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What Happened in August 1881

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Historical Events

  • Aug 1 US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
  • Aug 3 Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous
  • Aug 3 US National Lawn Tennis Association removes "National" from its name
  • Aug 4 122°F (50°C), Seville, Spain (European record)
  • Aug 27 Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die
  • Aug 31 1st US men's single tennis championships held at Newport, Rhode Island
Events in 1881

Famous Birthdays

  • Aug 1 Rose Macaulay, English writer (The Towers of Trebizond), born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England (d. 1958)
  • Aug 1 Stanislaw Kazuro, Polish composer, born in Teklinapol, Russian Poland (now Belarus) (d. 1961)
  • Aug 2 Ethel M. Dell, English author (Storm Drift), born in London (d. 1939)

Hugh S. Johnson (1881-1942)

Aug 5 American head of the National Recovery Administration and member of FDR's Brain Trust, born in Fort Scott, Kansas

Hugh S. Johnson

Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)

Aug 6 Scottish bacteriologist (invented penicillin; Nobel Prize 1945), born in Lochfield, Scotland

Alexander Fleming
  • Aug 6 Leo Carrillo, American actor (American Empire, Cisco Kid), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1961)
  • Aug 6 Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist, born in Freeport, Illinois (d. 1972)

François Darlan (1881-1942)

Aug 7 French Admiral of the Fleet during WWII and Vichy Prime Minister (1941-42), born in Nérac, France

François Darlan
  • Aug 8 Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German general (led the "blitzkrieg", 1st Panzer Group on Eastern Front), born in Braunfels, Germany Empire (d. 1954)

Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959)

Aug 12 American filmmaker (The Ten Commandments), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts

Cecil B. DeMille
  • Aug 12 Václav Vačkář, Czech composer, known for his marches, conductor, and musicologist, born in Dobřejovice, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1954)
  • Aug 13 Jacqueline Reyneke van Stuwe, Dutch author, born in Muntok, Indonesia (d. 1955)

Francis Ford (1881-1953)

Aug 14 American actor (The Quiet Man), born in Portland, Maine

Francis Ford
  • Aug 15 Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist, born in Görlitz, Imperial Germany (d. 1956)
  • Aug 18 Hermann Zilcher, German pianist and composer (Dr Eisenbart; Die Liebesmesse), born in Frankfurt am Main (d. 1948)
  • Aug 19 George Enesco, Romanian violinist, conductor, and composer (Romanian Dances), born in Liveni, Dorohoi, Romania (d. 1955)
  • Aug 20 Edgar Albert Guest, English-American poet and newspaperman, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1959)
  • Aug 23 Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter and graphic artist, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1943)
  • Aug 28 Arne Eggen, Norwegian organist and composer, born in Trondheim, Norway (d. 1955)
  • Aug 29 Edvin Kallstenius, Swedish composer and librarian, born in Filipstad, Sweden (d. 1967)
  • Aug 29 Valery-Nicolas Larbaud, French novelist and translator (Enfantines), born in Vichy, France (d. 1957)
Born in 1881

Famous Deaths

  • Aug 2 Marcus Clarke, English born Australian author (For the Term of His Natural Life), dies at 35
  • Aug 3 William Fargo, American expressman (founder of Wells Fargo and American Express Co), dies at 63
  • Aug 6 James Springer White, American theologian (co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church), dies at 60
  • Aug 19 Joseph Labitzky, Bohemian composer, dies at 79


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