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1881 births
- Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso once stood in his occupied-Paris apartment as a German officer noticed a photograph of his painting Guernica.
- Ludwig BinswangerLudwig Binswanger entered the world on the 13th of April 1881 in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. His father Robert Johann Binswanger was a doctor who ran the…
- Béla BartókBéla Bartók died in a New York City hospital on the 26th of September 1945, and only ten people attended his funeral. For a man later ranked among Hungary's…
- Maja EinsteinMaria Einstein entered the world on the 18th of November 1881 in Munich. Her parents were Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch.
- Vera WeizmannVera Weizmann spent forty years leading one of the world's largest Zionist women's organizations, raised two sons while practicing medicine in Manchester…
- Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises was born on the 29th of September 1881 in Lemberg, then the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria inside the Austro-Hungarian…
- Kliment VoroshilovKliment Voroshilov put on his military uniform one winter morning in 1969, fully decorated with his medals, called a car, and drove himself to the hospital.
- Jimmy WalkerJames John Walker was remembered as Jimmy Walker and nicknamed Beau James. He once said a reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed…
- Natalia GoncharovaNatalia Goncharova was born on the 3rd of July 1881, the same year as Picasso and Fernand Leger, in the small village of Nagaevo in what is now the Chernsky…
- Padraic ColumPadraic Colum entered the world on the 8th of December 1881 inside a County Longford workhouse. His father worked there as an employee while his mother Susan…
- Alcide De GasperiAlcide De Gasperi was born on the 3rd of April 1881 in Pieve Tesino, a small town in Tyrol that had been part of Austria-Hungary for more than five centuries.