* 1881 – Eleanor Farjeon, English author ( d. 1965 )

Rosenberg's claim was further disseminated in Chayim Bloch's ( 1881 – 1973 ) The Golem, legends of the Ghetto of Prague ( English edition 1925 ).

* 1805 – Samuel Palmer, English artist ( d. 1881 )

* 1881 – Harry Price, English psychic researcher and writer ( d. 1948 )

* 1881 – Mary Gladys Webb, English writer ( d. 1927 )

* 1881 – Clive Bell, English critic ( d. 1964 )

* 1800 – Decimus Burton, English architect, designed the Pharos Lighthouse ( d. 1881 )

* 1804 – John Gould, English ornithologist ( d. 1881 )

* 1964 – Clive Bell, English critic ( b. 1881 )

The American Standard Version of 1901, a revision of the English Revised Version of 1881, derived from the King James Version, consistently used the rendering Jehovah.

** Clive Bell, English art critic ( b. 1881 )

* November 20 – Thomas Quinlan ( impresario ), English opera singer ( b. 1881 )

* August 5 – Edgar Guest, English poet ( b. 1881 )

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

* December 27 – Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier ( b. 1881 )

** John Gould, English ornithologist ( d. 1881 )

* January 27 – Samuel Palmer, English artist ( d. 1881 )

1881, pp. 524 – 535 ; The English Mechanic and World Of Science, Vol.

English Setter circa 1881

* P. G. Wodehouse ( Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse ) ( 1881 – 1975 ), English comic writer

Before 1881, when Charles Daniel Dance wrote his Chapters From a Guianese Log-book, he noticed, The children all talked a Dutch patois besides the Arawak Indian tongue ; and with a Dutch teacher to instruct them, it is not difficult to conceive the manner in which they read their English lessons.

* William Charles Smith ( 1881 – 1971 ), English musicologist

In 1877 his Lehrbuch der alten Geographie was published, and in 1879 Leitfaden der alten Geographie, which was translated into English ( A Manual of Ancient Geography, 1881 ) and into French.

* Trataditos, Bonn, 1881, from a manuscript in the Palatine Library, Vienna ; in Italian, / Cinque Tratatelli Evangelici, Rome, 1545 ; reprinted, 1869 ; in English, by J. T. Betts, in XVII Opuscules, 1882.

The claim that the Scotsman James Chalmers was the inventor of the postage stamp first surfaced in 1881 when the book " The Penny Postage Scheme of 1837 ", written by his son, Patrick Chalmers, was published.

Telephone broadcasting began with the advent of Théâtrophone (" Theatre Phone ") systems, which were telephone-based distribution systems allowing subscribers to listen to live opera and theatre performances over telephone lines, created by French inventor Clément Ader in 1881.

Ambrose Everett Burnside ( May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881 ) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U. S. Senator.

Carte built the West End's Savoy Theatre in 1881 to present their joint works, and through the inventor of electric light Sir Joseph Swan, the Savoy was the first theatre, and the first public building in the world, to be lit entirely by electricity.

James Starley ( 21 April 1831 – 17 June 1881 ) was an English inventor and father of the bicycle industry.

The first effective mantle was the Clamond basket in 1881, named after its inventor.

Research by Prof. Haemig of Luther Seminary, St. Paul, points to Johann Hinrich Wichern ( 1808 – 1881 ), a Protestant pastor in Germany and a pioneer in urban mission work among the poor as the inventor of the modern Advent wreath.

The French electrical inventor Auguste de Méritens produced the first carbon arc torch, patented in 1881, which was successfully used for welding lead in the manufacture of lead-acid batteries.

In 1881 – 1882, a Russian inventor Nikolai Bernardos created the electric arc welding method for steel known as carbon arc welding, using carbon electrodes.

* John Ernest Williamson ( 1881 – 1966 ), inventor of the " photosphere " for undersea photography and filming

On 14 December 1881 the stockholders of the Keely Motor Company held a meeting at which a report was read that complained that while they had faith in the merits of Keely's invention, the inventor was unreasonably secretive of the principles and operating methods of his apparatus.

In 1881, when he had serious problems with his sight, Friedrich Nietzsche wanted to buy a typewriter to enable him to continue his writing, and from letters to his sister it is known that he personally was in contact with “ the inventor of the typewriter, Mr Malling-Hansen from Copenhagen ”.

Robert Mallet FRS ( 3 June 1810 – 5 November 1881 ), Irish geophysicist, civil engineer, and inventor who distinguished himself in research on earthquakes and is sometimes called the father of seismology.

P. T. ( Percy ) Selbit ( 1881 – 1938 ) was an English magician, inventor and writer who is credited with being the first person to perform the illusion of sawing a woman in half.

A prolific inventor, Van Depoele was granted at least 243 United States patents between 1881 and 1894 for various electric inventions including railway systems, lights, generators, motors, current regulators, pumps, telpher systems, batteries, hammers, rock drills, brakes, a gearless locomotive, a coal-mining machine, and a pile-driver.

Theodore Karman ( May 11, 1881 – May 7, 1963 ) was the inventor of the mathematical tools to study fluid flow, the mathematical background of supersonic flight, and the swept-back wing.

Theobald Böhm ( or Boehm ) ( April 9, 1794 – November 27, 1881 ) was a German inventor and musician, who perfected the modern Western concert flute and its improved fingering system ( now known as the " Boehm system ").

* February 9-Arturo Caprotti, Italian inventor of Caprotti valve gear for steam locomotives ( born 1881 ).

Vincent Hugo Bendix ( December 12, 1881 – March 27, 1945 ) was an American inventor and industrialist.

* Theobald Boehm ( 1794 – 1881 ), Bavarian inventor and musician

Hezekiah Bradley Smith ( July 24, 1816 – November 3, 1887 ), was an American inventor and a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1879 to 1881.