Lewis Henry Morgan ( 1818 – 1881 ), a lawyer from Rochester, New York, became an advocate for and ethnological scholar of the Iroquois.

* Albert Austin ( 1881 – 1953 ), British / American actor

* 1881 – Karl Staaf, Swedish athlete ( d. 1953 )

* 1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor ( d. 1961 )

* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )

* 1881 – Louella Parsons, American columnist ( d. 1972 )

In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

Julius's wife, Alan's mother, was Ethel Sara ( née Stoney ; 1881 – 1976 ), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways.

* 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician ( d. 1940 )

* Haliotis pourtalesii Dall, 1881 – the Pourtale ’ s abalone

* 1881 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal ( d. 1954 )

* 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.

* 1881 – Francis Ford, American actor ( d. 1953 )

* 1881 – Edward Siegler, American gymnast ( d. 1942 )

* 1881 – Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist ( d. 1956 )

* 1881 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director ( d. 1959 )

* 1881 – George Enescu, Romanian composer ( d. 1955 )

Aga Khan I (; or, less commonly but more correctly (; ), was the title accorded to Hasan Ali Shah (; ; 1804 in Kohak, Iran – 1881 in Bombay, India ), the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in the Indian Subcontinent.

* Alexander II of Russia ( 1818 – 1881 ), emperor of Russia

* Alexander II of Russia ( 1818 – 1881 ), Emperor of Russia

* 1881 – Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player ( d. 1964 )

** Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer ( b. 1881 )

* Al Christie ( 1881 – 1951 ), director / producer and screenwriter

Al Christie ( November 24, 1881 – April 14, 1951 ) was a Canadian-born motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

* Al Christie ( 1881 – 1951 ), co-founder of Christie Film Company, director / producer / screenwriter

Alfred Ringling, or Al, worked in the Parson Brother ’ s show as a ropewalker in 1881 and most likely 1882.

* April 14 – Al Christie, film director, producer and screenwriter ( b. 1881 )

During the Al Rashid period many foreign travelers visited Ha ' il and the Rashidi emirs, and described their impressions in different journals and books, including those of Georg August Wallin ( 1854 ), William Gifford Palgrave ( 1865 ), Lady Anne Blunt ( 1881 ), Charles Montagu Doughty ( 1888 ), and Gertrude Bell ( 1914 ).

They later conquered Ash Shihr in 1866 and Al Mukalla in 1881, largely replacing the Kathiris to control most of the Hadhramaut coast on the Gulf of Aden.

* Al Cabrera ( 1881 – 1964 ), Spanish baseball player

* 1881 – 1910 Sir William Christie

His mother, Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham, was a Canadian-born granddaughter of prominent Canadian distiller William Gooderham ( 1790 – 1881 ), founder of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery.

Mary MacLane ( May 1, 1881 — August 1929 ) was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing.

Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

* 1881 – Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer ( d. 1956 )

* 1969 – Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario ( b. 1881 )

* March 4 – Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario ( b. 1881 )

** Cecil B. DeMille, American film director ( b. 1881 )

** Asta Nielsen, Danish silent film actress ( b. 1881 )

* June 6 – Margaret Wycherly, English stage & film actress ( b. 1881 )

* November 9 – Maude Fealy, American stage and film actor ( b. 1881 )

* Lois Weber ( 1881 — 1939 ), American silent film actress

Lou Tellegen ( November 26, 1881 – October 29, 1934 ) was a Dutch-born silent film and stage actor, director and screenwriter.

* Cecil B. DeMille ( 1881 – 1959 ), film director, producer ( The Ten Commandments ).

In 1881 a farmer in Cambria, Wisconsin, Peter Houston, invented the first roll film camera.

He was issued an 1881 patent for a roll film holder which he licensed to George Eastman ( it was used in Eastman's Kodak 1888 box camera ).

* The Portrait of a Lady, a novel published in 1881 and a film in 1996

The production budget was a million francs, and was financed and produced by the Vicomte Charles de Noailles ( 1881 – 1981 ), a nobleman who, beginning in 1928, yearly commissioned a film as a birthday gift to his wife, the Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de Noailles ( 1902 – 1970 ), who was a renowned patroness of the arts and of artists, such as Dalí and Buñuel, Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Francis Poulenc, Jean Hugo, Jean-Michel Frank et alii.

The first Georgian cinema documentary (" Journey of Akaki Tsereteli in Racha-Lechkhumi ") was shot in 1912 by Vasil Amashukeli ( 1886 – 1977 ), while the first Georgian feature film (" Kristine ") was shot in 1916 by Alexandre Tsutsunava ( 1881 – 1955 ).

The film opens in 1950 with a young attorney talking to an elderly man named Brushy Bill Roberts, who claims that he is William H. Bonney ( aka Billy The Kid ), whom " everyone " knows to have been shot and killed by Pat Garrett in 1881.

Albert Austin ( 13 December 1881 or 1885 – 17 August 1953 ) was an actor, film star, director and script writer, noted mainly for his work in Charlie Chaplin films.

Harry Morris Warner ( December 12, 1881 – July 27, 1958 ) was a Polish-born American studio executive, one of the founders of Warner Bros., and a major contributor to the development of the film industry.

Corral ( 1957 ) is a film based on a real event which took place on October 26, 1881.

It reached its final development in the plates after Millais's Cherry Ripe and Pomona, published it in 1881 and 1882, when the invention of coating copper-plates with a film of steel to make them yield larger editions led to the revival of pure mezzotint on copper, which has since rendered obsolete the steel plate and the mixed style which it fostered.