Famous Birthdays for Year 1881

Months in Year 1881: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 204

Jan 1st - Carry van Bridges, [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva)
Jan 1st - Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
Jan 4th - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth)
Jan 5th - Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer
Jan 8th - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
Jan 9th - Giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo)
Jan 9th - Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations)
Jan 9th - Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
Jan 13th - Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (d. 1961)
Jan 17th - Alfred R Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist (Andaman Islanders)
Jan 17th - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)
Jan 18th - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Librairie Gallimard) [or 1908]
Jan 25th - Emil Ludwig, German biographer (Diana, Son of Man)
Jan 25th - Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer
Jan 31st - Irving Langmuir, inventor (tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932)
Jan 31st - Joseph A Cushman, US, palaentologist
Feb 1st - Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer
Feb 2nd - Karl Frederick, pistol champ (Olympic-gold-1920)
Feb 4th - Kliment J Woroshilov, marshal/president USSR (1953-60)
Feb 4th - Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)
Feb 5th - Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright (Balkan Princess)
Feb 6th - Karl Weigl, composer
Feb 13th - Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin)
Feb 14th - Otto Selz, German psychologist
Feb 14th - William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar (Ynys yr Hud)
Feb 16th - Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Youth of a Poet)
Feb 19th - Armin Knab, German composer (Eichendorff-cycle)
Feb 19th - Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care
Feb 19th - Paul Zech, writer
Feb 20th - Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)
Feb 21st - Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
Feb 22nd - Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
Feb 23rd - Titus [Anno S] Brandsma, Dutch philosopher
Feb 25th - William Foster, Mass, Communist Pres candidate (1924,28,32)
Feb 27th - Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician
Feb 27th - Sveinn Bjornsson, 1st president of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild)
Mar 4th - Todor Aleksandrov, 19th century Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
Mar 4th - Maude Fealy, American actor (d. 1971)
Mar 4th - Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
Mar 4th - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
Mar 9th - Enver Pasja, Turkish general/politician
Mar 9th - Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs
Mar 10th - Thomas Quinlan (impresario) (d. 1951)
Mar 12th - Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
Mar 12th - Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist (d. 1923)
Mar 13th - Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer
Mar 17th - Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris)
Mar 17th - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
Mar 18th - Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963)
Mar 18th - Paul Le Flem, composer
Mar 21st - Hermann Sandby, composer
Mar 23rd - Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53)
Mar 23rd - Roger Martin du Guard, France, novelist (Les Thibault-Nobel 1937)
Mar 25th - Béla Bartok, Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra)
Mar 25th - Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/writer (Assault!)
Mar 25th - Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927)
Apr 3rd - Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53)
Apr 3rd - Margaret MJ "Daisy" Ashford, English author (Young Sisters)
Apr 4th - Charles Funk, Ohio, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls)
Apr 8th - Fernand Lamy, composer
Apr 11th - Harvey Bartlett Gaul, composer
Apr 14th - Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer/director (Burg Theater)
Apr 16th - Edward Frederick Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax/ambassador to US (1940-46)
Apr 17th - Anton Wildgans, writer
Apr 18th - Hermann KJ Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart)
Apr 18th - Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter
Apr 20th - Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us)
Apr 20th - Sem Dresden, composer/conductor
Apr 21st - Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist (Rocks of Oran)
Apr 22nd - Alexander Kerensky, Simbirsk, Russian PM (1917)
Apr 23rd - Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer (1912-22)
Apr 23rd - Otakar Sini, composer
Apr 25th - Hans Windisch, German new testament expert
May 1st - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist
May 4th - Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917-Prelude to Bolshevism)
May 11th - Jan van Gilse, composer/resistance fighter (Frau Helga von Staveren)
May 11th - Pascual Rogatis, composer
May 11th - Al Cabrera, Spanish-born Cuban baseball player (d. 1964)
May 11th - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (d. 1963)
May 13th - Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer
May 14th - Ed Walsh, American baseball pitcher, lowest lifetime ERA (1.82)
May 14th - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
May 18th - Georgi Atanasov, composer
May 19th - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)
May 20th - Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland (WW II general)
May 24th - Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer
May 27th - Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer
May 29th - Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer
May 30th - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
Jun 1st - Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist (d. 1957)
Jun 3rd - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
Jun 4th - Clara Blandick, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer)
Jun 4th - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
Jun 8th - Prospero Bisquertt, composer
Jun 12th - Juan de Hernandez, composer
Jun 17th - Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (d. 1955)
Jun 18th - Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader
Jun 29th - Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
Jun 29th - Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
Jul 1st - Piet[er] L Kramer, architect (Amsterdam School)
Jul 2nd - Royal H. Weller, American politician (d. 1929)
Jul 3rd - Leon Errol, Australian actor (Ziegfeld Follies, What a Blonde!)
