Famous people born in 1881

The best-known people born in 1881, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
October 25 · d. 1973
Photo: Condor Films, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
May 19 · d. 1938
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
John XXIII
head of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963
November 25 · d. 1963
Photo: De Agostini Editore, Public domain
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
August 6 · d. 1955
Photo: Official photographer, Public domain
Lu Xun
Chinese novelist and essayist (1881–1936)
September 25 · d. 1936
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer (1881–1942)
November 28 · d. 1942
Photo: Franz Xaver Setzer (1886-1939), Public domain
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Spanish poet (1881–1958)
December 23 · d. 1958
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer and pianist (1881–1945)
March 25 · d. 1945
Photo: RIA Novosti, CC BY-SA 3.0
Roger Martin du Gard
French writer (1881–1958)
March 23 · d. 1958
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Clinton Davisson
American physicist (1881-1958)
October 22 · d. 1958
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Alexander Kerensky
Russian politician, prime minister in 1917 (1881–1970)
May 4 · d. 1970
Photo: Wide World Photos, Public domain
Ludwig von Mises
Austrian-American economist (1881–1973)
September 29 · d. 1973
Photo: Ludwig von Mises Institute, CC BY-SA 3.0
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
April 3 · d. 1954
Photo: Presidenza Del Consiglio Dei Ministri, Public domain
Irving Langmuir
American chemist and physicist (1881–1957)
January 31 · d. 1957
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Kliment Voroshilov
Soviet marshal and politician
February 4 · d. 1969
Photo: Anefo, CC0
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
May 1 · d. 1955
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0
Hermann Staudinger
German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1881–1965)
March 23 · d. 1965
Asta Nielsen
Danish actress (1881-1972)
September 11 · d. 1972
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Cecil B. DeMille
American film director, producer and actor (1881–1959)
August 12 · d. 1959
Photo: Albert Witzel, Public domain
Enver Pasha
Ottoman politician and general (1881–1922)
November 22 · d. 1922
Photo: Unidentified photographer, Public domain
P. G. Wodehouse
English author (1881–1975)
October 15 · d. 1975
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Hans Fischer
German chemist (1881–1945)
July 27 · d. 1945
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss physiologist (1881-1973)
March 17 · d. 1973
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Alexei Rykov
Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union (1881-1938)
February 25 · d. 1938
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse. Agence photographique (commanditaire), Public domain
Vajiravudh
King of Siam from 1910 to 1925
January 1 · d. 1925
Photo: ร้านถ่ายรูปหลวงฉายานรสิงห์, Public domain
Fernand Léger
French painter (1881–1955)
February 4 · d. 1955
Walther von Brauchitsch
German field marshal (1881-1948)
October 4 · d. 1948
Photo: Unknown Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Georges Enescou
Romanian composer and violinist (1881–1955)
August 19 · d. 1955
Photo: Unknown, Public domain
Hans Kelsen
Austrian lawyer (1881–1973)
October 11 · d. 1973
Photo: Georg Fayer, Public domain
Władysław Sikorski
Polish military and political leader (1881-1943)
May 20 · d. 1943
Photo: Collection of the Office of War Information, Public domain

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January

January 4 · Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (1881–1919)
January 9 · Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (1881-1956)
January 17 · Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, British anthropologist (1881–1955)
January 21 · Ivan Ribar, Croatian politician (1881-1968)
January 25 · Emil Ludwig, German writer (1881-1948)
January 29 · Kim Kyu-sik, Korean politician and academic (1881-1950)

February

February 4 · Yakov Protazanov, Russian film director and screenwriter (1881–1945)
February 11 · Carlo Carrà, Italian painter (1881-1966)
February 13 · Eleanor Farjeon, English children's writer
February 23 · Titus Brandsma, Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest, professor of philosophy and saint (1881–1942)
February 27 · Sveinn Björnsson, Icelandic politician, 1st President of Iceland (1881-1952)
February 27 · Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and logician (1881–1966)

