| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Franklin Pierce Adams |
Columnist |
15-Nov-1881 |
23-Mar-1960 |
New York columnist, The Conning Tower |
| Mary Antin |
Author |
1881 |
15-May-1949 |
The Promised Land |
| Daisy Ashford |
Novelist |
7-Apr-1881 |
15-Jan-1972 |
The Young Visiters |
| Kemal Ataturk |
Head of State |
12-Mar-1881 |
10-Nov-1938 |
President of Turkey, 1923-38 |
| Bela Bartok |
Composer |
25-Mar-1881 |
26-Sep-1945 |
Hungarian composer |
| Otto Bauer |
Politician |
5-Sep-1881 |
4-Jul-1938 |
Austrian Marxist |
| Vincent Bendix |
Inventor |
12-Aug-1881 |
27-Mar-1945 |
Founder of Bendix Corporation |
| Ernest Bevin |
Politician |
9-Mar-1881 |
14-Apr-1951 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1945-51 |
| William Boeing |
Business |
1-Oct-1881 |
28-Sep-1956 |
Founder of Boeing, United Airlines |
| Smedley Butler |
Military |
30-Jul-1881 |
21-Jun-1940 |
Exposed the 1933 coup plot |
| Leo Carrillo |
Actor |
6-Aug-1881 |
10-Sep-1961 |
Pancho on The Cisco Kid |
| Padraic Colum |
Novelist |
8-Dec-1881 |
11-Jan-1972 |
Wild Earth |
| Pedro de Cordoba |
Actor |
28-Sep-1881 |
16-Sep-1950 |
The Ghost Breakers |
| Henry Page Croft |
Politician |
22-Jun-1881 |
7-Dec-1947 |
British Under-Secretary of War, 1940-45 |
| Clinton Davisson |
Physicist |
22-Oct-1881 |
1-Feb-1958 |
Diffraction of electrons |
| Cecil B. DeMille |
Film Director |
12-Aug-1881 |
21-Jan-1959 |
Pioneering film director |
| Georges Enesco |
Composer |
19-Aug-1881 |
4-May-1955 |
Oedipe |
| Hiram Wesley Evans |
Activist |
26-Sep-1881 |
Sep-1966 |
KKK Imperial Wizard, 1922-39 |
| Hans Fischer |
Chemist |
27-Jul-1881 |
31-Mar-1945 |
Synthesized hemin |
| Alexander Fleming |
Scientist |
6-Aug-1881 |
11-Mar-1955 |
Discovered penicillin |
| Roger Martin du Gard |
Author |
23-Mar-1881 |
22-Aug-1958 |
Les Thibault |
| Franz Guertner |
Government |
26-Aug-1881 |
29-Jan-1941 |
Reich Minister of Justice |
| Edgar Guest |
Poet |
20-Aug-1881 |
5-Aug-1959 |
A Heap o' Livin' |
| Walter Hess |
Scientist |
17-Mar-1881 |
12-Aug-1973 |
Brain mapping, neurophysiological methods |
| Raymond Hood |
Architect |
29-Mar-1881 |
14-Aug-1934 |
Chicago Tribune Tower |
| Juan Ramón Jiménez |
Poet |
24-Dec-1881 |
29-May-1958 |
Pastorales |
| Pope John XXIII |
Religion |
25-Nov-1881 |
3-Jun-1963 |
Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1958-63 |
| Theodore von Kármán |
Mathematician |
11-May-1881 |
7-May-1963 |
Kármán vortices |
| Alexander Kerensky |
Government |
22-Apr-1881 |
11-Jun-1970 |
Head of pre-Bolshevik Russian government |
| Walter Kingsford |
Actor |
20-Sep-1881 |
7-Feb-1958 |
British-American character actor |
| E. V. Knox |
Editor |
10-May-1881 |
2-Jan-1971 |
Editor of Punch, 1932-49 |
| Irving Langmuir |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1881 |
16-Aug-1957 |