Jul 4th - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)
Jul 5th - Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal
Jul 6th - Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel)
Jul 12th - Ludwig Rubiner, writer [or June 12]
Jul 18th - Larry McLean, baseball player (d. 1921)
Jul 19th - Adriaan J Zoetmulder, Dutch writer/directer (Eindhovens Dagblad)
Jul 19th - Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist)
Jul 20th - Leon de Smet, Flemish painter
Jul 26th - Alexander J Kropholler, architect
Physicist and Nobel Laureate Hans Fischer (Jul 27th) Jul 27th - Hans Fischer, Munich Germany, physicist (Nobel 1930), (d. 1945)
Jul 30th - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)
Aug 1st - Emilie Rose Macaulay, English writer
Aug 2nd - Ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift)
Aug 2nd - Stanislaw Kazuro, composer
Aug 6th - Alexander Fleming, London, bacteriologist (penicillin; Nobel 1954), (d. 1955)
Aug 6th - Leo Carrillo, LA CA, actor (American Empire, Cisco Kid)
Aug 6th - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
Aug 8th - Paul L E von Kleist, German general-fieldmarshal (Eastern Front)
Aug 8th - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
Aug 10th - Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder
Aug 12th - Cecil B deMille, Mass, directed God (10 Commandments, Cleopatra)
Aug 12th - Vaclav Vackar, composer
Aug 13th - Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author
Aug 14th - Francis Ford, American actor (d. 1953)
Penicillin Discoverer Alexander Fleming (Aug 6th) Aug 15th - Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (d. 1956)
Aug 18th - Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher, composer
Aug 19th - Georges Enesco, [or Enescu], Romania, composer (Romanian Dances)
Aug 20th - Edgar Albert Guest, Detroit Mich, poet/newspaperman
Aug 20th - Nikolay Yakovlevich Myaskovsky, composer
Aug 23rd - Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist
Aug 28th - Arne Eggen, composer
Aug 29th - Edvin Kallstenius, composer
Aug 29th - Valery Nicolas Larbaud, France, novelist/translator (Enfantines)
Sep 5th - Otto Bauer, Austrian social-democrat
Sep 6th - Charlie Dell, NYC, actor (Pickle in the Middle)
Sep 6th - Leo Carrillo, LA California, actor (Pancho-Cisco Kid)
Sep 7th - Constantly WL Scheurleer, Dutch archaeologist/banker/art expert
Sep 8th - Harry Hillman, American athlete (d. 1945)
Sep 11th - Asta Nielsen, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Joyless Street)
Sep 12th - Daniel Jones, England phoneticist (English pronouncing dictionary)
Sep 15th - Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, Milan, race car builder (Amaz Bugattis)
Sep 16th - Clive Bell, English art critic (d. 1964)
Sep 17th - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
Sep 20th - Walter Kingsford, Redhill England, actor (My Favorite Blonde)
Sep 25th - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
Sep 26th - Hiram Wesley Evans, American member of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1966)
Sep 27th - Ernest Samuel Williams, composer
Sep 27th - Johanna "Annie" Bakker, Dutch revue-artist/singer/actress