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 – Albert Henderson, Canadian footballer ( d. 1947 )

Ludwig Minkus was celebrated for his harp cadenzas, most notably the Variation de la Reine du jour from his ballet La Nuit et le Jour ( 1881 ), the elaborate entr ' acte composed for Albert Zabel from his ballet Roxana ( 1878 ), and numerous passages found in his score for the ballet La Bayadère, which in some passages were used to represent a veena which was used on stage as a prop.

* May 14 – Albert Sévigny, Canadian politician ( b. 1881 )

In 1881, Alexandra and Albert Edward travelled to Saint Petersburg after the assassination of Alexander II of Russia, both to represent Britain and so that Alexandra could provide comfort to her sister, who was now the Tsarina.

James Albert Bonsack's cigarette rolling machine, invented in 1880 and patented in 1881.

Calhoun as depicted in an 1881 painting by Albert Capers Guerry displayed in the South Carolina Senate

Morrill Township was organized in 1881 as Oakwood Township but renamed in 1885 after Albert A. Morill, an early settler.

Joel B. Peck, H. A. Cook ; 1879, William Moul ; 1880, C. Snyder ; 1881, Albert Kilmer ; 1882, Ezra W. Knowlton ; 1883, William Moul ; 1884, B. J. L. Sliter ; 1885, Albert Kilmer ; 1885, A. H. Cipperly ( appointed to fill, vacancy ); 1886, A. H. Cipperly ; 1887, Addison P. Lape ; 1888, C. Snyder ; 1889, Albert Kilmer ; 1890, Addison P. Lape ; 1891, Addison TJline ; 1892, E. M. Gregory, Le Grand M. Turner ( appointed to fill vacancy ); 1893, Sanford B. Horton ; 1894, Le Grand M. Turner ; 1895, Addison Uline ; 1896, Aipheus Bailey.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

* Albert Devèze ( 1881 – 1959 ), politician, minister

Sifton, front row right, as Calgary's city solicitor, 1892Upon graduation, Arthur Sifton returned to Winnipeg to article with Albert Monkman until 1881, when he followed his father to Brandon.

In 1881 he moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan ( then part of the Northwest Territories ), where he soon began to sympathize with the Métis and their struggle against the Canadian government, though he was not a Métis himself.

* The New Testament, in the revised version of 1881, with fuller references ( 1910 ) – Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. Editors: Moulton, W. F. ( William Fiddian ), 1835-1898 ; Moulton, James Hope, 1863-1917 ; Greenup, A. W. ( Albert William ), 1866-1952 ; Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose, 1813-1891.

* Albert Smith ( Australian politician ) ( 1881 – 1965 ), member of the Australian House of Representatives

Albert Viljam Hagelin ( 24 April 1881 – 25 May 1946 ) was a Norwegian businessman and opera singer who became the Minister of Domestic Affairs in the Quisling regime, the puppet government headed by Vidkun Quisling during Germany's World War II occupation of Norway.

* May 14 – Albert Sévigny, politician ( born 1881 )

On Feb. 4, 1881, the post was renamed for Brigadier General Albert J. Myer, who established the Signal School of Instruction for Army and Navy Officers there in 1869.

The optical hyperfine structure was already observed in 1881 by Albert Abraham Michelson.

* 1873 – 1881: Carl Friedrich August von Albert

Edgar Albert Guest ( August 20, 1881, Birmingham, England – August 5, 1959, Detroit, Michigan ) ( aka Eddie Guest ) was a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet.

** Albert Jesse Smith ( 16 September 1881 – 25 August 1883 )

When the linguist Albert Samuel Gatschet visited them in 1881 and obtained a large vocabulary showing numerous correspondences with Siouan, linguists classified them with the Siouan-speaking peoples.