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
| Valery Larbaud |
Author |
29-Aug-1881 |
2-Feb-1957 |
Poèmes par un riche amateur |
| Breckinridge Long |
Diplomat |
16-May-1881 |
26-Sep-1958 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1933-36 |
| Frederick Lonsdale |
Playwright |
5-Feb-1881 |
4-Apr-1954 |
The King of Cadonia |
| Emil Ludwig |
Author |
25-Jan-1881 |
17-Sep-1948 |
German biographer |
| Earle B. Mayfield |
Politician |
12-Apr-1881 |
23-Jun-1964 |
US Senator from Texas, 1923-29 |
| Samuel R. McKelvie |
Politician |
15-Apr-1881 |
6-Oct-1956 |
Governor of Nebraska, 1919-23 |
| John G. Neihardt |
Poet |
8-Jan-1881 |
3-Nov-1973 |
A Cycle of the West |
| Louella Parsons |
Columnist |
6-Aug-1881 |
9-Dec-1972 |
Hollywood queen of gossip |
| Enver Pasha |
Government |
22-Nov-1881 |
4-Aug-1922 |
Young Turk leader, persecuted ethnic minorities |
| Cissy Patterson |
Business |
7-Nov-1881 |
24-Jul-1948 |
First female newspaper publisher |
| Anna Pavlova |
Dancer |
12-Feb-1881 |
22-Jan-1931 |
Early 20th century Russian ballerina |
| Pablo Picasso |
Painter |
25-Oct-1881 |
8-Apr-1973 |
Abstract painter and sculptor |
| A. R. Radcliffe-Brown |
Anthropologist |
17-Jan-1881 |
24-Oct-1955 |
Father of modern social anthropology |
| Richard Samuel Reynolds |
Business |
15-Aug-1881 |
29-Jul-1955 |
Founder of Reynolds Metals |
| Branch Rickey |
Baseball |
20-Dec-1881 |
9-Dec-1965 |
Longtime Baseball GM |
| Elizabeth Madox Roberts |
Author |
30-Oct-1881 |
13-Mar-1941 |
The Great Meadow |
| Edith Nourse Rogers |
Politician |
19-Mar-1881 |
10-Sep-1960 |
Congresswoman from Massachusetts, 1925-60 |
| Clarence Saunders |
Business |
9-Aug-1881 |
14-Oct-1953 |
Father of modern retailing |
| Henrik Shipstead |
Politician |
8-Jan-1881 |
26-Jun-1960 |
US Senator from Minnesota, 1923-47 |
| Hermann Staudinger |
Chemist |
23-Mar-1881 |
8-Sep-1965 |
Macromolecular chemistry |
| T. S. Stribling |
Novelist |
4-Mar-1881 |
8-Jul-1965 |
The Store |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
Philosopher |
1-May-1881 |
10-Apr-1955 |
The Phenomenon of Man |
| William Temple |
Religion |
15-Oct-1881 |
26-Oct-1944 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1942-44 |
| Thomas D. Thacher |
Attorney |
10-Sep-1881 |
12-Nov-1950 |
US Solicitor General, 1930-33 |
| Walther von Brauchitsch |
Military |
4-Oct-1881 |
18-Oct-1948 |
Nazi general, failed to capture Moscow |
| Ludwig von Mises |
Economist |
29-Sep-1881 |
10-Oct-1973 |
Libertarian Economist |
| Erwin von Witzleben |
Military |
4-Dec-1881 |
8-Aug-1944 |
German general, tried to overthrow Hitler |
| P. G. Wodehouse |
Author |
15-Oct-1881 |
14-Feb-1975 |
Jeeves novels |
| Margaret Wycherly |
Actor |
26-Oct-1881 |
6-Jun-1956 |
Sergeant York |
| Stark Young |
Critic |
11-Oct-1881 |
6-Jan-1963 |
So Red the Rose |
