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 )

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

* 1835 – 1881 Sir George Biddell Airy

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay ( July 25, 1848 – January 12, 1881 ), Anglo-Indian writer, son of a Bengal chaplain, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Cambridge University.

* 1881 – George E. Wiley, American racing cyclist ( d. 1954 )

An 1879 – 1881 expedition commanded by US naval officer George W. DeLong ended tragically when their ship the USS Jeanette, was crushed by ice.

Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text " Nisi Dominus aedificat domum …" (" Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it ").

" The periodical The Freethinker ( founded in 1881 by George Foote ) argued, like Paine, that the " absurdities of faith " could be " slain with laughter ".

* April 12 – George Frederick Ives, last surviving veteran of the Boer Wars ( b. 1881 )

* May 16 – George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator ( b. 1881 )

** George Robert Aberigh-Mackay, Anglo-Indian writer ( d. 1881 )

* August 22 – George Washington DeLong, American naval officer and explorer ( d. 1881 )

George Baines was the grandfather of Johnson's mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson ( 1881 – 1958 ).

* In 1881, a mob lynched an outlaw who by the nickname of Big Nose George, who shot two local law enforcement officers years before.

* Theobald ( 1802 – 1881 ; George Pontifex's fourth child ; marries Christina Allaby July 1831 ; has 3 children )

Their home was rented sometime before April, 1881, to Dr. George Emory Goodfellow.

The town of Milford was established in 1816 by George Reed, Marysville in 1819 by Samuel Culbertson, Richwood in 1832 by Philip Plumber, Kingsville in 1834, Somerville in 1835, Watkins and Arbelia in 1838, Newton in 1838 by David Paul, York Center in 1841, Frankfort in 1846, Unionville in 1847, Pharisburg in 1847, New California in 1853, Dover in 1854, Union Center in 1863, Broadway in 1865, Pottersburg in 1869, Peoria in 1870, Magnetic Springs in 1879, and Claibourne in 1881.

The legislature for the Dakota Territory authorized the formation of Dickey County in 1881, naming it for one of their members, George H. Dickey.

* George Bacovia ( 1881 – 1957 ) Romanian

In 1881, the Chaffey brothers George and William purchased the land ( which at that time also included the present-day city of Upland ) and the water rights to it.

Indianapolis architect George W. Bunting in 1881 designed the third courthouse, a tall structure built of Indiana limestone by contractors Farman & Pearce for approximately $ 200, 000.

On October 16, 1882, the post office was renamed Praise for " Camp Praise-the-Lord ", a tent colony that was established by evangelist George O. Barnes for a revival there in August 1881.

It was renamed for Simeon O. Pearl in 1881, and a post office established named Pearl on April 15, 1881, with George H. Smith as the first postmaster.

The founding of Wakefield and much of its early history was based upon the discovery of iron ore on the east end of Sunday Lake by George A. Fay in 1881.

* SUNDAY LAKE This location was first explored in 1881 by George Fay.