Famous People Born in October 1881

Oct 1 American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company, born in Detroit, Michigan

Oct 2 Ferdinand [Fred] Barlow, French composer, born in Mulhouse (d. 1951)
Oct 3 Ludomir Michał Rogowski, Polish composer, born in Lublin, Poland (d. 1954)
Oct 4 Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1948)
Oct 5 Otto V. Kuusinen, Finnish politician (founder of the Finnish Communist Party), born in Laukaa, Finland (d. 1964)
Oct 7 Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
Oct 11 Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal philosopher and political philosopher, born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1973)
Oct 11 Stark Young, American writer (So Red the Rose), born in Como, Mississippi (d. 1963)
Oct 12 Carlos Lopez Buchardo, Argentine composer, born in Buenos Aires (d. 1948)
Oct 12 William Nigh, American director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong), born in Berlin, Wisconsin (d. 1955)
Oct 13 George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet and composer (Plumb), born in Bacău, Romania (d. 1957)

Oct 15 British-American writer (Bertie Wooster novels), born in Guildford, England

Oct 22 Clinton Davisson, American physicist (Nobel 1937- discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson-Germer experiment), born in Bloomington, Illinois (d. 1958)
Oct 24 Paul Basilius Barth, Swiss painter and lithographer, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1955)

Oct 25 Spanish painter (The Three Dancers, Guernica) and sculptor who co-founded the Cubist movement, born in Malaga, Andalusia, Spain

Oct 26 Margaret Wycherly, British actress (Keeper of the Flame), born in London, England (d. 1956)
Oct 28 Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (Olympic silver pole vault & bronze javelin 1906; bronze pole vault 1908; popularized bowling in Sweden), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1969)
Oct 28 Vin Coutie, Australian rules footballer, born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1951)
Oct 30 Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (The Time of Man), born in Perryville, Kentucky (d. 1941)
Oct 30 Lena Christ, German writer (The Rumplhanni), born in Glonn, Bavaria (d. 1920)