' & have done it in New York with actors.

Caitlin Jean Stasey ( born 1 May 1990 ) is an Australian actress from Melbourne who is best known for her role as Rachel Kinski in Neighbours.