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.

After successfully participating in the Louisiana Maneuvers, he was promoted to brigadier general on October 3, 1941.

Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill, ( although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famously annoyed with Mountbatten's later role in the independence of India and Pakistan ), and on 27 October 1941 Mountbatten replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations and received promotion to commodore.

The camps at Treblinka, Bełżec, and Sobibor, were constructed during Operation Reinhard ( October 1941 – November 1943 ), for the extermination of Poland's Jews.

He began dating Blair, and they married on October 16, 1941.

Eventually, he signed with David O. Selznick, agreeing to go to Hollywood at the end of his commitment to Pal Joey, in October 1941.

Graham Arthur Chapman ( 8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989 ) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python.

In October 1940 Holt was elevated to Cabinet, becoming Minister for Labour and National Service, and one of his most significant achievements in this portfolio was the introduction of the Child Endowment Act, passed in April 1941.

In October 1941, the UAP was ousted by a no-confidence vote, the ALP leader John Curtin was invited to form a new government, and Menzies resigned as UAP leader.

In October 1941, the small Albanian communist groups established in Tirana an Albanian Communist Party of 130 members under the leadership of Hoxha and an eleven-man Central Committee.

* " Leeping Lena Joins the Army ", October 1941 first detailed article on what became known as the Jeep

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

In October 1941, Ribbentrop ’ s prestige was badly damaged by the discovery of the Soviet spy ring in Tokyo headed by Richard Sorge, who was arrested by the Japanese while in bed with the wife of General Eugen Ott, the German Ambassador.

In October 1941 Ribbentrop ordered General Ott to start applying pressure on the Japanese to attack the Americans as soon as possible.

During this period, Tito held talks with Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović on 19 September and 27 October 1941.

Konoe resigned on 16 October 1941, one day after having recommended Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni to the Emperor as his successor.

He was wounded in combat during the Battle of Bryansk in October 1941, and got released for six months recuperation due to illness.

Without Soviet imports, German stocks would have run out in several key products by October 1941, and Germany would have already run through its stocks of rubber and grain before the first day of the invasion.

The coalition was re-formed under Archie Cameron in 1940, and continued until October 1941 despite the election of Arthur Fadden as leader after the 1940 Election.

* " Fighting The Submarine Mine – How Navies Combat A Deadly Sea Weapon " October 1941

On 10 October 1941 Heydrich was the senior officer at a meeting in Prague that discussed deporting 50, 000 Jewish people from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to ghettos in Minsk and Riga.

The island was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941 ( Operation Beowulf ); German troops remained there until expelled by the Red Army in the Moonzund Landing Operation in October and November 1944.

Gowrie then duly swore Curtin in as Prime Minister on 7 October 1941.

Between October 1941 and July 1944 at least 200, 000 people were killed in the camp.

* October 18 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( d. 1941 )

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

Arthur William à Beckett ( 25 October 1844 Fulham-14 January 1909 London ) was an English journalist and intellectual.

Gilbert Arthur à Beckett ( 1837 – October 15, 1891 ) was an English writer.

In October 1879 Wells's mother arranged through a distant relative, Arthur Williams, for him to join the National School at Wookey in Somerset as a pupil-teacher, a senior pupil who acted as a teacher of younger children.

A new building was begun in 1895 and opened by the Prime Minister Arthur Balfour in October 1902.

On 3 October, the independents, Arthur Coles and Alex Wilson, voted with the Opposition in the House of Representatives to reject Fadden ’ s budget and the government fell -- to date, the last time a sitting government has been defeated in the House.

* Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin ( 30 January 1924 – 1 October 1924 )

* October 27 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, British World War I fighter ace ( b. 1897 )

* October 12 – Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* October – Arthur C. Clarke puts forward the idea of a communications satellite in a Wireless World magazine article.

* October 17 – Jean Arthur, American Actress ( d. 1991 )

* October 19 – Arthur Wint, Jamaican Olympic runner ( b. 1920 )

* October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist ( b. 1863 )

* October 17 – Arthur Miller, American playwright ( d. 2005 )

* October 14 – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, writer and Liberal Party politician ( b. 1818 )

* October 16 – Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist ( b. 1921 )

* October 20 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet ( d. 1891 )

* October 31 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

* October 15 – Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer ( b. 1837 )

* October 5 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States ( d. 1886 )

* October 1 – Arthur Onslow, English politician ( d 1768 )

* October 20 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1863 )

* October 22 – Charles Arthur " Pretty Boy " Floyd is shot and killed by FBI agents near East Liverpool, Ohio.