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1881
1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
January - April
May - August
September - December
Unknown date
Births
- January 6 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961)
- January 9 - Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic.
- January 16 - Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming , radio pioneer
- February 12 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (d. 1931)
- March 12 - Kemal Atatürk, first President of Turkey (d. 1938)
- March 25 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
- March 25 - Mary Gladys Webb, writer (d. 1927)
- May 1 - Mary MacLane, feminist writer (d. 1929)
- June 17 - Tommy Burns, heavyweight boxer
- August 6 - Sir Alexander Fleming, British discoverer of penicillin
- September 8 - Harry Hillman, American athlete
- October 11 - Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist
- October 15 - P. G. Wodehouse, British-American writer
- October 25 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter
- November 14 - Nicholas Schenck motion-picture empresario (d. 1969)
- November 24 - Al Christie, Hollywood director and producer (d. 1951)
- November 25 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
- William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1944)
Deaths
- January 3 - Anna McNeill Whistler, Whistler's mother (b. 1804)
- January 21 - Wilhelm Matthias Näff, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1802)
- 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 Washington De Long, American naval officer and explorer (starvation) (b. 1844)
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