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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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


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