Famous People Born In 1881
Discover the most famous people born in 1881. The list includes people like Pablo Picasso, Alexander Fleming, Pope John XXIII, Smedley Butler, Cecil B. DeMille and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, soldiers, military leaders and philosophers born in 1881. This list includes people from United States, Germany, United Kingdom & France and many more countries.
Pablo Picasso25th October, Spanish
Painter
Alexander Fleming6th August, British, Scottish
Biologist, Pharmacologist, Discovered Penicillin
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax16th April, British
Former Viceroy of India
Cecil B. DeMille12th August, American
Film Director, Producer
Pope John XXIII25th November, Italian
Pope
Alexander Kerensky22nd April, Russian
Political Leader
Smedley Butler30th July, American
Stefan Zweig28th November, Austrian
Novelist
Ludwig von Mises29th September, Austrian
Economist, Philosopher, Sociologist
Guccio Gucci26th March, Italian, British
Italian Businessman
Anna Pavlova12th February, Russian
Harry Warner12th December, American
Executive
Alexei Rykov25th February, Russian
Politician
Kliment Voroshilov4th February, Russian
Military Officer
Enver Pasha22nd November, Turkish
Military Officer
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1st May, French
Philosopher
Walther von Brauchitsch4th October, German
Military Commander
Ernest Bevin9th March, British
British statesman
Ettore Bugatti15th September, French
Automobile Designer
Fernand Léger4th February, French
Cubist Painter
Irving Langmuir31st January, American
Chemist
William Boeing1st October, German, American
Founder of Boeing Company
Hermann Staudinger23rd March, German
Chemist
Clinton Davisson22nd October, American
Physicist
Rose Macaulay1st August, British
Writer
Hans Fischer27th July, German
Chemist
Walter Rudolf Hess17th March, Swiss
Physiologist
Franklin Pierce Adams15th November, American
Journalist
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk19th May, Turkish
Founder of the Republic of Turkey,
P G Wodehouse15th October, British, American
Playwright and Author
Bela Bartok25th March, Hungarian
Composer, Pianist
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Lu Xun25th September, Chinese
Writer, Essayist, Poet, Literary critic,
Erwin von Witzleben4th December, German, Polish
Military personnel, Officer
Vincenzo Peruggia8th October
Art thief, House painter, Glazier
François Darlan7th August, French
Politician, Military personnel
Jess Willard29th December, American
Boxer
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist8th August, German
Soldier, Officer
Maximilian von Weichs12th November, German
Military personnel
Alcide De Gasperi3rd April, Austrian, Italian
prime minister,politician
George Enescu19th August, French, Romanian
Romanian composer
Władysław Sikorski20th May, Polish, American
Politician, Military personnel
Victor Klemperer9th October, German
Linguist, Politician, Writer, Autobiographer,
King Oliver19th December, American
Musician
Max Gerson18th October, German, American
Physician
Hans Kelsen11th October, Austrian, American
Lawyer, Judge, Philosopher, Educationist,
Walter Krueger26th January, American
Military personnel
William Z. Foster25th February, American
Politician
Georg von Küchler30th May, German
Military commander
Natalia Goncharova3rd June, French, Russian
painter, choreographer
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown17th January, British
Anthropologist
Clive Bell16th September, British
Art Critic
Edgar Guest20th August, American
Poet
Juan Ramón Jiménez24th December, Spanish
poet
Eleanor Farjeon13th February, British
Writer
Adolfo de la Huerta26th May, Mexican
Politician
Crystal Eastman25th June, American
Lawyer
John Dill25th December, British
Senior officer
Ernst von Weizsäcker12th May, German
politician, diplomat
Julian Eltinge14th May, American
Actor
Albert Gleizes8th December, French
Painter, Artist
Ramón Grau13th September, Cuban
politician, physician
Alastair Denniston1st December, British
Field hockey player, Cryptographer, Mathematician
Felix von Luckner9th June, German
Writer, Military personnel
Artur Phleps29th November, Romanian
Mordecai Kaplan11th June, Lithuanian, American
Rabbi
Henry Maitland Wilson5th September, British
Field marshal
L. E. J. Brouwer27th February, Dutch
Mathematician
John Gresham Machen28th July, American
Theologian
Lewis Fry Richardson11th October, British
Paramedic, Cartographer, Mathematician,
Carlo Carrà11th February, Italian
Painter
Nikolai Myaskovsky20th April
Composer, Educationist, Musicologist, Music
Otto Wille Kuusinen4th October, Finnish
Politician
Raymond Hood29th March, American
Architect
Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart25th June, British
Diplomat
Ludwig Binswanger13th April, Swiss
Swiss psychiatrist
Sveinn Björnsson27th February, Danish, Icelander
President
Giovanni Papini9th January, Italian
Journalist
Padraic Colum8th December, Irish
Poet
Mary MacLane1st May, Canadian, American
Writer
Mary Webb25th March, British
Novelist
Lord Halifax16th April, British
Frederick Varley2nd January, Canadian
Painter
Richard C. Tolman4th March, American
Physicist
Otto Bauer5th September, Austrian
Politician
Mikhail Larionov3rd June, Russian
Painter
Hugh Lawson White19th August, American
Politician
Robert Esnault-Pelterie8th November, French
Aviation pioneer
Edith Nourse Rogers19th March, American
Politician
Max Pechstein31st December, German
Painter
Roger Martin du Gard23rd March, French
Novelist
H. J. Round2nd June, British
Engineer
Emil Ludwig25th January, Swiss, German
Writer
Martin Sheridan28th March, Irish, American
Athlete
Curt Sachs29th June, German, American
Musicologist