Historical Figures Born in 1881

Feb 5 Frederick Lonsdale, British playwright (Balkan Princess), born in St Helier, Jersey (d. 1954)
Feb 13 Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin)
Feb 14 Otto Selz, German psychologist, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1943)
Feb 14 William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet & scholar, born in Gorffwysfa, Bethel, Wales (d. 1954)
Feb 16 Maurits Uyldert, Dutch poet and writer (Youth of a Poet)
Feb 19 Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care
Feb 19 Paul Zech, German writer, born in Briesen, Western Prussia (d. 1946)
Feb 20 Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)
Feb 22 Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
Feb 23 Titus [Anno S] Brandsma, Dutch philosopher
Feb 25 William Z. Foster, American labor organizer and Communist Presidential candidate (1924, 1928 and 1932), born in Taunton, Massachusetts (d. 1961)
Feb 27 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician
Feb 27 Sveinn Bjornsson, 1st president of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild)
Mar 4 Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
Mar 4 Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (Pulitzer Prize 1933), born in Clifton, Tennessee (d. 1965)
Mar 4 Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary, army officer, Macedonian freedom fighter, and teacher, born in Novo Selo, Ottoman Empire (now Štip< North Macedonia) (d. 1924)
Mar 9 Ernest Bevin, British Minister of Labour (1940-45) and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1945-51), born in Winsford, Sommerset (d. 1951)
Mar 12 Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
Mar 12 Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist (d. 1923)
Mar 13 Balthazar Huibrecht Verhagen, Dutch dramatist and writer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1950)

Mar 17 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris)
Mar 17 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
Mar 20 Eugène Schueller, French chemist, founder of L'Oréal, born in Paris, France (d. 1957)
Mar 23 Hermann Staudinger, German chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53)
Mar 23 Roger Martin du Guard, French novelist (Les Thibault-Nobel 1937)
Mar 25 Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer and writer (Assault!)
Mar 25 Mary Webb, English writer (Gone to Earth), born in Leighton, England (d. 1927)
Mar 26 Guccio Gucci, Italian founder of Gucci fashion house, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1953)
Apr 3 Alcide de Gasperi, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (1945-53), born in Pieve Tesino, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary (d. 1954)
Apr 3 Margaret "Daisy" Ashford, British child author who wrote "The Young Visiters" (Mister Salteena's Plan) aged 9, born in Petersham, Surrey (d. 1972)
Apr 4 Charles Earle Funk, American lexicographer (Funk & Wagnalls) (d. 1957)
Apr 16 Edward Frederick Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax and British ambassador to US (1940-46), born in Powderham Castle, Devon, England (d. 1959)
Apr 17 Anton Wildgans, Austrian poet and playwright (Armut), born in Vienna (d. 1932)
Apr 18 Max Weber, Polish-Russian-American painter, born in Białystok, Russian Empire (d. 1961)
Apr 21 Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter and caricaturist (Rocks of Oran), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1953)
Apr 22 Alexander Kerensky, Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government (1917), born in Simbirsk, Russian Empire (d. 1970)
Apr 25 Hans Windisch, German New Testament scholar, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1935)
May 1 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French philosopher and paleontologist (The Phenomenon of Man), born in Orcines, Auvergne, France (d. 1955)
May 11 Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (d. 1963)
May 14 G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

May 19 1st President of Turkey (1923-38) and founder of the Republic of Turkey, born in Salonica, Ottoman Empire

May 20 Władysław Sikorski, Polish World War II general and Prime Minister of Poland in exile (1939-43), born in Tuszów Narodowy, Austria-Hungary (d. 1943)
May 23 Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral, Portuguese aviator (1st flight across the south Atlantic), born in Celorico da Beira, Portugal (d. 1924)
May 27 Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer and philosopher (Urblik), born in Crossen/Oder, Province of Brandenburg, Prussia (now in Poland) (d. 1969)
May 30 Georg von Küchler, German field marshal and WWII war criminal, born in Schloss Philippsruh, German Empire (d. 1968)
Jun 1 Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist (d. 1957)
Jun 3 Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
Jun 4 Natalia Goncharova, Russian avant-garde artist and painter, born in Nagaevo, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1962)
Jun 7 Kanno Sugako, Japanese anarcho-feminist journalist, hanged for her role in the plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji, born in 881, Kita Ward, Osaka, Japan (d. 1911)
Jun 18 Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader
Jun 26 Ya'akov Cahan, Hebrew poet and writer, born in Slutsk, Belarus (d. 1960)
Jul 1 Piet[er] L. Kramer, Influential Dutch architect (Amsterdam School), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1961)
Jul 2 Royal H. Weller, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1929)
Jul 4 Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1968)
Jul 5 August Hlond, Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic church, born in Brzęczkowice, German Empire (d. 1948)
Jul 6 Josef Winckler, German dentist and writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel), born in Bentlage, Rheine (d. 1966)
Jul 12 Ludwig Rubiner, German poet and essayist, born in Berlin (d. 1920)
Jul 19 Friedrich Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist), born in Aschaffenburg, Germany (d. 1963)
Jul 20 Leon de Smet, Flemish painter
Jul 26 Alexander J. Kropholler, Dutch architect and writer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1973)

