In the year 1881, Andrew Watson makes his debut in Scotland to become the first black international football player (Mar 12), tsar Alexander II is assassinated in Russia (Mar 13), Romania is proclaimed a kingdom (May 10), the world’s first regular electric tram service starts in Berlin (May 16), the American Red Cross is established (May 21), Billy the Kid is shot dead in New Mexico (Jul 14), Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to U.S. troops in Montana (Jul 20), Modern Hebrew is revived in conversations in Paris (Oct 13), the famed gunfight at O.K. Corral occurs in Tombstone, Arizona (Oct 26) - and all these fine people were born:

1881-001 1881-010 1881-0113 Essington Lewis* industrialist - Burra, Colony of South Australia (1961/80) 1881-0117 Karl Scharnagl* politician/ Lord Mayor of Munich - Munich, German Empire (1963/82) 1881-0130 Whitford Kane* Irish-American actor - Larne, Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1956/75) 1881-0131 Irving Langmuir* chemist/N - Brooklyn, NY USA (1957/76)

1881-0201 1881-0210 1881-0211 Arthur Davidson* businessman (Harley-Davidson) - Milwaukee, WI USA (1950/69) 1881-0212 Anna Pavlova* prima ballerina - Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1931/49) 1881-0227 Sveinn Björnsson* lawyer/1st President of Iceland - Copenhagen, Denmark (1952/70) 1881-0306 María Blanchard* painter - Santander, Spain 1881-0312 Väinö Tanner* politician - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1966/85) 1881-0317 Walter Rudolf Hess* physiologist/N -  Frauenfeld, Switzerland (1973/92) 1881-0322 Hans Wilsdorf* watchmaker/founder of Rolex - Kulmbach, Germany (1960/79) 1881-0323 Roger Martin du Gard* novelist/N - Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (1958/77) 1881-0323 Hermann Staudinger* chemist/N - Worms, Germany (1965/84) 1881-0325 Béla Bartók* composer/pianist - Nagyszentmiklós, Austria-Hungary (1945/64) 1881-0326 Guccio Gucci* fashion designer/founder of Cucci - Florence, Kingdom of Italy (1953/71) 1881-0401 1881-0410 1881-0414 Husain Salaahuddin* writer/poet/scholar - Maldives (1948/67) 1881-0424 Harald Giersing* painter - Copenhagen, Denmark (1927/45) 1881-0501 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin* philosopher/priest/paleontologist- Orcines, Auvergne, France (1955/73) 1881-0501 Mary MacLane* American writer/feminist - Winnipeg, MB Canada 1881-0504 Alexander Kerensky* lawyer/politician - Simbirsk, Russian Empire (1970/89) 1881-0519 Kemal Atatürk* politician - Salonica, Ottoman Empire (1938/57) 1881-0605 Axel Wenner-Gren* entrepreneur - Uddevalla, Sweden (1961/80) 1881-0610 1881-0620 1881-0629 Santeri Nuorteva* journalist/ politician/father of the spy Kerttu Nuorteva - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1929/47) 1881-0704 Ulysses S. Grant III* army officer/planner - Chicago, IL USA (1968/87) 1881-0710 1881-0720 1881-0726 Alexander Kropholler* architect - Amsterdam, Netherlands (1973/91) 1881-0727 Hans Fischer* organic chemist/N - Höchst am Main, Germany (1945/63) 1881-0728 Günther Quandt* industrialist - Brandenburg, Prussia, German Empire (1954/73) 1881-0730 Smedley Butler* marine commander - West Chester, PA USA (1940/58) 1881-0806 Alexander Fleming* physician/microbiologist/N - Darvel, East Ayrshire, Scotland (1955/73) 1881-0812 Cecil B. DeMille* filmmaker /producer - Ashfield, MA USA (1959/77) 1881-0820 1881-0829 Valery Larbaud* writer/ poet - Vichy, France (1957/75) 1881-0831 Emanuel Goldberg* Russian-Israeli physicist/inventor - Moscow, Russia, Russian Empire (1970/89) 1881-0901 1881-0908 Harry Hillman* athlete (runner/OG) - Brooklyn, NY USA (1945/63) 1881-0910 1881-0911 Asta Nielsen* actress - Vesterbro, Denmark (1972/90) 1881-0912 Daniel Jones* phonetician - London, England (1967/86) 1881-0915 Ettore Bugatti* car designer /manufacturer - Milan, Kingdom of Italy (1947/65) 1881-0917 Aubrey Faulkner* South African cricketer - Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony (1930/48) 1881-0920 1881-0925 Lu Xun* essayist/editor/translator etc - Shaoxing, Zheijiang, Qing Dynasty (1936/55) 1881-0926 Hiram Wesley Evans* dentist/the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan - Ashland, AL USA (1966/84) 1881-0928 Olly Donner* (b Sinebrychoff) writer/ anthroposopher/granddaughter of Nikolai Sinebrychoff - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1956/74) 1881-0930 1881-1001 William Boeing* engineer/airplane manufacturer - Detroit, MI USA (1956/74) 1881-1004 Otto Wille Kuusinen* politician/literary historian - Laukaa, Finland (1964) 1881-1008 Vincenzo Peruggia* artist/Louvre employee/stole the Mona Lisa in 1911 - Dumenza, Kingdom of Italy (1925/44) 1881-1015 P. G. Wodehouse* author/humorist - Guildford, Surrey, England (1975/93) 1881-1016 Sarah Padden* British-American actress/to U.S. at age 7 - Sunderland, England (1967/86) 1881-1020 1881-1022 Clinton Davisson* physicist/N - Bloomington, IL USA (1958/76) 1881-1025 Pablo Picasso* painter - Málaga, Spain (1973/91) 1881-1026 Margaret Wycherly* (b De Wolfe) actress - London, England (1956/74) 1881-1104 Gaby Deslys* (b Caire) singer/ actress/dancer - Marseilles, French Third Republic (1920/38) 1881-1108 Robert Esnault-Pelterie* aircraft designer/spaceflight theorist - Paris, French Third Republic (1957/76) 1881-1114 Nicholas Schenck* Russian-American businessman/film studio executive/to U.S. at age 11 - Rybinsk, Russian Empire (1969/88) 1881-1118 Maja Einstein* Romanist/ younger sister of Albert Einstein - Munich, German Empire (1951/69) 1881-1120 1881-1124 Al Christie* film director/producer/screenwriter - London, ON Canada (1951/69) 1881-1125 1881-1127 Joel Lehtonen* author/ journalist/translator - Sääminki, GD of Finland (1934/52) 1881-1128 Stefan Zweig* Austrian journalist/writer/biographer - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1942/60) 1881-1202 Heinrich Barkhausen* German physicist/inventor - Bremen (1956/74) 1881-1203 Henry Fillmore* musician/ composer/bandleader - Cincinnati, OH USA (1956/75) 1881-1209 Hudson Allison* went down with the Titanic - Chesterville, ON Canada (1912/30) 1881-1212 Doris Keane* actress - St. Joseph, MI USA (1945/63) 1881-1217 Claude C. Robinson* hockey player/coach/ and sports executive - Harriston, ON Canada (1976/94) 1881-1220 1881-1223 Juan Ramón Jiménez* poet/writer/N - Moguer, Andalucia, Spain (1958/76) 1881-1223 Gunnar Tallberg* businessman/ sailor/OB - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1931/49) 1881-1230 Frans Myyryläinen* shopkeeper/ forest guardian/Red Guard leader - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1938/57) 1881-0 1881-0 1881-0 Updated 2025-0423 Helsinki Search for another year here