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1878 1879 1880 - 1881 - 1882 1883 1884
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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1860s 1870s - 1880s ''' - 1890s 1900s 1910s
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1881 (''' MDCCCLXXXI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
January - April
May - August
September - December
Unknown date
Births
- January 1 - Vajiravudh , King Of Thailand (d. 1925 )
- January 9 - Lascelles Abercrombie , English poet and critic (d. 1938 )
- January 9 - Giovanni Papini , Italian essayist, poet, and novelist (d. 1956 )
- January 17 - Antoni Łomnicki , Polish mathematician (d. 1941 )
- January 31 - Irving Langmuir , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957 )
- February 12 - Anna Pavlova , Russian ballerina (d. 1931 )
- March 4 - Richard C. Tolman , American mathematical physicist (d. 1948 )
- March 4 - Maude Fealy , American stage and film actor (d. 1971 )
- March 17 - Walter Rudolf Hess , Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973 )
- March 23 - Roger Martin Du Gard , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958 )
- March 23 - Hermann Staudinger , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965 )
- March 25 - Béla Bartók , Hungarian composer (d. 1945 )
- March 25 - Mary Gladys Webb , English writer (d. 1927 )
- May 19 - Official birthday of Kemal Atatürk First Turkish President (d. 1938 )
- June 17 - Tommy Burns , Canadian-born boxer (d. 1955 )
- July 4 - Ulysses S. Grant III , American soldier and planner (d. 1968 )
- July 27 - Hans Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945 )
- July 30 - Smedley Butler , U.S. general (d. 1940 )
- August 6 - Sir Alexander Fleming , Scottish researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1955 )
- August 19 - Georges Enescu , Romanian composer (d. 1955 )
- August 20 - Edgar Guest , English poet (d. 1959 )
- September 8 - Harry Hillman , American athlete (d. 1945 )
- September 16 - Clive Bell , English art critic (d. 1964 )
- September 17 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter , English soldier (d. 1955 )
- October 1 - William Boeing , American engineer and airplane manufacturer (d. 1956 )
- October 11 - Hans Kelsen , Austrian legal theorist (d. 1973 )
- October 15 - P. G. Wodehouse , English-born writer (d. 1975 )
- October 22 - Clinton Davisson , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958 )
- October 25 - Pablo Picasso , Spanish painter (d. 1973 )
- November 14 - Nicholas Schenck , Russian-born film studio executive (d. 1969 )
- November 24 - Al Christie , Canadian-born director and producer (d. 1951 )
- November 25 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963 )
- December 24 - Juan Ramón Jiménez , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958 )
Unknown
Deaths
- January 3 - Anna McNeill Whistler , Whistler's mother (b. 1804 )
- January 21 - Wilhelm Matthias Naeff , Member Of The Swiss Federal Council (b. 1802 )
- February 5 - Thomas Carlyle , Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795 )
- February 9 - Fyodor Dostoevsky , Russian novelist (b. 1821 )
- March 13 - Czar Alexander II Of Russia (b. 1818 )
- March 28 - Modest Mussorgsky , Russian composer (b. 1839 )
- April 19 - Benjamin Disraeli , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1804 )
- May 24 - Samuel Palmer , English artist (b. 1805 )
- June 6 - Henri Vieuxtemps , Belgian composer (b. 1820 )
- July 17 - Jim Bridger , American explorer and trapper (b. 1804 )
- July 18 - Billy The Kid , American gunslinger (b. 1859 )
- September 7 - Sidney Lanier , American writer (b. 1842 )
- September 19 - James A. Garfield , 20th President Of The United States (assassinated) (b. 1831 )
- September 22 - Solomon L. Spink , U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831 )
- October 3 - Orson Pratt , American religious leader (b. 1811 )
- October 31 - George DeLong , American naval officer and explorer (starvation) (b. 1844 )
Trivia
1881 was the only year in which three different U.S. Presidents occupied the White House: Rutherford B. Hayes , James A. Garfield , and Chester A. Arthur .
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