Hans Fischer (1881-1945)

Jul 27 German organic chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1930), born in Hoechst, Germany

Jul 30 Smedley Butler, American Marine general, born in West Chester, Pennsylvania (d. 1940)
Aug 1 Rose Macaulay, English writer (The Towers of Trebizond), born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England (d. 1958)
Aug 2 Ethel M. Dell, English author (Storm Drift), born in London (d. 1939)

Hugh S. Johnson (1881-1942)

Aug 5 American head of the National Recovery Administration and member of FDR's Brain Trust, born in Fort Scott, Kansas

Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)

Aug 6 Scottish bacteriologist (invented penicillin; Nobel Prize 1945), born in Lochfield, Scotland

Aug 6 Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist, born in Freeport, Illinois (d. 1972)

François Darlan (1881-1942)

Aug 7 French Admiral of the Fleet during WWII and Vichy Prime Minister (1941-42), born in Nérac, France

Aug 8 Paul L E von Kleist, German general-fieldmarshal (Eastern Front)
Aug 10 Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder
Aug 13 Jacqueline Reyneke van Stuwe, Dutch author, born in Muntok, Indonesia (d. 1955)
Aug 15 Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist, born in Görlitz, Imperial Germany (d. 1956)
Aug 20 Edgar Albert Guest, English-American poet and newspaperman, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1959)
Aug 23 Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter and graphic artist, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1943)
Aug 29 Valery-Nicolas Larbaud, French novelist and translator (Enfantines), born in Vichy, France (d. 1957)
Sep 5 Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democrat, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1938)
Sep 12 Daniel Jones, English phoneticist (English pronouncing dictionary), born in London (d. 1967)
Sep 15 Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French automobile designer and manufacturer (Automobiles E. Bugatti), born in Milan, Italy (d. 1947)
Sep 16 Clive Bell, English art critic, born in East Shefford, Berkshire (d. 1964)
Sep 17 Alfred Carpenter, English Royal Navy soldier, born in Barnes, Surrey (d. 1955)
Sep 25 Lu Xun, Chinese writer of modern Chinese literature, born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Qing dynasty China (d. 1936)
Sep 26 Hiram Wesley Evans, American member of the Ku Klux Klan, born in Ashland, Alabama (d. 1966)
Sep 29 Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American Economist (The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality), born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (d. 1973)

William Boeing (1881-1956)

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

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 William Nigh, American director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong), born in Berlin, Wisconsin (d. 1955)
Oct 15 P. G. Wodehouse, British-American writer (Bertie Wooster novels), born in Guildford, England (d. 1975)
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)

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

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

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)
Nov 4 Milton Rosmer, British director (Murder in the Red Barn), born in Southport, Lancashire, England (d. 1971)
Nov 5 George A. Malcolm, American jurist (17th Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court) and educator, born in Concord, Michigan (d. 1961)
Nov 8 Frank Speck, American anthropologist (Algonquin Tribes and Eastern Woodland Native Americans), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1950)
Nov 8 Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French engineer and aviation pioneer who contributed to early heavier-than-air flight in Europe, born in Paris (d. 1957)
Nov 12 Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
Nov 12 Olev Siinmaa, Estonian 'Functionalist' architect (Pärnu Beach Hotel), born in Pärnu< Governate of Estonia, Russian Empire (d. 1948)
Nov 15 Franklin P. Adams, American columnist (Information Please), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1960)

Enver Pasha (1881-1922)

Nov 22 Turkish general, Ottoman Minister of War during World War I and part of the dictatorial triumvirate known as the "Three Pashas", born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire

John XXIII (1881-1963)

Nov 25 Italian priest and 261st Pope (1958-63), born in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

Nov 28 Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet, essayist and dramatist (Beware of Pity), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1942)
Dec 4 Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot), born in Wrocław, Poland (d. 1944)
Dec 8 Padraic Colum, Irish novelist and poet (Collected Poems), born in Columcille, County Longford, Ireland (d. 1972)
Dec 17 Jan Sluyters, Dutch painter (Moderne Kunstkring), born in s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (d. 1957)
Dec 22 Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, born in Istanbul, Turkey (d. 1922)
Dec 24 Juan Ramon Jiménez, Spanish poet (Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956), born in Moguer, Spain (d. 1958)
Dec 31 Colin G. Fink, American chemist (electro chemistry), born in Hoboken, New Jersey (d. 1953) [1]
Dec 31 Jacob Israël de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pipelines, Jewish Song), born in Holland, Netherlands (d. 1924)
Dec 31 Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter and graphic artist (The Bridge), born in Zwickau, Germany (d. 1955)

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