March

March 4 · Richard Chace Tolman, American physicist (1881–1948)
March 9 · Ernest Bevin, British labour leader, politician, and statesman (1881-1951)
March 12 · Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (1881–1966)
March 26 · Guccio Gucci, Italian businessman and fashion designer, founder of Gucci (1881–1953)
March 27 · Arkady Averchenko, Russian comic and satirical writer, theatre critic (1881–1925)
March 28 · Martin Sheridan, American athletics competitor (1881–1918)

April

April 1 · Octavian Goga, Romanian poet and politician (1881–1938)
April 12 · Rudolf Ramek, Austrian politician (1881-1941)
April 13 · Ludwig Binswanger, Swiss psychiatrist and essayist (1881-1966)
April 16 · Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, British politician (1881-1959)
April 16 · Sergey Kamenev, Russian military leader
April 20 · Nikolai Myaskovsky, Russian and Soviet composer (1881—1950)

May

May 5 · Hakaru Hashimoto, Japanese physician and endocrinologist (1881–1934)
May 11 · Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963)
May 23 · Ludwig Kaas, German politician (1881-1952)
May 26 · Adolfo de la Huerta, President of Mexico (1881–1955)
May 28 · Augustin Bea, German Jesuit priest and scholar and cardinal (1881-1968)
May 31 · Heinrich Burger, German figure skater (1881–1942)

June

June 3 · Mikhail Larionov, Russian artist (1881–1964)
June 11 · Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian American rabbi (1881-1983)
June 15 · Paul Cornu, French engineer (1881–1944)
June 25 · Crystal Eastman, American lawyer and feminist
June 29 · Louis Trousselier, French racing cyclist (1881–1939)
June 29 · Curt Sachs, German musicologist (1881–1959)

July

July 3 · Natalia Goncharova, Russian-French artist (1881–1962)
July 3 · Ber Borochov, founder of the Labor Zionist movement (1881-1917)
July 5 · August Hlond, archbishop, cardinal, primate of Poland (1881–1948)
July 26 · James Cecil Parke, Irish tennis player (1881-1946)
July 27 · Rauf Orbay, Prime Minister of Turkey (1881–1964)
July 30 · Smedley Butler, United States Marine Corps general, two time Medal of Honor recipient, activist, lecturer, official, and writer (1881-1940)

August

August 2 · Dora Boothby, English badminton and tennis player (1881–1970)
August 7 · François Darlan, French admiral (1881-1942)
August 9 · Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Spanish writer (1880-1962)
August 24 · Vincenzo Lancia, Italian entrepreneur and racecar driver
August 26 · Franz Gürtner, German lawyer and politician (1881-1941)
August 29 · Valery Larbaud, French writer and poet (1881-1957)

September

September 5 · Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democrat (1881-1938)
September 5 · Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, British field marshal (1881–1964)
September 8 · Harry Hillman, American athletics competitor (1881–1945)
September 13 · Ramón Grau, president of Cuba (1887-1969)
September 15 · Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile designer and manufacturer (1881–1947)
September 26 · Ernst Gräfenberg, German gynaecologist and medical researcher (1881–1957)

October

October 1 · William Boeing, American aviation pioneer
October 4 · Otto Wille Kuusinen, Finnish communist
October 4 · André Salmon, French poet (1881–1969)
October 8 · Vincenzo Peruggia, Italian thief (1881-1925)
October 9 · Victor Klemperer, German philologist (1881-1960)
October 11 · Lewis Fry Richardson, UK mathematician & polymath (1881–1953)

November

November 7 · Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov, Soviet sculptor (1881-1952)
November 9 · Matryona Nikonova, Russian saint
November 12 · Ulrich von Hassell, German diplomat and resistance fighter against National Socialism (1881–1944)
November 16 · Hugo Meisl, Austrian football coach (1881–1937)
November 27 · Joel Lehtonen, Finnish writer, translator, critic and journalist (1881-1934)
November 27 · Vera Weizmann, First Lady of Israel (1881–1966)

December

December 4 · Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (1881–1944)
December 8 · Albert Gleizes, French painter (1881–1953)
December 19 · King Oliver, American jazz cornet player and bandleader
December 22 · Alberts Kviesis, Latvian politician, president of Latvia (1881-1944)
December 31 · Max Pechstein, German artist (1881–1955)
December 31 · Elizabeth Arden, Canadian American businesswoman

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