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
Cecil B. DeMille12th August, American
Film Director, Producer
Pope John XXIII25th November, Italian
Pope
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax16th April, British
Former Viceroy of India
Smedley Butler30th July, American
Alexander Kerensky22nd April, Russian
Political Leader
Guccio Gucci26th March, Italian, British
Italian Businessman
Stefan Zweig28th November, Austrian
Novelist
Anna Pavlova12th February, Russian
Ludwig von Mises29th September, Austrian
Economist, Philosopher, Sociologist
Harry Warner12th December, American
Executive
William Boeing1st October, German, American
Founder of Boeing Company
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1st May, French
Philosopher
Kliment Voroshilov4th February, Russian
Military Officer
Ernest Bevin9th March, British
British statesman
Fernand Léger4th February, French
Cubist Painter
Irving Langmuir31st January, American
Chemist
Hermann Staudinger23rd March, German
Chemist
Hans Fischer27th July, German
Chemist
Clinton Davisson22nd October, American
Physicist
Rose Macaulay1st August, British
Writer
Walter Rudolf Hess17th March, Swiss
Physiologist
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk19th May, Turkish
Founder of the Republic of Turkey,
Franklin Pierce Adams15th November, American
Journalist
P G Wodehouse15th October, British, American
Playwright and Author
Bela Bartok25th March, Hungarian
Composer, Pianist
Walter Krueger26th January, American
Military personnel
Alexei Rykov25th February
Politician
Enver Pasha22nd November, Turkish
Military officer
Walther von Brauchitsch4th October, German
Military personnel
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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
Victor Klemperer9th October, German
Linguist, Politician, Writer, Autobiographer,
Max Gerson18th October, German, American
Physician
Hans Kelsen11th October, Austrian, American
Lawyer, Judge, Philosopher, Educationist,
King Oliver19th December, American
Musician
George Enescu19th August, French, Romanian
Romanian composer
Władysław Sikorski20th May, Polish, American
Politician, Military personnel
Alcide De Gasperi3rd April, Austrian, Italian
prime minister,politician
Maximilian von Weichs12th November, German
Military personnel
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown17th January, British
Anthropologist, Sociologist
Natalia Goncharova3rd June, French, Russian
painter, choreographer
Clive Bell16th September, British
Art Critic
William Z. Foster25th February, American
Politician
Crystal Eastman25th June, American
Lawyer
Eleanor Farjeon13th February, British
Writer
Georg von Küchler30th May, German
Military commander
Albert Gleizes8th December, French
Painter, Artist
Juan Ramón Jiménez24th December, Spanish
poet
Felix von Luckner9th June, German
Writer, Military personnel
Ernst von Weizsäcker12th May, German
politician, diplomat
Adolfo de la Huerta26th May, Mexican
Politician
Mordecai Kaplan11th July, American
essayist, rabbi, translator, philosopher, diarist
Alastair Denniston1st December, British
Field hockey player, Cryptographer, Mathematician
Lewis Fry Richardson11th October, British
Paramedic, Cartographer, Mathematician,
Carlo Carrà11th February, Italian
Painter
Ramón Grau13th September, Cuban
politician, physician
Otto Wille Kuusinen4th October, Finnish
Politician
Raymond Hood29th March, American
Architect
John Gresham Machen28th July, American
Theologian
Artur Phleps29th November, Romanian
Edith Nourse Rogers19th March, American
Politician
Giovanni Papini9th January, Italian
Journalist
Julian Eltinge14th May, American
Actor
Padraic Colum8th December, Irish
Poet
Richard C. Tolman4th March, American
Physicist
Henry Maitland Wilson5th September, British
Field marshal
Hugh Lawson White19th August, American
Politician
L. E. J. Brouwer27th February, Dutch
Mathematician
Nikolai Myaskovsky20th April
Composer, Educationist, Musicologist, Music
Otto Bauer5th September, Austrian
Politician
Mary Webb25th March, British
Novelist
Robert Esnault-Pelterie8th November, French
Aviation pioneer
Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart25th June, British
Diplomat
Frederick Varley2nd January, Canadian
Painter
Ludwig Binswanger13th April, Swiss
Swiss psychiatrist
Max Pechstein31st December, German
Painter
H. J. Round2nd June, British
Engineer
Mikhail Larionov3rd June, Russian
Painter
Frederick Lonsdale5th February, British
Playwright
Sveinn Björnsson27th February, Danish, Icelander
President
Lord Halifax16th April, British
Mary MacLane1st May, Canadian, American
Writer
Roger Martin du Gard23rd March, French
Novelist
Emil Ludwig25th January, Swiss, German
Writer
Mary Antin13th June, American
Author
Wilhelm Lehmbruck4th January, German
Sculptor
Teilhard de Chardin1st May, French
Kim Kyu-sik29th January, North Korean
Politician