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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, ballerina (d. 1931)
- March 12 - Kemal Atatrk, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic (d. 1938)
- March 25 - Bla Bartk, Hungarian composer.
- March 25 - Mary Gladys Webb, writer (d. 1927)
- May 1 - Mary MacLane (d. 1929), feminist and bisexual writer
- June 17 - Tommy Burns, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
- 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, early Hollywood director/producer (d. 1951)
- November 25 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
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