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

#** Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1815 – 1881 )

* 1815 – Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Italian-born adventurer ( d. 1881 )

* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955 ) Jesuit priest, paleontologist, philosopher

Note the massive growth in population from 13, 529 in 1881 to 58, 969 in 1886, a growth of 335. 9 %; this is because the city of Saint Pierre merged with Calais in 1885.

Omega Point is a term coined by the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( 1881 – 1955 ) to describe a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving.

French naval officer Pierre de Brazza was dispatched to central Africa, traveled into the western Congo basin, and raised the French flag over the newly founded Brazzaville in 1881, in what is currently the Republic of Congo.

French claims by Pierre de Brazza, were quickly solidified with French taking control of today's Republic of the Congo in 1881 and also Guinea in 1884.

* 1881: Dictionnaire lyrique ou Histoire des Opéras by Félix Clément & Pierre Larousse.

Born at the Château de Kerscamp, Hennebont, Morbihan, France, as Count Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior de Polignac, he was the fourth son and youngest child of Count Maxence Melchior Edouard Marie Louis de Polignac ( 1857-1936 ) and his Mexican wife whom he wed in Paris in 1881, Susana Mariana Estefania Francisca de Paula del Corazon de la Torre y Mier ( 1858-1913 ).

* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, ( 1881 – 1955 ), French Jesuit, philosopher and paleontologist

* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( 1881 – 1955 )

* Pierre Paulus, expressionist painter ( 1881 – 1959 )

A new colony of " Icaria Speranza " was established by Jules Leroux ( brother of French socialist philosopher Pierre Leroux ) and Armand Dehay, who in 1881 moved from Jeune Icarie to an area just south of Cloverdale, California.

* The Last Spike The Great Railway 1881 – 1885 Pierre Berton McCelland and Stewart Limited Toronto / Montreal 1971 0-771001327-2

* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( 1881 – 1955 ), a French Jesuit, also trained as a paleontologist ; works condemned by the Holy Office in 1962.

In 1881 Pierre Mirassou ( 1856-89 ) married Pierre Pellier's daughter Henriette ( 1860-1937 ).

Jan. 28, 1860 ; s Pierre and Emily ( Taylor ) L ; m. Caroline J. Hamilton, 1881.

The Capital Journal, founded in 1881, serves the areas of Pierre and Fort Pierre in South Dakota.

1881: Birmingham businessman John Skirrow Wright invents the Postal Order and its use subsequently spreads across the world.

An excavation in 1881 unearthed burials, arrow-points, a marble pipe, glass beads, pottery, and engraved objects.

This industry continued until the mid-19th century when decline set in rapidly and by 1881 only one tobacco pipe maker was left.